You can be a coward if you want... or you can stand behind what you believe in. If you find that what you believe is antithetical to all humans being treated equally under the law, then do not be surprised when that comes back and bites you.

You seem to think that this is about someone just having a view that is offensive to some people. It is absolutely NOT about that. It is about treating people unequally. That may have been the norm since forever; however, treating people unequally is treating people unequally. Expect this type of thing to come up more often in ways other than just civil rights, suffrage, or gay marriage. Anywhere that you see people being treated unequally is going to be a flashpoint sooner or later. If you support unequal treatment, then you will find yourself on the wrong end of these types of actions.

Hm. The response was worse than what he had done...

So on one hand, we have someone trying to deny equal rights to hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of people... versus thousands (tens? hundreds?) of people trying to make one person lose their job.

In a numbers games, millions vs one, it is pretty clear which is worse. In a losing rights versus losing a job situation, i think it is pretty clear which is worse.

You know what? If you are going to advocate, not just with words, making a certain type of citizen have fewer rights than another type of citizen, I am going to go with the idea that you should feel "chilled" about this precedent (not prescient).

This is not a free speech issue. It is about actions. The man tried to take rights away from certain people. That is NOT speech; otherwise, I could contribute time and money to having the government create a tax rate of 80% against all people who go by the handle of Kielistic and my actions would be called free speech. :)

I am not a lesbian (especially since I am a man), but I am not gay either.

I do not see this situation as intolerance of Eich. I see it as a self preservation move by gays and lesbians and those who care about what gays and lesbians experience.

In short, Eich was advocating removing rights from certain people and he personally donated time and money to make sure that happened. In other words, he fired the first shot. Of course the other side will shoot back, defend themselves, or otherwise remove the threat. That is exactly what happened.

For myself, I really do not care what other people do as long as it does not take anything away from others, hurt others, and is done with consent if it involves others. I find myself offended by Eich's actions because he was actively seeking to take something away from others.

I did not support the boycott but I am not offended by it either. It seemed a reasonable reaction to me even though it offends my basic sensibilities.

A person would think it would be "cheaper" in an evolutionary sense to evolve slightly longer hair instead of stripes. But meh, I am not an evolutionary biologist.

Scenario 3 works for me. I do not need their poisonous creed. In 1992, the Internet was useful to me. It is arguably MORE useful to me now but I can survive quite happily with what was available in 1992. I do not need a fully commercialized internet but they need my money. *I am the one in charge here. I have the decision of life or death for these scumbag parasites. There is no negotiation on my part. They can try to negotiate with me if they would like.

*I being myself, yourself, and everyone else who uses their brain and accesses the Internet from time to time.

That's okay. I just go elsewhere for the information then... or decide that I really didn't need/want to see it anyways. NoScript puts the control in MY hands where it belongs.

Holy mother of god! You were modded informative. Just. Wow.

ROFLMAO

Um, this guy is NOT designing training wheels. He is designing jet engines. Your attitude and point of view is counter-productive. :(

Ok fine.... but did anyone take the time to prove that peanut butter does not cause autism? Sure, we all believed it was vaccines but now we are pretty sure it is peanut butter. Where are the studies?! ;)

If the ignition turns to the "lock" position, you will not be steering at all no matter how hard you turn the wheel. Perhaps that is why people are dying, not because power steering and power brakes are no longer available.

There is an absurdly strong Puritan ethic running through America. You must work hard and feel pain to be close to god. Pleasures are STRICTLY forbidden. Leisure time is the work of the devil.

When there is no work to be had, the ovens of Nazi Germany will be brought back into use to deal with those evil, lazy, shiftless people. The prisons are already overflowing from this outlook. There will absolutely need to be a Final Solution.

When will it occur? I have no idea. It is coming though.

Unfortunately, there is no "we". Your existence is suffered right now merely as a convenience. Soon, you will not be needed or wanted at all. Enjoy the ovens as the robots push your body into it to be turned to ash. The Final Solution indeed.

Yes. You forgot the very important step right before profit: ??? ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

Wikipedia seems to agree with you somewhat about the economics; but I would have to ask if the economics of waste disposal are being factored into non-breeder reactors. I suspect it is not and for political "wacko" reasons.