It's worth pointing out that being gay isn't a federally protected class. So, unless the state government has stepped in, you CAN refuse to hire someone because they're gay, tell them, and there's crap-all they can do about it. You can even turn away customers because they're gay.

How big a problem is this in practice? I don't know.

All available evidence indicates the board of directors of the Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, did not oust him from his position as CEO of the Mozilla Corporation. He left on his own. The guy has been a technical leader of the Netscape codebase for literally decades, and I'm sure he wanted to do what was best for the organization.

By all accounts, the board of directors at Mozilla absolutely did not pressure or force him to resign. He resigned on his own because /he/ thought the issue was distracting, and it would be better for him to go.

This is believable: Eich is the inventor of JavaScript and has been with the Netscape code base almost since day 1. He has a lot invested in Firefox and I'm sure doesn't want a bunch of idiots bringing it down because they don't personally like him, which is what was happening.

Okay, if that's true, then some states have taken the ABA's suggestion. What is relevant is still the individual state bars' ethics rules. Even if they adopt most of the model rules, anything they don't adopt or adopt in a modified form will not be the same as in the model rules.

lawl that should be "loves programming".

Oh! Yay! I got one!

You force people to get sterilized after they have 2 kids. Remember, it's Communism, so no individual rights.

Communo-techno-utopia would be awesome, man. Just like any utopia.

And I program stuff even when no one pays me to, so I imagine I would program stuff even when no one pays me to in a techno-utopia. I'm not the only one who loves programmers. It would be a bunch of part-timers doing it for love, probably.

But we're probably 200 years away or more from being able to live in a techno-utopia :(

a) Violating the "model rules" is meaningless. Model laws and rules are an example and a suggestion, not actual laws or rules.

b) What motivation do you think this individual could possibly have to tell you his name when you say this is what you are going to do if he does?

Hi there,

Here's a good article for you to read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

Your fluency is already quite good, and I wish you continuing success in your ESOL studies.

I think what's going on is they won the criminal case but lost a civil case.

Well, given that an airplane crash is almost certain death sentence anyway, so what?

Honest question: what are you supposed to do if the plane is going down?

Good, and shame on him. (I really need a more serious expression of disgust here.)

If you're driving a monstrosity of a truck, you have a damned high duty of care to make sure that monstrosity is not putting others in harm's way.

Re the Milgram experiment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I agree with other posters in this thread -- most people aren't amoral so much as habitually thoughtless.

Alice vs. CLS Bank has been widely read to outlaw, or at the very least greatly restrict, software patents in the US. Perhaps Microsoft's parasitic gravy train is near an end? One can only hope.

Cute, but afaict it's not that eating "bad" food causes cancer so much as eating "good" food prevents it. If you eat bacon wrapped pork chops (ewww) frequently, you're probably likely to get a heart attack, but I would doubt it reduces your cancer risk. On the other hand, if you never eat vegetables ever, that's probably going to increase your cancer risk some.

Not a lot most likely, diet and cancer don't really have much to do with each other, certainly not as much to do with each other as diet and heart disease. But there's some weak statistical evidence it might help a little.

Amazon Music recently stopped working on Firefox in Linux for me. Specifically, there seems to be some sort of JavaScript race condition that makes the "download MP3" feature not work 3/4ths of the time. Switching to a WebKit-based browser fixed the issue.

It was working fine before with Firefox ... has anyone else noticed this issue?