It's relevant because we learn from history. Or we're doomed to repeat it.
Christianity was what Islam is now. So Christians need to drop the 'we're better then you' crap. But Muslims need to take a lesson from the moderating influences of the West's Renaissance and Enlightenment. And not drag themselves through the same centuries of crap that we put up with in the name of Christianity.
Sure, Do Not track could mess up the ad hits statistics. There will have to be some alternative method of ensuring that each hit comes from a unique user. But I think that the advertisers will come up with new methods of counting hits.
I'd be happy with some sort of proxy system, where a trusted intermediary would handle the cookies (or whatever) and forward a unique but untraceable token to legit ad sites to track counts. If the ad interests me and I visit the site, odds are I'll identify myself. But mining free sites for data from involuntary users is going to be a thing of the past.
Travel light to Canada.
Sony could add a feature to its hardware platforms to allow loading/running an alternate OS. Preferably one that would attract lots of developers to their platforms. Perhaps even an open source OS, thereby making the best community developed products easy to distribute.
Nah. It would never work.
Uh.. what if you are 14?
You're gonna go blind, kid.
I guess that explains why you're always on my lawn.
Similarly, the relationship between USB peripherals could be described as "master/slave," but these terms could also be considered offensive. (The "Microsoft Manual of Style" says such language is prohibited in "at least one U.S. municipality.")
Damn! I just finished changing all master/slave references to pimp/bitch. And now they tell me that this won't do either?
How about top/bottom?
Domme/sub?
Hey, at least they had a place for the not believers in their society. In countries with a state church (Catholic or some Protestant sect), they didn't label them Dhimmi (actually, a protected class with certain rights under Sharia). They just called them dead.
Not the media!
"Found guilty by the New York Times, they vowed to appeal their case to the Wall Street Journal".
Sorry. I must have missed the bit about all the torture and burning at the stake done by Muslims during that period. It seems to have fallen through the cracks of a culture that tolerated Christians, Jews and others.
Its much more likely that today's Islam has picked up a few bad habits from Christians' past.
Better late than never. -- Titus Livius (Livy)