Over a 1000 people and their families will suffer,
due to a single Tweet, sent as what, a jest?
by the owner.
Shameful.
How many of these people, would have defended the company, and Elon, until now?
How many thought themselves: Core Team. Winners.
This is like watching a car crash in slow motion.
Tragic.
Yup. You are one of them.
1. Conflation and false equivalency:
"In the Past there was an injustice. Unless you agree with me,
you defend the Past Injustice, and are thus an EVIL person."
2. SJW Dystopia?
You mean that for example, technical conferences will be cancelled,
due to the OUTRAGE of someone writing BOOBIES on a public whiteboard?
THIS *is* what is happening. People being fired. Payment providers
blocking. Suicides due to false accusations.
Demands for people to "apologise" for their skin color?
Penalty points to mark down applicants to University or Employment
based again on intrinsic attributes, beyond people's control.
A world where people like you, believe that it is NOT the content
of one's character, nor the actions or intentions, but ONLY group
membership. Where the Group is not decided by choice.
Self-righteous, sexist, racist bigots, demanding control of everything,
without any mercy, sympathy, nuance or often basic understanding
of history.
3. Position?
I spent my life standing up for what is right, often with serious personal cost.
I insist on my, (and your), right to speak, to listen and to choose.
For the right NOT to walk, as the Dead Poet's Society said.
In the past that meant facing down the Right, the powerful and injustice.
Now it means facing people like you down. So be it.
NO.
You do not decide what the Position "should" be.
Principles, morals and ethics will do that.
I *demand* a world where everyone is judged on their actions, in the context
of the information available at the time. Where laws are decided by
democratically elected officials, with respect to the rights of minorities.
Justice. Democracy. Rule of Law. Pursuit of Knowledge. Equal Treatment.
The Enlightenment Values.
Tempered by mercy, compassion and a deep respect for the preciousness of
every single life. An appreciation for the sheer challenge of living.
If you and your kind see that as a problem, then I see you as something
to confront, and to oppose. With discourse, example and courage.
And with Resolve.
Perhaps surprisingly, even with respect due to your misguidedness.
You seem to be an example of this.
Are you really saying that anyone who fails to pander to the slightest complaint,
about anything, is equivalent to a sexual harasser or a racist?
You equate the organisers of a tech congress, with sexist racists,
unless they police public whiteboards? Really? Really, Really?
Remember, they *did* wipe the board when it was pointed out!
Which the complainer could easily have just done herself.
Or do you believe that women are somehow disadvantaged when it comes to wiping whiteboards?
What you are calling for, is the impossibility for anyone to write ANYTHING,
since SOMEONE could write SOMETHING that any motivated individual could find "problematic".
Let me guess, do you also believe that a content platform *must* police all forum comments?
Or be boycotted?
The results of this attitude is exactly what the DerbyCon organisers have pointed out:
It is no longer possible to function, in such a climate. To the detriment of us all.
Is it clear to you, what you are asking for? What the consequences are?
And you do all this smug accusing, as an Anonymous Coward? Obviously.
It is time for people to start calling people like you out.
I think of Lenny Bruce, and what his definition of Freedom was.
If I understand your position, you mean:
It is not the people who protest *everything* who are the problem,
but instead it is the people who discuss it.
This smells of the same manipulative bullsh*t as the protestors
"Dissent is simply not tolerated, and there can be no discussion".
Isn't that exactly the original problem?
If someone wants a "locked down" conference, then well,
should they not just go organise one themself?
Thank you!
Instead of Time-to-first-crate, we now have a new metric:
TTP:TTPE
I am so tempted to put a camera and a whiteboard somewhere,
and start collecting the data!
Applied Statistics.
Insufficient, since the mob are quite willing to punish you as a facilitator or enabler,
if you do not join in the condemnation. "Silence signals support".
Keeping your head down, is no longer a valid strategy.
And keeping your professional life away from your private, is EXACTLY what
the agitators are refusing to do!
They are witch-hunting, and in the absence of sufficient "perps", they are
quite willing to burn anyone for their own amusement.
No Means "No Thanks", not playing.
To be or not to be.
If we run away from these bullies, they not only win this one, they keep winning until everything is disrupted.
Which is their goal.
They have the power we give them.
If I was an employer and someone called me asking to fire an employee for something they said or did,
which was not illegal, then I would tell them to "Fet Gucked".
If I was an organiser, I would laugh in their faces.
If a customer, and they tried this versus a supplier, again, "Guck Off" is the most valid response.
A colleague? I chose the non-bullying, non-manipulative, non-trashy colleague.
Etc, etc.
These are nasty people, and placating them with any form of indulgence, just feeds them.
Hard, cold, NO.
I agree with the degree of danger.
But this is the point. If you leave a whiteboard somewhere, it is likely that someone will write something on it.
Maybe interesting, probably not, potentially offensive.
But think what the protestor means:
Rather than rub out what someone else wrote, rather than write something themselves,
what do they do?
Appeal to authority. Demand enforcement. Insist that *everything* has to be controlled
lest someone do *anything* which *anyone* could find "offensive". Or disrepectful.
Or somehow in breach of someone's perception of the currently fashionable convention.
For example: Draw a bird? Offensive to 1950s Maoists. A Blue flower? Nazi.
A yellow ribbon? Militarist.
In fact drawing *anything* could be taken as offensive against the Differently Abled,
for example the Blind.
There are no more boundaries. No compromise. People want to exercise power over you
and they *will* find a reason, an excuse or a crack somewhere.
If someone doesn't like something written on the white board, then bloody well rub it out.
Let's stop pandering to the Drama merchants.
Just say NO.
Fear. It takes courage to stand up to bullies, and not everyone has the support or the capability to do so.
Maybe I should have put this more positively: How can we help people to be able to, say no!
Why do people, especially value-neutral technically-focused people
No. We want to focus on our stuff and have no obligation to engage with your issues.
No. We will not ban people because you want us to.
No. You cannot have special treatment. You get the same as everyone else. Nothing more, nothing less.
No. We will not enforce your Purity Code of Conduct. Want an ethics code? Use the ACM's. Or the IEEE.
No. Your chosen group membership does not compensate for your lack of ability. Meritocracy or GTFO.
No. You have not been elected, and do not represent the community you claim to defend.
No. We will not apologise for our intrinsic attributes, whether skin color or lifestyle choices.
No. Your ideological goals will not cause your behaviour to be overlooked or forgiven. You are what you do.
And in return: You get the same freedom from our interference.
The VILENESS of some activists, both left and right, but increasingly primarily on the left,
is despicable. Bipolar, partisan, nastiness. 100% agreement or you will be purged and punished.
Instead of merely a "2 minute hate" session, they are in a continual state of ideological fervour.
And like children, they are constantly calling for Authority to bring force down on their enemies.
More rules. More control. More force. Comply or be purged.
If this is not how you want to live, it is time to start telling them: NO!
Or is this now Radical as well?
This thing is hanging with a "MORE" prompt, and does not respond to key input.
Is this part of a Meta-Game?
Or a bug`?
Oh just go and get absolutely Hugged!
I am sick to Hugging death of these MotherHugging Hugs,
sticking their Huggers into things that do not concern them.
The absolute Hugs!
When I was young, no-one gave a Hug about this Smile.
Now we are up to our ears in Smile, while every Hug
whines about how no-one give a Hug about them.
Everything is Huggy, and we have to call it all the Hug out.
Peace, my Neckers.
Imagine an alternative world,
in which Elon Musk was capable of actually building a team who could execute his Vision, competently.
Because he clearly cannot.
Ego driven Drama has led to the ultimate humiliation
Mercedes! The home of Bland
able to deploy and deliver better and faster than
the "Start-up".
Management build the Team.
The Team builds the Machine.
The Machine delivers the Product.
Who is failing here?
Who else can it be?
Elon-chu
The problem is, a device does not need to be directly exposed on the Internet.
Mirai and other botnets (including the so-called whitehat ones) are scanning the subnet and attacking all detected hosts.
So if *any* device is compromised, for example a browsing tablet device, then all devices are quickly attacked.
From the corporate side, this is handled using the structured approach (partitioning, firewalling, port control, vlan-ing,
All of which are lacking or absent in the consumer world.
Hence my question!
Elitist! VIC 20 should be good enough for everyone
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
