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Comment Re:I think this is bullshit (Score 1) 1746

There's a difference between voting against a person, disagreeing with a person, witholding your own business dealings with the same, and rallying for support against someone's professional business based on their personal opinions. Essentially, in the current world, you're arguing that you are allowed to discriminate on a small scale based on someone's opinion, which is sort of true. Sure, you can't discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion, but go ahead on everything else, please, right?

Brendan Eich made a personal comment that was not representative of the views of the entire office at Mozilla. The man's career shouldn't have to suffer for his personal views. This type of personal extortion is no different than firing a man for being straight, or gay. Would it have been morally right if Brendan Eich stated in his departure speech that the 'net in general, as well as all non-LGBT persons should boycott OKCupid as a dating site due to their anti-free speech and pro-gay agenda?

Either way, as much as I believe in LGBT rights, the first shot fired was by OKCupid, and it was uncouth and general BM.

Comment As an Allumni of Waldorf... (Score 1) 333

.. I can say they are not just there to "educate." They educate the soul and raise human beings! I attended the highschool there from Grade 9 to Grade 12. At the Toronto Waldorf School, there'd never been a fistfight in the highschool in 25 years. The people (teachers & students) are genuinely nice, genuinely caring, and genuinely good people - it's all based on their philosophies.

No cliques, no popularity contests, no teenage pregnancies and other delinquent behaviours. If you want your kids to grow up wholesome, Waldorf is awesome for that!

In regards to computers, I don't know how it is in LA, but at the Toronto Waldorf School we had computer courses. We learned the history of computing, and even built mechanical gates by hand using wood, paper clips, wires, etc, and as a whole class project we put together all the gates and made a mechanical calculator! Throughout my high school years, in fact, I'd built so many things with my hands that I would never have the opportunity to build if my parents had never sent me to that school.

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Submission + - Make a viral video, lose your job

Raul654 writes: "Philip de Vellis, the author of the Hilary Clinton viral video was outed today on the Huffington Post. The company he works for, Blue State Digital, has now fired him as a result. Said Vellis: "I made the 'Vote Different' ad because I wanted to express my feelings about the Democratic primary, and because I wanted to show that an individual citizen can affect the process.""
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Gifted Children Find Heavy Metal Comforting 585

An anonymous reader writes "The Daily Telegraph is reporting that intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research. Researchers found that, far from being a sign of delinquency and poor academic ability, many adolescent "metalheads" are extremely bright and often use the music to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being gifted social outsiders."
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Submission + - RIAA Balks at Complying with Order for Documents

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "When the RIAA was ordered to turn over its attorneys billing records to the defendant's lawyer in Capitol v. Foster, there was a lot of speculation that they would never comply with the order. As it turns out they have indeed balked at compliance with the order, saying that they are preparing a motion for protective order seeking confidentiality (something they could have asked for, but didn't ask for, in their opposition papers to the initial motion). Not having any of that, Ms. Foster's lawyer has now made a motion to compel their compliance with the Court's March 15th order."

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