Mozilla spending $15,000 to remove the term “slave”
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Mozilla spending $15,000 to remove the term “slave”
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/1 ... ards-made/
Im happy that Mozilla is finally tackling the important issues head on. It was about time, after all its YEAR 2015!
Im happy that Mozilla is finally tackling the important issues head on. It was about time, after all its YEAR 2015!
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Re: Mozilla spending $15,000 to remove the term “slave”
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Re: Mozilla spending $15,000 to remove the term “slave”
This shouldn't seem so out of line, intellectuals and the overly educated have been doing this for centuries to placate someone they are afraid of.
IMO, It certainly doesn't come from need, empathy or real sympathy.
30 years ago a notable laboratory with a machine facility stopped using the term "jig" when referring to setup hardware.
Applications would be in writing for a grant or describing a project where the funding needed to explained and accountable somewhere.
Terminology along the vein of,". . . funds for this part of the project are applied to the establishing of functional jigs and fixtures to manufacture the required parts."
Needless to say this became a great joke in the machine facility, and many of the Irish were wondering if this meant no dancing.
Political correctness is historic and often misguided.
Wonder how they'll deal with describing replacing slave cylinders?
It's in the vocabulary and only someone half a bubble off plumb would think it proper to try and remove the word from the language.
IMO, It certainly doesn't come from need, empathy or real sympathy.
30 years ago a notable laboratory with a machine facility stopped using the term "jig" when referring to setup hardware.
Applications would be in writing for a grant or describing a project where the funding needed to explained and accountable somewhere.
Terminology along the vein of,". . . funds for this part of the project are applied to the establishing of functional jigs and fixtures to manufacture the required parts."
Needless to say this became a great joke in the machine facility, and many of the Irish were wondering if this meant no dancing.
Political correctness is historic and often misguided.
Wonder how they'll deal with describing replacing slave cylinders?
It's in the vocabulary and only someone half a bubble off plumb would think it proper to try and remove the word from the language.
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Re: Mozilla spending $15,000 to remove the term “slave”
I think they're talking out their asses.
Or at least smoking some good weed.
They're throwing 15K to the removal of the word 'slave'.
But at the same time, they're throwing 200K to the 'Bro'!
Yo, bro! Whaz Happening?
I wonder what politically correct term they're going to use in place of the word, slave?
Sigh.
I mean really! The law went into effect in 2003, CNN: 'Master' and 'slave' computer labels unacceptable, officials say, yet here we are today, 12 years later, & the issue still persists!
Well, I'll tell you what, I vow to re-purpose all my existing IDE HDD's - before the next millennium.
Actually I think this "slave" bit is just a rouse to avoid us from examining their CodeMirror because if we were to ReadTheDocs we might run into some Discourse. But then maybe not, because wasn't Django Unchained about slavery too? And maybe its not the weed that they're smoking, but rather when they stopped smoking it that they've become very Mercurial. Bro.
Or at least smoking some good weed.
They're throwing 15K to the removal of the word 'slave'.
But at the same time, they're throwing 200K to the 'Bro'!
Yo, bro! Whaz Happening?
I wonder what politically correct term they're going to use in place of the word, slave?
Sigh.
I mean really! The law went into effect in 2003, CNN: 'Master' and 'slave' computer labels unacceptable, officials say, yet here we are today, 12 years later, & the issue still persists!
Well, I'll tell you what, I vow to re-purpose all my existing IDE HDD's - before the next millennium.
Actually I think this "slave" bit is just a rouse to avoid us from examining their CodeMirror because if we were to ReadTheDocs we might run into some Discourse. But then maybe not, because wasn't Django Unchained about slavery too? And maybe its not the weed that they're smoking, but rather when they stopped smoking it that they've become very Mercurial. Bro.
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Re: Mozilla spending $15,000 to remove the term “slave”
Be careful... the donkey/burro naming-society might spend 20k to see that you don'ttherube wrote:I think they're talking out their asses.
use that term anymore ... This whole PC crap is getting way out of hand. What Grumpus said about 'jig' ... I was thinking along the same lines but 'fishing jig' came to mind... what do we call it now? Do the fish care?
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Re: Mozilla spending $15,000 to remove the term “slave”
A Google search returns thousands of references similar to this http://www.rhymes.org.uk/a105-to-market.htm
Shameful.. Shutdown Google or make them remove such content ?
And while they are at it.... check the Public Libraries
Shameful.. Shutdown Google or make them remove such content ?
And while they are at it.... check the Public Libraries
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Re: Mozilla spending $15,000 to remove the term “slave”
If this actually had anything to do with slavery and less with Mozilla's American-centric obsessive guilt about negroes then there might be a point to it, but it doesn't.
I could write about slavery in Greek and Roman times (incidentally, apart from keeping many slaves, Greece was not the 'Mother of Democracy', Iran was) or about Arab slave traders in the early Middle Ages who used to make off with entire villages of people living near the Cornish or Devon coastline in England or indeed about just how damn keen the Spanish Empire always was on slavery. But...
...instead, let's turn to modern times. What does the word 'trafficking' mean to you? No one? It means this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_slavery and if Mozilla want to appease their guilt then their grants should be going here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_Free_Foundation
The above is also around the same as was paid to Mitchell Baker, Chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation in 2006. Last year, she trousered well over a million bucks.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/b ... zillabanks
I could write about slavery in Greek and Roman times (incidentally, apart from keeping many slaves, Greece was not the 'Mother of Democracy', Iran was) or about Arab slave traders in the early Middle Ages who used to make off with entire villages of people living near the Cornish or Devon coastline in England or indeed about just how damn keen the Spanish Empire always was on slavery. But...
...instead, let's turn to modern times. What does the word 'trafficking' mean to you? No one? It means this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_slavery and if Mozilla want to appease their guilt then their grants should be going here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_Free_Foundation
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/1 ... ards-made/MOSS is an ongoing program, with an initial allocation of $1 million. The above awards allocate just over half of that money ($503,000),
The above is also around the same as was paid to Mitchell Baker, Chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation in 2006. Last year, she trousered well over a million bucks.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/b ... zillabanks
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Re: Mozilla spending $15,000 to remove the term “slave”
By that do you mean Political Correctness or Personal Computer?This whole PC crap is getting way out of hand.
Or something entirely different, per chance?
These euphemisms are simply draining my brain.
Maybe everything should simply resolve to It.
Nice concise word.
Not too long, not to short. Sort of middle-ground.
A group of people were watching movie & I asked what they were watching?
It, they responded.
But I wasn't interested, so I went babbling on about other things.
But I got shish'd, Shhh!
Sh,it is on, they said.
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Re: Mozilla spending $15,000 to remove the term “slave”
Political Correctness = PC in this case... but you know... the other PC ... you know... this thing that's attached to this K.B. ... welllll... it and where 'info-tech' is going... blows my mind at times... like I need to always know when Justin Bieber or the Kardashian's took a crap or how big Kim's butt is today? ... a friend just emailed me an audio (probably old) but it was a tape of a radio show trying to educate a woman (and it could have been a guy ...they can be just as stupid) ... about why they have deer crossing signs near high volume traffic... she felt that the signs should be move to low traffic areas so that the deer wouldn't be hit so often... she thought that the deer were crossing there because 'we' put signs up to let them know where to cross.... and people like that vote? ... help me!!!therube wrote:By that do you mean Political Correctness or Personal Computer?This whole PC crap is getting way out of hand.
Or something entirely different, per chance?
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Re: Mozilla spending $15,000 to remove the term “slave”
You know what you need? - a tablet computer. The trouble with PCs is that they don't do much. You can watch the odd film, listen(again) to some of your music, but if you're in 'relax mode', then what? Then you turn to the Internet, which surely is the biggest waste of time ever invented.dfoulkes wrote:.. welllll... it and where 'info-tech' is going... blows my mind at times... like I need to always know when Justin Bieber or the Kardashian's took a crap or how big Kim's butt is today? ... a friend just emailed me an audio (probably old) but it was a tape of a radio show trying to educate a woman (and it could have been a guy ...they can be just as stupid) ... about why they have deer crossing signs near high volume traffic... she felt that the signs should be move to low traffic areas so that the deer wouldn't be hit so often... she thought that the deer were crossing there because 'we' put signs up to let them know where to cross.... and people like that vote? ... help me!!!
Tablet computers bring back what PCs should have been about all along. I've gone for an entire day with one and never opened a browser once. Those 'apps and games' aren't just children's 'shoot 'em ups', many are proper entertainment.
Check them out.
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Re: Mozilla spending $15,000 to remove the term “slave”
Sure, but what if they named it after the original Django? A Mexican mercenary played by an Italian in brown-face who kills just about everyone who crosses his path in one of the most violent films ever made? Couldn't be anything racist about that would there?therube wrote:But then maybe not, because wasn't Django Unchained about slavery too?
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Nope, it was a travelogue programme for National Geographic. Great scenery, I'm told.therube wrote: But then maybe not, because wasn't Django Unchained about slavery too?
Interestingly though, that film (the D is silent btw) does actually have a Firefox connection. On the first day of shooting, just skies and general scenery stuff, it just so happened that a number of Firefox Addon Developers were caught on film on their way to a nearby AMO 'Signing' Convention and they appear after 38 seconds in this previously unseen footage in the link. I'm told, that the director (but appalling actor) liked their unplanned appearance so much that he intended to leave it in the final film.
No idea if he did, as it's not my kind of film at all. So Everybody, Calm Down....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcEfbTUAP0E
Good ol' Mozilla. Who'd have ever thought that slavery would be an on-topic subject in Firefox General? But, it is.
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Re: Mozilla spending $15,000 to remove the term “slave”
@Frank - I can see you've never been in the Hood, the D would be pronounced.
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Re: Mozilla spending $15,000 to remove the term “slave”
yeah, I watched that CrashCourse video too. obviously, they are wrong.apart from keeping many slaves, Greece was not the 'Mother of Democracy', Iran was)
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Re: Mozilla spending $15,000 to remove the term “slave”
How about "CEO" and "unpaid worker?"
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