Post: #51

I dunno.
Maybe they just got a convenient reason to kick him out of the company.

Post: #52

(04-04-2014 02:36 AM)speakeasy Wrote:  I remember posting this a few years ago. Manny Pacquiao got banned from the biggest mall in L.A. because he was opposed to same sex marriage on religious grounds.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/20...marks.html

Not sure if the ban is still in place but the fact that anyone had the audacity to ban someone for expressing an opinion that is still pretty mainstream is astounding. What angers me most is how smug and sanctimonious these pro-gay people are. They want no debate on the topic. It's reflexively compared to interracial marriage as if that's even comparable. A man and a woman of different races can produce a child. Two men cannot. And if you don't agree, you hate. There's no in between with them. You simply hate gays and you're a bigot to the core if you don't fully accept homosexuality as equally ideal as heterosexuality.

What's hilarious is that they could essentially ban him for his religious beliefs which is discrimination which they claim to oppose.

However when the state of Arizona was considering giving property owners the right to discriminate against them, they went ballistic.

These people and all those who push cultural marxism are insane. I can't wait for things to swing strongly back to the right but I suspect we have to endure a considerable amount of more leftist nonsense.

Post: #53

(04-03-2014 07:03 PM)Walderschmidt Wrote:  

(04-03-2014 06:49 PM)Feisbook Control Wrote:  Was it even the gays though this time? It was probably a bunch of concern junkies, the equivalent of white knights. I think that's even worse.

I'll leave this thread with a quote by Voltaire:

"If you want to know who is in power, simply find out who you cannot criticize."

Wald

Jews, gays and women. There groups that you will get in serious shit if you say something critical of.

ps - Blacks are not on this list. Blacks get criticized all the time.

Post: #54

(04-04-2014 12:11 AM)WestIndianArchie Wrote:  

(04-03-2014 10:52 PM)rekruler Wrote:  I may be mistaken, but didn't the political donation in question become public knowledge as a result of the (now long forgotten) illegal IRS disclosure of donors to conservative groups? If so, what has just happened is that a government organ (the IRS) outed Eich for "crime think" and he was subsequently destroyed. Scary shit and this is why I'm going back to Asia as soon as fiscally possible. Fuck this shit.

You are mistaken, here's the database

http://projects.latimes.com/prop8/

Seriously, things don't need to be a conspiracy to be all fucked up. People worrying about black helicopters when citizens get profiled and then halted by cops for looking a certain way. People give away their information online for free. Like Snowden even matters.

WIA

How did the LA Times get the info to create the database? According to many articles I read, this data was released by the IRS

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/04/...y-group/#!

Post: #55

(04-04-2014 12:52 PM)speakeasy Wrote:  

(04-03-2014 07:03 PM)Walderschmidt Wrote:  

(04-03-2014 06:49 PM)Feisbook Control Wrote:  Was it even the gays though this time? It was probably a bunch of concern junkies, the equivalent of white knights. I think that's even worse.

I'll leave this thread with a quote by Voltaire:

"If you want to know who is in power, simply find out who you cannot criticize."

Wald

Jews, gays and women. There groups that you will get in serious shit if you say something critical of.

ps - Blacks are not on this list. Blacks get criticized all the time.

Blacks used to be on the list. But since the Democrats know they've got the Black vote even if they were reinstate slavery, Blacks have fallen on the totem pole.

Post: #56

(04-04-2014 12:52 PM)speakeasy Wrote:  

(04-03-2014 07:03 PM)Walderschmidt Wrote:  

(04-03-2014 06:49 PM)Feisbook Control Wrote:  Was it even the gays though this time? It was probably a bunch of concern junkies, the equivalent of white knights. I think that's even worse.

I'll leave this thread with a quote by Voltaire:

"If you want to know who is in power, simply find out who you cannot criticize."

Wald

Jews, gays and women. There groups that you will get in serious shit if you say something critical of.

ps - Blacks are not on this list. Blacks get criticized all the time.

In my experience, Jews also get shit on a lot.

Post: #57

(04-04-2014 01:16 PM)Peregrine Wrote:  

(04-04-2014 12:52 PM)speakeasy Wrote:  

(04-03-2014 07:03 PM)Walderschmidt Wrote:  

(04-03-2014 06:49 PM)Feisbook Control Wrote:  Was it even the gays though this time? It was probably a bunch of concern junkies, the equivalent of white knights. I think that's even worse.

I'll leave this thread with a quote by Voltaire:

"If you want to know who is in power, simply find out who you cannot criticize."

Wald

Jews, gays and women. There groups that you will get in serious shit if you say something critical of.

ps - Blacks are not on this list. Blacks get criticized all the time.

In my experience, Jews also get shit on a lot.

say anything about Jews and you get black listed.

Post: #58

Guys on here are having a knee jerk reaction to this.

This is a private company. They can do whatever the hell they want with their internal processe d I 'd fight tooth and nail for them to retain that right rather than just doing away with it the second it's used against you.

While I dislike this decision the overall rules of private Enterprises and market economy are far far more important than this ultimately petty squabble.

Post: #59

(04-04-2014 12:03 PM)Samseau Wrote:  Liberal reply:

Dee Dee Mendoza · Smith

Quote:Benjamin Neilsen There is not a difference between opposing gay marriage and opposing gay people. If you oppose gay marriage, you are in effect saying that you don't believe gays and lesbians should have the same protections, rights, and choices as straight people--and THAT in effect means that you believe gays and lesbians are not as good as straights and that their relationships should not be valued as highly as heterosexual relationships. It's deeply bigoted and offensive. He has every right to feel this way, but it's fair that Mozilla's audience rejected his leadership based on his bigotry.

Protections and rights the same as who? Marriage doesn't give anyone any protections. If anything, marriage is a liability to be assraped in divorce court. But I know fags love taking it up the ass, so perhaps that is why they want marriage so badly?

Yeah, these people are lunatics. It can be objectively provde that no one is harmed or discriminated by Proposition 8 or similar initiatives. Gay people already have civil unions with entirely same rights as normal marriages. Referendums like this deal with copyright (i.e. what the union is called), not human rights.

Conclusion: liberal asshats like this one don't even know what they're getting riled up about!

Vicious Wrote:They can do whatever the hell they want with their internal processe d I 'd fight tooth and nail for them to retain that right rather than just doing away with it the second it's used against you.

That's exactly what we're worried about. Do you truly believe that deciding to fire him was based on a pure business, profit-maximization calculation? I find that unlikely.

Post: #60

(04-03-2014 07:03 PM)Walderschmidt Wrote:  A quote by Voltaire:

"If you want to know who is in power, simply find out who you cannot criticize."

It's a very good quote, but I believe it's only "popularly attributed to Voltaire" as there's no documented source for him actually saying or writing it.

Post: #61

It is interesting if something like this shows up the next time Amnesty or the UN decides to make their 'free speech' lists.

Post: #62

Post on my facebook:

Quote:That was quick! Good to see America's getting better at this whole accountability thing.

I was about to ask, "Accountable to what? Political dissent?". But decided I'd be better off just hitting delete as a friend.

Post: #63

Quote:That's exactly what we're worried about. Do you truly believe that deciding to fire him was based on a pure business, profit-maximization calculation? I find that unlikely.

Of course it was. It was already happening. There was another thread just here on the forum showing how other businesses were railing against them.

Post: #64

(04-04-2014 01:43 PM)Vicious Wrote:  

Quote:That's exactly what we're worried about. Do you truly believe that deciding to fire him was based on a pure business, profit-maximization calculation? I find that unlikely.

Of course it was. It was already happening. There was another thread just here on the forum showing how other businesses were railing against them.

Yep. Competitors will use anything like this to set themselves apart from you. The public tends to respond emotionally, and companies play to that. Just like some guys here already said they would, or have stopped using Firefox in response - that's what competitors want to see, and count on happening.

Post: #65

Since when is being anti-fag bad for business? Last I checked Duck Dynasty is topping the charts

Post: #66

(04-04-2014 02:01 PM)Samseau Wrote:  Since when is being anti-fag bad for business? Last I checked Duck Dynasty is topping the charts

Different customer base.

Post: #67

(04-04-2014 02:01 PM)Samseau Wrote:  Since when is being anti-fag bad for business? Last I checked Duck Dynasty is topping the charts

being anti-fag is always good for business, at least for sane business.

Post: #68

(04-04-2014 12:03 PM)Samseau Wrote:  I also do not understand the arguments used in support of gay marriage.

Look at the comment section arguments:

Benjamin Neilsen

Quote:He opposes gay marriage, not necessarily gay people. There is a difference. You're more intolerant than he ever was. Just because you've decided something is not an issue doesn't make people who still think it is pieces of shit. Use your head. Thirty years ago people would have acted like your position is bizarre. The fact that it's not so different to think like you do now doesn't mean you suddenly represent the de facto correct perspective. So stop acting like you get to be a big tough guy just because it's ok to be gay now. He can be against gay marriage, and pressuring him to be out because of it is patently asinine. . . .you piece of shit

This is like the Barilla pasta guy catching shit for saying he probably wouldn't use gay people in his advertisements.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/ea...-1.1506397

What he said wasn't even "anti-gay" -- it's just about demographics.

Post: #69

(04-04-2014 02:28 PM)Sombro Wrote:  

(04-04-2014 12:03 PM)Samseau Wrote:  I also do not understand the arguments used in support of gay marriage.

Look at the comment section arguments:

Benjamin Neilsen

Quote:He opposes gay marriage, not necessarily gay people. There is a difference. You're more intolerant than he ever was. Just because you've decided something is not an issue doesn't make people who still think it is pieces of shit. Use your head. Thirty years ago people would have acted like your position is bizarre. The fact that it's not so different to think like you do now doesn't mean you suddenly represent the de facto correct perspective. So stop acting like you get to be a big tough guy just because it's ok to be gay now. He can be against gay marriage, and pressuring him to be out because of it is patently asinine. . . .you piece of shit

This is like the Barilla pasta guy catching shit for saying he probably wouldn't use gay people in his advertisements.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/ea...-1.1506397

What he said wasn't even "anti-gay" -- it's just about demographics.

How about the baker who didn't want to bake a gay wedding cake, and is being threatened with jail?

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/...dding-Cake

Quote:Jack Phillips is a baker who declined to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because his Christian belief is that marriage exists only between a man and woman. Now a Colorado judge has ordered him to bake cakes for same-sex marriages, and if Phillips refuses, he could go to jail.
Phillips owns a small business, Masterpiece Cakeshop, in Lakewood, Colorado. A homosexual couple—Charlie Craig and David Mullins—visited Phillips’s store on July 19, 2012, asking him to bake them a cake to celebrate their wedding. Although the Colorado Constitution defines marriage as between only one man and one woman, these men claimed to have been already married in Massachusetts and wanted to celebrate the wedding in Colorado.
Phillips is an Evangelical Christian who holds to the belief that marriage is between a man and woman. When Phillips bakes a wedding cake, he interprets it as participating in the wedding celebration, and he explained that, therefore, he does not make cakes for gay marriages.
Craig and Mullins complained to the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. On Dec. 6, 2013, an administrative law judge—Robert Spencer—ruled that Masterpiece Cakeshop and Jack Phillips violated Colorado’s antidiscrimination law. Spencer ordered Phillips to bake cakes celebrating gay marriage for any other parties that ask for such a cake in the future.

Post: #70

This whole thing seems to be blowing up pretty big. Seeing many people posting on FB and tweeting on this now.

Post: #71

massive backlash against his sacking on the mozilla website: https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/

Post: #72

Also someone has dug up the dirt on the other side:

OkCupid/IAC Employees Donated Thousands to Anti-Gay Marriage Politicians
http://pastebin.com/ekaFQXbE

Post: #73

As a small protest of this action, I switched my browser from Firefox to Pale Moon, which is based on Firefox but with some modifications. It seems to run much faster. Another plus is that it allows you to keep all of your Firefox extensions. The process was extremely simple and easy, and only took a couple of minutes. If anyone else would like to register their displeasure with Mozilla by switching browsers, here's how to do it as painlessly as possible:

1) Download Pale Moon: http://www.palemoon.org/ (note there are both 32 and 64 bit versions)

2) Download the Pale Moon profile migration tool: http://www.palemoon.org/migrationtool.shtml

3) Install Pale Moon and the profile migration tool

4) Close Firefox and Pale Moon and run the migration tool

5) Open Pale Moon, start browsing normally while enjoying all your saved Firefox settings

Post: #74

(04-04-2014 06:55 PM)scorpion Wrote:  As a small protest of this action, I switched my browser from Firefox to Pale Moon, which is based on Firefox but with some modifications. It seems to run much faster. Another plus is that it allows you to keep all of your Firefox extensions. The process was extremely simple and easy, and only took a couple of minutes. If anyone else would like to register their displeasure with Mozilla by switching browsers, here's how to do it as painlessly as possible:

1) Download Pale Moon: http://www.palemoon.org/ (note there are both 32 and 64 bit versions)

2) Download the Pale Moon profile migration tool: http://www.palemoon.org/migrationtool.shtml

3) Install Pale Moon and the profile migration tool

4) Close Firefox and Pale Moon and run the migration tool

5) Open Pale Moon, start browsing normally while enjoying all your saved Firefox settings

Listen to this man. It takes five minutes.

Post: #75

What would really hurt them is to have some contributors quit.

The dynamics of this are a bit messed up because Mozilla is a non-profit and tends to attract that kind of crowd, but I think this is going to give the LGBT crowd encouragement to take on a bigger fish next time. Expect future CEO appointments, particularly it tech, to start being subjected to a litmus test and challenged in social media if they fail it. Why not? Supreme Court appointments have been this way for 25 years now. Now it's moved to tech.

The noise about gender relations in tech is really interesting. I'm trying to get my head around why this, and why now? Clearly part of it is because money is involved, it's jobs with good money while sitting on your ass, as opposed to working in the oil field, which is also very good money but an infinitely more hostile work environment. Maybe because it's a soft target too. For all the crap I read about "brogrammers", there are damned few alpha males who actually write code for a living.

Also: NYT has an opinion piece, one of those things where they have 5 different people contribute opinions. 3 in favor of his sacking, 2 opposed. http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/201...ef=opinion

One of the contributors is Christian Rudder Founder & President of OKCupid.