[mythtv-users] The historical roots of our computer terms

[Mike Carron]

/        could we take this ranting and raving over to mythtv-politics/

mythtv-politics?

mike

On 6/9/20 3:03 AM, Justin Moore wrote:
>
>
>     Speech codes are a favorite tool of the right to retain power and
>     silence the poor, weak and different.
>
>     Except they use their power and wealth to make their speech codes
>     into 'laws' and this is one of those moments when the poor, weak,
>     and different are a bit sick of, to steal a phrase from that
>     article, using 'natural politeness' to ask for some
>     acknowledgement of their issues and being ignored as a result.
>
>     That article is spittle-flinging incoherent nonsense. It would be
>     pure comedy if it wasn't also whipping up it's readership into a
>     rage and telling them to buy guns and bullets.
>
>
> One, please fix your top-posting.
>
> Two, could we take this ranting and raving over to mythtv-politics and
> either let this thread die or have one of the core devs weigh in on
> the request (and then let the thread die)?
>
> -jdm
>
>
>     ffs.
>
>
>     ---- On Tue, 09 Jun 2020 01:14:33 +0100 *Calvin Dodge
>     <caldodge at gmail.com <mailto:caldodge at gmail.com>>* wrote ----
>
>         Speech codes are a favorite tool of the Left to gain power and
>         silence
>         the opposition. I will not comply.
>
>         https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2020/06/08/more-than-ever-its-time-to-unleash-the-power-of-no-n2570188
>
>
>         On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 7:02 PM jam at tigger.ws
>         <mailto:jam at tigger.ws> <jam at tigger.ws <mailto:jam at tigger.ws>>
>         wrote:
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > > On 8 Jun 2020, at 9:14 pm, LsrsuitLry at yahoo.com
>         <mailto:LsrsuitLry at yahoo.com> wrote:
>         > >
>         > >>
>         > >> On Jun 7, 2020, at 2:22 PM, Yeechang Lee
>         <ylee at columbia.edu <mailto:ylee at columbia.edu>> wrote:
>         > >>
>         > >> But that is the issue. Why should we kowtow to people who
>         don't understand or don't care about history and etymology?
>         >
>         > I have never considered the words you find offensive in ANY
>         but computer context. So you want me to change my words
>         because they offend you? Seems like PC gone mad and certainly
>         the whole dictonary needs vetting as would the hundreds of
>         words added every year
>         >
>         > There is also the whole issue of matriarchal and
>         patriarchial languages, what the hell lets talk klingon.
>         > (And lest my brazon uses of a semi expletive.went unnoticed,
>         it was deliberate)
>         >
>         > James.
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