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

[Justin Moore]

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>
> 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
> <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 <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > On 8 Jun 2020, at 9:14 pm, LsrsuitLry at yahoo.com wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> On Jun 7, 2020, at 2:22 PM, Yeechang Lee <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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