Re: Build schools not temples!
No doubt it's been used to build mosques on your home turf too!
Posts by southpacificpom
318 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Dec 2012
Internet is a tool of Satan that destroys belief, study claims
Bendy or barmy: Why your next TV will be curved
Windows XP is finally DEAD, right? Er, not quite. Here's what to do if you're stuck with it
Gay marriage foes outraged at Mozilla CEO flap, call for boycott
In Australia, protesting against Brendan Eich will be a CRIME
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Hyper-V telling fibs about Linux guest VMs
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Euro trade commish criticises Chinese telecoms subsidies
Drone 'hacked' to take out triathlete
Monday 7th April 2014 04:07 GMT
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!
"What chance, for example, the potentially World-Cup-winning, goal-bound shot, struck by an England player is mysteriously diverted off-course by a drone appearing where it ought not to?"
Surely the drone will have to score all the goals for England too leading to the final...
I QUIT: Mozilla's anti-gay-marriage Brendan Eich leaps out of door
Monday 7th April 2014 02:18 GMT 
Two sides to every story
It appears the gay activists have been pawns in a game of Internet chess,
http://uncrunched.com/2014/04/06/the-hypocrisy-of-sam-yagan-okcupid/
Sam Yagan (okcupid) seems not to be on the gay side after all. Apparently he seems also to have made a donation in 2007-2008 Obama campaign when Obama was in anti-gay marriage mode.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/04/04/surprise-okcupids-board-includes-at-least-two-democrat-donors/
Also, why does Mozilla do business in Israel when that country is anti-gay?
Saturday 5th April 2014 01:38 GMT
Re: Activists are never happy
"I think you might be doing the author a disservice?"
Why?
Did he have to make a list of contributing companies even more public?
Even though he stated those lists showed individual contributions from company employees he lumped them together in the tables to show the companies with total contributions against it. Why not list the individuals so it was easier to see the "bigots"?
Perhaps it would have been good to see those that contributed to the anti prop8 campaign too - its called balanced journalism. Although give him credit he did post a link to the info but for the purposes of fairness he should have included that data in the main body of his article.
Correct, the last sentence is the key but it's styled more as a "shit or get off the pot" call to arms. While his points pose questions for both sides, his portrayal is very much one sided. A bit too much "shock jock" journalism as I saw it but, we all see things differently.
If we are get rid of these "bigots" then lets do the fair thing and get those that contributed to both sides fired.
Friday 4th April 2014 22:48 GMT 
Activists are never happy
Look at this piece of work,
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2014/04/brendan_eich_quits_mozilla_let_s_purge_all_the_antigay_donors_to_prop_8.html
Wow, they are not happy with one head. They now want the lot and no doubt will still be unhappy.
Perhaps Slate should fire the writer of this article but of course he's got journalistic freedom, albeit with a gay activist slant that's as subtle as a nuclear bomb. I guess if the activists start pissing off these named companies then I would bet those companies might lobby to overturn some of the overturned anti-gay marriage rulings in the US.
Be careful what u wish for...
Friday 4th April 2014 07:35 GMT
Re: byy bye moz.
Geary and/or webmail will replace Thunderbird for email. Chrome will replace Firefox as its faster and I don't want to be bombarded with Mozilla sponsored ads which are due in future releases of Firefox.
Mozilla have made a lot of poor decisions in the last few years such as attempting to ditch Thunderbird and, the upcoming ads in Firefox plus this debacle that's surfaced.
I think the Book of Mozilla is soon to be the Book of Revelation.
Friday 4th April 2014 07:16 GMT
Re: Irony
Perhaps I should invite you to sunny NZ (declared the most socially advanced country in the world) where I can invite you to meet irony - you might like him/her/it.
But from your points I would declare,
Obama is a politician and pushes his own agendas when it's for his advantage, probably like the gay activists who are pushing their agendas for similar purposes.
Eich maybe planning to launch his own drones (lawyers) toward Mozilla HQ.
I couldn't trust the american justice system any further than I can fire a turd out my anus.
BTW - I saw your name and wondered if you would like some of my vitamin b supplements with added irony...
Friday 4th April 2014 04:48 GMT
The guys name is Andrew Sullivan and here's what was quoted,
Andrew Sullivan, a prominent gay writer and an early, influential proponent of making same-sex marriage legal, expressed outrage over Mr. Eich’s departure on his popular blog, saying the Mozilla chief had been “scalped by some gay activists.”
“If this is the gay rights movement today — hounding our opponents with a fanaticism more like the religious right than anyone else — then count me out,”
Source, http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-chief/?hpw&rref=technology
I suggest you email Mr. Sullivan and label him a bigot like you did me. Have a good day.
Why ever leave home? Amazon wants to turn your kitchen into a shop
Torvalds rails at Linux developer: 'I'm f*cking tired of your code'
Final Windows XP Patch Tuesday will plug Word RTF vuln
Organic food: Pricey, not particularly healthy, won't save you from cancer
Google hands over $1.4m for unmarked Street View cars in Italy
'We’re not sneaky, we're dads from the Midwest'
The cloud awaits... but is your enterprise ready for the jump?
Friday 4th April 2014 14:27 GMT
Re: The dinosaurs live
Yes, we start with mainframes and end with clouds - kinda full circle really. Change for the sake of change (and $$$). Centralised computing with dumb terminals (and users) at the end.
"There is nothing new in the cloud. It's all simply about realising the economies and flexibility of working at scale."
Remember that if/when they make you redundant for the latest fad sometime in the future.
Windows Phone 8.1: Like WinPho 8, but BETTER
Nothing's as SCARY as an overly aggressive SOFTWARE PIMP
Intel uncloaks next-gen 'Braswell' Atom, 64-bit Android KitKat kernel
Tamil Nadu's XP migration plan: Go Linux like a BOSS
Friday 4th April 2014 05:13 GMT
Hooray
I guess we will hear a lot of stories like this in the coming years. A refresh cycle of 3 years for hardware and software is not sustainable, except for the bigger players. Maybe 5-6 years with FOSS would possibly lead to big savings.
I took charge of a small infrastructure a few years back where the servers were 6-10 years old and they had a budget for one new server. I visualized the lot using a free virtualization offering on the new server and it worked like a charm.
Linux is truly achieving world domination at last
Biting the hand that feeds IT
