Neoconservatism reloaded?
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Freedom, Peace, Humanity....
Let's quote Wikipedia:
" On December 13, 2005, Williams was executed by lethal injection after clemency and a four-week stay of execution were both rejected by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, amid debate over the death penalty. Williams was the second inmate in California to be executed in 2005. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Williams
Usually, we call this Hypocrisy.
Here an interesting quote from Alan Kay:
"The best teacher I had in graduate school spent the whole semester destroying any beliefs we had about computing. He was a real iconoclast. He happened to be a genius, so we took it. At the end of the course, we were free because we didn’t believe in anything. We had to learn everything, but then he destroyed it. He wanted us to understand what had been done, but he didn’t want us to believe in it."
I sincerely doubt one would find anything remotely similar in C++, Linux (C lang), or Assembly-programming communities.
The "harder" the language the less non-coding politics around.
I maintain a tiny blog and because of possible language barriers I decided to write all of my texts in English. It could've been much easier for me to write in German, of course, but this would exclude so many people. And this was simply unacceptable from my point of view.
My command of English isn't very strong but I'd like to paraphrase german philosopher Karl Homann: "The opposite of Moral isn't Immoral but to moralize".
I know nothing about the events there but when I read things like "public shaming" or "slut shaming" or "trigger warnings" or "social justice warriors" then I can only follow the "pragmatic solutions" to solve problems of that kind: avoid conferences, avoid any kind of non-technical discussion in English, avoid the community as a whole. Stay on GitHub.
Sure, it makes you a bit of a loner but at least you sleep more easily and don't get shocked in the morning when you open your twitter feed.
Kind regards,
Being 'avantgarde' these days means having an empty FB account and no Linked-Ins at all. ;-)
The best response to a clickbaitesque headline is a short answer (and No Click!). That's why I wrote "No". Everything else would just feed the trolls. But of course, it's much easier to downvote such a comment than to think about the clickbait itself.
Kind regards,
There's a 'portable' version available for several platforms.
Well, now almost everyone in Germany talks about the Comedian and the Turkish President ignoring the much bigger scandal popularized by the term "Panama Papers".
I'm not from the "conspiracy lunatics" fraction but let's dissect this whole stuff a little bit less emotionally:
a) In Germany we have very independent courts.
b) and a very stable democracy (which most of us are truly proud of)
c) and in fact we do have such a silly paragraph that 'protects foreign diplomats' from being 'insulted verbally'.
d) The current government also announced that'll soon throw out this obscure paragraph, which btw. was mostly used by the former Iranian Shah Reza Pahlevi to attack its critics in Germany (that's why we call it 'the Shah Paragraph').
Anyway, I'm very confident that our democracy is stable enough to handle anything, even the childish behaviour of a foreign head of state. By following our laws, no matter how ridiculous the paragraphs may sound, we _protect_ our democracy and dignity.
I'm not a fan of Merkel but one thing is clear: Our Chancellor is governing our country while some others prefer to sue comedians. ;)
I'm not a very political person nor a member of any of our parties but I always go to vote.
That's how we protect our democracy. By letting people vote, the government govern, and courts do jurisprudence.
And we'll never ever sue our comedians. In fact, Erdogan helped us clean up our constitution by throwing out a useless paragraph.
In some sense it's like in the 70es or 80es. Big Corporations, (almost) monopolies, prehistoric laws...and a bunch of tech-savvy kids refusing to bow down ;)
Milligrams?