"I want them to be taught that there are gay people in the world and that they must be treated with respect and affection as I treat my own gay friends and colleagues with respect and affection but I don't want my children to be taught that these things are equal because I don't believe them to be equal."
Maybe I'm being naive, but as a gay dude I don't see what he's saying as hateful. I'm not sure what adjective fits though, "pedantic" doesn't seem quite right.
“Hitperson” makes it sound like some HR-designated position, awkwardly titled in some neutral, milquetoast way as not to offend anyone.
That was intentional, I'm happy someone noticed.
The hitperson is the only competent employee left at Boeing.
They aren't "real" people either way, even the human ones are just drones reading a script that someone paid them to read.
The old files would still be in the commit history anyway.
I suspect the plausible deniability of responsibility is a feature not a bug to many of the bureaucrats.
The military isn't buying from Amazon, they buy from "xyz hardware supplies ltd", who buy from Amazon and charge three times the price to the military.
Some will be companies that specialise in sourcing obsolete hardware, who just buy shit off Amazon/eBay and issue the correct paperwork.
I've read that the US government has to give preference in contract bids to small businesses, veteran owned, woman owned, etc, businesses, which is great in theory, but it can create situations like this.
doesn’t have to be red or blue, it could be microwave or x ray
Technically those wouldn't be LASER (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.) but MASER or XASER.
I'm probably the only asshole left that cares about this though.
Eh, most of those will just be scrapers, and fediverse inter-server communication is technically a bot.
Isn't that a good thing? If facebook bans them they may actually learn what opsec means.
It's possible he destroyed his documents, so they don't know where "home" is for him.
Or his home country won't accept him back.
Or paying him £3k is cheaper than all the appeals he could mount.
One way encryption, same way passwords are stored.