gizmodo.com/5830354/… <-- looks like a September launch if all of the top brass at Apple are denying it. Anybody got a recent WSJ article on when the launch will be?
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@jcolebrand I don't listen to Atwood anyway, I do what's right. Not what he tells me. Remember, I believe he is morally deprived and fearful of a real confrontation over the facts of his actions.
@Shog9 It's not bad PR. It's bad PR to lose the efforts of all the good-willed and hard working people that fought for these terms. And, it's a total capitulation to bad framing and ignorance to take such an action.
@EvanCarroll The good-willed and hard working people that fought for those terms were betrayed, sold down-river, and killed. I don't think we can harm them any further.
I think that's a pretty shallow statement worthy of scorn. Your conclusion that we should abandon a ship with virtuous men at the helm is ludicrous. Those men often lost their lives not to a bullet, but to an obsession over refining a theory that would make the world a better place. Their investments aren't lost if you can take the banner of public education and pick up where they left off.
@EvanCarroll The ship was boarded, the crew killed, the Jolly Roger raised, and a long career of murder and mayhem begun. The blood of martyrs that once stained those decks has been obliterated by that of the many victims broken on it since. You would cling to this ship for the symbolism it once held, ignoring the charnel that surrounds you?!
You do these men no service if so. This ship sails into port with you at the helm and your cause is dead on arrival: the stench of blood precedes you, and no matter what good intentions you might have, no one of good character will stick around to listen.
You're holding the ship and the crew responsible for an external and unrelated problem -- that's not clinging to symbolism. That's refusing to take a selfish vacation with injustice.
If the men or the ideas were in any way responsible, abandoning the ship would be the worthy cause. I'm not on the ship of the USSR. I'm on the ship of democracy and equality.
The ship is inanimate, a creation of men now gone for a once-noble purpose that has been perverted and lost so many times it is now barely possible to consider without being tainted by the events that followed.
I won't get off the ship of equality just because some bastard attempted to hijack the concept and did something atrocious and unrelated under its banner.
For decades, the sight of this ship meant death. To ask those whose families died or suffered on its decks to forget this is to respect an object more than an idea.
If a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, then you would do well to pick an inoffensive name for your roses. Giving your sweetheart a vase of rapes would be a poor choice.
So you suggest we forge a new word that has the same vulnerability -- to be framed wrongly by people adverse to those ideas. Except this new word will be unconnected with history in fact.
How about this. How about I start calling every dunce that responds to me without thinking a Shog9, and then I can force your hand into changing your own identity!
Not actually claiming that you have any resemblance to a dunce that responds without thinking. But, you don't have any say so in the matter, and justness of my framing you isn't being called into question. You just have to concede that at some point, if I'm successful it would be more expedient for you to just abandon the name.
Then, I can pick your new name and we can do it all over.
@EvanCarroll A more apt analogy would be for you to go out as "Evan Shog9 Carroll" and carry out acts of extreme thoughtlessness, such that the words "Evan" "Shog9" and "Carroll" all became tainted as a result
And, then to think it's defensible to request that you abandon your experience in fact with the name, your history, and good deeds for a new name. A new name that won't even be a blank slate the second someone murmurs, "this is just Shog9 re-branded." To which you'll have no credible defense for.
@EvanCarroll To request? If my name became synonymous with evil through no fault of my own, I might well regret that... But it wouldn't take a request to make me change it.
It is a meaningless name that I created to represent myself; if it no longer does the job, then I would discard it without hesitation.
Ok, well I regret socialism is linked, via ignorance, to the atrocities of the USSR. I don't justify the USSR, and I regret some people, stupid ignorant näive people, think they're synonymous. However, I think socialism as a general concept has something to offer today; and, I'm not going to call it something else just to appease a dunderhead.
So, I regret the link that has no merit and is the result of malicious framing. But, I deny your request to change the name because of faulty link.
We use this crude language because we lack the ability to communicate ideas without it. And over time, the language itself takes on an elevated status in our minds; the sounds, the little black symbols, we forget where the idea ends and the symbol begins, to the point where some symbols remain holy long after the idea has been forgotten... But the symbol is but a tool, like the hammer or the sickle - once broken and dull beyond repair, they should be discarded and replaced.
Go for it, call yourself a Bright if you'd like. Working with a virgin term loses the past, admits defeat on the frame, and results in another whole bucket of detriments that I'd rather not accept.
None of this changes the fact that Jeff Atwood is most certainly not a socialist.
I don't think this policy is fair.
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