DONGLES........
Posted on 03/22/2013 10:14:00 AM PDT by Alistair Stratford IV
Earlier this week at the PyCon conference (the largest annual gathering for developers using the open-source Python programming language) a woman named Adria Richards overheard a joke between two men sitting behind her during a crowded presentation.
Richards was offended and took a picture of the two men who were making jokes. She tweeted, "Not cool. Jokes about forking repo's in a sexual way and "big" dongles. Right behind me #pycon." She also attached a photo of the two people making the jokes.
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We still use dongles on some of our older PC software.........
If all she did was complain about these “jokes” and text the pic, then I don’t see how she did anything wrong.
The guys will just get other jobs, she will sure for discrimination.
One of the guys (with 3 children) was fired...and she was fired, too. Good! Another hothouse flower who says she wants to be treated equally, but really wants to drag everyone else down to the level of her miserable, whiny existence.
“I can fight in combat...but I can’t kill a spider!” — The Woman Song
A “DONGLE’ is a exterior piece of electronic hardware, usually attached to the serial port or printer port, that allows the user to use certain software on only that PC and not on another............
if they have the right to make off color jokes that others might not like, others have a right to say they do not like it. even on Twitter.
DONGLES........
Like I said..”What do I know?”
One of the two guys who were joking with each other got fired too.
If the comments were not directed at her, she should either have said something, or found another seat.
Not only that, but she only has a picture. That’s her evidence of offensive speech? WTF...
Unless men fight back against the perpetually offended, we will be enslaved by them.
Someone who gets upset about those kinds of jokes really has no business being at a conference full of computer nerds. When in Rome...
seriously, why would any of them be fired?
“You idiots need to your mouths clean in public” should have been enough
I like the way you put that!
The Joy of Hate.
You know more than she does now........
“Be very careful what you say, anymore.”
And remember, when the PC chekists come after you NEVER APOLOGIZE!!! They are NOT Christians and they will NOT forgive you! They will use your well-intentioned apology as an ADMISSION OF GUILT and they’ll use it to destroy you!
When these people come after you the best way to shut them down is to go on the offensive and involve a lawyer immediately.
Yes. What else were they supposed to call them? Is there even another word?
You can just tell she walks around with a major chip on her shoulder all day.
She had as much right to complain about the jokes as they have to make them.
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