Posted on 04/08/2014 7:40:23 AM PDT by SJackson
In 31 years of broadcasting, and 40 years of writing, I have never advocated a boycott of a product.
Quite the opposite, in fact.
During the 2012 presidential campaign, when the left attempted to destroy Chick-Fil-A for its owner’s views on same-sex marriage, I suggested on my radio show that the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, stand in front of a Chick-Fil-A restaurant while enjoying some Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. In that way, I argued, he could show one of the great moral differences between the right and the left. Though Ben and Jerry are leftists, we conservatives do not believe that company owners’ views should matter to consumers. We believe that products should speak for themselves. If the ice cream is good, despite whatever repugnance we might feel regarding the views of the makers of that ice cream, we will still purchase it.
The left does not see things that way. The left is out to crush individuals and companies with whom it differs. This is especially so today on the issue of same-sex marriage.
Perhaps the most dramatic example of this took place last week. The governing board of the widely used browser, Firefox, forced the company’s CEO, Brendan Eich, to resign. The Firefox board had learned that in 2008, Eich donated $1,000 to the Proposition 8 campaign in California. Proposition 8 amended the California Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. In classic Communist fashion, gay rights organizations demanded that Eich publicly recant. When Eich did not, gay rights and other leftist organizations called for a boycott of Firefox. Firefox immediately forced Eich out.
All these years, the left, after coining the term “McCarthyism” in order to disparage the right, had fooled most people into believing that it is the right that suppresses liberty. The truth, of course, has been the opposite. Worldwide, with the exception of Nazi Germany (which was a uniquely race-based totalitarianism, neither left nor right — while it rejected Marxist class-based struggle, it supported socialism (“Nazism” was short for National Socialism), every genocidal totalitarian regime of the 20th century was leftist. And domestically, too, the left has much less interest in liberty than in forcing people to act in accord with its values. A totalitarian streak is part of the left’s DNA. How you think matters and what you do away outside of work matters: More than 20 states prohibit judges from being leaders in the Boy Scouts — because the left deems the Boy Scouts homophobic.
During the McCarthy era, the left (and not only the left) screamed when people were falsely charged with supporting Stalin and Communism, one of the greatest evils in human history. But the left also screamed when people who really did aid and abet Stalin were dismissed from their jobs. In other words, for those on the left who celebrate Eich’s ouster, it was evil to deprive a man who supported Stalin of a job, but it is right to fire a man who supports the man-woman definition of marriage. Such is the left’s moral compass.
It is important to further note that gay employees at Firefox acknowledge that Eich never discriminated against gays, whether in employment, benefits or any other way. But that doesn’t matter to the left because a totalitarian streak is part of the left’s DNA.
As Princeton Professor of Jurisprudence Robert George warned on my radio show, today the left fires employees for opposition to same-sex marriage. Tomorrow it will fire employees who are pro-life (“anti-woman”). And next it will be employees who support Israel (an “apartheid state”).
The reason to boycott Firefox is not that it is run by leftists. Nor is the reason to support the man-woman definition of marriage. It is solely in order to preserve liberty in the land of liberty. If Firefox doesn’t recant and rehire Eich as CEO, McCarthyism will have returned far more pervasively and perniciously than in its first incarnation. The message the gay left (such as the Orwellian-named Human Rights Campaign) and the left in general wish to send is that Americans who are in positions of power at any company should be forced to resign if they hold a position that the left strongly opposes.
And right now that position is opposition to same-sex marriage.
Think about that. In the United States of America today, the belief that marriage should remain defined as the union of a man and woman is portrayed as so vile by the left that anyone who holds it is unfit for employment.
A handful of those on the gay (and straight) left have spoken out against the forced resignation of Eich. If their words are to mean anything, they must join in the call to boycott Firefox. Otherwise, their protestations are meaningless, made solely to preserve their moral credibility.
The battle over Firefox is the most important battle in America at this particular moment. If you use Firefox, uninstall it. Instead use Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera, Safari, or try Pale Moon for Windows, which is based on the Firefox engine and will import all of your bookmarks. For mobile devices, you can try Puffin.
America can have liberty or it can have Firefox. Right now, it cannot have both.
When you save an image file as a pdf and then alter it to (for example) doctor an image or change the text, and then save it again, are you telling me that the metadata will remain unchanged?
If they updated the webpage after you created your "original" time-and-datestamped pdf file, your creation would appear to be more original than the updated webpage since your creation point would be before the dated page change. As well as your created pdf having metadata showing it as unchanged from the creation point.
My ordinary user head-to-home comparison of Firefox with Chrome, after I got po'd enough at Firefox, was that Chrome was significantly faster and far more stable.
I trust Google with information even less than I do Microsoft, though. I'd rather have a browser which is not tied to a major software company, but Firefox just isn't adequate anymore.
And they pulled this crap with Eich. That would certainly have gotten me to pull the plug on Firefox, but its own shortcomings did a few weeks earlier.
Here’s one reason why Pale Moon uses duckduckgo instead of Google for search
“No need to further support Mozilla: The Mozilla Corporation, through their contract with Google as the search provider, benefits financially from every Google search result performed from a Firefox browser (where do you think the ad revenue share goes to when you search from the search box or about:home in Firefox...?) Apart from a very large revenue stream that they already have (officially non-profit, but that doesn’t mean they don’t make any money...) and IMO not needing any more to add to that through a third-party browser, they have displayed a lot of undesired behavior in their recent developments of Firefox (e.g. removal of useful features) and plans for the future (e.g. making the browser adware and in turn displaying greed of the first order), and I no longer want to have them benefit (financially) from my browser out-of-the-box through searches, out of principle.”
for more reasons:
http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=4016
Any good alternative to Thunderbird for email that is as easy to use and move info to?
Opera has a built in email or you can use separate Opera Mail
Well, they never got any revenue from here. I use ixquick for searches and have all google-whatevers blocked permanently. No ads allowed no searches providing hits for google to exploit.
Linux is the kernel, or the main core of an operating system. Most people use "Linux" to refer to an OS in its entirety, so I won't be too pedantic about it.
Linux is a kernel. Emacs is an operating system.
I’m test driving a browser called “Aviator” by White Hat Security. Press releases: https://www.whitehatsec.com/news/coverage.html
I think I was using AOL and gopher during those days :(
heh—I was using the Net before the Web. Taking a screenshot of a FTP session isn’t really all that exciting.
Sorry, I can’t answer that for you as I don’t run an email client anymore, I use yahoo mail.
ah but the difference is, I had a choice. IE was much better than alpha mozilla at the time but I endured all the crashes and bugs so that maybe we’d have a better web. Instead, we got this crap.
BZZZZT...WRONG !!!
i dont monetarily support, and provide a means of continuing an agenda designed to destroy myself, my family and my society...
why does the crap spewed forth from places like 'been-in-jerrys' continue to be shoved down our throats at an ever increasing speed and frequency ??? because *conservatives* buy their chunky-fudge-packers-deluxe and provide the dollars for them to stay in business, having a platform to continue the propaganda...
many, many *actors*, *musicians*, *resturants* etc that i refuse to give money to these days...the list is almost too long to keep track of at times...
Are any of the browser companies not Liberal? I really doubt it. Sure, I gave Mozilla an earful, but I plan on using whatever browser is technically the most suitable for my computing needs. Not a happy decision, but pragmatic.
My answer would be it’s OK to use a browser from a developer who happens to be a liberal but not OK to make him any money from it.
Fortunately there are several non profit forks of firefox such as Pale Moon (http://www.palemoon.org/) and Waterfox (https://www.waterfoxproject.org/)
For many years I’ve promoted Firefox (and mozilla.org ever since its founding). Now I will continue the same advocacy but in the opposite direction.
Here’s one for people who want a much faster browser with many features. Works with Flash and the like, and works better with HTML5 than other browsers.
For those who’ve complained about lack of a fancy video downloader extension for Midori (for Youtube and the like), have a look at packages nomnom, cclive, etc. Midori already comes with Adblock and other useful extensions (under “preferences”).
For people who have newer, more powerful computers, Pale Moon is getting good reviews.
HEY BROTHER G!!!! Good to see you!
“...many, many *actors*, *musicians*, *resturants* etc that i refuse to give money to these days...the list is almost too long to keep track of at times... ..”
You ain’t alone there, my brother.
I don’t eat ice cream.
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