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Firing a person should not destroy their life. Something else is really wrong if this is the case.

I walked to kindergarden at the age of 5. But that was in Switzeland.

Couldn't he/she just write the text over the image?

The problem is that real Nazis will not do anything of the above. What you describe is just the behavior of the plebs and not of the leaders.

I think he/she should leave the gender there but add an additional field "identified as gender" or something like this. I mean it should still be possible for me to categorize people by their physical gender/sex.

For example it can be important to know whether an individual can get pregnant or not.

I don't think this would will be the case as it will only make people who know how to install an ad-blocker move to firefox. I think they target the users not having an ad-blocker installed.

The code of conduct just applies to behavior inside the community. It has nothing to do with stuff happening outside of it.

The community would not tolerate discriminating behavior against members of the community or while doing work for the community. But what you do in your private life is non of it's business.

I hope you understand what I mean.

It's a good point but I think it does not apply to my example.

Because in my example I don't even have to modify the movie. I can apply the filter while it's playing.

And besides that your examples require the presence of a contract between me and the architect/painter where I resign from my rights to change the object. Copyright has nothing to do with it.

According to your logic you are obliged to watch the ads on TV. Because by watching a film you made an agreement that watching the film is only free because you watch the ads.

It's more like some percentage of people change channels, mute or fetch something to drink when ads are running on TV.

Just because you watched the film doesn't mean you are obliged to watch the ads.

What you are saying does never apply when using content for personal use. When I buy a DVD I am allowed to watch it with a filter or watch only every second frame. This would never violate your copyright.

The good thing about morale is that it doesn't have to be the same for different people. It's not an absolute value. You can live up to your high morale standards and watch ads (which sounds a bit odd). Other people think differently.

Other people like me think we are morally bound to ignore ads as much as possible because we think they destroy a healthy capitalism and are misused to track people and distribute malware. Therefore I use an ad-blocker.

But that's only a side note. In the internet your argument is invalid because I don't know in advance whether a website uses ads or not. To discover that I would have to visit that site without an ad-blocker and let them serve ads without warning. And that would be unacceptable.

The solution for that problem is the various websites either use paywalls or detect ad-blockers and don't provide content when one is in use. In this case we really have an agreement. If I turn off my ad-blocker I'm allowed to watch the content, otherwise I'm not.

But I never ever had the desire to see content which has been hidden behind an ad-blocker blocker.

A small detail: While destroying more life this process is _creating_ more life at the same time... Not that is has to matter.

People have no time to spend the money.

That's exactly the reason I wouldn't sign-up for something "free" when I was required to give away my credit card details.

Nothing a company builds is free. And I think it's better to pay with money than with data. Not saying you're not paying with both here.

When you talk about reading the code then you mean parsing? When you think you gain productivity by parsing the code in strings, variable assignments, function calls, numbers etc. then syntax highlighting is good for you. But I don't think a programmer gains anything from this.

The difference here is that on a traffic light the colors are important and inherent to the traffic light's functionality.

This is not true in source code. Syntax highlighting "helps" you to spot strings, numbers, keyword arguments etc. faster. But normally this is not what programming is about.

I turned off syntax highlighting several months ago and never wanted to turn it back on. Scanning the code is now as good as it was before. And understanding und structuring the code got better because I'm no longer distracted by unimportant parts of the code.

I wasn't able to sleep in the past. Now I can because of two simple tricks (may not work for everyone):

1) I lie on the side and cover both ears, one with the cushion and one with the blanket.

2) I imagine a story I made up once and go trough it in my mind. It's always the same story, only a little different each time.

Then I fall asleep.

all they will see is a bearded man staring to the front

He's clearly a man.

You can't _claim_ guilt, you need proof, and to get proof you need due process.

You don't need it when you are at war. Killing people is normal during a wa even without evidence.

Why should this be wrong? People can be who they want to be. If something is cool it's appreciated, if it's not, it's been shit on. That's life, deal with it. Not everyone is made of porcelain. Some are able to deal with critisism even if it's not delivered like it's taught in management classes.

It's a self referential statement.

The employees most likely will recover but the company won't. So there is no bouncing back for the company, it's not getting a second chance if it's discovered that a mistake has been made. So in my opinion the comparison can be made.

That's different. Sometimes you have to defend yourself and then it's justified to go to war. Going to war without being threatened is a crime (like it was done numerous times by the US governement and is done now in Syria. Only because there is no judge makes it no less a crime.).

But you don't have to defend yourself from this company. You aren't in danger. As a result punishing the workers would be nothing but a crime.

But all civilized countries have no death penalty for good reasons. No need to introduce them for companies.

We really need a bullshit register for this kind of people. They should not be able to get away unpunished for releasing something they already know is bullshit.

In Switzerland for example. Either both use the same name or they keep the one they already had.