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jesus, prop 8 had gotten so much coverage i thought it might be something i actually cared about. read the wiki article and it has nothing to do with tech at a

by ram1024 18y ago

jesus, prop 8 had gotten so much coverage i thought it might be something i actually cared about. read the wiki article and it has nothing to do with tech at all. it's about gay people. WHY THE HELL IS IT ON TECH SITES? this is ludicrous and you just infected HN with that crap. could have said something in the title OR text that said what the hell it was actually about...

noodle 18y ago
i think that the short answer is because silicon valley and major tech luminaries have raised hell about it, and things that are news for SV and the bigger fish are at least vicariously news for the rest of the industry.
- ram1024 18y ago
  i sure would like to flay the idiots that are trying to ram this through. as if we don't have bigger problems to freaking worry about. i may just be male pmsing today or something, but i'm irritated that something like this has actually invaded my airspace at all. i feel like a jehovah's witness has just visited me at 7am saturday morning...
  - noodle 18y ago
    well, i'm on the other coast, so my understanding might be limited, but from what i've gathered, in california, the general public can tack on ballot propositions that have the power to amend the state constitution/legislation. so here we have a big enough group of people who want to push this (confusingly worded) thing through. so, on the bright side, its not tax dollars being wasted.
  - jaytee_clone 18y ago
    Yes, we definitely have bigger issues to worry about, such as resource shortage and overpopulation. That's exactly my point. And I wish I would have better content to provide for the day, but the ad was blatantly everywhere on the web, I just could not ignore. In fact, ignoring it actually benefit the people who do try to spam our culture with such pointless issues. You may be smart enough to see through the bullshit, but not everyone else have that kind of rationale.
    - ram1024 18y ago
      thanks for calming me down :D

by ram1024 18y ago

noodle 18y ago

i think that the short answer is because silicon valley and major tech luminaries have raised hell about it, and things that are news for SV and the bigger fish are at least vicariously news for the rest of the industry.

ram1024 18y ago
i sure would like to flay the idiots that are trying to ram this through. as if we don't have bigger problems to freaking worry about. i may just be male pmsing today or something, but i'm irritated that something like this has actually invaded my airspace at all. i feel like a jehovah's witness has just visited me at 7am saturday morning...
- noodle 18y ago
  well, i'm on the other coast, so my understanding might be limited, but from what i've gathered, in california, the general public can tack on ballot propositions that have the power to amend the state constitution/legislation. so here we have a big enough group of people who want to push this (confusingly worded) thing through. so, on the bright side, its not tax dollars being wasted.
- jaytee_clone 18y ago
  Yes, we definitely have bigger issues to worry about, such as resource shortage and overpopulation. That's exactly my point. And I wish I would have better content to provide for the day, but the ad was blatantly everywhere on the web, I just could not ignore. In fact, ignoring it actually benefit the people who do try to spam our culture with such pointless issues. You may be smart enough to see through the bullshit, but not everyone else have that kind of rationale.
  - ram1024 18y ago
    thanks for calming me down :D