Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
Suzanne Collins: Catching Fire
Schlagwort: Macht
Equipment.
Hosting is Loving.
ich bin viel lieber mit dir verheiratet als mit google
a "client"
Love besides the rails.
That design document predated the decision to exclude gay relationships in the game. Its pages described a web of social interactions, in which every kind of romantic relationship was permitted.
Power is not an OSI layer.
In Wirklichkeit sind diese Malaisen der reinste Ausdruck der Politik einer Machtelite, die sie will, weil sie daraus konkrete Vorteile zieht. Ob das Trägersystem dafür dann TCP/IP, Minitel oder babylonische Tontäfelchen sind, ist dabei schon fast egal. Die Eigenschaften des Kommunikationssystems sind schlicht weniger relevant als die politische Macht.
Sysadmin Oath.
I am hired because I know what I am doing, not because I will do whatever I am told is a good idea. This might cost me bonuses, raises, promotions, and may even label me as "undesirable" by places I don't want to work at anyway, but I don't care. I will not compromise my own principles and judgement without putting up a fight. Of course, I won't always win, and I will sometimes be forced to do things I don't agree with, but if I am my objections will be known, and if I am shown to be right and problems later develop, I will shout "I told you so!" repeatedly, laugh hysterically, and do a small dance or jig as appropriate to my heritage.