Re:OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox
by vacri on Monday March 31, 2014 @06:57PM
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Given that his beliefs in 2008 were echoed by a majority of Californian voters, it's hard to argue that they're a deviation from the norm.
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Re:OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox
by firstOrder on Monday March 31, 2014 @07:22PM
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Is Firefox a local project? It is a project used by the industrialized world, and by some of the non industrialized world. More than 47% of voters in California voted against this bill. Deep pocketed people like Eich were able to get that thin majority, by getting every hayseed in the central valley, north coast and Orange county out to the polls.
A thin majority of one state in fifty of one country isn't much of a norm to deviate from.
When you're arguing for inclusion, you should avoid pejorative terms like 'hayseed'.
At thin majority and this is a weak argument anyway.
A norm just has to be common, not a majority. Voting for a major political party is a norm, regardless of whether your party wins or loses, for example.
I don't support his views, but to call them as 'not a norm' mischaracterises them and doesn't particularly help in finding tactics against them.