Any Wordpress site is essentially a hacker honeypot that will ultimately cost your organization far more than it might save you if you actually try to use it as a content management system. WP should come pre-configured with the very good "WP Cerber" security plugin, and force you to choose a random login URL. Otherwise it's only a matter of time before you are hacked. 5,000,000 lines of auto-updating PHP? Good luck securing that. I have been forced to support 2 WP websites for the last 2 years and they are attacked thousands of times a day simply because they report themselves to the world they are Wordpress sites. WP Cerber allows you to upload the original code for plugins and themes and can then scan them for unexpected changes. The effort required to maintain the security of Wordpress FAR exceeds any value you might extract from it being "Free".
Personally, I associate Boomboxes with thugs who want to spread fear and intimidate people by brazenly playing loud, often lyrically violent music in public places. You still see it today in various forms, but hey, I’m whitey.
Wow, you all are absolutely insane. Seriously. You're nuts. I'm completely willing to believe that plants are intelligent, but exist in such completely different context from humans that we dismiss them as inanimate objects. Time passes differently for plants. They have different sensory perception, etc.
But what are you talking about with all this "I, it, thou" nonsense? Maybe it's me, in fact I'm sure you all will say it's me. But my gosh. Is there something in the water (or lack thereof) in California?
Why not? It's been stated I do this on every thread, why should I not then do it? Judge, jury and executioner, all present and accounted for here on HN.
Utter BS. Bach would be flagged, first because he's a white male, and second because he was a "rebel". Of course that wig would win him points, he's clearly cross-dressing.
And I assume that in the future, the people who currently support the transgender movement will be thought of as members of a small fringe group that sympathetically lost their minds when Bruce Jenner very publicly lost his. At the moment, thousands of innocent children are being pumped full of hormones to "assist them in their transition". Well done.
I don’t particularly care if my response was flagged. I didn’t notice. Have a nice day in your echo chamber. Everything in the universe is relative. That doesn't mean I'm going to let others tell me that up is down and left is right. At the moment, I feel like I'm the "minority" being "oppressed". It's ironic, since the topic of this thread is "What you can't say". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Born with a penis = he/him/his. Born with a vagina = she/her/hers. It's genetic. https://www.who.int/genomics/gender/en/index1.html. The whole "science" thing. You know, women have eggs, can get pregnant. Men, have sperm, can impregnate. Perhaps this basic lack of understanding is at the heart of the gender pronoun debate. Some people simply don't know, and refuse to accept that there are specific biological differences between men and women. A bit like flat-earthers.
What is this magical "high-end" database that operates without the use of any "files"? Certainly not Oracle or Sybase. Sure, they have "data partitions", but the database executables are distributed and stored in files. And what is the magical file-less operating system that they run on? Ooooh we're in "files are extinct land". Where nothing needs files.
The teacher felt strongly that the student's gender was biological and not something the student could arbitrarily choose to change. The teacher felt that using a pronoun other than a biologically consistent one was "lying", and it was against the teacher's religion to lie, so the teacher would not use the student's chosen pronoun. Did I miss something?
My point, albeit made sarcastically, is maybe some people just like to walk slowly. I was taught as a young man that walking slowly is a sign of wisdom and confidence. It means you know where you are going, you left on time, and you're not in a hurry.