tarring

For those who think tarring and feathering the Github organization as a whole is still justified: What would it take to change your mind?

Unless you are tarring ships, you mean paid, not payed.

You're tarring more than 100,000 people with that brush, many of whom were not at Microsoft back then.

You're tarring a large and varied group of people based on the actions of a vocal few.

You are mischaracterizing the case and unfairly tarring the reputation of Oliver Wendell Holmes, a truly great Supreme Court justice.

Not everyone who's self taught started by bashing out web-apps in Ruby and you do us all a disservice by tarring.

You're going to be tarring a lot of not-incorrect code with that brush of yours.

We saw this in the past couple of years with the media tarring-and-feathering of Harvard psychologist Jason Richwine, and geneticist James Watson.

Yeah, gradually there will be less people needed to tar roofs and roof-tarring wages will fall, but nobody really wants to do that anyway.

Given that you agree that we should move to clean and renewable energy, what's your investment in tarring the scientific community?

> Unless you are tarring ships, you mean paid, not payed.

There are certainly plenty of mathematicians who believe odds things, but I'd be leery of tarring the whole lot with the same brush.

Grouping "US tech companies" together based solely on their place of origin, and tarring them all with the same brush, is naked nationalism.

> Ted Cruz is now tarring this as "Net Neutrality is the Obamacare of the Internet".

I'm sorry for tarring everyone with such a broad brush, but I'll note that Graham made the exact same point in "A Unified Theory of VC Suckage".

Given the knee-jerk reaction of "Anything that Obama supports is bad", Ted Cruz is now tarring this as "Net Neutrality is the Obamacare of the Internet".

Tarring all of those people with the same brush really doesn't help anyone, including yourself.