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GoDaddy sounds pretty Mr. Nice Guy, don't they? Springs to mind the carefree days of the dot-com bubble. San Fransisco, circa 1999. Geek renaissance in full bloom.
Well, their leader's a crotchety old Republican with an axe to grind, and absolutely no compunction about using cliched right wing bromides. 9-11 changed everything, he says, and therefore we must use torture on Gitmo inmates. Nevermind the Aristotelian argument (quite obvious, I think) that torture simply forces people to lie until the pain stops. Nevermind the argument of trying to be an example of how democracy functions.
It'd be one thing if he kept his opinion to himself or kept some sort of division between his own politics and his business. But it's right on the front page of Godaddy.
I'm nauseated. I'm moving all my registered names. And it sucks, because I did like their service. But now that I think of it, all those add-ons and extras during the registration process did seem kind of sneaky.
And how can you trust someone who advocates torture? In the novel Moonraker, M suspects a member of his country club, Hugo Drax, of evildoing. Simply because he cheats at bridge. Crazed politics and a desire to put them up on the front of his business website are a smoking canary, to mix metaphors.
UPDATE: Bob has since retracted much of his commentary. I might still pull my domains, but when I went to look, I found out that most of them renewed like three days before. So I'll probably stick around for a while.
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Yeah, that's pretty sickening. I'll drop them as soon as I can. Any suggestions for a more enlightened provider?
Too bad the Geneva Convention only applies to uniformed combatants of a country's miliatry. The terrorist groups are not in the uniformed military of a country and are by definition excluded from the Geneva Convention agreement.
What we did was not nice, but making somebody walk around in their underwear, or listen to loud music is not what I would call torture. Torture would be ripping their toenails out, hanging them by their thumbs, chaining them to a wall with no food or water, using ancient iron maiden type devices or perhaps putting their arms and head in a rack.
I think that a little perspective is needed.
I do not like crotchety old republican'ts with an axe to grind either.
However, he has retracted his statements on his website now and even admits he learned he was wrong about this issue. I find that rather refreshing and wish more of all of us (not just neo-cons) would have the cojones or espalda to say "whoops, my bad!".
Can you at least give him credit for that? Maybe if you do, then the world will start doing this as a trend. Who knows, maybe we can stop being such ignorant neanderthals and evolve.
And yes, I expect monkeys to fly outta my ass if THAT happens.....
I was going to move all of my domains due to the lewd commercial that Bob decided was appropriate to air on Super Bowl Sunday. You just convinced me to do otherwise.
Torture is not what is happening at Gitmo. If you want I can give you details on what torture REALLY is. I know firsthand.
Candy-ass liberals like you make me sick. You are so concerned with what people who hate you say or think about you that you will sell your country down the toilet for them. They however don't care what you think of them, they just want you to grovel at their feet. And you do it.
You need to review the news coverage of 9/11, and you need to do some research on the real gulags, and real evil people.
Stalin murdered 20 million Christians, and you don't care. Oh but one terrorist has a rough time after attacking our country and you go f'n ballistic.
Get a clue.
Wait... what happened on 9/11?
