USB Is the Devil's Connection 474
Jamie handed us Satan's Data Connection. You see, sane and rational human being, the
USB logo is actually in the shape of a trident, and the obvious action to Evangelical Christians in Brazil is to ban its use. Hopefully they don't mispronounce SCSI and find themselves lusting after their PCs.
it always looked to me like... (Score:5, Funny)
A guy lying down carrying a briefcase and a pizza and... wait, never mind...
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[i]Hopefully they don't mispronounce SCSI and find themselves lusting after their PCs. [/i]
I don't get it. In what way would they have to mispronounce SCSI?
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secsy
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Satan has never carried a trident - it is hard to say where this myth originated.
He does, however, have an enormous johnston.
Also, I suppose that there are key areas of the London Underground - which according to my tube map - these people would do best to avoid.
Re:it always looked to me like... (Score:4, Informative)
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"remake with Kurt Russel"
Is there any way that Satan isn't involved when those words are uttered?
Re:it always looked to me like... (Score:5, Informative)
That's actually the proper pronunciation...
"Larry Boucher intended SCSI to be an acronym all along. Pronounced "sexy." That didn't quite happen."
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI [wikipedia.org]
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In response to your comment, I've created the Small Electronic Component System Interface, which is 100% compatible with the Small Computer System Interface as it uses the same cables, pinouts, protocols, and voltages.
Now we can all have our SECSI interfaces. In fact, your SCSI interface is now a SECSI interface and your SCSI cable is not a SECSI cable. And "sexy" is the proper pronunciation.
That said, choosy moms pronounce GIF as "jif"; they also annoy me.
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I always get a laugh out of people who pronounce gif as jif - and yes, I know the creators of the format used a soft G, but that is wrong. Acronym letters should take the sound of the letters in the word they replace.
What about the illiterates who pronounce, "gigabyte" with a hard G?
It's the same root as the word, "gigantic." Get it right.
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SeCSI (sexy)
Re:it always looked to me like... (Score:5, Informative)
Why would that be a mispronounciation? That's how it was originally intended to be pronounced. It's everybody else who's got it wrong :)
Re:it always looked to me like... (Score:4, Funny)
Kevin Flynn: Come on, you scuzzy data, be in there. Come on.
What's not arousing about that?
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The naming convention behind SCSI was originally intending on it to be pronounced Sexy (secsi).
Evidently, if you read it, it's supposed to sound like that. The concept never really took off and people now forget about it. Btu sexy and lust is a close companion.
Anyways, I'm wondering why they arne't worried about the World Wide Web. Everyone knows that W translated into Hebrew is 6 (actually the V is substituted as W doesn't exist) so whenever they go to a web site, they are paying homage to the number of th
Re:it always looked to me like... (Score:4, Insightful)
Well, actually, the www=666 is more or less a long running joke that has existed in some form or another since the mid 1990's. I probably first ran across it on my windows 3.11 running Netscape 2.something dialing into what became one of the largest local internet services in my area. The Hebrew language is a lot like the roman numeral system in that when you put numbers beside each other, they are added together. 666 would actually be 18, 666666 would be something like 36. There are rules in how it's done but I don't know them well enough to say anything.
Here is a link [av1611.org] explaining it a little more. Note that the copyright at the top of the page lists 1999 where the one on the bottom of the page lists 1995. '95 sounds about the right time frame as I may had just upgraded to windows 95.
As for the SCSI being SekSI (sexy), your probably right. I don't remember where I heard that from. I just know I can understand why the Scuzzy sounding name stuck (it's a PITA in some situations)
Re:it always looked to me like... (Score:4, Informative)
Yes... but it was originally intended to be "sexy", not "scuzzy".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scsi#History [wikipedia.org]
So strictly speaking, pronouncing it as "sexy" isn't actually mispronouncing it. :)
SciFi Skeleton (Score:2)
USB is the devil (Score:3, Insightful)
But not because of any tridents. Because of too many variants of connectors.
And it can be a pita to implement for some things, teeny embedded ones for example. Not horrible, but just to set up serial port emulation can be fairly non-trivial. Although luckily people have written nice libs for a lot of things by now.
Only Apple tried to mispronounce SCSI (Score:4, Insightful)
The rest of us always called it "scuzzy", and thought Apple Marketing's attempt to rebrand it as "sexy" was just lame.
Re:Only Apple tried to mispronounce SCSI (Score:4, Funny)
Wait, they tried to pronounce it "sexy?" Because nothing says "sexy" to me like the sweet, sweet curves of the Mac IIcx [allaboutapple.com].
Re:Only Apple tried to mispronounce SCSI (Score:5, Informative)
The rest of us? I've always called it SCSI but if you thought "sexy" was a rebranding (or Apple's idea) Larry Boucher would like a word with you... [wikipedia.org]
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Now this is... (Score:2, Funny)
I used to hear... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I used to hear... (Score:5, Informative)
[citation needed]
The creator of symbol says nothing about it representing evil, and the circle representing imprisioning it.
Despair, not evil.
More of [citation needed] on peace sign (Score:3, Informative)
A few years ago was the 50th anniversary of the symbol, and the guy who designed it was being interviewed on BBC radio. He said that the John Birch Society tried to portray it as an anti-Christian symbol, but that was nonsense.
Bluetooth... (Score:4, Insightful)
Either way, though, Bluetooth was of course named for a Danish King. While he himself converted to Christianity he certainly ruled over a nontrivial number of non-Christian followers.
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Of course, he was the product of god and a human woman. God's genes won out. Even the recessive ones, he's God after all.
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To see that it was good?
Re:Bluetooth... (Score:4, Insightful)
What's even funnier is that most internal Bluetooth cards use... you guessed it. The USB bus. They're still using Satan! Muahahahahahah!
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"While he himself converted to Christianity he certainly ruled over a nontrivial number of non-Christian followers.
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Perhaps um, enough for a __Beowulf__ cluster?
Re:Bluetooth... (Score:5, Funny)
Really? Jesus was born in the middle east and had blue eyes?
Duh, that's what the spice does.
And you'll burn in a FireWire HELL!!1! (Score:2)
iLink 1394 Blasphemers!
1394 - 728 = 666
Except that (Score:4, Interesting)
the number of the beast is 616. The next(or may the recent one?) printing of KJB will have the correct translation.
Idle Connections are the devil's playthings (Score:2, Funny)
Make sure you don't install any SATAn drives either!
neither run Linux (Score:2)
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Christians shouldn't use the EIDE-al-Fitter cable.
back in the day, they shunned the vulgar MoFoMe too
Running FreeBSD! (Score:2)
How evil [securitylab.ru] can you get?
Firewire? (Score:2)
They are right (Score:2)
Not a story... (Score:3, Insightful)
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It's unconfirmed, but it's definitely making the rounds on Brazilian blogs and such. Even if it is a farce, the fact that it's newsworthy is newsworthy. IMHO.
Religion... (Score:2, Interesting)
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: Those with brains, but no religion, And those with religion, but no brains.”
- Abul Ala Al-Maarri
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No, no, no.
The two groups are those who try to divide everyone into two discrete sets and get it wrong, and those who don't try and get it right.
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The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: Those with brains, but no religion, And those with religion, but no brains.” - Abul Ala Al-Maarri
I'd have to say that this is incorrect. There are plenty of smart people who manage somehow to believe in various deities and such. And there are plenty of dumbasses who have at least figured out that there is no god. Smart people are just as capable of irrational thoughts as anyone else.
Re:Religion... (Score:5, Insightful)
So I assume that you would in the latter group then since you don't understand the difference between faith and religion.
It depends on how it's used. Faith is just belief which is not based on proof. But a lot of people call their religion "faith." It seems especially popular in Christian circles. In most cases, there is no difference.
Modern Atheism is a belief system aka. a religion.
Not even close. Atheism is a lack of theistic beliefs. That's all.
A personal faith in god is not the same as a belief system/religion/philosophy.
What a load of bullshit. If your "faith" includes scriptures, commandments and the like, it's a religion, and your naive sounding assertions are crap.
Religion is a man made system of dogma and rituals.
Modern Atheism has a set of man made rituals and dogma. Ergo, Atheism == Religion.
Since you can't define a single piece of ritual or dogma which would include atheists, aside from the obvious "lack of belief in a god" entailed in the definition, you can't even make this specious piece of reasoning work.
I have a brain and I do not follow a religion. I have a personal faith in god and I share that faith with a community of believers.
In other words, a fucking church. Geez, are you another liar for Jesus?
No problem (Score:2)
I seriously doubt they'll behead anyone.......
Whew thank God... (Score:4, Insightful)
This is good news!
Just think, if scientology somehow found the keyboard to be a derivative of the devil / whatever-their-evil-avatar-is, the internet would be a much more comforting place also...
But on another note, do these people know that most computers come with the USB symbol next to the port intended for their devil-plugs? I guess there is nothing preventing them from banning most computers!
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Users over there really shouldn't despair, there are usb-to-firewire adapters [google.com] out there...that way they can send the devilish signal back into the fire-filled hell where it belongs!
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The evangelical cult "Peace Beloved of the Lord" in the interior of Brazil forbids its followers to use any USB technology by contending that it uses a symbol that makes apology to the devil.
According to its founder, the Apostle "Welder Saldanha says that this is just a symbol of Satan, is always present in all Christian homes.
"The symbol of that name (he even likes to pronounce) is a trident, which is used to torture souls go to hell. Use only a symbol of those shows that all users of this technology pífia are actually worshipers of Satan "- explains the " Apostle. "
Measures were taken so that all the USB connections of his followers were exchanged for common connections and even the Bluetooth (sic), which according to Saldanha Welder is permitted, for "Blue was the color of the eyes of our savior Jesus Christ" .
Wouldnt networked SATA be closer? (Score:2)
Serial ATA, Networked. Put that all together, you have something worse than USB :P
USB is pure evil for different reason. (Score:5, Insightful)
Everything in computing from an RJ45 to IEEE 1397 have a obvious shape you can identify the correct orientation from.
Yes, yes. I know the trident is supposed to go "up" in relation to the trident logo by port on the port. But this varies randomly from one manurfacturer to another, from device to device, and thats those that have the trident logo next to the port at all.
Mini-B USB, popular for small gadgets, thank god, has an identfiable orientation.
Re:USB is pure evil for different reason. (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, I thought this was common knowledge. I mean, who HASN'T experienced a severe homicidal urge while trying to plug a USB connection into the backside of some device?
"Does it go... this way? Nope, lets try the other... no that's not it, maybe the first time was right... well.. no, no I think it IS upside down, hang on... oh fuck, I dropped it! I swear to god if I meet the motherfucker who designed this piece of shit i'm gonna rip his fucking... wait, I GOT IT! Oh thank god! Now, no one touch it, or I will strangle you with the cord and then use it to hang your corpse from a tree. Seriously."
Well, maybe it's just me.
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> Without looking closely you have a 50/50 chance of getting the correct orientation.
And yet it typically takes three tries to get it turned the right way...
Obligatory Ron Burgundy Reference (Score:3, Funny)
I assume these people never use dessert forks. (Score:2)
n/t
hey (Score:2, Funny)
you can spell Satan with a keyboards, maybe they should stay the hell off the internet?
So I take it, (Score:2)
...I see (Score:3, Funny)
I see the connection here!
Bluetooth is Pagan not USB (Score:3, Insightful)
Measures were taken so that all the USB connections of his followers were exchanged for common connections and even the Bluetooth (sic), which according to Saldanha Welder is permitted, for "Blue was the color of the eyes of our savior Jesus Christ"
Bluetooth is the one using a pagan blind rune as its symbol and they are all excited about using it. Come on, next thing you know you'll see christens celebrating pagan holidays.
hoax (Score:3, Informative)
I'm brazillian. For those who did not read TFA - well... The original site linked by TFA only publish made up funny news.
From the site:
Um site chamado "Bobolhando", não deve ser levado à sério!
Se copiar, credite, ok?
subjective translation:
A site named "Idiotting" should not be taken seriously!
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2. apple loves it, and the apple was the fobidden fruit in the garden of evil.
The first apple computer sold for $666.66. [wordpress.com]
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USB does try hard though...now at SuperSpeed revision...SS...in many places that still resonates strongly with Schutzstaffel (also... [wikipedia.org])
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In a sane society
Sounds like you too believe in fairy tales.
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Re:I thought that was firewire (Score:5, Insightful)
Where did I suggest we shun anyone?
Actually you suggested not letting religious leaders steal their money. The stealing that they're doing is pretty much just a matter of asking for offerings based on false doctrines. Stopping that implies a level of coercive control quite a bit beyond "shunning".
Also, it may be reasonable for you to conjecture that other people's gods are unreal. However, since the idea of 'God' is largely an interpretation of internal experiences, and you don't have access to anyone's internal experience except your own, you're only guessing that other people's interpretations are delusional. That may be a reasonable guess, given the evidence you have. But its a guess, and there is a huge variety to human experience. Yours is actually a religious attitude, just an atheistic one, which is why ex-atheists like C. S. Lewis often make such marvelous religious crusaders.
Re:I thought that was firewire (Score:5, Informative)
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/sarcasm Mod ignorance up. Only the non-religious are the true paragons of morality. /snicker
(Stalin is quoted as saying "You know, they are fooling us, there is no God...all this talk about God is sheer nonsense" in E. Yaroslavsky, Landmarks in the Life of Stalin, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow 1940)
The atheists are just as ignorant of reality as the theists. At least the agnostic have the honesty to admit they DON'T KNOW, which is the first sign of TRUE knowledge. (Of course only the mystic
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The atheists are just as ignorant of reality as the theists. At least the agnostic have the honesty to admit they DON'T KNOW
In practice the difference between atheists and agnostics are none, both conclude there is and can never be no credible evidence (how can you provide evidence of something you cannot define in clear non-supernatural terms, same reason you cannot provide proof that there is none) and so the assertion that there is a god is deemed false.
Your mistake is that you think atheists declare there is proof there is no god, they never will, in essence agnostics are just 'politically correct' atheists.
The rules of scie
Re:Sigh, more Christian bashing. (Score:5, Insightful)
Unfortunately, nowhere in the Bible does Satan ever have a trident. But this is Slashdot... sigh let the Christian bashing begin if it must! :(
Perhaps you should explain that to the Evangelical Christians in Brazil.
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One particular group of nutcases (who may or may not even actually exist) != "the evangelical Christians in Brazil".
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They are evangelical Christians in Brazil. They are not the only evangelical Christians in Brazil, but the GP's "the" can easily refer to "the evangelical Christians in Brazil who believe this crap."
So yeah, this is just one group of nutcases, but they refer to themselves as evangelical Christians, and one cannot arbitrarily define them as "no true Scots^W evangelical Christians" just because they're nutcases.
Re:Sigh, more Christian bashing. (Score:4, Informative)
Even the original article refers to it as an "evangelical cult."
Hey, I heard about this scientist who proves things using a "scientific method" but his method is logically faulty. But since he claims to be a scientist, and claims his method is the "scientific method," I guess it's true; therefore, I guess other scientists are the same way. After all, one scientist can't use the "not a true Scotsman" argument. If I claim to be a scientist, I am one!
The funny thing is, I don't see who is claiming to be an "evangelical Christian." I see "evangelical cult" and "Christian homes," but "evangelical Christian" is NOT used in the original; that was apparently interpreted by the Guardian.
Re:Sigh, more Christian bashing. (Score:4, Informative)
Nevermind that it IS a strictly christian word, and refers to the focus on the "evangel", that is the gospel of Jesus, and has absolutely nothing to do with any of the crazy stuff its been penned as as of late. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism [wikipedia.org].
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yes that is a completely different set of nutcases.
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The article's author says he hasn't found anything to back it up. The Brazilian article itself specifically says that it's an "evangelical cult."
But of course some cult rumored to be doing something bizarre isn't as sensational as generalizing it to all evangelical Christians in Brazil. The linked article's author is guilty of this, and Taco is guilty of repeating it. There's no question in my mind that the point is just to poke more fun at religion, in this case, for no good reason at all.
Re:Sigh, more Christian bashing. (Score:5, Insightful)
There's no question in my mind that the point is just to poke more fun at religion, in this case, for no good reason at all.
Poking fun at religion is a good reason in its own right. Mockery is the best response to silliness.
Re: more Christian/Muslim/Judaism/etc bashing (Score:3, Insightful)
Poking fun at religion is a good reason in its own right. Mockery is the best response to silliness.
I would agree if religion were just silliness. It isn't. It is horribly damaging. The key teaching of religions is that believing in things that are provably false is a virtue. They call it faith. What's worse is that the more absurd a thing that you can believe in the more virtuous you are. A person who believes that the earth is literally about 7,000 years old has much stronger faith than a person who equivocates and says that Genesis is metaphorical. Faith is the one basic teaching that is at th
Re:Sigh, more Christian bashing. (Score:5, Insightful)
Sigh. The wrong one is marked as troll, and the wrong one as insightful. And your insightful comment stays at zero.
I'm getting tired of slashdot - any good substitutes?
Maybe it's because the rest of the world is getting increasingly tired of the rampant irrational stupidity that religion brings to the table, and we are more and more willing to mock those who keep pushing it. Religion in general is a childish and immature response to life, and I for one believe that it should be treated as such.
Re:Sigh, more Christian bashing. (Score:5, Interesting)
explain that to the Evangelical Christians
In Evangelical Russia, Christians explain to YOU!
Actually, I have met a few (a handful) of real Christians in my life. They stood out because of their deeds, not their words, and never tried force their religion on me. One was an ear, nose and throat doctor, who closed his private practice for two weeks every year. Instead of spending the time on the golf course, he went to god-awful places on the planet, and did volunteer work for the World Health Organization.
The Mormons who proselytize where I live tend to be very polite, well. They introduce themselves, tell you what they are doing, and when you say that you are not interested, they answer: "OK, thank you, and have a nice day."
Now a question for our Brazilian folks: If I am approached by a Brazilian Evangelical Christian, can I hold up a USB stick with a trident to scare them away. Like a cross scares away vampires?
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Re:How many members in this cult? (Score:5, Funny)
The entire membership of the Firewire committee.
Re:How many members in this cult? (Score:5, Informative)
None. The cult does not exist. The entire story is a hoax; their only source is the brasilian blog "bobolhando" (rough translation: stupid staring), which is a literary blog who posts only fictional stories.
Re:How many members in this cult? (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, no... Only the foreign media would make this misunderstanding. The blog is quite obviously humoristic, no one here in Brasil would believe them.
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This EU symbol is a circle of 12 yellow stars surrounding the country designation, they are adamant this is part of a Roman Catholic conspiracy to take back the world for Satan (the Bishop of Rome, also known as The Pope).
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who hasn't gotten really drunk and tried to have sex with their computer?
*raises hand*
I'd raise two, but my other is busy.
Re:who is the devil? (Score:5, Funny)
Are YOU the reason they had to come up with the micro-USB connector, just so it would fit?
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Re:Jehova witnesses (Score:4, Funny)
IT doesn't work that way in real life. I told a bunch of Jehova's witnesses that I was a Devil worshiper in order to get them to leave me along. This didn't work, they came back in larger numbers and prayed for my. they followed me to work and other stupid shit praying for me. My boss asked me what the hell was going on (as he was completely anoyed by this as was about to fire me), so I told them that after they knocked on my door about twenty times asking me if I head the good news, I told them I was a devil worshiper and told them to get off my property. We had to explain to their pastor that it was only a ploy to get them to leave me the fuck alone in order to get them to leave me the fuck alone.
The cops wouldn't even stop them as they stayed mostly on the sidewalk and public right of way.
I later found out that the easiest way to get rid of them is to simply say "I'm catholic" and then listen to a bunch of crap about Marry being a whore for a few minutes. But if you pretend to be a devil worshiper to get rid of them, it's likely to backfire on you.
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Re:Jehova witnesses (Score:4, Funny)
I got a visit from them at a similar time (~9 am on a Saturday) but it was a family of four -- father in the lead, wife, son, and daughter standing behind. I answered the door and he asked if they could come in and speak to me. I said "No... but the girl can stay." That got rid of them pretty quickly.
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A friend related an even better and faster way to get rid of them: next time they come a-knockin' be sure to greet them straight out of the shower, "accidentally" drop your towel when they start sermonizing you (bonus if they have one of their teen sons along, which they almost always do), then after quickly picking it up and covering yourself again, feign a sudden change of heart and earnestly ask when their next meeting is and you'd very much like to join them to talk more.
The two JWs practically ran over
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IT doesn't work that way in real life. I told a bunch of Jehova's witnesses that I was a Devil worshiper in order to get them to leave me along. This didn't work,
Blood and organ donor stickers on the front/street door work wonders here in the UK. ;)
Re:Sad news for believers (Score:5, Insightful)
"It is news like this that gives evangelical Christians a bad rep."
Well that, and direct experience with them also helps. The US Rovian Religious Right are a MASSIVE collection of Evangelical Dominionists bent on turning the US into a theocracy.
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oh please. There all goofy, and have stupid beliefs. The deserve ridicule, and nothing more.
that's unfair, they should also be shunned.