Reply to: A small piece of history, with a big impact on society

[Mich the Tester]

And this coming from a tester

I is programmin' PLCs now innit. Be afraid, be very afraid.

[MarillionFan]

And this coming from a tester

Who are you and what have you done with the real SpaceCadet?

[Spacecadet]

Interesting little document that shows how tyranny rests on the shoulders of petty little people with petty little minds and petty little jobs who just enforce petty little regulations without questioning the sense of what they're doing.

And this coming from a tester

[CheeseSlice]

Interesting little document that shows how tyranny rests on the shoulders of petty little people with petty little minds and petty little jobs who just enforce petty little regulations without questioning the sense of what they're doing.

Here is the document:
HM Revenue & Customs: IR35 - Countering Avoidance in the Provision of Personal Services

Oops wrong thread

[VectraMan]

IIRC there was another similar case a few months before Rosa Parks, but as the black woman involved was a drug addicted prostitute, the civil rights movement decided her case wasn't the one that they wanted to publicise. Which says something about prejudice.

[KentPhilip]

Interesting little document that shows how tyranny rests on the shoulders of petty little people with petty little minds and petty little jobs who just enforce petty little regulations without questioning the sense of what they're doing.

Backed up by billions of taxpayer funds, and huge armies and police forces etc, which is of course the real tyranny - the unquestioning obedience.

[darmstadt]

I remember seeing similar for real in South Africa many years ago where buses had whites only and blacks only sections, where the post office had separate entrances, etc. Disgusting...

[northernladuk]

See my comment above. You are both technically right

What!!?!?!

and also totally and utterly wrong....

Phew, normal service is resumed!

[eek]

Watch the Horrible Histories song and you'll see that she was

See my comment above. You are both technically right and also totally and utterly wrong....

[DirtyDog]

The arrest wasn't even correct as she wasn't in the white part of the bus

Watch the Horrible Histories song and you'll see that she was

[Mich the Tester]

Interesting little document that shows how tyranny rests on the shoulders of petty little people with petty little minds and petty little jobs who just enforce petty little regulations without questioning the sense of what they're doing.

[eek]

Her wikipedia page makes for some grim reading.

Rosa Parks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The arrest wasn't even correct as she wasn't in the white part of the bus

She was in the front row of colored seats. However the number of colored seats depended on the number of white people on the bus and would shrink as the white section increased once all the "white" rows had been filled... Hence 1 additional white person on the bus meant Rosa was now in the wrong section...

Supposedly she had been planning the protest for a while.

[DirtyDog]

Rosa Parks ‘was victim of superglue prank’ - Newsbiscuit

[DirtyDog]

[northernladuk]

Her wikipedia page makes for some grim reading.

Rosa Parks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The arrest wasn't even correct as she wasn't in the white part of the bus

Parks was charged with a violation of Chapter 6, Section 11 segregation law of the Montgomery City code,[24] although technically she had not taken a white-only seat; she had been in a colored section.[25] Edgar Nixon, president of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP and leader of the Pullman Porters Union, and her friend Clifford Durr bailed Parks out of jail the next evening.[26]