OLPC
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| Author | Content |
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| rsevenic Mar 25, 2007 6:01 PM EDT |
'tis a passable parody, but one wonders why Gnu/Linux? Is CP/M really dead? Richard |
| dinotrac Mar 26, 2007 3:26 AM EDT |
>'tis a passable parody I suppose, if religious bigotry is parody. |
| SFN Mar 26, 2007 4:48 AM EDT |
Quoting:I suppose, if religious bigotry is parody. Yes. Remember: One must never make fun of another person's beliefs. That's bigotry. Unless of course that other person believes something you think is wrong. Then it's just savvy commentary, |
| dinotrac Mar 26, 2007 6:25 AM EDT |
>One must never make fun of another person's beliefs. Sorry, I don't agree with that at all. That's making fun (though it can be bigotry). This article doesn't make fun of any religious beliefs. it simply uses "Christian" as a code word. That smells like bigotry to me. |
| SFN Mar 26, 2007 6:36 AM EDT |
I'll try to remember that the next time I hear "liberal" used as a code word. |
| tuxtom Mar 26, 2007 7:46 AM EDT |
...or "Microsoft". |
| SFN Mar 26, 2007 7:55 AM EDT |
Ooh, yes. Good catch. Perhaps a new database is in order. One that identifies these "code words". That way we can all easily recognize when a bigot posts. |
| tuxtom Mar 26, 2007 8:14 AM EDT |
Doubleplus good idea! |
| dinotrac Mar 26, 2007 8:29 AM EDT |
Sigh. The thought police are out in droves today. |
| dcparris Mar 26, 2007 9:07 AM EDT |
I love how the author explains that Minix was invented by the SCO Group. Did anyone else catch that? As for the thought police, there is but one that I bother trying to please with my thoughts. Sorry, it ain't nobody 'round these here parts. ;-) |
| dinotrac Mar 26, 2007 9:22 AM EDT |
>Minix was invented by the SCO Group Seriously. After all, everybody know that Minix was invented by Ralston Purina, along with wheat chex and rice chex. |
| jdixon Mar 26, 2007 9:39 AM EDT |
> As for the thought police, there is but one that I bother trying to please with my thoughts. Sorry, it ain't nobody 'round these here parts. ;-) Consider a bill to LXer for my psychiatric counseling over this unwarranted rejection to be in the mail. :) |
| bigg Mar 26, 2007 9:49 AM EDT |
A little off-topic, but related to the SCO comment. From Bjarne Stroustrup's homepage: "But someone from SCO claimed that they own C++"; is that not so? It's complete rubbish. I saw that interview. The SCO guy clearly had no clue what C++ was, referring to it as "the C++ languages". At most, SCO may own a 15-year old and seriously outdated version of Cfront - my original C++ compiler. I was careful not to patent or trademark anything to do with C++. That's one reason we write plain "C++" and not "C++(tm)". The C++ standard is unencumbered of patents - the committee carefully checked that also. |
| SFN Mar 26, 2007 10:13 AM EDT |
Quoting:Sigh. The thought police are out in droves today.I couldn't agree more. |
| DarrenR114 Mar 26, 2007 10:30 AM EDT |
@SFN, Did I authorise you to think that agreement? |
| SFN Mar 26, 2007 10:43 AM EDT |
I hereby recognize "authorise" as a code word. Please add it to the database. |
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