On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Daniel B. wrote:
> [snip]
The thread is dead. Long live the thread!
Igor
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On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:43:40PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote:
>Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>>Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>...
>>>Accidentally, and without the knowledge or consent of the user.
>>
>>
>>Bull. It is not installed by default. The user must select it, thus
>>that's his consent.
>
>Not quite.
>
>
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
...
Accidentally, and without the knowledge or consent of the user.
Bull. It is not installed by default. The user must select it, thus
that's his consent.
Not quite.
Try clicking on the root installer node to specify to install
everything. You get
[ ] Offended. Think about the children!
[x] Not offended. Stop bothering me with your Puritanical values.
[ ] Don't care. Can we go back to talking about how negative this list
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Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
Oh for the love of me, DeFaria:
Actually I don't love you at all.
[snip]
You snipped the good stuff. So are you a lawyer or a potty mouthed
junior high-school sys admin? We are dying to know!
Please do not try to express a false legal opinion to justify a
faulty persona
Oh for the love of me, DeFaria:
[snip]
> >> Please do not try to express a false legal opinion to justify a
> >> faulty personal one.
> >
> > I am expressing no legal opinion. I am merely stating the
> obvious: if
> > there's no potty-mouth there to offend, nobody can be
> offended by the
> >
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Daniel Reed
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 12:51 PM
To: Gary R. Van Sickle
Subject: RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.
On 2005-01-08T17:57-0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
) - The limericks in question are of interest only to
junior
> -Original Message-
> From: Daniel Reed
> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 12:51 PM
> To: Gary R. Van Sickle
> Subject: RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.
>
> On 2005-01-08T17:57-0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> ) - The limericks in question are of interest only
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Francis Litterio wrote:
>
>> Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>>
>>> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>>
> Cygwin already provides the content.
Accidentally, and without the knowledge or consent of the user.
>>>
>>> Bull. It is not installed by default. The user must select it
Francis Litterio wrote:
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
Cygwin already provides the content.
Accidentally, and without the knowledge or consent of the user.
Bull. It is not installed by default. The user must select it, thus
that's his consent.
The user does not know he is giving
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
The question stands: What is the reason Cygwin should provide this
obscene content?
This is not the question.
Yes, it is.
Arbitrary pronouncement, in light of this I see no flaw in my
reasoning. The content exists, it has already been provided. "Should
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>
>>> Cygwin already provides the content.
>>
>> Accidentally, and without the knowledge or consent of the user.
>
> Bull. It is not installed by default. The user must select it, thus that's his
> consent.
The user does not know he is giving cons
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 06:20:45PM +0100, Volker Bandke wrote:
> BTW, my computer randomly selected the tagline below. Is it
> obscene? Should I burn my Laptop (she wouldn't like that, I am
> sure)
> Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences
> go, it's one of the best. -
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
Cygwin already provides the content.
Accidentally, and without the knowledge or consent of the user.
Bull. It is not installed by default. The user must select it, thus
that's his consent.
You have almost completely misstated my argument. Allow me to restate
it in conve
> -Original Message-
> From: Volker Bandke
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 4:03 PM
> To: Gary R. Van Sickle
> Subject: RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.
[snip]
> >But why aren't you putting fortune-o's in your siggy as well?
>
> I am not?
[snip
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Kolden
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 2:31 PM
> To: Gary R. Van Sickle
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.
>
> > The questi
There is also the issue of legal risk. Is the material illegal in any
country (which would cause obvious difficulty for any user or
maintainer in such countries) and do any of these countries apply
their laws extra territorially (which might cause problems to anyone
visiting a country with an
Joshua Kolden wrote:
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Joshua Kolden wrote:
You argue that it should, because you asses some of
the content as obscene, ...
Joshua! How could continue to put forth obscene and offensive filth
onto the Internet, even as a typo! ;-)
You're only giving Gary more ammunition!
Oh s
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Joshua Kolden wrote:
You argue that it should, because you asses some of
the content as obscene, ...
Joshua! How could continue to put forth obscene and offensive filth
onto the Internet, even as a typo! ;-)
You're only giving Gary more ammunition!
Oh shit I'm sorry. I apo
Joshua Kolden wrote:
You argue that it should, because you asses some of the
content as obscene, ...
Joshua! How could continue to put forth obscene and offensive filth onto
the Internet, even as a typo! ;-)
You're only giving Gary more ammunition!
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Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
Gerrit P. Haase (who should know better) wrote:
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
The question stands: What is the reason Cygwin should provide this
obscene content?
Yes, why not?
Because they're lousy with potty-mouth.
IYHO I might add.
Yes, it is traditional.
Granted, off-color
The question stands: What is the reason Cygwin should provide this obscene
content?
This is not the question. Cygwin already provides the content.
Therefore the question is: should it be removed? That is to take action
beyond that which is already available to the user. Those actions being
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle might have said:
> > On Fri, 07 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle might have said:
> > define 'profane' first
>
> Any of the limericks under discussion. Your turn.
that's an example; not a definition
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> Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)
>
> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> >>Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> >>It's simple
> >>common sense.
> >
> > In a world where McDonalds loses a bajillion-d
Gerrit P. Haase (who should know better) wrote:
> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > The question stands: What is the reason Cygwin should provide this
> > obscene content?
>
> Yes, why not?
Because they're lousy with potty-mouth.
> Yes, it is traditional.
Granted, off-color jokes are as old as t
> On Fri, 07 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle might have said:
>
> > > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > >
> > > > Good thing I didn't install it at work, and that I
> don't work at a
> > > > Megacorp that has whole departments devoted to rooting through
> > > > peoples' files looking for reasons to f
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>
> > For the silly reason that I happen to know that a lot of things
> > related to Nazis or Hitler in Deutschland ungültig ist.
> Ferinstance,
> > check out the German aircraft in MS's Combat Flight Simulator - no
> > swastikas, 'cause if ther
> On Jan 8 01:37, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > > Why would you suggest that expressing a thought, however
> you might
> > > disagree with it, should be illegal?
> >
> > For the silly reason that I happen to know that a lot of things
> > related to Nazis or Hitler in Deutschland ung?ltig ist.
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
The question stands: What is the reason Cygwin should provide this
obscene content?
Yes, why not?
Yes, it is traditional.
Yes, administrators like those kind of things.
Yes, computers are not for children.
Yes, because we like freedom of speech.
Yes, because we like guys
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>Probably because some expressions relating to Nazism are illegal in
>Germany. One of our German users would probably know this for sue.
Correct. Denying that the Nazis killed million of Jews is a criminal offense.
Spying on somebody else's co
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle might have said:
> > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> >
> > > Good thing I didn't install it at work, and that I don't work at a
> > > Megacorp that has whole departments devoted to rooting through
> > > peoples' files looking for reasons to fire them.
> >
>
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> For the silly reason that I happen to know that a lot of things related to
> Nazis or Hitler in Deutschland ungültig ist. Ferinstance, check out the
> German aircraft in MS's Combat Flight Simulator - no swastikas, 'cause if
> there were, they could
On Jan 8 01:37, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > Why would you suggest that expressing a thought, however you
> > might disagree with it, should be illegal?
>
> For the silly reason that I happen to know that a lot of things related to
> Nazis or Hitler in Deutschland ung?ltig ist. Ferinstance, ch
On Jan 7 19:39, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> Jerry Williams, not of the band Grateful Dead, wrote:
>
> > ==> fortunes2-o <==
> > Would you please have another look at my nose and put in that
> > cocaine stuff
> > -- Adolf Hitler, quoted by Dr. Giesing in
> > Nuremberg trial
>
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
It's simple
common sense.
In a world where McDonalds loses a bajillion-dollar lawsuit because its
coffee is hot, common sense is a thing of the past my naive friend.
Actually, McDonald's lost that suit not because the idiot spilled it on
her la
On 8 Jan 2005 at 1:37, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
[snip]
> > Why would you suggest that expressing a thought, however you
> > might disagree with it, should be illegal?
>
> For the silly reason that I happen to know that a lot of things related to
> Nazis or Hitler in Deutschland ungültig ist. Feri
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:26:26PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
Jerry Williams, not of the band Grateful Dead, wrote:
==> fortunes2-o <==
Would you please have another look at my nose and put in that
cocaine stuff
-- Adolf Hitler, quoted by Dr
More DeFaria:
> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>
> > Jerry Williams, not of the band Grateful Dead, wrote:
> >
> >> ==> fortunes2-o <==
> >> Would you please have another look at my nose and put in
> that cocaine
> >> stuff
> >> -- Adolf Hitler, quoted by Dr. Giesing in Nuremberg trial
> >
> > I
On 5 Jan 2005 at 23:38, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> How do you feel about the off-color content in the cygwin fortune files?
>
> [ ] Offended. Think about the children!
> [ ] Not offended. Stop bothering me with your Puritanical values.
> [ ] Don't care. Can we go back to talking about h
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 01:41:58AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:26:26PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>>Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>
>>>Jerry Williams, not of the band Grateful Dead, wrote:
>>>
==> fortunes2-o <==
Would you please have another look at my nose
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
A number of people like hard pore cornography too. Cygwin doesn't
provide that, at least not in visual form, at least not that I'm aware of.
The question stands: What is the reason Cygwin should provide this
obscene content?
Same reason any other piece of functionality
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:26:26PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>
>>Jerry Williams, not of the band Grateful Dead, wrote:
>>
>>>==> fortunes2-o <==
>>>Would you please have another look at my nose and put in that
>>>cocaine stuff
>>>-- Adolf Hitler, quoted by Dr. Gi
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
Most agree that it's a packaging bug in fortune, and that the
limericks file should be renamed limericks-o and ROT13'd. End of
discussion.
Nononono, don't you try to force your end-of-discussion values on ME!
[I'm not done forcing my morals on you...]
I agree that at a m
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
Jerry Williams, not of the band Grateful Dead, wrote:
==> fortunes2-o <==
Would you please have another look at my nose and put in that
cocaine stuff
-- Adolf Hitler, quoted by Dr. Giesing in Nuremberg trial
Is something like this even legal in Germany?
Why would you
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > Most agree that it's a packaging bug in fortune, and that the
> > limericks file should be renamed limericks-o and ROT13'd.
> > End of discussion.
>
> Nononono, don't you try to force your end-of-discussion values on ME!
Heh... On most other mess
Dave Korn wrote:
They *are* going into newsagents, pulling Playboy off the shelves,
opening it up, reading it (probably hypocritically
enjoying it too), and then whining about how offended they are and
demanding that the entire world be made conform to their personal
tastes and beliefs. It's in
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > A number of people like them.
>
> A number of people like hard pore cornography too. Cygwin doesn't provide
> that, at least not in visual form, at least not that I'm aware of.
>
> The question stands: What is the reason Cygwin should provide thi
Jon Lambert wrote:
> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > Perhaps. Could somebody tell me the single-best reason for
> providing
> > the profanity at all?
> >
> > Hello?
> >
> > Anybody?
>
> Apparently some distros have split off the package into parts like
> fortune - the program with no data
> fo
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
Perhaps. Could somebody tell me the single-best reason for providing
the profanity at all?
Hello?
Anybody?
Apparently some distros have split off the package into parts like
fortune - the program with no data
fortune-min - the quotes
fortune-off - the stuff that'd ma
- Original Message -
From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 6:18 PM
Subject: RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> Perhaps. Could somebody tell me the single-best reason fo
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>
> > Perhaps. Could somebody tell me the single-best reason for
> providing
> > the profanity at all?
>
> A number of people like them.
>
> Best,
>
> Rodrigo
A number of people like hard pore cornography too. Cygwin doesn't provide
that, at
- Original Message -
From: "Rodrigo de Salvo Braz"
To: "Gary R. Van Sickle"
Cc:
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 6:04 PM
Subject: RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
Perhaps. Could somebody tell me the single-best reas
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> Perhaps. Could somebody tell me the single-best reason for providing the
> profanity at all?
A number of people like them.
Best,
Rodrigo
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> On Fri, 07 Jan 2005, Jon A. Lambert might have said:
>
> > Mike wrote:
> > >
> > >Since you must *ask* for the 'rude' version of fortune
> (fortune -o)
> > >before you get any of the alleged offensive material, then
> what's the
> > >problem?
> >
> > @ fortune
> > sdesc: "Print a random, ho
> Most agree that it's a packaging bug in fortune, and that the
> limericks file should be renamed limericks-o and ROT13'd.
> End of discussion.
Nononono, don't you try to force your end-of-discussion values on ME!
I agree that at a minimum, the obfuscation you describe is absolutely
required.
Jerry Williams, not of the band Grateful Dead, wrote:
> ==> fortunes2-o <==
> Would you please have another look at my nose and put in that
> cocaine stuff
> -- Adolf Hitler, quoted by Dr. Giesing in
> Nuremberg trial
>
Is something like this even legal in Germany?
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The David Korn who is not the Korn Shell guy wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> > Sent: 07 January 2005 14:52
>
> > Business issues are not the point here, though. My issue is that I
> > grant others the right to be offended by the typ
> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>
> > Good thing I didn't install it at work, and that I don't work at a
> > Megacorp that has whole departments devoted to rooting through
> > peoples' files looking for reasons to fire them.
>
> IMHO, this is the single best reason for obfuscating the
> profanity
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:25:42PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >NB: Did anybody read "Fahrenheit 451" from Ray Bradbury? It's not about
> >jokes in the first place, but somehow this discussion reminds me
> >of the book in a fatal way.
>
> Yes but it *can* work just after you install it but before
> you ever run
> it! This part seems like a disclaimer if I've ever saw one:
>
> -oChoose only from potentially offensive aphorisms. Please,
> please,
>please request a potentially offensive fortune if
> and onl
Jon A. Lambert wrote:
Mike wrote:
I would have been better informed about the nature of the package.
How eloquent.
Try 'man fortune'.
man fortune doesn't work until after you've already downloaded and
installed the offensive material on your machine.
Yes but it *can* work just after you install it
Mike wrote:
I would have been better informed about the nature of the package.
How eloquent.
Try 'man fortune'.
man fortune doesn't work until after you've already downloaded and installed
the offensive material on your machine.
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On Fri, 07 Jan 2005, Jon A. Lambert might have said:
> Mike wrote:
> >
> >Since you must *ask* for the 'rude' version of fortune (fortune -o)
> >before you get any of the alleged offensive material, then what's the
> >problem?
>
> @ fortune
> sdesc: "Print a random, hopefully interesting, adage"
Mike wrote:
Since you must *ask* for the 'rude' version of fortune (fortune -o)
before you get any of the alleged offensive material, then what's the
problem?
@ fortune
sdesc: "Print a random, hopefully interesting, adage"
category: Games
requires: cygwin
The problem is that it doesn't inform the u
OK, anybody still reading this thread probably already knows how to
do this, but just in case, here's what you need to do to clean up
your fortune files (other than just deleting them):
First, make sure you have the tools you need and double-check that
the "offensive" files are in plaintext:
$ ls
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005, Peter A. Castro might have said:
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > On Jan 7 01:28, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> > > Right now I'm looking at the debian packages instead:
> > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/fortune-mod
> > > http://packa
> -Original Message-
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: 07 January 2005 14:52
> Business issues are not the point here, though. My issue is that I
> grant others the right to be offended by the type of language we're
> talking about. It is a given that there are
> -Original Message-
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Raye Raskin
> Sent: 07 January 2005 17:23
> Hey, Christopher, if you want to see something *really* offensive,
> just take a look at this:
>
> **
>
> This e-mail tra
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 7 01:28, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> > Right now I'm looking at the debian packages instead:
> > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/fortune-mod
> > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/fortunes-bofh-excuses
> >
> > which
Expletive deleted.
Well, thanks! That is in perfect keeping with the rest of this thread.
Just imagine the consequences if you hadn't deleted that expletive. We'd
have another long thread about whether the cygwin mailing list should be
censored.
And then, of course, there's the children.
;-)
Hey,
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> Good thing I didn't install it at work, and that I don't work at a Megacorp
> that has whole departments devoted to rooting through peoples' files looking
> for reasons to fire them.
IMHO, this is the single best reason for obfuscating the profanity with
rot13.
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Terry Dabbs wrote:
I worked at a division headquarters of large company, where we had
hundreds of people who would log into their email account on the VAX.
When logging in you would see a message of the day. The guy
administering this got tired of the same old boring messages and
started rotati
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Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 8:52 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:22:32AM -0500, Brian Bruns wrote:
>>
>> Personally, I thought that them doing this was a sign of a more
>&
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:40:35PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jan 7 01:28, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>> Right now I'm looking at the debian packages instead:
>> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/fortune-mod
>> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/fortunes-bofh-excus
Kal Dee schrieb:
Not sure if the highly obscene limericks (/usr/share/fortune/limerick)
are meant to be in the cygwin distro...
phpwiki optionally uses fortune to fill in fresh pages with some stupid
quotes. nobody ever so far complained about those limericks.
phpwiki pages are publicly accessabl
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Yeah, it does. For the first time in history, there are now two
lawyers for every human on the planet. Lawyers subsist almost entirely
on a diet of lawsuits.
Funny, I thought they ate food like the rest of us...
Actually, when you think about it, it's impossible for that s
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:25:42PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>NB: Did anybody read "Fahrenheit 451" from Ray Bradbury? It's not about
>jokes in the first place, but somehow this discussion reminds me
>of the book in a fatal way.
I read the book but I don't remember it too well. I've
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:22:32AM -0500, Brian Bruns wrote:
>>
>> Personally, I thought that them doing this was a sign of a more
>> innocent time, where we didn't have to worry about every single
>> word that came out of our mouth (or keyboard).
>>
>> Seriously guy, your type is one of the primar
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:04:49PM -0800, Raye Raskin wrote:
>Expletive deleted.
Well, thanks! That is in perfect keeping with the rest of this thread.
Just imagine the consequences if you hadn't deleted that expletive. We'd
have another long thread about whether the cygwin mailing list should
> [ ] Offended. Think about the children!
> [ ] Not offended. Stop bothering me with your Puritanical values.
> [ ] Don't care. Can we go back to talking about how
> negative this list is now?
> [x] Not offended. Clean it up anyway. It's unprofessional
> in the extreme and can only r
> -Original Message-
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen
> Sent: 07 January 2005 11:44
> To: cygwin; cygwin-talk
> Subject: Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.
>
> On Jan 7 06:35, Zachary Uram wrote:
> > Argh please enough with the pedantic and
On Jan 7 06:35, Zachary Uram wrote:
> Argh please enough with the pedantic and infantile America/American
> bashing. It's disgusting. Everyone act like mature adults PLEASE!
The whole discussion isn't exactly mature. Time to move the discussion
to cygwin-talk, I guess. I've set the Reply-To acc
On Jan 7 01:28, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> Right now I'm looking at the debian packages instead:
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/fortune-mod
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/fortunes-bofh-excuses
>
> which generate 5 packages: fortune-mod (the binaries),
> fortu
Brian Bruns wrote:
As grown adults, who are capable of making our own decisions, we need
to not let our religious views, or personal views for that matter,
impede on others who have their own views.
How dare you try to force that point of view on us!
That's moral recusrion.
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> NB: Did anybody read "Fahrenheit 451" from Ray Bradbury?
> It's not about
> jokes in the first place, but somehow this discussion reminds me
> of the book in a fatal way.
Me too, it also reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron".
Bill
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Argh please enough with the pedantic and infantile America/American
bashing. It's disgusting. Everyone act like mature adults PLEASE!
Zach
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 12:29:03 +0100, Corinna Vinschen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 6 21:18, Charles Wilson wrote:
> > Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> >
The political correctness brainwashing machine has done its job
quite well, AFAICS.
Well, let's face it, I'm a woman. I'm by definition one of the
disadvantaged groups of the society. The joke is this, I'm not
at all offended by offensive jokes. I don't have to laugh if I
don't like the joke, b
On Jan 6 21:18, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> >How do you feel about the off-color content in the cygwin fortune files?
> >
> > [ ] Offended. Think about the children!
> > [ ] Not offended. Stop bothering me with your Puritanical values.
> > [ ] Don't care. Can we go
On Jan 6 20:03, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> Ah jeez deFaria:
> > As an atheist I always wonder why christians can "turn the
> > other cheek"
> > but cannot seem to muster how to turn their eyes away!
>
> As a thinking man, I always wonder why atheists:
>
> 1. Hate Christianity, yet harbor no
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:43:55PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:47:35PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:40:16PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> > >On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:26:08PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >>
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:28:26PM -0500, "Jon A. Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> >I made no effort to find Cygwinized profanity. I stumbled across a
> >program named "fortune" one day, which I was told printed out corny
> >sayings etc, and installed it. Then I
>
> Personally, I thought that them doing this was a sign of a more
> innocent time, where we didn't have to worry about every single
> word that came out of our mouth (or keyboard).
>
> Seriously guy, your type is one of the primary reasons why the
> internet is getting - its not quite there yet,
Huh? The name "fortune" is close to what it does. It sort of displays
fortune cookie like stuff. Labelling a program like grep with a English
word that has no bearing on its functionality is not a correct analogy.
Sorry my remarks went over your head. I don't think a filthy
limerick is in any w
> > That already carries a judgment reflecting your values.
> > Certainly the people who included them in fortune thought otherwise.
> >
>
> If they had thought otherwise, they wouldn't have included them in the first
> place. As a licensed nerd mind-reader, I can tell you exactly the thought
>
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
Then you have no sense of self-worth. Sorry to hear that.
1. ?
2. Kiss my fortune-o, DeFaria.
Now I'm sure you have little self-worth...
This has nothing to do with what year it is.
Yeah, it does. For the first time in history, there are now two
lawyers for every human on
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > That already carries a judgment reflecting your values.
> > Certainly the people who included them in fortune thought otherwise.
>
> If they had thought otherwise, they wouldn't have included them in the first
> place. As a licensed nerd mind-read
Raye Raskin wrote:
The problem seems simple to me. A filthy Limerick is not a Fortune.
The program is misnamed.
Call it something else or just put fortunes in it.
alias limerick="fortune -o"
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:30:13PM -0800, Raye Raskin wrote:
>>Huh? The name "fortune" is close to what it does. It sort of displays
>>fortune cookie like stuff. Labelling a program like grep with a English
>>word that has no bearing on its functionality is not a correct analogy.
>
>Sorry my rem
> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>
> >> Any company firing me for "creating a hostile work
> environment" for
> >> such a matter as this is, in my book, not a company I wish to work
> >> for. YMMV.
> >
> > Nor I. In fact, I doubt many would disagree. But then, many have
> > mouths to feed, and may
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