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VA Linux Dropping "Linux" From Name
Several folks noted that VA is changing its name to "VA Software" to reflect the fact that they aren't a Linux company anymore. VA of course owns OSDN which runs various Linux and Open Source web sites including amusingly enough Linux.com. Can't say it matters much to me what they call the thing as long as they let us keep running Slashdot, but it really is sad knowing that most of the cool open source hackers no longer work there. My bad. Anyone have a link to the press release that doesn't require a login?
And if one of those 6000 was someone close to you
I suppose i could be a dick and mention another war that the US has declared - The War on Drugs (tm). An actual bodycount is probably out of the question, but consider that every time a swat team hits the wrong address and shoots some random person dead, that's one more casualty. Whenever some gangs have a turf war, those are more casualties (if politicians had the freedom to actually address the problem instead of doing what keeps them from being recalled, there would be fewer drug turf wars). Oh, and there's the small matter of the corruption of our government in the name of fighting drugs. Tell me again why I don't have the right to walk down the street with $20,000 cash?
Reboot macht Frei.
Because the IRA doesn't claim that Jesus wants them to kill British civilians. They are a blatantly nationalist organization. The fact that they are Catholic is more or less incidental. Al Qaeda on the other hand talks about killing the Jews (the "Little Satan", Israel) and the evil supporters of Zionism, the US (the "Big Satan"). Given that everything is couched in terms of religious extremism, it's fairly natural to characterize them as _muslim_ extremists. The IRA are Irish nationalist extremists, first and foremost. David Koresh was a Christian extremist - a religious nutcase who killed people and hoarded arms on the basis of an extreme interpretation of the Bible.
Actualy to put it more acurately your involved in a war with extremist starving oppressed people in a country no one has pretended to give a fuck about in 10 years.
Extremist - the most extreme thing most of the people in afghanistan did today was try to find food.
The US are a bunch of fucking morons and if you think you can win a 'war' (and thats another bullshit word as well) by bombing people who have nothing then youre even more fucked up than the world thinks.
You would think that after 2 land wars in asia the US might have learned something by now.
Oh and im not american and i dont support one thing your country is doing at the moment - you are acting like a bully in a schoolyard by picking on those weaker than you - where was the US when argentina was murdering thousands, and Chile, and Bolivia etc etc
The world is only evil when someone threatens YOU people DIRECTLY - everyone else can get fucked - so i say this - the whole rotten american system can get fucked - we dont want your war and your bullshit
I don't think it's happened to me yet, but I've seen other comments in the past few weeks that looked as though they belonged in a different current story, so I guess it's a "feature" of the latest Slashdot code update.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
(biting the troll) Your perspective is not mine. I don't live in the USA and I don't feel involved in any "WAR" at all. Your comment comes up in all Slashdot stories and I do *not* find it funny. I don't have any respect for terrorists, but I don't have respect for your war either. I think it's kind of pointless to bomb a country and then gather money to rescue those innocent inhabitants. Why does everyone have to think like Yankees? Go troll somewhere else and let me live my own life.
Sigh. Surely off-topic, but I felt I had to write this..