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maddogsparky writes "Spaceref.com has a copy of a bill laying out a roadmap for NASA to send a manned mission to Mars by 2022. Highlights include an manned asteroid landing, building a research outpost on one of Mars' moons and actually providing funds to start mission planning."
w00t - fp. yay
The Open Source movement, otherwise known as 'Free Software', has been a topic of considerable debate on the Internet's most controversial site. The majority of this debate has centered around the technical merits of the software, with the esteemed editors argueing against adopting Linux by employing the full depth of their considerable intellects, and the other side hurling death threats and similar invective. This has allowed many who would not otherwise receive quality information about Open Source software to be made aware of many of its ramifications, but one issue has been left alone: The overt racism that is deeply embedded in the movement.
Allow me to explain.
Alan Cox; Richard Stallman; Bruce Perens; Wichert Akkerman; Miguel DeIcaza.
What do you see in this list of names? Are there any African-Americans on it? Absolutely not, none of those names sound like one a self-respecting black person would have! No Maurice, no Luther, no Lil' Kim. There are many other lists such as this, you can see one here. Flip through each page, do you see anything other than white faces? Of course you don't, because Open Source and its adherents are ardent racists and they absolutely forbid access to the sacred 'kernel' by any person of color.
Lets look at another list, this time a compendium of the companies using Linux. Are there any black owned companies on that list? Nooooooo. How about these companies? They all have something to do with Open Source software, any of them owned by an African-American? No again. Here is an extensive collection of photographs from a LUG (Linux User Gathering) meeting, more can be viewed at that link. What is odd about these pictures, and every other photograph I have ever seen of a LUG meeting, is that there is not one single black person to be seen, and probably none for miles.
More racist overtones can be found by examining the language of Open Source. They often refer to 'white hat' hackers. These 'white hats' scurry about the Internet doing good, but illegal, acts for their fellow man. In stark contrast we find the 'black hat' hackers. They destroy the good works of others by breaking into systems, stealing data, and generally causing havoc. These two terms reflect the mindset of most Linux developers. White means good, black means bad. Anywhere there is black, there is uncontrollable destruction and lawlessness. Looking further we see black lists that inform other users of 'bad' hardware, Samba, an obvious play on the much hated Little Black Sambo book, Mandrake, which I won't explain except to say that the French are notorious racists. This type is linguistic discrimination is widespread throughout the Open Source culture, lampooned by many of its more popular sites.
It is also a fact that all Unix 'distros' contain a plethora of racist commands with not so hidden symbolism.
It can hardly be coincidence that the prime operating system of choice of the 'open source supremacists' - Linux, features commands which are poorly disguised racist acronyms. For example: 'awk' (All White Klan) , 'sed' (shoot nEgroes dead), 'ln' (lynch negroes), 'rpm' (raical purity mandatory), 'bash' (bring a slave home), 'ps' (persecute sambo), 'mount' (murder or unseat nubians today), 'fsck' (favored supreme Christian klan). I could go on and on about the latent racist symbolism in Linux, but I fear it would take weeks to enumerate every incidence.
Is there a single unix command out there that does not have some hidden racist connotation ? Suffice it to say that the racism pervades Linux like a particularly bad smell. Can you imagine the effect of running such a racist operating system on the impressionable mind ? I don't have to remind you that transmitting subliminal messages is banned in the USA, and yet here we have an operating system that appears to be one enormous submliminal ad for the Klan!
One of the few selling points of Open Source software is that it is available in many different languages. Browsing through the list I see that absolutely none are offered in Swahili, nor Ebonics. Obviously this is done to prevent black people from having access to the kernel. If it weren't for the fact that racism is so blatantly evil I would be impressed by the efforts these Open Sourcers have invested in keeping their little hobby lilly white. It even appears that they hate the Japanese, as some of these self proclaimed hackers defaced a web site with anti-Japanese slogans. Hell, these people even go all the way to Africa (South Africa mind you, better known as White Africa) and the pictures prove that they don't even get close to a black person.
Of course, presenting overwhelming evidence such as this is a bit unfair without some attempt to determine why these Open Sourcers are so racist. Much of the evidence I have collected indicates that their views are so deeply held that they are seldom questioned by the new recruits. This, coupled with the robot-like groupthink that dominates the culture allows the racist mindset to continue to permeate the ranks. Indeed, the Open Source version of a Klan rally, OSDN (known to the world as Open Source Developer's Network, known to insiders as Open Source Denies Negroes) nearly stands up and shouts its racist views on its demographics page. It doesn't mention the black man one single time. Obviously, anyone involved with Open Source doesn't need to be told that the demographic is entirely white, it is a given.
I have a sneaking suspicion as to why their beliefs are so closely held: they are all terrible athletes.
Really. Much like the tragedy at Columbine High School, where two geeks went on a rampage to get back at 'jocks', these adult geeks still bear the emotional scars inflicted upon them due to their lack of athletic ability during their teen years. As African-Americans are well known for their athletic skills, they are an obvious target for the Open Source geeks. As we all know, sports builds character, thus it follows that the lack of sports destroys character. These geeks, locked away in their rooms, munching on stale pizza and Fritos, engage in no character building activities. Further, they interact only with computers and never develop the level of social skill that allows normal people to handle relationships with persons of color.
Contrasted with the closed source, non-geeky software house Microsoft, Open Source has a long, long way to go.
Hello Slashdotters, Linus here. Over the last 10 years we have done a great job in making Linux into an amazing operating system. We still have a ways to go if we want to defeat Microsoft, but I have no doubt we will get there if a major problem is dealt with.
This major problem is Richard Stallman (aka RMS). For years he has been the thorn in Linux's side. First, it's bad enough that he insists that everyone call Linux, GNU/Linux, as if he had anything to do with the initial creation or naming of Linux.
That isn't the biggest problem. The biggest problem is his appearance and attitude. The guy admits to being a goat fucker. Who is going to take someone who says that seriously? Stallman hasn't bathed in decades. Who is going to want an operating system from someone who hasn't bathed in 20 years? As much as any of us may hate Bill Gates, he takes a shower every day, and that helped Microsoft be in the position it now is in. I am taking a shower every day to help Linux. Are you?
Stallman plucks dandruff out of his hair while he talks to you. That alone has got to turn you off Linux.
Stallman can't even clean up after himself. This is equally true in his code just as much as he leaves used condoms all over the place. Frankly, his homosexual behavior and sex with goats that leaves all of these used condoms all over the place is simply unacceptable and makes Linux look like a joke. Please don't take this the wrong way. I have nothing against homosexuality (although having sex with goats is just plain sick) except when it interferes with Linux.
In conclusion, I am tired of Dirty GNU Hippies like Stallman causing problems for Linux. He must be stopped at all costs. I call on the Slashdot community to rise up and reject Stallman. Do it for Linux!
my co worker was just telling me that the term "clutch" when used in the derrogatory sense means when the sphincter is in the process of going back into it's original shape after it was stretched wide open....you learn something every day, I guess. --fuckforce pumpernick
Duuuuude, you're goin' to mars!
This week, over 600 people died in India as a consequence of the worst heat wave ever recorded. This warming is a consequence of the use of fossil fuels.
The nuclear power industry has a safety record never matched by any other human activity: just *one* fatal accident in more than 40 years of commercial activity, with 31 deaths in the immediate aftermath and 9 more deaths of cancer in the region (Eastern Europe) in the following decades. This means that, during this week alone, non-nuclear power has killed 15 times more people than nuclear power has killed in all history.
Yet, those fucking luddites with their scare-marketing tactics have convinced Humanity that nuclear power is a terrible thing which must be avoided at all costs. Nah, Humanity has a looong time to learn before a reasonable percentage of us know enough science to be able to make any rational decisions.
I'm all for Democracy, as long as it's about things that can be decided by common sense. When it comes to science and technology, we need some sort of meritocracy, or blind fear of the unknown will send Humanity back to the Middle Ages.
One can only hope that they sent Natalie Portman along on the trip to help with the erection.
Who cares about a bunch of dune coons. Maybe if they took those rags of the tops of their heads the heat wouldn't have got to them.
The Arabs have a saying: "Wait one hundred years and we will see." Who are they referring to? Us, of course. What is their ultimate weapon? It is their women.
Jewish women: Wake up! Arab women are wide awake, doing their job. That job is having children. They are not planning which colour to paint their nails next Friday afternoon, nor whether to go to London or Turkey for a few days on their holidays. They, as one people, know what their people need: They need a population, a large population, and they are hard at work, doing it.
On Western terms, a country with a large percentage of children is a weak country, a country not able to support itself, a country "teeming" with children, where illiterate women "breed" like rabbits. Well, reality is totally different. Western societies cannot support their elderly respectably in many cases, due to the lack of young people available to work, pay taxes and look after their own folk. A country with a large population of children is a strong country. In Israel, the current Arab birth-rate could see the Israeli democracy being overtaken simply by popular vote.
The time has come for Jewish women to wake up, bear more children per family and take responsibility for the health of the whole nation. I refer in particular to the women who do not consider themselves religious. A minimum of five children per family would give Israel the strength over the next fifty years to have a Jewish majority.
To do that the whole of the Jewish people have to take up this task as a first priority. Possibly, the time has come for Diaspora communities to step in to fill the void, helping to provide housing and other grants, so as to lighten the expenses of bringing up families blessed with many children. During the last century, land was purchased and many trees were planted by the Jewish National Fund in Israel. I can see an era when the same fund could give incentives to Jewish women in Israel to build up their families - there are already plenty of trees. Without such help, educated women will rarely have more than two or three children each.
Incentives such as free schooling, uniforms, school-books, family cash supplements, tax-free cars and paid annual family holidays could be Diaspora Jewry's contribution, helping to elevate the status of women and their children. With many elderly Jews passing on, their legacies could greatly benefit Israel forever in this way. This could free the Israeli government from its obligations to families, particularly when this money is used to support Arab families who are opposed to the Jewish state. Jewish money from outside Israel for Jewish families is a valid weapon in our war against terrorism.
An examination of the reasons behind the low birth-rate points to two directions: The first being late marriages, and the second is the fact that educated women world-wide are having less children. The debate over women's conscription into the army delaying marriages may be a factor, but essentially, as a mother, I believe that the reason that most women delay childbearing is mainly financial. The desire by educated women to have a secure financial base and a home of one's own, without having to juggle children and work just to pay for the basics, is important to the mothers mental and physical health, and that of her whole family. This is particularly the case if a country has an aim of bolstering its population without damaging the family unit.
Bringing up a large family without outside financial assistance is not something that many young women would choose to do these days. When the State of Israel was in its infancy, women brought up ten and twelve children in one or two rooms. Children grew up in the streets, their mothers were poorly dressed and times were very hard. Educated young women will not choose this life. Yet, they can be offered options which will enable them to bear children whilst maintaining a decent standard of life.
During the last few months, Jews of the Diaspora rang their families in Israel. While empathizing and sympathizing with Israelis, they reminded them how they were doing everything to help. In most cases, however, this consisted of watching CNN and discussing politics at work with their colleagues. Their Israeli families were speechless.
I propose formalizing a project to help Israel by helping every family who wants to increase the size of Israel's population. It is a project that will bear fruit now and forever.
That is the least that the Jews of the Diaspora can do for Israel.
that is all.