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Notes From The SCO Roadshow's First Stop
compactable writes "Just got back from the first half of the SCO roadshow's first stop in Toronto. No unfurling of IP, no NDA, however an interesting view of what's running this litigious blip of a corporation. Full details at my weenie write-up (feel free to mirror the contents so that my ISP doesn't kill me)."
looks like we need a separate section for SCO news.
Wow, that was funny. I'd love to learn to become so humorous. Can you tell me what humor college you attended? Because by God that was funny. Perhaps even funnier than your sig!
by Bob Lonsberry
Some Muslims wear sacred clothing.
So do some Jews. The same for Native Americans and some Hindus and
others.
Bits of cloth or string that are physical reminders of God and his bond
with man. Sacred things, really. Prayer shawls or beads, head coverings
or aprons, medicine bags. Things that are special to people, honorable
and good things.
Things that should be respected.
One would not, for example, rip the yarmulke from a Jewish man's head
and mockingly fling it like a Frisbee. Nor would you wear a yarmulke as
a spoof or joke. Certainly not as an attack on Judaism. Not as a mockery
of Jews and their faith.
Yet something like that happened this weekend.
In front of thousands of people in one of America's great cities. An act
of religious desecration, bigotry and discrimination.
And the perpetrators boast of it to the press.
It was in Salt Lake City. And it was against Mormons.
And somehow that makes it acceptable.
Here's what happened.
Over the weekend, Mormons gathered for what they call "general
conference." It is a twice-a-year meeting that draws tens of thousands
to Salt Lake City and is broadcast around the world to an audience in
the low millions. It is a worship service. It is sacred and special to
them.
And each year it is protested.
So-called Christian evangelists stand on the sidewalk outside the Mormon
meetings and shout rude condemnations of the religion to the thousands
who pass in and out. It is an odd spectacle, unmatched in American
society. To think that crude protesters would stand outside a mosque or
synagogue, or a cathedral or church, and harass worshippers and denounce
a religion is just beyond the pale.
It is an act of indefensible religious bigotry.
And yet it happens, and is often applauded and boasted of.
This column started with a mention of sacred clothing. Well, Mormons
have sacred clothing, too. Like a variety of religious garments, it is
worn against the skin. It is a type of underclothing. They don't talk
about it. They don't show it to people. They keep it sacred. Like
virtually all religious clothing, it is a specific reminder of promises
made to God. Like virtually all religious clothing, it is precious and
significant to the people who wear it.
Well, Sunday the evangelists had some.
Maybe six guys, Baptist ministers, mocking the Mormons as they came out
of a meeting. Shouting rude things to people coming out of church.
And they had these sacred garments.
And one supposed minister of the gospel was wiping his backside with
them, laughingly treating them like toilet paper as thousands who held
them sacred walked by.
Can you see that being done to a prayer shawl in front of a synagogue,
or a prayer rug in front of a mosque?
Wouldn't that sacrilege be publicly denounced by all decent people?
He also draped them around his neck, and pretended over and over to
sneeze into them. And loudly blow his nose into them. While families and
children walked past.
Stop for a moment.
Lay aside what you do or don't think about Mormons. But was that right?
More to the point, was that Christian? Is that what Jesus would do? Is
that what any decent person of any faith would do?
Absolutely not. It is wrong, bigoted and un-American. No matter who it's
against.
It was an affront. It smelled like the bigotry of the Klan and the Third
Reich. And yet the ministers boasted of it to reporters and posed for
pictures and no one in the Utah or American religious, media or civil
rights communities has condemned it.
And, oddly, two worshippers were taken away in handcuffs.
One man, dressed in his church clothes, walked past in the crowd, saw
the insults and desecrations, and grabbed the piece of clothing. To
protect it. He was charged with robbery and taken to jail.
Half an hour later another worshipper similarly grabbed a molested
garment and attempted to take it away. He was unsuccessful and waiting
police stepped in to take him into custody.
And that's the world we live in.
You are harangued for your beliefs and arrested for defending them.
And the bigotry of our society is illustrated by how selectively we
practice tolerance.
It fucking hurts! HELP!!
Come on, they crap on their own front page every blessed day! But at least the turds don't resemble one another as much as they used to...
I've read this whole anti sco hate fest on /. for quite a while now with a little scepticism. These guys are fucktards and are cheating their customers. They're worse than M$, at least M$ sells software thats reasonably up to date and generally works most of the time. What a bunch of assfags