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LUG Pres Resigns Over Military Linux Use
Joe Barr writes "NewsForge is carrying the news that the founder and president of Linux Users Los Angeles (LULA) has resigned because of his opposition to the war in Iraq and the U.S. Armed Forces' use of Linux."
The ex-president of the LA LUG, having decided that his previous protest didn't go far enough, has given up breathing in protest at the US military's use of oxygen.
What a wanker.
"'I pass the test,' she said. 'I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.'"
- JRR Tolkien.
actually, he wasn't elected by popular maojority. Gore won the popular vote, and Bush won by winning large states by small margins so that he won by electoral vote. That was the decision that was validated by the supreme court.
I guess this bastard is all for the export of US crypto technology to terrorist states. And I am sure he was outraged by the US export ban on playstations 2 to prevent them to be used as a Linux clusters for whepon research my Iraq and other terrorist states!!
What a fucking jerkoff
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i don't hear the left complaing when the same court ruled that two dudes butt-fucking was a constitutionally protected right. and you don't hear the left complaing when a court in Mass. overrules the will of the vast majority of the people and says gays have a right to marry.
now, i fear a judiciary that has no check or balance. jefferson warned of this repeatedly. and we have seen it totally change our country. for instance, when the supremes decided to start approving fdr's new deal legislation that it had been rejecting, it set a very bad precedent. so now, even though so much of what the gov't does is unconstitutional, it is ingrained in our societal fabric. sad.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
What a maroon!
I've always wondered what kinds of drugs most of the current anti-war crowd is on. I've become convinced that they are simply far left anti-conservatives and would bitch about anything that Bush or any other conservative leader did regardless of the outcome. Luckily they are a minority. A very obnoxious and vocal minority, but a minority just the same. Most Americans seem to be driven more by pragmatism than any sort of ideology. This is a wonderful thing since most ideologies are, to a greater or leser degree, fantasies adhered to by people who can't deal with reality. This goes for the right wing as well as the left.
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Muslim community leaders warn of backlash from tomorrow morning's terrorist attack.
It must be wonderful to be able to excuse one's own moral cowardice with "Shades-of-Gray" rhetoric.
So you really don't give a fsck about freedom in rest of the world. So long as everyone recognizies that we (America) are the Alpha Male, you are satisfied. So tell me, are you truly a human being? You sound like a monkey; they are obsessed with dominance games and throwing feces at their enemies, just like you.
Oh, and thanks for illustrating my point with such a disgusting point of view.
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Together, we will drive the rats from the tundra.
It gives undue influence to large population centers.
"Undue influence to large population"? Just what's wrong about people having power? That's what democracy is supposed to be about.
This is why the Senate has 2 members per state.
Which was to entice the slave-holding states to join the Union. Not a ringing endorsement.
It keeps big population centers from running over little ones.
Conversely, it allows uninhabited desert to run over bustling cities.
Any system which makes one citizen's vote more powerful than another's is unfair. Dirt shouldn't vote! (Coincidentally, dirt always goes Republican)
Sure.
So sorry that Linux isn't the, "Tool with vast potential for the liberation of humanity." I know it's a dissapointment, but please find a good shrink and get yourself on medication. Maybe someday you'll figure out that we live in the real world where bad things happen, people die, and the Matrix was just a movie.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
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So what you are saying is we should let these people who have as jaded a view of the world as you do continue to rain havoc in iraqi cities. Creating chaos and killing their own countrymen?
Did you see the carbombs that insurgents set off in basra today? Are we really that bad for trying to stop the people who are doing this? A BUSLOAD OF KIDS BURNED TO DEATH AND YOU ARE TELLING ME THAT *WE* ARE COMMITING THE WARCRIMES?? I don't support the way bush did this, but you do understand that as an american if we pull out of iraq it will be worse for iraqis than it would be for us. Chaos would reign in iraq with multiple groups most liekly wagin civil war and violently deciding who gets war.
Why don't you do your best to speed up the end of this war and go drive trucks in iraq. We'll see how you feel when you are the next possible target to have your humvee rpg and your corpse dragged through the streets.
Innocent civilians die in war. Its sad but true. We are not targeting innocent civilians in iraq.