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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."
You can't put a price tag on an illegal war.
Does that mean he's going to drive a Peugeot or Renault? :)
Are French cars even sold in the States any more?
A bomb went off while you were doing your arithmetic and killed 20 school children plus fifty other people.
I stole this
Linux enables the US military to be a more efficient killing force. While most of us belive the good from open-source outweighs the bad, or that the consequences are so far removed as to be not be cause for concern, this person has made a quite valid decision to stop supporting something that eventually supports killing.
The president of LULA definetly has some issues. What a winer, he quits because we are using Linux to support our armed froces? The guy obviously doesn't even understand what the military does with Linux. The military does not trust or reley on Windows crap to run high end systems. They would rather use Linux or Solaris. This will help Linux, not hurt it. The president of LULA needs to leave the country and get a life if he does not want to support our troops.
He was elected mostly through the illegal efforts of his brother's appointed administration, who fought the idea of recounts all the way, who prevented enough poor blacks to vote to change the course of the election, and who allowed enough invalid overseas military votes to change the outcome of the election.
What happened in Florida was illegal, and it was all done with the knowledge that it had to happen in order to make Bush the winner.
That must've been awful, having a politician that actually said what he believed, and actually had some refreshing ideas on freedom.
You're right, let's get another stooge in there like dubya or kerry that strip us of freedom after freedom, raids the public coffers, but has good speech writers.
I'll vote for just about damn anybody over those two scumbags, even Ventura.
PS: That's just awful that you have to pay money to go to school. Maybe your viewpoint will change when you get off the public tit and start getting raped by taxes.
One of the states had a problem determining, which group of representatives to send, but the problem was settled according to the laws of the land, and I'm much more inclined to trust handling of it to 9 wise people with decades of legal experience than an enraged geek, whose side happened to lose.
Do you get paid per comma? Half of those commas make no grammatical sense.
If the Supreme Court of the United States of America says it does not violate the Constition then how can it be illegal?
By "it", you must mean the specific role the court played in overturning the Florida Supreme Court ruling that all counties must perform recounts.
The Democrats could have pushed more lawsuits, and they probably would have if they could have known what Bush would invade Iraq to help keep himself elected and his friends rich.
What a worthless crybaby
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It must be wonderful to live in such a simplistic Bush like world full of "bad guys" that are easily identifiable.
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
Maine and Nebraska in fact do something other than the 'winner take all' that the other 48 states do.
other 48?
Hawaii was 51st and Virgin Islands is 52nd? I have no idea how they participate in the elections, but still. (I know, "50 states" is an expression, but there are 52 of them these days, and that's not even puerto rico included, which to my knowledge still isn't an actual state).
1 Earth is warming, 2 It's us, 3 it's royally bad, 4 we need to take action NOW
But by keeping you ignorant, you become the useful pawn of certain groups who like the throw out phrases like Selected and not Elected.
Sounds like "Selected and not Elected" is still true enough, just Constitutional.
Just like every other screaming liberal, "I'm glad that Saddam is gone, but there has to be a better way!"
OK Genius, what's the better way? (That actually achieves the intended outcome)
The day that I hear some actual, usefull suggestions from the screaming liberals will be the day I die of shock.
In the fantasy land of these people, the "Scary Right Wingers" already have a plan that requires zero dollars and zero lives and magically removes Saddam (or fixes global warming or whatever).
But it suppressed because somehow Ford, Shell, the Bushes, or whoever, would make less money. Therefor they go with the bad mean plan that costs lives and dollars.
But strangely, no conservative has ever become a liberal and taken the secret with him.
So wishfull thinking aside, conspiracy theories aside, suburban white male guilt aside....
What is your PLAN?? Huh? Stop whining, and tell us all the answer
otherwise STFU.
"I wasn't using my civil rights anyway...."
Silly rabbit - the original was call "Killing Fallouja - My Letter of Resignation"
First read my whole statement not excerpts. Then respond.
NewsForge and Slashdot could have provided a link to the source but it seems in this case they elected not to give you full access.
My point is that there are times an issue must be raised in every quarter. The United States is massacuring people in Falluoja today. That makes this one of those times.
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Look, I personally think that it's hard to be rational and *not* tend to oppose the War for Oil. However, resigning from your LUG doesn't do much, and *certainly* isn't realistic. Linux is *definitely* going to be used by the military, as well as all sorts of other things, like fire, knives, x86 processors, and whatnot.
The solution to opposing the Iraq war is to vote against Bush in November and convince others to do the same, not to resign from an influential position unrelated to the war.
May we never see th