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Ask the Egyptian Installfest Organizers
The Linux-Egypt group recently held an amazingly successful installfest. This event was a milestone both for Linux installfests in general (was it the largest one ever held?) and for Linux in the Arabic world. Alaa Abd El Fatah, one of the organizers, has offered to answer your questions with help from other Linux-Egypt members. We'll post their answers to 10 or 12 of the highest-moderated questions as soon as we get them back.
>When choosing to use Linux, one makes a conscious decision to join together with other people from around the world in a salute to freedom
really? i thought they did it because it was cheap
What a stupid question. What does Linux have to do with America?
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
Your question is full of assumptions that are incorrect.
1) I don't think many people do make a "concious decision" to blah blah blah.
2) Finns are Europeans.
3) South Americans are Americans.
Let me put it to you this way - last time we had an installfest in Memphis, Tennessee, I think we had some women. However, by the time it was over we were down to only guys, so we decided to take our post-install supper at Hooters. :P We have far to go, my friends, before women are regularly into Linux - perhaps if we had a "ladies night" at LUG meetings? ;)
As opposed to those in the Baptist south of the US, or those in Catholic Italy?
Norman Cook's Ode to Sl
He's lived in the US for 7 years now. I don't know if he ever applied for citizenship but I think it is safe to say that he is American as anybody else in this country. Remember that this country is made up of immigrants. They (and I say they because my ancestors had nothing to do with it) did a good job of wiping out in the indigenous population. Hell even they probably came across the Bering Strait land bridge many thousands of years ago.
It would take too long to list out all of the great minds who came to America and made a name for themselves.
The mere idea that the US Army intetionally kills innocent people is simply absurd with the exception of a minute few (since there are murderers in every country and every ethnicity).
Israel from day one did not bulldoze Palestinian houses and farm land. They did this in retaliation to homocidal maniacs who tell ignorant people that they will go to heaven if they kill a bunch of Jews. Killing based on religious or ethnic traits is simply genocide.
Yes Israel has killed more Palestinians than the Palestinians have Jews. Yes its not so black and white. The difference though is that Israel is and has been operating in self defense for over 10 years and attempting diplomatic negotiations repeatedly along the way. The fact of the matter is that if Israel were occuppied by the PLO (instead of vice versa), the Palenstinians would have already killed all the jews.
But with respect to the US Military, calling them terrorists is simply stupid. We had 3000 people die in an instant on 9/11 and the overwhelming potential for millions to die based by a terrorist financed and executed nuclear holocaust, all because the Arab world can't get their shit together, educate their people and reject Islamic Sharia and its caveman justice. As a result, we now have to clean up their pile of shit for them, and if it means that NYC never gets nuked by a crazy Muslim, I don't care how many people die in Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, N Korea or Malaysia.
The US spent the last 15 years not fucking with anyone and as a result we were attacked on a scale more horrific than Pearl Harbor. SO EAT MY ASS YOU PIG FUCKER.