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The Unemployed Working on OSS Projects
Roger_Explosion writes "In Australia the unemployed have to fulfill a 'mutual obligation' requirement in order to receive welfare payments. What this means is that recipients of welfare payments have to be involved in some sort of activity that improves their chances of finding employment. Until now this has included various types of community service and training and education programs. Recently an organisation called CommunityCode has been established to allow recipients to fulfill this requirement by contributing to OSS projects."
I post as AC because I don't have a slashdot account. Does this somehow diminish the value of my opinion?
Yes. An opinion is more worthwhile if it has an individual willing to stand behind it and defend it -- ideally not just in the forum it's posted, but out of it as well. Note my email address above? It's given because any statement I make in slashdot is a statement I'm willing to be personally identified with. If you can't say that about the positions you take -- or are too lazy to take the effort to make said statement -- then is it really so unreasonable for your opinions to be given less consideration?
Actually, in most of the Western Hemisphere, Americano refers to someone from any of the countries in the Americas, and someone from the USA is normally referred to as estadounidense (from Estados Unidos). To them, residents of the US calling themselves "Americans" does sound arrogant.
So "USian" isn't intended as disparaging at all, and shouldn't be taken that way.
(BTW, "bludge" is used here in Oz to mean "borrow", "bum", e.g. "Bludge a taylor, mate?" = "Bum me a smoke, buddy?")
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Have you been forgetting to take your medication again?