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What Really Happened To Ubuntu's Edgy Artwork?
angrykeyboarder writes, "Many Ubuntu users expressed surprise, dismay, and disappointment when Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) nixed the popular community-developed artwork during the beta phase of Ubuntu 6.10 ('The Edgy Eft'). Some Ubuntu community members were downright shocked, and many were ultimately dissatisfied with the final product. What exactly happened? Short answer: the Art Team was less disturbed than some other community members were. Linux.com has the scoop." Slashdot and Linux.com are both part of OSTG.
What a society - where [showing pictures of] killing untold thousands of people in far off lands is fine, but showing pictures of the human body is taboo.
Let's compare apples to apples, shall we? Because if you want to compare violence to sex, well, you can be an American pacifist, but not fucking your spouse is grounds for divorce.
The simple reason why violence is OK in media and sex is not is that all violence needs to be in the public eye. There's no reason that your neighbors or children need to know when or how often you fuck. But they DO need to know each and every time you kill someone, stab someone in the eye, or do any other act of violence.
That's a bit of a logical fallacy there, don't you think? I agree entirely that we all need to know when an injustice has been committed. However, you state only that violence needs to be in the media, and haven't given any reason why that means nudity can't share the same space in the media.
No-one NEEDS to know the results of the Super Bowl, but it's in the media - so how does nudity somehow not get the same treatment?
Erm... I have pictures of Women as the backgrounds on all my computers... well the ones used at home. And no, they aren't nude. The human body is art, quit thinking of it as a sex machine. Oh wait, you probably never thought of your body that way!
"Free software" is a matter of liberty, not price.
I think you'd agree the art in the Zune installer is pretty edgy!
Your mind is clear / The things that you fear / Will fade with how much you / Believe what you hear
Why do we need so many shows built around rape, murder, kidnapping, child abuse, torture, etc?
You seem to have internet access, yet are unaware that pornographic movies outnumber violent ones by a ratio of about 1,000,000 to 1. That's....strange.
Hell, it just makes Iraq another video game/reality show.
Is that how you see Iraq?
It's hardly shocking anymore to read about the daily 30-80-150(today's count) kidnapped, murdered, etc. in Baghdad alone.
It's also hardly shocking to read about the daily stoning-to-death of women in Iran for adultery. Or the execution of Christians over dumb political cartoons. Or a suicide bomber going off in an Israeli coffee shop. What's your point? The world's a fucked up place. You either get desensitized, or you go insane.
Getting up towards a million killed that had NOTHING to do with 9/11, but where's the outrage over the loss of life, regardless of political leanings?
Ah, I see, you're just playing partisan politics. Call me back when you're ready to express your outrage about the Rwanda massacre, the 2 million Vietnamese killed by Cambodia and the NVA, the daily killings in the Sudan, state-organized executions in North Korea, or the slavery business run by Muslims in Africa. As long as you're only trying to be outraged by US actions, you're just a bloody hypocrite.