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Will Dell Be Bad For Ubuntu?
vcore writes "Many people are excited for Ubuntu's upcoming release on Dell computers, and while it is certainly good news there are a few causes for concern. Very few details have emerged so far so it is not completely clear what impact Dell with have on the thriving Ubuntu community. But there are questions concerning support, logistics, pricing, and a number of other areas that are affected. From the article: 'Dell is in the practice of filling their computers with large amounts of "bloatware" and also all sorts of co-branding, but it remains to be seen what they will do with Ubuntu. It has been reported that Dell will be shipping a standard version of Ubuntu 7.04...'"
Surely if he was Bulgarian and wanted money all he'd have to do is sell his sister to a brothel?
It's pretty amazing that a little woman in India can win the Nobel Peace Prize for working with the homeless and destitute, but a white American male is vilified while doing the same thing. There was absolutely no hate in anything Jerry Falwell had to say. He didn't agree with the homosexual lifestyle. but I am pretty sure that he cared for these individuals as lost sheep just as he did anyone who he felt were not walking according to Scripture. As I'm writing this, I just thought of a strip of Shortpacked I read the other day.http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20070502.html that talks about opinions. Just because you think it's right doesn't mean it is.
It's funny you choose to point out one very small thing of Jerry Falwell's life to hit on. And no, he did NOT believe that their "sin" was their very existence. Did he believe that homosexuality was a sin? Yes. Did he believe that homosexuality was a worse sin than adultery or greed or gluttony or slander or libel or gossip or murder or stealing or any of a plethora of things that are against the Scriptures? NO!!! Jerry Falwell believed that if you were about to fall into a ditch and he didn't say anything to warn you, HE would be culpable of your injuries. But he didn't just stand aside and yell out to those he believed were falling into a ditch. He reached out and tried to help them. If Jerry Falwell "attacked" groups, then give some quotes and solid examples. But if he just reached out to those whom he thought were deceived and needed help, recognize that for what it is and don't vilify him with quotes as I am seeing like he's "sucking satan's cock". It kind of proves my point.
At least Jerry Falwell didn't fund suicide bombers to go and blow up innocent people who disagreed with his beliefs. Dr. Falwell may have been a conservative with regards to politics, and he may have been expressive in his views, but I can guarantee that he didn't turn around and curse people and mock them and say that the world would have been better off without them just because he didn't agree with them.
"At least Jerry Falwell didn't fund suicide bombers to go and blow up innocent people who disagreed with his beliefs. "
Well, *THAT* sure is a high standard. . . .
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." - H.L. Mencken
Actually, unlike Falwell, I'm not an anti-semite, I was never pro-apartheid, and, while I adore the use of profanity to celebrate the passing of immoral bigots like Falwell, I've *never* said things like:
"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'" (This was in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11/01 attacks, in which he blames these people for the attacks.)
"AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals."
"God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew."
Nice hero you've got there.
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." - H.L. Mencken
I picked one example; there are others. He had problems with feminists, for example, and with the people who fought for the civil liberties of the people whose religious and moral views he disagreed with. Civil liberties which he himself, as a white male, enjoyed but was unwilling to grant to other humans. I am not picking on "one very small thing" but rather on a major problem with the man's character and moral fabric. He was not merely saying things to "warn" people, he was attempting to change the politics of the country in favor of his fundamentalist religious views, to the detriment of people with other views.
I personally don't choose to respond to his death with comments like the one about Satan, but I think that if you believe those comments somehow cross a line that Falwell himself didn't cross many times, you're wrong. There's more to obscenity than simply dirty words.