Stallman Attacked by Ninjas

vivIsel writes "When RMS took the stage to address the Yale Political Union, Yale's venerable parliamentary debate society, it was already an unusual speech: instead of the jacket and tie customary there, he sported a T shirt, and no shoes. But then he was attacked by ninjas. Apparently some students took it into their head to duplicate an XKCD webcomic before a live audience — luckily, though, Stallman didn't resort to violence. Instead, he delivered an excellent speech about DRM."

Comments

Wow

[Naelok]

This is perhaps the greatest thing anyone has ever done, ever. Though it would've been better if they'd come down from the ceiling.

Re:Wow

[arivanov]

Have you seen the comic. I would suggest nobody to do the next steps.

A raid on ESR is likely to have look like a gameplay video from "Soldier of Fortune 2" (with the Ninjas being used for target practice).

Re:Wow

[Eunuchswear]

I wish you hadn't posted that link. I've never read it, but even being reminded of it's existence makes me feel ill.

Re:Wow

[iow]

I love XKCD, check out http://xkcd.com/327/ :-).

Well

[Anonymous Coward]

If Richard Stallman wants everything to be free, maybe he should create a whole bunch of decent stuff and give it away. Without license. Without license. Without license.

Re: Well

[Dolda2000]

Without license. Without license. Without license. Ballmer? Is that you?

Ninjas...

[Tuoqui]

But where were the pirates? Clearly someone has to defend RMS against the ninjas...

Re:Ninjas...

[Spy der Mann]

But where were the pirates?

They're too busy downloading stuff :P

Re:Ninjas...

[Antique Geekmeister]

No, no, Comcast kept sending fake messages to the pirates to say their packets had never arrived, so the pirates would think their packets had never arrived and be afraid to take on the Ninjas without their cutlasses and cannons. For more details, check out old Slashdot articles or some notes from the EFF at http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/eff-tests-agree-ap-comcast-forging-packets-to-interfere.

Yale Political Union web design

[colourmyeyes]

Apparently no one told web designers at Yale how to resize photos so they don't have to use a full size, 1.6 Meg picture that's scaled down in the HTML.

Re:Yale Political Union web design

[Plutonite]

Their web page is also incorrectly rendered in firefox - check out the google search button that gets hidden behind the banner.

A webpage made only for internet explorer showing a talk by RMS. Why is he even trying.

Re:Ninjas?

[Anonymous Coward]

Heh. My 8 yr old son did just this last time we went to Bradford. "Hey dad, theres a Ninja!" he said excitedly, filling me with typical middleclass anxiety that we might deeply offend the muslim lady in question. Still. Wierd outfit for shopping IMHO, and you've got to wonder how many have to wear it not out of fear of offending whatever diety they believe in, but out of fear of a getting a good hiding if they don't.

Please confirm

[beders]

Please tell me that wasn't all that he was wearing

Who knew?

[Kadin2048]

But where were the pirates? Clearly someone has to defend RMS against the ninjas... Unfortunately, global warming wiped them out last year.

Re:I see, I see, I get the picture ...

[Neoncow]

Click.

Open in Microsoft Word.

Plink!

"Could not open 'Steve:Applications:Microsoft Office 2004:Templates:My Templates:ypu minutes.dot'."

Pure fucking genius. WTG Steve.

Blooming bearded hippie

[threaded]

Blooming bearded hippie ought to get a job. ;-)

Quick! Someone warn Eric and Linus!!!

[IchBinEinPenguin]

They're NEXT!

Fox News Headline:

[spleen_blender]

Left wing liberal software communist gets attacked by terrorist extremists. O'Reily celebrates. More at 9'.

Re:tshirt and no shoes?

[argiedot]

Indeed, all those formal settings where he gets attacked by sunglasses ninjas being an example of how he doesn't care for being professionalism.

Don't do this to Eric S. Raymond

[Cheesey]

Unless you want to get killed.

It's not that he'll shoot you if you dress as a ninja and try to sneak up on him. It's just that his speech might exceed the bullshit threshold that you can tolerate.

Re:T-shirts are communist?

[The -e**(i*pi)]

odd you mention him mimicking retards because all the retards I know wear a suit.

Re:T-shirts are communist?

[giarcgood]

Either he is a retard, or he is mimicking one. It's just a matter of common respect for your audience. Yeah, you can dress like a jackass, but all that says

Let me imagine for a minute.

You: Why is this retard wearing a nappy? Doesn't he understand that India will never be free until he puts a suit and tie on.
You: Why is this retard wearing a Springboks jumper? How will anyone take him seriously?
You: Why is this African-American shaking that torch like that? Can't he just put it straight in? Doesn't he understand what a mockery this is?

Re:Lazy vs. Wasteful

[PeeAitchPee]

Just because some people are (by common custom) materialistic, elitist assholes doesn't mean you have to be too.

Then why bother to speak at Yale at all? ;-)

T-Shirt & No Shoes

[andi75]

I'm surprised noone has mentioned it yet, but: ...That's all the airport security left him with.

Re:this guy is a liability to the community

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're sexy, you have a better chance at becoming the president of the USA.

Have you SEEN your president?!

Dissapointed

[Xenographic]

Dammit! Where was Stallman's katana? People even sent him a katana for situations EXACTLY like this one!

It just goes to show you what happens when you go around unprepared for ninjas. What next? Will he be caught flat-footed during a raptor attack?

Re:this guy is a liability to the community

[chris_eineke]

to show that crippled, proprietary code is not the norm

This is madness!

And it doesn't help when your leaders are barefoot lunatics who dislike shampoo and don't cut their hair.

This is Sparta!

Re:T-shirts are communist?

[Almahtar]

At my funeral, I hope everyone is naked. That would rule.

Re:T-shirts are communist?

[H0ek]

Mmm, nice tag.

Frequently, a suit is just used to cover up for incompentence.