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Torvalds Becomes an American Citizen
netbuzz writes "Having brought his open-source work and family to the United States from Finland some time ago, Linus Torvalds has marked an important personal milestone by attaining US citizenship. A casual remark on the Linux kernel mailing list about registering to vote led to the community being in on the news. Torvalds has acknowledged being a bit of a procrastinator on this move, writing in a 2008 blog post: 'Yeah, yeah, we should probably have done the citizenship thing a long time ago, since we've been here long enough (and two of the kids are US citizens by virtue of being born here), but anybody who has had dealings with the INS will likely want to avoid any more of them, and maybe things have gotten better with a new name and changes, but nothing has really made me feel like I really need that paperwork headache again.' In that post he also expresses dislike for the American style of politics in which he will now be able to participate directly."
How will this allow him to "participate directly" in American politics more so than before? Citizenship doesn't change the way you write checks.
If you use the Glenn Beck meme here, you can avoid being tagged flamebait.
I just heard on the internet that {Person's name} {did something horrible}. Now, I'm not saying that {Person's name} {did something horrible}. But it does strike me as a little suspicious that {Person's name} has never denied {doing something horrible}. Really, I'm not accusing {Person's Name} of {doing something horrible}. But if {Person's name} didn't {do something horrible}, why hasn't he denied {doing something horrible}?
For some reason, It's ok as long as you are making fun of the right here.
The right-wing is more acquainted with logic and therefore less likely to start frothing at the mouth and looking for a way to silence the speaker (however underhanded or childish) in response to any perceived slight or insult. It's part of why Glenn Beck may be admired or respected among right-leaning people for so long as his views make sense to them, but he is not the Messianic savior that many leftists seem to think Obama is.
Any good that leftism has done has been in spite of the general immaturity, emotionalism, and misplaced trust in the benevolence of government that it attracts. It's why they pretend like criminals obey gun-control laws, they pretend like lowering taxes doesn't increase the federal government's revenues, they pretend like appeasement works and that our President bowing and scraping to other heads of state won't be perceived as weakness.
You'd never know it from watching their talking heads.
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Now he is offically a serf - serving the ruling elite and a SLAVE to the bankers. He thinks he is now a citizen of the land of the free home of the brave....... He obviously didn't read current history...
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government spending is good if it is done to better the lives of people. check the place linus is from. average education and life standard of the average finnish youth would make your rich kids go weeping. that is, if they can actually understand the difference.
in us, however, government spending is done to appease corporations. which then also demand tax cuts for themselves and wealthy, and make the people pay taxes.
no sir. you americans are doing everything from butt end, and suffering as a result.
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despite the fact that united states of america, in the words of the chinese representative to wto, 'is a bankrupt nation', and your wall street scammed ENTIRE earth, and your income distribution is WORSE THAN the medieval times in which feudal lords ruled the land, europe is going to go bankrupt.
yes, the europe which provided bailout money to all the banks in a blink, WITHOUT printing money, DESPITE the fact that it was american wall street that caused the intoxication of world financial assets and hence american's responsibility.
moron.
that is the difference in between the europeans, and you americans. you do not get enough 'socialism' in your supposedly free country, dont have culture, education enough as a result, you do not know what kind of shit you are living in, and then you come up advertising the shit you live in to other people.
http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/
behold, and weep.
its you idiots' brainwashed minds that keep you in corporate servitude, make everything scarcer, ranging from education to jobs, and then ending up poorer and indebted to china. is there ANY other country in the world, which is being financed by china ? huh ? NO.
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... to the land of bad food and poor healthcare? Oh well, I suppose he has his reasons.
The Communists got in on the last election, and we can see the results of that.