On Monday 28 April 2008, Elaine Ashton wrote:
Sure, I can see what you mean, and that sounds very altruistic, to
keep
Elaine's material 'on file' so to speak. It's a highly defensible
position,
on the face of it, but in reality, we all know what being quietly
side-lined
means.
On Thu, 1 May 2008, Shlomi Fish wrote:
I met on IRC[1], or for saying There's a girl on #perl, instead of there's
a programmer on #perl or whatever.
This sort of thing is classic sexism. You're making a big deal out of
someone's sex.
Imagine if every time you logged on to IRC someone got
On May 1, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Dave Rolsky wrote:
Imagine if every time you logged on to IRC someone got all excited
and said There's a Jew on #perl. Would that make you feel
comfortable? Would you want to come back? Would it make you feel
included in the group?
This analogy is
On Thu, 1 May 2008, Andy Lester wrote:
Imagine if every time you logged on to IRC someone got all excited and said
There's a Jew on #perl. Would that make you feel comfortable? Would you
want to come back? Would it make you feel included in the group?
This analogy is beautiful. It also
I heard somewhere that freedom cannot be given, and it must be taken
and fought for.
LOL. I was going to say that it must have been Charlton Heston, but
then remembered the real quote which is:
Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.
I'll merely wait and see just how things
On Thu, 1 May 2008, Elaine Ashton wrote:
LOL. I was going to say that it must have been Charlton Heston, but then
remembered the real quote which is:
Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.
There seem to be a number of versions of this quote on the net. Some match
the meaning
On 01 May, 2008, at 17:45, Dave Rolsky wrote:
You all lose points. Shlomi loses for quoting the tagline to a
Spielberg film as if it were deep philosophy. Elaine loses for
managing to find the negative version, when most net sources seem
to go with the positive.
Negative version? I
