DeMoN LaG wrote: > > Chocobo_greens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > 9uubak$qu3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:9uubak$qu3$[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08 Dec 2001: > >> There is no such thing. No matter what you pick, something will > >> be offensive to some group of people. > > > > i agree but there is a diffecence between a red star and say an M > > logo. do you agree? > > > > I don't personally see anything wrong with the red star. The only > reason it is a "communist icon" is because *YOU* see it as a communist > icon.
No, it's because the entire world's population sees it as a communist icon. > If that's what you want to see it as, fine, change it. Tools are > provided with your OS for changing the icon. What if I see the red star > as being a space shuttle going to the moon? Then you're insane and need some heavy-duty medication. > I can't believe you'd get > offended over something as trivial as an icon. > Like the man said, then let's change it to a couple of planes crashing into a couple of tall buildings. I mean, it's a trivial icon, right? Wrong. Not when it's outrageously offensive to the bulk of the world's population. But we gotta make that China sale, don't we? > Taken from a website Computer Stupidies (http://www.rinkworks.com) > * Tech Support: "All right...now double-click on the File Manager > icon." > * Customer: "That's why I hate this Windows -- because of the icons > -- I'm a Protestant, and I don't believe in icons." > * Tech Support: "Well, that's just an industry term sir. I don't > believe it was meant to --" > * Customer: "I don't care about any 'Industry Terms'. I don't > believe in icons." > * Tech Support: "Well...why don't you click on the 'little picture' > of a file cabinet...is 'little picture' ok?" > * Customer: [click] > > Do you see how stupid your argument is now? No. From http://www.victimsofcommunism.org/: "It is a great moral failing of our age that the extent of Communism's atrocities remains dimly understood. The horrors of Nazism are well known. Yet who knows the Soviet Union murdered 30 million people? Who knows China's dictators have slaughtered an estimated 60 million? Who knows that the Communism plague has exacted a death toll surpassing that of all the wars of the 20th century combined?" Not the Maozilla Politburo. Or do they simply not care?
