Re: Question regarding offensive material

2005-06-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Andrew Suffield | On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:32:36PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: | I therefore propose | that we do the following: | | * Don't install any screensaver modules whatsoever, except one that | shows a blank screen and turns off the monitor after a while. | | This is called

Re: Question regarding offensive material

2005-06-23 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 10:05:11PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Andrew Suffield | On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:32:36PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: | I therefore propose | that we do the following: | | * Don't install any screensaver modules whatsoever, except one that | shows a

Re: Question regarding 'offensive' material

2005-06-18 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
2005/6/17, Jonas Meurer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That's simply another way to say that the group of people who are offended is a minority. even if the group where the material is popular is a minority itself? I think the case is: - a minority are offended - a minority like it - a majority grew

Re: Question regarding 'offensive' material

2005-06-17 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 15/06/2005 Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Unfortunately people that are easily offended will always exist, even by simple human body parts displayed in a very abstract manner (more abstract than the pictures in any sexual education book). So we have to do something about it, because it's a given. I

Re: Question regarding 'offensive' material

2005-06-17 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 04:25:43PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: On 15/06/2005 Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Unfortunately people that are easily offended will always exist, even by simple human body parts displayed in a very abstract manner (more abstract than the pictures in any sexual education

Re: Question regarding 'offensive' material

2005-06-17 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 17/06/2005 Andrew Suffield wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 04:25:43PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: On 15/06/2005 Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Unfortunately people that are easily offended will always exist, even by simple human body parts displayed in a very abstract manner (more abstract

Re: Question regarding 'offensive' material

2005-06-17 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 07:19:21PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: On 17/06/2005 Andrew Suffield wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 04:25:43PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: On 15/06/2005 Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Unfortunately people that are easily offended will always exist, even by simple human

Re: Question regarding 'offensive' material

2005-06-17 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 6/17/05, Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you'll find that porn is the majority industry on the internet. The Internet is, to zeroth order, useful only for the same four things that interactive TV is well suited for: video games, gambling, pornography, and pornographic

Re: Question regarding 'offensive' material

2005-06-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:08:57PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: than the pictures in any sexual education book). So we have to do something about it, because it's a given. I was thinking that maybe debtags would provide a solution. You can invent a

Question regarding offensive material

2005-06-15 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
I'm asking for guidance regarding this bug: #313492: xscreensaver/GLSnake has sexually inappropriate imagery This reminds me all to well of the hot-babe controversity, with the difference that xscreensaver has been in Debian for ages a nobody ever complained about that offensive material. My

Re: Question regarding offensive material

2005-06-15 Thread Sam Morris
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: I'm asking for guidance regarding this bug: #313492: xscreensaver/GLSnake has sexually inappropriate imagery This reminds me all to well of the hot-babe controversity, with the difference that xscreensaver has been in Debian for ages a nobody ever complained about that

Re: Question regarding offensive material

2005-06-15 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's been suggested to rename erect penis into DPL's tentacle. That sounds good. What about flaccid penis and vagina? -- _ Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Re: Question regarding offensive material

2005-06-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2005-06-15 kello 12:51 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt kirjoitti: I'm asking for guidance regarding this bug: #313492: xscreensaver/GLSnake has sexually inappropriate imagery ... 1) Is it a bug at all? There's no technical problem in the program per se. It's just that this one person may

Re: Question regarding offensive material

2005-06-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:51:31PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: I'm asking for guidance regarding this bug: #313492: xscreensaver/GLSnake has sexually inappropriate imagery This reminds me all to well of the hot-babe controversity, with the difference that xscreensaver has been in Debian

Re: Question regarding offensive material

2005-06-15 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The idea of being sexually offended by a particular configuration of simple geometric shapes seems rather bizarre. Indeed. It's the naming, though! Nevertheless, I don't see any reason for the genitalia references here, so -- why *not* call the first of

Re: Question regarding offensive material

2005-06-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 15 juin 2005 à 12:51 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt a écrit : I'm asking for guidance regarding this bug: #313492: xscreensaver/GLSnake has sexually inappropriate imagery This reminds me all to well of the hot-babe controversity, with the difference that xscreensaver has been in Debian

Re: Question regarding 'offensive' material

2005-06-15 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
ke, 2005-06-15 kello 12:51 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt kirjoitti: There's no technical problem in the program per se. It's just that this one person may find it contains sexually inappropriate imagery. A recurring problem. There's no limit to what people can be offended about. I could be offended

Re: Question regarding 'offensive' material

2005-06-15 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: than the pictures in any sexual education book). So we have to do something about it, because it's a given. I was thinking that maybe debtags would provide a solution. You can invent a tag contains remote references to natural reproduction and anyone can

Re: Question regarding offensive material

2005-06-15 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Ralf Hildebrandt said: I'm asking for guidance regarding this bug: #313492: xscreensaver/GLSnake has sexually inappropriate imagery This reminds me all to well of the hot-babe controversity, with the difference that xscreensaver has been in Debian for ages a

Re: Question regarding offensive material

2005-06-15 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Ralf Hildebrandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050615 12:51]: I'm asking for guidance regarding this bug: #313492: xscreensaver/GLSnake has sexually inappropriate imagery Interessting... my I report the wishlist bug, that it should be possible with GLSnake to show a specific - uhm - thing? 1)

Re: Question regarding offensive material

2005-06-15 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 17:41 +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: - What is a gegl? I couldn't find it in any dictionary. Genetically Engineered Goat (extra Leg). Part of GNOME folklore, google will tell you more. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question regarding offensive material

2005-06-15 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Ralf Hildebrandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm asking for guidance regarding this bug: #313492: xscreensaver/GLSnake has sexually inappropriate imagery It seems to me that it's a wishlist item. It also seems to me that a reasonable course would be to disable it by default, but leave it as an

Re: Question regarding offensive material

2005-06-15 Thread Jesus Climent
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:12:26PM +0100, Sam Morris wrote: Perhaps maintainers should publish PICS ratings[0] for each of their packages, which can be placed in the package control information, or incorporated into a debtags offensiveness facet? ;) No. I consider offensive some parts on

Re: Question regarding offensive material

2005-06-15 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:32:36PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: I therefore propose that we do the following: * Don't install any screensaver modules whatsoever, except one that shows a blank screen and turns off the monitor after a while. This is called 'power management', and is enabled