Re: offtopic: political correctness

2015-05-13 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 07:34:31PM -0400, dan mclaughlin wrote: this just reminded me of something from MANY years ago (15+). someone was complaining about the jive port (which still exists, ha!) for PC reasons, talking about litigation or some such. i loved Theo's response, which was run

Re: offtopic: political correctness

2015-05-08 Thread Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount
Quoting Marko Cupa? marko.cu...@mimar.rs: I am reading 2nd edition of Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition and can't but notice paragraph Confidentiality on XXX page of Introduction: ---cut-here--- Confidentiality This means that secret data should remain secret. Your private infor- mation must not

offtopic: political correctness

2015-05-08 Thread Marko Cupać
Hi, I am reading 2nd edition of Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition and can't but notice paragraph Confidentiality on XXX page of Introduction: ---cut-here--- Confidentiality This means that secret data should remain secret. Your private infor- mation must not get into the public eye. That Eastern

Re: offtopic: political correctness

2015-05-08 Thread Traian Ciobanu
This seams racism to me. I leave in Eastern Europe and the autor thinks that all us here are doing kiddie porn. I want to dissapoint him, we are also building medical centers, schools, playgrounds. We will be glad to welcome the author of the book to us and show him the real life here, not the

Re: offtopic: political correctness

2015-05-08 Thread Andre Ruppert
Any other problems? Am 08.05.15 um 16:30 schrieb Marko Cupać: Hi, I am reading 2nd edition of Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition and can't but notice paragraph Confidentiality on XXX page of Introduction: ---cut-here--- Confidentiality This means that secret data should remain secret. Your private

Re: offtopic: political correctness

2015-05-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 8 May 2015 18:35:13 +0300 Traian Ciobanu wrote: all If he had used all or always I would agree that it was racist but he didn't? Also if it had no basis in fact then it could be racist but apparently it has atleast some. Tasteful or not is another question. Is the TAKEN film also

Re: offtopic: political correctness

2015-05-08 Thread Joseph Oficre
Feel free to ask to change Eastern European kiddie porn syndicate by Mexican kidnapping drug cartel, I'm Mexican and would not mind at all. Lmao 2015-05-08 11:35 GMT-04:00 Traian Ciobanu lordz...@gmail.com: This seams racism to me. I leave in Eastern Europe and the autor thinks that all us

Re: offtopic: political correctness

2015-05-08 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
On 08-05-2015 15:38, Steve Litt wrote: Yes, it sucks, but no more than calling it nazi. The day Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition kills millions of Jews, Gypsies, and retarded people, while invading Poland and rocketing London, it will earn the epithet nazi. Until then, using that epithet simply

Re: offtopic: political correctness

2015-05-08 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
On 08-05-2015 11:38, Nick Holland wrote: In that case, you may wish to avoid reading the FAQ, the man pages, certainly not the commit message log. Come on. Those are hilarious! You probably don't want to talk to the developers. Some at least. The only thing PC about OpenBSD is ... a

Re: offtopic: political correctness

2015-05-08 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/08/15 10:29, Marko Cupać wrote: ... I guess this was intended to be a joke, but in my opinion it sucks. In that case, you may wish to avoid reading the FAQ, the man pages, certainly not the commit message log. You probably don't want to talk to the developers. The only thing PC

Re: offtopic: political correctness

2015-05-08 Thread jungle Boogie
On 8 May 2015 at 07:30, Marko Cupać marko.cu...@mimar.rs wrote: Hi, I am reading 2nd edition of Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition and can't but notice paragraph Confidentiality on XXX page of Introduction: ---cut-here--- Confidentiality This means that secret data should remain secret. Your

Re: offtopic: political correctness

2015-05-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 8 May 2015 16:30:15 +0200 Marko Cupać marko.cu...@mimar.rs wrote: Hi, I am reading 2nd edition of Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition and can't but notice paragraph Confidentiality on XXX page of Introduction: ---cut-here--- Confidentiality This means that secret data should remain

Re: offtopic: political correctness

2015-05-08 Thread Pedro Tender
On Friday, May 8, 2015, Mihai Popescu mih...@gmail.com wrote: Contact the author of this book. If I'm nost mistaken, the OpenBSD project is not affiliated in any way with the book or the author. I think he can explain the best his remarks to you. This. /noise /thread /care --

Re: offtopic: political correctness

2015-05-08 Thread mjjf
I guess this was intended to be a joke, but in my opinion it sucks. So don't laugh. -- Maurits Fennis

Re: offtopic: political correctness

2015-05-08 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Man, No one have any kind of sense of humor these days!!! OpenBSD mailing list is not really for the faint of hart, why should any books for OpenBSD be any different! Just switch to any politically correct Linux flavors and move on... At a minimum he wrote a book to try to help users, I am

Re: offtopic: political correctness

2015-05-08 Thread Steve Shockley
On 5/8/2015 7:34 PM, dan mclaughlin wrote: i actually tried to find this in the archives a while back but couldn't (i thought it would be a good addition to mg/theo.c, i still remember it all these years later with a smile.) http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/ports/9912/msg00128.html

Re: offtopic: political correctness

2015-05-08 Thread dan mclaughlin
On Fri, 08 May 2015 16:26:09 -0300 Giancarlo Razzolini grazzol...@gmail.com wrote: On 08-05-2015 11:38, Nick Holland wrote: In that case, you may wish to avoid reading the FAQ, the man pages, certainly not the commit message log. Come on. Those are hilarious! You probably don't want