Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:03:30 -0600 From: "eBoundHost: Artur" <artur@eboundhost.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [OT] who wrote this Message-ID: <001301c82fe1$4e4263e0$6701a8c0@mobility>
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>Lets also remember that history is written by the victors,=20 >which means they LIE! >neal. Wow neal, that's very nice of you. are you saying that hitler didn't do = any of these things? I'm not even going to respond to you here, just = going to re-post your words to show that there are still people like you = out there... And as far as your sage to the moon quote, don't think too much of your = own sagedom, there is always someone younger and smarter. You would be = better off being a little less "sagy" and a bit nicer. Now to the rest of you who are for some reason turning this into a = Censorship issue. It's not. I'm asking to replace the text on the HTML = front page with a completely unnecessary reference to hitler. We're not = talking about pruning the quotes database for controversial speakers. = having hitlers name there does nothing positive for the project and = polarizes the viewing audience because it offends the vast majority of = people, 99% of whom are not going to spend an evening writing to a = mailing list to have the issue fixed. They won't think about the deep = philosophical reasons why this should be there in principle. They are = going to read the page and think to themselves that the freebsd = community are a bunch of jerks.=20 There are far better ways to express the thought than by simply saying = "hitler quotes". For instance it can be replaced with "controversial = persons" or something similar. He was not the only such person in = history, so we should not be focusing only on him. Best Regards, Artur eBoundHost.com http://www.eboundhost.com
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