Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:59:04 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Personal patches Message-ID: <20040105175904.GA32112@online.fr> In-Reply-To: <200401051502.i05F2qqG007611@dungeon.home>
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Stephen McKay wrote: > I've got all I know about this guy from his entries in the FreeBSD > fortune file. I suspect that's true of most people outside the US who are reading this. I barely knew Limbaugh's name before coming to the US. (And I'd never heard of Al Franken either until Fox sued him about his book.) Limbaugh's quotes, everyone seems to agree, are neither funny nor intelligent; they're merely offensive. Why should FreeBSD give an international pulpit to some little-known ignorant American broadcaster? Would a random idiot hack from, say, Japan, Norway, or other countries with FreeBSD contributors, make it to the fortune files? Can I nominate Varsha Bhosle or Mani Shankar Aiyar from India (raise your hand if you've heard of them)? It may be an "offensive" fortune file but that doesn't mean offensiveness is the only criterion for inclusion. Personally I think the offensive fortune file can be removed, or made into a port. We have quite enough sources for offensive humour these days, thank you, besides a lot of it seems quite innocuous to me and can be merged back into the regular file (or else many the regular fortunes seem potentially offensive). All humour is potentially offensive to someone somewhere of course, but we can draw the line at stupid bigoted non-humour like Rush Limbaugh. Rahul
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