From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 4 13:45:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F007D37B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:45:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FBD143E6E for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:45:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0242.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.242] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 188p2A-0002zX-00; Mon, 04 Nov 2002 13:45:22 -0800 Message-ID: <3DC6EA1B.7598D587@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 13:43:55 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ceri Davies Cc: Josef Grosch , Cliff Sarginson , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many? References: <11.162dca8.2af6b3fa@aol.com> <3DC55F74.4000403@cs.umu.se> <3DC62FAF.9053A5F8@ene.asda.gr> <20021104024422.A6945@FreeBSD.org> <20021104135214.GA2501@raggedclown.net> <3DC6D916.EE5B85DC@mindspring.com> <20021104211810.GA99075@mooseriver.com> <20021104212436.GA7737@submonkey.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ceri Davies wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:18:10PM -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:31:18PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Speaking of which, the fact that the daemon has 3 fingers instead of > > > 4 is probably offensive to the Japanese market. 8-). > > > > Ummmm, Can you explain why ? > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/720419.stm Despite the article's claim that it's the producers of the material being two sensitive, changing the image of the InterJet agents was actually a contract demand by NTT. So even though the article tries to paint the market as being more tolerant than it's being given credit for, the reality is that the market forced the change, at least for the InterJet. I would think that the "Bob The Builder" controversy could have been handled by filming a zero'th episode, in which he loses the fingers in a horrible shop accident, teaching the children the importance of safe behaviour around power tools, particularly joiners, but I'm guessing that that would be too scary, as well, even if it explained the lack... 8-) 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message