President of What ? [LWN.net]

President of What ?

Posted Nov 22, 2005 6:50 UTC (Tue) by surajvijayan (guest, #17740)
In reply to: Well done, Richard! by cventers
Parent article: Richard Stallman's Tin-Foil Hat (Bruce Perens' Journal)

It would be better if comments made here do not assume everyone considers President means President of United States.. Suggest you should show a bit more respect to other countries around the world.

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President of What ?

Posted Nov 22, 2005 11:08 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I think making him President of other countries is fine, too. (although of course in my locale it would be 'Stallman for King!')

President of What ?

Posted Nov 23, 2005 8:45 UTC (Wed) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link]

It would be better if comments made here do not assume everyone considers President means President of United States.

Why not? The US owns your country too. :-)

President of What ?

Posted Nov 23, 2005 16:26 UTC (Wed) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link]

Gates has been on a ballot? <gagging emoticon>

I, for one

Posted Nov 28, 2005 15:49 UTC (Mon) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

welcome our new Republican overlords.

:-{

My hat is off to the d'yuke as well; rms and his followers really have changed the world, yada yada yada. :-) (no, seriously: my comments on earlier threads here should make clear that I mean that...)

On the actual topic of this thread, the most common current RFID equipment seems to work at 13.56MHz, according to the industry mags I've seen, which seems to make the whole Faraday cage thing a bit difficult.

I know!

Transparent Aluminum!

President of What ?

Posted Nov 26, 2005 1:52 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

It would be better if comments made here do not assume everyone considers President means President of United States..

True, but since no one in this thread has made that assumption, except possibly you, I can't imagine why you're bringing it up.

The phrase "Stallman for President!" isn't even a serious recommendation of Stallman to any particular presidency; it's just a metaphorical expression of the belief that he would be a good leader of society. Maybe that expression isn't known in places where people don't elect a "President," but it shouldn't be very hard to figure out.