Big Blue assuages customers about SCO (News.com) [LWN.net]

Big Blue assuages customers about SCO (News.com)

Posted Jul 28, 2003 19:46 UTC (Mon) by mgrello (guest, #13433)
In reply to: Big Blue assuages customers about SCO (News.com) by dbhost
Parent article: Big Blue assuages customers about SCO (News.com)

Gee, you're ticked off! Well, I'm really tired of settling down for a non-political discussion of Linux and having some conservative hi-jack the conversation for their own purposes. We weren't discussing well regulated militias, former Presidents using 11 words to lie about oral sex (while ignoring current Presidents using 16 words to perpertrate a lie that, so far, has resulted in 235 of our children and friends and neighbors being killed in action), OJ Simpson, or having religion shoved down our throats.

Now I believe you should be able to own a gun, pray where you like, and I also think the ex-President acted in extremely bad taste in his sex life, and I think OJ got away with murder, but we came here to talk about Linux.

But, be honest, you knew that!

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Big Blue assuages customers about SCO (News.com)

Posted Jul 29, 2003 1:17 UTC (Tue) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

...while ignoring current Presidents using 16 words to perpertrate a lie that, so far, has resulted in 235 of our children and friends and neighbors being killed in action [snip]

Hey, watch where you point that sentence, buddy -- it's loaded! ;-)

...or having religion shoved down our throats.

Where did that come from?

I have noticed quite often that if a liberal proposes, for example, that there ought to be more homosexual public school teachers, this is labeled "fair", "equal opportunity", or "tolerant", but if a conservative proposes that there ought to be more prayer (or even some) in public schools, this is labeled "intolerant", "shoving religion down our throats", or even "facist" in some cases if said liberal has become sufficiently annoyed. You would think that a group of people who hold tolerance is such high regard would practice it more often.

Big Blue assuages customers about SCO (News.com)

Posted Jul 29, 2003 11:27 UTC (Tue) by forthy (guest, #1525) [Link]

> that there ought to be more homosexual public school teachers [...]
> but if a conservative proposes that there ought to be more prayer [...]

Compromise: Send some catholic priests into public schools, and you get both more
homosexual public school teachers and prayers at the same time (sorry, couldn't resist ;-)

Big Blue assuages customers about SCO (News.com)

Posted Jul 29, 2003 14:58 UTC (Tue) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

Yeah, that whole thing really suprised me. I always assumed that the priests-molesting-alter-boys thing was blown way out of proportion; maybe it happened once or thrice, and became urban legend after that, sort of like the lady who spilled coffee on herself in the McDonald's drive-through.

Moral of the story: most people are probably better off married, including priests and programmers. ;-)