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Posted Nov 9, 2018 9:37 UTC (Fri) by roblucid (guest, #48964)
In reply to: Global Gag Rule by tialaramex
Parent article: A "joke" in the glibc manual

Surely GNU should allow the user to choose not to have abort(3) call, to have the documentation for it hidden and be allowed to break their systems in unspeakable ways, by setting an ENV variable analogous to POSIXLY_CORRECT.

This could provide convenience features like ensuring CAPS Lock is on, spell check disabled and any facts to be displayed with a fake news warning too...

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Posted Nov 9, 2018 15:04 UTC (Fri) by XTerminator (subscriber, #59581) [Link] (4 responses)

lwn should have a thumbs-up button for comments just like this one.

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Posted Nov 11, 2018 17:22 UTC (Sun) by roblucid (guest, #48964) [Link] (3 responses)

Thanks :)
Couldn't resist it

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Posted Nov 12, 2018 5:41 UTC (Mon) by mtaht (subscriber, #11087) [Link] (2 responses)

Yes, that was funny.

I am perpetually pointing people at george carlin's riffs on language when these threads go on.

I *NEED* a good joke after writing OR reading documentation. *anything* to break the monotony. I reach for george carlin, or henry rollins, or bill hicks.

I'm kind of sad I can't tell blond or pollack jokes anymore without people taking offense. about the only stereotypical jokes I feel I can make anymore are drummer jokes...

... because they're all true. :)

What do you call a drummer without a girlfriend?

Homeless.

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Posted Nov 12, 2018 18:04 UTC (Mon) by johannbg (guest, #65743) [Link] (1 responses)

Given that I have a permanent place in hell and prairs for my soul according to Jehova witness who made the unfortunate mistake knocking on a vikings front door thus I have already been deemed to hell for those people that might take offense by this joke so I must be able to repeat it for eternity ;)

Q: Do you know the difference between Jesus and a picture of Jesus?

A: It only takes one nail to hang up the picture... ;)

Drum solo plz

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Posted Nov 12, 2018 18:35 UTC (Mon) by XTerminator (subscriber, #59581) [Link]

I'm glad we are still allowed to say things without being arrested or it being censored. (that's not a jab at lwn, but a general remark on the insanity that is contemporary pc )