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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:03:47 -0600
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Ah jeez deFaria:

> Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:54:16 -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> >
> >> My write-in candidate:
> >> [x] Not offended. Clean it up anyway. It's unprofessional in the 
> >> extreme and can only result in embarassment and trouble.
> >
> > As a Christian, I agree with Gary. :)
> >
> > I actually think it's an upstream bug. The limerick file meets the 
> > "offensive" category and so, according to the notes file, should be 
> > limerick-o and be rot-13 encrypted (then we can throw the DMCA at 
> > offended people, too).  Looks like fortune is due for an 
> update to the 
> > /usr/share/doc/ FHS standard anyway.
> >
> > There is plenty of 1st Amendment content on the Internet, but let 
> > people get it elsewhere.
> 
> As an atheist I always wonder why christians can "turn the 
> other cheek" 
> but cannot seem to muster how to turn their eyes away!

As a thinking man, I always wonder why atheists:

1.  Hate Christianity, yet harbor no such hatred towards all the other
religions.
2.  Would squeal bloody murder if fortune spit out Bible verses, yet are
*proponents* of having it spit out outrageously profane limericks which are
offensive to Christians, Jews, Muslims, Atheists, Men, Women, Children,
Mothers, Fathers, Bosses, Frenchmen, and all breeds of dog in between.

> If you 
> don't like it then what stops you from simply not looking at 
> it! Is something forcing you to use fortune or Cygwin or open 
> and look at the contents of that file?!?
> 

Is something telling me that fortune is loaded with material completely
inappropriate for work environments, material which could conceivably even
directly result in "harassment" claims?  Answer there is "no" my friend.

> [x] Because of the hub bub raised by the religious folk I had 
> to download and check it out whereas if they just ignored it 
> so would have I, proofing, once again, that by doing this 
> they just draw more attention to it and cause more harm than good.
> 

Ok, so you have actually been harmed by this.  While I haven't, I can
certainly agree with you that this profanity needs excision post haste.

> --
> E Pluribus Modem

Ok, that doesn't even make sense.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle


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