Message-Id: <200501081912.j08JC2I8018962@delorie.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" To: , Subject: RE: Obscene content in cygwin file. Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:09:49 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20050108101219.GV23702@cygbert.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes > On Jan 8 01:37, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > Why would you suggest that expressing a thought, however > you might > > > disagree with it, should be illegal? > > > > For the silly reason that I happen to know that a lot of things > > related to Nazis or Hitler in Deutschland ung?ltig ist. > Ferinstance, > > check out the German aircraft in MS's Combat Flight Simulator - no > > swastikas, 'cause if there were, they couldn't fly in > German airspace. > > Come on Gary, that's a common example, nothing to worry > about. Showing these symbols has been forbidden in Germany > at one point 50 years ago. > Of course that doesn't keep the die-hards from celebrating > the history but it was an interesting experiment. > > I don't see what that has to do with fortune except that you > are apparently trying to create more examples until you find > something which might offend somebody on the list. Then this > person has to come over it and move forward. Ah, no, what it has do do with fortune is: - Fortune produced a Hitler quote. - I know that Germany is a bit touchy about that whole Hitler/Nazis/WWII thing. - Hence, I asked if such a quote was legal in Germany. Ok, so Hitler quotes aren't illegal in Germany. Great, now we all know a teeny bit more than we did before I asked the question. The infomericals refer to that as "win-win". Case closed, and no need to imagine malicious intent where none exists, as far as I can see. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/