Message-ID: <006c01be59ef$44ff7240$36f9c6c3@johans-dator> From: "Johan Henriksson" To: "DJGPP mailinglist" Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 21:59:39 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com from Johan Henriksson, Sweden HTTP://come.to/jhewok | Primary mail: johan DOT he AT telia DOT com #UIN 12035895 Second: jhe75 AT hotmail DOT com Third: johan_he AT yahoo DOT com Leadprogrammer and FX-specialist at Real software http://come.to/real_software ************************************************************************* -----Original Message----- From: Ya'qub Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 6:12 PM Subject: Re: Let's keep it clean... >Greetings, > Perhaps you should make a difference between communists and chinese >people. Perhaps you should expand your horizons a little bit and learn that >chinese people don't just live in communist China. I'm sure that the chinese >people in the good old USA also celebrate their new year. People living in >countries like Singapore, Malaysia and several other south-east asian >countries probably also celebrate the chinese new year. In fact, the people >of chinese origin in my tiny home country, Mauritius, also celebrate the >chinese new year. So, get your facts right before applying labels to people. >That just reminds me labelling people is also a characteristic of fascists. >I think DJ posted a message a few days ago requesting a certain level of >politeness and moderation of language on this forum. Maybe, you should bear >that in mind, unless of course, in your quest for free speech you deem >yourself to be above such newgroups etiquette. By the way, maybe you should >also reconsider calling yourself a 'humanist' unless the word has changed >meaning. >Regards >Ya'qub > >Paul Derbyshire wrote in message ><3 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 32 DOT 19990216065945 DOT 008c5730 AT pop DOT netaddress DOT com>... >>At 02:36 AM 2/16/99 +0100, you wrote: >>>Yesterday was the Chineese NewYear. >> >> .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are >not >>-() < circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a >> `*' straight >e." ------------------------------------------------- >> -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net >>_____________________ ____|________ Paul Derbyshire >pderbysh AT usa DOT net >>Programmer & Humanist|ICQ: 10423848| > > > I'm on DJs side (where most most of us are). I'd say it doesn't matter what we talk about as long as it's DJGPP-related. _This_ is not. Or maybe we communists should start holding a weekly meeting here... :)