On Sun, 25 May 2003 02:24, Ed Cogburn wrote: > >>Well, didn't work that way last time... > > > > They got their second choice. > > I never chose Little Napolean and he wasn't on my alternate list either.
Something between 49% and 50% of US voters wanted the Shrub as president. > Please stop assuming everyone in a given country actually agrees with > what their government has done or is doing. This is the most I don't assume that everyone agrees, just the 49.X% that voted for him. > distressing aspect of this thread: Debian is (supposed to be) a group > of intelligent, like-minded individuals whose individual nationality or > origin is largely irrelevent. There should be only 2 requirements for a > conference: someone is willing to sponsor it, and enough people are > willing to come to make it worthwhile. Which is what I have said, repeatedly. > This idea that conference > locations need to be vetted based on the politics of the host country is > dangerous and stupid. What Debian is about has nothing to do with > individual nations or their politics. We should be better than this. Be glad that I never suggested that the conference be held outside the US for this reason. Someone asked why people would want to decline an opportunity to visit the US. I answered the question. A bunch of USians started jumping up and down and the thread has continued ever since. The most amusing thing was that no USian even bothered to ask me whether I am implementing such a boycot myself, they just made their assumptions and jumped into the flame-war. My purchases of US products have not changed of recent times, they only things from the US that I want are made by Intel, AMD, IBM, and Ford. Three of those companies have no viable non-US competition. For avoiding entering the US there are better reasons such as the following: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1689.htm -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
