Well, I've already apologized. You are right, I was oblivious to extra-cultural thinking, to which I plead ignorance. Now that I know better, I shall do better.
Please remember, I'm a volunteer. I stepped up when no one else would. Am I the best man for the job? Probably not, *but who is??* I will make mistakes. Hopefully, I will learn from my mistakes. Hopefully, I will do a good job for you. As per Jimmie's advice, I have prepared a note that explains where I'm coming from, so that no one in the future should ever misconstrue my writings: http://horridohobbies.tumblr.com/ I still don't think there's anything wrong with me being a WWII buff, so I shall never apologize for that. However, I shall endeavour to be sensitive to people in other parts of the world. Where I stumble, I will expect you to correct me. After all, I *am* human. If you prick me, do I not bleed? Alain Rastoul-2 wrote > I agree fully with all of what Ben said, > but I would like to say a last word before stopping me too, because > that bother me and very probably other people. > > I thought about that thread in the train this morning, I was reading > charlie hebdo "message de Cabu: allez les gars ne vous laissez pas > abattre" bad translation: "come on guys dont let yourself be down (shot > down in french)" Cabu was one of the charlie hebo magazine guys shot > last week and very well known and loved in france. > the epitaph was : "rions aux larmes" (let's laught to tears") > That was really hard. > Here I couldn't laugh at all even if I like to joke about everything > (me, my bike, my code, things I like, the awkward and stupid the more I > like - people do not always appreciate, they think I'm stupid and I am, > so it's ok) > > I hate people who think they have rights over others. > In the past I talked to several much older people (all dead now) whose > lives where completely broken by war. > > That you are WWII buff is fine for you if you like that, for me I don't, > even if my son liked to play war with soldiers figurines when he was 8 > and I liked to played with him. He grew up, I did too (....... not > completely sure for that one :) ), > > these are things I hate and I will allways be against. > I will *never* rally up with a "blitzkrieg smalltalk" or "horiirod" or > "generalisimo" whatever ... > Even if I love smalltalk. > As a PR campain Richard, this is upmost too bad taste for me. > > On the other hand, I think a carefully driven PR campaign could be good > a thing, and it's great to see involved people, you worked hard on that. > We could also talk of lot interesting things related to software > evolution. > For example that : > - dinausors died because they where not agile enough to handle > meteorits, should they have learned scrum in order to diversify ? :) > - the graal quest seems to have failed in life, and in software too ? > - smalltalk is mostly about implementing and refactoring living systems ? > there are very actual great examples of that in software . > > > -- > Regards, > > Alain -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Blitzkrieg-tp4800165p4800735.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
