Re: Some Comments on Sexism in #debian

2004-03-22 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-21 01:46:14 + Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 03:30:32PM +, MJ Ray wrote: Ignoring the sexism, it's still rather insensitive to some. Would improving ease-of-use make debian usable by the dead? That is a very silly comment indeed. So are

Re: Some Comments on Sexism in #debian

2004-03-22 Thread Evan Prodromou
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "JW" == Jonathan Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JW> You are right. It is horrible discrimination that my pet dog JW> is not allowed to vote in the US presidential elections. Down JW> with discrimination! Let me get this strai

The hole made by swine in rooting (was: Screw) non-free.

2004-03-22 Thread Martin Albert
> > PS. Dict'ing the subject line confuses me even more. While i > > certainly have fun with the software, i hope that the originator of > > this subject did not mean to 'defeat expectation through trickery' > > or 'oppress'? > no > "Screw" is a synonym for "fuck", and as it is not a 4-letter wor

Fasten or tighten (was: Screw) non-free.

2004-03-22 Thread Martin Albert
On Saturday 20 March 2004 11:36, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:47:52AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 10:47:25AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > "not changing things" is effectively a removal of non-free: > > > > > > Some bug-free contrib and non-free packa

Re: Fasten or tighten (was: Screw) non-free.

2004-03-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-22 15:51]: > There is this list of QA maintained packages, however. I don't use > any of them and currently can't put more into my 'queue of > promises'. Half of this stuff doesn't exist in unstable anymore. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fasten or tighten (was: Screw) non-free.

2004-03-22 Thread Martin Albert
On Monday 22 March 2004 16:24, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Martin Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-22 15:51]: > > There is this list of QA maintained packages, however. I don't use > > Half of this stuff doesn't exist in unstable anymore. Oops, sorry, i always forget about the stable Debian mac

Bibliothek

2004-03-22 Thread Ralf Postler
Hallo, mal eine Frage: Ich würde gerne eine von einem Offiziellen Händler gekaufte aktuelle Version von Debian an meine Stadtbibliothek (Erlangen) verschenken. Ist das ohne Einschränkung ok, bzw. gibts was zu beachten? Die würden sich auf jedenfall sehr freuen und würden Debian auch in den Verleih

Re: Bibliothek

2004-03-22 Thread Robert Ribnitz
Ralf Postler wrote: Hallo, mal eine Frage: Ich würde gerne eine von einem Offiziellen Händler gekaufte aktuelle Version von Debian an meine Stadtbibliothek (Erlangen) verschenken. Ist das ohne Einschränkung ok, bzw. gibts was zu beachten? Die würden sich auf jedenfall sehr freuen und würden Debi

Re: Bibliothek

2004-03-22 Thread Martin Schulze
First of all, this is an international mailing-list, and therefore its usual language is English. Ralf Postler wrote: > mal eine Frage: Ich würde gerne eine von einem Offiziellen Händler gekaufte > aktuelle Version von Debian an meine Stadtbibliothek (Erlangen) verschenken. > Ist das ohne Einschr

Re: Some Comments on Sexism in #debian

2004-03-22 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Amaya dijo [Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:44:31PM +0100]: > On a side note, other real life examples. > - At Debconf @ Toronto, BDale used grannies as examples of the worst > kind of clueless users Debian should aim at. Susan happens to be a DD > and a grannie, so he stood corrected, but refused my p

Re: Some Comments on Sexism in #debian

2004-03-22 Thread Evan Prodromou
> "GW" == Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GW> However, I do feel that trying to be politically correct in GW> order never to offend anyone is plain stupid. How about this: 1) We act courteous, mature, and professional towards each other. 2) When representing Debian, we thin

Re: Bibliothek

2004-03-22 Thread Peter Palfrader
Ralf Postler schrieb am Montag, dem 22. März 2004: > mal eine Frage: Ich würde gerne eine von einem Offiziellen Händler gekaufte > aktuelle Version von Debian an meine Stadtbibliothek (Erlangen) verschenken. > Ist das ohne Einschränkung ok, bzw. gibts was zu beachten? Make sure that it only cont

Re: Some Comments on Sexism in #debian

2004-03-22 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 01:37:20PM -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote: > > "GW" == Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > GW> However, I do feel that trying to be politically correct in > GW> order never to offend anyone is plain stupid. > > How about this: > > 1) We act courteous, ma

Re: Some Comments on Sexism in #debian

2004-03-22 Thread Evan Prodromou
> "AS" == Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AS> Sure, and that's best accomplished by everybody not being a AS> wuss. It doesn't make you a wuss to be respectful to others. Quite the contrary: the strong know their own strength and don't need to flex their muscles all the ti

Re: Some Comments on Sexism in #debian

2004-03-22 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 05:31:52PM -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote: "AS" == Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AS> Sure, and that's best accomplished by everybody not being a AS> wuss. It doesn't make you a wuss to be respectful to others. Quite the contrary: the strong know their o

Re: Some Comments on Sexism in #debian

2004-03-22 Thread Evan Prodromou
> "JW" == Jonathan Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JW> I don't appreciate the way you are always "flexing your JW> muscles" and accusing your fellow DDs of being sexist. I didn't accuse you of being sexist, Jonathan. I would, if I knew that you thought that dogs and women were equ