On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Ashley Pond V wrote:
I didn't want to feed this so responded personally to a couple off list.
Y'all couldn't resist sharing your politics and goofs though so? I apologize
to the disinterested if this just feeds it.
I find it difficult to believe, being a middling hacker compared to some of
you guys, that I'm the only one on this list who has ever written code that
ended up used by a military group; or the only one who regretted it.
I've not only written code used by the military, but I also served in the
military. Despite the idiots who like to portray us a baby killers I'm
proud of it. And you're so surprised that I find you an offensive jackass
(that's right -- I looked at your site).
I expressed interest in such a license getting hammered out by some experts
because I don't like being a party to mass murder. Between 200,000 and
750,000 (depending on whose figures you prefer) Iraqis have died at the hands
of the US government since 1990. They can take my tax money to do it at the
threat of prison but I would like to think it *might* be possible to stop
them from taking my otherwise freely given work (the lack of Earth-moving
nature of which is entirely irrelevant to any such debate) to do it. If such
a license would be immaterial then so are all other petitions.
You're an idiot who thinks we're the blame for everything that's wrong in
the world. That's your right, of course, and its my right to call you for
the bogus numbers. Only a drooling, spoon-fed moron who's incapable of
research could come up with those kinds of errors. Where's the proof of those
numbers? At least sites like iraqbodycount.org actually give you access to
the database of incidents and reported body counts, and they're only up to
62k. With the exception of Desert Storm this has been the safest war for
both sides we've ever conducted.
This is the wrong kind of forum for this kind of stupidity. Just code, damn
it, and quite whining.
--Arthur Corliss
Bolverk's Lair -- http://arthur.corlissfamily.org/
Digital Mages -- http://www.digitalmages.com/
"Live Free or Die, the Only Way to Live" -- NH State Motto
