On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Vivek Varghese Cherian<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:03 PM, justin joseph<[email protected]> > wrote: >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8221896.stm >> >> "Software giant Microsoft has apologised for editing a photo to change >> a black man's head to that of a white man." >> >> Is this OT here? > > Yes it is off topic and also seems like leftist propaganda. > > Not only that but it also seems like the person who is posting this > has some grudge against Microsoft or other corporates with an overtly > leftist leaning history ( I could be wrong here).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem A friend(newbie to mailinglists) of mine who is an archive reader of this list asked me recently.. "so... what are you doing today, top posting.. bottom posting.. or goal posting.." Where are those who advocate posting etiquettes(which I appreciate), why are they silent on personal comments now? > > I guess time writing such posts can be doing something useful like > probably helping your wife with cooking or washing plates or cleaning > up your house ( I do that all the time) or even better actually > writing some FOSS Software or Open Documentation and posting those > links here. Time to post was zero (as in zero marginal costs) as it was a BBC story which also mentions Microsoft apology. BBC seems to spend a lot of time these days for left propaganda. Good to see that you are helping with cooking and washing plates. The food is off course for one as well and the plates are that which one eats from as well. Mostly people don't seem to do this and thus this becomes something mentioning and appreciating(Gender issues, OT here I guess). > > Much better than Microsoft (or other proprietary corporate) bashing. > (Some thing I used to do formerly and learned from hard experience not > to, so just thought sharing it here would lead to enlightenment for a > few). This is not enlightenment, it is merely mimicking responses and trained responses. > > I think you should mark this as OT, SPAM and LP (Leftist Propoganda) > and even better not post it :-) Thank you for your specific feedback on post being OT, and no thanks for the general rant. Fosscomm responses needs to be evolved and type casting list behavior based on past baggage from other mailing lists and communities will be insensible at least on the part of "enlightened" members, if you don't understand that it would be better to wash all the plates and cook all the food at home and give your wife all the time at understanding this but to tell you that[here] will be none of my business the same applies to you as it is none of your business to attribute me to left, center or right more so when you say this "I could be wrong here" Either we agree on posting guidelines based on larger consensus or atleast allow individual members to probe the nature of OT'ness here. FOSSCOMM is tricky, even the idea is inherently contradictory, comments on previous threads. "Where are the advocates of freedom in the new digital society who have not been decried as pirates, anarchists, communists? Have we not seen that many of those hurling the epithets were merely thieves in power, whose talk of ``intellectual property'' was nothing more than an attempt to retain unjustifiable privileges in a society irrevocably changing?" http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.html _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
