Re: why privacy is mandatory

2008-02-01 Thread Patrick Frank
Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 04:46:56PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Thu January 31 2008 9:35:08 am Richard Hecker wrote: [#debian-women on irc.oftc.net] is to be an entry point for women to get involved in Debian development, Before somebody even dares to battle male

Re: why privacy is mandatory

2008-02-01 Thread MJ Ray
Patrick Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] So it was just politics that were not made visible? And they have to be enforced in a violent way? IMO the politics are clearly visible from the URLs in the topic when HennaX joined #debian-women in http://pastebin.ca/885288 Enforcement is up to the

Re: why privacy is mandatory

2008-02-01 Thread MJ Ray
Patrick Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray wrote: It appears that the politics of prejudice is something in common! Men do this, women do that? Get over it. This is not prejudice at all. The word prejudice refers to prejudgment: i.e. making a decision before becoming aware of the

Re: why privacy is mandatory

2008-02-01 Thread Clint Adams
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 01:35:01PM +0100, Patrick Ballpark Frank wrote: But lets have a look at http://pastebin.ca/885288 again and see how HennaX started the chat when he joined that channel. He asked if he has to reveal private data. A person answered him that he does not Speaking of private

Re: why privacy is mandatory

2008-02-01 Thread Patrick Frank
Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of private data, you have published an IRC log without first securing permission from all the participants. Personally, I detest people who do this even on channels where there is no explicit policy forbidding such behavior, so to point out that

Re: why privacy is mandatory

2008-02-01 Thread Patrick Frank
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's based on something not statistically significant, is it unreliable? Whether my observations are reliable enough for you to value the point that I try to explain by samples that are valid to me, well, that is not in my hands. [paddy is behind everything