YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Leon Brocard
This email got sent to the YAPC::Europe committee mailing list. I thought I'd share it all with you. It's slightly worrying that USians are taking it personally. FWIW my reply was "YAPC is a non-political organisation and run by volunteers". Subject: [yapc-comm] Meeting Location To: <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Leon Brocard wrote: > Someone unamed wrote: > > It's a shame that YAPC will exclude many potential attendees... It's a troll. YAPC doesn't exclude people. If they did I think you'd rapidly find that the perl community en-mass would boycotte them. Ironically, I'm a little c

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Jason Clifford
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Mark Fowler wrote: > Ironically, I'm a little concerned about going to the states due to their > really scary laws (DMCA, laws reguarding importing and exporting > cryto[1].) But, as it's mainly politics, I'll probably go anyway. > > ([1] I'll be carrying my laptop, which ha

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:21, Leon Brocard wrote: > This email got sent to the YAPC::Europe committee mailing list. I > thought I'd share it all with you. It's slightly worrying that USians > are taking it personally. > > FWIW my reply was "YAPC is a non-political organisation and run by > voluntee

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:41:45AM +, Simon Wilcox wrote: > Not to worry, we'll all have been melted down in a nuclear conflagration > by the summer anyway. I doubt it will have been melted down, more likely instantly vapourised, I suspect. And it will probably be friendly-fire that bombs lond

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Tim Sweetman
Lusercop wrote: > I doubt it will have been melted down, more likely instantly vapourised, > I suspect. And it will probably be friendly-fire that bombs london by the > USAF, because they got their maps upside-down, too. > > Dooom. It's the war elephants with the amphibious assualt capabiliti

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Simon Wilcox wrote: > Not to worry, we'll all have been melted down in a nuclear conflagration > by the summer anyway. This is no excuse not to at least to attempt to organise the trip to YAPC::Europe young man ;-) How's that going btw? Mark. -- #!/usr/bin/perl -T use str

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Robin Berjon
Lusercop wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:41:45AM +, Simon Wilcox wrote: Not to worry, we'll all have been melted down in a nuclear conflagration by the summer anyway. I doubt it will have been melted down, more likely instantly vapourised, I suspect. And it will probably be friendly-fire

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:45, Mark Fowler wrote: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Simon Wilcox wrote: > > > Not to worry, we'll all have been melted down in a nuclear conflagration > > by the summer anyway. > > This is no excuse not to at least to attempt to organise the trip to > YAPC::Europe young man ;-)

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:06, Tim Sweetman wrote: > Lusercop wrote: > > I doubt it will have been melted down, more likely instantly vapourised, > > I suspect. And it will probably be friendly-fire that bombs london by the > > USAF, because they got their maps upside-down, too. > PS. This is not th

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Tim Sweetman
Simon Wilcox wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:06, Tim Sweetman wrote: > > Lusercop wrote: > > > I doubt it will have been melted down, more likely instantly vapourised, > > > I suspect. And it will probably be friendly-fire that bombs london by the > > > USAF, because they got their maps upsid

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Robin Berjon
Leon Brocard wrote: This email got sent to the YAPC::Europe committee mailing list. I thought I'd share it all with you. Have you sent it to the YAPC::Paris people (supposing that yapc-comm is the mothership and they're not on it)? They may wish to discuss putting up a statement to avoid furth

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Jason Clifford
On 13 Feb 2003, Simon Wilcox wrote: > > > I doubt it will have been melted down, more likely instantly vapourised, > > > I suspect. And it will probably be friendly-fire that bombs london by the > > > USAF, because they got their maps upside-down, too. > > > PS. This is not the Cold War. Please a

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Tim Sweetman
Jason Clifford wrote: > > [On 13 Feb 2003, Simon Wilcox peered dimly into the future of asymmetric warfare]: > > OK then, as we rot from the inside in the dust from the dirty bombs let > > off around London. Better ? > > Well that's easy to avoid. Simply sell more bleach to all muslims ;) *cough

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread alex
/me delurks. frankly i'm suffering from terror fatigue now, it's always like this, there's always someone out to kill you, c'est la vie. al why can't we all just get along. > Jason Clifford wrote: > > > > [On 13 Feb 2003, Simon Wilcox peered dimly into the future of asymmetric warfare]: > > >

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:58:28AM +, Lusercop wrote: > I doubt it will have been melted down, more likely instantly vapourised, > I suspect. And it will probably be friendly-fire that bombs london by the > USAF, because they got their maps upside-down, too. I dreamt last night of WW2-stylee l

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Dean
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:53:28PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > I dreamt last night of WW2-stylee landing craft sailing up Regent St. I hope they paid the congestion charge. Dean -- Dean Wilson http://www.unixdaemon.net Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Ben
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:03:38PM +, Simon Wilcox wrote: > > OK then, as we rot from the inside in the dust from the dirty bombs let > off around London. Better ? Where does one buy an Isle-of-Wight-sized lump of DU, anyway? Ben

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Mike Jarvis
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:21:16AM +, Leon Brocard wrote: > This email got sent to the YAPC::Europe committee mailing list. I > thought I'd share it all with you. It's slightly worrying that USians > are taking it personally. > > FWIW my reply was "YAPC is a non-political organisation and run

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:39:16AM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:21:16AM +, Leon Brocard wrote: > > This email got sent to the YAPC::Europe committee mailing list. I > > thought I'd share it all with you. It's slightly worrying that USians > > are taking it personally.

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:08:18AM +, Mark Fowler wrote: > Ironically, I'm a little concerned about going to the states due to their > really scary laws (DMCA, laws reguarding importing and exporting > cryto[1].) Just imagine how those of us who live in the US feel these days. BTW, has news a

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:52:49AM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote: > Just imagine how those of us who live in the US feel these days. BTW, > has news about Patriot Act -- The Sequel[1] made it across the pond > yet? No, not the details. We've got ID cards, sorry, "voluntary" "entitlement" cards, to

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:12:11PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > 1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59690-2003Feb11.html > > ECLUELESSSITESETUP > > (I can't get past the "free registration") > It's failing to tell me why it doesn't like me. > possible reasons include cookies, ja

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Shevek
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:52:49AM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote: > > > Just imagine how those of us who live in the US feel these days. BTW, > > has news about Patriot Act -- The Sequel[1] made it across the pond > > yet? > > No, not the details. We'v

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:25:29PM +, Shevek wrote: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > ECLUELESSSITESETUP > > > > (I can't get past the "free registration") > > It's failing to tell me why it doesn't like me. > > possible reasons include cookies, javascript, java, flash, IP addr

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Leon Brocard
Shevek sent the following bits through the ether: > You have to be less than a hundred years old. Living in Afghanistan is > fine. Apparently they are quite happy with their readers being one year old too. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-13 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:38:31PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: > Shevek sent the following bits through the ether: > > > You have to be less than a hundred years old. Living in Afghanistan is > > fine. > > Apparently they are quite happy with their readers being one year old > too. But it didn't

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-14 Thread David H. Adler
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:30:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > frankly i'm suffering from terror fatigue now, You can imagine how I feel... :-| dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ ...whoever wrote it clearly didn't feel it was necessary to test it. F

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-14 Thread David H. Adler
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:21:16AM +, Leon Brocard wrote: > This email got sent to the YAPC::Europe committee mailing list. I > thought I'd share it all with you. It's slightly worrying that USians > are taking it personally. I *really* hope he's not representative. dha -- David H. Adler - <

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-14 Thread Mark Rogaski
--17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable An entity claiming to be David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:21:16AM +, Leon Brocard wrote: : > This email got sent to the Y

Re: YAPC::Europe & War

2003-02-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:40:47AM -0500, Mark Rogaski wrote: > An entity claiming to be David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > : On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:21:16AM +, Leon Brocard wrote: > : > This email got sent to the YAPC::Europe committee mailing list. I > : > thought I'd share it all