Re: Insulting racial terms (was Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Version control)

2009-03-21 Thread Kevin Saenz
We are Not Political Correctness R Us. thus can we all Drop this Political Correctness Nightmare and start discussing Linux related topics? On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 01:07:08PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: Alan L Tyree writes: On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:29:32 +1100 Sonia Hamilton wrote: PS

Re: Insulting racial terms (was Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Version control)

2009-03-21 Thread James Dumay
Because no one else will say it _I_ will. Please refrain from having these sorts of email discussions on the SLUG mailing lists. Lots of people just end up being offended and it does nothing to make SLUG appealing for those subscribed to the list. Thanks James 2009/3/22 Aníbal Monsalve Salazar

Re: Insulting racial terms (was Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Version control)

2009-03-21 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 01:07:08PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: >Alan L Tyree writes: >>On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:29:32 +1100 >>Sonia Hamilton wrote: >>>PS You might want to lookup what "tonto" means [1] before you go >>>around calling people it. It was a term of disrespect for Amerindians >>>on the

[SLUG] Re: Insulting racial terms

2009-03-21 Thread Daniel Pittman
Kevin Saenz writes: Administratively, it would be nice if you could configure your emailer to use a standards compliant quoting mechanism rather than randomly indenting text. It would be nice if you retained citation information, also, so that people could see who said what in the discussion. >

Re: Insulting racial terms (was Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Version control)

2009-03-21 Thread Kevin Saenz
[...] PS You might want to lookup what "tonto" means [1] before you go around calling people it. It was a term of disrespect for Amerindians on the US/Mexican border in the 1800's. At least be grammatically correct, and call me "tonta" :-p [1] http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/tonto F

Re: [SLUG] ugly colour on Gnome video software.

2009-03-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
2009/3/20 david : > > > I just fired up skype for a video call and the colour on the video display > is horrible. I've noticed the same problem displaying video captured using > dvgrab and displayed in VLC, xine and others > > Basically, colours seem to be reversed so that blue becomes red etc. > >

Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Version control

2009-03-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
2009/3/21 Alan L Tyree : > For anyone born in the US during the last century, as I was, Tonto is > the Lone Ranger's faithful Indian companion. When we were kids, it was > worth fighting to be Tonto rather than the paleface. It's probably no > longer politically correct, but for different reasons t

Insulting racial terms (was Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Version control)

2009-03-21 Thread Daniel Pittman
Alan L Tyree writes: > On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:29:32 +1100 > Sonia Hamilton wrote: [...] >> PS You might want to lookup what "tonto" means [1] before you go >> around calling people it. It was a term of disrespect for Amerindians >> on the US/Mexican border in the 1800's. At least be grammatical