Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference

Post by AznHisoka » Thu, May 10, 2012, 8:41 PM UTC

ajross wrote: post #66

elemeno wrote: post #22

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As much as I appreciate all that Stallman's done over the years (though I don't always agree with him), that just strikes me as a remarkably dickish comment to make. To my mind, 20 minutes is hardly an unreasonable delay when you're not an emergency. To make a snide remark about it when you're a guest in the country and getting the advantages of their free health services is just poor taste and bad manners.

It's also considered polite to cut people waiting for an ambulance to arrive to take them to the hospital a little slack.

Post by skrebbel » Thu, May 10, 2012, 8:43 PM UTC

raganwald wrote: post #67

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There, you're doing it. It is all right for someone to be skeptical about any commonly held view, except when it's about sex with minors. In any discussion about any kind of sex with anyone under 18 whatsoever, if you're not 100% fully completely convincedly against it, then you're a bad person!!1 Why can't we just discuss this? Like we can discuss anything else? Especially in the US, where the norm appears to be tha…

Well actually, I haven’t expressed an opinion about whether his words are acceptable or whether he’s a bad person, whatever that means. I have heard more than a few people taking me to task for wishing him good health on account of his words, and one of the reasons I posted this was to hear from people like you.

Post by raganwald » Thu, May 10, 2012, 8:47 PM UTC

skrebbel wrote: post #69

raganwald wrote: post #67

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Well actually, I haven’t expressed an opinion about whether his words are acceptable or whether he’s a bad person, whatever that means. I have heard more than a few people taking me to task for wishing him good health on account of his words, and one of the reasons I posted this was to hear from people like you.

Genuinely curious, because I don't think I understood this: what do you mean with "people like me"?

Post by Lockyy » Thu, May 10, 2012, 8:52 PM UTC

padolsey wrote: post #46

jsprinkles wrote: post #39

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Bold comment. Privately, I was disappointed that he was fine after reading the news; I suspect that you're not alone in your views based on that and I had a similar moral debate internally. I'm proud of you for lending your username on HN to remind everybody how truly awful of a person he can be, but I fear that even your clout cannot save this comment from people that love him.

Silencing dialogue, no matter how repulsive it may seem to you, is never the answer, especially in a "free" and "open" society.

Post by carols10cents » Thu, May 10, 2012, 8:52 PM UTC

Nrsolis wrote: post #48

andos wrote: post #18

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My Spanish is rusty, but the article says that: - Stallman felt ill halfway through a lecture he was offering in Barcelona, probably due to a blood pressure spike; - he asked the staff for medical assistance; - meanwhile, he continued the lecture with some difficulty, but in a good mood; - the lecture was suspended when the ambulance arrived, and was eventually cancelled; - after being attended by the medical staff,…

Of course, the big question is whether the firmware in the EKG machine was open or not.