Rms has his bag stolen in Argentina

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Post by Rauchg » Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 5:32 PM UTC

Rms has his bag stolen in Argentina
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#2

Post by Turing_Machine » Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 5:51 PM UTC

Had his bag stolen -- glad that he's okay! Normally, though, we wouldn't call this "robbery" in English. Strictly speaking, robbery is used for a theft where force (or threat of force) is involved.

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Post by MehdiEG » Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 5:52 PM UTC

That sucks. I would have hoped that the university / event organisers would have provided any help possible to at least get his paperwork back in order though. The article makes it sound like he was pretty much left on his own devices after the theft.

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 5:53 PM UTC

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Post by rastingerzoh » Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 5:55 PM UTC

if he trusted in the cloud he wouldn't be crying in the stairs... ahahah

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Post by rdavl » Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 5:55 PM UTC

Hope he had backups...

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Post by mrleinad » Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 5:55 PM UTC

MehdiEG wrote: post #3

That sucks. I would have hoped that the university / event organisers would have provided any help possible to at least get his paperwork back in order though. The article makes it sound like he was pretty much left on his own devices after the theft.

Yep, he was. Although I find it difficult to think that RMS would find himself helpless and with no one around that would care for him, I do believe that the University/Event organizers couldn't care less for what happened.

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Post by creativityhurts » Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 5:58 PM UTC

Turing_Machine wrote: post #2

Had his bag stolen -- glad that he's okay! Normally, though, we wouldn't call this "robbery" in English. Strictly speaking, robbery is used for a theft where force (or threat of force) is involved.

He was robbed by someone attending his talk, not mugged on the street at gun point so I don't think that "glad he's okay" is appropriate here, especially since "okay" in this case means that he's in a foreign country without passport, money and medicine.

Such a shame.

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Post by makmanalp » Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 5:58 PM UTC

Damn, this is not nice. Maybe HN can pitch in to get him a new laptop? I'd donate a few bucks.

Edit: What the heck? What's wrong with what I suggested?

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Post by mrleinad » Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 5:59 PM UTC

Considering RMS a careful person, he probably had backups for all the important information. However, for a person like him, that laptop is probably much more important: he needs to get a specific laptop that respects his freedom, as that one did, so he's probably going to be a bit behind on his e-mails until he gets a proper replacement.