Rms has his bag stolen in Argentina • Hacker News Board

Re: Rms has his bag stolen in Argentina

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Post by ibisum » Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 9:52 AM UTC

billpatrianakos wrote: post #71

Reading about Stallman's reaction to this makes me wonder about his mental stability. "Punching himself in the head"? And cursing? Now, cursing I can understand but the picture painted in the story makes it look like Stallman was throwing a tantrum, screaming obscenities, punching himself in the head and then crying. We all knew he was an eccentric fellow but when you're punching yourself in the head, in public no le…

Perhaps there was something on his laptop that he doesn't want the world to see.

Re: Rms has his bag stolen in Argentina

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Post by RockyMcNuts » Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 3:53 PM UTC

billpatrianakos wrote: post #71

Reading about Stallman's reaction to this makes me wonder about his mental stability. "Punching himself in the head"? And cursing? Now, cursing I can understand but the picture painted in the story makes it look like Stallman was throwing a tantrum, screaming obscenities, punching himself in the head and then crying. We all knew he was an eccentric fellow but when you're punching yourself in the head, in public no le…

Who'd a thunk he'd be a control freak with little tolerance for the imperfections of human society?

(The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - G. B. Shaw)

Re: Rms has his bag stolen in Argentina

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Post by dbbolton » Mon, Jun 11, 2012, 4:52 AM UTC

nakkiel wrote: post #28

dbbolton wrote: post #24

I understand that Stallman is an important figure in the software community, but this really doesn't qualify as news in my opinion. To be fair, the server went down so I can't access the article, but unless he had something really important in that bag, like the only copy of a new C compiler written from scratch, this article is just a minor inconvenience in the life of a celebrity.

He had his passport. I believe he is currently traveling through South America to give FOSS talks in many universities. I believe part of the issue is that because of this very details, it puts an end to his trip which has been rough and marked by health issues. What I don't understand is why the post's author dares mentioning how RMS reacted. A bit of decency is always a nice thing to have, not to mention due respec…

I am sympathetic to the fact that it was quite inconvenient for him, but it seems to me that this is only news because it happened to a celebrity.

It seems that his laptop was also stolen, which led to the cancelling of some lectures. That to me would have been a better article headline (i.e. "rms lectures cancelled due to computer theft).

Re: Rms has his bag stolen in Argentina

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Post by molmalo » Mon, Jun 11, 2012, 10:18 PM UTC

myth_drannon wrote: post #40

Well he is not the first celebrity to get robbed in B.A. Bush daughter was visiting the city, the whole neighbourhood was crawling with CIA agents and her purse was still stolen...

The thing is that the UBA (University of Buenos Aires) is public, so anyone can enter their buildings. That, and the fact of having a distracted crowd, makes it a tempting target to a pickpocket. It doesn't have to be a student. It could be anyone passing, entering, grabbing something, and leaving the place before anyone notices something strange.