Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try wearing that shirt around Miami…
What would happen?
Miami is filled with Latin-American families with a poor view of latin-American revolutionaries.
Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
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Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
#232A divisive character and not the easiest to deal with and rather cranky and very set in his ways (his web browsing via an email - eish) but without his early efforts there would have not been the FSF and GNU and later Linux. Right person at the right time - live long and prosper RMS.
Once you start reading some more accurate history of famous people in the past you will find out that pretty much everybody did things that today would get you canceled. Nobody is perfect. World is moved forward by imperfect people that are able to do something productive for the society.
> pretty much everybody did things that today would get you canceled
Do you have some examples of someone being “cancelled” in this way?
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
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There was a note on stallman.org in which he said he was made aware of the mental implications that pedophilia, even with supposed consent, would have on the development of the person, and apologized for his previous stance. Can't find it now, though.
Having a look at the Richard Stallman entry in Wikipedia[0] it menions this quote you're referring to, which links to this Engadget article[1] that links to rms's blog with that specific entry[2]
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
[1] - https://www.engadget.com/2019-09-17-rms-fsf-mit-epstein.html
[2] - https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
#234This is so unfortunate. Cancer used to be something I would just hear other people getting until my Dad got it. The I understood that it was very real and that I can also be a victim. Do you guys know of any ways to reduce your risks of getting cancer? I know not smoking tobacco works. What foods, bad habits should one avoid. What other habits can reduce cancer risks? Are there any prophylactic techniques?
We definitely know obvious bad behaviors can cause cancer, probably the ones you've heard of. But I think some big part of it is genetics and/or luck. I see what happened to Jobs, and people like him - reasonably healthy people. Then I see men in my family who've routinely drank a ton and chewed tobacco, overweight, spent all day in the sun to the point of looking like leather, and live well into their 80s. Yes every…
Ever since I had a sometimes-cancerous soft issue tumor so rare, information on it mostly exists in academic writing to then find out it was not cancerous yet at the time it got cut out (probably, but get screened for the next few years anyway) I gave up on looking at numbers to console myself with statistics.
Not to say you shouldn't minimize your risk, but it can still hit you regardless.
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
#235̛If you check the surroundings, you will see the mess we are in. Virtually (?) there are 0 options for a viable IoT platform, mobile/desktop OS that doesn't annoy us. It could be privacy, locking, you name it, ...
Only recently, I happen to realise, we could have listened to this man little more. Too late then, we are sold already.
Recover well Mr Stallman! I wish you the best!
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I fail to see how that could be taken as an intentional provocation...?
A) A picture of che Guevara is always an association with communism B) RMS is very well known as someone who is, amongst other things, not a communist. Frankly I fail to see how this could be taken as anything other than a provocation. Why would you have a picture of RMS as Che and then ask him to sign it? The only other explanation I can think of is you're too stupid to not see A or B.
If the person with the t-shirt is both sympathetic to communism or the Che, and RMS, I can see how it can not be a provocation.
RMS was probably right not to sign it though. I also believe producing a t-shirt with RMS depicted as the Che is not quite right.
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try wearing that shirt around Miami…
What would happen?
Miami has a large community of people who risked their lives and abandoned everything to flee Cuba to go hang out with the capitalist pigdogs in the USA. Their hospitality toward communist revolutionaries would be somewhat chillier than what you'd receive on a northeastern college campus. It's unlikely this would extend to violence, but you might get some remarks.
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
I fail to see how that could be taken as an intentional provocation...?
A) A picture of che Guevara is always an association with communism B) RMS is very well known as someone who is, amongst other things, not a communist. Frankly I fail to see how this could be taken as anything other than a provocation. Why would you have a picture of RMS as Che and then ask him to sign it? The only other explanation I can think of is you're too stupid to not see A or B.
Well first of all I was 15 or 16 at the time, so I guess I didn't give it as much though as you currently do, and besides, Che Guevara is (to me at least) not a symbol of communism first and foremost, but a symbol of a man fighting for his ideas (not saying that's my opinion of him especially nowadays, I'm talking about the symbolic power, especially of the famous photograph we all know).
So... no.
Besides, it was in Europe. Us Europeans do not have the same epidermic reaction to communism that Americans have.
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#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
What would happen?
The rabid anti-communism of Cuban diaspora in FL is so extreme it's driven them right into the GOP's arms for their votes; the amazing thing is how they've done it despite the racism just-below-the-surface there.
Agreed. People fleeing Communism are the last people you want to listen to regarding Communism. Dismiss them as rabid and move on.
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
A) A picture of che Guevara is always an association with communism B) RMS is very well known as someone who is, amongst other things, not a communist. Frankly I fail to see how this could be taken as anything other than a provocation. Why would you have a picture of RMS as Che and then ask him to sign it? The only other explanation I can think of is you're too stupid to not see A or B.
If the person with the t-shirt is both sympathetic to communism or the Che, and RMS, I can see how it can not be a provocation. RMS was probably right not to sign it though. I also believe producing a t-shirt with RMS depicted as the Che is not quite right.
Of course the person with T-shirt is sympathetic to communism and RMS, but their sympathy to RMS is very superficial. Otherwise they would know that RMS wouldn't approve. So it's option 2 I guess.