[ale] as promised/threatened, an overly long post with probably nothing of real importance

[rhia]

Late, as usual.
We're on the West/Left Coast now, plus other time demands, I usually
catch up late, between hours and weeks, on ALE.

Simply put: I STILL follow ALE because, in all of our travels across
this vast country, ALE seems to have a majority of responders of the
best and brightest. I do not say so lightly. This list rocks.

Politically? Well, after numerous addresses in the deep south (plus
Texas, pretty much its own country, but it takes in more federal tax
dollars than it sends in, so, still a state) - I'm still in that fast
dying moderate camp.

Politically on this list? REALLY? There aren't any, Any, ANY other lists
on which you can espouse your political ideals? 

Yes, I know, if you delve deep enough, you'll find me ranting political
views on this list.
I grew up.

This is the Atlanta LINUX Enthusiasts list. Last I checked, Linux wasn't
lining up for the republicans or the democrats or the green party or any
other political affiliation. In fact, last I checked, Linux was an OS,
not a PAC.

Oh, I don't mind so much, personally, if the list goes offtrack, but I
do mind having to shovel through politics to get technical answers
to ...WTF ?? questions.

BTW, I'm active in quite a few ....social/political email lists, forums,
and whatnot. I am not against expressing political views - in the
appropriate forum. This ain't it. There are hundreds of thousands of
much more appropriate places.

Does this mean I'm 100% against any hint of political viewpoint here?
No. But, just, can't we just take religion (do NOT get me started) and
politics and money (the big 3) elsewhere and leave this most helpful
LINUX list to, well, LINUX?

rhia

On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 10:49 -0700, Damon Chesser wrote:
> Point proven.
> 
> Damon Chesser
> dchesser at acsi2000.com
> damon at damtek.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of arxaaron
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 1:40 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] as promised/threatened, an overly long post with probably nothing of real importance
> 
> On 2011/05/04, at 09:00 , Richard Bronosky wrote:
> 
> > If you do encounter anyone who doesn't know who Tux is, make sure to
> > call them a teabagger corporapist brown shirt. That is the way we
> > spread software Freedom now a days isn't it? ;-)
> 
> Entirely uncalled for and grossly inappropriate statement, but exemplary
> of the teabagger terrorist brown shirt corporapist mentality that you
> should
> make such a charged analogy in a totally absurdist, disconnected and
> irrelevant context for the sole purpose of disrupting and degrading a
> very important civil discourse.
> 
> You do the label proud! :-)
> 
> peace
> aaron
> 
> 
> > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com>
> > wrote:
> >> On Wed, 4 May 2011, JD wrote:
> >>> I would quickly agree to an anti-politics & anti-religion rule for
> >>> this
> >>> list.
> >>
> >> It is the kind of list where politics should be about: Redhat vs
> >> Canonical
> >> vs Suse vs BSD... and religion should be about vi or emacs, perl or
> >> php..
> >>
> >> While I often enjoy some of the eloquent off topic rants, I find it
> >> easy
> >> to hit the delete button as well and -try- not to play in the mud
> >> myself..
> >>
> >> Time to make a living, it's a trade show day and I'm proudly
> >> displaying a
> >> Tux in honor of our Linux based solutions in a show where most
> >> people will
> >> ask what the penguin is for.   --Mike--
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> > --
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