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Re: Isn't this too much?
« on: April 28, 2006, 11:43:42 AM »
Personally I don't find it that offensive. I guess it continues the trend set by pictures such as this  bill gates pic manipulation.

Printouts of this picture was plastered all over the CS department of university of jyväskylä in the 90s. No-one was offended, really, or at least no-one was offended enough to demand taking the pictures down. It was seen as humorous.

It might vary depending on the family history/background of the person looking at the picture. But, does it mean that touchy subjects should be banned in humour altogether? That's a tougher question.

If you want to get the pictures removed, I am sure you can just ask Aminet adminstrators and they will comply (who wouldn't want to be politically correct, esp if you're running something on charity). Next we will remove all Microsoft critisism, or any aminet software that is anti-christian?

Just bringing up some points here, this is not as black and white as it might seem (and obviously I am not backing any SS or Nazi actions here, that should be pretty obvious).
 

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Re: Isn't this too much?
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2006, 04:34:47 PM »
@nadoom

Historically perhaps, but these days IBM is saint compared to beasts like Microsoft or SCO (*spit*).

However, funnily FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) was defined by ex-IBM guy who coined the acronym to descibe the actions of the IBM salespersons... :-)
 

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Re: Isn't this too much?
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2006, 12:11:18 AM »
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I don't think that you have to have personal or family experience in order to have a right to be disgusted by this.

I didn't say a thing about rights. All I did was to suggest why someone might feel stronger about this than someone else. Obviously anyone is free to form their own opinions.

This is quite obvious.