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  Ivy League school - UPenn - promoted Stallman's birthday in CIS class DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 10:35 -0500
    Re: Ivy League school - UPenn - promoted Stallman's birthday in CIS class SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-05 11:21 -0500
      Re: Ivy League school - UPenn - promoted Stallman's birthday in CIS class Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-05 10:31 -0700

#475365 — Ivy League school - UPenn - promoted Stallman's birthday in CIS class

https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis191/resources.html


huh?

I wonder if the Penn Trustees understand what kind of sick fuck he 
really is.



<quote>
28 June 2003 ()
Dubya has nominated another caveman for a federal appeals court. 
Refreshingly, the Democratic Party is organizing opposition.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-10 because the old link was broken.]

The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner 
were protected by the Constitution, "prostitution, adultery, 
necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even 
incest and pedophilia" also would be. He is probably mistaken, 
legally--but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as 
long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice 
and narrowmindedness.

Some rules might be called for when these acts directly affect other 
people's interests. For incest, contraception could be mandatory to 
avoid risk of inbreeding. For prostitution, a license should be required 
to ensure prostitutes get regular medical check-ups, and they should 
have training and support in insisting on use of condoms. This will be 
an advance in public health, compared with the situation today.

For necrophilia, it might be necessary to ask the next of kin for 
permission if the decedent's will did not authorize it. Necrophilia 
would be my second choice for what should be done with my corpse, the 
first being scientific or medical use. Once my dead body is no longer of 
any use to me, it may as well be of some use to someone. Besides, I 
often enjoy rhinophytonecrophilia (nasal sex with dead plants).
</quote>

https://stallman.org/archives/2003-may-aug.html

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#475383

On 2018-11-05 10:35 a.m., DFS wrote:
> https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis191/resources.html
> 
> 
> huh?
> 
> I wonder if the Penn Trustees understand what kind of sick fuck he 
> really is.
> 
> 
> 
> <quote>
> 28 June 2003 ()
> Dubya has nominated another caveman for a federal appeals court. 
> Refreshingly, the Democratic Party is organizing opposition.
> [Reference updated on 2018-05-10 because the old link was broken.]
> 
> The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner 
> were protected by the Constitution, "prostitution, adultery, 
> necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even 
> incest and pedophilia" also would be. He is probably mistaken, 
> legally--but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as 
> long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice 
> and narrowmindedness.
> 
> Some rules might be called for when these acts directly affect other 
> people's interests. For incest, contraception could be mandatory to 
> avoid risk of inbreeding. For prostitution, a license should be required 
> to ensure prostitutes get regular medical check-ups, and they should 
> have training and support in insisting on use of condoms. This will be 
> an advance in public health, compared with the situation today.
> 
> For necrophilia, it might be necessary to ask the next of kin for 
> permission if the decedent's will did not authorize it. Necrophilia 
> would be my second choice for what should be done with my corpse, the 
> first being scientific or medical use. Once my dead body is no longer of 
> any use to me, it may as well be of some use to someone. Besides, I 
> often enjoy rhinophytonecrophilia (nasal sex with dead plants).
> </quote>
> 
> https://stallman.org/archives/2003-may-aug.html

Wretched Stallman definitely doesn't deserve to be praised by an Ivy 
League school but he definitely made good points about patents, closed 
software, closed hardware and software activation. The older I get, the 
more I realize that I would rather live in a world where software is 
generally open with a few exceptions being closed rather than the opposite.

-- 
SilverSlimer

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#475408

On 11/5/18 9:21 AM, SilverSlimer wrote:
> On 2018-11-05 10:35 a.m., DFS wrote:
>> https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis191/resources.html
>>
>>
>> huh?
>>
>> I wonder if the Penn Trustees understand what kind of sick fuck he 
>> really is.
>>
>>
>>
>> <quote>
>> 28 June 2003 ()
>> Dubya has nominated another caveman for a federal appeals court. 
>> Refreshingly, the Democratic Party is organizing opposition.
>> [Reference updated on 2018-05-10 because the old link was broken.]
>>
>> The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner 
>> were protected by the Constitution, "prostitution, adultery, 
>> necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even 
>> incest and pedophilia" also would be. He is probably mistaken, 
>> legally--but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as 
>> long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice 
>> and narrowmindedness.
>>
>> Some rules might be called for when these acts directly affect other 
>> people's interests. For incest, contraception could be mandatory to 
>> avoid risk of inbreeding. For prostitution, a license should be 
>> required to ensure prostitutes get regular medical check-ups, and they 
>> should have training and support in insisting on use of condoms. This 
>> will be an advance in public health, compared with the situation today.
>>
>> For necrophilia, it might be necessary to ask the next of kin for 
>> permission if the decedent's will did not authorize it. Necrophilia 
>> would be my second choice for what should be done with my corpse, the 
>> first being scientific or medical use. Once my dead body is no longer 
>> of any use to me, it may as well be of some use to someone. Besides, I 
>> often enjoy rhinophytonecrophilia (nasal sex with dead plants).
>> </quote>
>>
>> https://stallman.org/archives/2003-may-aug.html
> 
> Wretched Stallman definitely doesn't deserve to be praised by an Ivy 
> League school but he definitely made good points about patents, closed 
> software, closed hardware and software activation. The older I get, the 
> more I realize that I would rather live in a world where software is 
> generally open with a few exceptions being closed rather than the opposite.
> 

I can understand that... but I look at the usefulness of the tool more 
than I do the fear. There is room for both though.

-- 
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They 
cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel 
somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

<https://youtu.be/H4NW-Cqh308>

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