Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 00:39:30 -0600 From: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: jive (was RE: was this really necessary?) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030226002232.01a90080@threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <20030225164633.P318@ndhn.yna.cnyserzna.pbz> References: <IPEDKJGCDFHOPEFKLIDHMENCCCAA.paul@iconoplex.co.uk> <IPEDKJGCDFHOPEFKLIDHMENCCCAA.paul@iconoplex.co.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 11:02 AM 2/25/2003, William Palfreman wrote: >On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Paul Robinson wrote: > > In other words, jive owes it's existence to a desire of white middle-class > > pricks to make fun of black working-class kids. > >Oh, you have got to be kidding. The amount of rubbish written on this >list. I have never seen an ethnically homogenous hacker-group. I don't >believe they exist. Hacking, and computers generally, transcends race. >Now, Intel hardware and games consoles are owned by all different kinds >of people. Then, C64s and, frankly, every other kind of hardware, also >didn't not have a racial basis to it. You would have to be completely >crazy to imagine that skin colour has _anything_, at all, to do with >computers. You are talking about a technology, merit driven industry, >not some government quango where you might be able to get away with this >kind of fact-free attention seeking. Yeah, merit driven. That's why Microsoft is the richest software company the world has ever seen. They write the best software. And I can only imagine what great rewards FreeBSD Core is reaping. I mean, when you take into account all the crap hurled at them off these lists alone, you gotta figure they're taking away some serious scratch, right? But seriously, the Masters of Deception were mostly based in New York City. And while not all of them were black, many of the notable members were, which is what led to racial taunts from at least one high-level white member of the Legion of Doom. --Chip Morton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4.3.2.7.2.20030226002232.01a90080>