I have yet to meet a woman who doesn't love to talk about relationships with other women.

Shame. Sound like you know only pretty boring women.

And while men may not talk about relationships per se, we do talk about women. A lot.

And men too!

Those conversations have their place, but if you spend most of your time on either of them it's dull, dull, dull.

In fact, there's a convincing argument to be made that everything we do is in the pursuit of securing or keeping a mate,

If there is such an argument, I've not seen it.

Ah yes, the old "sexism doesn't exist because free market" argument. Judging people's ability based on their gender rather than their ability isn't rational, so why on earth do you expect people to behave rationally about it?

And you can even pick a neutral nickname/e-mail address, and start working on open source projects without anybody even being able to judge you on your gender.

The fact that you even have to bring that up indicates there is a problem and all things are not, in fact equal.

Liar, liar, pants on fire. You made claims about my feelings:

Interestingly enough, no one objected to Monty Python making dick jokes, but if a techie does it, then your oh so precious feels are hurt...

Now you lie about not making claims. Do you even know what the truth is? So I ask again: are you a pathological liar? It's an ironic question as the answer will by definition not be worth much.

Ah so apparently there's some slashdot "rule" where I'm only supposed to reply to you if you reply to me first. Righty ho.

The reason you've been seeing a lot of me is because it appears that we both like the same threads. Only one of us consistently lies about things other people say, and it isn't me who does that.

I like how you never retracted your comment, nor tried to back up your claim.

Stalman has done a lot, but sometimes his ideas get in the way of actual software. Hurd? after decades still not shipped. gcc? Got out of hand until it got taken over by egcs.

That makes no sense. His idea was to have a 100% free unix. They started working on the hurd. Then Linux came along and it was under an acceptable license, so RMS declared that the problem was solved, GNU had the kernel it wanted and so developing one was no longer a priority.

Likewise ECGS (Experimental GNU Compiler System) was a fork of GCC it proved substantially better, so the FSF abandoned the mainline and adopted the superior fork.

In other words, I think both examples you've given of RMS getting in the way are actually examples of exactly the opposite.

From TFS: According to RMS, Facebook is a "monstrous surveillance engine,"

Frankly, I think he's being excessively kind on Facebook there and that's the last thing I would have expected from him!

then your oh so precious feels are hurt...

Out of interest, do you realise that you're a pathological liar or is this subconscious trait?

I challenge you to find any time I've made any objection to the DICSS project (you won't because I haven't and it's long list of entertaining dick jokes).

One wonders how he greets people?

Well, he seems to have adopted it heartily: his handle is "letsgetrandy".

None of Github's business.

They host it and are a commercial hosting service. It is *literally* their business, in every sense of the word.

My Inuit brother in law, inuit nephews, and mohawk son (from a tribe from Canada) aren't "Eskimos".

Aren't they (with the exception of the mohawk guy)? I thought "Eskimo" refered to several ancestral tribes who lived in the far north of that part of the world, where as I thought "inuit" was a specific one of those tribes.

Would you care to explain the cause of the offensiveness to the ignorant?

Wasting lecture on the ignorant is fruitless. ...? Isn't ignorance the lack of knowledge? Sure, wasting lectures on the willfully ignorant is a waste of time, but on the mere ignorant?

Is there anything about this DICSS project that gave you "a good laugh"? How old are you that references to a penis is the height of comedy?

It made me laugh. Basically the bit that made me laugh was all the dick jokes, especially the good techy dick jokes. And the name because I like acronym abuse.

Are dick jokes hte hight of humour? Who cares. Like many other forms of humour, they are funny in their place. I also enjoyed the 21 jump streed film with is a 109 minute long dick joke, but a REALLY good one.

It has fire coming out of its anatomy. It's fucking hilarious,

Hilarious? Ask anyone who picked up an STD: peeing fire is no joke. Or maybe you mean the other end. Try eating a really really really hot burrito and, well, frankly if you're not the self-inflicted victim it is pretty funny.

You are advocating limiting someone's non-harmful free speech while using the platform of free speech to do so.

[citation needed]

Or in other words, you seriously need to learn to read, unless you're so stupid that you believe tho opposite but don't realise it.

Free speech means that everyone including assholes get to say what they want, and that includes telling assholes that they're assholes.

So, you can blither on mindlessly based on your inability to read and I can call you an idiot for doing so.

Anyone offended by a poster should not be taken seriously

Well. you're bucking for a Godwining, there. So many opportunities for offensive posters.

Basically what you're saying is that no one should ever be offended by anything ever, which is frankly, a bit of a silly thing to say.