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Comment The End Of Political Correctness (Score 1, Insightful) 585

For years now, the intellectual elite of this world have labored mightily to stamp out all superficial signs of racism, sexism, gayism, and other isms, by banning "insensitive" speech and images, in an effort to sweep the natural human impulse to hate under the rug.

Repellent as Mr. Pazzo and his intellectually deformed ilk are, the undeniable fact is the internet itself --that is, the human connectivity it brings about -- facilitates their unpleasant behavior, as what were formerly isolated kooks find courage, companionship and new ideas through "virtual communities" on sites like Orkut, as they have in the past through other forms of communication such as BBS's and Usenet.

Abolition of such groups seems impractical withour the imposition of barriers to entry as would defeat the whole purpose of virtual communities.

Like other socially detrimental practices such as downloading music, taking drugs, and practicing illict sex, hatred, like it or not, serves a vital purpose to a not insubstantial number of people. The repressed have returned, more disgusting than ever, much to the chagrin of our minions of political correctness, and there is no easy solution in sight.

Until the gods tire of idiocy and invent a race with greater souls than our own, it seems for the time being we will simply have to thicken our skins and put up with these unpleasant reminders dark side of humanity

Comment What's the point? (Score 0, Flamebait) 238

Lunix users: Don't want Windows users (who they deem to be mentally inferior) switching to their precious little 'pet OS', since that would remove the elitist stigma from Lunix and destroy what's left of their self-inflated, self-interested egos.

Windows users: Aren't exactly going to switch to a completely foreign OS just to do... the exact same fucking things they were doing on Windows, but with more hassle now.

So straight away you have both of the two groups involved that don't really need this project. It's like these geeks would rather waste their fucking time reverse-engineering the Windows APIs just to play Counter-Strike when their 'talents' (or 'mad skillz' as Lunix users refer to them) would be better used to either a) write quality native apps for Lunix, or b) give in and shell out for a licensed copy of Win*.

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