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AbiWord Weekly News #103

Submitted by stro on Sun, 2002-08-11 23:34. AbiWord

This has been a week full of surprises, and not like the nice kind, where a bank error is sided in your favour. This has been more along the lines of the revenue service wonders why your forms are in crayon, whether "Sparky" is really your six year old son or if your mistress can really count as a dependent. Luckily for us, we have Arthur Anderson and Aberdeen! Abisource went into infinite fcsk mode, and on the second day, asked, "Hey, man, this is wrong for some reason, and where do all these packets keep coming from?" It rebooted and life got better. Take heart, it didn't stop the hackers from hacking or the users from abusing. It did delay AWN for a few days.

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Update:AWN for this week is also out, get it here.

All humans are hippocrits

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2002-08-13 17:13.

And yes, I do find nuking New York funny.

The idea of nuking Irac would be slightly (truely only slightly) more recent of a consideration (i.e. the bush administration building up forces for a war they should know will not be approved by either the local countries or the american populous).

You, however, must accept that, as documented in countless books, humour is entirely socially related, and that most of the people in #abiword are european or euro-decendent, and even the french (populous not government) has similar jokes. Just four months ago, a joke about sending anthrax to Irac was quite popular France, but you wouldn't see as many Americans (who just had a major scare only a few months before that) make the same joke.

The fact is, telling jokes within a social realm is the standard definition for "telling jokes." I know many sheep jokes that only Marc would get (Nederlandse are a weird people, "I'm from Holland, isn't that weird!?"), and I know a good number of New Zealand jokes only Martin would get.

Additionally, classifying me as an American is a bit tricky within itsown right for legal circumstances, but technically, I'm half-australian.

Hmm, maybe if Martin makes a "nuke NZ" patch, I'll makes sure to add it....

A long time ago (a century, not even), blacks made Irish jokes, Irish made German jokes, Germans made Polish jokes and the Poles made Polish jokes (see what I did there?), then some F*ing idiot went overboard during the civil rights movement and now people have to be all politically correct and you have to jewish to make a bahr mitzvah joke.

This isn't exactly hate speech. If you actually take time to analyze it realistically, it's really about the government of Irac, not the people, and perhaps that's why Americans get a bad reputation abroad...they're used to criticizing the government openly.

What do you call someone that will complain about the most powerful man in the world but worry about giving a mall gaurd the wrong impression? An American. In all fairness, the President, though in the executive branch, doesn't really arrest people personally...

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