[Foundation-l] Forking the Wiki

[Scott Nelson]

Can this be taken off list?

This conversation long since lost any relevance to the wiki project.

On Jan 5.2005, at 05:52, Traroth wrote:

> Sorry, but you totally misunderstood me. What I wanted
> to say is that I'm curious to see the reactions of
> americans. They seem very impatient to express all
> their pain about the evil world, and all what they had
> to suffer in Viet-Nam war (50 000 americans killed...
> and 3 000 000 Vietnamese) and Korea war and Gulf war,
> and so on. What could be their reaction if we let all
> human beings express the pain of war, including in all
> wars where americans behaved like butchers, like Irak,
> Afghanistan, Grenada, Somalia, Korea, Viet-Nam,
> Panama, Chile (not-exhaustive list. Oh no ! really
> not...). Hold in mind that a lot of contributors are
> americans...
>
> Traroth
>
>  --- Jens Ropers <ropers at ropersonline.com> a écrit :
>
>> 1. I think Fallujah's survivors of siege warfare and
>> radioactive and
>> chemical weapons have more pressing needs right now
>> than logging on to
>> the Internet and editing some website.
>> 2. Do you think that Muslim residents of a
>> hitherto-branded "axis of
>> evil"-country would have better luck than
>> Christian-dominated US allies
>> in convincing the US American "Moral" Majority that
>> "Thou shalt not
>> kill" really DOES mean just that? Me neither.
>> 3. Adding to that, well, what do you think -- if a
>> foreign army lays
>> siege to, and napalm-bombs someone's hometown, would
>> it be unreasonable
>> to assume that the person so affected might rather
>> be WAY past
>> contributing friendly edits to a joint encyclopedia?
>> (Which is why I
>> reckon that the US has guaranteed itself one or two
>> sequels, al Qaeda
>> branded or otherwise. But then, that's just my hunch
>> and I could be
>> wrong.)
>> 4. Leaving aside the unlikeliness of seeing a lot of
>> Fallujan
>> contributors anytime soon, if you've given up on the
>> US as such and
>> only expect mere sordid entertainment -- yes, a
>> hypothetical advent of
>> Fallujan contributors would provide copious amounts
>> of that. Let the
>> games begin, but don't forget to duck and cover!
>>
>> -- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]]
>>      www.ropersonline.com
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