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2006-09-28 Britain

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Posted by tipper 2006-09-28 15:07|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Oh, I figured he was a convert to the hot and happening Ubuntu Linux distribution...

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2006-09-28 15:27|| 2006-09-28 15:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Badanov says Desktop BSD is the future.

...dang, as I linked to the article I just noticed Desktop BSD is now offering a 64bit version.

*drool*

Posted by badanov 2006-09-28 15:37|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2006-09-28 15:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in his book No Future Without Forgiveness, says: "Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'"

Translation: Stick em up and gimme your wallet.

Posted by badanov 2006-09-28 15:41|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2006-09-28 15:41|| Front Page Top

#4 ...which means that a person is only a person through their relationship to others.

Yeah, n if Hillary gets the What House back, this'll work better on them interns then Leaves of Grass.
"Ubuntu, baby. Now why don't ya put ya face in the former leader of the free world's lap..."

Posted by William Jefferson Clinton 2006-09-28 15:49|| 2006-09-28 15:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Heh. I am touched. I am feeled. I gotta go hurl.

Posted by .com 2006-09-28 15:59|| 2006-09-28 15:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Ubuntu, ubuntu, ubuntu, ubuntu, ubuntu, ubuntu
There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy.
There's nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be in time
It's easy.
All you need is ubuntu, all you need is ubuntu,
All you need is ubuntu, ubuntu, ubuntu is all you need.

Nah. Doesn't scan right.

Posted by Mike 2006-09-28 16:01|| 2006-09-28 16:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Yes, yes ubuntu....bwana. It's an Afri thing, those in he west wouldn't understand.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-28 16:03|| 2006-09-28 16:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Yo. I be usin it a sentence fa ya...
Ubuntu getta whitey ova heah ta do my plantin, ya rich cracka jive ass bastid!

Posted by Farmin B. Hard 2006-09-28 16:26|| 2006-09-28 16:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Sounds like a word meaning something very close to "socialism."

Posted by no mo uro 2006-09-28 17:02|| 2006-09-28 17:02|| Front Page Top

#10 "Ubuntu"???

Dear God, is there to be no deliverance from this unrelenting rising tide of vapid liberal bubblebrained feelgood bullshit?? Is this the Final Plague Thou hast set upon us??

Every now and then, in the dead of my darkest nights, I get a vision of how our world will end. Not in fire, nor in ice; but just... kinda unwound. Stuck on Stupid.

Bill Clinton, YMMV*.

*= You Make Me Vomit

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-09-28 18:27|| 2006-09-28 18:27|| Front Page Top

#11 wow - he's so worldly. It takes a village to satisfy his narcissism

Posted by Frank G 2006-09-28 18:53|| 2006-09-28 18:53|| Front Page Top

#12 ROFL, Frank!

Posted by .com 2006-09-28 18:55|| 2006-09-28 18:55|| Front Page Top

#13 Don't step in the Cowbunga.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-09-28 19:17|| 2006-09-28 19:17|| Front Page Top

#14 F*** Ubuntu as a collectivist philosophy.

But as a linux distro, its damn good.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-09-28 22:16|| 2006-09-28 22:16|| Front Page Top

#15 related to a Zulu concept - "umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu" - which means that a person is only a person through their relationship to others.

How utterly post-modern, post-national, post- whatever. In America we are accustomed to thinking that a person is what he chooses to make of himself from the materials at hand.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-09-28 22:34|| 2006-09-28 22:34|| Front Page Top

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