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If Kara refers to the GitS intro, it does so indirectly, through All is Full of Love.

Sometimes, he's quite the opposite of a jerk [1]:

    WARNING! I wasn't kidding when I said that I've done this by reading
    gtk2 tutorials as I've gone along.  If somebody is more comfortable with
    gtk, feel free to send me (signed-off) patches.
    
    Just as an example of the extreme hackiness of the code, I don't even
    bother connecting a signal for the "somebody edited the dive info"
    cases.  I just save/restore the dive info every single time you switch
    dives.  Christ! That's truly lame.

When he does express himself like that, however, it becomes news. He always has a reason, though. In this case:

    Please don't talk about portability, it's BS.

[1]: https://github.com/torvalds/subsurface/blob/master/README#L1...

Other parts of the earth? Ask your local gay friends about Grindr.

    REPORTING BUGS
    Report false bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org

I actually think secure boot makes a lot of sense. I think we should sign our modules. I think we should use the technology to do cryptographic signatures to add security; and at the same time inside the open source community this is so unpopular that people haven't really worked on it.

Now:

I’m an optimist: openness is successful in the long run, secure boot is another one of these passing fads.

Not implying that he is being incoherent or, even worse, that he cannot change his mind. The passing fad of secure boot meant by Linus is probably using it to lock down a device.

¹. http://www.muktware.com/news/2865 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3196098

Nope. It's joke after joke after joke, and also inappropriate behavior in the workplace, in conferences, in pubs. Day after day. What is just one post in HN for us happens constantly to a lot of women in our industry.

Such bringers of the future we are.

I understand that people usually think of abuse as sexual abuse, especially if it is toward women. But verbal or moral abuse is abuse just the same.

To express an opinion is what we're doing right now, as civilized people, openly, in a mildly non-anonymous way. To harass anonymously, without giving the other part the chance to reply and playing on their weaknesses is violence. For me, at least, it is.

Further, you don't have any "right to be happy".

I do have, as we all do. You are mixing the right to be happy with the right of being granted happiness unconditionally. Maybe it's just semantics. I would also say that everyone has the right to drive a car, expecting that I'm not implying that they can bypass the necessary tests. There is a "potential tense" that gets lost in translation.

Moreover, to equate harassment of women to mere trolling is of complete ignorance. The fact that you accept the label of "troll" just reinforces that you should not put the two in the same level. Would you be OK if people often called you an abuser of women?

The women involved in this shitty situation have already written pages and pages of how terrible it is—particularly for women—to be the target of harassment. If anyone cannot understand that, they must be really stupid.

Also remember:

"A witty saying proves nothing." — Voltaire

And I love the disclaimer:

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You wish, SAP.

Edit. And then, there's this:

    United States of America
    Total Population: 313,089,333
    % of Oceania Population: 90.08%

Try Chile.