[GTALUG] Linus Torvalds Responds to Linux Banning University of Minnesota

[El Fontanero]

On 2021-04-26 11:21 a.m., ac via talk wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 10:03:50 -0400
> El Fontanero via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> <snip lotsa really cool stuff here>
>>> How about something like a go-fund-me kind of service that
>>> distributes the money to the successful contract killer?
>>> I am sure something can be done over a blockchain.
>>> If we could add in spammers I would be most happy.
>> Absolutely nauseating.  Shocking and horrifying.
>> "Zero tolerance" means at the very least, that advocating murder is
>> cause for immediate and permanent banning from this list, is it not?
>> No, Toronto does not have the prevalence of firearms in the hands of
>> people who casually say they want people shot or the people who
>> casually agree with them, but our cousins to the south are an
>> extremely important lesson that we do not want to emulate.
>>
> who said anything about firearms/guns?
>
> most contract killers I see on movies use poison, some have a stringy
> type thingy where they hook it over the victims heads, others use a
> knife (apparently killing is then more personal or enjoyable - go
> figure, there are so many really and truly weird people out there...)
>
> I saw a movie the other day where the evil people placed the to be
> killed victim in a box with spikes... YIKES!!
>
> and, anyway, as I understand the original post, it is intended as
> humour, okay, well I guess you have to be weird like me to read is as
> such?
>
> or is this thread now truly in the weeds?

Weeds, no. FBI watchlist, yes.  Thanks a lot. Now I have to keep all 
this email to try to prove that I'm not a member of a terrorist 
organization.

That's it for me.  I wish I had unsubscribed before the incitements to 
murder, but now it's too late.

I leave you to yourselves.