Tim: >> The local religious school were a bit embarrassed when some of their >> cooking students went looking on the internet for cheesecake pictures. >> It wasn't food that they saw. ;-) Dotan Cohen: > I search with SafeSearch off, and all I got back were cakes. Made me hungry. Well, what they got was the traditional breast enhancing pose for a photographer. Suggestive, but not salicious... Still, given the viewing environment, it wasn't appropriate. Though they tend to be pragmatic about such things. >> I remember having a little chat with one of their students about >> downloading MP3s. Seeing as it was a religious school, I pushed the >> notion that it was wrong to steal a few times. He couldn't argue >> against it. ;-) > But he probably kept doing it anyway. There is a difference between > being religious and being moral. The fact that the ten commandments > tells us not to steal notwithstanding. It's a fair bet that he would. But it did put him in a position where he was unable to argue back. Yes, I can come up with various justifications for pirating, and I've heard a plethora of them before. But when your arguing with students, you need a position that they can't negate. ;-) I'm not a religious person, I can agree with a lot of the sentiment on philosophical grounds, though. But not fundamentalism, and I include computer fanaticsm in that, too. Nothing's just black and white. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
