Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 17, 2005 11:38 AM
Those who say it's just the media hyping this up, well that's just ignorant, it's the World Health Organization (WHO)that says that 5 to 150 million people could die & the US Center for Disease Control says 2 to 7.4 million people could die. Thats a lot of people.
Anyway you look at this, even if a cure was found tomorrow, +66 people have died from bird flu & ~60 are infected at the moment & are likely to die. They were fathers, mothers, daughters, sons... they cried & laughed just like us & they deserve more respect that to be the butt of a joke.
What in gods name gives David Graham, or anyone the right to make a mockery of that in the name of alleged humor. I wonder if David (& anyone else who finds this funny) will still find it humorous when Bird Flu hits Canada & white people are dying instead of just yellow people in Asia.
David you have written some crap in your time, you have written some good stuff as well that has no doubt helped the Linux cause, but this article is down right offensive & YOU OWE AN APOLOGY TO THE FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED, ARE DYING & WILL DIE FROM THIS TERRIBLE DISEASE.
I live in one of those countries unfortunate to be affected by bird flu & each time one of my kids gets a sniffle, you wonder, could this be it, how well washed were those eggs we brought, have they been playing with any kids who have been at the bird markets?
My Ubuntu desktop is great & Linux has change my life immeasurably, but i think this article neither helps promote our cause, nor does it reflect the sense of global community that embodies the free software movement.
Obviously the editor at www.newsforge.com also saw the death of +66 people as funny.
If you we as offended by this as i was, i urge you to write to newsforge's advertisers (HP & IBM) & ask them do they support the view that bird flu & the death of +66 people is funny, if not why are they paying money to have their company logos put next to this diatribe making fun of the deaths of innocent people;
IBM's CEO is Sam Palmisano & he can be reached <a href="https://www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/email-sjp.pl" title="ibm.com">https://www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/email-sjp.pl</a ibm.com> HP's CEO is Mark Hurd & he can be reached at <a href="http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/email/hurd/" title="hp.com">http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/email/hurd/</a hp.com>
Learn about Linux
Download Linux
Get Linux help
how about the families of the +66 people who have
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 17, 2005 11:38 AMAnyway you look at this, even if a cure was found tomorrow, +66 people have died from bird flu & ~60 are infected at the moment & are likely to die. They were fathers, mothers, daughters, sons... they cried & laughed just like us & they deserve more respect that to be the butt of a joke.
What in gods name gives David Graham, or anyone the right to make a mockery of that in the name of alleged humor. I wonder if David (& anyone else who finds this funny) will still find it humorous when Bird Flu hits Canada & white people are dying instead of just yellow people in Asia.
David you have written some crap in your time, you have written some good stuff as well that has no doubt helped the Linux cause, but this article is down right offensive & YOU OWE AN APOLOGY TO THE FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED, ARE DYING & WILL DIE FROM THIS TERRIBLE DISEASE.
I live in one of those countries unfortunate to be affected by bird flu & each time one of my kids gets a sniffle, you wonder, could this be it, how well washed were those eggs we brought, have they been playing with any kids who have been at the bird markets?
My Ubuntu desktop is great & Linux has change my life immeasurably, but i think this article neither helps promote our cause, nor does it reflect the sense of global community that embodies the free software movement.
Obviously the editor at www.newsforge.com also saw the death of +66 people as funny.
If you we as offended by this as i was, i urge you to write to newsforge's advertisers (HP & IBM) & ask them do they support the view that bird flu & the death of +66 people is funny, if not why are they paying money to have their company logos put next to this diatribe making fun of the deaths of innocent people;
IBM's CEO is Sam Palmisano & he can be reached <a href="https://www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/email-sjp.pl" title="ibm.com">https://www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/email-sjp.pl</a ibm.com>
HP's CEO is Mark Hurd & he can be reached at <a href="http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/email/hurd/" title="hp.com">http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/email/hurd/</a hp.com>
#