the thread is missing…
Pirates of the Caribbean…
He is with girl who sang Joe Le Taxi…
It may well be that is has been suppressed because “political”.Anyway the rules are a bit “natural latex” so everything if you dislike as admin can be potentially defined as “political”. The very same use of open-source could be seen as political statement and therefore the posts referring to open-source might be suppressed?
I notified this “lack” of thread quite some time ago to the board but no answer. We will therefore never know why has the rum gone.
FYI: decisions you’re referring to, are never made by one single admin/mod, never based on ‘disliking’.
the original thread had numerous political statements far beyond the
use of “open-source” as a political statement and potentially
offensive to the citizens several different countries and
practitioners of multiple governmental paradigms…
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The answer to the OP title’s question? I don’t know. Do you have a wooden leg, a black patch over one eye, and a parrot on your shoulder?
I reckon the missing thread did break the elastic in several places, even at full stretch i.e. the elastic being the normally tolerant (IMO) application of the rules by adminis. the
Shiver me timbers it’s not September 19 is it…
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/
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Seeing it quoted back there by malcolmlewis, I now notice that OP could also refer to Old Pirate… Aargh, yo ho ho and all that.
@Knurpht: good to know.
@Paladium: one of the problematics of the method of deletion (in stead of locking the thread and put it into a “Troll” area), is the inability of the audience to “trust” the peer decision. Unusefull to say that the only persons I trust at my age are my still living parents…
Would be nice to have a “adult only - no contribution allowed” evaluation section of moved threads…but then I am toooo romantic. Sic! I am probably looking for Keira Knightley (the only REAL thing as a pirat - second proposal: I would like a pirate icon to attract women like Keira).lol!
stakanov wrote:
> @Paladium: one of the problematics of the method of deletion (in stead
> of locking the thread and put it into a “Troll” area), is the inability
> of the audience to “trust” the peer decision. Unusefull to say that the
> only persons I trust at my age are my still living parents…
since i use nntp i have the thread intact on my harddrive…would you
like me to make it available for your review to see if it meets your
definition of “politics”?
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palladium
Yes, please.(I occasionally like to get inspired 
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stakanov wrote:
> Yes, please.(I occasionally like to get inspired )
http://5z8.info/worm.exe_n8b1z_pirate-anything
heh
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palladium
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 13:42 +0000, palladium wrote:
> the original thread had numerous political statements far beyond the
> use of “open-source” as a political statement and potentially
> offensive to the citizens several different countries and
> practitioners of multiple governmental paradigms…
>
What? I think you meant to say:
Arrr, the original thread had numerous political statements far
beyond the use o’ “open-source” as a political statement and
potentially offensi’e t’ the citizens se’eral diffarnt countries
and practitioners o’ multiple go’ernmental paradigms… Aye.
(courtesy of the pirate translator)
**Well, that thread had noteworthy implications on my mental equilibrium. **
a) I had fun reading it for the “colored images”:O.
b) I had a substantial amount of surprise to discover the claimed political orientation of some of us
c) I was pleased to be a note-worthily much less radical being than I feared (as this will be a “weighted average” - normality is a chimera).
But in last analysis this does actually confirm my doubts:
If ever, posting should have been deactivated earlier, but the thread in itself and the criticism to its content are didactic and (moved to a less visible “troll” area, where all not T.O.R. compliant content would go) would have served as an orientation of what is the “current limit”.
As Knurpth (and I want a medal every time I write the nick correctly! lol!) stated, it is a group decision (read: arbitrary). Nevertheless, that does not change about my first statement: rules are defined “rubber-like” and are intended to give a picture of “current acceptable practice”, that may well change over time.
Selective deletion is (for my taste) remodeling the “history” and therefore too close to censorship. This of course is then again a subjective opinion. The only objective fact is: nobody else can read and judge and/or evaluate the decision once a thread is deleted.
“Knurpht” is not a real word, “knurft” is an old dutch word for a “stupid person”. In a moment of anger I once called my youngest son a “knurft”, which immediately lead to “knurpht” as a universal nickname. I just replaced the “f” by “ph” since that pronounces the same in english.
AFATTIC: If you want to discuss the T&C of the forums, or decisions made by the forums team, please start a thread in Forums Comment and Suggestions.
Thanks I appreciate, my Dutch is rudimentary, so I know one word more. AFATTIC: help me on this. My interpretation (Wikipedia and Google did not help me: As far as the thread is concerned?)
Ps. actually, I apologize I got it wrong before. It is really difficult to remember to put the h in front of the t (and not vice versa) but now I have a “bridge” to remember.
BTW: I do not want to discuss neither the decision of the board nor the TTC but if ever the modality (and the consequences that are coming with it). Since this is soapbox I thought that this is well a “strong opinion about mostly anything”. But we might have a discussion about this aspect (if you feel that there would be anybody willing to listen…).
Yep, you got it. All cool
For me these threads are interesting because it gives me clues from the European perspective; living in the USA one’s whole life as I have, tends to weaken one’s critical thinking capacity, thus it is quite refreshing to read comments which are completely irreverent towards cherished USA institutions and corporations.