Horrific (IMO) Newsforge Article

[deception]

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/10/13/1648206&from=rss

IMO a very poor attempt at satire.

[Kapre]

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/10/13/1648206&from=rss

IMO a very poor attempt at satire.

That is a nice one! Good...Good.. LOL...:D

[Sirin]

These guys need to get a life. 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;

What would happen if I said: Hey, what's the difference between Windows XP and the 9/11, The Madrid transit attacks, and the London Bombings? It happens to XP several times a day.

[somuchfortheafter]

hmm maybe im a sick **** idk but i have to admit if you take it as is it is pretty funny... anyway the 9/11 terrorist bs is funny to me as well and i live in the US. Mainly because i dont really care about your opinion and i laugh because its amusing, also i see nothing racist about laughing at it, showed the article to a friend of every race, everyone giggled. yes we are a sick breed indeed. maybe you guys would be interested in this article as well consider some people here seem to remind me of him now:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=bill_oreilly

yea he is on my list of waste of human life just like nancy grace... o how i loathe nancy grace i wish she would be hit by a truck in front of my house.

[mike998]

That's funny...
Sick, but funny.

There's been research (I'm pulling this out of the back of my head) that humour is what helps us to deal with disasters and problems.

Lighten up!