F1RST P0ST (lol)

[amitron]

I have just sent the following email to Carl Kenner, and may as well post it here:

Dear Carl,
(I'm hoping you will read this all the way through despite the facts presented here. Thank you! )

You're claiming Israel is being racist towards Palestinian civillians, and thus should be boycotted.
Yet on the other hand, I could state that: GlovePIE is being racist towards Israeli civillians, and thus should be boycotted? Don't fight fire with fire. You'll just end up with lots of fire. :/

Besides, computer programs and politics don't mix. Imagine how pissed of you'd be if you found a really great program that crashes because you live in Germany, claiming that it cannot let "Nazis" use it. Chances are, you have no connection whatsoever to Nazism, facism or anything of the likes.

Now, if you were to somehow block politicians' computers, I'd understand. But since you're being racist towards innocent civillians, I see some hypocrisy here...

Fun fact: I could tamper with the settings (or the disassembly) and make it work, but I may as well do a good deed and tell you about this.

Live long and prosper,
Amit Ron

P.S. Downloading the app wasn't against the EULA since I never signed it or agreed to it in any way. (And never read it until I Googled the problem.)

Anyone who agrees, say "aye!"

[Guest]

I say get over your self

[amitron]

And I say Carl's a jerk. He replied to the e-mail, and all I can say is that he's a prejudiced hippie.

Time to find open-source alternatives!

[TiagoTiago]

last i checked OpenPIE had died


Regarding the racism thing, he is not racist, even a blond blue eyed person that is over the Israel territory is forbidden from using GlovePIE; it's not about race, it's about who is the government of the area and what they are doing.

[amitron]

As for OpenPIE, did I mention I have sufficient programming skill to mash up something that does exactly what I want and need? >_>

If you want proof of how much of a jerk he is, I posted a transcript of the conversation I tried -- and failed -- to have with him here: http://butteredtoast.org/idiots/carl.kenner/

[Guest]

amiron, please just get over yourself, if you don't like glovePIE then please just leave and stop irritating us with your talk. go and make your own PIE that only works in Israel and see if we have racist debates with you about it.

The forum seemed nice without you stirring everything up

[amitron]

I'll probably just end up decompiling GlovePIE, making the boycott function always return true (or false, or whatever it's supposed to return when not in Israel) and distribute that.

Live long and prosper.

[TiagoTiago]

Talking about cracking and distributing unauthorized copies of GPIE on the official forum is probably not the brightest idea....

[amitron]

The EULA doesn't prohibit decompilation of the program.

[mcfroogle]

but it does prohibit the use in Israel?

[amitron]

Then for that matter I can ask my friend in [insert country here] to do it for the greater good.

[mcfroogle]

You go do that then. bye bye