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Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.


On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:26:26PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>
>>Jerry Williams, not of the band Grateful Dead, wrote:
>>
>>>==> fortunes2-o <==
>>>Would you please have another look at my nose and put in that  
>>>cocaine stuff....
>>>-- Adolf Hitler, quoted by Dr. Giesing in Nuremberg trial
>>
>>Is something like this even legal in Germany?
>
>Why would you suggest that expressing a thought, however you might
>disagree with it, should be illegal?

Probably because some expressions relating to Nazism are illegal in
Germany.  One of our German users would probably know this for sue.

>Are you sure your an American?!?

Why would speculating on another country's laws make someone
un-American?

cgf

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