From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Three cheers for Eli! Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 20:33:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20180528174225.GA4316@ACM> <300eabee-1f11-268c-619f-373399d65ad2@yandex.ru> <83vaazdiiq.fsf@gnu.org> <87fu23b1je.fsf@mbork.pl> <87602z2l3x.fsf@aminb.org> <87efhnar8u.fsf@mbork.pl> <83602yd027.fsf@gnu.org> <87sh5yv86g.fsf@mbork.pl> <87muw6a34g.fsf@gmail.com> <87wov680o7.fsf@mbork.pl> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528763492 27577 195.159.176.226 (12 Jun 2018 00:31:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 00:31:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: aminb@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, kaushal.modi@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, john@yates-sheets.org To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 12 02:31:28 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fSXDb-00074Z-LR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 02:31:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51965 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSXFi-0000Nf-TH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 20:33:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55970) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSXFc-0000NI-J6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 20:33:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSXFb-0008HG-ND for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 20:33:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54958) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSXF8-0007ig-AM; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 20:33:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fSXF7-0001fN-Bm; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 20:33:01 -0400 In-reply-to: <87wov680o7.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Mon, 11 Jun 2018 05:25:12 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226243 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > At the risk of sounding quite rude and assuring it's not my intention at > > all: do you _like_ to be called an animal? > Wow, I didn't see that coming. Even if the analogy is slightly flawed, > point taken. I think it is a very good analogy. Every human being is, in fact, an animal. (I doubt any plants, fungi, or unicellular organisms are reading this message.) Nonetheless, calling someone an "animal" has another meaning, and people don't like to be called "animals". Calling the person a "Republican" -- who actually disagrees with that party -- is perhaps a closer analogy. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)