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This is the kind of thing that I like to read after a day of struggling with GCC C++ ABI compatibility and trying to parse Mozilla’s MDC developer documentation. From a recent Slashdot thread on RMS versus Linus:

Re:Damn hippies

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by happyemoticon (543015) on Wednesday September 12, @11:41AM (#20573661)
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A friend of mine went on a trip to Ecador recently. The idea was to make water collection tanks for the natives out in the jungle. He’s an engineering graduate student, everyone else was in sociology, and they were hippies to the man. Tons of pot. Dirty. White people with dreadlocks. You name a stereotype, they had it.The trip fell apart because my friend had the perverted idea that he, as an engineer, should tell them how to engineer things. They wanted to decide things like structural soundness democratically. They had a poor work ethic as well: while he’d be trying to teach them how to do something, they’d start massage circles or play frisbee in the middle of the Ecuadorian jungle.Perhaps you could add other stereotypes in there, such as “Lazy, idealistic college kids,” or “sheltered American youth” but it is very tempting for me to say, given my experiences, that a sizable segment of the hippie population is too inept, anti-authority, lazy and anti-knowledge to change anything, up to and including their own underwear.

Yeah bitch.