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Why would they object to a game showing muslims changing a church into a mosque? It's not liek that has not ever happened, is it?
What I found hilarious was:
asked users to select their gender between "not specified," "male" or "bitch," because of an unfortunate error in translation.Join MURCs Distributed Computing effort for Rosetta@Home and help fight Alzheimers, Cancer, Mad Cow disease and rising oil prices.
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And I thought I was living in the United States of the offended now it looks like it is the United World of the offended. Actually in the world order of things nobody really cares about offending Americans.
JoelLibertarian is still the way to go if we truly want a real change.
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That article doesn't strike me as odd. I can see India doing that. And if Microsoft made a map of Pakistan with the same 8 pixels, India would ban all MS products in India forever (well, until they could bribe enoug people to get back in the market at least).
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A Spanish-language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets, asked users to select their gender between "not specified," "male" or "bitch," because of an unfortunate error in translation.
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People spend too much time being offended. Be a Brit you spend all your time not trying to offend someone.
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TP: Lol. Although I work with brits regularly, and I have to say, when they try to insult me, they definately take advantage of their advantage in the advanced use of their first language.Join MURCs Distributed Computing effort for Rosetta@Home and help fight Alzheimers, Cancer, Mad Cow disease and rising oil prices.
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Well, we started it.Originally posted by Joel
Actually in the world order of things nobody really cares about offending Americans.
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Guys, this is funny. Can we keep it that way?Join MURCs Distributed Computing effort for Rosetta@Home and help fight Alzheimers, Cancer, Mad Cow disease and rising oil prices.
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