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Thursday December 12, 2002
06:17 AM
Academic Boycott
I've stopped posting political stuff here, but this morning the Guardian ran a feature on how an number of academics were boycotting Israel and I thought that was interesting in light of the planned YAPC::Israel.
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It is interesting (Score:1)
I know my reaction to seeing YAPC:Isreal was 'good for perl, bad for palestine'. One of Isreal's core industries is IT, and it is at the cutting edge.
This means as much as I respect people Like Moshe Bar for their technical ability I have to wonder : how can you live in and support such a nation ?
The thing is YAPC being in Isreal will probably do more good for perl than any effect a boycott would have. Wirhou
@JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
print reverse @JAPH;
OTOH ... (Score:2)
Re:It is interesting (Score:2)
I have to wonder how an intelligent person can wonder how someone else can have a differing point of view.
Sorry to break this to you, but you don't know everything. You are wrong on a great many things, as everyone else is. Perhaps you could start making the world a better place by respecting this fact, and encouraging others to do likewise, rather than ass