From: Peter Cooper <peter@...>
Date: 2007-07-13T12:39:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Religion (was: god 0.1.0 released)

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On 7/13/07, Joe Wiltrout <wiltroutja@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> If your definition of daemon matches mine of Demon, then I think that
> demon is far from satanic. It's origins maybe be from biblical history,
> but people now-a-days use the terms "demon" and "demonic" just to mean
> evil. And they use them alot in video games. But they never end up
> getting sued, or making them change their monsters names, etc. So I
> think your anolgies are just plain stupid.


Yet you just supported and highlighted my entire point, since I was using
sarcasm to say, yes, this is stupid and, yes, words /do/ have different
meanings, which is why it makes no sense people getting their panties in a
twist.

and why would you name a drive 'slave'?
> That's just waiting to get you yelled at, or sued.


I'm not sure if you're trolling or not, but I'll take the bait.. Google for
"slave drive." It's a common term. Amusingly, however, the term "slave
drive" was idiotically banned in some Los Angeles city departments for the
potential of "offense."

Anyway, people should take a leaf out of DHH's book with his infamous FU
slide and just name their projects, software, or anything whatever they like
;-) (or take why's approach and use rather more abstract names to confuse us
all ;-))

Cheers,
Peter Cooper
http://www.rubyinside.com/

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