Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 04/01/2011 07:20 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:17:42 +0100, Lisi wrote:
>
> > On Friday 01 April 2011 10:05:54 Liam O'Toole wrote:
>
> > > > > I guess it is a joke.
> > > >
> > > > 04/01/11 !
> > >
> > > What does the 4th of January have to do with it??!!!!
> >
> > Perhaps on an international list we should say the month names as Liam
> > has here.  Otherwise one is playing guessing games to work out the
> > upbringing of any writer who uses an ambiguous form for the date.  In
> > this case the context made guessing easy, but that is rarely the case.
>
> Not only date format can be a problem but its full meaning, as not every
> country is aware of this "special day".
>
> Here in Spain we celebrate it on December 28th instead.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day#Other_prank_days_in_the_world

What part of "Cultural Imperialism" don't you understand???

:)

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