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taishi28012 wrote:Take a few jokes? I don't think racial slurs, insults to my heritage and jabs at my religion are jokes.
Oh dear. Chill out. Those "fortunes" are collections of things that the creators of the program picked up over the years. The important thing is: There are various cookie "packages", e.g. hilarious quotes from spam messages ("You will be very hard today ...." <== Exactly what I need to know when I login :lol: ), Star Trek, more or less intelligent quotes from more or less intelligent people (e.g. "It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." ...), and then there are a few loads of "politically incorrect" ones. And "fortune" can be fine-tuned, e.g. not to display offensive quotes ... or only to display offensive quotes. Mine is setup to display whatever it wants.

As for "racial slurs" and "insults to my heritage" ... Oh dear: If you are so easily offended by a stupid brainless program (it *is* a stupid program and there is not the slightest bit of "artificial intelligence" behind it) --I mean it's not like someone with a plan in their mind is insulting you on purpose-- then you better uninstall this thing before you get too angry and smash your computer or something like that. And get over your complexes :D

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If he once again pushes up his sleeves in order to compute for 3 days
and 3 nights in a row, he will spend a quarter of an hour before to
think which principles of computation shall be most appropriate.
                -- Voltaire, "Diatribe du docteur Akakia"

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  Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am not always right, but I am
  never wrong. -Samuel Goldwyn
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Post by antiquexray »

In every joke someone or something is the butt of that joke (racial, gay, ethnicisity, religious, etc.). If it is directed at me, and it happens to good joke, I can see the humor in that. However, how many out there take offense at being the subject of such an happenstance but laugh when it is directed at others?
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Post by frank392 »

just ignore them no one is forcing you to read the jokes
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nick wrote: You could use the BOFH fortunes for sys admins :)
Yeap, I have that package too ... You can get it via 'apt': Install the package fortunes-bofh-excuses

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BOFH excuse #437:

crop circles in the corn shell
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