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Juan Valdez on Oct 7th, 2006 at 7:34 pm If he is innocent, this is slander... if he is guilty, you should have waited until he was found guilty in a court of law. Oh, and Published almost once a week on average' should be changed to Published almost once a month on average'.
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From the most recent article Wikipedia links to: "Despite the focus on Hans Reiser, 42, Jordan said police are not even sure whether Nina Reiser's disappearance involved foul play." You live in the land of guilty-until-proven-innocent libel law;
Joe Grossberg on Oct 8th, 2006 at 3:36 am I have really enjoyed your comics, but I think this one is just too vicious. With all the humorous subjects in the world of open source, you choose to encourage laughter about the disappearance and possible murder of a woman? Really, man -- if your wife disappeared, would you just brush off someone's depiction of you drenched in blood?
Hans is trying to regain custody of his two children, both of whom having been placed at Alameda County Child Protective Services since his wife's dissapearance.
Russell Nelson on Oct 9th, 2006 at 4:14 am Hey John, I have a suggestion for your next strip: suggest that the foster parents taking care of the Reiser's kids are MOLESTING THEM.
neuro on Oct 9th, 2006 at 11:38 am John, don't listen to this crowd of rabble: it's a funny strip, and the circumstances don't make it less so. If Hans has a problem with it, I'm sure he'll be in touch. Meanwhile, the media is printing all sorts of stuff that, even though Hans isn't a suspect in the case, is pretty good at attempting to character build him into the disgruntled, poor ex who is being litigated against for money, loans, and all sorts of stuff. Personally I don't give a shit if his ex is doing S&M sex stuff with her new bf, and it surely has feck all to do with the public reportage of the case. This strip is dark, but light hearted compared to some of the media coverage.
Yeah, this is freaking hilarious if she isn't dead, pretty damn sick if she is. BTW, a dozen years younger than him, Russian, and runs off with a weirdo? I'd make a joke about the warranty on his mail order running out...
fuzzix on Oct 9th, 2006 at 4:52 pm You and your practical solutions, neuro... You're like these people who tell folk there's an off switch and other channels on their TV sets when they see something offensive on there. Don't you understand that when people are offended by something they need to cling onto it like a teddy or a substitute for real opinions.
Vanunu on Oct 9th, 2006 at 6:46 pm Joe: Lime is used generally in gardening, usually to speed up composting. Hans doesn't sweat, he doesn't um and ah, he doesn't look nervous. Seems to me that the comic is a satire of the media coverage, and perhaps of the twisted depths of your own expectations.
Juan Valdez on Oct 10th, 2006 at 12:44 am Vanunu: Then why do Linus' eyes pop out in the last panel? Just like any reader would, given the image of Hans in the comic. Not only that, the ticker below the comic wouldn't be there if the comic didn't clearly imply that Hans killed his wife. I was wrong when I said in an earlier comment that the comic is slander, because it dosen't explicitly assert anything; but this does not mean twisted depths of imagination are required to realize what the comic implies.
Julian Turner on Oct 10th, 2006 at 3:57 pm While i fount this to be very funny, I have to agree that Linspire is a possible joke gold mine - especially now that Eric is with them.
Taken seperately each situation has a clear and easy explanation, but put together and coupled with the disappearance of his wife your media trained minds leap to the conclusion that he's killed her. This is why in the US we have an innocent until provent guilty judicial system. Until all the facts are known and analyzed you are all making wild assumptions with partial truths. Once the facts of the matter are all laid out then, and only then, can you make an honest judgement of the situation. The strip lays out "facts" as to his bloodied clothes and shovel. He has somewhat reasonable explanations, but you all play right into the morbid trump card throw in your personal feelings and blame the author for making you think them... and then you project them onto his motives for creating the strip in the first place and call it bad taste. I call it a good exercise at waking people up to the biases they have and the media conditioning they get. Me, I'm waiting for official word of his situation before I make a final judgement of this particular strip.
Some people here seem to forget this is a comic strip and sometimes comic strips (and many forms of comedy shows, etc) make fun of hot topic issues. You might want to change the subtext on the banner to say almost once a month' 49.
bigmac on Oct 11th, 2006 at 2:58 pm See, this is why I use a BSD license. I'll take McCusick over Linus any day, and I don't think he ever strangled a chick just to watch her cry.
The spirit of ELER is ridiculing open-source people who shoot their mouth off (ESR's blog), have quircky amusing personal habits (St iGNUtius) or silly ideas (bitkeeper). I fail to see how the disappearance of someones ex-wife fits the formula. The "naysayers" are just here to remind the author that if he wishes to shift the demography of his readership to fourteen year old internet tough guys, he only needs to keep this up.
Why is it people's first reaction to something they don't like is to demand it be removed, destroyed or banned? Free speech as long as I agree with what you say, is that it? Go elsewhere and leave us 14 year olds' in peace you humourless old codgers.
Yeah, there is the fact that this person is in the F/OSS world. However the more important thing is that there is a woman missing, possibly dead, and the family does not need to have this matter taken lightly. If you're really out of good fun ideas for this strip just give it up. Going for this type of crowd just taints all the fun you've brought out before.
It would have been funny even if Hans hadn't been arrested too by the way, and if he'd been totally innocent, which of course he still is technically speaking. However, if you watched some of the police news conferences, it went from 10 days ago Hans Reiser not being worth following because the OPD doesn't have the manpower to do that to, after the DNA test, the OPD devoting at times 24 hour per day tailing of Reiser. If I was Reiser, I'd be very very worried right about now. And if I was him, I'd be starting to make sure that, if innocent or guilty, my defense attorney is of the very highest quality money can buy. Guilty or innocent, that's what is going to get you off in either case. But the strip itself was really funny no matter the fact that reality caught up.
Hans has been on the ELER hitlist for some time prior to the disappearance of his wife on the basis of his overwhelmingly abrasive personality and of his constant failure to interact sanely with any community he comes into contact with (and , to a lesser extent, the weird 3D model people on the Reiser4 page). I would've thought anyone remotely familiar with Hans wouldn't need to be shown the connection between his insane social interactions and this week's strip.
It's also the funniest thing I've seen about the whole crazy Reiser affair. I mean, Namesys was sponsored by DARPA but farmed out most of the work to Russians. Reiser4 still hasn't made it into the kernel mainline, and Hans has always been difficult' to work with. This is the US government's way of saying thank you' for all the hard work.
In the united states satire is well protected in the law. In various lawsuites, people have gotten away with all things in satire they couldn't say in direct speech.
The spirit of ELER is ridiculing open-source people who shoot t...
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