svn commit: r365984 - head/usr.bin/calendar/calendars

[Ian Lepore]

On Tue, 2020-09-22 at 17:56 +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Ian Lepore wrote in
>  <b36e2d949b02393d9f64f9ddbf04977027ecd54c.camel at freebsd.org>:
>  |On Tue, 2020-09-22 at 16:02 +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
>  |> Greg Lehey wrote in
>  |>  <202009212255.08LMtpSp078237 at repo.freebsd.org>:
>  |>|Author: grog
>  |>|Date: Mon Sep 21 22:55:51 2020
>  |>|New Revision: 365984
>  |>|URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/365984
>  |>|
>  |>|Log:
>  |>|  Remove claim that Allied Forces created "West Germany" in
>  |> 1953.  I can
>  |>|  find no historic substantiation for such a claim.  The Federal
>  |>|  Republic of Germany was created by Germans on 23 May 1949, as
>  |> also
>  |>|  noted in this file.
>  |> 
>  |> I could imagine it was Konrad Adenauer (chancellor at that time)
>  |> refusing (let aside western war winners) the Sowjet offer to
>  |> reunite Germany shall Germany henceforth exist as a "neutral
>  |> state" in the same sense as Switzerland claims to be neutral.
>  |> He refused, instead forward looking to rearm the German army.
>  |> That is, turning Germany to a part of the Western Alliance
>  |> explicitly and willingly.  Or was that in 1949?  Hm.
>  |
>  |And this is why I agree with Cy and Conrad that we should not be
> trying
>  |to be wikipedia lite.
> 
> Not finding anything at all that is to say then?
> On Wikipedia there is lobbyism and even war in big style for sure,
> you can very often see this.
> In fact, _this_ calendar entry is so fine because it mentions
> something that is not talked about in Germany, the last time
> i have heard it in the public was about twenty years ago, wait, it
> was in fact 2003 during the German public law TV show "Greatest
> Germans", and once the brave man said it ("sometimes the truth has
> to be told") it came out how that audience was mounted, because
> a loud LIE!!!!! could be heard.  And yes, Konrad Adenauer was
> voted the greatest german of all time, a wise and comprehensible
> decision, outperforming those dwarfs like Goethe, Schiller,
> Beethoven, Einstein, Bach, and our wonderful emperor even.  I do
> not understand!
> 
> The calendar program came into BSD in 1981 and originally only
> looked for per user calendar files.
> I am using this program ever since i started using FreeBSD, now
> also on Linux.  Other than that i cannot help it, you know.
> But it is great that just recently someone pimped the codebase in
> order to make it work with other calendar formats also, i think.
> (I cloned that specific repository in addition the second i read
> the announcement.  Have not tried it yet though.  But will keep
> it.)
> 

And now you're arguing about the factual correctness of your comment in
reply to my comment which wasn't about the facts at all.

Thank you for proving my point most elequently about why we should not
be purveyors of trivia or general knowledge.

-- Ian