All you need is ubuntu (BBC) {Bill Clinton speech in Europe}

[eppur_se_muova]

By Sean Coughlan
BBC News Magazine


Bill Clinton told the Labour conference to get into ubuntu. Eh?
Ubuntu. That was what Bill Clinton told the Labour party conference it needed to remember this week. "Society is important because of Ubuntu."
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No, it's a word describing an African worldview, which translates as "I am because you are," and which means that individuals need other people to be fulfilled.

The former president, husky-voiced and down-home with the delegates, gave it a folksy flavour, describing it in terms of needing to be around others to enjoy being ourselves.

If we were the most beautiful, the most intelligent, the most wealthy, the most powerful person - and then found all of a sudden that we were alone on the planet, it wouldn't amount to a hill of beans," said Mr Clinton.

The word comes from the Bantu languages spoken in southern Africa - and is related to a Zulu concept - "umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu" - which means that a person is only a person through their relationship to others.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5388182.stm

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[Teaser]

1. and also linux

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[Hawkeye-X]

3. Surely he didn't catch the preview of "The Goode Family"

As his character's name is also Ubuntu?

[Prophet 451]

5. I was thinking that

I saw the headline and my first thought was "Why is Bill hyping Linux?".

[chill_wind]

6. Me too! :-) n/t

[silverojo]

7. Should've known he'd never promote Linux

He and HRC prefer helping the rich get richer, so of course free OS'es like Linux wouldn't appeal.

Oh, yeah...and it takes some brains to learn how to use Linux.

Rhodes scholar, my ass--he's just got the Irish gift of blarney. :mad:

[xchrom]

2. i am the walrus. nt

[MannyGoldstein]

4. I Guess Bill *Used* To Think "Ubuntu" Meant "Sodomize"

Because sodomy is what he practiced on the US Middle Class by ramming through NAFTA and almost-free trade with China.

It would also explain his being the first president to order torture via "extraordinary rendition" (outsourced torture).