'Nuclear Free' Maryland City Grants Waiver For HP 277
dcblogs writes "The City of Takoma Park, Md. this week granted a waiver to its public library to allow it to use some new HP hardware, whose products are otherwise banned under its 'nuclear free zone' ordinance. That law, adopted in 1983 one month after the Cold War-era movie 'The Day After' was aired, prohibits the city from buying equipment from any company connected to U.S. nuclear weapons production. The library bought new Linux-based, x86 systems from a Canadian vendor and didn't realize the vendor was using HP hardware. The hardware arrived in April and was unused until the Takoma Park city council granted it a waiver this week. The city's list of banned contractors was developed in 2004 by a now inactive group, Nuclear Free America, and hasn't been updated since."
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That word (catharsis) doesn't mean what you think it means.
Catharsis is a purging of built up emotion/tension. It has absolutely nothing to do with education of any sort.....
Seventh-day Adventist Church (Score:5, Informative)
Takoma Park [wikipedia.org] has long been a center for the Seventh Day Adventist Church [wikipedia.org], and 7DAs tend to be pacifists.
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Yes, the law called them Indians.
Our largest local Indian confederation refers to itself as "Indians". The Indians I've known all call themselves Indians.
The people I've known that get worked up about using "Native American" tend to be white and middle-to-upper class.