Etics and Racism in software - some personal points - Off-topic

It's ridiculous to apply and include political disputes in software! As this program does: w0lf's Translator v1.1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3303133
Go to page:
http://anonym.to/?http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
as you can see Hungarian language is included!
We know there were old political disputes between Romania and Hungary. But to omit deliberately Hungarian language only because Romania has disputes with Hungary (certain people) it's ridiculous.
But the romanian author of this program did deliberately omited the Hungarian language in his program.
Simply childish.
I'm too born in Romania too and proud to be a Romanian, but to include political disputes in my software is under my dignity.
Same rasistic policy is applied by Visicom Navigator GPS Ukraine 2008 v3.2.8. Where because Ukraine has disputes with Romania has choosen to apply same rasistic attitude in this GPS software: towns with majoritary romanian population are very poor representated (no streets, building numbers, and so on...). Small towns with majoritar ukrainian population are represented with complete street and building information.
I sent all this information to Romanian authorities: parliament, newspapers and foreign ministry.
IMHO no politics or political disputes should be present in software!

You posted in the wrong section, not a contribution to Hacking & Development "unless posted under the authors thread"
Also speculation as how do you know what you say is true and not just the development not every language is included, so it could be said for other countrys not included that it's racism?
Missing Countrys:
Albanian
Estonian
Filipino
Finish
& more as not going to point them all out.............

Have you sent the author a translation yourself and had him or her refuse to add it or is this just a conspiracy theory of your own

closed this post because of cross-posting

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World War III about to kick off ? Russia invading Ukraine !

What are your thoughs about this recent movement ?
Ukraine mobilises after Putin's 'declaration of war'
Ukrainian and Russian troops in standoff at Crimean military base - live updates
You this conflic can be solved without violence ?
Who can stop Russia ? What are the options ?
Just making a place for us to discuss this topic
Edit: If this is not allowed in OT, pls remind me... I didn't see any rules that say this is not allowed
Edit_2: Since political threads are not allowed on XDA ... I kindly ask you not to answer with a political stamement such as "I hope A destroyes B with a nuclear strike".... So just try to discuss without saying you want someone to win or whatever... take the question "What are the options to solve this conflict without violence ?" as an example... I think this isn't too policital
It has been started with America and Syria
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I hope it will end without war. If not, Poland would be in centre of world war 3rd time from 1914. I'm definitely not happy because Poland (my country) borders with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
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As long as there's a reason for war
It'll never end
It all caused by fear, greed, and mis-guided people
You can't simply remove those from the human nature
And history doesn't repeat it self, humanity repeat it's stupidity
Take that as a lesson for tomorrow
And yes, political topics are not allowed on XDA
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the most "funny" thing is that my country has the borders with both countries , so i may get screwed up if this war continues
let's hope that the situation won't get any worst that it is now...
LibertyMarine said:
What are your thoughs about this recent movement ?
Ukraine mobilises after Putin's 'declaration of war'
Ukrainian and Russian troops in standoff at Crimean military base - live updates
You this conflic can be solved without violence ?
Who can stop Russia ? What are the options ?
Just making a place for us to discuss this topic
Edit: If this is not allowed in OT, pls remind me... I didn't see any rules that say this is not allowed
Edit_2: Since political threads are not allowed on XDA ... I kindly ask you not to answer with a political stamement such as "I hope A destroyes B with a nuclear strike".... So just try to discuss without saying you want someone to win or whatever... take the question "What are the options to solve this conflict without violence ?" as an example... I think this isn't too policital
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Merely discussing this topic at all is considered political discussion. Sorry, there is no way around the rule in this thread.
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Question [CLOSED][...] Change the IMEI number

Hello here.
(I'm french, so be nice with my english please)
I posting today to ask you if it exist a way to change an IMEI number on the Xiaomi REDMI 9T.
Every explaination i've found are too much old (for android 5//6/7/8).
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