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American's are more willing to pay for their techy gadgets

No, it's because "American's" are idiots, which is why we pay high prices for techy gadgets, and buy SUVs and drive them like the idiots we are when gas is three bucks a gallon. How do you think Bush got elected, then re-elected? We're IDIOTS, plain and simple. And the (mostly foreign) corporations know it and take advantage of it.

Maybe it's got something to do with our abysmal public education system?

(Sorry for all the the "Bob", but ya know, I'm a fan. Bob's as nerdy as you can get.

Say no more than this.

Hear hear! Or is that "hear hear?" Any way...

4. "im" should be capitalized and spelled with an apostrophe;

He must have read this "Bob" cartoon instead of this one. Personally, as an Asimov fan, I prefer this one. But that one, unfortunately, is about robots rather than apostrophes.

What was the topic again?

Hear hear! Or is that "hear hear?" Any way...

4. "im" should be capitalized and spelled with an apostrophe;

He must have read this "Bob" cartoon instead of this one. Personally, as an Asimov fan, I prefer this one. But that one, unfortunately, is about robots rather than apostrophes.

What was the topic again?

Hear hear! Or is that "hear hear?" Any way...

4. "im" should be capitalized and spelled with an apostrophe;

He must have read this "Bob" cartoon instead of this one. Personally, as an Asimov fan, I prefer this one. But that one, unfortunately, is about robots rather than apostrophes.

What was the topic again?

Don't forget Bob the Angry Flower on loop quantum gravity.

;p

;p

Reminds me of a certain cartoon: http://www.angryflower.com/goinaf.gif

Yes, but fortunately this problem has now been solved by a Canadian scientist.

Schrodinger's Fridge

Last I heard its [sic] not the governments [sic] job, its [sic] the parent [sic]. You should be required to have a license to have children. Otherwise the parents loose [sic] a finger everytime [sic]

Last I heard it's not the government's job, its the parents'. You should be required to have a license to have children. Otherwise the parents lose a finger every time.

They should just hire Bob:

http://www.angryflower.com/manbeh.gif

Read all about it here.

http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

didn't have any Wii's on display

Dammit, dammit, dammit, caught it after I hit submit. I know better, honest.

"If there's nothing wrong with what Verizon has done why would the current administration need to cover Verizon's ass with this legislation? Smell's fishy to me ..."

Can I imply from this, that regardless of the outcome, you somehow stand to gain the fishy of someone named Smell?

I'll let this guy explain it to you.

It isn't that hard.

Bob the Angry Flower is very angry at your use of the apostrophe.

> There shall be vats of Unthinking Cloned Meat for everybody.

> This will please the meat eaters, and will please the animal-cruelty protestors

http://www.angryflower.com/vegeta.gif

Apparently the slashdot "editors" (who give real editors a bad name) never heard of Bob.

It's a shame, too. Bob's a real nerd. Ironically, the "editors" of "news for nerds" obviously aren't nerds themselves. Come to think of it, not many of its readers are either. "To different things", he says. Jesus, the guy can't even spell a three letter word!

BTW, when you loose your dog you'll lose him if he runs away, and the illiterate retards here won't have a clue what I just said.

Stupid stupid stupid. Now mod me down, you illiterate dumbfucks.

Apparently the slashdot "editors" (who give real editors a bad name) never heard of Bob.

It's a shame, too. Bob's a real nerd. Ironically, the "editors" of "news for nerds" obviously aren't nerds themselves. Come to think of it, not many of its readers are either. "To different things", he says. Jesus, the guy can't even spell a three letter word!

BTW, when you loose your dog you'll lose him if he runs away, and the illiterate retards here won't have a clue what I just said.

Stupid stupid stupid. Now mod me down, you illiterate dumbfucks.

highlight's some of the ineptness... What bunch of buffons.

Please print this informative, helpful poster out and display it prominently in your offices.

Just try to discuss Windows from and ease of use, UI, user perspective and you will get a lot of Windows morons telling you to tough it out, or, my fave "My grandmother uses Windows and doesn't complain." (Your grandmother probably isn't editing the registry or trying to make it more than a web browsing/email appliance.)

Unexpected, wild assed UIs are a problem in Windows and closed source software (CSS) in general. Microsoft insists on changing everything between releases, up to and including menu items. Take e.g., IE. One version had "options" under "edit", andother had it under "file", another under "tools", etc. Mouse over "file" and nothing happens. Click "file" and mouse over "edit" and "edit" opens and "file" closes. What f'moron designed this crap, anyway???

Convoluted instructions when you can get them at all - they used to include good, solid manuals you could kill a dog with if you threw them at him. Now you get fifty pages for an OS! HowTos are completely nonexistant, etc. Help files are no help, telling the user to dig into the guts of the control panel and set oddly named, poorly documented settings that change names, locations, and icons from version to version. You used to be able to learn a Microsoft program simply by hitting F1. No longer.

Did I mention idiot developed UIs?

Odd assed error messages that don't tell you why something failed to run or install, such as MS Access' "Unexpected error (-5461): there is no message for this error" rather than dumping anything a you would want to know about it and could google for, onto the screen.

UIs that were developed by some pseudo-genius who THINKS he has a better grasp of the user experience, like "Bob" or "Clippy" or those aggrivating damned menus that only show the items Windows thinks you'll need, but never are, so you either have to wait ten seconds or click again. Screens that require you to go from mouse to keyboard and back ahgain, damn but my elbow hurts toiday!

No, you are not allowed to talk about these things, because you will be tagged as a heretic in the religiOS wars.

Did I mention UIs, or apostrophes?

Those poor puppie's. http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

Limiting my access to a website hosted in the same city I'm in won't free up bandwidth for someone across the globe (unless they're also trying to access said website). How about we call it what it is, a lack of capacity in specific geographical areas? And while we're at it, make a few mirrors of Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe wouldn't hurt.

For anyone who has problems remembering, print this out, or order the full color poster and put it on your wall:

http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

Poster:

http://www.angryflower.com/aposter.html

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BMO

For anyone who has problems remembering, print this out, or order the full color poster and put it on your wall:

http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

Poster:

http://www.angryflower.com/aposter.html

--
BMO

You forgot to give them a link.

Zaxor on Bob the Angry Flower

It's not that hard:

http://www.angryflower.com/itsits.gif

better version of this complaint

Stephen Notley's comments

I refer you to the interweb's foremost authority on the matter: http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

There are no Columbine's in Pakistan.

Did you make that incredibly stupid mistake on purpose to make your point,or are you just illiterate? If you have no clue what I'm talking about, see Bob.

Grammar Nazi time..

Bob owns one taxi
Bob owns many taxis.
One of Bob's taxis are yellow.
The yellow taxi's tire is flat.
All of Bob's taxis' tires are flat.

http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

I give everyone a default level of trust

You didn't grow up on that side of the tracks. Trust is like respect - it must be earned, or it's worthless. In the case of trust, misguided trust is dangerous, as the grandparent was trying to say.

No, no binding trust; just an assumed level of common decency and honesty

It must be nice to have never met an asshole. I assume you're a murderous, theiving asshole until you show me differently. But I haven't lived in the nicest neighborhoods all my life; in fact, the internet isn't a nice neighborhood. Once I get to know you and see you're NOT Charlie Manson I'll give you a measure of trust.

That's the problem with a purely textual medium; humour can be very hard to spot at times

Even in a spoken medium. A bad joke is a bad joke whether online or off, and funny is funny whether online or off. If your joke sucks you deserve to be taken seriously. When you make a joke you also have to consider your audience. A joke about Schrodinger on slashdot is funny, in People magazine it isn't. Fashion jokes aren't fashionable here though.

two wrongs don't make a right

No, but three lefts do.

You should also link this. And say something about people who use too many Os in "lose".

I see you're not a businessman. Likely they have no businessmen at NYT either.

If you dont like my product, shop elsewhere. IT'S THAT SIMPLE!

A friend who owns a bar says "If you like the place, tell a friend. If you have a problem with it TELL ME".

Yes, he's barred folks, when they cost money (run off other customers, etc) but despite tthe few exceptions, only a fool turns away paying customers. The NYT is run by fools, it seems.

Of course, they're stupid enough to break Bob's Law. "The CEO's". Ok, NYT, what if there are two CEOs? And it is a possessive? Where do you stick your stupid apostrophe then?

Clearly, the New York Times is run by morons; but the Homeless Hacker should have taught you that!

Seriously (and yes, this is offtopic, so what), learn how to use the fucking apostrophe. Jesus fucking christ, you could be intelligent, articulate, and have interesting things to say, but the moment you use an apostrophe where it doesn't go, you look like a fucking moron. Here's some help for the likes of you:
http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/
If you're not able to parse a goddamn thing unless it's illustrated (your blog suggests that you can in fact manage the written word, but this bit is funny just the same), here's one from the funny pages:
http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
Signed,
Protector of the Apostrophe. Enemy of the department of redundancy department. Grammar Fascist. (Err, wait, nothing corporatist about grammar that I can think of, unless the question is one of buzzwords. Nevermind then.)

Cheers

I want this game

I think he's thinking more like Bob's invention!

http://angryflower.com/vegeta.gif