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There is an english word for this : Blackmail

...which I'm sure you've heard before...

"I'm sick of all this smoking on the PC -- I mean, I keep falling off!"

Nyuk nyuk nyuk...

"Who has an attitude here ?"
You ya snooty faced git (all insults and commentary said with tongue placed firmly in cheek). I never said I was brilliant or well educated, simply that I love to tinker and that's why I prefer Linux. Never said I was a geek, either. I'm more "Walt the Janitor" of the technology world.

"Moron,"!? I resemble that comment!

"I merely pointed how ridiculous it was to diss OS-X lack of freedom, while OS-X will offer as much freedom in the choice of shells as any decent unix-derived system."

Hmm... I am the one who needs to learn to read? As I recall, and when I read the first line of the second paragraph of what I wrote, it reads "Please forgive me if I am wrong, but isn't Apple not going to allow you to use whatever configuration of GUI or shell that you want? " Meaning, for those slow learners *ahem* that if I am wrong I do beg pardon, but Apple has not generally allowed it's users total control over the OS. Granted, neither has MS, but with Win* I can at least replace the Explorer interface if I want. Yes, the replacements tend to be buggy at best, but it can be done. Yes, ResEdit is a hell of a lot of fun, and you can do lots of spiffy things with it, but not nearly to the extent of Linux, which was why I "jumped ship". OS X may prove more customizable, but then again if Apple contiues the way it has in the past, it may not.

What can I say? I'm shallow and easilly wooed by shiny objects, cool looking wharf bars, and kernel tinkering.

"while OS-X will offer as much freedom in the choice of shells as any decent unix-derived system."

But will they? That was one of my (read that part: my) reasons for prefering Linux over OS X. And I agree that I am making an assumption that Apple will limit what you can do to the system, but that assumption is based on past operating systems and habbits. I'm not and didn't diss OS X, but the subject of the article was "Will OS X replace Linux". I simply (and it would seem poorly) expressed one reason why I wouldn't switch.

Oh... and your mother was a hampster, and your father smelled of elderberries :-)

Hey,
That reminds me of the Monty Python skit "Blackmail". A TV show where they blackmail people with incriminating evidence. They basically ask the victims to pay them money not to reveal more evidence. Here's a sample (get more here)

"And now: a letter, a hotel registration book, and a series of photographs, which could add up to divorce, premature retirement, and possible criminal proceedings for a company director in Bromsgrove. He's a freemason, and a conservative M.P., so Mr S. that's 3,000 pounds please to stop us from revealing: Your name, The name of the three other people involved, The youth organization to which they belonged, and the shop where you bought the equipment!"

Good fun...

Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable. Heideggar, Heideggar was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table.

David Hume could out-consume Schoppenhauer and Hegel. And Whittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nieizsche couldn't teach 'ya 'bout the raising of the wrist. Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.

John Stewart Mill, of his own free will On half a pint of shanty was particularly ill. Plato they say could stick it away, Half a crate of whiskey every day.

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle, And Hobbes was fond of his dram. And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart. 'I drink, therefore I am.'

Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed; A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.

(bruces philosopher song)

- monty python

I was going to try to do this from memory ("Yes! we have crumpet!") but memory is poor.

Just follow the link, try not to chortle too much.

http://www.montypython.net/scripts/algon.php3