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Don't use big words that you don't understand the meaning. The word you were looking for is uninformed.

You forgot English majors. It's "comprising", not "comprised of". Sorry. I try to shy away from being a usage nazi, but the distinction between 'comprise' and 'compose' is a valuable one. Unfortunately, people like the sound of the word 'comprise', so its meaning is gradually being conflated with compose. I don't want to lose another good word to business speak. 'Solution', I weep for thee.

Extortion because you can't buy a name brand pc without microsoft getting money (excluding apple), whether or not you ordered linux.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=106 562&path=0%3A3944%3A3951%3A41937%3A86796%3A106 562
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product_listing.gsp ?cat=86798&path=0%3A3944%3A3951%3A41937%3A86796%3A 86798

Theft because microsoft is willing to compete with developers who develop software for windows operating systems. Or they buy the cheap clones and intergrate the software in to their OS.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=theft

Seriously, do you? Because that wasn't how you spell employ.

employ ( P ) Pronunciation Key (m-ploi)
tr.v. employed, employing, employs

To engage the services of; put to work: agreed to employ the job applicant.
To provide with gainful work: factories that employ thousands.
To put to use or service. See Synonyms at use.
To devote (time, for example) to an activity or purpose: employed several months in learning Swahili.

n.
The state of being employed: in the employ of the city.
Archaic. Occupation.

This is how to use employ and all the derivatives:

Man 1: I say, old chap, my dog is unemployed.

Man 2: No nose? How does he work if he isn't employed?

Man 1: Terrible, terrible, employer!

To spell employ, or employed go here Employ

Whatever word mechanism you were attempting to spell was not employ.

Also called milliard

Ummmm, I'm pretty sure the parent post was using sarcasm . You should try it some time.

The Slovak part was wrong, I agree. But what's your beef with Slovenians?

English instruction is mandatory virtually everywhere on earth (except perhaps in some european states, where english may be an option out of several for their nation's foreign language requirement). English education is a double-edged sword as it can promote brain-drain. English is frequently used in India due to India's historical ties with an english-speaking colonizer, and that language still is important for indians seeking a political career. During the cold war, vast amounts of Chinese students came to the US for their education, while hardly any soviet students came. The chinese leaders paid closer attention to their economic advisors.

"various assundry" indeed.

"various and sundry" is what you meant, I think.

The link you provide comes up with the following in seriously big letters:

No entry found for defeation.

You might have lost your house because you can't properly spell the word "lose". I loosed my house too!

Well, okay, but consider this -

Maybe his house was in the backyard, okay? And like, tied to a tree, or something. And it looked really, really sad, so he said, "Okay, house. Run away and be free!"

And so, he removed the rope, and loosed the house. SEE? You can never assume it's a typo. Sheesh!

1. I thought you had quit posting to Slashdot.
2. I thought smart people (like you, Mensa Babe) knew how to spell.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=trolling
"
troll1 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (trl)
v. trolled, trolling, trolls
v. tr.

To fish for by trailing a baited line from behind a slowly moving boat.
To fish in by trailing a baited line: troll the lake for bass.
To trail (a baited line) in fishing.
Slang. To patrol (an area) in search for someone or something: " [Criminals] troll bus stations for young runaways" (Pete Axthelm).
Music.
To sing in succession the parts of (a round, for example).
To sing heartily: troll a carol.
To roll or revolve.

v. intr.
To fish by trailing a line, as from a moving boat.

To wander about; ramble.
Slang. To patrol an area in search for someone or something.
Music. To sing heartily or gaily.
To roll or spin around.

n.

The act of trolling for fish.
A lure, such as a spoon or spinner, that is used for trolling.
Music. A vocal composition in successive parts; a round.
"

Now, STFU.

While trawling is a method of fishing very similar if not identical to trolling, trolling is still a method of fishing.

According to dictionary.com:

The verb troll has the following definitions:

To fish for by trailing a baited line from behind a slowly moving boat.
To fish in by trailing a baited line: troll the lake for bass.
To trail (a baited line) in fishing.
Slang. To patrol (an area) in search for someone or something: " [Criminals] troll bus stations for young runaways" (Pete Axthelm).
Music.
To sing in succession the parts of (a round, for example).
To sing heartily: troll a carol.
To roll or revolve.

You need to get more, AC.

I have 4 words to say: Mozilla Don't Got Calender.

If you're willing to go for one more word, you could actually sound intelligent. How about, "Mozilla doesn't have a calendar," instead? Also, since it's irrelevant (and impossible?) for Mozilla to have or be a machine in which cloth or paper is made smooth and glossy by being pressed through rollers, I fixed your misspelling of "calendar".

What the hell is "Google" or "Yahoo!" (Yes I know google means something but it sounds like it fell out of a gooses ass.)

The "Google" spelling is also used in "The Hitchhikers Guide
to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, in which one of Deep
Thought's designers asks, "And are you not," said Fook,
leaning anxiously foward, "a greater analyst than the
Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and
Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single
dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand
blizzard?"

Source

>The word "American" does not include people from Canada and Mexico, although the word "North American" does. Looks like you Canadians are no better at geography that we are.

First off, I said this continent; how you read that as just North America, well, your comprehension skills (and geography skills) need a lot of work. At the very best, you could have suggested that because of the Panama Canal I forgot South America, but that still includes that pesky Central America. But I haven't even started yet...

I can assure you of one thing, we're much better at english than you. In fact, we're also better at geography, by a large percentage. More importantly, we even know more about your country than you do. But there's more!

11% of you don't know where you live.
83% of you don't know where you were bombing before Iraq.
25% of you don't know where Canada is (would you like some help?).

Now, from your very own "American" dictionary:

American
adj.

1. Of or relating to the United States of America or its people, language, or culture.
2. Of or relating to North or South America, the West Indies, or the Western Hemisphere.
3. Of or relating to any of the Native American peoples.
4. Indigenous to North or South America. Used of plants and animals.

n.

1. A native or inhabitant of America.
2. A citizen of the United States.
3. American English.

So, we can either invent a new, derogatory word for you (I like this option), or we can make all our sentences longer, by qualifying our meaning of "American" each time, such as: "That person, he is a United States American" (Yuck).

Now, run that geography idea by me again, flunky.

Well, let's take account of your statements.

1.P2P is legit.

I agree. P2P itself is legit.

2. Theft follows naturally when greed, possession and laziness are part of our way of life.

I'm afraid that I have to agree that this is often so. People become so blinded by what they can GET, that they forget the basic rules of civilization and ethics, and will deprive others of their rights for immediate gain. Although these attitudes may be precursors to theft, they are still not to blame. What is to blame is disrespect for the rights of others, which is inherently evil. Greed, laziness, and possession themselves are not inherently evil, despite what St. Thomas Aquinas, et al may say. Greed, laziness and possession push progress forward. Without laziness, no one would ever have invented the wheel. Without greed and possession, no civilization would ever have explored the world around them, no railroads would be built, no superhighways paved.

3. The RIAA has been stealing millions a year.

The music industry has been found to fix prices in violation of the law. To me, price fixing is not theft, but it is just as bad. It is unethical in that by doing so, they LIE to the consumer. It is a form of fraud, not theft. I would like to see an example cited where the music industry has actually STOLEN money from anyone. Charging high prices for their own goods is a right of theirs, as long as they don't fix prices, no matter how little it actually costs to make the cd's, or how little they give to the artists.

4. Capitalism is in a sad shape in this country, and Microsoft should not be hailed as a success story.

I agree that capitalism is under fire and in danger, but my reasons for thinking this are probably entirely different from yours, and my reasons are too involved to get into here. I would be interested in knowing, in what way you believe that Microsoft has acted that is against the true spirit of Capitalism?

5. Screw You

How mature.

If you find my ideas interesting, you might also like to read this

definition [meaning 6]: Loss of merchandise, especially through theft.

I believe it's retail jargon, but I could be wrong.

Didn't you think to check the Dictionary?

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And if the artists decide to buy into it, they have only themselves to blame when they find themselves penniless after receiving all that cash up front, and after years of hard work.

Honestly, why is all the blame put squarely on the RIAA? Yes, they are the voice of the music industry zaibatsu, but that doesn't mean they are the only way to get rich, famous or discovered. They're just the easiest way -- that is to say, they offer instant gratification and low long-term rewards. If artists aren't willing to take a chance and do it for themselves, they deserve to get screwed.

I think you mean something different by apropos than I do.

Appropriate, perhaps?

</pedant>

I think you mean something different by apropos than I do.

Appropriate, perhaps?

</pedant>

I do, however, find it unfortunate when a rational debate about the subject becomes marred by name-callers when unpopular opinions are expressed. Even if you still come to a conclusion different from mine, you should at least be open to considering another's opinion. Referring to those who believe homosexuality is wrong as "bigots" tends to show a lack of openness to reason.

I agree with you completely when speaking of foul-language, but the ideas expressed clearly met the exact definition of bigot. After all, if those ideas don't, what does? When is it ok to use the term? I don't think the term applies to you, since I think you appear somewhat more discerning.

I took the exact assumptions the poster used (Evolution is true, therefore...) and (Creation is true, therefore...) and refuted them. To have done differently would have been significantly off topic. I have ALL SORTS of problems with evolution that are not relevant to the logical fallacies exposed in the original post and I honestly doubt the original poster is interested in that sort of discussion.

Democrats are pro-labor. Reagan had huge contingent of Democrats vote for him.

My point was that as a Republican, Reagan had many Democrat tendencies, including being more or less pro-labor.

Irony... look it up sometime.

Panama 1989
-To protect our Panama Canal.(Yes it was still US owned)

Iraq 1991
-Not a US a war. It was a UN war. Move along

Bosnia 1995
-Not a US war but a Nato and UN war. Protect a group of people from getting killed by another group of people.

Sudan (1998)
-Couple missiles being fired at country is not a conflict or a war. Meaning of conflict

Yugoslavia (1999)
-Nato mission.. Move along

Afghanistan (2001-02)
-You ever poke(cole,al khobar bombing,wtc?) a dog with a stick?

Iraq(2003)
-Dubya needs oil. really couldn't think of anything else for this

I apologise for the long answer but I wanted to respond to your comment with accurate facts. Here we go:

"Taint" seems quite apt to me. Sure, it isn't positive, but you associate "taint" with "very negative images". Are you really Ned Flanders? This isn't the F-word. It stems from a word meaning "to dye". It evokes corruption only in the sense of adding something foreign to something pure -- like a stain, or pee in a pool. That's hardly "dramatic" or "apocalyptic". I doubt anyone will "panic" over this.

1. Dictionary.com definition of "tainted":

taint
v. tainted, tainting, taints
v. tr.
To affect with or as if with a disease.
To affect with decay or putrefaction; spoil. See Synonyms at contaminate.
To corrupt morally.
To affect with a tinge of something reprehensible.

v. intr.
To become affected with decay or putrefaction; spoil.

n.
A moral defect considered as a stain or spot. See Synonyms at stain.
An infecting touch, influence, or tinge.

[Partly from obsolete taynt, to color, dye (from Anglo-Norman teint, from past participle of teindre, from Latin tingere), and partly from Middle English tainten, to convict (short for atteinten, from Old French ataint, past participle of ataindre, to attain, touch upon. See attain).]
taintless adj.
taintlessly adv.
taintlessness n.

So, "taint" doesn't mean "dye", unless you're from 11th century England. It does, however, is shown to have a lot of negative meanings.

1. Thesaurus.com definition of "tainted":

Entry: corrupt
Function: adjective
Definition: polluted
Synonyms: adulterated, altered, contaminated, decayed, defiled, distorted, doctored, falsified, foul, infected, noxious, putrescent, putrid, rotten, tainted
Antonyms: clean, pure, purified, sound, unaltered
Concept: dirtiness

Entry: defiled
Function: adjective
Definition: violated
Synonyms: besmirched, common, cooked, corrupted, desecrated, dirty, dishonored, exposed, impure, mucked up, polluted, profaned, ravished, spoilt, tainted, trashed, unclean
Antonyms: cleansed, hallowed, pure, purified, sanctified
Concept: dirtiness

Entry: diseased
Function: adjective
Definition: unhealthy
Synonyms: afflicted, ailing, catching, communicable, contagious, endemic, epidemic, indisposed, infected, infectious, infirm, rotten, sick, sickly, tainted, unsound, unwell, unwholesome
Antonyms: fit, healthy, well
Concept: health (poor)

Entry: faulty
Function: adjective
Definition: not working
Synonyms: adulterated, amiss, awry, bad, below par, blamable, blemished, botched, broken, cracked, damaged, debased, defective, deficient, distorted, erroneous, fallacious, fallible, false, flawed, frail, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, incorrect, inexact, injured, insufficient, invalid, lame, leaky, lemon, maimed, malformed, malfunctioning, marred, rank, sick, tainted, unfit, unreliable, unretentive, unsound, warped, weak, wrong
Antonyms: flawless, perfect, sound, working
Concept: error

Entry: foul
Function: adjective
Definition: disgusting
Synonyms: abhorrent, abominable, barn, base, contaminated, despicable, detestable, dirty, disgraceful, dishonorable, egregious, fetid, filthy, hateful, heinous, horrid, icky, impure, infamous, iniquitous, loathsome, malodorous, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, offensive, pigpen, polluted, putrid, rank, raunchy, repellent, repulsive, revolting, rotten, scandalous, shameful, squalid, stable, stinking, sullied, tainted, unclean, vicious, vile, wicked, yecchy, yucky
Concept: dirtiness

Entry: impure
Function: adjective
Definition: unclean
Synonyms: admixed, adulterated, alloyed, black, carnal, coarse, common, contaminated, corrupt, debased, defiled, desecrated, diluted, dirty, docto

I apologise for the long answer but I wanted to respond to your comment with accurate facts. Here we go:

"Taint" seems quite apt to me. Sure, it isn't positive, but you associate "taint" with "very negative images". Are you really Ned Flanders? This isn't the F-word. It stems from a word meaning "to dye". It evokes corruption only in the sense of adding something foreign to something pure -- like a stain, or pee in a pool. That's hardly "dramatic" or "apocalyptic". I doubt anyone will "panic" over this.

1. Dictionary.com definition of "tainted":

taint
v. tainted, tainting, taints
v. tr.
To affect with or as if with a disease.
To affect with decay or putrefaction; spoil. See Synonyms at contaminate.
To corrupt morally.
To affect with a tinge of something reprehensible.

v. intr.
To become affected with decay or putrefaction; spoil.

n.
A moral defect considered as a stain or spot. See Synonyms at stain.
An infecting touch, influence, or tinge.

[Partly from obsolete taynt, to color, dye (from Anglo-Norman teint, from past participle of teindre, from Latin tingere), and partly from Middle English tainten, to convict (short for atteinten, from Old French ataint, past participle of ataindre, to attain, touch upon. See attain).]
taintless adj.
taintlessly adv.
taintlessness n.

So, "taint" doesn't mean "dye", unless you're from 11th century England. It does, however, is shown to have a lot of negative meanings.

1. Thesaurus.com definition of "tainted":

Entry: corrupt
Function: adjective
Definition: polluted
Synonyms: adulterated, altered, contaminated, decayed, defiled, distorted, doctored, falsified, foul, infected, noxious, putrescent, putrid, rotten, tainted
Antonyms: clean, pure, purified, sound, unaltered
Concept: dirtiness

Entry: defiled
Function: adjective
Definition: violated
Synonyms: besmirched, common, cooked, corrupted, desecrated, dirty, dishonored, exposed, impure, mucked up, polluted, profaned, ravished, spoilt, tainted, trashed, unclean
Antonyms: cleansed, hallowed, pure, purified, sanctified
Concept: dirtiness

Entry: diseased
Function: adjective
Definition: unhealthy
Synonyms: afflicted, ailing, catching, communicable, contagious, endemic, epidemic, indisposed, infected, infectious, infirm, rotten, sick, sickly, tainted, unsound, unwell, unwholesome
Antonyms: fit, healthy, well
Concept: health (poor)

Entry: faulty
Function: adjective
Definition: not working
Synonyms: adulterated, amiss, awry, bad, below par, blamable, blemished, botched, broken, cracked, damaged, debased, defective, deficient, distorted, erroneous, fallacious, fallible, false, flawed, frail, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, incorrect, inexact, injured, insufficient, invalid, lame, leaky, lemon, maimed, malformed, malfunctioning, marred, rank, sick, tainted, unfit, unreliable, unretentive, unsound, warped, weak, wrong
Antonyms: flawless, perfect, sound, working
Concept: error

Entry: foul
Function: adjective
Definition: disgusting
Synonyms: abhorrent, abominable, barn, base, contaminated, despicable, detestable, dirty, disgraceful, dishonorable, egregious, fetid, filthy, hateful, heinous, horrid, icky, impure, infamous, iniquitous, loathsome, malodorous, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, offensive, pigpen, polluted, putrid, rank, raunchy, repellent, repulsive, revolting, rotten, scandalous, shameful, squalid, stable, stinking, sullied, tainted, unclean, vicious, vile, wicked, yecchy, yucky
Concept: dirtiness

Entry: impure
Function: adjective
Definition: unclean
Synonyms: admixed, adulterated, alloyed, black, carnal, coarse, common, contaminated, corrupt, debased, defiled, desecrated, diluted, dirty, docto

! I imagine that I'm not the first person who gets electrocuted by these things.

From dictionary.reference.com:

sesquipedalianism :
\Ses`qui*pe*da"li*an*ism\, Sesquipedalism\Ses*quip"e*dal*ism\,
n. Sesquipedality.

Just in case anyone was wondering what sesquipedalianism was.... *grin*

Much more likely is the adjective usage, which you hint at in your comment.

adj. 1. Suddenly raised to a position of consequence. (source here)

You said "UNIX technology was created for the x86 architecture"

First x86: "The 8086 blasted away at amazing speeds of 4.77 and eventually 8 MHz -- hardly a calculator by today's standards. All this started in 1978."

(check here)

UNIX invented: "An
interactive time-sharing operating system invented in 1969
by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics"

(click here)

Their "about us" page seems to say they are an "consultancy" (is that a word) for international standards. Ironic, eh?

Indeed, although I would guess that "international standards" doesn't mean "all international standards"; I'd doubt they would step in if someone started hawking a dodgy TCP stack.

(Also, 'consultancy' is a word; it means pretty much what you'd expect it to mean: a business that either acts as a consultant or is set up to employ consultants to businesses. I've generally heard it more from Commonwealth-types than from Yanks, but it's real.)

Do like I did and email them to make fun of them.

One step ahead of you, hoss. :-)

"The term mass was introduced by Newton in Principia, 1687."

Okay, let's take a look at Principia. Oh look! He was talking about Inertial mass, which is exactly what the rest of us are talking about!

Oh, wait a second, i missed a little bit, the page you showed us is titled "Mass In Special Relativity."

That's great news! I hadn't heard that they'd put new Space Shuttles in service that traveled a significant fraction of c! When did that heppen?

Oh wait, it didn't.

I doubt that there's a single physics professor on the planet that would claim that special relativity needs to be applied to a Space Shuttle and a one pound chunk of foam traveling only 1000 or 2000 mph over the space of a few seconds, especially given what we're trying to calculate. The only conceivable case in which relativity might be usefully applied involving the space shuttle is if you were trying to calculate the fraction of a thousandth (or millionth?) of a second that is "lost" after a week or so of orbiting the earth. Guess what, that's not what we're trying to do.

And not only is that the only source on the web that i can find that claims "mass is not a measure of inertia," it itself specifies, "From the point of view of relativity[...]" which as previously shown, we're not using in this discussion and have no reason to use.

And if you think the best way for your kids to be taught in school is to skip clasical physics and go straight to special relativity, your kids are going to be in a world of pain, and probably not very well educated to boot.

You have them get married first.

Check it out, it will blow your mind.

We probably all know what monitor dot pitch is, but this page explains where it comes from and how it's calculated.

Dot pitch is the distance, center to center, between the two closest dots of the same color; each set of three of the closest red, green, and blue dots is called a triad. Notice that a given dot lies halfway between dots of the two other colors in the row below. Each dot also lies directly above the same color dot two rows below.

If you're wondering where the term "pitch" comes from, I am too. The nearest thing that I could find comes from a rarely-used definition of pitch: the degree of a steep downward slope. This makes sense, since the early calculations of dot pitch assumed a diagonal (corner to corner) measurement.

This isn't to be a grammar nazi, just a link for the proper spelling: guard

...logical history underlying the acronames "cd" and "ls" and how they are actually newmonic. ... It's like Mensa--you have to have a certain amount of brains to get in the door, which makes for a more pleasant experience among the intelligentcia.

Perhaps you mean acronym, mnemonic and intelligentsia.

This goes to show a long-held belief of mine that the more someone knows the language of IT (for example someone knowledgable in a Unix environment, and most programmers) the less they can understand the basics of the English language (or any other spoken language).

...logical history underlying the acronames "cd" and "ls" and how they are actually newmonic. ... It's like Mensa--you have to have a certain amount of brains to get in the door, which makes for a more pleasant experience among the intelligentcia.

Perhaps you mean acronym, mnemonic and intelligentsia.

This goes to show a long-held belief of mine that the more someone knows the language of IT (for example someone knowledgable in a Unix environment, and most programmers) the less they can understand the basics of the English language (or any other spoken language).

...logical history underlying the acronames "cd" and "ls" and how they are actually newmonic. ... It's like Mensa--you have to have a certain amount of brains to get in the door, which makes for a more pleasant experience among the intelligentcia.

Perhaps you mean acronym, mnemonic and intelligentsia.

This goes to show a long-held belief of mine that the more someone knows the language of IT (for example someone knowledgable in a Unix environment, and most programmers) the less they can understand the basics of the English language (or any other spoken language).

"The jig is up!"

no...

"The *gig* is up."

I think that the problem is an interesting reflection on the state of technology, and "technologists" themselves. For example, the test includes Megahertz, megapixel, download, web browser and Bluetooth--all good examples (IMO) of naming. "Bluetooth" may be debatable, but it's a distinct name for a distinct technology, and people who use technology should be aware of its capabilities. "Web browser" is another good name; unfortunately, Hollywood's and tech-illiterate journalists' insistence on "surfing the 'net" means that a good name is unknown by the public.

On the dark side of the naming spectrum, the tech industry has given us some gems such as SMS, DVR, MP3 and dot pitch (all from the quiz). SMS and DVR are good examples of trying to pick a generic name that didn't step on any copyright holders' toes, but didn't adequately describe the product either. But perhaps the public is too picky. They learned about VHS, so why can't they learn about DVR.

Dot pitch is a terrible misnomer but its roots are firmly entrenched in the display industry. Perhaps a better term would be "pixel density" or "image clarity," but then it's hard to associate a name like that with a value that gets better as it gets lower.

MP3 is understandable: no one is going to get a friendly, trademarkable name from a group of geeks writing cutting-edge software. But the trademark issue itself it one of the culprits. How many nice names could we have for computer components if the most descriptive words weren't already trademarked?

And finally, it's easy to point out to Houston that we have a problem. It's harder to realize what the problem's origins were and to appreciate the evolution of the computer industry in just fifty years. And it's most difficult to propose a workable solution and carry it through.

No, but that is because your analogy is flawed. Like most analogies, this one is also stupid. Why do you feel the need to put it in a metaphor? Is the case not defined well enough to discuss rationally without the need to bring in irrelevant and poorly construed analogies? It is.

Actually, his analogy (not metaphor) was pretty bang-on.The ads are placed on top of existing ads. No, they are not identical situations, but sharing characteristics of one-another is the purpose of an analogy.

Gator advertises exactly what they do. Gator does exactly what they do. Users install Gator to get software for free.

Users more often than not do not install Gator. Users install software of an ever-increasing variety, one of several EULAs comprised of dozens of pages of small-point text appears on screen, and somehow buried in all the legaleese users "agree" to install subsidiary software packages. Often, the primary software package will be crippled and/or refuse to install or load if said user doesn't agree to the all-encompassing EULA.

No, but that is because your analogy is flawed. Like most analogies, this one is also stupid. Why do you feel the need to put it in a metaphor? Is the case not defined well enough to discuss rationally without the need to bring in irrelevant and poorly construed analogies? It is.

Actually, his analogy (not metaphor) was pretty bang-on.The ads are placed on top of existing ads. No, they are not identical situations, but sharing characteristics of one-another is the purpose of an analogy.

Gator advertises exactly what they do. Gator does exactly what they do. Users install Gator to get software for free.

Users more often than not do not install Gator. Users install software of an ever-increasing variety, one of several EULAs comprised of dozens of pages of small-point text appears on screen, and somehow buried in all the legaleese users "agree" to install subsidiary software packages. Often, the primary software package will be crippled and/or refuse to install or load if said user doesn't agree to the all-encompassing EULA.

satire irony sarcasm

satire irony sarcasm

satire irony sarcasm

"Growning?"
"Tard?"

When I was growning up and we learned about those "sentance" things, they taught me that we need to capitalize the first word of each new "sentance".

I? We? The sentences taught you what? Perhaps the word "they" in your sentence refers something or someone not mentioned in your statement. When constructing a proper, unambiguous sentence, you might want to check for agreement between subject and verb, as well as consistent use of tense.

If you're going to bitch and moan, please use proper grammer when doing so.

Indeed. Might as well use proper spelling while you're at it, as well.