Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the because-ms.-right-pursues-me dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Slate has a story about the guy who registered tired.com in 1997 and put up on the home page "Are you tired? Tell us why." He's collected 32,000 emails from tired people, including an one from a Navy ship at sea that's too good to be fake."
Re:Red Hat earnings restatement ignored by slashdo
by
wwest4
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· Score: 0, Troll
I'm not sure he's got the definition wrong. From m-w:
Main Entry: hypocrisy Pronunciation: hi-'pä-kr&-sE also hI- Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -sies Etymology: Middle English ypocrisie, from Old French, from Late Latin hypocrisis, from Greek hypokrisis act of playing a part on the stage, hypocrisy, from hypokrinesthai to answer, act on the stage, from hypo- + krinein to decide -- more at CERTAIN 1 : a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not; especially : the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion 2 : an act or instance of hypocrisy
e.g. purporting to believe that companies should be accountable for misdeeds, and then only applying the principle when it suits the/. agenda (i.e. against MS) and ignoring it when it does not (i.e. against Red Hat).
I'm not saying the poster's idea is right, but the use of the word is entirely appropriate in the context of the argument.
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I'm tired of Microsoft and their evil empire.
I'm not sure he's got the definition wrong. From m-w:
/. agenda (i.e. against MS) and ignoring it when it does not (i.e. against Red Hat).
Main Entry: hypocrisy
Pronunciation: hi-'pä-kr&-sE also hI-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -sies
Etymology: Middle English ypocrisie, from Old French, from Late Latin hypocrisis, from Greek hypokrisis act of playing a part on the stage, hypocrisy, from hypokrinesthai to answer, act on the stage, from hypo- + krinein to decide -- more at CERTAIN
1 : a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not; especially : the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion
2 : an act or instance of hypocrisy
e.g. purporting to believe that companies should be accountable for misdeeds, and then only applying the principle when it suits the
I'm not saying the poster's idea is right, but the use of the word is entirely appropriate in the context of the argument.