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  1. NASA and the USA.... on Images of Endeavour's Damaged Tiles · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hmmmm the USA has a brain damaged scumbag junkie for a president. It's corporations rob the world. It's military are just low paid gun toting hacks for the corporations. It's media are stupid enough to work for the bucks and not the principles. And it's shuttle is an over priced piece of junk. The Next American Space Race will be with a bottle, a rocket and a box of matches. Duhhhhhhhhh. Most Americans in chatrooms are just wankers anyway.

  2. Uhhhh Here comes MS with the pineapple - Not.. on Why Microsoft Won't List Claimed Patent Violations · · Score: 1

    Note: My opinion based upon my expereinces are mine and they may or may not, in full or in part, be the same or similar to other peoples experiences and or opinions.

    To start:

    Hi I am Gay and Christian.. and what you may say has this to do with Ubuntu and Microscoff Fista?

    Everything.

    See when the Linux community comes to me, it's rather like my boyfriend, with a big smile and a jar of vaseline in his hand - it' warm, loving and affectionate - and it's going to open me up to lots of wonderful new experiences.

    When I think of Microsoft, it's like Mr Angry and "makes up stories" Steve Ballme r chasing me around the room with a big pineapple in his hand, telling me that for only a few thousand dollars, he is going to make me like it.

    I don't think so.

    Now you see I am not a Gnow it all, I just do.

    I have been running windows from D0S 6.22 / Win 3.11 - to the present HEX PEE.

    And I have been having really honest efforts to change completely over to Linux distributions, mainly because I find that MS's formulation of an OS to be unsavoury at best and dishonest at worst.

    I found that I have limited time and brain power and I have lots to do. I like learning but I also like to spend my time getting the job done instead of spending huge amounts of time, learning how to use the things I need to get it done.

    The earlier distro's of linux required me to do a crash course in "programming" and I had no tutoring and little time and an awful lot to learn - seemingly beyond my comprehension.

    I feel that the Ubuntu 7.04 has given me enough of an edge to get a full operating system up and running, with enough left over to learn more of the indepth stuff, if I really want or need too, after I have the OS fully up and running.

    Bingo - this is the magic point where I can get on board and run with it.

    I feel that it could go a little bit further and have more clarity and simple step by step explainations - like a first grade reader book..

    I kind of like a challenge and learning is fun - and the Ubuntu really ought to have a fully downloadable (on the hard drive) help section, including stuff from the forums..

    And it ought to be cataloged - 25 explanations of varying quality and content, and ability to follow are not an efficient way to disseminate the "How-Too's".

    Ummmmmmmmmm The great things about this Linux distro -

    Well it works.

    It's stable and reliable.

    I like it.

    I can PROGRAM my own OS to do things that I want, the way I want them too.

    No more secret lockie - outie crap from MS.

    I am finding that Ubuntu is really really good.

    Ok now the anti Microscoff slant.

    I kind of like / hate MS.

    I feel that with people being people - both inside and outside of MS, that it's a challenging issue to get anything up and running and to make an income from it.

    OK so some sympathy to MS there.. BUT...

    The reason I have solidly made the decision to go with Ubuntu Linux is because:

    My C:\ drive after 4 or so years of solid work, was finally dying... the read write error etc...

    So I looked up all the MS stuff on the subject of backing up my entire operating system.

    The MS website'S, said that MS back up and something or other "shadow technology" (MS's interpretation of disk imaging) would save me in advance from accidentally deleted files and hard drive failures - but there was NOTHING on how to reinstall the backup (or MS's screwball interpretaion of it, onto the NEW hard drive..

    Nothing - a complete absence of information....

    I then sent a webform email off the the MS site help, and I ended up having a HUGE shit fight through MS's outsourced IQ by rote call center., and the whole tech department over this ONE simple question.

    "Ok there is lots of stuff in the MS sites, on backing up with the MS back up and shadow imaging, in case of accidental deletion of files or hard drive failures."

    "I plan to back up my entire