Bought a new PC from $BIG_BOX_RETAILER, took it home and plugged it in.
Turned it on.
Clicked the "Okay" button until I got to the screen where I had to read a novel-length license agreement through a 3-by-4 inch scroll window.
Said "bugger this for a lark" in my best fake British accent, inserted my freshly-burned Fedora 8 DVD and power-cycled the machine.
Gleefully formatted the entire disk as ext3 (plus a swap partition, natch) and imagined Vista screaming as I plowed its broken bits under my mighty array of disk heads.
I fear the Left as much as the Right (religious or otherwise).
Violence and oppression are not functions of Religion, but functions of people lashing out at others who they disagree with.
Religion just happens to be the biggest / most often cited culprit.
Remember, Martin Luther King Jr. was a Christian man opposed by people, not all of whom were Christian.
(Which denotes that people are nasty and cruel, no matter if they are 'Religious' or not)
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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- Bought a new PC from $BIG_BOX_RETAILER, took it home and plugged it in.
- Turned it on.
- Clicked the "Okay" button until I got to the screen where I had to read a novel-length license agreement through a 3-by-4 inch scroll window.
- Said "bugger this for a lark" in my best fake British accent, inserted my freshly-burned Fedora 8 DVD and power-cycled the machine.
- Gleefully formatted the entire disk as ext3 (plus a swap partition, natch) and imagined Vista screaming as I plowed its broken bits under my mighty array of disk heads.
Don't forget Penny Arcade's opinion of broken systems:http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/09/08
I fear the Left as much as the Right (religious or otherwise). Violence and oppression are not functions of Religion, but functions of people lashing out at others who they disagree with. Religion just happens to be the biggest / most often cited culprit. Remember, Martin Luther King Jr. was a Christian man opposed by people, not all of whom were Christian. (Which denotes that people are nasty and cruel, no matter if they are 'Religious' or not)
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. - Martin Luther King Jr.