Yep, I and a few other investors are going to be setting up another distributed file-sharing scheme which allows software companies to distribute binary-only executable files of software for a fee. We think that the main attraction of the anonymous, distributed system will be to developers who wish to use sections of GPL'd code, but who don't want to abide by the free software licenses. The distributed nature of the network, with no central directory, will make it impossible for any Free Software or Open Source zealots to stop the spread, or to abuse the "copyright" system to prevent me and my investors from exercising our "fair use" of their work.
I would think that a more realistic assessment would be "Over the next three years, we'll have a similar impact on the office-suite market to that which Corel and Lotus had on the office-suite market".
Or perhaps "A similar effect to that which Mozilla had on the browser market".
In the spirit of open source, I also cleared up this man's sub-literate grammar.
I've always thought it was pretty bad luck to mention your girlfriend in a public forum when nobody else had brought up the subject. Did you ask her whether she was cool with a) having her site slashdotted b) the no doubt vast array of charming comments about her which our friends the AC's will generate and c) your randomly revealing personal facts about her?
Without some fast footwork, I'd say that the express train to Dumped City may be nearing Holland Michigan, and someone we know may have at least a provisional booking in the first class carriage.
You have to recognise, however, that this imploiteness makes sure that nothing on Slashdot is ever taken seriously, and genuinely insightful and knowledgable posters (when was the last time you heard Alan Cox call someone a "cocksucking WASP bitch"?) tend to stay away.
Malda, Bates et al. really ought to do more to try to encourage useful, polite discourse. A simple profanity filter would probably be easy to circumvent, but it would send a message.
I know people who have been smoking for twice that long who haven't died from cancer.
Oh yeah, science-boy. Have you ever read the transcripts of the tobacco liti cases? If you had, you'd know that the evidence on those eeeeevvvilllll cigarettes causing cancer is much less strong than you think. Let me put it this way:
The one, genuinely, actually proven cause of cancer, is stress
The one genuine, foolproof cure for stress, is nicotine.
Therefore, one would expect to see a correlation (not causation!) between cigarette smoking and cancer. People who have stress get cancer, and people who have stress tend to smoke.
Everybody knows that "statistical" studies can only show correlation, not causation. The correlation here is bogus; you might as well argue that wearing big pants gives you a fat ass.
If you read the transcripts (including the sidebars and expert witnesses), you'll see that this is actually the state of scientific opinion. The fact is, however, that if the real cause of cancer (stress) were to be recognised, then all the big capitalist industries which work their employees to within an inch of their life would be in the firing line. Instead, capital decided to throw the (largely agricultural, poor) tobacco growers to the wolves.
Please quote one single sentence of Mr (Sr.) Martinez's posts which could be fairly interpreted as "hating white people". He merely pointed out that corporations do not care so much about the effects of their behaviour when the victims are not white.
To say that white-owned corporations are often racist is not to "hate white people"; it's more or less a simple statement of fact.
Me, I'm pretty damned white, but I have enough Cherokee blood that I could legally apply for membership in the tribe if I wanted to
I'm sure that the Cherokee would just love to have a whiny white guy hanging around the rez, telling them that they shouldn't complain about having their ancestral lands stolen, or they will be "ugly racists". By the way, the phony Lysenkoist racial biology that leads to phrases like "Cherokee blood" is repugnant too.
You appear to have appropriated the name of a war hero for your mindless racial tracts. Please change your fucking nickname.
Well, as a poor barefoot boy from fucken South Brooklyn, albeit one with the benefit of an education in Sunny Massafuckenchussets, I hope I might be permitted a fucken reply to your actual point, before the pussywaist fucken dipshit moderators censor you. I'd have to say the following:
Kaplan is under no obligation to recuse himself, and the conflict of interest is clearly non-material. We're not dealing with bought judges here; Kaplan's past as an attorney is irrelevant to his present as a judge. On your extremist interpretation of the rules of procedure, it would be very difficult to find judges to try cases involving large corporations. The "previous issues" with Garbus are, frankly, 2600's fault for having hired a loose cannon of a lawyer.
I appreciate your confusion on this point; many of the pointy-headed fucken idiot Slashbots are equally confused. But a "conflict of interest" is a conflict of interest, not some possible personal prejudice. Judges are assumed to be able to put aside their personal prejudices, and indeed, have been since caveman times. The only grounds for a recusement would be if the judge has an actual interest in the case.
I'd add that DoD standard is seven times overwritten with zeros, not "random data", and that anyone who uses random data as an overwrite is probably going to get what they deserve sooner or later (particularly if their "random" data isn't as random as they thought it was).
The thing that the academics have grasped that the mareting suits haven't is that sometimes less is more.
For crying out loud, "marketing suits" already? Listen to yourself. You are so unable to believe that "hackers" are human beings to, susceptible to prejudices, fashions and mistakes, that you have decided to blame "suits" for the unpopularity of a class of computer languages that have never, ever, had a maretking campaign written for them. What the hell purpose does "marketing suits" serve in your argument? Ye faith.
In a shock development, noted Karma whore Signal "Siggy" 11 has become a troll! Perhaps demoralised by the constant pressure of the fatwa or "trollslap" launched by his enemies, he released a post full of trollworthy statements. In one post, he combined:
The incorrect technical statement: Witness the "NSA key" in Windows 95/98/NT/W2K
The moronic political view: Someday, someone is going to need to devise a technical solution to these political problems
The ludicrous hyperbole: This is why they are so afraid of geeks - they know we have it within our power to end this form of tyranny for good. We are in control of the ultimate modern day press.
Another maddeningly silly technical statement: until we rearchitecture the network to utterly defeat measures like this (transparent crypto?)
Clearly, Siggy's move into trolling will put pressure on the established slashdot trolls to compete. In a CNN inteview, streetlawyer, speaking for the notorious inchfan troll collective said
"It's gonna be a challenge. Siggy obviously has huge name recognition, and one has to think that he's
using his brand unfairly to push into new markets. But I'm not excessively worried. His tech-ignorance is something that we've been doing for a long time, and his sub-Katz geek politics are really to Karma-whorish to show that he "gets it" with respect to trolling. He's got quite a nice line in spurious logic, but he's no Dumb Marketing Guy. Bring it on, motherfuckers"
The States could never have remained an integrated political and culture whole without advances such as telegraphy and the railroads... ancient empires of comparable size were considerably less stable
The Chinese empire lasted for three thousand years....
I have met Spanish fucks like yourself before on Slashdot, which for some reason appears to be Dago Heaven these days. Forgive my occasional use of profanity, but my patriotic Portugese blood boils when I have to deal with the old enemy.
Just because you're too ignorant not to know the etymological roots of Latinate words doesn't mean Spanish should change it's orthography for you
Moronic. Stone cold stupid. Spanish shares half of its fucken vocabulary with Italian, modulo a couple of drifting vowels. I somehow don't think that even a crack baby could fail to pick up the fact that Spanish is a Latinate language.
I mean, the retention of etymological information is one of the primordial criteria in designing an orthography for a language
Well silly fucken me. What a truly outrageous fucken fool I am. Sorry, did I say me? I meant you. No, you are totally right. The principal purpose of orthography is to convey etymological information. Any clues it might give toward little trivialities such as fucken pronunciation is purely a side-issue. There's no ass like a Spanish burro, apparently. Etymological information or no, it is purely brain-damaged to ensure that when non-natives try to speak your language, that you trip them up by assiging characters which are familiar to them to sounds which are not.
. Otherwise, you get truly dysfunctional orthographies like that for the Tzotzil language.
Puh-fucken-leeze! Tzoztil my Portugese ass. All we're asking for are a few fucken diacriticals! The fucken French manage it; why can't you? Here's how freakin' stupid the Spanish are -- the one and only consonant diacritical in their entire language is that faggy little tilde, to approximate a sound easily represented by two Roman characters. But a fucken aspirated b, a sound which appears precisely nowhere else, a sound as ridiculous as anything in !Kung, is left to be represented by a plosive "b" and a normal "v", picked completely at random, with no fucken help for the fucken reader. No wonder that you lost every single war you fought against us -- all your fucken soldiers were probably sitting around going "A vattle? He wants us to march into vattle? What's a fucken vattle?"
Keep to defending whores, crack dealers and corporations, Mr. Montoya.
I will do so happily; I would rather defend a fucken multiple child rapist, than allow a word of Spanish to pass my lips
I would think that right now, Corel needs all the help it could get in rebuilding its battered image. One way I could see this being done would be to completely open source WordPerfect, a la Mozilla.
"A la Mozilla" hmmmm.... that great open source success story
Think about it, Corel would get a lot of kudos
You can't meet creditors' demands with "kudos". Creditors want cash, now. Even if this were a great long-term move, the long term doesn't matter much if you're dead in the short term. Giving up a source of cashflow could even be criminally negligent, given a bad court day.
from the open source community,
Who are notoriously bad customers. They want free software, free MP3z, free everything, and half of the bastards even use junkbuster to make sure that not one single penny of revenue will be squeezed out of them.
they could quickly have the best word processor for Linux
Well, I didn't want to mention Mozilla, but you brought it up.... despite what Eric Raymond says, development of a new word processor is neither necessarily fast nor necessarily "the best". What they'd get would be YA open source project, full of people with no experience in word processors busily reinventing the wheel.
and other (non MS) platforms and then they could start edging back in to the Windows market.
In the meantime, paying the wages with magic beans, or perhaps with wooden nickels? And the whole point of MS Office is that you can't "edge" into the market. People want compatibility between applications, and that means all or nothing.
The Open Source panacea is more like Laetrile than penicillin, I fear.
Where did you learn Welsh? South Wales? "Siadwch yr Gymraeg"? Let's count the errors in that one.
"Siadwch" is not a word. I'm assuming it's a typo for "Siaradwch". However, even Siaradwch would be completely moronic, as it's an imperative and you're asking a question. "Ydach chi'n siarad" would be the correct form.
"yr Gymraeg" is so bad, it makes me physically want to vomit. Does "Cymraeg" begin with a vowel? Well, does it? It doesn't. So why on earth do you put "yr" in front of it? Frankly, even "y" is way out of place in front of an adjective-noun like "Cymraeg" unless you're writing some pretentious article for Tafod y Draig on the future of the Welsh language. Just plain "Cymraeg" will do fine, thank you.
And then, having made this screwjob of an "yr", you try to justify it with a clinically insane application of the soft mutation. Soft mutations follow "ei" and "eu", my friend, in order to avoid a tricky glottal back-flip that would result from trying to pronounce "ei cartref" and the like. "yr Gymraeg" is appalling.
"Ydach chi'n siarad Cymraeg?", then. Or indeed, since we're all friends here, and the "chi" form of address is, IMO on the way out, "Wy ti'n siarad Cymraeg?". Of course, the "Roman characters" idiot has actually completely missed the point. "W" and "y" are used as vowels in a manner which is really startlingly consistent with their pronunciation in English. The only sounds in Welsh which don't go into Roman characters well are "ch" and "ll". The language that really has problems with Roman characters is Spanish (was that a b, or a v, sen(y)or?)
Additionally, English was never meant to be written in Roman characters, as shown by their invention of the non-Roman character U.
Basically, Jon's saying that there's a whole new movement, creating their own media, breaking free of conventions. brushing the Old Farts aside.... remind you of anything? Even the phrase "Old Fart" is a punk rock coinage.
"Open Media" are setting out to change the world, just like punk. And I am sure that they will have at least as much of a lasting effect on the world as punk rock did... how much was that again?
In any case, I rather fear that Jon is doomed to be the Glenn Matlock of the Open Media revolution; the square fucker who did loads of stuff, but who, fundamentally, nobody liked.
Oh yeh, and this series of puff pieces for "Slashdot versus the Old Media" is still coming out without any note or disclaimer pointing out that, as shareholders in VA Linux, a company whose financial future depends on being able to convince the equity market that they are "the future", Katz, Taco et al have a huge financial interest in the story they are trying to sell us here. Or is "integrity" a "closed media" value?
Gil Bates, business consultant
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With this admission, the new vendor will certainly cannibalize short-term licensing revenue, but the longer-term benefits of acquiring a chunk of the SCO customer/reseller base will outweigh that (pretty damn small) opportunity loss.
So in other words, he's advising them to lose money on every sale, then make it up in volume.... what's wrong with this picture?
Sure, alcohol and tobacco kill people, but generally that's just Darwinism
If I were to come round to your house and cave your stupid pointy little fucken geek head in for being a callous, social-Darwinist prick, would that be "just Darwinism"? Or would that be the actual death of an actual human fucken being, which is not, in my neck of the woods, a matter for supercilious smart-alec remarks.
?". How would you like your every email to be archived in your FBI file and then subject to exploitation by your political opponents? "Candidate Jones once made a joke about black people being shiftless. It's here in this email he sent to his sister in 1998."
While I am undecided on this particular wiretap proposition, I would have thought that this would be a feature, not a bug. Someone who makes jokes about black people being "shiftless" in emails is unfit for public office, and as a citizen, I have the right to know that I'm being asked to vote for a Kloset Klansman. I'm not sure the FBI are the right people to be holding this information, but someone ought to.
How does Lloyd's plan to ensure companies keep up with patches (or service packs for those dumb enough to trust that other OS's security)?
For the clue, meditate on the phrase "audit their processes". ommmmmmmm.
Once you have reached that plane of enlightenment, meditate on the phrase "invalidating one's cover". ommmmm
Yep, you can meditate your way to understanding these questions, simply by thinking. I realise that thinking isn't as easy as posting, but it's often more fun!
Screw it, call me a cracker, a whitey, do I care that you make racial comments? Hell no
No, I think I'll call you a fag, a geek, a loser and a virgin. A psycho. A goth. A Columbine killer. Hit any closer to home? Then perhaps you'll think twice before making offensive remarks in future.
Slashdot Mirror
Whatcha think, Slashdot? Does it "sound cool"?
Pretty bad news for Nasa ....
"On the Waterfront" wasn't bad .....
Or perhaps "A similar effect to that which Mozilla had on the browser market".
In the spirit of open source, I also cleared up this man's sub-literate grammar.
Perhaps you should have turned round and asked the doctorate in physics, behind you.
I've always thought it was pretty bad luck to mention your girlfriend in a public forum when nobody else had brought up the subject. Did you ask her whether she was cool with a) having her site slashdotted b) the no doubt vast array of charming comments about her which our friends the AC's will generate and c) your randomly revealing personal facts about her?
Without some fast footwork, I'd say that the express train to Dumped City may be nearing Holland Michigan, and someone we know may have at least a provisional booking in the first class carriage.
Malda, Bates et al. really ought to do more to try to encourage useful, polite discourse. A simple profanity filter would probably be easy to circumvent, but it would send a message.
--streetlawyer
Oh yeah, science-boy. Have you ever read the transcripts of the tobacco liti cases? If you had, you'd know that the evidence on those eeeeevvvilllll cigarettes causing cancer is much less strong than you think. Let me put it this way:
- The one, genuinely, actually proven cause of cancer, is stress
- The one genuine, foolproof cure for stress, is nicotine.
- Therefore, one would expect to see a correlation (not causation!) between cigarette smoking and cancer. People who have stress get cancer, and people who have stress tend to smoke.
Everybody knows that "statistical" studies can only show correlation, not causation. The correlation here is bogus; you might as well argue that wearing big pants gives you a fat ass.If you read the transcripts (including the sidebars and expert witnesses), you'll see that this is actually the state of scientific opinion. The fact is, however, that if the real cause of cancer (stress) were to be recognised, then all the big capitalist industries which work their employees to within an inch of their life would be in the firing line. Instead, capital decided to throw the (largely agricultural, poor) tobacco growers to the wolves.
Please quote one single sentence of Mr (Sr.) Martinez's posts which could be fairly interpreted as "hating white people". He merely pointed out that corporations do not care so much about the effects of their behaviour when the victims are not white.
To say that white-owned corporations are often racist is not to "hate white people"; it's more or less a simple statement of fact.
Me, I'm pretty damned white, but I have enough Cherokee blood that I could legally apply for membership in the tribe if I wanted to
I'm sure that the Cherokee would just love to have a whiny white guy hanging around the rez, telling them that they shouldn't complain about having their ancestral lands stolen, or they will be "ugly racists". By the way, the phony Lysenkoist racial biology that leads to phrases like "Cherokee blood" is repugnant too.
You appear to have appropriated the name of a war hero for your mindless racial tracts. Please change your fucking nickname.
Well, as a poor barefoot boy from fucken South Brooklyn, albeit one with the benefit of an education in Sunny Massafuckenchussets, I hope I might be permitted a fucken reply to your actual point, before the pussywaist fucken dipshit moderators censor you. I'd have to say the following:
Kaplan is under no obligation to recuse himself, and the conflict of interest is clearly non-material. We're not dealing with bought judges here; Kaplan's past as an attorney is irrelevant to his present as a judge. On your extremist interpretation of the rules of procedure, it would be very difficult to find judges to try cases involving large corporations. The "previous issues" with Garbus are, frankly, 2600's fault for having hired a loose cannon of a lawyer.
I appreciate your confusion on this point; many of the pointy-headed fucken idiot Slashbots are equally confused. But a "conflict of interest" is a conflict of interest, not some possible personal prejudice. Judges are assumed to be able to put aside their personal prejudices, and indeed, have been since caveman times. The only grounds for a recusement would be if the judge has an actual interest in the case.
--montoya
I'd add that DoD standard is seven times overwritten with zeros, not "random data", and that anyone who uses random data as an overwrite is probably going to get what they deserve sooner or later (particularly if their "random" data isn't as random as they thought it was).
For crying out loud, "marketing suits" already? Listen to yourself. You are so unable to believe that "hackers" are human beings to, susceptible to prejudices, fashions and mistakes, that you have decided to blame "suits" for the unpopularity of a class of computer languages that have never, ever, had a maretking campaign written for them. What the hell purpose does "marketing suits" serve in your argument? Ye faith.
In a shock development, noted Karma whore Signal "Siggy" 11 has become a troll! Perhaps demoralised by the constant pressure of the fatwa or "trollslap" launched by his enemies, he released a post full of trollworthy statements. In one post, he combined:
- The incorrect technical statement: Witness the "NSA key" in Windows 95/98/NT/W2K
- The moronic political view: Someday, someone is going to need to devise a technical solution to these political problems
- The ludicrous hyperbole: This is why they are so afraid of geeks - they know we have it within our power to end this form of tyranny for good. We are in control of the ultimate modern day press.
- Another maddeningly silly technical statement: until we rearchitecture the network to utterly defeat measures like this (transparent crypto?)
Clearly, Siggy's move into trolling will put pressure on the established slashdot trolls to compete. In a CNN inteview, streetlawyer, speaking for the notorious inchfan troll collective said Rob Malda was unavailable for comment.The Chinese empire lasted for three thousand years ....
Just because you're too ignorant not to know the etymological roots of Latinate words doesn't mean Spanish should change it's orthography for you
Moronic. Stone cold stupid. Spanish shares half of its fucken vocabulary with Italian, modulo a couple of drifting vowels. I somehow don't think that even a crack baby could fail to pick up the fact that Spanish is a Latinate language.
I mean, the retention of etymological information is one of the primordial criteria in designing an orthography for a language
Well silly fucken me. What a truly outrageous fucken fool I am. Sorry, did I say me? I meant you. No, you are totally right. The principal purpose of orthography is to convey etymological information. Any clues it might give toward little trivialities such as fucken pronunciation is purely a side-issue. There's no ass like a Spanish burro, apparently. Etymological information or no, it is purely brain-damaged to ensure that when non-natives try to speak your language, that you trip them up by assiging characters which are familiar to them to sounds which are not.
. Otherwise, you get truly dysfunctional orthographies like that for the Tzotzil language.
Puh-fucken-leeze! Tzoztil my Portugese ass. All we're asking for are a few fucken diacriticals! The fucken French manage it; why can't you? Here's how freakin' stupid the Spanish are -- the one and only consonant diacritical in their entire language is that faggy little tilde, to approximate a sound easily represented by two Roman characters. But a fucken aspirated b, a sound which appears precisely nowhere else, a sound as ridiculous as anything in !Kung, is left to be represented by a plosive "b" and a normal "v", picked completely at random, with no fucken help for the fucken reader. No wonder that you lost every single war you fought against us -- all your fucken soldiers were probably sitting around going "A vattle? He wants us to march into vattle? What's a fucken vattle?"
Keep to defending whores, crack dealers and corporations, Mr. Montoya.
I will do so happily; I would rather defend a fucken multiple child rapist, than allow a word of Spanish to pass my lips
"A la Mozilla" hmmmm.... that great open source success story
Think about it, Corel would get a lot of kudos
You can't meet creditors' demands with "kudos". Creditors want cash, now. Even if this were a great long-term move, the long term doesn't matter much if you're dead in the short term. Giving up a source of cashflow could even be criminally negligent, given a bad court day.
from the open source community,
Who are notoriously bad customers. They want free software, free MP3z, free everything, and half of the bastards even use junkbuster to make sure that not one single penny of revenue will be squeezed out of them.
they could quickly have the best word processor for Linux
Well, I didn't want to mention Mozilla, but you brought it up .... despite what Eric Raymond says, development of a new word processor is neither necessarily fast nor necessarily "the best". What they'd get would be YA open source project, full of people with no experience in word processors busily reinventing the wheel.
and other (non MS) platforms and then they could start edging back in to the Windows market.
In the meantime, paying the wages with magic beans, or perhaps with wooden nickels? And the whole point of MS Office is that you can't "edge" into the market. People want compatibility between applications, and that means all or nothing.
The Open Source panacea is more like Laetrile than penicillin, I fear.
"Siadwch" is not a word. I'm assuming it's a typo for "Siaradwch". However, even Siaradwch would be completely moronic, as it's an imperative and you're asking a question. "Ydach chi'n siarad" would be the correct form.
"yr Gymraeg" is so bad, it makes me physically want to vomit. Does "Cymraeg" begin with a vowel? Well, does it? It doesn't. So why on earth do you put "yr" in front of it? Frankly, even "y" is way out of place in front of an adjective-noun like "Cymraeg" unless you're writing some pretentious article for Tafod y Draig on the future of the Welsh language. Just plain "Cymraeg" will do fine, thank you.
And then, having made this screwjob of an "yr", you try to justify it with a clinically insane application of the soft mutation. Soft mutations follow "ei" and "eu", my friend, in order to avoid a tricky glottal back-flip that would result from trying to pronounce "ei cartref" and the like. "yr Gymraeg" is appalling.
"Ydach chi'n siarad Cymraeg?", then. Or indeed, since we're all friends here, and the "chi" form of address is, IMO on the way out, "Wy ti'n siarad Cymraeg?". Of course, the "Roman characters" idiot has actually completely missed the point. "W" and "y" are used as vowels in a manner which is really startlingly consistent with their pronunciation in English. The only sounds in Welsh which don't go into Roman characters well are "ch" and "ll". The language that really has problems with Roman characters is Spanish (was that a b, or a v, sen(y)or?)
Additionally, English was never meant to be written in Roman characters, as shown by their invention of the non-Roman character U.
Twll din pob Sais
"Open Media" are setting out to change the world, just like punk. And I am sure that they will have at least as much of a lasting effect on the world as punk rock did ... how much was that again?
In any case, I rather fear that Jon is doomed to be the Glenn Matlock of the Open Media revolution; the square fucker who did loads of stuff, but who, fundamentally, nobody liked.
Oh yeh, and this series of puff pieces for "Slashdot versus the Old Media" is still coming out without any note or disclaimer pointing out that, as shareholders in VA Linux, a company whose financial future depends on being able to convince the equity market that they are "the future", Katz, Taco et al have a huge financial interest in the story they are trying to sell us here. Or is "integrity" a "closed media" value?
No, Jon, I promise you, they are games.
So in other words, he's advising them to lose money on every sale, then make it up in volume .... what's wrong with this picture?
If I were to come round to your house and cave your stupid pointy little fucken geek head in for being a callous, social-Darwinist prick, would that be "just Darwinism"? Or would that be the actual death of an actual human fucken being, which is not, in my neck of the woods, a matter for supercilious smart-alec remarks.
Fuckhead.
While I am undecided on this particular wiretap proposition, I would have thought that this would be a feature, not a bug. Someone who makes jokes about black people being "shiftless" in emails is unfit for public office, and as a citizen, I have the right to know that I'm being asked to vote for a Kloset Klansman. I'm not sure the FBI are the right people to be holding this information, but someone ought to.
STOP READING THIS AND DO SOME F'KNG WORK, DAMN YOU!
For the clue, meditate on the phrase "audit their processes". ommmmmmmm.
Once you have reached that plane of enlightenment, meditate on the phrase "invalidating one's cover". ommmmm
Yep, you can meditate your way to understanding these questions, simply by thinking. I realise that thinking isn't as easy as posting, but it's often more fun!
No, I think I'll call you a fag, a geek, a loser and a virgin. A psycho. A goth. A Columbine killer. Hit any closer to home? Then perhaps you'll think twice before making offensive remarks in future.