What does it say when the post hasn't been up five seconds and it gets modded flamebait? Read it first, retard!
"We've been planning for the Big Move from the US to Canada for some time. To ease the transition, we did relocate to a border state - we can flee easily in case of...ah...crisis."
"Patriotism? Yes, nice concept in general, but it isn't like faith in a Diety."
"Stay here and FIX this bungled mess? Listen: 12 months ago you were all lambasting me for daring to speak against His Holiness Bush's Purity, the same guy who's now in the low 30's approval-ratings-wise. The day "should we start pre-emptive wars for the hell of it? (yes/no)" and "should we drop DRM? (OK/not sure yet)" and "should we ban anybody who makes more than $100,000/year from running for political office? (Hell, yes/hell yes)" show up on the ballot is the day I know I can vote and actually AFFECT something in this highjacked country. Picking between siamese-twin shit-for-brains (Bush AND Kerry) is not a choice. Here, I'll give America one last chance: "Hey, howzabouts we tear down all the football stadiums and build libraries in their place and pay the teachers the football player's salaries so we'll have an educated generation and have an OPTION besides outsourcing all our programming to Bangladesh? Anybody with me?" Crickets: *chirp* *chirp* *chirp*"
"Worry about how bad things are in Canada? Hey, I talk to Canadians all the time. Any country where the citizens' stress level sounds about 100 times lower than mine is worth a shot. Shit, if I'm wrong, I can move back. Or elsewhere. It's a big world."
"And I LOVE snow!!! It's better than SMOG!!!"
"And what does it tell you when a country CARES enough to spend money to keep their technical jobs there? For all the US government cares, we could all sling french fries. They'll just raise the minimum wage and we'll all just keep buying shit on our McSalaries - with the prices carefully rigged so that we're all just slightly in debt all of our lives."
PS This post was a logical feeling out in answer to the question posed by the article. "Flamebait" means to deliberately post provocative comments in order to incite arguments.
And who the hell sits there hitting the refresh button on my profile in order to mod down every post I make as soon as I click on it? I can repost this all night, you only have five points maximum to spend. Hope your other hand's free so you can jerk off, too!
We've been planning for the Big Move from the US to Canada for some time. To ease the transition, we did relocate to a border state - we can flee easily in case of...ah...crisis.
Patriotism? Yes, nice concept in general, but it isn't like faith in a Diety.
Stay here and FIX this bungled mess? Listen: 12 months ago you were all lambasting me for daring to speak against His Holiness Bush's Purity, the same guy who's now in the low 30's approval-ratings-wise. The day "should we start pre-emptive wars for the hell of it? (yes/no)" and "should we drop DRM? (OK/not sure yet)" and "should we ban anybody who makes more than $100,000/year from running for political office? (Hell, yes/hell yes)" show up on the ballot is the day I know I can vote and actually AFFECT something in this highjacked country. Picking between siamese-twin shit-for-brains (Bush AND Kerry) is not a choice. Here, I'll give America one last chance: "Hey, howzabouts we tear down all the football stadiums and build libraries in their place and pay the teachers the football player's salaries so we'll have an educated generation and have an OPTION besides outsourcing all our programming to Bangladesh? Anybody with me?" Crickets: *chirp* *chirp* *chirp*
Worry about how bad things are in Canada? Hey, I talk to Canadians all the time. Any country where the citizens' stress level sounds about 100 times lower than mine is worth a shot. Shit, if I'm wrong, I can move back. Or elsewhere. It's a big world.
And I LOVE snow!!! It's better than SMOG!!!
And what does it tell you when a country CARES enough to spend money to keep their technical jobs there? For all the US government cares, we could all sling french fries. They'll just raise the minimum wage and we'll all just keep buying shit on our McSalaries - with the prices carefully rigged so that we're all just slightly in debt all of our lives.
Because I never could figure it out. I mean, if you run it all the way to it's ridiculous conclusion: Presidential candidates can sue each other every four years. Every fast food commercial that says their greaseburgers are better than brand X's greaseburgers is liable. Every religion denounces every other religion as false while holding themselves to be the one true faith, so every church needs to sue every other church indefinitely. Everybody who's flamed everybody else on Slashdot owes the offended party a dollar. Every ex-partner whom you've derided to your present partner in order to reassure them of your potential faithfulness should the old flame turn up can haul you in front of judge Judy.
By the way, thanks to the "Get the Facts" campaign, Microsoft owes Linux several billion by now. Who started this slander business, anyway? How can I legitimatly claim in court with a straight face that I'm owed financial reparations because somebody insulted me? Who gives a rodent's posterior? If one person's saying it and it's that extreme, it's probably disbelieved anyway.
*Yawn* so uh what does this have to do with Microsoft being so justified that it can censor documents in a political context? That's option (a). Option (b) is where we flame each other's choice of (1) TV shows (hate both Star Trek and B-5, take your pick), (2) Pets (I like cats), or (3) editors (I like both Emacs and vi, take your pick) having exhausted everything else.
No, really, what does somebody like you even *get* out of a site like this? Are you *that* bored? Scanning your comment history, I rarely see you make an original post, largely you just respond, mostly to criticize. Your ID number's 100,000 lower than mine, yet your karma's lower than "excellent". Your freaks outnumber your fans more than three to one; although, like me, it appears that you could give a thin damn about the social nonsense - you add nobody to either list. Still, is it all really *that* much fun?
Check my "Top Ten Ways to fight dirty against Microsoft", originally posted and flamed (oops, forgot, it's a four-day weekend!), now copied to my journal. Grain of salt: I originally wrote it as a joke, but I'm starting to feel more serious about it, now. It's time we took it to the streets!
Try again, Michael Hood. Your second attempt led to the discovery of HTML tags to keep paragraphs formatted. Maybe you'll get even smarter on your *third* attempt!
http://www.alternet.org/story/28584/ Here's a link. You don't like what I said, you'll REALLY hate what he said. And he's so right, especially about the part: "Not only is the thought of such a change in this white-supremacist holiday impossible to imagine, but the very mention of the idea sends most Americans into apoplectic fits".
*Eyeing my troll mod and flame collection* YAH THINK ???
So the people who actually work for a living have extra time off.
I think I'll just start addressing these "Dear Moron:"
No, the people who actually work for a living and the inhabitants of offices are, in fact, diametrically opposed groups. I played the office game for years, but got tired of getting yuppie welfare in exchange for lying in that morgue watching myself age. I work for me, now. But don't let me spoil your fun! Come Monday, you'll be happily back to running the 100-yard cubical maze looking for the damn coffee pot, listening to all the idiots like yourself yammer in that comforting, hivelike buzz, dodging the PHBs, building little toys out of paper clips and binders and paper and tape and staples and white out...
In the meantime, what are you DOING on Slashdot, anyway? That's what gets me wondering about you weekenders, what's in it for you? What the hell do you care about "news for nerds" anyway? And you're *missing* your precious FOOTBALL GAMES on the TELEVISION!!!!
Vitriol is how I react to assinine, deliberate stupidity. Rest assured, people who manage not to come off like braying jackasses get to see my mellow side. Always been that way!
Let's see here, is it a four-day weekend? Microsoft shills lining up to kiss Billy's ass, all pro-MS comments modded up, all pro-anything-else modded down, Anonymous Cowards spontaneously combusting all over the place...ah, Monday, you can't get here soon enough!
OK, you're right, you've convinced me. Censorship is a good thing...as long as they START AND END WITH YOU I'M ALL FOR IT!!! Now, go be happy.
And AOL is heavily advertised, so that doesn't apply either
Oh? How do you think mailing people free samples of your product DOESN'T COUNT AS ADVERTISING? And yes, I think most people WILL run free CDs they get in their mailbox, once they've failed to figure it out on their stereo's CD player and couldn't make sense of it when they watched it on their DVD player.
Evengelical religious...*nod* *nod* yep, that's just what I had in mind. _Heeeeeenccce_ _theeeee_ _tiiiitllllee_ _seeeeezzz_ "plaaaayyyy deeerrrtiiiieeeee...."
Man, what's WITH this crowd today? Turkey slowing everybody down? Office workers all get the day off? It's been hilarious fun, but I'm looking forward to Monday when I can get back to higher-level debates again...anyway, listen, it was in *humorous* reply to the upthread question "How do we play dirty against Microsoft?"...the "Top Ten" format is canonical David Letterman. A show that's on after your bedtime...nighty-night!
Well, would you watch TV for free? Granted, the TV show is interrupted by commercials. That's how it pays for the cost of producing the show. Software is much cheaper to produce than a TV show - frequently just a few people can do it. The banner ads on the download site can pay for it. And just like TV shows, once a piece of software is produced and edited to it's final version, it can be released/rebroadcast again and again and again...at no additional cost! Unlike a ham sandwich, which can only be eaten once.
But along came the proprietary vendors and convinced people to think of software like ham sandwiches - one use, one license. Just like with TV, we used to get 100's of channels for free, then cable came along and all the free channels dried up. Remember the selling point of cable in the first place was "more choices, no commercials"? Well, the free choices went away, you now have *fewer* channels available - and when's the last time you saw a whole program without a commercial? Oh, that's right, the "premium" channels - which cost even more!
Gullible, aren't you? Watch them do it to you again with radio and DRM. How long before you have to pay to breathe the freakin' AIR???
Oh, I accepted that lying about my OS to my ISP was a necessity a LONG time ago. My DSL *insists* on not supporting Linux (even if I try to explain to them that I got online *just* *fine* with Linux and offer to explain how so they can stop turning away customers - their response is something along the lines of "La La La I'm not LISTENINGGGGGG").
So these days, I just greet their service tech at the door, accept the package, say I'll install it just fine, thanks, and shut the door before he gets too nosey.
And the manager stories are even less surprising. Me, handing in my first edition of the company newsletter I got stuck doing: Manager: "Looks great! How'd you do these graphics?" "I used Gimp's foo-filter and layered the..." "You WHAT!?!?!" "Er...I worked on it all night in Photoshop." "Oh, that's what I thought you said. And an excellent example of Photoshop's superiority it is, too!"
I recently tried Fedora Core Four - this is on the family PC (we're a 3-comp household) to replace the Red Hat 9 everybody loved. But I don't know if it was the architecture (the family PC got stuck with the Intel Celeron - and Fedora site recommends 386 for it) or I just didn't get it tuned right, but it was Suh-low. Sorry, I don't mean to come off as FUD. Red Hat 9 still on the machine performs like blazes - unfortunately, becoming more and more out of date, difficult to get new software on it, and no yum. Fedora pleased me every other way, at least for the family PC (it's the internet-connected one. Generally, if it supports a web browser and a choice of desktops, it's happy. The other two run Mandriva (for the kids) and Slackware (for hacker dad)). So, is Fedora Five going to move up to 686 (which is the Red Hat I have, and I think that might be the problem)? If not, I think I'll try one of the smaller Fedora-based distros. Mom and daughter insist on their KDE and I don't think they're ready for Slackware...
Sweetheart, you just go on with your little Monopoly-board-game way of life. We have more powerful ways to change things for our benefit. It's called a revolution. We're calling for one right now. And you don't have to be very rich to afford a guillotine.
Hey, just because I don't believe in it doesn't mean I can't point it out to somebody who might. After all, the other side certainly has no qualms about beating ME over the head with it every chance they get. I just fight fire with fire.
Are you living in one of the Islamic republics?
There is not, to my knowledge, the Ten Commandments in the Qua'ran. There are supposed to be equivalents scattered around, however.
here in the Western democracies have laws that are based on secular law
People make mistakes all the time and if you cannot forgive and forget, then I have a hard time seeing how you can keep friends for long.
Genocide is a fucking "mistake"? And thoughts are the same thing as deeds? Listen, if you have more friends than I do, it's probably because your aim is off. By the way, whose religion is it again that has as it's central symbol a torturous execution device?
10. Give the gift of Linux this holiday season. If a few burned CDs are too cheap for you, buy a Linux book that comes with the CDs.
9. Refer all charity organizations and any group strapped for cash to Linux. Every year when my kid's school does parent-teacher conferences, I never fail to bring up open-source after the teachers mention school budget cutbacks. (there's always a good opportunity to work that in when the teachers apologize for not getting the reports printed out because XP crashed - again!)
8. Drop IE-compatibility from your websites. Use this: http://www.stopie.com/stopie/home/ which will refer viewers to download Firefox. Aren't you tired of having to make your website botched up just to work for the lamest browser on the web, anyway?
7. Earn money by referring people to Firefox with Google toolbar while you're at it: http://downhillbattle.org/node/view/554 Who *says* there's no money in free software?
6. Go to the Ubuntu site - the page where you can order an Ubuntu disk sent to you for free - and fill in RANDOM ADDRESSES. Mystery gifts from the software fairy.
5. Anybody with a CD burner and a Linux fetish will have old Linux CDs they don't use anymore - like when you've updated to the new version. Take these CDs with you to the library, and tuck them into the Windows books in the computer books section.
4. While you're in the library, be sure to fill out those request/suggestion forms for new books to buy with the latest Linux books you're just dying to check out - and hasn't "DOS for Dummies" and "Windows 3.1 - the complete reference" gotten old, anyway?
3. Never pass a computer store without walking in and asking for software titles that run on Linux. The idea is to make them aware that Linux users *would* spend *some* money, if only anybody cared to do business with us.
2. Teach your kids Linux. This is the easiest - kids will absorb Linux like little sponges, all you have to do is install it and stand back.
1. Go to second-hand stores such as Salvation Army and Goodwill. Find a used computer on sale plugged in and running. Stick Knoppix on it. Reboot it. Walk away whistling. Trust me, I've spoken to employee and customer alike at these places - nobody would ever know the difference!
If I have any old Linux CDs I'm not using (i.e. Knoppix 3.5 when I've gotten Knoppix 3.7) and I'm going to the library, I pack them in my pocket. And I go to the computer books section. And I stick one into every MS-oriented book on the shelf, and leave them there. Today I did that to "the Senior's Guide to Computers". Here, try Ubuntu, grandma.
Then I go home and have a drink, because that's the only day when I feel like I've earned one.
Hey, did MS pay you enough for damage control? Fuck you! If Microsoft censors so much as a fucking COMMA, it's WRONG, as WRONG as it would be for ANYBODY to censor ANYTHING at ANY TIME. Hey, why don't we justify murder by cutting "Thou shalt not kill." out of the ten commandments? Just remember, four little words make it illegal to get rid of shitheads like you. Censorship still A-OK with you?
They've been complaining about the Billy-as-Borg icon for years. Let's get rid of it...and replace it with Billy-as-the-Godfather. Really, they aren't Borg anymore, they've been busted down to "common thugs"...still fearsome, but no longer insurmountable. The fact that they have to resort to such tactics proves this.
Let's remove all favourable references to microsoft off slashdot then.
I know that tune. I've been singing it for years. I'm tired of singing it. What we need to start singing is "Let's found a new site like Slashdot only where we don't have glory and worship of Microshit forced down our throats every day."
*scanning my post* WHAT religion? I didn't mention that I had one.
Anyway, (since you doubtless notice by now that I have no problem expressing unpopular, controversial views!) no, I don't believe in forgiveness, not in the sense that the Judeo-Christian, mono-theist, patriarchial faiths do. Forgiveness to them means "You can kill, rape, rob, cheat, lie, any damn thing you want, and as long as you jump on your knees and go 'I confess I'm a sinner!' you're A-OK!" See, we have "Sin is not measured" and then we have "Good works are worth nothing without faith." Put those two concepts together, and basically, what you do to your fellow beings on the material plane doesn't mean jack shit - the only thing that matters is whether you get your happy ass into Heaven. Well, great for you, congratulations, you're an angel. Here's your harp and wings. Great for me, but what about those ten people I killed? What do they get out of it? I *do* believe in atonement and restitution, where you follow up the admission that you did something wrong by doing your best to make things right again. Forgiveness is crap. I wouldn't accept the forgiveness of a cosmic being who could be so petty. And if your wrongdoing is so great that you *can't* make it better(i.e. whole races of people genocided cannot be brought back to life.), well, then, you SHOULD be damned! What else would damning exist for?
PS I do a similar bah humbug at Christmas in about a month; join me then. Once again, the wife and kids and folks can exchange all the gifts they please - I *insist* on not recieving presents, as I count my joys on the non-materialist spectrum (to put it simply, it's about what I do or what I learn or who I am - not about what I own!), and express disdain for the commercialization of the holiday, the historical pillaging of declaring a bogus holiday in the first place to overshadow the Wiccan Yule festival, yadda yadda yadda. It's tradition. I'm less of a pain in the ass on the other holidays, but that's an oversight - I'm working on it.
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"We've been planning for the Big Move from the US to Canada for some time. To ease the transition, we did relocate to a border state - we can flee easily in case of...ah...crisis."
"Patriotism? Yes, nice concept in general, but it isn't like faith in a Diety."
"Stay here and FIX this bungled mess? Listen: 12 months ago you were all lambasting me for daring to speak against His Holiness Bush's Purity, the same guy who's now in the low 30's approval-ratings-wise. The day "should we start pre-emptive wars for the hell of it? (yes/no)" and "should we drop DRM? (OK/not sure yet)" and "should we ban anybody who makes more than $100,000/year from running for political office? (Hell, yes/hell yes)" show up on the ballot is the day I know I can vote and actually AFFECT something in this highjacked country. Picking between siamese-twin shit-for-brains (Bush AND Kerry) is not a choice. Here, I'll give America one last chance: "Hey, howzabouts we tear down all the football stadiums and build libraries in their place and pay the teachers the football player's salaries so we'll have an educated generation and have an OPTION besides outsourcing all our programming to Bangladesh? Anybody with me?" Crickets: *chirp* *chirp* *chirp*"
"Worry about how bad things are in Canada? Hey, I talk to Canadians all the time. Any country where the citizens' stress level sounds about 100 times lower than mine is worth a shot. Shit, if I'm wrong, I can move back. Or elsewhere. It's a big world."
"And I LOVE snow!!! It's better than SMOG!!!"
"And what does it tell you when a country CARES enough to spend money to keep their technical jobs there? For all the US government cares, we could all sling french fries. They'll just raise the minimum wage and we'll all just keep buying shit on our McSalaries - with the prices carefully rigged so that we're all just slightly in debt all of our lives."
PS This post was a logical feeling out in answer to the question posed by the article. "Flamebait" means to deliberately post provocative comments in order to incite arguments. And who the hell sits there hitting the refresh button on my profile in order to mod down every post I make as soon as I click on it? I can repost this all night, you only have five points maximum to spend. Hope your other hand's free so you can jerk off, too!
Patriotism? Yes, nice concept in general, but it isn't like faith in a Diety.
Stay here and FIX this bungled mess? Listen: 12 months ago you were all lambasting me for daring to speak against His Holiness Bush's Purity, the same guy who's now in the low 30's approval-ratings-wise. The day "should we start pre-emptive wars for the hell of it? (yes/no)" and "should we drop DRM? (OK/not sure yet)" and "should we ban anybody who makes more than $100,000/year from running for political office? (Hell, yes/hell yes)" show up on the ballot is the day I know I can vote and actually AFFECT something in this highjacked country. Picking between siamese-twin shit-for-brains (Bush AND Kerry) is not a choice. Here, I'll give America one last chance: "Hey, howzabouts we tear down all the football stadiums and build libraries in their place and pay the teachers the football player's salaries so we'll have an educated generation and have an OPTION besides outsourcing all our programming to Bangladesh? Anybody with me?" Crickets: *chirp* *chirp* *chirp*
Worry about how bad things are in Canada? Hey, I talk to Canadians all the time. Any country where the citizens' stress level sounds about 100 times lower than mine is worth a shot. Shit, if I'm wrong, I can move back. Or elsewhere. It's a big world.
And I LOVE snow!!! It's better than SMOG!!!
And what does it tell you when a country CARES enough to spend money to keep their technical jobs there? For all the US government cares, we could all sling french fries. They'll just raise the minimum wage and we'll all just keep buying shit on our McSalaries - with the prices carefully rigged so that we're all just slightly in debt all of our lives.
By the way, thanks to the "Get the Facts" campaign, Microsoft owes Linux several billion by now. Who started this slander business, anyway? How can I legitimatly claim in court with a straight face that I'm owed financial reparations because somebody insulted me? Who gives a rodent's posterior? If one person's saying it and it's that extreme, it's probably disbelieved anyway.
No, really, what does somebody like you even *get* out of a site like this? Are you *that* bored? Scanning your comment history, I rarely see you make an original post, largely you just respond, mostly to criticize. Your ID number's 100,000 lower than mine, yet your karma's lower than "excellent". Your freaks outnumber your fans more than three to one; although, like me, it appears that you could give a thin damn about the social nonsense - you add nobody to either list. Still, is it all really *that* much fun?
Check my "Top Ten Ways to fight dirty against Microsoft", originally posted and flamed (oops, forgot, it's a four-day weekend!), now copied to my journal. Grain of salt: I originally wrote it as a joke, but I'm starting to feel more serious about it, now. It's time we took it to the streets!
Try again, Michael Hood. Your second attempt led to the discovery of HTML tags to keep paragraphs formatted. Maybe you'll get even smarter on your *third* attempt!
*Eyeing my troll mod and flame collection* YAH THINK ???
I think I'll just start addressing these "Dear Moron:"
No, the people who actually work for a living and the inhabitants of offices are, in fact, diametrically opposed groups. I played the office game for years, but got tired of getting yuppie welfare in exchange for lying in that morgue watching myself age. I work for me, now. But don't let me spoil your fun! Come Monday, you'll be happily back to running the 100-yard cubical maze looking for the damn coffee pot, listening to all the idiots like yourself yammer in that comforting, hivelike buzz, dodging the PHBs, building little toys out of paper clips and binders and paper and tape and staples and white out...
In the meantime, what are you DOING on Slashdot, anyway? That's what gets me wondering about you weekenders, what's in it for you? What the hell do you care about "news for nerds" anyway? And you're *missing* your precious FOOTBALL GAMES on the TELEVISION!!!!
Vitriol is how I react to assinine, deliberate stupidity. Rest assured, people who manage not to come off like braying jackasses get to see my mellow side. Always been that way!
And I'll get dat wascawwy penguin! hahahahaha!
Yeah, see "Top Ten way to "play dirty" against Microsoft. If for no other reason than because you'll be one of the few who *get* it.
OK, you're right, you've convinced me. Censorship is a good thing...as long as they START AND END WITH YOU I'M ALL FOR IT!!! Now, go be happy.
Oh? How do you think mailing people free samples of your product DOESN'T COUNT AS ADVERTISING? And yes, I think most people WILL run free CDs they get in their mailbox, once they've failed to figure it out on their stereo's CD player and couldn't make sense of it when they watched it on their DVD player.
Evengelical religious...*nod* *nod* yep, that's just what I had in mind. _Heeeeeenccce_ _theeeee_ _tiiiitllllee_ _seeeeezzz_ "plaaaayyyy deeerrrtiiiieeeee...."
Man, what's WITH this crowd today? Turkey slowing everybody down? Office workers all get the day off? It's been hilarious fun, but I'm looking forward to Monday when I can get back to higher-level debates again...anyway, listen, it was in *humorous* reply to the upthread question "How do we play dirty against Microsoft?"...the "Top Ten" format is canonical David Letterman. A show that's on after your bedtime...nighty-night!
But along came the proprietary vendors and convinced people to think of software like ham sandwiches - one use, one license. Just like with TV, we used to get 100's of channels for free, then cable came along and all the free channels dried up. Remember the selling point of cable in the first place was "more choices, no commercials"? Well, the free choices went away, you now have *fewer* channels available - and when's the last time you saw a whole program without a commercial? Oh, that's right, the "premium" channels - which cost even more!
Gullible, aren't you? Watch them do it to you again with radio and DRM. How long before you have to pay to breathe the freakin' AIR???
So these days, I just greet their service tech at the door, accept the package, say I'll install it just fine, thanks, and shut the door before he gets too nosey.
And the manager stories are even less surprising. Me, handing in my first edition of the company newsletter I got stuck doing: Manager: "Looks great! How'd you do these graphics?" "I used Gimp's foo-filter and layered the..." "You WHAT!?!?!" "Er...I worked on it all night in Photoshop." "Oh, that's what I thought you said. And an excellent example of Photoshop's superiority it is, too!"
I recently tried Fedora Core Four - this is on the family PC (we're a 3-comp household) to replace the Red Hat 9 everybody loved. But I don't know if it was the architecture (the family PC got stuck with the Intel Celeron - and Fedora site recommends 386 for it) or I just didn't get it tuned right, but it was Suh-low. Sorry, I don't mean to come off as FUD. Red Hat 9 still on the machine performs like blazes - unfortunately, becoming more and more out of date, difficult to get new software on it, and no yum. Fedora pleased me every other way, at least for the family PC (it's the internet-connected one. Generally, if it supports a web browser and a choice of desktops, it's happy. The other two run Mandriva (for the kids) and Slackware (for hacker dad)). So, is Fedora Five going to move up to 686 (which is the Red Hat I have, and I think that might be the problem)? If not, I think I'll try one of the smaller Fedora-based distros. Mom and daughter insist on their KDE and I don't think they're ready for Slackware...
Sweetheart, you just go on with your little Monopoly-board-game way of life. We have more powerful ways to change things for our benefit. It's called a revolution. We're calling for one right now. And you don't have to be very rich to afford a guillotine.
Hey, just because I don't believe in it doesn't mean I can't point it out to somebody who might. After all, the other side certainly has no qualms about beating ME over the head with it every chance they get. I just fight fire with fire.
Are you living in one of the Islamic republics?
There is not, to my knowledge, the Ten Commandments in the Qua'ran. There are supposed to be equivalents scattered around, however.
here in the Western democracies have laws that are based on secular law
Sure, with the TC's carved in freaking stone in front of the courthouse. http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2005-11-20-t encommandments_x.htm Hey, it's what your judges (your, as in "you voted them in!") say, not me!
Western democracies
Heee hee haw haw HA-A-A-ARRR har hoo hoo hah hah ha ha haaaa....
change your meds to help with that anger management issue
OK, but remember, I'll be so happy and mellow that I won't be able to speak up when they censor you on Slashdot!
Genocide is a fucking "mistake"? And thoughts are the same thing as deeds? Listen, if you have more friends than I do, it's probably because your aim is off. By the way, whose religion is it again that has as it's central symbol a torturous execution device?
9. Refer all charity organizations and any group strapped for cash to Linux. Every year when my kid's school does parent-teacher conferences, I never fail to bring up open-source after the teachers mention school budget cutbacks. (there's always a good opportunity to work that in when the teachers apologize for not getting the reports printed out because XP crashed - again!)
8. Drop IE-compatibility from your websites. Use this: http://www.stopie.com/stopie/home/ which will refer viewers to download Firefox. Aren't you tired of having to make your website botched up just to work for the lamest browser on the web, anyway?
7. Earn money by referring people to Firefox with Google toolbar while you're at it: http://downhillbattle.org/node/view/554 Who *says* there's no money in free software?
6. Go to the Ubuntu site - the page where you can order an Ubuntu disk sent to you for free - and fill in RANDOM ADDRESSES. Mystery gifts from the software fairy.
5. Anybody with a CD burner and a Linux fetish will have old Linux CDs they don't use anymore - like when you've updated to the new version. Take these CDs with you to the library, and tuck them into the Windows books in the computer books section.
4. While you're in the library, be sure to fill out those request/suggestion forms for new books to buy with the latest Linux books you're just dying to check out - and hasn't "DOS for Dummies" and "Windows 3.1 - the complete reference" gotten old, anyway?
3. Never pass a computer store without walking in and asking for software titles that run on Linux. The idea is to make them aware that Linux users *would* spend *some* money, if only anybody cared to do business with us.
2. Teach your kids Linux. This is the easiest - kids will absorb Linux like little sponges, all you have to do is install it and stand back.
1. Go to second-hand stores such as Salvation Army and Goodwill. Find a used computer on sale plugged in and running. Stick Knoppix on it. Reboot it. Walk away whistling. Trust me, I've spoken to employee and customer alike at these places - nobody would ever know the difference!
Then I go home and have a drink, because that's the only day when I feel like I've earned one.
Hey, did MS pay you enough for damage control? Fuck you! If Microsoft censors so much as a fucking COMMA, it's WRONG, as WRONG as it would be for ANYBODY to censor ANYTHING at ANY TIME. Hey, why don't we justify murder by cutting "Thou shalt not kill." out of the ten commandments? Just remember, four little words make it illegal to get rid of shitheads like you. Censorship still A-OK with you?
They've been complaining about the Billy-as-Borg icon for years. Let's get rid of it...and replace it with Billy-as-the-Godfather. Really, they aren't Borg anymore, they've been busted down to "common thugs"...still fearsome, but no longer insurmountable. The fact that they have to resort to such tactics proves this.
I know that tune. I've been singing it for years. I'm tired of singing it. What we need to start singing is "Let's found a new site like Slashdot only where we don't have glory and worship of Microshit forced down our throats every day."
*scanning my post* WHAT religion? I didn't mention that I had one.
Anyway, (since you doubtless notice by now that I have no problem expressing unpopular, controversial views!) no, I don't believe in forgiveness, not in the sense that the Judeo-Christian, mono-theist, patriarchial faiths do. Forgiveness to them means "You can kill, rape, rob, cheat, lie, any damn thing you want, and as long as you jump on your knees and go 'I confess I'm a sinner!' you're A-OK!" See, we have "Sin is not measured" and then we have "Good works are worth nothing without faith." Put those two concepts together, and basically, what you do to your fellow beings on the material plane doesn't mean jack shit - the only thing that matters is whether you get your happy ass into Heaven. Well, great for you, congratulations, you're an angel. Here's your harp and wings. Great for me, but what about those ten people I killed? What do they get out of it? I *do* believe in atonement and restitution, where you follow up the admission that you did something wrong by doing your best to make things right again. Forgiveness is crap. I wouldn't accept the forgiveness of a cosmic being who could be so petty. And if your wrongdoing is so great that you *can't* make it better(i.e. whole races of people genocided cannot be brought back to life.), well, then, you SHOULD be damned! What else would damning exist for?
PS I do a similar bah humbug at Christmas in about a month; join me then. Once again, the wife and kids and folks can exchange all the gifts they please - I *insist* on not recieving presents, as I count my joys on the non-materialist spectrum (to put it simply, it's about what I do or what I learn or who I am - not about what I own!), and express disdain for the commercialization of the holiday, the historical pillaging of declaring a bogus holiday in the first place to overshadow the Wiccan Yule festival, yadda yadda yadda. It's tradition. I'm less of a pain in the ass on the other holidays, but that's an oversight - I'm working on it.