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(cpc2-cmbg8-0-0-cust61.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [82.6.108.62]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm4282eyd.39.2009.09.01.10.17.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A9D5A64.7000404@googlemail.com> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:17:00 -0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: There Is No Vulgar And Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: [OT] Re: GNU screen hangs References: <20090831213625.GB14033@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20090831222750.GC14033@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4A9CF7A1.8060704@googlemail.com> <4A9CFE1D.9070601@googlemail.com> <4A9D064E.5080206@googlemail.com> <20090901140752.GC16845@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20090901140752.GC16845@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-q3/txt/msg00065.txt.bz2 Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 12:32:30PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> One more time wrote: >>> Ah, censorship. >> zOMG we is suppressing your freedumb of speach! O noes! Call for the >> WAAAAH-bulance! > > Yes, freedum of spiech is being censored as in "I want to use your forum > to say what I want however I want. You won't let me so I will show what > a deep thinker I am by changing my email address and sending more > insulting email." I hung on NANAE for a few years back in the 90s and we got this argument all the time... generally the next step is spurious threats of legal action aka. "cartooneys". The response is a game of Lumber Cartel (tinlc) variant Scissors, Paper, Rock - or "Spammer's Nad, Spammer's Other Nad, Mallet" as we call it in the Lumber Cartel (tinlc). That's usually enough to provoke a full on mouth-foaming carpet-gnawing rubber-room meltdown, at which point everyone can declare "WIN" and start to lose interest in the new chew-toy. >> Ha ha, no. Sure, they laughed at Galileo, they laughed at Copernicus, >> they laughed at Columbus and Newton and Einstein. >> >> But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. > > LOL. This is one of the funniest things I've ever read here. Credit must be given to Carl Sagan for the original which I slightly mangled there. But who remembers who invented the steamboat these days anyway? > I didn't realize that this was somebody we were supposed to know either. A random net.kook on a deranged mission to set the world to rights? How could you possibly not realise the vital significance of his Quixotic crusade? > As part of the pattern of these things go, I received a private message > from this notable that began with: > > "Oh, I know who you are: a dick that has been given too much power. A > freetard, and part of the FOSScracy at that." Hah! The use of the word freetard strongly suggests Mr. I'm-Not-A-Sheeple here gets all his "original thinking" straight out of an Andrew Orlowski article! > I'm blushing because I actually found it kind of flattering to be > thought of as FOSScracy. Now I'm even more flattered because I didn't > know that I'd been complimented by someone famous. > > I have to say that Mr. McFly here fits the pattern of mailing list kook > very precisely. I'd expect much more original thinking from such a > visionary. I thought his invocation of the First Amendment sat somewhat amusingly at odds with his racially-stereotyped opinion of Americans. Maybe he was just trying to demonstrate the meaning of irony for all y'all humour-impaired Yankees? > I no longer marvel at the sheer idiocy of being given software for free > and then either don't listen to or actually insult people who are trying > to help. It's a sad commentary on something that this pattern is so > prevlant. But, then, again, this kind of behavior is not the rule so > I guess that's encouraging. > > But, then, the original bug report of "screen hangs sometimes" was not > likely result in much in-depth debugging anyway. Oh, but it was a much more in-depth report than that! Full of vitally relevant details, like "everything's broken" and "completely unusable" and "aaarrgggghh I hate you you're so UNFAIR!" >> Face the facts: I have never met or heard of you before; it's entirely >> down to the unpleasant tone of your first post and your subsequent >> descent into full-on trollhood. I am not following any herd, I made my >> own mind up, and long before you started being deliberately rude for no >> reason over the issue of quoting people's email addresses; it's >> precisely because I have an independent mind that I think you're a >> jerk. > > Well, I wasn't sure. I'm more of a follower. But if that's what Dave > thinks, it's good enuff for me. Hell, if it all comes back on us, I'm going to say it was the *other* Dave Korn. It's always easy to blame stuff on AT+T anyway. cheers, DaveK