[Linux-Anyway] Re: Now I know why I didn't see this
- From: Meph Istopheles <meph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 16:44:01 -0700 (PDT)
> > What? You mean to tell me that she ~doesn't~ want a bigger
> > penis?;-)
> Y'know, I was going to make a joke about that, but decided it
> was too vulgar. :)
Oh, sure. Leave that to me. Thanks;-).
> > > It's the busiest of all the lists I'm on today--I don't
> > > feel like looking at my shell scripts, playing with that
> > > printer, or anything else contructive. :)
> > And to think, we only have seven people subscribed....
> 7 bored people? :)
No doubt. But I'm liable to go find something on television
soon too.
> > Or, maybe, I'll start a new treand of helping instead of
> > bitching...? OK. So, I'm a dreamer.
> Oh puhleeze--I was answering their questions, just lecturing
> them as I did it. :)
Yeah, yeah. Lecture ~this~!;-)
> > Just you wait. Virtual Reality will come to the masses, &
> > you will ~pay~ for that remark;-).
> And several others, too, I assume--did you catch what I called
> you recently on one of the lists? I figured you missed it
> that's why you let me get away with it--or maybe because I
> buried it in a plug for this list. :)
That & the fact it really didn't have any other opening for
anyone else to get in there. So, I let it go -- rather, I put in
my secret files...for later. You'll see!;-)
> > But does it really matter ~why~ one comes to Linux? The
> > fact is that many ~are~ coming. How & who does it serve to
> > alienate them?
> Tough love? :)
> Y'know, one attitude of some of the gurus is "I learned the
> hard way, let them learn or let them get off the boat."
Sure. But be practical. Why are more coming? Because M$
alienates those with any brains & because Linux is getting
better. But what incentive will there be to push those
advances in Linux if we just push every newbie back to Windows?
> > And then there will be us on Linux-Anyway to ease them from
> > their gui to the command line & will have the problem fixed
> > in a tenth the time. Plus, that newbie will be a Linux user,
> > instead of one who simply tried it & couldn't get anything
> > working.
> Yup, that's a high ideal--still somewhat surprising that
> someone as grouchy and impatient with stupidity as yourself is
> founding it. :)
That's the point. Eventually any Linux user with half a brain
will see the stupidity in fighting the current. Help them, & we
get a better Linux & set of apps sooner.
--
Lo! Men have become the tool of their tools.
-Henry David Thoreau
[And we all know men are just tools;-)]
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