Posts by Geriant

Re: If MS wrote the OS for it..

And, obviously, it would be called "Loyal Wingdingman".

Re: Purposeful != Deliberate

You could just write "purposely", which would do the job nicely. But, when it's trendy to use shit(ty) English there's not much that can be done about it.

I'll consult my dictionary momentarily while careening wildly down a hill, then get back to normalcy.

Re: A culling program

I dunno. There were several bajillion passenger pigeons in North America -- and they were culled to nonexistence.

"Not into science at all." -- not what was said.

"Thornhill is an idiot and was proved wrong on every count at 67p." -- Yep! 97% of cosmologists would agree with you there.

Re: The meaning of words

"The USA Liberty Act is to liberty as the Australian Liberal Party is to liberalism."

... or, for that matter, as the Australian Labor Party is to labour / socialism.

Re: Did you expect anything else from Apple?

OMG!! That is just soooooooo yesterday! LOL

Re: The Paradox of Tolerance summarizes my opinion:

"If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all."

Noam Chomsky

If you approve of censorship, you need to be pretty confident that the person doing the censoring is doing so in a manner of which you approve. But, I suppose, any number of real-life and would-be dictators are fully in agreement with that sentiment.

I'll concede that behaviour (i.e. doing things) needs to be regulated, but the only test for speech should be where it is either calumny (calculated, lying libel) or uttered with reckless disregard as to whether or not it is true.

As Sir Stanley Unwin pointed out: "The enemy of subversive thought is not suppression, but publication: truth has no need to fear the light of day; fallacies wither under it. The unpopular views of today are the commonplaces of tomorrow, and in any case the wise man wants to hear both sides of every question."

Re: The clue is in the domain name

To add a quote in support ...

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

Theodore Roosevelt

Re: Munich city now planning to move ALL their Linux desktops back to Windows

If you are dealing with a workplace filled with capable people for whom computers are tools they have to use, just TRY getting them to think about how to adapt to Libre/Open Office, Linux (any flavour) or anything even slightly dissimilar to the MS-based environment to which they are accustomed.

As long as people retain the God-given right to never have to think about computers, elementary operational safety and basic responsibility, there is minimal likelihood that any innovation -- no matter how good -- will achieve a significant level of acceptance.

Re: Fuck

Absolutely agree with your Facebook sentiments, but do you REALLY aspire to immortality?

Re: Great news

What's that got to do with Donald Trump?

Re: If...

a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you?

Re: "Responability" without authority (to make it stick)

According to Stanley Baldwin (with a leg-up from Mr Kipling), power without responsibility has been the prerogative of the harlot through the ages.

On the other hand, responsibility without power would seem to be the prerogative of the scapegoat through the ages.