"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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>>> This is where I mumble something about immitation being the more sincere 
>>> form of flattery or something...
>>
>> Or the fastest way to royally piss me off. lol! ;-)
>
> That too...
>
>>> As you may know, while I was at uni doing my BSc, I regularly had MSc 
>>> students that I'd never met before in my life wander up to me and ask in 
>>> broken English whether I could "fix their Java". I have no idea how the 
>>> hell they knew my name or my skill with Java...
>>
>> *head in hands* Oh god...yes I know what you mean...I have similar 
>> problems with my family, who usually won't even speak to me unless "the 
>> internet is broken" or some such nonsense.
>> I typically end up explaining to them that they most probably have no 
>> business being even anywhere *near* a computer.
>
> Buy the T-shirt: "No, I will NOT fix your computer. Go away before I 
> replace you with a Haskell one-liner."
>

Not really my style...but if they made a bumper sticker...

>> I feel to a degree that if you can't write a program (ANY program) you 
>> shouldn't be allowed to use one either. Thats how people end up doing 
>> retarded things like downloading "free" games/cursors until their 
>> computer takes 20min to boot and another 15 to get to the desktop once 
>> they type in their password (which is usually absent) because of the fact 
>> they have 3500 or so adware, spyware, keyloggers, droppers, backdoors and 
>> whatnots cavorting about within their machine committing such vile and 
>> assorted programattic debaucheries that even Caligula would blush. 
>> *massive inhale*
>
> Heh. I did see one computer that, no matter how many times I disinfected 
> it, next week it was infected again. I was astounded at how this could be 
> so.
>
> While the owner wasn't that bright, I should perhaps point out that it 
> ha--WINDOWS ME!! NEED I SAY MORE?!

*vomits* What a terrible "OS". That OS even makes the OS on my old late 
1980s (early 90's?) era Unisys computer (magellan os?) look good.
I don't know what it was called.

>> Off to complete my compositional analysis of HR Gigers "The Spell 
>> IV"....damned classes...
>
> I say "people are strange" and you start talking about *Giger*?!
>

Hey, I *am* a death-metal head after all, what do you expect? :-p
*makes a Deicide, Hate Eternal and Vital Remains playlist*

;-D

ian

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