Journal SL Baur's Journal: My entrance "exam" for detention in twitter's "Troll Zoo" 6
Interesting in how a post that includes a broad sweeping generalization that more or less reads Microsoft Windows has so litle value, they have to pay people to get their first fix and an observation that my spouse learned to hate it because of its instability gets turned into "says M$ sucks because Emacs sucks."
I've been using Emacs (and forks like Epoch and XEmacs) for longer than many of you have been alive. And Earth to twitter (via his mother or someone else who will read this to him), I'm not about to stop. Ever.
The full thread is around a flame directed at twitter.
Welcome to the club! (Score:1)
Tomorrow we are having an intervention to see if we can cure twitter of his stupidity :)
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I'm not sure I want to go there, but good luck to you all.
I don't think anything short of the kind of punishment that one guy got last year (he was paroled after committing some kind of computer crime, but not allowed to access the internet unless he was under surveillance by a Government Approved key logger that only ran on Microsoft Windows and argued that that was cruel and unusual punishment or something like that) will get him to shut up.
Advocacy certainly has its place. Idiotic advocacy does not and
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That's the point most people have tried to make clear to him at one point or another (including myself), only to be insulted and accused of working for Microsoft, hating him, etc.
So now we just sort of have fun with him when time permits :)
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If I were not here to report that I just kicked Steve a +1 Insightful mod for his response to gnutoo/twitter, I would give you a +1 Funny.
The real mod for trying to cure twitter of stupidity is, of course, "+1, Tilting at Windmills".
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The real mod for trying to cure twitter of stupidity is, of course, "+1, Tilting at Windmills".
+1 funny.
If I ran the zoo... (Score:2)
My name would be Gerald and not Steve