I sometimes call people assholes as well.

That is why any "technician" (be it a computer, auto, or whatever) that repairs anything for a living and has done it long enough knows, that anything the user has to say should always be taken with a grain of salt. Start troubleshooting the problem based upon your own diagnosis first to confirm the users description of the problem.

I don't understand this bitch-fest. I get just as frustrated as everyone else with luser inability to describe a problem, but I then just tell myself that is why I have a job.

Your example is not a very good one.

"Graphics ram and system ram are both measured in MB and GB, but they are not interchangeable."

MB, GB, Mhz, etc are all units of measure. They have nothing to do with components of a computer.

Your example is like saying I need 1 qt of brake fluid can be confused with 4 qt's of oil. 2 totally different things, but the same unit of measure.

You would have been better off with comparing something like DDR vs. DDR2 or IDE vs. SATA.

What is so confusing? All of my lusers are stupid. When they say Hard Drive, or CPU, or thingy-under-my-desk, it doesn't matter. I never take anything they say as being correct except for having some kind of problem. I then arrive and start troubleshooting from the beginning and not at some future point because the lusers said my insert component here is broken.

Anybody that has done this long enough for a living knows this. Once you are burned by lusers enough, you never believe anything they say, so knowing the jargon is not important.

TROLL ALERT!!!!!!

Kind of like taking a chainsaw to a horror/slasher flick, even though you removed the chain.

thumb drive....hell they can fit on a SDSD 5 and 1/4 inch floppy.....

De-Caf

"....helped crash TwitPic"

His servers couldn't handle the traffic of people trying to get the pictures, now you have succesfully /.'ed the thwitpic.com website.

If I can't express my displeasure about my boss in South Carolina using traditional profanity, will they go after me if I call him a doody-head?

Why not? As long as the law doesn't state specifics (Which would then make the printed, disseminated, and/or spoken law illegal) then it will be up to someones interpretation as to what violates the law. If you get a judge that deems the words "doody-head" obscene then you are screwed...

"...but to actually take the time and effort of removing the law costs the city money..."

It might take up a hole whopping 10 minutes in a meeting to remove that law.

Councilman 1: "I move to strike the law forbidding unescorted Negroes on public property after dusk."
Councilman 2:"I second the motion"
Then a vote can and most likely would be taken of the local legislators right then and there to remove the law. This process may be drawn out longer as you move up the food chain and go from Town to County to State to Federal, but it is pretty much the same all the way up. Removing a law at the local level normally costs the tax payers next to nothing, and any stupid law like the one you mentioned should be removed. It's not a matter of not enforcing it, it is a matter of lazy politicians and lawyers not doing their jobs

No need... I find the Windows Source Code obscene all by itself.

Your post is in violation of the new proposed bill since I am offended by your poor grammar....It is "doesn't" not "don't". Grammar NAZIs on /. support this bill.

And....

FIFTY not FITTY
MOM not MOMS (You can only have one)

...but by being specific, it would violet the bill its self.