Ahh, now there are two things that are just made for each other. If only the two could meet!

>>How many times a day do Comcast reps hear a customer say something like “I’m a lawyer” or “I’m a big shot at [fill in the blank]“? How many of those result in Comcast going out of its way to contact that customer’s employer?

I used to work in tech support for Comcast. (long enough ago to feel safe in saying this). It wasn't uncommon for people to say stuff like that. Let me tell you.. when I heard it I was never impressed. (unless you dropped the name of one of my bosses) If you had real issues (as it sounds like this guy did) then I already wanted to help you. Honestly I did everything within my power to fix your problems although often my hands were tied by crappy corporate beurocracy. It didn't matter if you were rich or poor, powerful or not. If you told me you were important to impress me though... then you must be an asshole. Now I DON'T want to be helpful.

If you had been through the kinds of problems this guy had been through I might forgive you. You are angry (and rightly so) and lashing out. Just let me try to work and get it fixed though. However, usually people who pulled lines like that were doing so for much less forgivable reasons. What really stands out in my mind was a guy who kept telling me I needed to cancel someone else's apointment in order to get his house serviced earlier because he was a big shot who made $200k/year. If he is such a big shot then let him pay an acting troup to come entertain his more-important than someone else ass in person! I gave his modem number to a few friends and we reset it randomly several times a day for the following few months.

Make it five years.

My understanding is that the KDE folks are planning on making KDE rely on systemd stuff just the same. It wouldn't surprise me, they used to rely on Hal. Man that sucked! I stuck with KDE for several years but finally about 6 months or so ago finally gave up. It just hasn't been very good since version 3. I don't want to be stuck with an old Qt version in order to run Trinity so now it's Ratpoison all the way!

I really don't need anything systemd is offering to run Ratpoison!

Yes but that balance still has to stay somewhere near what the population wants. It's hard to convince a population to spend money on space exploration that believes that nothing interesting could be outside the Earth because Earth was created especially for God's image (humans) only a few thousand years ago. And, there is no reason to spread out from Earth when they know all of creation is going to end soon and they all get to go to heaven anyway.

No, I know he didn't start that one. My understanding was that he kept it going well after failure, with little public support even to the point of interfering with peace talks all for his own gain.

Oh, ok. They built the rockets in the wrong place so it is a good thing that all manned exploration beyond LEO was canceled for what will probably be all of our lifetimes and then some. Yup, that makes sense!

That seems like a pretty crappy way to look at things to me. It's ok if they break shit, if it's really bad someone will fix it later?

It baffles me that Gnome is so popular. I find it pretty much unusable. Every default option seems to be exactly opposite of what I would chose for myself. Then they are all stored in something that looks like the Windows registry. Hating the Windows registry was one of the big things that drove me to Linux in the first place!

To each their own I guess!

But... I don't think my own desktop should be forced to get a bloated init replacement that makes everything harder to troubleshoot, replaces simple commands with long, hard to memorize lines that look like classpaths and lose cron just because a bunch of people who will never use my desktop like Gnome!

Tons? Really? I think you have REALLY REALLY misplaced a decimal point somewhere in those calculations.

I only made it about 3/4 of the way through the first page. I clicked expecting an article about a phone. Maybe I would even get to see just what Firefox OS looks like, what features it has, what it does. Instead I found a not-very well done article about the digital divide. Maybe it gets better farther on? I don't know. I lost interest.

Sounds like job openings. Just watch unemployment sink!

The real problem isn't that he writes such software. To each their own, everyone should be able to write anything they want without attacks. The problem is the distributions that insist on making his crap the new default!

>> hot sweaty gay sex!!!
>>Of course, the Republicunts are vehemently opposed to both of those things. Mostly because they're assholes

Well then.. I'd imagine they would be. It probably makes them pretty sore!

Yup, you keep telling yourself that.