The Ubuntu forums overflow with very friendly idiots who cannot do anything but post "I have the same issue", or cargo cult solutions that are out of date.

he placed himself in a higher risk/lower freedom category.

He did not. The law enforcement bureaucracy, egged on by the witch-huting public, placed him there.

That Scalzi has an interest in the traditional industry (which he makes no secret of) does not do anything to the content of his argument, being that you should take Amazon's PR piece with a large grain of salt.

Nice ad hominem there, Terry.

And for the last time: Why don't you look beyond the professed support and the actual reality?

If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

And yet again you uncritically take promotional language as true. As someone who actually uses one of the languages supposedly supported by Dragonegg, I would say it would behoove you to look beyond the advertising copy.

Me calling you a dumb fanboi is not angry name calling. It's a statement of fact, which you thankfully keep proving with every post.

Development state doesn't matter? An incomplete frontend means I can't use LLVM for that language, so that makes LLVM specific to the frontends that actually do produce production-quality code: C-derived stuff and Haskell.

I think you should see someone for those projection issues.

Disregard my previous post, it's even worse than I thought. If I take your own source, it doesn't even back up its own introduction. According to that Wikipedia page the only frontend mentioned that is in better state than a vague 'state of development' is Haskell.

So yeah. You're a stupid fanboi who cannot but parrot marketing language.

Yeah, and .NET was language-agnostic too, as long as you mangled your language to look like c# (for the pedants, I believe MS finally fixed that). Spoken like a true fanboi. The fact that a frontend is said to exist does not mean it is any good.

That may be an upgrade if all you program in is a C-derivative.

Claiming the GCC crew will 'fix this bug in short order' is like claiming Obama is leading the charge in transparent government.

Since the bug has already been fixed, I suppose this means you'll be wholeheartedly endorsing Obama now?

Concluding with observable facts that the well has already been poisoned is not a fallacy.

OP gave multiple, well-documented cases, of which I was so nice to actually put a name to two, but anyone who followed the news the past 5 years recognised them.

Of course, like a typical troll with no argument you just shout "t'ain't so!" and run away, while projecting your own moral bankruptcy on the other. I had expected nothing better after asking you to back up your position.

And yet people keep voting for governments promising more austerity. The facts do not bear out your hypothesis.

Again I ask, what does that single stat do to refute the multiple points brought up by its parent post?

And where does that refute his point? Despite the fact that society pats women on the head by passing them a largely useless piece of paper (it's still mostly your social network that determines advancement, not your degree), we still get politicians like Akin, and the Hobby Lobby decision.

Quite frankly, GP is right, and the Troll mod is probably the work of yet another pimply MRA type.