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Comment Re:Complicated. (Score 1) 78

What she wants them to do is stop having the alerts go through. IE - she doesn't seem to care that this guy can see her profile - she just doesn't want to know about it.

From what you're saying, what she really needs is a filtering rule on her email. Much faster and cheaper to implement.

Indeed flames > /dev/null has always been the best way to deal with trolls.

Comment Re:Linux Mint anyone? (Score 1) 631

Ubuntu got popular because the ordinary people who cannot figure out how a command line works could use it.

Hardly. It got popular because it was debian based and didn't require knowledge of every part of the system to get it up running acceptably - you installed it and most stuff worked without hours of research and hair-pulling.

It's both, it was a nice compromise for neophyte, expert users, experienced linux users and old hacks like me. In 2007 it was a system that people from any of those groups could agree apon.

Both Unity and Gnome Shell are interesting UI experiments, but not ready for the main stream. This has annoyed the neophyte and expert users alike.

Comment Re:Bad art.. (Score 1) 72

The point is that SOME performance art is amazing.

That seems to be a matter of opinion.

Personally, I'd much rather stare at inanimate etchings in a gallery than see some douchebag with a stupid haircut, covered in pig's blood and reciting his latest awful, Poe-esque poetry in the city park.

To each his artistic own, I guess.

I would probably agree on the example given.

Again... SOME is good, but good luck finding any.

Comment Re:Bad art.. (Score 1) 72

The problem is that 99% of art, (be it literature, poetry, music or sculpture, etc.) is crap.

The vast majority of that crap almost nobody ever sees, in the world of books and music you have to get published to get attention that filters out something like 90% of the complete drek.

Not everybody is a creative genius, this is also true in technical fields, something like 90% of innovation is driven by 10% of the population. This is why our society has people we pay to critique art and tell us what is worth paying attention to. (And sometimes they are horribly, horribly wrong...)

The point is that SOME performance art is amazing.

Comment Re:Who? What? Huh? (Score 1) 62

Are you serious?

One place produced about half of Europe's steel, but that's not what comes to mindl. Instead a rather large company (the joys of bailouts and too big to fail was all the rage back then too) that is really famous for making weapons for the Nazis using slave labor sourced from concentration camps is your go to name?

Kids these days eh?

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