I am stunned by the deep and proper reasoning, that went into your comment. Such wonderfully general paradigms, and oh what a elegant chain of reasoning. I’ve never seen a collection of high-quality references with such a great density.
I am hugely impressed, and would like to be thaught at your school of logic. Which no doubt is one of the best in the world.

Your sincerely and deeply humbled,

Hurricane78

Here’s a link to those who want to see how it looks: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/20a8/index.htm
I hope they simply replace the glyph.

So let me summarize your comment:

Ad hominem. (Ad hominem.) Statement based on a perfect world fantasy with no accompanying arguments that follow from common paradigms. Statement waiting for arguments to back it up. Argument as backup to the previous statement, but itself not backed up by anything.

Your comment holds no arguments that follow from any common paradigms, and hence is not more that a meaningless bag of words. Try again.
I recommend starting out with commonly accepted paradigms and building a proper chain to your final argument from there.
But don’t try this on me, as I will notice: http://xkcd.com/759/ ;)

I don’t believe you, as I can’t remember any time span between the Euro being introduced and it being typable. I remember a quick patch pushed trough Windows update, and another patch for Linux, and it was done.
I specifically remember that I never faced the problem of being unable to enter it.

Except on Slashdot of course. But it’s a surprise that Slashdot doesn’t still use Baudot or Murray encoding. I bet internally, it still runs on a special ternary hacked variant of the morse code. ;)

No shit?

It boggles my mind how you can even dream of dreaming of thinking you could maybe possibly shortly perhaps assume that any life form, be it moss or even bacterial slurry, could by any chance ever be confused about if this is the actual BP TwittBLARGHerBLARRRGH feed. ;)

Wow. You did manage the single two things left. ^^

How about the shortcut to:
- lock the system
- search a file
- run something
- browse the file system
- show the desktop
- switch between the task bar, the desktop and your application
- print just the window
- all the Alt-something shortcuts for the menus
- close a document
- close a application
- etc
they all exist. They all make work faster. How many do you think the average user knows? Hm? One?

And how about
- the directory structure of the file system browser resembling the actual structure.
- file extensions being visible.
- system directories being available.
- system files being visible.
- the ability to run scripts to actually use your computer as a computer (= to automate things) instead of like an appliance with colorful clickables.
- the actual start menu not being hidden away under “Programs>”.
- every administrative functionality in Windows not being “simplified” in a mind-boggingly idiotic and chaotic set of stupid dialogs.
- etc.

That’s just what I came up from the top of my head.
And as you may notice, sadly, KDE/Gnome are so extremely the same, that nearly all is true for them too. And hey, OSX actually presents this “simplicity” (actually lack of freedom) as a bullet point in the feature list.

And then they act surprised, if nature invents better idiots to cope with the downwards spiral of idiocy (aka “simplicity’). ^^
As always: Greed = submissive to the users = no long term sustainability = EPIC FAIL.

No. It is “back to zero” news. You know. Kow (-10000)+5000 still is only -5000.

Great news would be, if they not only reversed the whole catastrophe, but additonally also did manage to make the world better because of the whole thing.

One? But one that counts for a 1000 years of EPIC FAIL fuck up.

It’s like saying: But we threw just ONE little Zar bomb on your most populated area!
Or: We destroyed just ooone little planet, and you’re all whiney! Boo-hooo! ;)

Wrong. Well, partially. The main reason it is/was so cheap for the USA, was that the US were such a big client, that they could tell the sheiks: Either you sell below what it’s worth, or we will not buy from you anymore.
But then China came, and said: Jolly good! Then we’ll buy it! :D (you know, they always smile ;)
And the USA thought: Well fuck you! We’ll have our own oil source! With black jack! And hookers!
That’s why all the drilling and calls for “independence” started. (Well, if you did see that segment from the Daily Show: Not really “started”. Since every president since the 60s already did promise that independence.)

I know that at least one trollerator will now go: “Hey, you got nothing to back that up, and you’re just insulting my beloved USA! USA! USA!” But really, I’m not. So it’s not very nice to assume I’m a dick.
And really, I know this, because of an interview (also Daily Show) with someone who studied the whole stuff. It’s more his words than mine. I bet you’ve even seen the interview. :)

Silly you. Ever heard of time-shift? ;)

That’s how it looked before they fucked up.

Now you have to watch for weeks, to find the glitch where it repeats. Muhahahaaa! *strokes white cat with iron glove*

Would I be a dick for wearing a two-face mask with one half being a Pedobear mask and the other one being a Chris Hansen one*? :D

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* I assume it’s the same “person” anyway. ^^

I thought they would barely manage to point and click, and the keyboard were a mistery to them, just like the whole UI is designed to train them to behave...
I doubt more than 5% of the (l)users actually know what a shortcut is, considering how they are intentionally hidden away as deep as possible, or even completely removed.
(I’m not hating Windows specifically. “modern” [aka. “dumbed down beyond being usable”] KDE/Gnome and OSX UIs often are not much better nowadays. :/ But there are some competent UI designers out there. E.g. the Maya ones. :))

Sorry for the layout catastrophe. Apparently Slashdot FAILs at <ul>s inside <li>s inside <ul>s, which is should accept, according to HTML (any version).

I have a bold statement for you:
The evil one here is the Mozilla team. For removing that thing.
It is obvious that this this was just natural selection at work. Hurting everyone who is so dumb that he can’t really be called a human anymore.
Just like the lion kills the zebra that fails at being a zebra by being slow and dumb as hell. ;)
Meanwhile keeping the whole herd healthy.

We humans are zebras without lions. We constantly remove all lion-like things from our lives.
And then we complain that the Idiocracy is coming.
Damn, we bring this on ourselves!

I liked that quote from bash.org:
“Why don’t we just pull the warning labels off of everything, and let the problem solve itself?”

Because there is a level where you’re not doing humanity any good anymore with that overprotective behavior. Instead you’re making it worse for us all.
If you think that you can expect a normal healthy human, to avoid an add-on called “Mozilla Sniffer”, then do expect that. Which results in there being no need to remove the thing.

If you ever were in the Saint Louis City Museum, you know what I mean. Life is simply better without 10 miles of protective padding for everyone. :)

That’s like uploading a add-on called “Windows Virus”. Who the hell would install that?
I mean even Joe DontKnowShit would think twice before installing something that reminds him of a TLA agent or spy trying to get a look at his privates.