On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 03:53:03PM -0700, Michael Dexter wrote: > > On 10/24/12 11:59 AM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > >On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:01:32PM -0700, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > > >>>A whole clinic is required to show people how to install Gnome on > Ubuntu? > > > > Ubuntu is an African concept of 'humanity towards others' > > Hey Michael and Benjamin: > > I think Benjamin was confused about all the different things > we do at the clinic, about my snarky announcements (no, Bill > Gates and Steve Balmer do not show up for help with Linux), > and the reasons for my idiosyncratic opinions about media > consumption software. I am not seeing his side of the > conversation (I get the list digested, and only CC's sent > to me) so perhaps Ben is ranting about my rant. I probably > should have toned it down a bit. > Correct I was asking because I had intended to stop by to learn more until Michael decided to be disrespectful. > > I am passionate about resisting America's lethal (literally, > I can show you the research) addiction to media, but on the > other hand, I have fast hardware for scientific computing > because gamers demand it for entertainment. I would rather > a few hundred thousand a year did not die of diabetes- and > obesity-related illnesses in order to provide me with the > tools I need for research. > Cool. I'm passionate about Ubuntu, Debian and Mozilla. > > But as long as the hardware is available, and the distros > I depend on are not so damaged that I can't use them for > my purposes, the life-waste and self-destruction of others > is not my decision to make. Just please, remember that > some of us Morlocks are laboring down in the bowels of the > machine so the Eloi can amuse themselves in the sunlight. > H.G. Wells got the "Time Machine" story wrong; the Morlocks > were not attacking the Eloi out of malice, they were just > protecting the system from lusers: http://xkcd.com/705/ > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- *Benjamin Kerensa* *http://benjaminkerensa.com* *"I am what I am because of who we all are" - Ubuntu* _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
