[PLUG] Clinic, Ubuntu Unity (RANT)

[Benjamin Kerensa]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at gate.kl-ic.com>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
>
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