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A day in the life of the CentOS team

Posted Mar 25, 2006 18:19 UTC (Sat) by tjc (guest, #137)
Parent article: A day in the life of the CentOS team

This is why I will never sign a contract that involves any form of tech support to end users, no matter how "occasional" it is purported to be.

I don't know how it is in the rest of the world, but in the US the average adult is very nearly completely ignorant about even the basic operations of computers and software. It would be funnier if it were not to have such a destructive long-term effect on our society (and economy).

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but why complain?

Posted Mar 26, 2006 15:07 UTC (Sun) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

Seems like fundamental US problems are rising from its current largely atheist shape just the way it was with SU. (judging both from what I see and from what friends of mine who live in US now say)

If the only god left is money (not some unknown one mentioned on them), and the only church left is actually a mix of sport and business... then it's no wonder that users are arrogant, rulers are rude, children hate their fathers and rare folks grok geography, stay alone learn their lessons from history and not step on every rakes around...

Oh well, it's not politically correct(tm) to talk of this. Live fast, die young, who cares.

but why complain?

Posted Mar 26, 2006 15:16 UTC (Sun) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341) [Link]

Good point. If we were all good, law-abiding christians, there would be no cluelessness anymore, no arrogance, no baseless accusations, and so on. Everything would be fine and dandy.

BTW, I have a bridge and a used car for sale you might be interested in...

but why complain?

Posted Mar 26, 2006 15:54 UTC (Sun) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link]

What a total non sequitur. The United States is, in fact, highly religious. This is off-topic but a recent survey (I don't have the reference offhand) found that nearly half of US adults believe that we are living in the literal Biblical "end times". I believe fundamentalism is the root of a lot of the social problems currently facing the coutry.

but why complain?

Posted Mar 26, 2006 21:57 UTC (Sun) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link]

Aha - you are another version of the "Atheists identified as America's most distrusted minority" meme (via Alec Muffett) and I claim my AU$5!

because it's too ridiculous

Posted Mar 26, 2006 23:51 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

In fact I would bet that Jerry A. Taylor (City Manager of Tuttle) believes fervently in God, Country and Religion. No, atheism does not seem to be the problem here, sorry.

but why complain?

Posted Mar 27, 2006 17:25 UTC (Mon) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

Umm... could you please not pull a Jerry Taylor on behalf of the rest of us who aren't atheists? Thanks.

but why complain?

Posted Mar 27, 2006 19:17 UTC (Mon) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

It's weird how this pseudo-religious stuff follows me around like a little lost dog. I can post a comment consisting of nothing but a code snippet, and then someone posts a reply claiming that George Bush is the anti-Christ.

but why complain?

Posted Mar 30, 2006 19:26 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190) [Link]

That'll teach you to sacrifice goats during those all-night candlelit debugging sessions...

but why complain?

Posted Mar 29, 2006 3:17 UTC (Wed) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link]

Yes. Many American telephone systems will play you a short passage from the Atheist Bible if you simply punch in only part of the number you want.

Then, of course, the phone company will begin warning you to hang up.

Dangerous stuff!