Sarcasm in vista.general

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I don't understand all these fancy words and nuances they imply but you have
a shred of the First Amendment in the country where the server resides for
these groups. The rest of them were gutted years ago. If you mean people
using a Beta and people generally saying in a number of ways if they don't
know x, y z they shouldn't be using it, I'm not to hung up on that,
realizing that in every version of Windows MSFT has positioned the beta OS
as a fake software aphrodisiac to drum up interest, particularly when they
have strong indicators that sales are going to be considerably lower than
they expected and the stock is currently in free fall.

MSFT has witheld documentation in a wide number of areas, releasing a Beta
to the public without it so these comments about reading this and that
before using the Beta ought to be tempered by the fact that most of the
public has very little decent to read on using it and in a number of areas
neither do the so-called TBTs.

CH
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Chad.

Fancy words and nuances are the art of Irony.

*-)

Jonah
 
I'm retired, I need a job..............

This Philosopher gig - pay much? health benefits? retirement plan? free
beer? company car?do I get to embezzle lots of company funds so I can have
cool bathroom fixtures? how many hours a week? do I get a secretary?
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No pay Bill but you can sign yourself off as "Official NG Philosopher"
and instead of answering questions offer words of wisdom that have sod
all to do with PCs in any way. You could use the word "Vista" as a
sort of base theme.

The more obscure the better.

Jonah
 
"In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing
but the gallows."
 
I did a thesis (about 150 pages) on GBS (George Bernard Shaw and Irony) at
school for English dept and now I'm going to have to go look up fancy
words, nuances and see if there's any irony in the fact I wrote it without
understanding fancy words and nuances. Shaw would have liked the irony and
eschewed the fancy words and nuances but they would have been implied in his
plays is what I think I'll find out when I look them up.

CH
 
"In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing
but the gallows."
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Thats the kind of thing Kerry - excellent. Everybody is wiser without
actually learning anything useful.

Jonah
 
I did a thesis (about 150 pages) on GBS (George Bernard Shaw and Irony) at
school for English dept and now I'm going to have to go look up fancy
words, nuances and see if there's any irony in the fact I wrote it without
understanding fancy words and nuances. Shaw would have liked the irony and
eschewed the fancy words and nuances but they would have been implied in his
plays is what I think I'll find out when I look them up.

CH
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Yeah that sounds like a double irony maybe even a triple? Did you
study Oscar Wilde? - grand master that bloke was and Churchill wasn't
bad either.

My favourite American exponent of the art was that guy who was running
for VP and made that "potato" spelling howler in a kindergarten class.
He was really deadpan with it 8-) forget his name. Dubbya is fairly
interesting but his delivery is not convincing.

Jonah
 
My favourite American exponent of the art was that guy who was running
for VP and made that "potato" spelling howler in a kindergarten class.
He was really deadpan with it 8-) forget his name. Dubbya is fairly
interesting but his delivery is not convincing.
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He's a veritable treasure trove of quotes. This one could be applicable to
Vista and programming in general.

"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the
mistakes we may or may not have made."
 
He's a veritable treasure trove of quotes. This one could be applicable to
Vista and programming in general.

"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the
mistakes we may or may not have made."
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Brilliant! Thats a classic.

8-)

Jonah
 
Well, if the tax-paying citizens of the good ole US of A can bankroll a
government poet laureate, this should not be out of reach.
 
Jonah said:
Yes I for one do.

It is entirely reprehensible to be in any way sarcastic or
condescending to people who in all innocence and with no clue
whatsoever decide to overwrite their PCs without reading the
instructions or warnings first.

These people are VICTIMS and it is our duty as voulenteer responders
to be as poilte, helpful and supportive as possible in order to ease
the pain and loss suffered by the unfortunate victims of an ill
advised upgrade.

Also we should give all possible aid to those confused as to how a DVD
is burnt from an ISO file and should scour the net to find suitable
drivers for the various hardware problems, and if possible e mail said
drivers, fixes etc along with hand written full instructions in very
simple language directly to them.

One day we will all be rewarded in heaven and maybe even get MVP
status.

Irony is much bigger and cleverer, outright abuse has its place but
sarcasm is just plain lazy.

8-)

Jonah
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Why would you want to get the MVP status? All it does is prove that you
bend over the table and drop em for Bill and Steve as much as possible!
 
Did they turn you down?

Female Chauvanist said:
Why would you want to get the MVP status? All it does is prove that you
bend over the table and drop em for Bill and Steve as much as possible!
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Why would you want to get the MVP status? All it does is prove that you
bend over the table and drop em for Bill and Steve as much as possible!
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Read the above properly, use a dictionary, look up "Sarcasm" and
"Irony" then use that information to decipher my post. It will be
educational for you.................promise!

Jonah
 
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