I just want to complain

[Mariusz W]

Originally Posted by smr54

I'm going to respectfully disagree about the English issue

Based on the opening post I could risk saying that the OP possesses an excellent command of current English idiom, i.s., the internet newspeak for illiterates...

[smr54]

Heh--I think that's the only one the OP made, we probably scared them off. I _did_ say they might be educated in the US....wow, we sound like a couple of old people. Well, I am one, but.....still, never thought I'd be one talking about the bad habits of those durn kids.

[sonoran]

Originally Posted by smr54

I have said it before, but that is a beautiful desert you live in, much nicer than the desert I live in, known as NYC.

I'm very happy to have lived in The City when I was younger, and it was affordable (1966-76).
The internet just barely makes tolerable the cultural wasteland where I am now. Nature is
spectacular here, but one also must endure witnessing the rate at which 'civilization' is
despoiling Her.

Thanks for the link; sci-fi, broadly defined, is definitely a guilty pleasure of mine.

[Dan]

Originally Posted by sonoran

... sci-fi, broadly defined, is definitely a guilty pleasure of mine.

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Good Lord, man! Do you hear yourself?! This isn't the likes of bodice ripper romance or tortured-plot mystery we're talking about here. Nor is it the perfidious sop of Sword & Sorcery!

Sci-Fi ... IS! And well that it should be! It stands above. Meet the challenge. Stand tall in your appreciation.


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[solo2101]

[sonoran]

I concede the guilt is a function of my inbred cultural snobbery and a rigorous classical education. Happy now?

[Dan]

Ecstatic! Thanks! <....>

*Dan flips the safety cover back over the firing stud on his Mark IX Plasma Pulse rifle, and ejects an un-spent tritium pellet.*

Carry on.

[smr54]

Well, the book I recommended is actually more under the classification of fantasy than science fiction, broad label is probably urban fantasy, though it's generally a rural environ, including the Sonoran desert.

More lowbrow than highbrow, I suppose, which describes me these days too.

[flyingfsck]

Well, first of all, I'd like to say Thank You Very Much and a Happy Yule Tide to all the hundreds (thousands?) of developers who made this thingummajig that is loosely called GNU/Linux possible.

...and secondly, well, uhmm, there is no secondly.

[solo2101]

so... what did I learn today?...
let see...

[Fedawkins]

Originally Posted by VernDog

There's one thing the OP accomplished...he got us talking again

The line :
I'll take a stab that he's referring to Distrowatch's hit list., which is hardly a true indicator.

I took that to mean it was the first distro he tried that worked from install.