Re: Can't boot RedHat 9.0 (neither with grub nor with lilo)

From: jch (JCH_at_nospam.com)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:09:16 -0500

> >> Top posting in Usenet is retarded. Doing so from within an advanced
> >> news client, even more so.
> >>
> >> You want to follow norms and standards? Bone up on Usenet, Chucko.
> >
> >Top Posting retarded?? What is retarded is having to scroll to the
bottom
> >of every lengthy message to have to read some useless snipet of a
response.
>
> Having sufficiently made my point, I'll respond normally. The Chinese
> and Israeli customs of writing differently aren't examples of why you
> should defy convention. Rather, they'd actually be examples of why
> you shouldn't. Would you learn to write in Hebrew, only to then
> insist that everyone write from the left to the right? No, I should
> think not. That language has been built on the opposite method of
> writing, and that is the method that should be honored, until such
> time that necessity requires change.
>
> To return to the original point, I do not think there is anything
> about usenet posts that would make top-posting desirable. There is
> no reason to change the top-to-bottom convention which has otherwise
> served western language very well. I am open to changes in language
> conventions as they are needed, but I think much more would have to
> change for top-posting to be considered efficient.
>
> That is a quote from alt.video.dvd by DarkMatter - someone with an IQ
above 35.
>
> Usenet is not your friggin e-mail, dingledorf. If you claim to be
> standard conformal, then fuckin' conform.
>
> If you are one of those "rules are meant to be broken" twits, the
> BONE UP or take a friggin hike, boy.
>
> Now. Read it again. Top posting IS retarded.
>
> Do you know what the word means even? Most of the twits TOFQU
> (text over, full quote under) making them even MORE retarded.
>
> When you INTERLOPE yourself into a forum, you should at least TRY to
> respect the conventions of that forum. If not, you deserve whatever
> chastising you get from the peers in said forum that DO follow the
> conventions.
>
> You don't just get to pick and choose, and sluff off the rest
> because you are too goddamned lazy to scroll to the chronological end
> of the post, which is where the NEW material should be found.

Feel free to "interlope" yourself into another forum unless you have
something useful to say. Who in their right mind would keep such meaningless
quotes as those you displayed above? I guess they were your own.

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