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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: Could it get worse? Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:10:13 -0000 References: <20101229102015.0dec23e8@gododdin>        <8o3ahfFvppU1@mid.individual.net> <20101230153722.3d72633e@gododdin> <8o3pj9Fp82U1@mid.individual.net>   Lines: 43 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: aadfe1a9.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=1^>a, jmsmith2010 @live.co.uk says... > > What a sensible post.

Why thank you. You don't do so badly yourself of course.

> A clue is given by those who feel they must use the abbreviation M$ > rather than MS.

Yes. When I was about 16 I went on IRC quite a lot, and one of the channels there contained a fair number of guys around my age, most of whom wanted to be l33t h4xx0rs, but very few of whom had the faintest clue (and I'm not saying I had a clue...cue a predictably disparaging response from our friend Nob). As you can imagine, comments about "M$" and "M1cr0$h1t3" were often heard, almost always made by Windows users of course (one person did try to go Linux-only just so they could show off about it, but they quickly abandoned that idea...you'd have to be particularly obstinate to deny yourself all the Windows-only stuff out there, despite having a PC and a copy of Windows to hand, just so you could boast about being "free from M$").

I can understand why some people have a problem with Microsoft, but I really find the whole "Look at me, I hate M$ which means I'm a computing god and I can think for myself" mentality really sad and rather irritating.

Hey Nob, since you're reading, what do you think of Microsoft? I know you like to boast about using an obscure combination of usenet client and OS, so clearly you're a man who knows what he's talking about.

> I wonder who has uses the term?

I don't know, but I can guess.

Have you noticed that Wm... is back, posting the usual pompous crap about us? I thought he was "having a rethink" about me, which I was overjoyed to hear, but it looks like he still doesn't like me after all...I'm so gutted. Mind you, as ever, you're the one he's really interested in: he's now even taken to attacking you in response to *my* posts...I think he might be rather obsessed with you. (Maybe Wm... is actually a woman, and that's what he/she is trying to tell us with all this "JMS is a man" nonsense?)