On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 20:47 +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 06:18:00PM +0000, Noah Slater wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 06:04:23PM +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
By idiots.
Personal insults and unchecked myopia hardly help matters, do they?
Somehow, the definition of "idiot" applies more to those generic idiots than what your feeble attempt of a personal insult would apply to me.
I particularly like this definition of idiot:
Idiot is a word derived from the Greek ἰδιώτης, idiōtēs ("person lacking professional skill," "a private citizen," "individual"), from ἴδιος, idios ("private," "one's own").[1] In Latin the word idiota ("ordinary person, layman") preceded the Late Latin meaning "uneducated or ignorant person."[2] Its modern meaning and form dates back to Middle English around the year 1300, from the Old French idiote ("uneducated or ignorant person"). The related word idiocy dates to 1487 and may have been analogously modeled on the words prophet[3] and prophecy.[4][5] The word has cognates in many other languages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot
Complaining about choice on Free Software is like complaining about being able to choose in an election.
Only idiots do it.
I guess only an idiot would confuse meaning of Idiot[1], with that of Ignorant[2].
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[1] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/idiot [2] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ignorant