On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, Ian Finder wrote:
WTF did I just read.
An agreement with Mouse about plain-text, by sarcastically
objecting to use of plain text in the RFC, segueing into an
off-the-wall rant objecting to planned obsolescence.
It was inspired by finding only Youtube videos for some simple
information, end of support for XP, involuntary Win7 to Win10 upgrade,
etc.
I intended it to be absurd enough to provide some humor.
It apparently failed at that.
Sorry.
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Fred Cisin <ci...@xenosoft.com> wrote:
If you think that, you _really_ need to read 3676.
<RANT> Nobody's going to read that the way that it is formatted.
If they expect people to read it, they will have to punch it up, with
fonts, colors, background images and textures, formats, animated emojis,
audio accompaniment, and embedded videos.
How can any message be taken seriously without any dancing kangaroos and
yodelling jellyfish?
Why is it being disseminated as a text file, instead of as a Youtube video?
Surely, the new administration's education policies will bring an end to
the arrogance of "literates" from insulting the intelligence of the voting
public of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party.
Since there are still a rare few machines without the appropriate
hardware, smell-o-vision will have to remain optional.
But, the current combined policies at MICROS~1 and Apple of deprecating
any and all hardare and software more than six months old should fix that.
That will also solve the fear that a system might still be in use after
its printer ink or smell-o-vision supplies are used up.
(microbots in solution in printer ink can complete the process of
preventing scofflaws from refilling printer ink)
Besides, it is clearly not in the best interests of manufacturing in
USA^H^H^HChina to permit such legacy relics to be permitted to continue to
exist. Delegalization of obsolete computers will be coming soon,
unfortunately, federal agents have had some difficulty controlling the
content of the hundreds of machines that have the capability of
disconnecting from the interweb. Replacing all NEMA connectors with
Micro-USB should help.
[MiniTru clarification: The appropriate executive orders were issued long
ago, when Bill Gates and Steve Jobs invented the first computer.]
</RANT>
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