On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I wonder if someone in this thread will help me understand the term >> 'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is >> really pretty racist, so I wonder if there isn't a more genteel origin >> I simply cannot find using Google? > > No, I think it's the same racist term borrowed from the car > tuning/customizing world.
It was explained to me as coming from Western fans of Japanese sports cars. In particular, the subset of those who would see or slap a brand sticker on a vehicle and assume it meant it'd go faster. Reminds me of the time I saw "F150" roughly painted on the side of a dilapidated old truck. The implication wrt Gentoo was that people would apply CFLAGS across their entire system without an actual understanding of their impact or what they did, under the assumption that it would make their computers go faster. A more recent way of describing this behavior is "cargo culting", and I've seen it in largely in discussions of economics and pseudo-science. -- :wq
