[ale] Boot issues - OR - why Mafia$oft hurts/disappoints everyone endlessly

[Jan Gannon]

Sounds like the first rule...

Jan G.


On Nov 28, 2010, at 7:43 PM, Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Chris Fowler wrote:
>> This is the main reason I don't try and convert people.
> 
> It's why, dispite my personal interest levels,
> I usually don't talk much about:
> 
>   - Linux
>   - FOSS
>   - Burning Man
>   - Alchemy (the Atlanta based "Regional Burn")
>   - Raves / Social Experiments
>   - Caving and Caving Events (see Raves)
>   - Alternative Music Festivals (LEAF is awesome!)
>   - Drum Circles (the kind people dance naked around the fire)
>   - Contra Dancing (see Rave/Gestalt/Group Euphoria)
>   - Welding / Machining
>   - Metal Sculture Art
>   - Fire Art / Poi (Fire Dancing)
>   - Religion
>   - Theology
>   - Really good Sex
> 
> To anyone not already of the interest group mentioned
> or that I think is a viable candidate for being a major
> part of that interest group.
> 
> The big issue is a establishing that common interest,
> setting the vocabulary and values, and then supporting it.
> It's hard.
> 
> I'll throw something out, and if they catch it, I'll continue.
> 
> For example:
> 
> Them:  "My $!@! computer just got infected again!"
> 
> Me:    "Stop using Winders".
> 
> Them, Option 1:
> 
>        "What are you using?"
> 
> Them, Option 2:
> 
>        "Them Apples are expensive"
> 
> Them, Option 3:
> 
>        "What else can you use?"
> 
> I will toss some bait at Option 1. Might at option 2, and at Option 3 my 
> answer might as well be: "The Aliens provided me a computer that runs on 
> water..."  So I usually stop there.
> 
> Experience has taught me to evaluate the person on sight, with only a few 
> misses, so I often don't even toss out the bait.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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