worse) Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <1391349987.168491.1271772706833.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com>
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:11:46AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:39:27 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2010-04-20 08:24, Lisi wrote: > >> On Tuesday 20 April 2010 03:21:52 Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> Why do women buy new clothes every year when their existing clothes > >>> are completely functional? > >> > >> A lot of us don't. And I don't fix things that aren't broken either. > > > > (I _knew_ I'd get an email or two like this...) > > > > Neither do *all* geeks consistently and constantly buy new kit. > > > > HOWEVER... since enough women and geeks *do* do what I suggest, they > > fuel two thriving multi-multi-billion dollar industries. > > > > So, it's patently obvious that these two generalizations fit the > > populations to which they were applied. > > No doubt you will claim that the exception proves the rule, > and you may be right. But I am definitely a geek. I got a new laptop > for my birthday a few days ago. My wife, sons, siblings, inlaws, > etc. all chipped in for it because I was too cheap to buy one for > myself. The only reason that I asked for one for my birthday was > because my old laptop, which was new in 1998, has a hard drive (4G) which > I have almost outgrown. By the time I install a full-blown Linux desktop > environment on it, there's not much room left for user files. Otherwise, > I would have been content to continue running my 12-year-old 266 MHz > Pentium II with 416M of RAM, 2M of video RAM, and no 3D graphics acceleration. > Ooooo. But you don't say what kind of birthday equipment you received or what you installed/are planning on installing!! :-( -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100421182254.ga19...@europa.office