Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Tom Collins
Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System On google searches debian pages still turn up like this: Debian -- Mailing Lists - Debian -- The Universal Operating ... When you go to the page The Universal Operating System part is gone. A reflection of the problem with the scumbag

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 04 October 2014 11:44:43 Tom Collins wrote: Worthless trash. They need to be stopped, deposed. This sort of thing makes me so angry. Is Tom Collins Gregory Smith by another name? Please, ban anyone whose discussion descends to this low level. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Terence
I'll second that! Saki On 4 October 2014 12:14, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 04 October 2014 11:44:43 Tom Collins wrote: Worthless trash. They need to be stopped, deposed. This sort of thing makes me so angry. Is Tom Collins Gregory Smith by another name? Please,

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 oct 14, 12:14:41, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 04 October 2014 11:44:43 Tom Collins wrote: Worthless trash. They need to be stopped, deposed. This sort of thing makes me so angry. Is Tom Collins Gregory Smith by another name? Please, ban anyone whose discussion descends to

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 04/10/14 12:14, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 04 October 2014 11:44:43 Tom Collins wrote: Worthless trash. They need to be stopped, deposed. This sort of thing makes me so angry. Is Tom Collins Gregory Smith by another name? Please, ban anyone whose discussion descends to this low

Trolling (was Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System)

2014-10-04 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/04/2014 at 07:31 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 04/10/14 12:14, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 04 October 2014 11:44:43 Tom Collins wrote: Worthless trash. They need to be stopped, deposed. This sort of thing makes me so angry. Is

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/4/2014 6:44 AM, Tom Collins tomcollins...@mail.com wrote: and depreciating (as if they have the right to do that) many programs that rely on gtk2 and non-syst__d. peeve It is 'deprecating', not 'depreciating' (an accounting term). /peeve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Jeff Bauer
On 10/04/2014 08:44 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/4/2014 6:44 AM, Tom Collins tomcollins...@mail.com wrote: and depreciating (as if they have the right to do that) many programs that rely on gtk2 and non-syst__d. peeve It is 'deprecating', not 'depreciating' (an accounting term). /peeve

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/4/2014 9:33 AM, Jeff Bauer jwba...@charter.net wrote: Either could be accurately used. To wit: Maybe in general/non computer terminology, but not in with respect to computer software... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 04 October 2014 15:05:07 Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/4/2014 9:33 AM, Jeff Bauer jwba...@charter.net wrote: Either could be accurately used. To wit: Maybe in general/non computer terminology Not according to Wiktionary, with which I must day I agree:

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/10/14 20:44, Tom Collins wrote: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System ?? What site where you looking at? Not https://www.debian.org/ Maybe they fixed it, or maybe you have a DNS problem too. ---8-8-- HTH Kind regards

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 12:14:41 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 04 October 2014 11:44:43 Tom Collins wrote: Worthless trash. They need to be stopped, deposed. This sort of thing makes me so angry. Is Tom Collins Gregory Smith by another name? Please, ban anyone

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 12:31:43 +0100 Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote: On 04/10/14 12:14, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 04 October 2014 11:44:43 Tom Collins wrote: Worthless trash. They need to be stopped, deposed. This sort of thing makes me so angry. Is Tom Collins Gregory

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 04 October 2014 17:07:21 Steve Litt wrote: Why you don't redirect my email to /dev/null is a mystery to me. As you wish. But you have never descended to calling those you disagree with worthless trash. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Curt
On 2014-10-04, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: This sort of thing makes me so angry. Is Tom Collins Gregory Smith by another name? It's a cocktail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 04/10/14 17:07, Steve Litt wrote: On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 12:31:43 +0100 Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote: On 04/10/14 12:14, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 04 October 2014 11:44:43 Tom Collins wrote: Worthless trash. They need to be stopped, deposed. This sort of thing makes me

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On 4 Oct 2014, at 16:47, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Yeah, go ahead. And then three more will pop up for each one you silence. Are you endorsing the original message in this thread, or am I misinterpreting you? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Brian
On Sat 04 Oct 2014 at 17:37:19 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 04 October 2014 17:07:21 Steve Litt wrote: Why you don't redirect my email to /dev/null is a mystery to me. As you wish. But you have never descended to calling those you disagree with worthless trash. But, as the man

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Mike McGinn
On Saturday, October 04, 2014 06:44:43 Tom Collins wrote: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System On google searches debian pages still turn up like this: Debian -- Mailing Lists - Debian -- The Universal Operating ... When you go to the page The Universal Operating

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Brian
On Sun 05 Oct 2014 at 00:34:33 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 04/10/14 20:44, Tom Collins wrote: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System ?? What site where you looking at? Not https://www.debian.org/ Maybe they fixed it, or maybe you have a DNS problem too. If DNS

Re: Trolling (was Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System)

2014-10-04 Thread Brian
On Sat 04 Oct 2014 at 07:42:24 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: I don't think most of the people who post things like that are trolls in the classic sense. I think it's more likely that most of them are just very, very angry, or possibly just outraged, to the point that it overrides both politeness

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Buntunub
what you need to say respectfully and politely, then do not post until you calm down and think things through a little better. -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/Debian-nolonger-claims-to-be-the-Universal-Operating-System-tp3379230p3379623.html Sent from the Debian