No-Lifer Forced Into V---- For One Day

[Mel Thompson]

So I'm this no-lifer Linux guy who newbies about on various distros and likes to complain about this or that irrational feature and so on. And before that I was a Mac guy, super spoiled and lazy and artistic and all those despicable things and stuff. But before that I had a PC lab job where I had to do real computer work, which, of course, since I'm a bum, was super horrid and made me very sickly and things like that.

Well, so here I am on disability, and can hardly work, and every now and then I agree to do a volunteer consulting thing just to try to feel useful for a day, and mostly it's like a day a month, and then I'm helping people fix up this or that Mac thing or perhaps even advising a distro or two who approach me on overall platform stuff. Well, so anyway, I end up agreeing to this job where I had to work on W------ V----, which I had heard all about. And so I go and figure that it couldn't suck any worse than the old days in the lab. Long-story-short: Got the system up and running and all that, however, I must say, that I owe an apology to all whom I have criticized in all other platforms because I really had forgot just how insanely systems could suck.

Nor did I dream that as that system progressed, it could actually become ever more nightmarish and evil. And so my eyes were, as it was, re-opened to the madness of the the W------ V---- concept. It took irrationality to heights I'd never known before. It was kind of like visiting some third-world hell-hole and then coming back to find that the U.S., while it of course is miserable and corrupt and so on, seems actually cool in comparison. Anyway, wow, a real eye-opener. Thank God for Linux, and Unix and Apple and stuff. (I mean that V---- thing was actually frightening.)

Dudes had tried to describe it to me, and I was like, "Oh yeah," or whatever, but now I have to say that I must not have been listening because the full force of this thing was shocking. As the clients left with their newly configured machine, which I set up real good for them, I was like praying, "Oh Lord, have mercy on their soul as the Symantec Anti-Virus and the spamware and viruses and the odd counterintuitive menus finally drive them mad. Oh Mother Mary have mercy on them as they try to take that thing seriously as an actual computer system, oh Father. And then I was like bowing to the Hindu icons in my bedroom in hopes their soul would survive the gradual deterioration of bizarre code written to eventually attack its own immune system leading to final death-gridlock-terror. Protect them. oh Shiva, from the B--- Scr--- of D----.

[budman7]

As IMO this is flame-bait,
and you are preaching to the choir,
and I don't see how anything good can come from it, I am closing it.