Re: Not a query, but an observation.

[Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com>]

Paul E Condon wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:13:59AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> > DonDashGuitar wrote:
> > >Boot method:  Net install.  I've done four of them so far.
> > >
> snip...
> > >created the file with no problems if it was named "cddr.img" and, happily
> > >enough, the Linux installer wasn't picky about the name assigned to the
> > >third floppy..
> > >  
> > I don't reckon I've ever tried to burn a CD image from within Windows. I 
> > very much despise all things Microsoft (yes, it's a 
> > religious/philosophical bias, not a practical one), so I don't have that 
> > much experience with the burning tools in XP.
>
> Kent, there is a nice sociology/anthropology term for your attitude
> toward Microsoft; for you (and me), Microsoft is 'ritually unclean',
> like pork to Muslims and Jews ;-).

I prefer the legal term: criminal.

 In most settings it can be
> shortened to 'unclean' since in ordinary usage the opposite of clean
> is dirty. In fact, this is probably why the term was invented. There
> is a lot of jugdementalism is saying something or someone is 'dirty'.

That's what courts are for.