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Re: [OT] Vituperation(s) [WAS] Re: Etch + USB Modem -- Supported?



On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 05:12:42PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:39:01 -0500
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> 
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> > On 09/24/07 15:20, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 03:14:30PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > >> On 09/24/07 15:02, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> > >>> On 9/24/07, Ron Johnson  wrote:
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> > >>>> On 09/24/07 14:27, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> > >>>> [snip]
> > >>>>> not have Linux drivers at all. Generally hardware-based modems are
> > >>>>> several orders of magnitude more expensive than their software-based
> > >>>>> counterparts,
> > >>>> 100x more expensive?????????
> > >>> Why do I get the impression that if I say, "what do you mean by that?"
> > >>> I will get a lesson in what "several orders of magnitude" /actually/
> > >>> means...
> > >>>
> > >>> My meaning was clear. Don't be petulant.
> > >> Petulant?  Hah!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> *THIS* is petulant:
> > > 
> > > well, now you're just being pedantic... ;)
> > > 
> > > I'll stop now.
> > 
> > No!  We must go on and on and on, in an ever spiral descent into
> > anger, vituperations and hostility!
> 
> Yes, let's do that!  You should have written "ever spiralling descent",
> you illiterate atheist!

aw crap. Andreas and I were just discussing how the OT had really gone
down and now this. I demand that we stop this OT crap now! Can't you
people go somewhere else? 

> 
> [Note:  Ron would probably be insulted if I condescended to him by
> including a smiley on that, but for those who haven't been on the list
> for a sufficiently long time, that's a joke.]


leaving this intact as its still applicable. 


and I really really am done, JFTR.

A

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