It Ain't funny [Was: Ain't it funny..]

Steve Mosher steve at openmoko.com
Tue May 12 14:41:20 CEST 2009


ya I got the mail. I'm in TPE. It's on my todo list. Watch for a mail.

Dale Maggee wrote:
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> Now you're just trying to confuse me... ;)
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> ...I haven't received any reply to my off-list email yet... I presume
> you're looking into it?
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> Steve Mosher wrote:
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>> Best of all is to avoid hyperbolic claims of totalitarian behavior all 
>> together, since the claim, if true,
>> will never see the light of pixels, and if false, is self refuting.
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>> That's my rhetorical observation for the day.
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>> Dale Maggee wrote:
>> Shawn Rutledge wrote:
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>>>>> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Dale Maggee <antisol at internode.on.net> wrote:
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>>>>>> Generally when I hear the word "nazi" used, it means "totalitarian", not
>>>>>> "monster" or "mass murderer" - think of the "soup nazi" in Seinfeld.
>>>>>> That's what I meant. Not the other. *At All*. Sorry.
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>>>>> That just goes to show the meaning has gotten diluted from overuse, doesn't it.
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>> Absolutely, to the point that I wasn't even aware that there were other
>> meanings you could read into it, and that's why I felt like such a dick
>> once I had this pointed out to me.
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>> Like I said, I learned something, and as a consequence I'll need to find
>> myself a new metaphor for "totalitarian"...
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