F Word (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-07 15:23 (#2S4G) Shot themselves in the foot in the last step. As a relative Linux newbie still coming to terms with the basic accessibility and utility of init scripts, I am highly susceptible to joining the cause against the Windows Registrying of Linux.And yet, as with most arguments, the first side to resort to profanity or violence has already lost. Schmucks. Re: F Word (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-08 12:05 (#2S57) Anyone equating profanity with violence has lost to begin with. Especially if it's a single use in a large amount of text, and contained in the "standardized" phrase usually abbreviated with "WTF" (I wouldn't have had problems to write it out, but I didn't want to do you the favour of declaring me losing just for using that word, even if only as quotation).Profanity: Using certain words which some people for some irrational reason consider offensive. No real harm done.Violence: Physically harming someone. Re: F Word (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-08 17:01 (#2S5M) Dude/sir/madam/etc., they're the closest analogs when we're talking about Internet based interaction. I was (and still am) comparing resorting to violence in an argument in "meatspace" (sorry) versus resorting to profanity in an Internet forum. Only an idiot would think I equated the two in any physical or legal way. You can't physically hit someone upside the head online, and I think everyone's aware of that.In short, what the fuck are you talking about? Re: F Word (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-09 04:39 (#2S69) No, the closest verbal analogue to violence are insults like "Only an idiot would think "¦"OTOH, a profanity like "what the fuck are you talking about?" is far from being violence.Violence hurts. Profanity doesn't.
Re: F Word (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-08 12:05 (#2S57) Anyone equating profanity with violence has lost to begin with. Especially if it's a single use in a large amount of text, and contained in the "standardized" phrase usually abbreviated with "WTF" (I wouldn't have had problems to write it out, but I didn't want to do you the favour of declaring me losing just for using that word, even if only as quotation).Profanity: Using certain words which some people for some irrational reason consider offensive. No real harm done.Violence: Physically harming someone. Re: F Word (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-08 17:01 (#2S5M) Dude/sir/madam/etc., they're the closest analogs when we're talking about Internet based interaction. I was (and still am) comparing resorting to violence in an argument in "meatspace" (sorry) versus resorting to profanity in an Internet forum. Only an idiot would think I equated the two in any physical or legal way. You can't physically hit someone upside the head online, and I think everyone's aware of that.In short, what the fuck are you talking about? Re: F Word (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-09 04:39 (#2S69) No, the closest verbal analogue to violence are insults like "Only an idiot would think "¦"OTOH, a profanity like "what the fuck are you talking about?" is far from being violence.Violence hurts. Profanity doesn't.
Re: F Word (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-08 17:01 (#2S5M) Dude/sir/madam/etc., they're the closest analogs when we're talking about Internet based interaction. I was (and still am) comparing resorting to violence in an argument in "meatspace" (sorry) versus resorting to profanity in an Internet forum. Only an idiot would think I equated the two in any physical or legal way. You can't physically hit someone upside the head online, and I think everyone's aware of that.In short, what the fuck are you talking about? Re: F Word (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-09 04:39 (#2S69) No, the closest verbal analogue to violence are insults like "Only an idiot would think "¦"OTOH, a profanity like "what the fuck are you talking about?" is far from being violence.Violence hurts. Profanity doesn't.
Re: F Word (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-09 04:39 (#2S69) No, the closest verbal analogue to violence are insults like "Only an idiot would think "¦"OTOH, a profanity like "what the fuck are you talking about?" is far from being violence.Violence hurts. Profanity doesn't.