08-27-2010
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Telstar 28
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: New England
Posts: 43,315
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LOL...nicely played.
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Originally Posted by rgscpat
Staying at home won't protect you from Microsoft's piratical, predatory decision to quit supporting XP and force XP users to walk the plank off what had been their most reliable operating system and buy one of their supported products.
What, you don't call that piracy? I bet it affects many hundred times more sailors than the thugs off Somalia and such like.
And yes, a comment thread hijack is probably the closest thing to piracy that most folks here are ever going to see, grin.
Which leads into one of my favorite pet peeves, which is the utter failure of most people to assess risk with anything resembling accuracy. People worry about pirates, hurricanes, and rattlesnakes when they should be making more provision for traffic accidents, doldrums, and bee stings. Let's face it, if you're a boater in California, you're more likely to be killed by the Coast Guard (San Diego) or a deputy sheriff (Lake County) than molested by anything resembling pirates. (And most USCG folks do a professional and difficult job.)
Okay, ye scurvy dogs hae' paid yer ransom and yer free o' this hijack, aarrrr.
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Telstar 28
New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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