Stop it already!

[Ric Moore]

On 11/08/2013 06:39 PM, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:
>> On 11/08/2013 06:27 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:27 PM, W. Scott Lockwood III
>>> <scott at guppylog.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Why is it that people who post about the recent issue with Canonical
>>
>> /snip/
>>
>> I think that Tom H has got it right. There's too much arguing on the
>> mailing lists. And if Ubuntu bugs you--you know who you are--then
>> *don't use it!*  There are a couple of hundred Linux distros. Pick
>> another one.
>>
>> --doug
>
> No. If you don't like that users will be critical of people who make
> dick moves in the community, and think dissent should be silenced, I
> suggest you pick another distro - OS X might be more to your liking,
> or Windows.

LOL, I do have to agree that this is technical question, when it relates 
to the ~behavior~ of my installed software on my machine and my 
perceived notions of how to improve it. I just bought several items from 
Amazon tonight. BUT! I have done the knee-jerk and my sharing with 
Ubuntu a couple of cents from my purchase didn't happen, as I had it 
turned off.

Why not just a simple "CLICK!" and the feature is off, until I KNOW I am 
about to search for and buy something from Amazon, and CLICK! it's back 
on, and I willingly allow Ubuntu to make ten cents, as I consider myself 
to be somewhat "moral" and wish to repay my Gift Debt to Uncle Mark.

We are NOT idiots nor fools. Don't treat us as such. I'd like to think 
that most of us have high foreheads and higher IQ's. Don't whiz on our 
shoes and say it's raining.

Turning on that lens search by default was a boneheaded marketing 
mistake, plain and simple. And, it IS a tech issue to learn how to turn 
it off, and then how to make it better. Our non-profit works with 
convicted criminals. Once the thinking errors are pointed out, the 
DENIAL starts. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and finally 
Acceptance are it's stages. Moderating sure seems like Anger In Action 
to me, and we still have the last three stages to go. I would suggest 
just bite the bullet, get into a funk when self-realizations hits that 
such a horrendous mistake was made, and get to Acceptance fixing it so 
there is mutual benefit. :) Ric



-- 
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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