[Rant] "Season's Greetings from Amiga HQ": Hm? | ANN.lu |
Posted on 25-Dec-2002 12:19 GMT by P E | 220 comments View flat View list |
Over at amiga.org, the signature "takemehomegrandma" has published a somewhat satirical post - for your enjoyment, here goes:
I want to apologize that the AmigaOne has still not been released (A1 mobos+OS4). I also want to apologize to our competing companies that we have accused for crimes in public without being able to back those accusations up with either proof or legal action. I also want to apologize for not keeping our promises to you developers who bought our expensive SDK's. I also want to apologize to the users who bought our coupons, ehrm, JOINED OUR CLUB, but has not been given anything of the promised. I also want to apologize for the confusion when our offices suddenly were empty and our phones went dead (but that was a result of hackers, remember). Amiga Inc is truly a global 24 hours a day company and the future looks brighter than ever for our beloved AMIGA. We are pleased to announce a Games Pocket Pack to our friends Micro$ofts Pocket PC. This truly shows what a great commitment our 3000 content developers has to our beloved AMIGA. Wonderful things are about to happen as allways. Thank you, as allways, for your support. Keep the AMIGA spirit, and remember to follow our trademark wherever we go. We are AMIGA. You are AMIGA (if you pay us 50 bucks). We will be back with more exciting announcements during the next weeks. See you then! /Yours McBill
Well, there you go. Merry christmas!
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Posted by Björn Hagström on 26-Dec-2002 18:39 GMT | In reply to Comment 102 (Fabio Alemagna): >Aaah, so you acknowledge that the rant does actuallty say the truth, but
>unfortunately that's a truth that hurts. Is that your point then? Sorry Bjorn,
>but that's satire, just learn how to smile, once in a while, and stop believing
>this is a religion: this is about computing, and there's no "wound" in this
>community to heal, there are just companies and users, and companies who lie to
>users. That's all.
I acknowledge that it does that? Where? I have said nothing about how I
personally recieve the post but still you claim to know what my view is
on the content itself? You are a funny guy Fabio.
>Dude, do you realize that the only ones who got it the way of "fuel on fire"
>are you and the other 2 or 3 ones who got upset like you? NO ONE ELSE, apart
>from you and a few others has actually seen it the way you do, the sane ones
>saw it as *satire*. Take it easy!
See above.
> Oh, really? Playing the game of "I know what you think", aren't you? :)
Ehh, you have been telling me all day what I think or do. Don't be silly.
>Hum? Bjorn, that's just silly of you... Must I remind you that YOU started
>this nonsense?
No you started the nonsense by dwindling off into Fabioland illusions about
what settings I might or might not have.
>I wrote " In the "Rant" section. If you don't like Rants, don't have them
>displayed.", to which yuo replied "You do not have access to the cookie holding
>my personal settings.". Now, please, explain to me what has my ability to
>access your settings got anything to do with my suggestion to not have the rant
>section displayed.
I means that you have no knowledge of whether I do or not.
>I just seconded you, and then you blame me for talking about nonsense? LOL :)
It meant that you should not talk about stuff you now nothing about. Ie, my
settings. Since my settings are totally irrelevant to how rants like this
affects the preception of Ann.
>I was responding TO YOUR CLAIM that you don't use cookies to store the
>settings. Indeed it has nothign to do with the ANN's image, but it got very
>much to do with yours and your lies or silliness (you chose which one suits you
>best).
I have made no comment about me not using cookies to store settings. Read back.
>And no one questioned that, the only thing I did was suggesting you to not have
>rants displayed if you don't like them. Now, don't ask me what have your
>settings got to do with my suggestion because I don't know, you should ask
>yourself.
Having rants (like this one and others) displayed on the main page (read default setting) hurts the image of ann. Whether I read or like the content has nothing to do with it. I am fully capable of deciding what to read or not.
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