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Not of an entire nation. Of the whole world! It's one thing to be spiteful in public, but quite another to be spiteful in a medium that publishes immediately
by phugoid 17y ago
Not of an entire nation. Of the whole world!
It's one thing to be spiteful in public, but quite another to be spiteful in a medium that publishes immediately to the whole planet.
- sofal 17y agoLet's be realistic here. Just because you can technically view a rant on some blog somewhere from anywhere in the world doesn't mean it's going to be on the minds of millions of people. This whole "publish to the world" idea is a kind of delusion.
- dkarl 17y agoSo if we all read it, it's an intemperate, unjustified, mildly idiotic anti-M$ rant that wasted our time. But if we don't read it, it's just one understandably frustrated guy letting off a little steam. And that means whoever posted the link to HN transformed him from a normal guy into a global idiot.
- sofal 17y agoThe point is that it is a rant on a blog, and the real idiots here are you and I sitting here in a forum discussing its merits as a literary contribution to society.