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Exactly. All these namby-panby, lily-livered, pussy-mouthed, shit for brains do-gooders have completely screwed up life in the UK.

"Social Workers" put pressure on the government to get smacking banned, there is no discipline in schools and there is rampant knife crime.

Some parts of the UK, (leicester, sheffeild, north london), and more dangerous than chicago, la, and miami in terms of your chances of getting stabbed.

Kids do not understand the differences between right and wrong. This needs to change.

Same as the original post. If someone I know goes out and buys Vista, then has problems with it... but keeps it on as it "looks better than XP". I will slap him for being a retard.

People need to be shown the errors of their ways.

Retard is such a strong word.
Could you not have said, hmm, INEXPERIENCED ?

Indeed everyone should have right to shoot Freetard by law. I think Microsoft would have enough money to oil UK politics atleast for this, I mean it's a good start.

That may be true but you have a much higher chance of getting shot in Chicago or Miami. Also Chicago and Miami are middle of the pack when it comes to murder rate as compared to the places you mention in the UK where the murder rate is very high compared to the rest of the country. The small city that I live in has a higher murder rate than Chicago and Miami. "Rampant" crime is in the eye of the beholder I guess.

Comparing using Windows to any of the crap you mentioned is just stupid. Alienating people by comparing them to alcoholics or idiots is not going to win OSS any supporters, and it might lose some

I agree with you - although a little hyperbole is a staple of rhetoric. It depends subtly on the manner you do it and the relationship you have with that person. You'll note I didn't actually do any such comparison, Windows <-> Linux, since they each have their place.

What I was trying to say, but probably didn't accurately convey, to the earlier poster is that while you can respect people's choices it doesn't mean that choice should be immune from critical analysis. Which was his principle assertion.

Back to O/Ses. If someone found that (heaven forbid!) Linux was giving them grief I'd be disappointed if you didn't question their choice and try to point out the merits of Windows. Likewise, I'd hope you'd expect the reciprocal to occur if they were having trouble with a decision to install Vista.