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Posted by Amontillado
May 18, 2019 at 12:01 PM
Maybe Devonthink had a bad brush with a cult, and that shaped their policies.
But it we’re going to talk religion, I have to report the destructive influence vi and vim have had on my life. I’d use Notepad in preference to vi, except my parents raised me better than to have anything to do with Microsoft.
Microsoft isn’t all evil, of course, and Bill Gates himself codified a touching yet hidden plea for man’s salvation. You see it, don’t you? Microsoft spelled backward?
Microsoft in retrograde - tfosorcim - has a silent “T”. That makes Microsoft spelled backward fosorcim, which is a thin disguise of Forsocim. That is exactly - and I mean precisely, down to the last fractional phoneme - what you hear when you play Disney’s “Hot Dog Dance” in reverse. Do you see it yet? Microsoft is Mickey’s plea for your soul, “Forsake Vim!”
No need to thank me. Cash is all I ask.
Written in humble service to all mankind, crafted in emacs. (What? You thought I was going to say Word??)
Posted by washere
May 18, 2019 at 12:39 PM
I actually wrote this about ten days ago but didn’t press the post button. It’s not just Christians who are registered religious charities in the Western countries. They include newly created religions, some big like Scientology many newer and smaller, occult groups, cults, gonna regional and tribal, ritual, occult, left hand or dark ones, satanic churches, hundreds of sects in Abrahamic religions, etc etc. All feel they’re the right one and of course persecuted, misunderstood and prejudiced against.
All officially registered as religious charities for tax, donation and other purposes in the hundreds of thousands in the West and even elsewhere. I can’t blame any small software house or dev who says I don’t have time to look into this. Because if they accept one, they have to accept all registered religious charities from anywhere or might get a letter from a lawyer about discrimination.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 19, 2019 at 09:25 PM
Interesting discussion; I am positively impressed by the contributors’ sensitivities and principle-centric approach. These are no easy matters, as we are finding out in Europe and elsewhere, but I for one much prefer to be part of a debating society, than of one which believes that all questions have simple answers—usually involving getting rid of those who don’t agree…
Posted by Amontillado
May 20, 2019 at 04:29 AM
Well said, sir. I could not imagine living under a repressive government, and I’m pretty sure it would not turn out well for me. Actually, for honor’s sake, I hope I would have the integrity to imperil myself.
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Interesting discussion; I am positively impressed by the contributors’
>sensitivities and principle-centric approach. These are no easy matters,
>as we are finding out in Europe and elsewhere, but I for one much prefer
>to be part of a debating society, than of one which believes that all
>questions have simple answers—usually involving getting rid of those
>who don’t agree…
>