waider

Dear Dork,

The reason that 29 of your 31 bug reports have not even been looked at is that you're logging useless bugs against documentation without actually suggesting what's wrong. After looking at a few of these, it's too much trouble to even consider closing them as NOT A BUG YOU DORK. And then you come on the developer IRC channel and ratchet your mouth off about your stupid non-bugs, and blame it on bugzilla.

You are a FUCKHEAD, a MORON, and a HINDRANCE TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE HUMAN RACE. Please AUTOTERMINATE NOW.

Love,
Waider.

p.s. just for the sake of some sort of tradition it'd be nice if you'd duct tape your mouth shut, seal your nostrils up with toothpaste, and die.

while I'm whining about cookies... it'd be nice if I could tell mozilla to never, ever accept a cookie of the form "*WEBTRENDS*" or something.

A page on "mystery meat navigation". Of course, you have to "navigate" through it, because he didn't put in a redirect of any sort when he moved the page.

update: on further investigation, it's in the Michael Moore style of writing - there's a point to be made, plenty evidence to support it, and yet the pages on the topic flail around almost randomly, only occasionally being effective. Let me summarise, quickly:

• On the web, people are ruthless about choice. If it's taking too long to get to the part of the site you're interested in, or it's not immediately obvious how to do so, you'll take your traffic to another site that does the job better.
• Mystery Meat Navigation (which is what this person calls mouse-rollover-based nav, as best I can tell) is bad because it obscures the correct option until you run the mouse over it. To prove this point, he uses the distinctly straw man argument of roadsigns that don't tell you what they're pointing at until you get close to them, and thus "proves" that this Mystery Meat Navigation is dangerous (hint: if you find that using websites is dangerous, perhaps you shouldn't do it while driving)
• The examples he's given on a separate page have the rant first and the linked site right at the bottom. So you've no idea what he's talking about unless you first scroll down to the end of the rant.
• He doesn't appear to make any distinction between plainly obvious icons and non-obvious images. The latter is indeed mystery meat; the former is not, and can be far less mysterious than single-word menu entries when properly done.

America is a great place, we have fair use- it's why we're great innovators...

Hi. Hello. DMCA mean anything to you? Now, ah, where did that come from? And, ah, who subsequently pushed it out to WIPO in an attempt to make it a world-wide thing - depressingly successfully, I might add? You know, I get on fine with my American friends, but the phrase, "America is a great place" invariably seems to be a lead-up to some mindless, meaningless piece of crap about how much better/freer/more innovative/whatever it is than the rest of the world. Let's put it this way: the politicians are owned by big business, just like pretty much every other alleged democracy. The innovation has either all been outpaced by the Far East, destroyed by things like the DMCA and a faulty patent office, or outsourced to cheaper countries where they're smart AND they work for buttons. The legal system is a laughing stock the world over, due to the popular image of a prevalence of nonsensical lawsuits - regardless of coherence with reality or not, although these images have to start somewhere. The freedoms that so many people spend their time blathering about are being steadily chipped away at by things like the PATRIOT act and "reasonable exceptions that the framers of the constitution couldn't have forseen". The president is a world-wide joke for a variety of reasons, not least of which is the fact that he doesn't appear to recognise that there is a world. Human Rights are a joke - never mind Abu Gharib and all that, what about demanding immunity from prosecution for war crimes? What's that about? You know, "if you've nothing to hide, you'll have nothing to worry about", hmm? America's not the greatest country in the world. It's not the biggest. It had a good run at being the most successful, and it's got the biggest armed forces (who are, incidentally, being shredded by a combination of poor deployment strategies, local insurgents, and bad press generated by their own actions) but it's rapidly turning into just another tinpot example of a nation gone to seed. Maybe if the espousers of the "America is great" theory spent less time spouting off about the wonders of the nation and more time actually doing good things, y'all could have yourselves a great country. Until then, you know, stuff it.

I've just watched the (brief) coverage of today's Drumcree march. 24 members of the security forces were injured, five seriously. I am not going to attempt to take any sides here, since for all I know it may well be perfectly acceptable for the local Orange Order to march down a road full of non-Orange people in celebration of a defeat of said non-Orange people several hundred years ago. That's the sort of thing that greater minds than mine are trying to figure out. No, I'll just give you a simple dialogue and let you calculate things such as DEGREE OF STUPIDITY by yourself:

The Orange Order: We would like to march down this road.
Security Forces: The Parades Commission has said you can't march down this road this year because of past rioting. However, if you can guarantee them that you will behave responsibly and non-antagonistically, you may be allowed to march down this road next year.
The Orange Order: Okay.

"The Orange Order" proceeds to spit on, and then attack with rocks, cudgels, and their bare hands, a wall of security forces in riot gear. The latter retreat; however, the antagonists continue to advance and attempt to breach the wall of riot shields in order to inflict more damage on the people behind the shields. It's pretty obvious who's doing the attacking here; the security forces are, for the most part, not even using their batons - they're simply protecting themselves with their shields, retreating slowly, and preventing the crowd from proceeding down the Garvaghy Road - which is blocked off, anyway, and defended by water cannon.

Now, I'm not claiming any supreme intelligence or clairvoyance here, but how do you think the Parades Commission is going to respond next year, when the Orange Order puts forward its case for marching down the same road?

Note, I've put scare quotes above because it's pretty obvious that at least a portion of the crowd is there purely for a riot. Especially the 12-year-old kid in the white tracksuit with blue stripes right at the front of the crowd who, if there is any sense of justice in the North, is currently sitting in a police station being taught the meaning of "a short, sharp shock".