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It's really hard to count the numbers. But considering the amount of distributions sold and downloaded. It's a fair estimate. You're also not considering businesses.

And also ... have you interacted with even 10% of the people on the planet? I really doubt it :smile:

There are roughly 6200 Million people. a good 80 to 90% of that has technology. (Just looking at statistics and making some guesses)

So, I don't think it's impossible, but I also said "exclusive". If you wanted to say "who uses windows" that's something else. I was just speaking exclusively because those are the only people I were talking about.

I don't think we should poll it. Because, you have to understand something else, you wont get many on the "Non-Windows" options simply because, this is a HL mapping site ... HL1 sort of worked with other platforms, but needed a lot of tweaking.

It's really impossible, which still makes you wonder where MS gets their numbers. They also, as you should know, force companies (or used to, don't know about anymore) to buy a copy of windows for each computer, with a company with what? 100,000 machines ... that counts as 100,000 sales, or people using Windows. That's inaccurate though because of the circumstance.

I pulled the "non-windows" percentage out of my ass. It's just a guess based on the frequency of download and popularity of the retail version of Linux and Macintosh products.

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No I do not have access to 6.2 billion peoples computers.

I did say "In my world", specifically, the one I interact with daily. I may not be totally informed, but I do not work in a cave either. I did take business into account, and last time I looked, those I saw switched to Win2000 cause of its compatibility handling.

Still, I bow to your obvious knowledge base.

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

Hey, they still DO make you buy ONE liscence for each computer... AND it's only officially legal if you put the CDKEY sticker ON the case of the machine. We now own 400 copies of windows 2000 AND windows XP for the same damn computers!

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Ouch. That's 800 "people" who "use Windows"

I don't like people telling me "they bow out" ... it's a discussion, not an argument.

I think I'm losing about 4 people as friends (in my real life) because of this point. Whenever I explain something, some people just automatically think I'm condescending them ... when I'm not. It's very frustrating, because they basically go, "you need to change" ... not to mention the list of s**t they've done to me, but I digress and want to iterate

I don't think I'm better than anyone else. If I explain something, don't take it as an elitist attitude or something like that. I really do want to help! Otherwise I wouldn't say anything, or I'd just "Troll". Which I know I don't do. Sorry, this has really been getting to me lately. Sometimes, it seems like, it doesn't matter how many times I explain that I'm not being condescending ... but it doesn't matter because of whoevers opinion of me. Whatever I say becomes condescending, unless I agree with them of course, then it's absolutely fine.

I'm sorry, this has really pissed me off for the last couple days, It's not in regards to anyone here really.

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Hey, crono, I feel it too. Most ppl at work think I'm a condescending asshole for trying to explain things to them in "layman's terms" but when I use technical terms, they think I'm trying to "doublespeak them."

Also ppl on here a lot of times, think I am jsut being a know-it-all, but i really DO know about all the stuff I claim to. It doesnt make me any better than anyone else, just smarter than some. no big deal right? I don't try to insult anyone except Windows98 and maybe Fatstrings now and again. But ppl seem to take offense.

We can cry together, Crono. Get on IRC, my channel is #nickelplate.

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Ha ha. nice to know I'm not alone. Thankfully though, the one person who doesn't think this is 'my woman'. So, that's good, yeah? It just really gets to me because the people saying this to me I've known for years.

My IRC doesn't work now because of my ISP. Apparently, comcast.net stuff is being blocked without making a something server identity or something who ever? I don't know, I barely use IRC and there's no option for in chatzilla, which is what I use. I know this is why I haven't been on #snarkpit in a long time, quakenet refuses me.

I'm rejected

Alright, no more about real life! Someone might trick me on the Internet and try to molest me.

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Crono said:
Alright, no more about real life! Someone might trick me on the Internet and try to molest me.

Which reminds me of a sick joke I heard on the radio last week. It went something like this.

Doomed to go to hell by having internet sex and finding out its your mother on another PC.

Somehow, the idea of you being molested ethereally is just to kinky to comprehend.

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So, Crono, you want to meet me at the Portland International Airport? Ur so hott. I'll bring candy, and a puppy. don't you want to see the puppy?

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I love puppies.

ethereally? Clever.

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Crono said:
ethereally? Clever.

Laugh all you want, but it passed my spell checker as legit. :heee:

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Are we really becoming that politically correct? Can't offend the other orifii.

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You can't say "politically correct" anymore!! get with the times! the term you're so anachronoxically searching for is "Intolerance-and-offensive material-deenhancement-process-challenged-impaired"

You laugh now, but pretty soon, we'll all be trained to speak as such. I hate political correctness with the fire of ten-thousand suns. So in an effort to counter this international movement of emasculating sugar-coating, I will now spout the following:

Fat, ugly, short, retarded, stupid, Black, Indian, midget, inbred, white-trash, bastard, poor, flunked.

Those are the REAL words for things that everyone is always correcting ppl on. Never forget these words.

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Fat, ugly, short, retarded, stupid, Black, Indian, midget, inbred, white-trash, bastard, poor, flunked.

To show you guys how much I deplore PCness, here is my version:

Lard-face, eye-sore, shrimpy, moron, idiot, n****r, drunken red-face,
midget, white-trash=inbred, son of a bitch, poor=stupid+laziness, failed

Ahh, the PCness around me is getting to me. I can't even think of
terrible words anymore. It has shrunken my vocabulary.

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Eye sore? Shrimpy? What sort of sad place do you live ... oh ... L.A. Never mind. :smile:

Son of a Bitch is really a slang more than anything, I think. They don't really mean to insult your mother ... but you. So ...

On that note ... why are all the male insults directed at the person's behavior and women's insults usually relate to embellishments of their sexual prowess. Why is it funny when a Man is called a whore, but insulting to a woman? Or a slut for that matter.

Just an observation though. If they really want political correctness, they shouldn't discriminate against sexuality. Everyone should abide by the same set of insults!

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Satchmo- PCness is part of the "tolerance" movement that I so deplore. As well as part of the "not taking responsibility for your actions" movement that is growing like weeds. I really do hate it.

Crono- I'm posting from a Linux machine in my basement :nerd:

[edit] I really don't think there is any need to be MEAN to ppl, but saying things like "black," or "retarded," or "failed" should be allowed.

[edit2] Crono, how come whenever there is a Male-only organization, they say it's sexist, but whenver there is a female-only organization, its all okay. Whenever a white is proud to be white, he's a racist, but when a black is proud to be black, he is "celebratin' his heritage?"

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I'm guessing it's because for a good chunk of our recorded history, White Men were real big bastards to everyone else. So, current white males, have to pay for their mistakes.

The thing I find odd is the entire idea that you're responsible for your parents (more commonly) father's discretions. It isn't as common in our neck of the woods. But ... it's still somewhat believed, even if people don't know they're doing it.

I never understood how I, for example, could be "racist", simply because I have a paler skin then some, even though, I am in fact, half Arab. It just doesn't show in my skin color.

The other thing is ... genetics can be funky. Because, if there's even one person in your collective family lines with some genetic trait that doesn't form to what everyone else is (we can use skin color as an example), that gene becomes recessive. Meaning, that at any time down the line, it could dominate at some point in a pregnancy, making the child whatever color ... characteristics (physically), whatever it may be.

It's pretty interesting actually. And, just the thought of that really flaws hatred based on race ... or any genetic trait like that. I think, the only thing you should really get pissed at someone for is their actions. I mean, even they think something radically different then you, if they're not harming anyone, what's the big deal?

It's sort of the same thing with missionaries, I never understood their thought process. They say, "You must find God" to these people that have no idea what that might even mean, and basically force them to convert. However, looking at it from a religious angle would raise the question of: do they actually believe that? If they don't, are they actually being "saved", as the missionary intended, or thinks? Because, if they are, that goes off the assumption that, you can basically fool God, which goes against the entire message of whatever they are teaching, which is usually, God is omnipotent.

It's just all one big Catch 22.

While, I believe it's a very good thing to have beliefs, (they keep you sane and they can act as something to help you through your life, something to identify with when you need it), I don't think any of this stuff was really meant literally, as it is sometimes interpreted as. It just doesn't make sense.

On top of that, a lot of people think, since that stuff doesn't happen anymore (I'm talking about biblical stuff like, parting of the sea type of descriptions) we're "fallen" from God, or whatever, and are close to the apocalypse. It just doesn't make sense, when in all actuality, those events were probably VERY embellished, or simply never happened. It's really something you have to look at, especially if you take stock in a religion, You should understand your belief system as much as possible, but as you said: that would make you responsible for your actions. And in this day, far too many people refuse to do that. I think, the only reason why is that before (say 200 years ago) you didn't always have to answer for your discretions, it didn't matter since, whatever practice might have been accepted. But now, everyone is responsible for what they do, so they try to find a way out. Be it blame or whatever.

I too find it upsetting.

I didn't mean to intermingle the two threads ... I just don't want to post in the other thread as well

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You seem to be grounded pretty well.

Most people blame what those missionaries did on God. That is the thing right there. you're heard or read for yourself people saying, "All the wars i history were started in the name of God" They blame PEOPLE's actions (the only thing we should get pissed of at ppl for, according to yourself.) on God. Heck, I can flip you the bird and spit in your eye in the name of God, but it doesnt mean that God told me to. Same with the missionaries.

Hernan Cortez sprinkled (baptised) babies of the Aztecs before he ran them through with his sword. He did so in the name of god, but not cause got told him to.

Fact is that ANYONe can do ANYTHING they want to in the name of God, which was heretofore the common practice. that was the way of shirking the responsibility of your greedy actions in the olden days. That's why so many ppl hate God too.

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Hmm ... I'm not quite sure what you're saying here, honestly.

"No, no, no, Your tone is all wrong..."


I know the implicit "blame" tree a lot of people like to take, but I'd imagine, the same people who would blame God based on what a specific person does simply because they say "I'm doing this in the name of God", either doesn't know what that means, or already had a pre-concieved notion of what to think on the situation and the circumstances.

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Well, what I'm saying is that people's desire to be right causes them to do things that rationally thinking people don't do. Things like:

• blame God for when you start a war or kill babies
• create thier own religion that suits thier needs +makes them look "intellectual" to certain crowds
• blame other people for thier shortcomings
• Kill fetuses
• kill people who will call the police on them
• become Lawyers

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