5 days to go for VVindovvs X

We need, they need, you need it. Don't be shy, just go and download the new
Operative System. I'm glad we survived to testify the big happening. We need
larger screens, more memory and good precessors to play with System X. We
want to speak Cortana. I'm sure you want it too. I want to say Cortana What
Time is it? Cortana How's the weather? Cortana pay the bill and turn on TV.
Yes, 5 days to go for superfast browsing. We want Edge for sure. No more
waiting for updates, no more bugs, no more waiting to know where is
diskcleanup. We want it shining. They know we know what's happening out
there. System X has no secrets to hide. System X is the truth about
everything. And that's what we want. I know you know.

On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 03:35:55 +0100, "shadow"
wrote in


We need, they need, you need it. Don't be shy, just go and download the new
Operative System. I'm glad we survived to testify the big happening. We need
larger screens, more memory and good precessors to play with System X. We
want to speak Cortana. I'm sure you want it too. I want to say Cortana What
Time is it? Cortana How's the weather? Cortana pay the bill and turn on TV.

Just like Gary Busey on the Kindle advertisement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeTdZzPwzo4 (1 min)

Yes, 5 days to go for superfast browsing. We want Edge for sure. No more
waiting for updates, no more bugs, no more waiting to know where is
diskcleanup. We want it shining. They know we know what's happening out
there. System X has no secrets to hide. System X is the truth about
everything. And that's what we want. I know you know.

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On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:37:42 -0400, Wolf K wrote:

On 2015-07-24 10:10 AM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 07:37:26 -0600, Ken1943 wrote:


Lighten up, Shadow's post is satire.

German satire, I didn't know their DNA allowed for such
subtlety......

I may be of German decent, but only I can use satire if I can remember
how...


I was under the impression the only satire in the German genome was
acquired through osmosis during their brief occupation of
France......... ;-)

They were the inventors of Fastnacht, which the French passed off as
Mardi Gras.

Actually, that's South German/Austrian, not Prussian, so you do have a
valid point hidden in your comment. ;-)

Germany is well known for its satirists including Brecht, Billy Wilder,
Karl Kraus, Günther Grass and others, I'd even include Martin Luther!
I think of Fasching (or 'Carnival' -- carne vale, goodbye to meat) where
people dress up in costumes and fool around just before Lent as
anything but satire, it's slapstick, Punch and Judy, like New Year's
Eve or something.

the OP was just heavy-handed and implausible -- looking at Dr.
Strangelove recently I was struck how much that looked like 'realism'
was included in order to leaven the satire.

I think the OP was doing what Germans call 'persiflage' but I've
never been clear what that means. (too lazy to check spelling.)

I like public plonks. it's like booing or hissing, right?

f.

On 2015-07-24 2:05 PM, Nemo wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:37:42 -0400, Wolf K wrote:

On 2015-07-24 10:10 AM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 07:37:26 -0600, Ken1943 wrote:


Lighten up, Shadow's post is satire.

German satire, I didn't know their DNA allowed for such
subtlety......

I may be of German decent, but only I can use satire if I can remember
how...


I was under the impression the only satire in the German genome was
acquired through osmosis during their brief occupation of
France......... ;-)

They were the inventors of Fastnacht, which the French passed off as
Mardi Gras.

Actually, that's South German/Austrian, not Prussian, so you do have a
valid point hidden in your comment. ;-)

Germany is well known for its satirists including Brecht, Billy Wilder,
Karl Kraus, Günther Grass and others, I'd even include Martin Luther!
I think of Fasching (or 'Carnival' -- carne vale, goodbye to meat) where
people dress up in costumes and fool around just before Lent as
anything but satire, it's slapstick, Punch and Judy, like New Year's
Eve or something.

the OP was just heavy-handed and implausible -- looking at Dr.
Strangelove recently I was struck how much that looked like 'realism'
was included in order to leaven the satire.

I think the OP was doing what Germans call 'persiflage' but I've
never been clear what that means. (too lazy to check spelling.)

I like public plonks. it's like booing or hissing, right?

f.

Satire by impersonation. Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal is the best ever.

On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 03:35:55 +0100, "shadow"
wrote:

We need, they need, you need it. Don't be shy, just go and download the new
Operative System. I'm glad we survived to testify the big happening. We need
larger screens, more memory and good precessors to play with System X. We
want to speak Cortana. I'm sure you want it too. I want to say Cortana What
Time is it? Cortana How's the weather? Cortana pay the bill and turn on TV.
Yes, 5 days to go for superfast browsing. We want Edge for sure. No more
waiting for updates, no more bugs, no more waiting to know where is
diskcleanup. We want it shining. They know we know what's happening out
there. System X has no secrets to hide. System X is the truth about
everything. And that's what we want. I know you know.

I might wait a few days after the launch to detect any screams of
agony, cries of regret, swan-like dives off tall buildings,
stock-market crashes, I-told-you-so's, fix-it advice and peals of
laughter. Just in case.

On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:49:08 -0400, Wolf K wrote:

On 2015-07-24 2:05 PM, Nemo wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:37:42 -0400, Wolf K wrote:

On 2015-07-24 10:10 AM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 07:37:26 -0600, Ken1943 wrote:


Lighten up, Shadow's post is satire.

German satire, I didn't know their DNA allowed for such
subtlety......

I may be of German decent, but only I can use satire if I can
remember how...


I was under the impression the only satire in the German genome was
acquired through osmosis during their brief occupation of
France......... ;-)

They were the inventors of Fastnacht, which the French passed off as
Mardi Gras.

Actually, that's South German/Austrian, not Prussian, so you do have a
valid point hidden in your comment. ;-)

Germany is well known for its satirists including Brecht, Billy Wilder,
Karl Kraus, Günther Grass and others, I'd even include Martin Luther! I
think of Fasching (or 'Carnival' -- carne vale, goodbye to meat) where
people dress up in costumes and fool around just before Lent as
anything but satire, it's slapstick, Punch and Judy, like New Year's
Eve or something.

the OP was just heavy-handed and implausible -- looking at Dr.
Strangelove recently I was struck how much that looked like 'realism'
was included in order to leaven the satire.

I think the OP was doing what Germans call 'persiflage' but I've never
been clear what that means. (too lazy to check spelling.)

I like public plonks. it's like booing or hissing, right?

f.

Satire by impersonation. Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal is the best
ever.

very very good. but we might want to put the Colbert Report into
this category. a good forerunner was Night Stand with Dick Dietrick.

German satirists: German satire has tended to be tough and nasty,
because the targets had hides like rhinos.

hey, Ionesco?

anyway, maybe you're right though I surmise cabaret humor can be subtle
if the political regime is repressive.


Have a good day,

ebenfalls.

f.

On 7/24/2015 7:24 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 03:35:55 +0100, "shadow"
wrote:

We need, they need, you need it. Don't be shy, just go and download the new
Operative System. I'm glad we survived to testify the big happening. We need
larger screens, more memory and good precessors to play with System X. We
want to speak Cortana. I'm sure you want it too. I want to say Cortana What
Time is it? Cortana How's the weather? Cortana pay the bill and turn on TV.
Yes, 5 days to go for superfast browsing. We want Edge for sure. No more
waiting for updates, no more bugs, no more waiting to know where is
diskcleanup. We want it shining. They know we know what's happening out
there. System X has no secrets to hide. System X is the truth about
everything. And that's what we want. I know you know.

I might wait a few days after the launch to detect any screams of
agony, cries of regret, swan-like dives off tall buildings,
stock-market crashes, I-told-you-so's, fix-it advice and peals of
laughter. Just in case.


The screams will come down the road, when the license goes from a buy
and use to a "rental" license. Just like ransom ware, pay us more or - - -
G

On 7/26/2015 8:26 AM, Charlie wrote:
no more bugs, no more waiting to know where is
diskcleanup. We want it shining. They know we know what's happening out
there. System X has no secrets to hide. System X is the truth about
everything. And that's what we want. I know you know.
I use my tablet as a briefcase and turn it on when I an adding things to
my "briefcase" and using the items in it. In the mean time it is off.

Since it is not on all of the time, with Windows 10, every time I turn
on my tablet it will double the time I use it as there will be mega
bytes of upgrade to download. Which means that my tablet will be useless
if it connected to the LAN.

Yes I am waiting for the "pleasure" of using Windows 10, which will be
updating every time I turn the computer on and it connects to a LAN.

While I use my laptop more, the same thing will happen. If I am in the
middle of doing something important, I will have to stop while Windows
10 updates my computer, and takes several minutes to shut down install
the new updates and restart. Yes I am "looking of forward" to Windows 10.