OT: Microsoft's grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse?

[Darryl Moore]

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org>
> 
> | http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/28/charlie-brooker-microsoft-mac-windows
> 
> I have to say that I thought that this was a despicable article.
> Instead of reason, it used mockery.  Silly shallow mockery.  Based on
> stereotypes.  Kind of like what a bully does.
> 
> ...
> 
> If you take the universal quantifier off these claims, they are
> probably true and probably uninteresting.
> 


If you do that then it wouldn't be satire. Overstating its point in
order to make it is the style. It is suppose to be funny.

--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists