philo news Apr 2017 13:14:16 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

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As a veteran of the Chicago Poetry Slam scene, Usenet insults are
rather tame and it takes quite a bit to elicit an insult. Even the
Kaditcha man eventually gave up on trying to insult me.

Hahah. Nice. I participated in something similar as a teen, myself.
Your experience however, would likely cause my arse to be handed to
me on a silver platter should I ever foolishly engage you.

You do remember him don't you?

Of course. I found him to be very amusing. I can't tell you how much
I enjoyed his effort to teach me coding by altering a very simple
program source I shared. He totally ****ed up the syntax with his
'improvements'; He jumped into the pool with both feet before
checking to make sure it had water in it. Ouch.

BTW: When I mentioned somewhere that my computer experience goes
back to 1979, I forgot to mention that that was when I started
/repairing/ computers. I was taking post graduate courses at the
time and repaired a computer my professor was unable to figure
out. I actually started back in 1968 with FORTAN_IV at Milwaukee
School of Engineering, so BD was not entirely wrong if he
mentioned that I do have some computer knowledge.

While not entirely wrong on his part, we're certainly not even close
to equals here. And, that's what he was implying when he brought you
up. You may not have known about that, but, he didn't select you out
of the blue.

It's that auto-update and reboot thing.
I had to use Policy Editor to get the machine to do what I wanted
and I don't think the average user wants to mess with that.
Win7 had a simple and logical update procedure.

Hmm. You aren't using windows 10 home then.. eh? Even with policy
editor settings, I'd be leery of ensuring your changes will hold.
Short of enterprise versions, they *should* hold then. I'd hate to
think what could happen if they did not in those environments.
*shudder*

For $2 I did not even try to get a refund I just threw the stick
in the computer parts recycle bin and gave the vendor a neutral
rating.

You marked the stick in some way though, right? So that you don't
forget and install it again in something else...



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I would like to apologize for not having offended you yet.
Please be patient. I will get to you shortly.