From: Eris Discordia <eris.discordia <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Using the Acme Editor
Newsgroups: gmane.os.plan9.general
Date: 2008-08-20 01:43:17 GMT (1 year, 2 weeks, 1 day, 4 hours and 55 minutes ago)
> take it easy on the porn and get some real sex, eris. you're way too
> angry.

Sir, yessir! The Marines don't do Japanese, sir!

--On Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:31 PM -0300 Iruata Souza 
<iru.muzgo <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Eris Discordia
> <eris.discordia <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Wrong on so many levels.
>>
>> Go read the responses 9people gave the original poster. You'll see why
>> it's _right_ on so many levels.
>>
>>> Plan 9 obeys the UNIX way: tools that make jobs simpler.
>>
>> A UNIX better than UNIX? I thought that was just the thing 9people
>> claimed to be past. Didn't I hear someone saying, "Plan 9 is not UNIX?"
>> Ahem... GNU's Not UNIX, too, nah?
>>
>>> "Everything is a UTF-8 [...]"
>>
>> Do me a favor. Fire up your beloved upas, use mail, and relay one email
>> through upas/smtpd to smtp.gmail.com:587 with the words "שָׁלוֹם
>> עֲלֵיכֶם" (Hebrew, Shalom aleichem) or "سلام علیکم"
>> (Arabic, Salam-on alaikom) to my address. Let's see if "the mail goes
>> through."
>>
>>> "Everything is a UTF-8 text file or a mountable filesystem, even devices
>>> and severs" encourages transparency of modules: you can copy a file from
>>> a Gopher network in Tokyo to a mobile phone from Mexico or have the
>>> filesystem report how much free space is left without running a million
>>> commands or typing a thousand lines of code.
>>
>> The path from Gopher to your PC--or it was a Mac that you had?--was paved
>> years ago on UNIX. Then the path from Tokyo to Mexico was built on UNIX,
>> and today it _runs_ on UNIX. Now, the real problem begins when you want
>> to get your cell phone to talk 9P-over-IP.
>>
>> Do you have a 9P client for your cell phone? You "wrote" it already?
>> Does it run on Java? Or Symbian? Or Vendor X's proprietary embedded OS?
>> Did you do it on Plan 9? Or did you snatch an SDK written for some other
>> livelier OS?
>>
>> Go fool someone else with your empty rhetoric, buddy.
>>
>>> If you are not like that, leave.
>>
>> No, I _am_ not like that. I also _don't_ like that. And I've left. The
>> post was not for you to chew on, it was for the benefit of the thread's
>> originator.
>
> take it easy on the porn and get some real sex, eris. you're way too
> angry.
>
> iru