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[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:48:48 -0500, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:

> "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:op.v6hu2dsheav7ka at localhost.localdomain...
>> On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:23:17 -0500, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>>
>>> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message
>>> news:jcan2h$1s6e$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>>
>>>>> It's no different from sticking "Drink Mountin Dew!" up on there.
>>>>
>>>> It is very different. We're _using_ Twitter, not just advertising it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, you're using it, but by doing so you're also pulling in twit's
>>> branding, which amounts to an endorsement.
>>
>> And so does every other web site on the planet.
>
> They really shouldn't. Anything that's potentially applicable to more or
> less any site/page belongs as an option in the browser (even if as a
> add-on).

*shrug* it is what it is.  You don't have to embrace it if you don't want  
to.  I personally don't have a facebook or twitter or myspace or whatever  
account.

>
>>  I don't see how this is a  problem.
>>
>> If you don't like it, ignore it.
>>
>> And I think you'd be better off with Netscape Navigator.  I don't  
>> remember
>> it ever showing any twitter feeds.
>>
>
> Neither does the primary one I'm using, as I've already said.
>
> Also, I find it interesting that after I explicitly said I didn't need  
> any
> "d00d ur browser iz teh old!" crusaders, I get three such responses in  
> under
> 3 hours (although at least one of them looked like it may have been
> tongue-in-cheek...?). Apperently I'm not allowed to choose my own  
> browser?
> Or maybe I'm just not allowed to mention which one I'm using?

relax, Nick :)  Read my implicitly tongue in cheek reply again.  I'll  
stress *Netscape Navigator*.  And I think all the "upgrade your browser"  
replies were TIC.

> Fuck, how dare I have *any* problem with anything that's popular. Imagine
> the *nerve* of that asshole Nick who stubburnly *refuses* to be thrilled
> with twitter!! After all it's new and popular! Let's stone that goddamn
> old-fasionioned motherfucker for not being the good little corporate
> trend-whore he's expected to be!!

I have nothing against your personal opinion, you are certainly allowed to  
express it (and I'm more amused than shocked at your vile hatred towards  
everything trendy :).  But shunning popular avenues of social networking  
is not the way to spread the word about D.  You would not make a good  
marketing director :)

-Steve