On Mar 19, 10:12 pm, "Martha Adams" <mh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I'm surprised by the crapware that's turning
> up here: it's so bad, I must try to invent
> a new term for it (unless someone has beat
> me to it).
>
> My new term is 'scatware', taken from its
> root word 'scatological.' I think it's
> good in very small very careful application,
> as in certain limericks among other things;
> but when the application becomes like street
> language, it's much too much. As I'm seeing
> here.
>
> I don't think this scatware stuff comes from
> a sick mind somewhere: I think it's worse
> than that. I think it's thrown in here just
> to stop serious and productive fringey
> discussion. The ****k wars come to mind: I
> have lately realized how much these wars have
> in common with the 'bridge to nowhere' and
> other such 'earmark' things out of Wa****ngton.
> If you look at their beginnings, and at what
> they accomplish ... I'm verging into a rant
> but my original topic was *scatware*. Like
> a stink bomb, it drives away the best people
> and I believe that's what it's for.
>
> Grump. -- Martha Adams [rasff 2008 Mar 19]
And here I thought you had discovered software that sang ... perhaps
even some Ella Fitzgerald. I"m so disappointed, I think I'll drown my
sorrows at the neighborhood speakeasy.
GeekGirl
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