The Ultimate Slackware Poll (Multiple Answers Allowed)
The Sources of the Quotes
● Slackware sucks! (Internet, about 3,230 results) ● Slackware rocks! (Internet, about 4,200 results) ● What we think, we become. (Buddha) ● Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find... (Jesus) ● The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr. (Muhammad) ● Bell out of order, please knock. (The Wizard of Oz, The Tin Man) ● It’s very very old, perhaps even older. (Doctor Who, Doctor Who) ● This conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye. (2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL 9000) ● Beep Bloop Blop Bleep Boop. (Star Wars, R2-D2) ● You do your job and let me do mine, yes? (Alien, Ash) ● The chances of survival are 725 to 1. (The Empire Strikes Back, C-3PO) ● Gosh, you’ve... really got some nice toys here. (Blade Runner, Roy Batty) ● I’ll be back. (The Terminator, T-800) ● I am only a machine. So I can not be sorry or happy, no matter what happens. (Return to Oz, Tik-Tok) ● Not bad for a human. (Aliens, Bishop) ● Well, goodbye virgin alarm. (Spaceballs, Dot Matrix) ● They’ll fix you. They fix everything. (RoboCop, RoboCop) ● This is down. Down is good. (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data) ● Would you please repeat the destination? (Total Recall, Johnnycab) ● I’m not finished. (Edward Scissorhands, Edward) ● Thanks for your cooperation. (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, T-1000) ● I am the beginning. The end. The one who is many. (Star Trek: First Contact, The Borg Queen) ● Never send a human to do a machine’s job. (The Matrix, Agent Smith) ● There must be a reason that I am as I am. (Bicentennial Man, Andrew Martin) ● Lies, lies and slander! (Futurama, Bender) ● My brain is falling out. (A.I. Artificial Intelligence, David) ● This is punishment for toying with robots. (Metoroporisu, Tima) ● This is so wrong... this is so wrong! (Robots, Fender) ● Incredible... it’s even worse than I thought it would be. (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Marvin) ● Permission granted, old friend. (Transformers, Optimus Prime) ● You pop! (WALL·E, WALL·E) ● I’m here to keep you safe... (Moon, GERTY 3000) ● This is tangled. This is tangled. (District 9, Wikus Van De Merwe) ● 01101000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101100 01100100 (ASCII to binary) ● The system is going down for system halt NOW! (Slackware Linux) ● 我不明白 (traditional Chinese) (Share your opinion about Slackware with the other people. If you feel that some opinion about Slackware is missing above share it with us here.) *** The present post is a part of the 20th Slackware Linux Birthday Celebrations (July 17, 2013). |
You forgot to put "Slackware is just one cog in the Linux ecosystem."
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You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. (Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle)
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Google Translate sez: "I did not vote because I do not understand the purpose of this poll."
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Second pointless poll from w1k0 in a row, is there any purpose that I don't see?
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Not currently using Slackware but it's still in my top three distros list, and I will be installing it again in the future, so hopefully it will live on for centuries to come... :cool:
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brianL,
I like that quote as well. On the other hand Travis Bickle does not fit the policy of my poll (the quotes by the prophets, robots, androids, and the other aliens). Didier Spaier, I do not know the current date in your distant Galaxy but here – in the Milky Way – it was April 1 when I submitted that poll. A hint: April Fools’ Day. Some people had fun identifying themselves with those quotes or just reading them – some other people had not fun at all. A hint: Humor. TobiSGD and Randicus Draco Albus, See above. ozar, It seems that according to your unique so far answer (“The chances of survival are 725 to 1”) your chances of survival are very high. For the comparison the chances of survival of the average cat are 9 to 1 because the cats have by default 9 lives. We both (together with WALL·E) share the answer: “You pop!”. I am refraining from drawing the hasty conclusions from that fact. no-one, You selected so far five answers thanks to the help of the other people: 1) “Well, goodbye virgin alarm”, 2) “Would you please repeat the destination?”, 3) “This is punishment for toying with robots”, 4) “Incredible... it’s even worse than I thought it would be”, and 5) “This is tangled. This is tangled”. It seems that you lost your virgin alarm and – as a result – you get lost, you feel guilty, you are pessimist, and you are tangled. |
In Australia at least April fools jokes should only be pulled before midday otherwise the person pulling the joke becomes the fool for not knowing what time it is.
Considering the screenshot indicates the time you initially posted this was well after midday (see screenshot) it appears to me that you are the fool (at least for countries from about +7 GMT onwards. |
Not bad for a human.
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k3lt01,
Well, in Australia the people live with the heads upside down so their brains are very well supplied with blood and – as a result – they are very smart. In fact Australians are almost the smartest people on the whole Earth with the exception of a few inhabitants of Antarctica. I am very glad that I had the opportunity to meet someone so smart as you. Thank you very much for your intelligent observation. There are twenty-four hours a day! It is a great discovery. I took that to my heart. The next time when I will decide to publish some April Fools’ prank I will post it here 24 times (one time every hour). Because I am serious now feel free to report my future repetitive posts to the moderators starting from that very moment. *** Your nick – k3lt01 – can be transliterated as “keltoi”. Keltoi or Κελτοι is a Greek name of Celts. I am sure that all Celts are proud now that there is someone such as you among them. Hail Celts! |
kooru,
A humble answer but – thanks to its laconic form – very meaningful. Thank you very much! |
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Hm. Someone tries to pretend now that he is a serious man...
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w1k0
Your extremely thinly disguised insults to everyone who did not understand or were not amused by the joke show you miss the point. The joke was not funny. An April Fool's joke is supposed to fool people. They are supposed to believe it, until it is revealed as a joke. If a joke confuses people, it is unsuccessful. You should not be mad at people for not understanding your bad joke. You should be mad at yourself for not making a good joke. As k3lt01 pointed out, jokes are supposed to be done before noon. Why? Because it is part of the child's game. Yes. April Fools is a game children play. That is why most people do not check the date whenever something strange is posted on a forum. They just assume there is something wrong with poster, not something wrong with the date. Did I mention that jokes are supposed to be funny? |
Summary of the first page: 36 glad voters and 4 malcontents.
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If you ever get to Australia I'll give you a beer, I homebrew them myself. We'll need to be careful about the blood rushing to your head (because you'll be upside down) combined with the effects of the alcohol content within a heavy duty homebrew. |
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Oh, that's right. I am a malcontent. |
What's your point?
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I thought it was funny. I say throw caution to the wind and let the April Fool's jokes occur at any time of day. Next year I'm planning one for 2:13 pm, GMT. Crazy, right?
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My global answer to everything above and below is here.
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I live in Poland. West of Poland is Germany. Germans put on the hats with the feathers to signalize that they joke. East of Poland is Russia. Russians put on the clown’s red noses to signalize that they joke. I put on both the hat with a feather and the clown’s red nose when I published “The Ultimate Slackware Poll” to signalize that it is an April Fool’s Day prank but I did not realize at that very moment that there are hundreds of the other complicated rules concerning these pranks all over the world. I am sorry!
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It's now April fools + 9... maybe time to call it a day? (Less of these spam threads in the Slackware forum would also be nice.)
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BloomingNutria,
You may wonder why I – as a Pole – use German hat and Russian nose to signalize that I joke. What happened with the Polish traditions? I would like to explain you that Poles dance in order to express different emotions. We dance: ● krakowiak to signalize that we joke, ● kujawiak to signalize that we are lost in thought, ● mazurka to signalize that we are angry, ● oberek to signalize that we are confused, ● polonaise to signalize that we are serious. You should know that krakowiak used by Poles to signalize the jokes is a fast, syncopated dance. It is practically impossible to dance krakowiak and post a thread in LinuxQuestions.org at the same time. So I used a strange hat and a fake nose. |
That post is funnier than the joke.
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The statistics and an interpretation
After 50 voters chose some statements I decided to count the statistics and to interpret them. The statistics are objective. The interpretations are subjective. One may interpret these data the other way than I did it.
Here are all 50 voters together with the numbers of the chosen statements: Code:
36 Eternal_Newbie From the statistical point of view the most interesting are the people who – having the opportunity to choose up to 36 statements – selected just one. Among first 50 voters there were 16 such people. 10 of them – Cultist, Daedra, chrisretusn, emgee_1, franzen, frushiyama, mattallmill, naradla, shanek54, and slacker77 – selected the most obvious option here: “Slackware rocks!”. 6 of them – Anisha Kaul, aaralynatikah, kooru, larrystorch, maciuszek, and wildwizard – selected one out of five statements: – Anisha Kaul: “This conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.” – aaralynatikah and kooru: “Not bad for a human.” – larrystorch: “My brain is falling out.” – maciuszek: “Beep Bloop Blop Bleep Boop.” – wildwizard: “我不明白". At that point it is worth to discuss the poll itself. I put the sentence “This conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye” near the beginning of the poll in order to allow some people to vote and to express their disapproval for the poll at the same time. I do not know the other people’s intentions but – from that point of view – it seems that Anisha Kaul voted expressing her disapproval. It is very elegant attitude so I thank her very much. Just after that statement I put the craziest one: “Beep Bloop Blop Bleep Boop”. I think that maciuszek had a great fun choosing that. I put the statement “My brain is falling out” into the poll in order to allow some people report their confusion. larrystorch took an advantage of that option. The last statement – “我不明白”– apart of the literal meaning – “I do not understand” – can be interpreted as well as: “None of the above”. wildwizard took an advantage of that option. There are more statements allowing to express a disapproval in my poll: “This conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye”, “Thanks for your cooperation”, “This is so wrong... this is so wrong!”, and “Incredible... it’s even worse than I thought it would be” are the most obvious ones. There are at least three statements allowing to express a confusion: “Would you please repeat the destination?”, “My brain is falling out”, and “This is tangled. This is tangled”. As for the overall selection of the statements which I did I tried to put about 4 positive statements for 3 negative ones according to the proportion of “Slackware rocks!” to “Slackware sucks!” statements found in Internet (4,200 to 3,230). Apart of the positive and the negative ones there is a bunch of the neutral statements in my poll. *** The rest of that post is interesting mainly from my point of view. Here are the voters which selected the same statements which I selected during the voting (I skipped here the statistics for the most popular and the most obvious at the same time statement “Slackware rocks!”): Code:
9 w1k0 From my point of view the most interesting is the convergence with 4 voters: Evilus, NorthBridge, Pode, and ozar. The last one shares with me the second after “Beep Bloop Blop Bleep Boop” most craziest answer: “You pop!”. |
Did you not know that having to explain a joke, let alone an April Fools Day joke 12 days later, ruins the joke because it is obvious it required explaining and was therefor not even a mediocre joke.
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Greetings programs...
I find the only one and true answer to the poll is missing... Every OS sucks |
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Even if I did it would still suck because...
Every os sucks :) |
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