B
~BD~
Unknown said:
Ooops! I meant 'Bob I' - sorreeeeeeee!
D.
Ooops! I meant 'Bob I' - sorreeeeeeee!
D.
U
Unknown
A simple matter of keeping your computer clean and you won't suffer those
things. I don't.
things. I don't.
A
Alias
Unknown said:
Explain how you cleaned off WPA from your computer or, if you have it,
WGA/N. This should be good.
Most average users do and on a regular basis.
Alias
U
Unknown
Apparently don't have that.
Alias said:
A
Alias
Unknown said:
You're running XP. Unless it's a pirated copy, you have WPA. Now, how
did you clean that off your computer, hot shot?
Alias
U
Unknown
Are you talking about the security system for wifi?
A
Alias
Unknown said:
Are you serious? WPA means Windows Product Activation. Now, how did you
clean that off your machine?
Alias
U
Unknown
I didn't, and don't want to. I failed to see that in your list I confess.
It is obvious something you dislike. Give the developer a break. It costs
millions to
develop an operating system and he needs to recover those costs and make a
profit.
In other words he has to combat bootlegging. You don't agree with that????
It is obvious something you dislike. Give the developer a break. It costs
millions to
develop an operating system and he needs to recover those costs and make a
profit.
In other words he has to combat bootlegging. You don't agree with that????
A
Alias
Unknown said:
LOL! You sure are ill informed and have swallowed the MS FUD hook, line
and sinker! Micro$lut made *billions* with pre XP Windows/Office that
had no WPA or WGA. The *only* things these spyware programs do is
inconvenience the paying customer while the pirates crack away and laugh.
Alias
U
Unknown
Another chip on your shoulders? Why are you so negative? Is there something
wrong with a corporation
making money? Have any idea how many employees they have?
wrong with a corporation
making money? Have any idea how many employees they have?
A
Alias
Unknown said:
When you overcome your reading comprehension problems, get back to me.
Until then, this "conversation" is over because you just can't
understand plain English.
But to answer your question, yes it bothers me that I have to prove to
MS that I paid for their software over and over again. It's insulting
and completely unnecessary.
Alias
U
Unknown
Oh yes I can. It's just that you have a chip on your shoulders and
can't understand simple business. Are you that selfish? Big Ego?
You apparently NEVER see the other sides point of view.
can't understand simple business. Are you that selfish? Big Ego?
You apparently NEVER see the other sides point of view.
A
Alias
Unknown said:
No, you can't as is evidenced by your reply.
Alias
It's just that you have a chip on your shoulders and
B
~BD~
How about calling it a day, guys?
'Alias' is obviously an Australian - very well balanced.
He's got a chip on *each* shoulder! (mentioned earlier by 'Unknown')
No offense meant to any Aussies reading here!
Cheers,
Dave
<snip>
'Alias' is obviously an Australian - very well balanced.
He's got a chip on *each* shoulder! (mentioned earlier by 'Unknown')
No offense meant to any Aussies reading here!
Cheers,
Dave
<snip>
U
Unknown
I really thought I could enlighten him, teach him, wake him up to see the
light of day but I
guess I selected to do an impossibility so I'll give up. Some Australian!
light of day but I
guess I selected to do an impossibility so I'll give up. Some Australian!
A
Alias
Unknown said:
I'm not Australian and have never been to Australia.
Alias
U
Unknown
Nevertheless, you're impossible. Kerplunk
Alias said:
J
John John (MVP)
Jim said:
Alias is an expatriate American living in Spain.
B
~BD~
John John (MVP) said:
Chip on your shoulder
Meaning
A perceived grievance or sense of inferiority.
Origin
The word chip has several meanings; the one that we are concerned with
here is the earliest known of these, namely 'a small piece of wood, as
might be chopped, or chipped, from a larger block'. The phrase 'a chip
on one's shoulder' is reported as originating with the nineteenth
century U.S. practice of spoiling for a fight by carrying a chip of wood
on one's shoulder, daring others to knock it off. This suggested
derivation has more than the whiff of folk-etymology about it. Anyone
who might be inclined to doubt that origin can take heart from an
alternative theory. This relates to working practices in the British
Royal Dockyards in the 18th century. In Day and Lunn's The History of
Work and Labour Relations in the Royal Dockyards, 1999, the authors
report that the standing orders of the [Royal] Navy Board for August
1739 included this ruling:
"Shipwrights to be allowed to bring [chips] on their shoulders near to
the dock gates, there to be inspected by officers".
The permission to remove surplus timber for firewood or building
material was a substantial perk of the job for the dock workers. A
subsequent standing order, in May 1753, ruled that only chips that could
be carried under one arm were allowed to be removed. This limited the
amount of timber that could be taken and the shipwrights were not best
pleased about the revoking of their previous benefit. Three years later,
for this and other reasons, they went on strike.
Hattendorf, Knight et al., in British Naval Documents, 1204 - 1960,
record a letter which was sent by Chatham Dockyard officers to the Navy
Board, relating to the 1756 dockyard workers' strike at Chatham. The
letter records a comment made by a shipwright who was stopped at the
yard's gates:
"Are not the chips mine? I will not lower them."
It goes on to report that "Immediately the main body pushed on with
their chips on their shoulders."
That's a nice story and does connect an incident concerning chips and
shoulders with a belligerent attitude. We need to be a little wary of
swallowing that derivation whole however. The problem with it is that
the phrase isn't known to be recorded in print in England with its
figurative meaning anywhere near the 18th century. The first such record
by an English author doesn't seem to be until the 1930s in fact, in
Somerset Maugham's Gentleman in the Parlour:
"He was a man with a chip on his shoulder. Everyone seemed in a
conspiracy to slight or injure him."
A gap of nearly 200 years between the use of a phrase and the incident
that supposedly spawned it in the same country is hard to explain. In my
humble opinion, the 'chips on shoulders' report dating from 1756 refer
literally to just that, chips carried on shoulders. There's no evidence
at all to suggest 'a chip on one's shoulder' existed as a figurative
phrase until the 19th century.
The confrontational challenge to knock a chip of wood off someone's
shoulder does after all appear to be the correct derivation.
Circumstantial evidence is all we have to go on here, but that clearly
points to a 19th century US coinage. The earliest printed citations that
I can find that refer to chips on shoulders are all from America, which
the OED states quite firmly to be the source of the phrase. For example:
The American writer and historian James Kirke Paulding's Letters from
the South, 1817:
"A man rode furiously by on horseback, and swore he'd be d----d if he
could not lick any man who dared to crook his elbow at him. This, it
seems, is equivalent to throwing the glove in days of yore, or to the
boyish custom of knocking a chip off the shoulder."
In 1830 the New York newspaper The Long Island Telegraph printed this:
"When two churlish boys were determined to fight, a chip would be
placed on the shoulder of one, and the other demanded to knock it off at
his peril."
The actual phrase 'chip on his shoulder' appears a little later, in the
Weekly Oregonian 1855:
"Leland, in his last issue, struts out with a chip on his shoulder,
and dares Bush to knock it off."
Ref: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/chip-on-your-shoulder.html
Sad that you guys don't understand British humour. Oh well!
Dave
J
John John (MVP)
~BD~ said:
What does any of that have to do with being Australian?