Another funny....

[Pastor JW]

On Wednesday, November 17, 2010 11:47:57 pm Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 18/11/2010 15:11, Mark wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Mark<mhullrich at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>> Why don't you just change the short-cut manually to be what you want it
> >>> to be?
> >> 
> >> You know, if I have to do actual work to get these things the way I
> >> want them to be, to hell with 'em!  :-)
> >> 
> >> Actually, I didn't even think of that, but, surprise (not), it makes
> >> sense.  Shouldn't be too hard, done it before, muttering away down the
> >> hall, scratching my head....
> > 
> > All right, that wasn't as easy as it looked.  I had to google for the
> > answer, and the first conversation up was wrong (well, sort of - it
> > contained misleading information) but it pointed me in the right
> > direction.
> 
> Which is why I do NOT propagate the urban legend that "google is your
> friend".
> 
> It makes a lot more sense to ask for help about a problem, and get it,
> from either this forum or launchpad or the Ubuntu documentation.

Exactly correct!  I'd much prefer to hear and receive help from someone I 
"know and trust" rather than rely on a proved less than stellar 60,000 set of 
answers from Google.  
 
> What you get when you "google" is equivalent to using a Usenet newsgroup
> where morons mostly post moronic statements/answers.

I tend to also lose respect for those who jump in and refer a person to 
google.  Not only is it not at all helpful to the new user but just makes him 
feel lost and alone.   

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