8th October 2003, 4:15 PM
Yeah, they ARE beautifully made. We'll give them that, because they are very good at making engines (maybe I should read the posts and stuff at PA too, those are funny). It's their design from an artistic and conceptual point of view that we're insulting, because, as PA said, it's the kind of stuff some 12 year old kid who hates their parents, wears black all the time, writes horrible poetry that doesnt' rhyme because they think it's cool, and listens to punk all the time, would draw on their notebook or paint in art class or something (possibly making some skull shaped cup afterwards).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)