Post #85,204
3/2/03 3:16:23 PM
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Oooff! I'm finally done . .
. . answering the fan mail (even 15 minutes of fame is hard work), making corrections and resolving the (known) bad links. A few items have been added (change list at bottom).
Got an email of appreciation from the guy who runs Ralph Nader's "Appraising Microsoft" email list.
Only real complaint so far is a guy who takes offense at my dig at G.W.Bush in Foreign Threat / Venezuela.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
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Post #85,205
3/2/03 3:49:39 PM
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Only complaint...
\r\nOnly real complaint so far is a guy who takes offense at my dig at G.W.Bush in\r\nForeign Threat / Venezuela.\r\n \r\n\r\n Where I come from, that's spelled "c-o-m-p-l-i-m-e-n-t". \r\n\r\n Rock on, Andrew. \r\n --\r\n
Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n
[link|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]\r\n
What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n
[link|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.\r\n
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Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.\r\n[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html]\r\n
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Post #85,210
3/2/03 5:46:35 PM
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OK, I finally answered that one.
>Perhaps Bill Gates' buddy G.W.Bush can arrange a Grenada style invasion
>or some other "regime change"?
>
>This is petty, IMO. Not to mention that you alienate some people right
>out of the box by denegrating G.W.
That little dig at W was, of course, intended to be more humorous than
serious, but lets look at this logically:
1. W is not just willing, but anxious to commit Americans to a major
shooting war in a distant country on behalf of Big Oil regardless of
public or world opinion (If it wasn't all about oil, he'd be more concerned
with North Korea, which is way ahead of Iraq in Weapons of Mass
Destructions and ships weapons around the world).
2. W's administration refused to punish Microsoft AT ALL after they
were convicted on major antitrust charges. Microsoft executives have
admitted Microsoft has more power over computer OEMs AFTER the
DOJ settlement than they did before it.
3. W's administration has already deployed the Department of State
to influence the government of Peru on behalf of Microsoft.
3. W's administration has already been implicated in an attempted
"regime change" in Venezuela (they have oil in Venezuela too, you
know).
4. Logically, from the above, why would not W's administration be
agreeable to perpretrating a small "regime change" in favor of
Big Software, in a nearby, minor country, where they are already fully
involved in covert action, when they have already shown substantial
support for Big Software?
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
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Post #85,240
3/3/03 12:04:05 AM
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(and that's just surfin the high spots ;-)
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Post #85,206
3/2/03 4:09:43 PM
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What Karsten said :-)
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #85,283
3/3/03 12:14:23 PM
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Just in time, too.
Guess who just made the headlines at slashdot...
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
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Post #85,292
3/3/03 12:38:20 PM
3/3/03 12:59:13 PM
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Of course
It seems they never accept anything the first time it's submitted, unless it's an announcement of a point release in the kernel.
Naah, I'm not really bitter they rejected it when I sent it in. I've nearly stopped caring about /. since they upped the number of mod points.
Cripes, I just went and looked and it's very nearly the write-up I gave it. But now it's running unattributed. Cool.
[Edit]
What a bunch of tools. If you scan the replies at +5 the first half are all either jokes or absolutely dismissive. But if you chack the timestamps on them, they're all posted within a half-hour of the article going up. There's no way any of them read the whole thing in that time, much less followed the links you offered in support.
Yes, this is the other reason I've stopped caring much about /.
[Edit 2]
In update 6, I think you mean "overseas".
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Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Edited by drewk
March 3, 2003, 12:47:56 PM EST
Edited by drewk
March 3, 2003, 12:59:13 PM EST
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Post #85,379
3/3/03 7:38:28 PM
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Also note...
I believe that Microsoft long ago figured how to manipulate the slashdot moderation system.
Watch. In any discussion about something that is possibly IMPORTANT to Microsoft, there are a ton of similar posts that go to +5 fast.
Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #85,380
3/3/03 7:40:29 PM
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Worth reading...
... if only to counteract, in the article, the specific objections being raised by the machine... (such as the OFS posts)
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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