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Time, I think, to declare viktery in the war against godless literacy and go home.

Here comes the religious war. The holy and pure Open Source against the godless and evil closed source corporations. God forbid that any line between the two should be obscured or moved. We must have an enemy!!! /. regularly pillories MS for being closed and proprietary and now they are just cynically using OS for their own ends. Of course they are going to use business strategies that will increase profits and marketshare and OS has a lot to offer. Why not use it? And IBM as well??? Perish the thought that they are not altruistic on this. IBM does not embrace Linux because it is right - they do it because it fits their business strategy.

Lets not divide everyone into haves and have nots. Very recently anyone who adopted open source was welcome to validate it in the marketplace. Now an increasing amount of waterheads are focusing on purity.

Not quite right . . .

1) Spend outrageous, insane amount of money to undercut all competition
2) Become monopoly
3) Raise prices
4) ???
5) Profit!

Lucky you! I married a Godless Communist Chinese atheist. She doesn't even understand the basic idea of "acting out." ;)

Yes, you are paranoid. You've been fed fear via profitized news businesses most of your life, and you think you are under attack. You're fed this meme day in and day out, so much that you don't even notice that you're not even watching news anymore. You're watching fear pornography. Phobography. Fear that sells. Fear that turns us into people afraid of LEDs.

You're in more danger from your toaster than from a claymore.

Your car is a godless killing machine that's more efficient at killing than any war -- cars have killed far more people than all the wars of history combined, much less "terrorists". Yet somehow you sit in it, drive at 80 mph in a ten foot lane surrounded by others doing the same in an opposing lane, and never think about how much energy your vehicle can transmit to you if it is hit.

This fear of "terrorists" is demonstrably fear of the "other". The other is/has been the French, the English, the Indian, the Spanish, the anarchist, the socialist, the Russian Communist, the Libyan, the Chinese Communist, and now, the Arab/Moslem. All of them out to kill us for mad reasons. All the ultimate threat. And no one notices that the older version of the "other" isn't feared anymore, even tho they're still around.

The world isn't trying to kill you. Snap out of it! Your pockets are being picked! Your grandchildren are being robbed to service industries that are selling you terror. You're in debt up to your ass to give money to people who promise you they will protect you. And if someone really, really wanted to detonate a bomb, all your bomb squads, Homeland Security monitoring, airport security, all the paranoid procedures you all have put in place -- none of this will stop someone who's willing to die.

You want that to stop? Stop manufacturing people who are willing to die to get even with us.

Not at all.. they are trying to 'save' people.. do you understand what that means?

I doubt it by the way you wage a hate filled argument.

They are trying to save people, from the likes of people 'like you'.

You are probably 'A Godless jew', who believes that we all came from an ape (lol), millions of years ago, and we are going into oblivion soon... so there is no need to be 'good'.

Based on your zionist 'beliefs', you and your kind need to be isolated and destroyed, instead of the religions of the world.

-- Got that? 'shultz'?

One of our current presidential candidates, Barack Obama, didn't buy it the first time and refused to get on that particular bandwagon. (He also has a platform of consensus-building, and demonstrable skill at the same -- something we desperately need after the amount of internal division within this country -- and the balls to bring up topics like condom distribution when talking to Christian conservatives, while also possessing the finesse to avoid making enemies when doing just that).

In my view, agreement with the war was precisely that -- a bandwagon; a way for Senators to demonstrate that they were not soft on defense (as the Right claimed anyone not in agreement with their policies to be; many on the Right went as far as to paint their opponents as "hating America", supporting policies that helped the terrorists win, etc). Those who believe the Right's party line right now see the Left as immoral, godless individuals intent on persecuting them for their religion and forcing societal norms which they see as abomination; those who tow the Left's line see the Right as paranoid, power-hungry, hypocritical, hate-filled and intolerant individuals who either use their religion as a means to an end or follow it blindly. Having been on both sides, neither of these is quite correct -- though I certainly now lean to the Left.

Back to my point, though: Obama has demonstrated a willingness and ability to start bridging that gap -- the hate and fear between the Right and the Left. We need that far, far more than we need another extremist politician (but from the Left rather than the Right this time) -- which is precisely what Hillary appears to be.

Come on, you can troll better than that.

How about:

Now you know those Godless commies at the FSF just want to eat your children.

Now you know that happiness according to the FSF is just them being able to burn down your house and rape your wife.

Now you know that freedom according to the FSF is just a matter of establishing concentration camps for Windows users, and using components of the dead bodies in their evil C compilers.

Seriously though, your perspective is dumb bordering on ludicrous. There is a difference between oppressing others, and forcing people not to oppress others. You can call the latter action "forcing" as much as you like, but in the end you're just playing with words to make something good sound bad.

I think the real reason there isn't fanboy-ism among Windows users is due to how ubiquitous the OS has become. Anything that is used as often as a computer soon loses its "ooh, shiny!" effect and simply becomes a tool.

"My first witness . . . Natalie Portman!"

You are asking the wrong question given the stellar history on this matter.

The right question is 'does any mechanism really matter anymore?'

So, the FBI gets a warrant to go look for horrible person A suspected of crime A (say speeding across state lines). They throw their giant net into the water by sniffing the whole pipe then wait.

When they pull up the net, they come up with this:

Nothing related to person A.
Unrelated evidence of person B breaking law B (say downloading copyrighted software)
Unrelated evidence of person C breaking law C (say swapping credit card information)

Now, legally this evidence against B and C is not 'technically' usable, so we need to get around that bothersome problem and 'discover' evidence through a 'proper' investigation...

They fire up their favorite email program and fire off some emails:

Hey, person B, check out this cool new software download site
Hey, Person C, check out this cool new site listing credit cards

Now, these people are not too bright and respond.

Fantastic, the 'clean' sting operation has worked perfectly.

Time to go get more warrants for B, C.. and be sure to never mention why we thought to suspect them... and also be sure to make sure we can tap more full pipes.

The names for B and C just showed up during a 'routine' sting operation.

How did we know to include them in our clean sting operation? How dare you question my authority... oh. I mean... that is a national security secret... we are at war... can't let the terrorist... oh good, your eyes glazed over...

Oh yeah... I almost forgot... We are after that godless terrorist speeder... throw that net back into the water.

I suggest the US adopt a new name for their speech - Freedomwords.

. . . and actually did some real innovation . . .

Hmm... Peaceful protestors are not rioters.

I think the lack of good non-lethal weapons has been a great boon to Western Society. It made dispersing those crowds of godless fuckers campaigning for something you really, really disagree with** that much more difficult. It's a good test for 'do we *really* want to disperse this crowd'.

* Not really, but it shows the problem. The guy deciding on the definition is also the one with the power.

** Including, but not limited to, anti-slavery, women's suffrage, gay rights, white supremacy and anti-war

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than the majority deserves.

Democracy is a horrible system of government for the minority dissenters in the group . . .

Disclaimer: My exposure to quantum physics is "A Brief History Of Time", Wikipedia and teh intarweb.

We have S E X.

Both the big iPod and the Zune have a 320x240 screen.

It turns out size DOES matter :p

Of course there is. In fact, all the calculators are female and they fly upside-down with the number "58008" on their screens.

Halo 2 did OK considering it's an X-Box only title.