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Space Wars
There have been lots of interesting stories recently about the US's growing reliance on satellites to control gee-whiz weaponry and provide detailed real-time images to battlefield commanders. MSNBC has a story on the military's growing bandwidth crunch. The AP has a story about how many other nations are putting up their own spy and communications satellites, suggesting that the US edge in space imagery might disappear (unless we start shooting other satellites down, of course). And Bruce Sterling has a fun story in Wired (fun in writing style, not in its implications) suggesting that we're entering an age of Pax Americana, where the US military is so dominant that competitors exist only at our sufferance (though that might not stop people from trying).
Slashdot is advertising Microsoft products. There are Visual Studio .NET banner ads in the rotation. I shit you not.
The entire premise that linux is 'revolutionary', and that it will someday supplant the Beast of Redmond as the desktop OS of choice is entirely flawed. The linux craze was a creation by stock market speculators, brokerage houses, and venture capitalists. Their purpose was to pump up the valuations of certain linux-oriented corporations. When their valuations were sufficiently high they dumped their shares and made obscene profits.
The sad thing was the number of highly intelligent people who were swept up in this fraud. I have several friends, respected and published scientists, who put a lot of money in these stocks, and subsequently lost a lot of money. Now that H. Blodgett is being investigated for his role in some of these pump and dump schemes, I wonder how long it will be before the investigation reaches to the upper echelon's of today's linux-biz powerhouses.
Many of you are slow to wake up to this fact, and wishing that that is wasn't true only proves your culpability. The truth is obvious in light of these facts. Linux is a fraud. If we look back with an objective eye, it's quite plainly true. The moral high-ground linux once held now has evaporated. If you know someone who is a linux advocate, please bitch slap them, because they should have known better.
Where've you been the past four months, moron?
No, no, no, monsieur! Listen to me very carefully: You are French. You are a faggot. You are filthy. You are annoying. You are an annoying filthy French faggot.
NOW do you understand?
*LOL* They did mod it up after all. Slashbot moderators are such lemmings.
You know I saw you on Weezers "Buddy Holly" just a few minutes ago. Still lookin' sharp. Hows that Joanie?
Especially Canadian satellites, Frenchy. Now take off, eh.