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Bart Decrem on the Linux Business
Anonymous Hero writes "Co-founder of Eazel and now vice president of Hancom Linux, Bart Decram gives his views on a whole lot of things related to desktop Linux in an interview at Linux and Main. He talks abour what went wrong with Eazel, why everyone should work together to build Microsoft Office filters, how anti-U.S. sentiment can be used to promote Linux throughout the world, and how he thinks KDE is 'butt-ugly.' Long read, but worth it."
Why the hell do I eat my own shit? It smells bad. It sort of drips out of my sphincter, and it probably is even full of all kinds of weird smelly germs. And yet, I just can't get enough of the stuff.
Let's see how low that karma can go! Karma is -4.
Aeka slipped off her heavy layers of clothes to prepare for an early
.
evening dip in the hot springs. Busily folding the royal garments, Aeka
completely failed to notice Ryoko as she phased through the bedroom wall.
Hands reached up from beneath those of the nude Jyurain princess and cupped
her breasts.
"What the...?" Aeka angrily spouted. Ryoko pinched her royal nipples
and rolled them about in her fingertips. The princess took a second to
release a heady sigh before spinning about. "What's the big idea?"
"I wanted to show you my new toy," Ryoko said and held up what looked
like a lollipop. Aeka eyed it, and the swirl on the disk began to spin. Her
eyes turned glassy, mesmerized by the swirl. "Hehe," Ryoko laughed with a
smirk.
Earlier . .
Ryoko was simply walking by, minding her own business, when the door
to Washuu's dimensional closet swung open and the spiky-haired mad
scientist sprung forth.
"Eeaa!" Ryoko let out as she hopped back. "It's you. I don't want
anything plugged into me today."
"Little ole, me?" Washuu chimed, pointing her index fingers at her
cheeks in a cute display. "I wouldn't do that. I have a birthday present
for you."
"What?" Ryoko said as Washuu thrust the invention at her.
Ryoko took it in her hand and eyed it. "Looks like a lollipop." She
opened her mouth and prepared to take a bite out of it. Washuu's hand
smacked Ryoko upside the head, shutting her mouth.
"It's a Hypno-Stick," Washuu explained as she landed. Little Washuu-
bots popped from around her shoulders to hold up 10.00 point landing cards.
"I thought you could have some fun with it." Ryoko's look of annoyance
phased to one of interest.
"I think I could," Ryoko said, grinning, With that, Ryoko turned to
leave and begin plotting.
"That's my girl,"Washuu said. "Your mommy loves you!"
Ryoko cringed and grimaced while behind her, Washuu's mouth turned a
sly smile as she closed the dimensional door.
A vacant Aeka stared out at an all too happy Ryoko. "Put this on,"
Ryoko told her, handing Aeka a light-blue robe from her rack. Once the
naked princess was partially covered, Ryoko took her hand and led her out
the door and down the hall. "You know, I'm the sort of girl who enjoys
sharing her good fortune with others."
Outside the door to Tenchi's room, Ryoko stopped and listened. Having
confirmed someone was inside, she whispered into Aeka's ear who immediately
started blushing brightly. Ryoko grinned evilly as Aeka slipped inside.
Ryoko waited a bit at the door, listening for the fun to start before
phasing through to get the full peeping experience.
"Hi, Ryoko," Tenchi said, walking past her in the hallway. Ryoko spun
around, shocked, and waved meekly. Then who the heck is inside?! Ryoko
thought.
Once Tenchi turned the corner, Ryoko heard the shout of "hentai!" and
a smack. Aeka came back out into the hall. Tenchi's dad lay on the floor
unconscious with his pants around his ankles. A large red handmark was
splayed across his face. Ryoko fought the large sweat bead of embarrassment
from forming.
"Don't worry," Ryoko told Aeka. "I was just so anxious I went a few
doors too far." Grabbing the princess by the arm, Ryoko tracked Tenchi down
to a large room in the house that he used for sword practice. There he was
with a wooden practice sword, going through a kata grandpa was forcing him
to learn. Ryoko impatiently nudged Aeka into the room.
Hearing her, Tenchi looked to see Aeka. "Tenchi," she said, a sweet
tone to her voice. The front flaps of her robe were not quite pulled
together, and he could see she wore nothing underneath as she approached
him.
Controll Group strikes back for all those sugar pills.
Yay! That was first post too :)
Dude. I'm all sporting wood now.
Nice try karma whore. Your already at 0, lol. Thought you had an easy +5 since you posted so early huh? Well enjoy your downgrading :)
Yeah....THIS IS some hot shit. I wannt Tenchi to do WashU up the ass.
COCK
and then in her mouth.
sweeeeeet.
Actually its a known fact that Bill Gates doesn't shower often and has been known to come to meetings smelling quite awful. This is completely true, but I have no idea where the articles are that mentioned this.
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he said spelling not grammer
It's grammar, retard. With an "a". Thanks.
Bwaaahaahaa. Bib laden vs. the USA. 1 guy takes on the superpower of the planet and they, after 7 months of war, are not sure where he is. Holy crap. And how many people have written code under the GPL and M$ still exists. It's funny. Oh yeah, it's funny alright.
Femnix, Blacknix, Fagnix. It's all about America. Isn't everything?
Zarpa freo! Bassa trew!
Americans are smart, hard working, and fair. Therefore we have the highest average real income in the industrial world. Other coutries are either corrupt (Russia), lazy (most of Europe), or stupid (S. America / Middle East).
They resent the fact that we are so much more sucessful than they are and act out in rather pathetic ways.
To echo your comment about Churchill and India...
Gorbachev was faced with a similar situation towards the end of the Soviet Union. Once the eastern bloc and the smaller SSRs got a little taste of freedom, they all had to have it, now, and USSR collapsed. If he could have meted out reform over years, perhaps decades, the Soviet Union might still be around today.
I'm no expert, but last I heard, Russia as a "free country" isn't doing much better than the USSR. Let me rephrase that: The people of Russia aren't much better off as Russians then they were as Soviets a dozen years ago. THey may even be worse off, even though their country isn't "evil" anymore, they're just as poor, maybe moreso.
For my money, the one thing that counters your argument about British Imperialism "adding value" to its colonies is the "Divide and Conquer" aspect of it. Look at all the crazy borders between nations in Africa and the Middle East. The Brits drew them that way to keep internal strife at a maximum, thus Britian could reign supreme at the International level. Afghanistan for example, why is it even a "nation" when as we keep hearing it's just a bunch of warlords? Perhaps there are some parts of the world that aren't easily integrated into Western Civilization's paradigm of how society works, but the Brits just drew the lines on the map anyway, put their man in power, and said "here's your counrty!"
Funny how we're all getting into these rambling political discussions; definitely wasn't that big a thread pre 9-11...