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fp suckers! . drop dead
I want to bare all your children!
VERY TIMELY AND APPROPRIATE. THIS IS ONE PERSON'S OPINION AND I BELIEVE IT WILL BE SHARED BY MANY. I HOPE YOU AGREE.
To all concerned, including the idiot that started this,
I am a retired US Navy veteran with over 22 years of service to
this country. I fought in the wars that this atheist scum avoided.
I watched friends go to war and be changed, but I never heard any
of them ever say they wanted to change our beliefs such as banning the
Pledge of Allegiance.
To serve this great country of ours is an honorable tradition. Much like
our brothers and sisters in law enforcement and fire departments have
across the country. We have fought other countries so that they would
not infringe upon our rights. We even protected the rights of this idiot
to freedom of speech. Well, now it is my turn to exercise my rights.
To all atheists, as far as I am concerned, you are no better than the
Terrorists of Bin Laden. They are working to undermine the deepest and
most sacred traditions of this country, just like you. It is our right
to honor, pray and preach to our God in any way we believe.
The majority of people, in this country, believes in God, in some form or
another. Therefore, you are part of a minority, a very sick minority and
you have over stepped the bounds of decency and fairness. I am sick of
these people who deny the majority their rights. These people are
neither Liberals or Conservatives, they
are a mentally sick portion of our society that have found the cash
needed to finance these dastardly attacks against our country using our
systems. Does this sound familiar, like 9/11.
I say to you all now. If I want to pray in church, a restaurant, or have
my kids say the Pledge of Allegiance, they will have that right to say it
anywhere and everywhere in this country. In school, a government
facility, a home, or even in a church. In my mind, I consider you a
terrorist. There will be many out there who will agree with me. Maybe
it would be a good time for you to think about moving to another country.
The kind of country you need is one that will take away your freedoms,
your rights, and most of all deny any kind of a good life for your
children. Your persistence and actions have stirred a mighty giant and I
believe there will be no place for you to live here.
I believe in Jesus Christ our Savior. Not only is he mine, but he is
yours too. In his teachings he tells us to turn the other cheek. For 52
years I have turned the cheeks in all directions to the actions of people
like you. Now you attack my rights and the rights of my children. I will
not take it anymore, I am launching a movement among God fearing people
to return this nation to respect the ideals and concepts that made this
mighty democracy a shining star to the world. In addition, I will pray
to our God to deliver you from the persistent evil that has you clouded
in atheism. Open your eyes blind man and see the wonder of God.
Those of you who have read this, if you believe like I do, that our
nation is under attack from within, please forward this email to all and
lets send a message to our elected officials and specifically to the
courts of California. Enough is enough......make a commitment or be
prepared to be conquered. The ball is in your court now.
Charles Walker USN ret.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a veritable river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
Anybody in technology is wasting their time thinking to even get an interview. Practice this line instead--"Fries with that?"--it will be MUCH more useful.
I'm frustrated by the lack of concrete answers. That's probably the point, mind you -- give some insight on your working behind whatever answer you give.
It seems for most of them, the best answer would be as many sensible answers as you can think of, without seeming like a complete goober -- you can be the whizziest math whiz in the world, but that's probably not worth jack at any job worth its salt if you're most backward social 'tard who doesn't know when to stop.
Thank Jebus I have a nice job.
Sysadmins are not programmers, despite your aspirations. I also think the OP didn't go far enough: even fresh grads should be held to those standards.
CS programs are largely terrible at teaching skills necessary outside of academia (hm, wonder why that is...). If you want to be a big industry player like Bill Gates, Linux Torvalds, or Edward Raymond, you have to be able to pick things up on your own.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)