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Australia, China and Snowboard Shops Use Linux
Miscellaneous stories about Linux usage today: the Australian government has allowed (but not required) its agencies to switch to Linux. China is apparently going to go all-Linux for the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing. And business2.com has a story about chain of snowboarding shops (and other businesses) deploying Linux cash registers and desktops.
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Dear /. readers,
There is a sinister, wretched cancer growing upon the very fabric of American culture. It is eating away at our morals, our health, our safety, and most of all, our spirituality. It operates behind carefully constructed veils such as "freedom of speech" and "moral relativism." I'm, of course, talking about none other than the liberal agenda. The nay-sayers. The blame-America-firsters. The political dissidents.
Before I go on, I would like to make it clear that it was not too long ago that I was very optimistic with, what I saw, as perhaps a new direction our country was taking. This optimism emerged shortly after the 9-11 tragedy, when I looked down the street and saw Henry Parker, the neighborhood's most outspoken liberal, putting a flag outside his door. In my optimism, I reasoned that a tragedy of this magnitude should wake up even the most radical liberal permanently! In reality, of course, his flag is long gone and he, as well as millions of his other fellow leftists, has reverted back to their un-American activities.
During times of peace, perhaps the activities of these iconoclastic "citizens" can be tolerated. But when our children live with the threatening knife of terrorism poised at their throat, our tolerance must be waived. Ann Coulter put this much more eloquently than I, when she recently stated that "We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that THEY can be killed too,"
How true this is. Up high upon their ivory towers, liberals have indeed lost touch with reality. It would seem that they cannot see this knife being wielded by the murderous villains in countries all around the globe. They have become ungrateful for the things that the greatest nation on earth has given them, and their similarities to the heathens that the LORD spoke of in Sodom and Gomorrah, is becoming shockingly more similar by the minute. Of course, I'm certainly not proposing that we indiscriminately rain fire and brimstone upon them, but certainly we can give them a nudge, push or blatant smack up side the head, to wake them up.
Perhaps this all seems ambiguous at this point, I apologize for that, but it is necessary to spell out a problem unemotionally, so that we can create proposals based in pure logic.
Upon investigation, I realized how we barely dodged a bigger bullet on 9-11. It is true that the majority of the liberals of this country were whipped into the mentality of a sane person and yes, they stayed out of our way long enough so that we could accomplish our most pressing concern. However, there was a minority of dissenters who did not feel that the death of, some three thousand people, was worth letting go of their perverted ideology.
Where do these people hide, you ask? Behind closed doors? In damp, dim-lit basements? No, my friends, the fact of the matter is that these enemies of the people did not even hide at all. They live on college campuses and many of them even stood on street corners and pedestrian malls holding up signs that boasted their dementia.
Although it is widely known that the campuses of U.S. universities have long been the breeding grounds of anti-Americanism, communism, homosexuality, illicit drug activity and other acts of fornication that I cannot even begin to describe. This time, however, they have simply gone too far. These pro-anarchy pacifists have declared war upon American morality, and I think it's time we finally fought back.
That is why I propose abolishing the status quo of ALL U.S. universities, public and private (with perhaps the exception of Bob Jones University). All upper-level administrators should be fired as well as all the beatnik socialists that they call "professors". In its place, I propose, the military take over all responsibilities that we, so foolishly, currently place in the hands of known dissidents. I would imagine that many changes would be made to the current curriculum of most universities. Art and Music, for example, would take on a much more limited (and supervised) role. I'd imagine (or at least hope) that Philosophy would be eliminated entirely, as it is a field that is well known for converting good, God-fearing Americans into heretic dissidents. I'd also imagine that Public Safety officers at the campuses would take on a much broader role, to not only uphold the physical safety of the campus, but also it's ideological safety with the introduction of sweeping un-American activities regulations.
While the results would not, by any means, be instantaneous as we would have to wait a generation for the remaining liberals to die off, but eventually one day we could truly say "United We Stand".
Thank you.
David E. Rosch
SLASHDOT
VA SOFTWARE,
FREMONT
CALIFORNIA
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