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MS Youth-Culture App Gets Gushy Advance Reviews
geo writes "Newsweek first reported this new Microsoft beta, threedegrees. The surprise is, Steven Levy, well-known fan of the Macintosh (and unfan of Microsoft) wrote something almost entirely positive. So did CNET news.com.com.com.com.com. Is it possible that something good is coming out of Redmond?"
Big Fucking Deal
Teeny Bopper Bullshit
...is the angle of Bill Gates' manly member while it goes back and forth thru CmdrTaco's girly ass. LOL!
sum are saying that robbIE/lairIE et AL, have sux0red so many phonIE billybuks (to make up for the failed sourceforgerIE(tm) lairybuks(tm)), that there's just no going back.
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Bollocks! I'm hopping mad because yesterday RedHat 8.0 hosed my 250 GB W2K harddrive full of soon-to-be-compressed-with-DivX DVDs.
Goddamn what a piece of shit! I had to install Linux because my CD-RW drive came without any cd burning software. I had the stuff I wanted to burn on an NTFS partition and what a surprise it was to discover that the default RedHat installation does NOT come with an NTFS filesystem module. I mean, WTF? RedHat 8.0 is supposed to provide an easy-to-install, easy-to-use Linux installation to enable a smooth transition from Windows to Linux. Why the hell does it not come with the Windows filesystem then? One can't access the old data on the Windows partitions without it and a newbie will not be able to compile a new kernel either.
That brings me to another point. I've been using Linux since 1996. I know how to compile kernels. Hell, I've been sending development kernel bug reports to the developers. Yet, I was appalled to learn that RedHat 8.0 comes with gcc 3.x which means that you can run into serious problems if you want to compile your own kernel. Furthermore, the default RedHat 8.0 .config file is nowhere to be found. You have to start with a blank kernel .config and figure out which options to turn on in order to get the RH boot sequence finish successfully. In my case, it took like 8 recompiles to get the gdm working. After that, I finally had the ntfs in the kernel.
Ok, then it was time to compress the remaining DVDs so that I could burn them on a CD.
To my utter astonishment, W2K would not boot anymore. The initial W2K text screen would appear and even the boot splash screen would show up. But then a "STOP message" appeared on a blue background. "There might be a virus on your system...please try repairing your installation". And no, I had not fucked up the partitioning. Not surprisingly reparing the W2K partition would not work.
So, now I have to rip all the DVDs again. Fuck RedHat!
And I don't even care
"Saddam sealed his fate when he decided to switch to the euro in late 2000 (and later converted his $10 billion reserve fund at the U.N. to euros) -- at that point, another manufactured Gulf War become inevitable under Bush II. Only the most extreme circumstances could possibly stop that now and I strongly doubt anything can -- short of Saddam getting replaced with a pliant regime.
"Big Picture Perspective: Everything else aside from the reserve currency and the Saudi/Iran oil issues (i.e. domestic political issues and international criticism) is peripheral and of marginal consequence to this administration. Further, the dollar-euro threat is powerful enough that they will rather risk much of the economic backlash in the short-term to stave off the long-term dollar crash of an OPEC transaction standard change from dollars to euros. All of this fits into the broader Great Game that encompasses Russia, India, China."
This information about Iraq's oil currency is censored by the U.S. media and the Bush administration as the truth could potentially curtail both investor and consumer confidence, reduce consumer borrowing/spending, create political pressure to form a new energy policy that slowly weans us off middle- eastern oil, and of course stop our march towards war in Iraq. This quasi 'state secret' can be found on a Radio Free Europe article discussing Saddam's switch for his oil sales from dollars to the euros on Nov. 6, 2000:
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Pleio(US peso)Scythian
And you can't spell.