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Groklaw Outlines More SCO Linux Contributions
An anonymous reader writes "Groklaw today reported that they have discovered another SCO programmer, Tigran Aivazian, who has committed code to the Linux kernel. According to the latest story Mr. Aivazian contributed a microcode update feature, a testing program, and made contributions to SMP and vmalloc. This new story adds weight to earlier stories about Caldera coder Chris Hellwig's additions to XFS, SMP and JFS. " Also on the SCO front, an anonymous reader writes "SCO's last Open Letter has drawn two new responses, one from Red Hat cofounder Bob Young, and the other from Jon 'maddog' Hall. 'maddog' makes a carefully reasoned rebuttal that defends the GPL and includes observations like 'How could the founding fathers or the early legislators have foreseen the Web, or even computers?' Young curtly offers McBride the following advice: 'Be less vocal' - making him the King Canute of Linux, perhaps, because it ain't gonna happen anytime soon."
Wow, if it's saturday this must be a SCO story... where is everyone?
Whore ... How is the whoring?
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Goatse.cx community when IDC confirmed that Goatse.cx market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all anus stretchings. Coming on the heels of a recent StileProject survey which plainly states that Goatse.cx has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Goatse.cx is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent sick fuck comprehensive anus stretching test.
You don't need to be a TubGirl to predict Goatse.cx's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Goatse.cx faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Goatse.cx because Goatse.cx is dying. Things are looking very bad for Goatse.cx. As many of us are already aware, Goatse.cx continues to lose market share of anus stretchings. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
"The Reciever" is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of his core fans. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Goatse.cx fans Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Goatse.cx is dying.
aha!
:-\
thank you for clearing that up for me. can you tell that it's finals week?
Many smarter people than me have demolished your arguments...
You can say that again. Me am not impressed.
King Canute on the Seashore
by: James Baldwin, The Book of Virtues
Long ago, England was ruled by a king named Canute. Like many leaders and men of power, Canute was surrounded by people who were always praising him. Every time he walked into a room, the flattery began.
"You are the greatest man that ever lived," one would say.
"O king, there can never be another as mighty as you," another would insist.
"Your highness, there is nothing you cannot do," someone would smile.
"Great Canute, you are the monarch of all," another would sing. "Nothing in this world dares to disobey you."
The king was a man of sense, and he grew tired of hearing such foolish speeches.
One day he was walking by the seashore, and his officers and courtiers were with him, praising him as usual. Canute decided to teach them a lesson.
"So you say I am the greatest man in the world?" he asked them.
"O king," they cried, "there never has been anyone as mighty as you, and there never be anyone so great, ever again!"
"And you say all things obey me?" Canute asked.
"Absolutely!" they said. "The world bows before you, and gives you honor."
"I see," the king answered. "In that case, bring me my chair, and we will go down to the water."
"At once, your majesty!" They scrambled to carry his royal chair over the sands.
"Bring it closer to the sea," Canute called. "Put it right here, right at the water's edge." He sat down and surveyed the ocean before him. "I notice the tide is coming in. Do you think it will stop if I give the command?"
His officers were puzzled, but they did not dare say no. "Give the order, O great king, and it will obey," one of then assured him.
"Very well. Sea," cried Canute, "I command you to come no further! Waves, stop your rolling!. Surf, stop your pounding! Do not dare touch my feet!"
He waited a moment, quietly, and a tiny wave rushed up the sand and lapped at his feet.
"How dare you!" Canute shouted. "Ocean, turn back now! I have ordered you to retreat before me, and now you must obey! Go back!"
And in answer another wave swept forward and curled around the king's feet. The tide came in, just as it always did. The water rose higher and higher. It came up around the king's chair, and wet not only his feet, but also his robe. His officers stood before him, alarmed, and wondering whether he was not mad.
"Well, my friends," Canute said, "it seems I do not have quite so much power as you would have me believe. Perhaps you have learned something today. Perhaps now you will remember there is only one King who is all-powerful, and it is he who rules the sea, and holds the ocean in the hollow of his hand. I suggest you reserve your praises for him."
The royal officers and courtiers hung their heads and looked foolish. And some say Canute took off his crown soon afterward, and never wore it again.
"trollkore" certainly died a miserable, pathetic death, now didn't it?
Hey, you should talk. You can only say f*g if you're gay yourself.
Maybe "of passing relevence," but hardly "offtopic." I didn't get the King Canute reference until now. Thanks you, AC, for this informative</hint> post.
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If I'm not mistaken, I think/thought that JFS is/was really the Jedi's Final Stand ;O
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If by "died a miserable, pathetic death" you mean "made me instinctively whip out my cock and jizz all over the screen, then bring up an image of TACO and lick the cum away", then yes.
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"What you've got with Bush [George senior] is absolutely the largest number of siblings and children involved in what looks like a never-ending hustle."
- Republican pundit Kevin Philips
http://www.campaignwatch.org/details.htm
While opportunism isn't new in U.S. politics, never did so many in one family extract so many dollars from taxpayers as when George Bush senior was president a decade ago. As documented below from impeccable cited sources, the exploits of six Bushes, including George W., range from stock sales that were probed or sanctioned to arranging U.S. business investments for a Japanese Mob front. They range from lobbying for a Mafia-linked businessman that enabled massive Medicare fraud to misconduct that helped trigger S&L collapses costing taxpayers $1.2 billion.
It was thus not entirely coincidental that under Bush senior in 1992, U.S. taxpayers faced a $500 billion S&L bailout2 and the largest ever budget deficit, $290 billion. This contrasts with the largest surpluses ever under Clinton-Gore. George W. Bush asks for trust, yet his evasions about his own dealings and recent campaigning with brother Jeb immerse him within a family financial scandal of alarming scope.
NEIL BUSH (George W's brother) was a principal in the 1988 collapse of Silverado Banking in Denver, which cost taxpayers $1 billion. Neil approved $132 million in unrepaid loans from Silverado to two business partners, who in turn arranged payments to Neil totaling $650,000.3 Details
JEB BUSH (George W's brother) and a partner defaulted on a $4.5 million loan from a Florida S&L in 1988. The default helped trigger the S&L's collapse, which cost taxpayers $285 million. Bush and partner repaid only ten percent of the irregular loan and, incredibly, also got to keep the real estate that collateralized it.4
In 1985, Jeb lobbied the federal government on behalf of Miami HMO owner Miguel Recarey to increase Recarey's Medicare business ultimately to a total of $1 billion. The following year, Jeb received $75,000 from Recarey. Recarey, who had longstanding business ties to the late Florida Mafia boss Santos Trafficante, subsequently fled the U.S. under indictment, suspected of up to $100 million in Medicare fraud.5 Details
GEORGE W. BUSH. On June 20, 1990, Bush, a director of Harken Energy, sold the bulk of his Harken stock for $848,000. A week later, the stock plummeted in value on news of a large quarterly loss. Bush claimed that he had submitted a required report about the stock sale but it had somehow disappeared.6 Bush refused repeated requests from both The Wall Street Journal7 and U.S. News and World Reports8 to discuss the stock sale. Update Details
A federal (SEC) probe of Bush's stock sale terminated without charging or exonerating Bush.9 But as Time reported, it was widely assumed that insider knowledge prompted the sale.10 The Wall Street Journal reported other suspicious circumstances concerning Bush's involvement with Harken Energy.11
Throughout his business career, George W. was bailed out by influential contacts for plays, as The Wall Street Journal put it, that "did not quite make the grade."12 An example was a 1989 baseball deal financed in part "out of respect for his father" that ultimately earned George W. $15 million on a $600,000 investment.13 Such financial windfalls were important for Bush, who, as Newsweek summarized, "was an academic slacker [at Yale], a mediocre athlete, a member of the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War and an unsuccessful oilman."14 More
GEORGE BUSH, SENIOR. The late Jonathan Kwitny, an award winning journalist for PBS and The Wall Street Journal, detailed links of George Bush senior to S&L fraud beneficiaries nationwide.15 Under Bush, Kwitny reported, "investigations were called off, proposed fraud charges weren't brought, and President Bush continued to pal around with investigative targets who got off scot-free." Among Bush's several pals in the S&L bonanza crowd named by Kwitny was
1)If something is posted publicly on the web, it must be assumed that the webmaster wishes the public to look at the content, and should be assumed that sometimes large numbers of the public will look at the content.
2) If the webmaster does not want the general public accessing the content, put the content behind a log in page. That way, when an unregistered person visits the page, a low bandwidth page is presented.
3) disallow referral from /..
4) it is probably not a good practice for /. to automatically mirror pages.
5) Use design standards that produce low bandwith pages that will stand up better to a large demand. Putting all 100 pictures on one page, as some webmaster do, is silly.
I wonder if the webmaster could post the content to /. That might be a good compromise.
Presumable groklaw wants to get the message out. I wonder if the publicity is woth less than the bandwidth
Dude, have you set foot in a church lately?
"God is all-loving and all-forgiving... but if you whack off you'll go blind and burn in hades for a thousand generations!"