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McBride At A Loss For Words
An anonymous reader writes "That, at least is the verdict of Linux Business Week's Maureen O'Gara, who reports that, with all the latest twists and turns, with BayStar and RBC in particular, SCO's CEO was finally bereft of words to describe what it's all been like. In the end he settled for 'This is like...nothing.' As O'Gara herself says, the latest SCO news is plain weird."
Maybe he shouldn't have used them all up before.
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
he was referring to how much his stock will be worth.
no no ... see, he was refering to what SCO has based their case on
vodka, straight up, thank you!
Thats like.... woah
SCO's CEO was finally bereft of words to describe what it's all been like. In the end he settled for 'This is like...nothing.'
McBride then followed-up: "But at least I'm not 'Robert S.' Rumsfeld,"
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
It's obvious Darl was describing the value of his company.
'This is like...nothing.'
I don't suppose he was looking at the SCOX share price when he said it?
So McBride figures BayStar doesn't have a legal leg to stand on
Brought to you by the words "Shoe", "Other" and "Foot".
As if all that weren't enough, I've tried to bring you people gold, and getting my home IP banned from Slashdot was my only thanks.
This will be my last post to Slashdot as Mr. Darl McBride. Mod it up or mod it down, I don't much care anymore. I'm going back to my simple ranch hand ways while Boies and Sontag round up the rest of whatever's left for our ginormous IP firesale, if there's even anything there to capitalize on anymore.
Thanks to those of you who have moderated me up in the past, those of you who took the time for pithy and cute replies even if you didn't like me, and those who lightened up enough to have a laugh instead of freaking. It's been like... like... it's been like nothing else.
~Darl
funny, that's what my acountant said when I asked about the money I had left after investing in SCO.
SCO CEO Darl McBride was quoted commenting on their current case against IBM as "This is like...nothing."
In C++, friends can touch each others private parts.
"BayStar's lawyers, he said, still haven't told SCO's lawyers how SCO breached their contract. So McBride figures BayStar doesn't have a legal leg to stand on and won't be able to get its money back."
That's right, Darl, and don't you just hate it when someone accuses you of doing something wrong but refuses to tell you precisely what?
Posting that knocked them down US$ .15? Post some more then!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I've seen at least 10 of the same jokes in these first 30 comments about what McBride "really" meant. Okay, we get it. You're trying to get a Funny. Darl must have been referring to the basis for his case, or his stock quote. Haha.
Now, no more, please?
I guess we have the next part for Keanu Reeves to play. It's at about his intelligence level too.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
SCO CEO Darl McBride, the most hated man in the computer industry, says he's reached for an analogy to describe SCO's experience since suing IBM. "This is like...," he's said to himself, groping for an elucidating comparison, only to conclude, "Nothing...Nothing compares to what's happened in the last year. Seriously. Not a goddamned thing." He went on to say "You know, when I wasn't busy filing groundless lawsuits, driving my company's reputation into the ground, and buttraping the cub scout who mows my lawn, I learned a little about performance art from my close, personal friend Karen Finley. I'm at a loss for words right now, but I think a little performance art will get my point across."
And with that he leaped up onto his desk, quickly disrobed, and voided his bowels onto his "Unix Is For The Impotent" mousepad. He began scooping the steaming pile of poo into small cylinders and miming lighting them as if they were dynamite. Then he pointed at the ceiling fan whilrling madly overhead, screamed "This is for the white male phallocracy! This is for Susan Sontag! And this is because Linus won't return my calls!" He flung the poo into the blades of the fan, and as feces sprayed from one end of the room to the other, staining his face and catching in my hair, I began to strongly suspect that Darl McBride just might be losing his grip on reality a little.
Proposed titles for the book includes:
Gates of the Hell!
Achille Talon
Hop!
He was going to say "This is like that bank heist in Illinois that went wrong, we had to shoot our way out.", but realized he was talking to the press and not his buddies at Canopy and managed to stop himself just in time with "This is like... nothing".
The Royal Bank of Canada, which BayStar brought into the $50 million investment the pair made in SCO last fall, the investor that has reportedly never expressed doubts about the strength of SCO's position or, unlike BayStar, has never complained to SCO about its behavior, sold $20 million worth of its SCO shares to BayStar.
That has to be one of the worst sentences I've read in a news article. I know it's still gramatically correct, but talk about hard to follow! Sure it may be off-topic, but WOW! It looks as if anyone can be a writer these days.
"The best laid plans of mice and men gang oft agley..." - ROBERT BURNS
As we know,
:
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.
--Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
Next Day
I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think... and I assume it's what I said
It is without any reservation and with much vehemence that I can say -- and I'm not kidding here -- that I've not seen such incredibly an obtuse conglomeration of incomprehensible and disjointed run-on sentences disguised as journalism (and in some cases as paragraphs), apparently, but not very convincingly and creating a very disconcerting effect on my on cognition while trying to ferret out a few meaningful tidbits of information, but I'm sure the author means well, but just didn't have a very good English 1A instructor in college, or perhaps had some severe head trauma, or simply has no aptitude for writing. Like me, eh?
If SCO has no chance to survive... then perhaps they should make their time!
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!
A great plot with the SCO stock price plotted over Ululu/Ayer's Rock is here.
Original post with this plot is here.
It seems what happened is that we DID quit talking about them for at least several days. Now we are talking about how they aren't saying anything! I hate to see what SCO news is going to be like after they dissolve the company...
"SCO Still Closed
From the This-Is-The-365th-Time-We-Posted-This Dept."
Typically, once an arsonist starts a fire, they leave the building rather than watch it burn down around them.
SCO seems to be running around locking all the doors, and they're the only ones in the building.
I knew it! This was all an evil plot by Stallman, EFF and the "Underground /. Guerilla Association" for the GPL to have its day in court and come out untouched. They are behind Baystar! They funded the lawsuit! It was all staged! McBride is just the hero taking the slander and just putting up with all of this for the good of us all!
Aaaah... We'll miss you Mc Bride... You've done a great service...
How is that for a conspiracy theory?
And here's a picture of Darl's seat , courtesy of SCO's just-closed Polish office. (The former manager of which is now setting up his own Linux business, specializing in helping users migrate from SCO's software onto Linux -- which is not SCO's, of course! -- see Groklaw for details)
McBride claims he doesn't know any more than we do. He's had barely any contact with the bank and all he knows is that he got a letter from them last Wednesday outlining what it was doing, but not explaining why.
McBride also claims that he doesn't know what BayStar's about either.
You gotta wonder what this guy does all day in his office. I'm thinking he's the member of an uber guild on Everquest with a level 65 rogue totally decked out in planar armor.
"In other news, SCO CEO Darl McBride was named as the leading candidate to fill the job of Iraqi Information Minister, recently vacated by Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf."
thats why he's at a loss for words. other people have been stealing words from him!
other peoples sentences are just his words rearranged in a different order. they are obviously DERIVATIVE WORKS of his sentences. some sentences have had the words purposely REARRANGED to OBFUSCATE the true origin of the sentence - Darl. in fact, sometimes the senteneces other people have said are EXACTLY THE SAME are Darl's sentences. word for word. coincidence?
a bunch of MIT rocket scientists have confirmed that Darl's sentence "yes." has been used elsewhere MILLIONS of times. this is STEALING of his IP and it must stop. sue Darl sue!
hint to Darl: when you sue remember that (like with the IBM lawsuit) you can pick whatever value you want for damages! rather than sue for an obscenely ridiculous value like 5 Billion dollars you should really go all out this time and sue for 100 GaZillion (GaZillion - copyright Darl McBride) dollars! just think how that will make the stock price in your stock scam to go up. wow! is our legal system cool or what?
it basically says "there's nothing to say about anything."
Sounds like a Seinfeld Episode to me.
What?