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Microsoft Developing Linux Policy, Plan of Attack
Lil' Bobby Gortician writes "This new MSNBC article talks about Microsoft's developing strategy to deal with Linux. They are actually getting some of their sales people certified as Linux experts, and say 1/10th of their test servers now run Linux. My favorite quote? "There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness"."
1. Ignore Linux
2. Laugh at Linux
3. Lose to Linux
4. ???
5. Profit!
you forgot the ????? step
>Isn't Kerry the one who voted for war, then voted against paying for it?
/. leftists don't have the balls to do....), but the second he returned from his grand total of four months in Vietnam he became a fervent anti-war activist, hanging out with Hanoi Jane et al.
Actually he voted against dropping that much money with so little accounting oversight and accountability. Seems to make sense to me.
>Or in his acceptence speech said he was against "unilateral" US action
Something relatively sane to say.
>but he also said that he would not allow anyone to veto any US actions? Well, which is it?
Which could also mean that he's willing to do a lot of hard diplomatic work. It is also political suicide for an elected official to say he would allow the decisions he makes to be overridden by someone outside his constituency. Doesn't seem like a flip-flop to me.
>And it's not like he doesn't have a history of epic flip flops. He volunteered to go to Vietnam (something I do respect - and something damn near all knee-jerk
Hm, Someone who is patriotic goes to war, gets shot up, decides war in general sucks, he doesn't want any more of his fellow soldiers back in Viet Nam to be shot up for a war he thinks is pointless, and acts on that? Sounds like learning from experience. Something like Bush declaring the UN irrelevant before the invasion of Iraq, and now busting his buns to do everything he can to get the UN involved in the occupation/changeover/whatever.
Which is slightly more excuseable than the multitude of reasons we kept being handed for the invasion of Iraq, almost every one being shot down as fast as it came up, when Bush had been wanting to invade Iraq all along (but couldn't say that because it would be TELLING THE TRUTH).
*COUGHS* Sorry, inside voice got out.
Searching for Truth, Justice, and the Guy Who Boosted My Wallet a Few Weeks Back....
Very telling that the pro-Bush comment was modded down to -1 and the pro-Kerry comment (including a sophisticated attack implying that Republicans don't read books) was modded to +2.
"Only a republican could use the learning process against someone. Although, seeing who's in charge, that starts to make sense."
I think most people can see that this argument lacks sophistication. Instead of broad-brush name-calling of people that disagree with you, what about a discussion of the issues?
The question you have to ask yourself is this: What are the positions of the candidates with respect to issues that are important to you? Does your candidate regularly vote to increase defense and intelligent spending? Does your candidate vote to lower taxes? Does your candidate vote against partial-birth abortion?
The quality of political discourse in public forums such as Slashdot is embarrasing. It amounts to nothing more than a grade-school playground name-calling contest.
The way to fix that is to educate yourself on the issues, look at Kerry's voting record, look at Bush's executive record, and decide which falls in line with your core beliefs.
Dammit, wish I still had mod points. And hadn't contributed to the discussion.