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Are You Ready for the SCO Blitz?

eibhear writes "Over on Groklaw, PJ has a theory that SCO is about to embark on an astroturfing campaign, based somewhat on Darl McBride's repeated comparison of the Slashdot and Groklaw styles of blogging at the recent SCOForum conference. PJ reckons: 'an astroturf campaign depends upon a non-moderated site, which explains McBride's sudden fondness for Slashdot.' '" The whole thing is really fishy, but the story is really worth reading just to see the weird battle occurring between SCO and Groklaw now.

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  1. Have you Meta Moderated recently? by foo23 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anybody out there desperately trying to get mod-points?

  2. Re:Here's an idea.. Prevent the astroturfing campa by sTalking_Goat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    dude why are you so obessed with iPod and TiVO. I swear everytime iPod and Tivo are mentioned I look up and see your login.

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  3. Re:In the water by daperdan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Those books found aren't written word for word spanning multiple chapters and each book contains discrepancies. This is a good example of a straw man defense. Bravo.

    Another note: Authorship of the New Testaments is not known. What is know is that they are of Greek origin and were written at least 100 years after the death of the Jesus Christ. Similarities may indicate authorishp by a single individual or a close knit group of authors.

  4. Not fair by roman_mir · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    by measuring the outcome you changed it!

  5. Re:Non-Moderated, not Slashdot by no+reason+to+be+here · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    In fact in British English, it is correct to use the plural verb form with so-called collective nouns, like the names of companies, names of rock bands, etc. I remember the first time I encountered this as a teen, watching a show about the band Queen, and hearing someone say "Queen are a band..." Brits emphasise the fact that the collective is made up of several individuals, while in the US (and maybe Canada, too. I'm not sure) the emphasis is put on the group being a single entity, which is probably why our corporations have so much (way too fucking much) power over the way things work here; they're been given the same legal status as individual people as well as the same linguistic/syntactic status.

  6. Thank you! by AngstAndGuitar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're way off-topic, but you have just answered a long standing question of mine.
    ("Why do Japanese bands always list members in the form;
    '$BAND
    are
    @MEMBERS'?")

    And so I thank thee.

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