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SpaceCanary writes "I recently read this open letter to Windows and I think it's pretty funny. The guy writes a letter to his OS as if he was breaking up with it. It's a bit strange, but finally more people are starting to see the light and moving away from Windows. The writer chronicles his relationship with the versions of Windows and finally is able to move on in the end."
Anybody could have wrote that letter (AOL users excempt).
If your wife's a bitch, faggotry isn't the answer. You just beat her until she behaves.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
uhoh....we have a Microsoft saint.
ive never really understood how anyone could honestly support the biggest monopoly in existence. at least I assume he does, thats what was implied.
(sigh) some people are so blinded...i bet hes even still using Internet Explorer...pardon my French.
"Potpourii doesn't taste as good as it smells." - Dark_Link2135
While no statement I'm about to make should be construed as suggesting or recommending that any person commit an illegal act of any kind, you should realize that a true enemy is better than a false friend. Note that some of the facts I plan to use in this letter were provided to me by a highly educated person who managed to escape Microsoft's deceitful, crass indoctrination and is consequently believable. Unless Microsoft should promote a culture of dependency and failure because "it's the right thing to do", it is simply wrong to conclude that disgusting, anal-retentive ruffians are all inherently good, sensitive, creative, and inoffensive. It strikes me as amusing that Microsoft complains about people who do nothing but complain. Well, news flash! It does nothing but complain. "Tolerance" means tolerance of all, not only of a select few. I don't think anyone questions that. But did you know that it spews out so many falsehoods, distortions, and half-truths, that rebuttal requires some lengthy documentation?
Microsoft possesses no significant intellectual skills whatsoever and has no interest in erudition. Heck, it can't even spell or define "erudition", much less achieve it. Contrast, for example, Microsoft's inveracities with those of meddlesome hippies, and observe that there is no contrast. I, by (genuine) contrast, take the view that Microsoft wonders why everyone hates it. Apparently, it never stopped to think that maybe it's because I indisputably wouldn't want to scupper my initiative to reinforce notions of positive self esteem. I would, on the other hand, love to pronounce the truth and renounce the lies. But, hey, I'm already doing that with this letter.
If I didn't think Microsoft would undermine the intellectual purpose of higher education, I wouldn't say that time cannot change its behavior. Time merely enlarges the field in which Microsoft can, with ever-increasing intensity and thoroughness, violate strongly held principles regarding deferral of current satisfaction for long-term gains. Microsoft keeps saying that it is a bearer and agent of the Creator's purpose. For some reason, Microsoft's trained seals actually believe this nonsense. Microsoft dreams of a time when they'll be free to control, manipulate, and harm other people. That's the way it's planned it, and that's the way it'll happen -- not may happen, but will happen -- if we don't interfere, if we don't tell you things that it doesn't want you to know. To be blunt, many people respond to Microsoft's grotesque campaigns in the same way that they respond to television dramas. They watch them; they talk about them; but they feel no overwhelming compulsion to do anything about them. That's why I insist we stand uncompromised in a world that's on the brink of Microsoft-induced disaster.
At the risk of repeating myself, I must reiterate that it's Microsoft's belief that my letters demonstrate a desire to restructure the social, political, and economic relationships throughout the entire society. I can't understand how anyone could go from anything I ever wrote to such an illaudable idea. In fact, my letters generally make the diametrically opposite claim, that Microsoft can't fool me. I've met superstitious, pompous maggots before, so I know that while we do nothing, those who spit on sacred icons are gloating and smirking. And they will keep on gloating and smirking until we bring a fresh perspective and new ideas to the current debate. Yes, I realize that even the most rigorous theoretical framework Microsoft could put forward would not leave it in the position of generalizing with the certainty to which it is prone in its politics, but for the sake of brevity I've had to express myself in simplified terms. No one likes being attacked by the worst classes of neurotic, cranky urban guerrillas there are. Even worse, Microsoft exploits our fear of those attacks -- which it claims will evolve sooner or later into biological, chemical, or nuclear attacks -- as a pretext to create a world without history, without philosophy, wit
Actually, I work for American Virtual Relations, a public relations firm contracted by Microsoft. I get paid a considerable salary plus bonuses for every post I make on a discussion board attacking so-called "critics" of Microsoft.
We're an organization that isn't listed on any major search engine. Rather, we're a unit of a well-known public relations firm (hint: think "R").
Thanks for inquiring!
I almost modded you troll, actually, but reading down, you seem honest. I personally don't see how you call windows XP easy to use, and XP just looks ugly, not polished.
That's about it too, eh?
.conf files for my IRCd. A UI to a config util would certainly edge me closer to the switch.
Though ASP.NET errors aren't better, but at least they dont display the path to whatever's wrong.
I'd also like to state I use Windows by choice. I OWN a linux box and I have apache and an IRCd set up on there, yet I still prefer my Windows machine.
I hate hearing about how unsecure Windows is. I ran my computer in an experiment for two months with no AV or Firewall protection. I installed an AV software and scanned. Guess what? No viruses, none of those dreaded worms you apparently get after signing on to the 'net for more than fifteen minutes. Maybe it was a fluke, but I still love my Windows machine.
It's my (possibly uneducated) opinion that Linux lacks one major thing that prevents it from gaining more of a user base: Installers. Yes, I realize that a lot of you like your stuff open source, but would a regular user want to compile everything they download? Of course not. I'm waiting for a trend of sepereate source releases along with decent installers (I know RPMs exist, but a lot of software I've downloaded and used on my linux box is just source) and configuration utilities. One of the things that makes me mad is when I have to manually edit the
My two cents
-Eric Smith