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Novell Swings Back at Ballmer
Jeff.Ingalls writes "Novell Inc has issued a response to Microsoft Corp CEO Steve Ballmer's recent anti-Linux memo, using the same reports cited by Ballmer in defense of the open source operating system."
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Why does Ballmer do this? Why does he make such idiotic, easy-to-refute statements? For example, from the article:
I can't believe that guy is a top executive of a major corporation. He makes Darl look like a business genius in comparison. He impresses me as some kind of jackass, who just HAPPENED to be in the right place at the right time, and is where he is DESPITE rather than BECAUSE of his business acumen.
It seems that there are a couple other people in America that hold positions of immense power and authority that are equally as dumb.
Perhaps it's just that a little over half the population is really dumb enough to believe a bunch of non-sensical bullshit?
I will NEVER get over the fact that a majority of the public is easily hoodwinked into following the whims of each and every fucktard that holds a position of power.
It is deeply disturbing that my fellow Americans are dumb enough to believe whatever is fed to them without actually doing any of their own research first.
Just because someone is powerful, wealthy, and a public figurehead does not mean that they are right in everything they do.
Darn you beat me to it. It is very clear to me that Bush deliberately used factually incorrect soundbites to beat Anne Richards and later Gore and finally Kerry.
The problem however, is that this works best on uneducated people. THose who have college educations are less likely to fall for it.
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Your statement applies equally to both of the major parties.
Of the two, W seems more predictable, though many don't seem to view this as a feature...
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
W is less predictable. He flipflopped on the Department of Homeland Security, the 9-11 commission, fiscal conservancy, states' rights, small government, isolationism, etc etc etc. You might have been able to predict his idiocy, but not such extreme shifts in policy.
Infuriate left and right