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Iron Man's New Villain — an Open Source Terrorist
An anonymous reader writes "In a recent interview on Comic Book Resources about his new continuation of the Marvel comic-book series 'Invincible Iron Man,' Matt Faction provides information about the the new series (debut will be May 7). The villain is Ezekiel Stane, son of Obadiah Stane (the villain of the new Iron Man movie opening on May 2). Whereas Obadiah was a ruthless billionaire who fought as the Iron Monger, Zeke 'rejects the strategies of his father as being the crude tactics of Attila the Hun.' Instead, he will be 'a post-national business man and kind of an open source ideological terrorist.' As the author puts it, 'Windows wants to be on every computer desktop in the world, but Linux and Stane want to destroy the desktop.' The concept has gone over well on the CBR forums."
The FSF has announced Richard Stallman will be engaging in a speaking tour of comic conventions to demand they be called free ideological terrorists.
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Sharerman!
He will share global economy to it's knees!
His nefarious plan of... sharing stuff, has to be stopped!
Agreed, people who use that sort of language must be branded stupidity terrorists, and treated accordingly.
As the author puts it, 'Windows wants to be on every computer desktop in the world, but Linux and Stane want to destroy the desktop.'
What part of that sentence did I understand?
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Just because the movie is sponsored by SCO, Microsoft and NVidia does NOT mean that it is prejudice. Honest, gov.
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And before 9/11 every bad person was compared to Hitler. Even if they didn't kill nearly as many Jews as he did.
BTW:
"Drink someone's milkshake? Terrorism."
You're my new hero for that one.
He's guilty of rant-terrorism. Don't let the terrorists win.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Your argument sounds like something a terrorist would say.
Don't you remember? 9/11 changed everything! If you break the law you are a terrorist because using the police to respond to your crime takes manpower and resources away from fighting terrorism. And if that doesn't convince you then it is obvious that *you* are trying to obstruct the fight against terrorism by not fully supporting every policy of the government.
So stop hating freedom, terrorist.
I can see Comic books and open source uniting, working together to keep geeks around the world from getting laid.
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Drink someone's milkshake? Terrorism.
I drink your milkshake! I DRINK IT UP!! For great justice!
But we already have Linux Super Villian.
If i had one dollar for every brain you dont have, i would have $1.
I find it hard to look at the concept as menacing.
"We're going to provide Linux free of charge to anyone! MUHAHAHAHA!"
"Beware my open source laser! Powered by the distilled tears of Microsoft execs, it will cut you out of vendor lock-in!"
Or better, Stark teams up with Microsoft to combat the 'threat', then, during a battle as Iron Man powers up his blaster, the HUD flashes..
WinIRON.sys
The driver is attempting to access memory beyond the end of the
allocation.
Stop: 0x000000D6
(0x89781000, 0x00000000, 0xBF82683F, 0x00000000)
WinIRON.sys address BF82683F base at BF80000
Ava?
Evidently, the key to understanding recursion is to begin by understanding recursion. The rest is easy.
I'm sure if the movie was sponsored by Red Hat, Sun and IBM, Iron Man would get his arse kicked by Big-Iron Man - who runs Linux of course.
I don't therefore I'm not.
That does sound like something that an over-zealous open source activist might say.
Well, this is a good reason to prohibit your children to read comic crap.
Shhhh! Don't tip them off! Otherwise I'll have to start eating meat to avoid suspicion!
Apart from that, some PETA (and similar) raids have been depicted as terrorism...
Yeah, I run Damn Fickle Linux on my underclocked MC68000 with 256KB of RAM. I didn't engineer a PCIx slot into my setup just to have nVidia spit in my face like this!
which is totally what she said
...spelling Nazi.
You bring new meaning to "grammar nazi" ;)
Disclaimer: I know you are not German.
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Imagine the FTF being founded with the idea to realize UNA (UNA is Not Al-Quada.)
...
Blueprints are available on how to setup your own organization. Crash courses in setting up your own cell, free formats to document the cell meeting minutes, open and verifiable systems to elect cell and organization leaders, recommended lingo to hide intentions (although open, the message encryption works but people are left guessing as to what you are conspiring about.)
However, a small but significant part is missing. There's no plan for the rocket. The base is there, the logistics, the whole organization, but no rocket. So reluctantly UNA uses rockets manufactured by evil corporations that do not allow you to modify them and only ause death and destruction with a very inferior sense of style.
Until one day a youngster from South-Jemen comes that desperately needs a rocket but is highly disappointed by the commodity but closed source rockets. So he boldly builds one himself and calls it Afred (he himself is called Alfred.) And he starts deploying it for his own purpose but uses the available UNA blueprints.
Before you know everyone is using Afred for the daily terrorism fix.
Then the FTF founder quite rightly points out that a missile launching compound consists of many more things than a missile. The missile is a vital part and without it no devastation takes place. However, one should not underestimate the infrastructure provided by UNA.
Compounds should not be referred to as Afred because that would not give sufficient credit to the FTF. Instead a more appropriate name is UNA/Afred. AT least so says the Saint of the Church of UNA, St. Ignitius (I bless thee missile.)
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
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Please use the full, proper name of the villain... it's "Ezekiel GNU/Stane". Thank you, RMS.
Delta Force came before those, while Harrison Ford was between jobs galaxy hopping as a smuggler and finding lost biblical icons. Bruce Willis was just a petty Private Eye.
On an electrical engineering exam a friend of mine took, one of the bonus questions asked one they use one particular formula for calculations now in lieu of a different one that was used a few years back.
His response was "Because 9/11 changed everything"
Oh my god, did you seriously just misspell "Godwin" in a response about misspelling?
What a (sic) joke!
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Toro
Open source man, open source man,
Doin' the things that copyleft can,
What's he like? It's not important.
open source man.
Is he a geek, or is he a terrorist?
When he's on the internet does he distribute himself?
Or does the internet distribute him instead?
Nobody knows, open source man.
Iron man, Iron man.
Iron man hates open source man.
They have a fight, iron wins.
Iron man.
As I understand it, that's what the bomb itself does, very rapidly. ;)
:P
Oohhh you meant "instructions for making" rather than "ingredients. Never mind.
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