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Comrade, You Are So Not Getting a Dell
theodp writes "At the World Economic Forum, Michael Dell's pitch to help Russia with its computers got the cold-as-Siberia shoulder from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. 'We don't need help,' shot back Putin. 'We are not invalids. We don't have limited mental capacity' (video — rant starts at 1:24). 'Our programmers are some of the best in the world,' Putin continued. 'No one would contest that here — not even our Indian colleagues.'"
the State tells you what it needs...
and said "Well ... ok then."
you're getting a polonium 210!
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Our botnets span the globe! Our shadowy hosting providers are without peer! Our ability to ddos former republics who move monuments is second to none...
It weighs in at 350 lbs and is bigger than a kaypro.
They hope to have it scaled down in the next 5-year plan.
like a man refusing to ask for directions.
'Honey, we're fine, I know where we are, the main road has to intersect this one eventually, I'm not an idiot.'
Meanwhile dueling banjos are heard...
"I only speak the truth"
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He's almost to the point of provoking pretentious Polonium Putin!
"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted." -Groucho Marx
Not a shoe?
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
Sounded like a clumsy translation more than anything... that translator is working on the fly in a literal word-for-word sense. Get a spin-meister on the transcript and you'll get something out like "Thank you for your generous offer Mr. Dell, however, Russia is a proud and self-sufficient nation who can provide for her own IT needs."
What comrade Putin says is that Soviet Russia produces some of the best cracks, viruses, hacks, worms, backdoors, keygenerators and hacking utilities in the world. Besides, it's all in cyrillic and nobody except soviet russians understand it anyway. :-)
Beware of geeks bearing gifts.
Really, how could you miss that joke. Hand in your slashdot ID and go have some sex you traitor! You are not one of us, you probably even talk to girls!
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
That's an unreasonable expectation. If you fuck up for eight years in a row, you don't simply stop hearing about it a few weeks after you begin to stop.
You talking about 'W' or Clinton? ;-)
(You DID mention the 'F' word.)
At least Putin wouldn't have to deal with their shitty customer support...
A shoe is the *furthest* insult you can throw. But we're looking for *highest* for this particular trivia question.
Not a shoe?
Not a chair?
Oh right, this is Dell, not Microsoft.
-William Brendel
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" describes schedulers more accurately. Dividing the time up equally would be like .... oh, I dunno, something about a Ferrari and hot grits ...
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Exactly! Everything in history is the fault of the DemocRAT party.
It's not as if $7.5T of the $10.5T debt was run up under Republican presidents. It's not like $5T was run up under Bush while his party had control of the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and Federal courts. It was the LIEberals!
It's all the fault of TAX and SPEND Democrats who.. uh.. had a surplus when they were last in office? Uh. No it HAS to be Clinton's fault, otherwise there might be some flaw in my world view. That's impossible, because I'm a Conservative!
Er, yeah. Clinton fucked a chubby intern. That's what caused this mess. If he hadn't done that, Alan Greenspan would never have left interest rates criminally low for too long. In 2004, the SEC would never have raised the leverage limit from 12:1 to 30:1 (making a 3% decline in asset values wipe our your company).
And whatever wasn't the fault of Clinton was CARTER's fault. That damn CRA, which passed in 1977. It broke the economy 30 years later because it forced the GSEs to make loans to black people (a.k.a. the lazy poor who are only poor because they are irresponsible and they drive Cadillacs and have cable TV that they buy with their welfare checks which they don't deserve) even though the mess extends far beyond subprime mortgages and that private, non-GSE mortgages account for 3/4 of the problem. It's the fault of Clinton, Carter, Fannie, and Freddie. All LIEberals.
(I'm not racist. My church once had a black guy in it. I just think all black people are lazy. But that's not racism. Read the "Bell Curve", a fine scholarly work.)
And, anyway, Bush's tax cuts worked as promised. His tax cuts created the same number of jobs in eight years as Clinton created in thirteen months! They are why we located all those WMDs and why the fundamentals of our economy are strong. It was TOO MUCH REGULATION that caused the problems that are purely psychological. There's no problem with the economy, except for all the problems with it, which are ONLY the fault of DemocRATs.
Also, the media is liberal. Like Joe Scarborough. I mean, it's not like liberal MSNBC would put a Conservative congressman on TV for three hours a day. (Shout out to Lori Klausutis!)
Yup. I can't believe how quickly the LIEberals on Slashdot forget the details of history.
I'm a small government, free market Conservative who wants Sarah Palin to be Dictator for Life. She gives me star-bursts in my pants.
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Did I get that right? I think that's the current Conservative orthodoxy. It's certainly got all the wonderfully truthy proclamations I've heard from Conservatives THIS FUCKING WEEK.
Never, ever underestimate the awesome destructive power of a drunk, belligerent, brute-force-loving, pissed-off engineer...
He put his boots up on the table and made a face. "The sig," he smirked. "You can waste your life in search of the sig."