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Comrade, You Are So Not Getting a Dell

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the touchy-touchy dept.

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.'"

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  1. In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    the State tells you what it needs...

    1. Re:In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's just as well. They can configure the OS scheduler to divide time equally between all processes.

    2. Re:In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Unless, of course, the owner of a process is a Party official.

    3. Re:In Soviet Russia by samriel · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Mister SVCHost, Tear Down This Thread!"

    4. Re:In Soviet Russia by CatsupBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's just as well. They can configure the OS scheduler to divide time equally between all processes.

      Except for the colonel of course, he always seems to get more than the normal process.

    5. Re:In Soviet Russia by chooks · · Score: 5, Funny

      -1, 0, 1?

      And of course, FILE_NOT_FOUND.

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      -- The Genesis project? What's that?
    6. Re:In Soviet Russia by Darinbob · · Score: 3, Funny

      Even Apply dumped the commie PowerPC and went with Western capitalist x86.

    7. Re:In Soviet Russia by R2.0 · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Except for the colonel of course, he always seems to get more than the normal process."

      That's because some processes are more equal than others.

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      "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
  2. And Michael Looked Back by LordKaT · · Score: 5, Funny

    and said "Well ... ok then."

    1. Re:And Michael Looked Back by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Beware of geeks bearing gifts.

      Fixed that for you.

    2. Re:And Michael Looked Back by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

      Beware of geeks bare in gifs?

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      Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
    3. Re:And Michael Looked Back by Hognoxious · · Score: 3, Funny

      if a Capitalist states endures a falling standard of living for long enough, it will often end up being replaced by force with an authoritarian controlled economy.

      You mean when shove comes to Putch?

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      Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
    4. Re:And Michael Looked Back by 0xABADC0DA · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's not just nationalism. It's hubris. That has been a part of Russia's collective psyche for at least the past 100 years. They're not going to let anyone tell them what to do, and they balk at receiving help from anyone - it's a sign of weakness.

      Russians are Klingons. They are belligerent and drunk all the time, use brute force whenever possible, would rather die that surrender. Yet somehow they are a spacefaring society that always ends up saving the day with their cargo ships and scrapped together heaps. It defies logic.

  3. dude, by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    you're getting a polonium 210!

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  4. Russian Computing by LaminatorX · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

  5. Re:The Cold War Called ... by Muad'Dave · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...the highest insult you can throw at a Russian.

    Not a shoe?

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    Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
  6. Bright Side by Demonantis · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least Putin wouldn't have to deal with their shitty customer support...

  7. Re:The Cold War Called ... by wbren · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...the highest insult you can throw at a Russian.

    Not a shoe?

    Not a chair?

    Oh right, this is Dell, not Microsoft.

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    -William Brendel
  8. All scedulers are commies by wsanders · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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 ...

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    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?"
  9. Re:The Cold War Called ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  10. Never, ever. by jeko · · Score: 4, Funny

    Never, ever underestimate the awesome destructive power of a drunk, belligerent, brute-force-loving, pissed-off engineer...

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    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."