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The Languages of "The Office"
Venkat Rao has followed up his analysis of office dynamics as reflected in The Office, which we discussed last month, with one titled Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk. The Office is running a little thin of meaty examples to make his points in delineating the ways of PowerTalk — the language of the Sociopaths — so Rao reaches out to Goodfellas, Wall Street, The Boiler Room, and Making Jack Falcone. The entire analysis illuminates and is illuminated by a diagram of the disparate languages that Sociopaths, the Clueless, and Losers speak to each other and among themselves.
So I have a theory that I would like to outline for you all. Constantly on this site you hear someone get labeled as an M$ $hill! because they make a statement that is favorably or isn't damning of Microsoft. But why would M$ waste it's money buying people to shill for them when it would be so obviously seen through? I propose that instead that the real M$ $hills are the people who claim to be pro-FLOSS but do their best to make the rest of us free software supporters look stupid and extremely fundamentalist so we can be easily written off as extremists. This way, M$ and other proprietary software companies have an easy target to point their customers to when they make their biased sales pitches against free softare OSes like Linux in favor of their proprietary offerings.
Seriously. Why the hell is this on Slashdot AT ALL much less on the front page? Even in whatever field this is attempting to masquerade, this isn't even craptastic. It's just crap.