from microsoft.com: Microsoft Confident That Judicial System Will Overturn District Court Ruling Microsoft will appeal, seek a stay of the District Court ruling, and maintain its focus on technology and customers as the appeal proceeds. Read the court's final judgment, Bill Gates' response, and other news related to the ongoing legal case. Check back for updates.
true enough. i, however, still consider being geek/nerd a source of pride...perhaps it's not as bad where i come from, yet i have people CONSTANTLY telling me, "oh, you're not a geek. you just like computers." DAMMIT, I'M A GEEK! LONG LIVE GEEKDOM! hey, the way i see it, high school may be hell (thank the jocks &co for that), but as soon as we get into the SCReW (meatspace, whatever) intel. will matter and those damn jocks will be begging us for a $0.10 raise per hour. i'm just waiting and coping. my friends (geeks and social outcasts, of course) and i decide that going postal would be useless because in a couple of years, we'd be in the "real" world, not the surreal world of high school. the point of all this ranting is this: don't give up. geekdom is a good thing, and it will get better. just wait. caulking everybody isn't going to make it better. in fact, you'll make it worse for all the other geeks... they'll see that you enjoyed gaming and the net and all the other wonderful things that the FBI target as potentials for violence and they'll all look at each other and say "see, it was the geeks. i told you so....and just look at all those poor jocks that got caulked. i wonder what they did to deserve this" which isn't what we want, is it? --baeta
>>go and see a psychiatrist if you really have problems. oh, yes. good advice. or not. i did the psychiatrist thing back in 6th grade because my parents didn't know what else to do. i remember being stuck in a closet-like space with some freaky old lady asking me how i felt when the kids made fun of me for being smart...i didn't tell her that i felt like strangling her, because i was smart enough to know that that was the surest way of getting kicked out of school. instead, i nodded my way through those goddamned counseling sessions designed to "help" me and went on with my (geek) life. I will never, EVER recommend counseling to anybody. It was quite possibly one of the worst experiences i have ever had. I don't know if our lovely AC friend that told us to get help has ever seen a pshrink or not, but i'm guessing he hasn't. If he had, he wouldn't have posted "go and see a psychiatrist". That just doesn't cut it. --baeta
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from microsoft.com:
Microsoft Confident That Judicial System Will Overturn District Court Ruling
Microsoft will appeal, seek a stay of the District Court ruling, and maintain its focus on technology and customers as the appeal proceeds. Read the court's final judgment, Bill Gates' response, and other news related to the ongoing legal case. Check back for updates.
They don't give up, do they?
-baeta
true enough. i, however, still consider being geek/nerd a source of pride...perhaps it's not as bad where i come from, yet i have people CONSTANTLY telling me, "oh, you're not a geek. you just like computers." DAMMIT, I'M A GEEK! LONG LIVE GEEKDOM! ... they'll see that you enjoyed gaming and the net and all the other wonderful things that the FBI target as potentials for violence and they'll all look at each other and say "see, it was the geeks. i told you so. ...and just look at all those poor jocks that got caulked. i wonder what they did to deserve this" which isn't what we want, is it?
hey, the way i see it, high school may be hell (thank the jocks &co for that), but as soon as we get into the SCReW (meatspace, whatever) intel. will matter and those damn jocks will be begging us for a $0.10 raise per hour. i'm just waiting and coping. my friends (geeks and social outcasts, of course) and i decide that going postal would be useless because in a couple of years, we'd be in the "real" world, not the surreal world of high school.
the point of all this ranting is this: don't give up. geekdom is a good thing, and it will get better. just wait. caulking everybody isn't going to make it better. in fact, you'll make it worse for all the other geeks
--baeta
>>go and see a psychiatrist if you really have problems.
oh, yes. good advice. or not. i did the psychiatrist thing back in 6th grade because my parents didn't know what else to do. i remember being stuck in a closet-like space with some freaky old lady asking me how i felt when the kids made fun of me for being smart...i didn't tell her that i felt like strangling her, because i was smart enough to know that that was the surest way of getting kicked out of school. instead, i nodded my way through those goddamned counseling sessions designed to "help" me and went on with my (geek) life. I will never, EVER recommend counseling to anybody. It was quite possibly one of the worst experiences i have ever had. I don't know if our lovely AC friend that told us to get help has ever seen a pshrink or not, but i'm guessing he hasn't. If he had, he wouldn't have posted "go and see a psychiatrist". That just doesn't cut it.
--baeta