We have the intestinal tracts of herbivores? Give me a break.
Do you know what an appendix is, Veggie nut? It's a vestigial organ, our version of something called a caecum, which you find in herbivores. If you ever dissected a herbivore, you'd know there's not the slightest possibility of mistaking a human appendix for a herbivore caecum. In herbivores, where the organ is still necessary, it's much larger. We don't need one now, because (say it along with me) we are not herbivores.
Actually, I'm referring to the state-wide recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court. You know, the one that the Supreme Court of the US stopped for a couple of days, and then declared had to be cancelled because there wasn't enough time left to finish it.
Seems to me that before November 7th, manual recounts were the norm for any disputed election across the country. Hell, the Repubs were asking for a manual recount in New Mexico at the same time they were spouting crap about manual recounts being inherently faulty and "inviting mischief" in Florida, such is their sleazery and chutzpah.
Yes, trot out all the totally unsubstantiated slurs on Clinton, and then claim the moral highground. You're not very convincing, buddy.
Republicans spent $50 million dollars investigating Clinton, and with the full help of the Federalist society, who are the richest and best connected conservative lawyers in the country (Olson, Starr, Scalia, Thomas, etc.) And with all of this unprecedented firepower the only thing they could actually find was that Clinton received some blowjobs. That's a fact, buddy, and it's one you're going to have to deal with.
Or are you so foolish to believe that the enemies of Clinton had evidence of murder, rape, extortion, and treason and decided not to use it?
As for Thomas, his name should be dragged through the mud. Everything he's done since then has proved that he's nowhere near the calibre required of a supreme court justice. The man never asks a question and never writes an opinion. He always votes with Scalia. Basically, his job is to be a proxy vote for Scalia. He's a lightweight. And he's also one of Bush's often-stated models of what a supreme court justice should be.
We'd better hope Strom Thurmond kicks off soon, so the Senate can block any and all Supreme Court nominations by this illegitimate president. Otherwise we're going to pay the price for the next forty years or so.
Indeed it is, and it's especially damning when the pardon was as directly self-serving as that one.
The pardon brought an end to the investigation of Caspar Weinberger. How much do you want to bet he would have implicated Bush if the investigation had continued? Bush was one step up the food chain at the time, and a former head of the CIA. Iran-Contra was right up his alley, especially since Reagan's claim that he was utterly clueless about this affair wasn't so difficult to believe.
Are you referring to his military desertion? Or maybe to the $800,000 he made in insider trading? No, wait, I bet you're referring to his successful attempt to derail the manual recount in Florida that would have certainly given Gore the presidency. Don't we usually call that sort of thing a coup?
Sounds like both of you guys are saying that your problem with BG2 is that it has too much content. That's a rather unusual complaint.
I think an RPG with so many optional sidequests that it's difficult to do them all in one game is pretty amazing, myself. Much better than the totally linear play of most RPG's in the past.
You're right about the lack of options for player behaviour, though. You're pretty much forced to play the goody-goody since the penalties for having a low reputation are so extreme. Most RPG's are like that, though. I think the Fallout series is the only one I've ever seen where the designers spent almost as much effort on adding quests and events for evil characters as they did for good ones.
We can just as easily say JFK didn't win the election in 1960 but no one even remembers that.
Actually, we can't. JFK won the election by 100,000 votes. George Jr. lost by 500,000 votes. Not even James Baker could say that the situations are equivalent.
I know, I was an OS/2 marketing droid for IBM at the time.
You don't say. Then you're one of the people responsible for the demise of OS/2, not Bill Gates.
While the brilliant marketers of IBM were treating 3rd party developers as an additional revenue stream, charging through the nose and making them jump through hoops to get any information, Microsoft was giving away MSDN discs for free to anyone who asked for them.
There's only one company responible for the death of OS/2: IBM.
I'm not surprised that Sun's infantile response scored some points with the Slashdot crowd, but I hardly think that the average person would agree that it "made Microsoft look very stupid, very quickly."
It had the trademarks of a clumsy teenage flame -- load every sentence with as much sarcasm as possible, never miss any opportunity to take a cheap shot, and try to work in as many references to the target's first name as possible for that extra dash of obnoxiousness on a personal level. All that was missing was a reference to Bill Gate's mom.
This style of response always makes the poster look worse than his intended target. It's barely forgivable in a 16 year old. For a public statement from a Fortune 500 company, it's just pathetic.
Fucking right it is. I once tried out the Boston Celtics but the racist bastards wouldn't hire me. Anyone interested in going in with me for a class action suit? I'm not greedy, I'll settle for a million.
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No, they're the ones that don't generally apply to computer jobs. I have no idea why, but it's been that way in every place I've worked. Claiming MS is racist when every other person here is asian or east indian is a little silly, don't you think?
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Right on. That's exactly the way to fix this problem. Spend the money to ensure that the poor school districts can offer an equivalent education to those in the suburbs. That's the only kind of AA that is acceptable. And it's not even AA, really, since it will help the poor white kids too, who can too easily fall between the cracks. And once they graduate, let everyone compete on the same level.
Yes, there will still be a few diehards who won't hire young blacks with good educations, but they won't live forever. And those who replace them won't have the same biases.
At the beginning of this century people wouldn't hire Irish or Italians, because they were considered violent, irresponsible, uneducated scum. They actually put signs in the window saying "No Irish".
No one would ever say that now. Amazing what a few generations of equivalent education can do. And it can be done without the injustice of reverse discrimination and the inevitable backlash it inspires.
The yellow tide is going to disenfranchise white college kids, boohoo.
Thank you for showing us all exactly where you stand in the battle to end racism and give equal opportunity to all. Blatant racial discrimination is going on here and all you have to say is "boo hoo". It makes your claims of persecution for the color of your skin ring a little hollow, does it not?
P.S. Fuck you. White or yellow, you're still an asshole.
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Everytime MS comes up in a story, we have SlashBots spewing crap about MS treating it's workers as slaves. They're probably posting from their cubicles while they're wearing ties, those of them that are actually employed.
I've worked at MS too, so I know your post is 100% accurate.
No, the poster's logic was good. I noticed you never answered his question of whether descendents of Booth should pay out to descendents of Lincoln.
The japanese internment analogy doesn't wash either, since these are people who actually were interned, rather than just their descendents. A closer analogy would be to offer compensation to all former slaves. Since slavery was outlawed 140 years ago, though, I don't think we'll have many takers.
First you flame somebody for agreeing with you, calling him a 'tard and a zealot. Then you post an even more insulting and pompous message, all the while claiming that you've never insulted anyone.
No wonder you posted anonymously. I bet your mother is ashamed of your name, too.
That's two totally misleading headlines you've posted about Microsoft in one week. Headlines that had nothing whatsoever to do with the story being quoted.
Today's story had nothing to do with "Microsoft" collapsing. The interviewee did make one offhand comment about their monopoly collapsing, but that's an entirely different thing from the company itself collapsing.
A few days ago you had a story about Linux "saving" Microsoft. The article in question had nothing to do with this headline, nothing at all. The gist of it was that Microsoft is powerful, will remain powerful, and as soon as Linux actually becomes relevant to more than the lunatic fringe then MS will make a definitive version of Linux and basically consume it. Only a diseased mind could even imagine that this meant that Linux would "save" MS, but that didn't stop you from making it the headline.
I suggest you guys take a course in remedial journalism. Better yet, get some kid from the local high school paper to help you out.
One of the reasons there are so many "permatemps" at Microsoft is because many contractors feel they don't want to take a pay cut for the privilege of being a full-time MS employee. Not to mention losing the time-and-a-half pay for overtime, which the salaried employees don't get despite the fact that they usually work far more hours a week than a contractor.
You won't read that in any of the articles about this case, though. You'd get the impression that BillG puts us all to work sweeping chimneys.
Yet again, we have an intelligent message modded down as a "troll". "Troll" seems to be by far the most abused label around here. Really, you could interpret any message as a "troll", even this one, if you're so inclined. It's just a convenient excuse to mod down anything you don't want to see.
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We have the intestinal tracts of herbivores? Give me a break.
Do you know what an appendix is, Veggie nut? It's a vestigial organ, our version of something called a caecum, which you find in herbivores. If you ever dissected a herbivore, you'd know there's not the slightest possibility of mistaking a human appendix for a herbivore caecum. In herbivores, where the organ is still necessary, it's much larger. We don't need one now, because (say it along with me) we are not herbivores.
And let's not even get into dentistry.
Actually, I'm referring to the state-wide recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court. You know, the one that the Supreme Court of the US stopped for a couple of days, and then declared had to be cancelled because there wasn't enough time left to finish it.
Seems to me that before November 7th, manual recounts were the norm for any disputed election across the country. Hell, the Repubs were asking for a manual recount in New Mexico at the same time they were spouting crap about manual recounts being inherently faulty and "inviting mischief" in Florida, such is their sleazery and chutzpah.
Yes, trot out all the totally unsubstantiated slurs on Clinton, and then claim the moral highground. You're not very convincing, buddy.
Republicans spent $50 million dollars investigating Clinton, and with the full help of the Federalist society, who are the richest and best connected conservative lawyers in the country (Olson, Starr, Scalia, Thomas, etc.) And with all of this unprecedented firepower the only thing they could actually find was that Clinton received some blowjobs. That's a fact, buddy, and it's one you're going to have to deal with.
Or are you so foolish to believe that the enemies of Clinton had evidence of murder, rape, extortion, and treason and decided not to use it?
As for Thomas, his name should be dragged through the mud. Everything he's done since then has proved that he's nowhere near the calibre required of a supreme court justice. The man never asks a question and never writes an opinion. He always votes with Scalia. Basically, his job is to be a proxy vote for Scalia. He's a lightweight. And he's also one of Bush's often-stated models of what a supreme court justice should be.
We'd better hope Strom Thurmond kicks off soon, so the Senate can block any and all Supreme Court nominations by this illegitimate president. Otherwise we're going to pay the price for the next forty years or so.
All hat, no cattle.
Indeed it is, and it's especially damning when the pardon was as directly self-serving as that one.
The pardon brought an end to the investigation of Caspar Weinberger. How much do you want to bet he would have implicated Bush if the investigation had continued? Bush was one step up the food chain at the time, and a former head of the CIA. Iran-Contra was right up his alley, especially since Reagan's claim that he was utterly clueless about this affair wasn't so difficult to believe.
The judge that reviewed that case was a close personal friend of the Bush family. Business as usual.
Are you referring to his military desertion? Or maybe to the $800,000 he made in insider trading? No, wait, I bet you're referring to his successful attempt to derail the manual recount in Florida that would have certainly given Gore the presidency. Don't we usually call that sort of thing a coup?
Yeah, there's a guy with nothing to hide.
Sounds like both of you guys are saying that your problem with BG2 is that it has too much content. That's a rather unusual complaint.
I think an RPG with so many optional sidequests that it's difficult to do them all in one game is pretty amazing, myself. Much better than the totally linear play of most RPG's in the past.
You're right about the lack of options for player behaviour, though. You're pretty much forced to play the goody-goody since the penalties for having a low reputation are so extreme. Most RPG's are like that, though. I think the Fallout series is the only one I've ever seen where the designers spent almost as much effort on adding quests and events for evil characters as they did for good ones.
At least he contributes. What the fuck do you ever do, besides leave single-line insults without the slightest trace of wit or relevance?
Yes, you're a troll, but you're still a person sitting behind that keyboard. Don't you have anything better to do?
Actually, we can't. JFK won the election by 100,000 votes. George Jr. lost by 500,000 votes. Not even James Baker could say that the situations are equivalent.
But by all means, continue.
You don't say. Then you're one of the people responsible for the demise of OS/2, not Bill Gates.
While the brilliant marketers of IBM were treating 3rd party developers as an additional revenue stream, charging through the nose and making them jump through hoops to get any information, Microsoft was giving away MSDN discs for free to anyone who asked for them.
There's only one company responible for the death of OS/2: IBM.
I'm not surprised that Sun's infantile response scored some points with the Slashdot crowd, but I hardly think that the average person would agree that it "made Microsoft look very stupid, very quickly."
It had the trademarks of a clumsy teenage flame -- load every sentence with as much sarcasm as possible, never miss any opportunity to take a cheap shot, and try to work in as many references to the target's first name as possible for that extra dash of obnoxiousness on a personal level. All that was missing was a reference to Bill Gate's mom.
This style of response always makes the poster look worse than his intended target. It's barely forgivable in a 16 year old. For a public statement from a Fortune 500 company, it's just pathetic.
Bullshit. IE 3.0 blew Netscape out of the water, and that was in 1996.
Netscape tried to play catchup after that, but never came close. How much longer did it take them just to get style sheets?
Special interests like those of us who favor free speech and the counting of votes in a democracy, eh?
Not if he was speaking specifically about Novell.
As in "my CIO makes me use outdated shitty software, that is, Novell."
Fucking right it is. I once tried out the Boston Celtics but the racist bastards wouldn't hire me. Anyone interested in going in with me for a class action suit? I'm not greedy, I'll settle for a million.
No, they're the ones that don't generally apply to computer jobs. I have no idea why, but it's been that way in every place I've worked. Claiming MS is racist when every other person here is asian or east indian is a little silly, don't you think?
Right on. That's exactly the way to fix this problem. Spend the money to ensure that the poor school districts can offer an equivalent education to those in the suburbs. That's the only kind of AA that is acceptable. And it's not even AA, really, since it will help the poor white kids too, who can too easily fall between the cracks. And once they graduate, let everyone compete on the same level.
Yes, there will still be a few diehards who won't hire young blacks with good educations, but they won't live forever. And those who replace them won't have the same biases.
At the beginning of this century people wouldn't hire Irish or Italians, because they were considered violent, irresponsible, uneducated scum. They actually put signs in the window saying "No Irish".
No one would ever say that now. Amazing what a few generations of equivalent education can do. And it can be done without the injustice of reverse discrimination and the inevitable backlash it inspires.
The yellow tide is going to disenfranchise white college kids, boohoo.
Thank you for showing us all exactly where you stand in the battle to end racism and give equal opportunity to all. Blatant racial discrimination is going on here and all you have to say is "boo hoo". It makes your claims of persecution for the color of your skin ring a little hollow, does it not?
P.S. Fuck you. White or yellow, you're still an asshole.
Everytime MS comes up in a story, we have SlashBots spewing crap about MS treating it's workers as slaves. They're probably posting from their cubicles while they're wearing ties, those of them that are actually employed.
I've worked at MS too, so I know your post is 100% accurate.
No, the poster's logic was good. I noticed you never answered his question of whether descendents of Booth should pay out to descendents of Lincoln.
The japanese internment analogy doesn't wash either, since these are people who actually were interned, rather than just their descendents. A closer analogy would be to offer compensation to all former slaves. Since slavery was outlawed 140 years ago, though, I don't think we'll have many takers.
What an asshole you are.
First you flame somebody for agreeing with you, calling him a 'tard and a zealot. Then you post an even more insulting and pompous message, all the while claiming that you've never insulted anyone.
No wonder you posted anonymously. I bet your mother is ashamed of your name, too.
That's two totally misleading headlines you've posted about Microsoft in one week. Headlines that had nothing whatsoever to do with the story being quoted.
I suggest you guys take a course in remedial journalism. Better yet, get some kid from the local high school paper to help you out.
One of the reasons there are so many "permatemps" at Microsoft is because many contractors feel they don't want to take a pay cut for the privilege of being a full-time MS employee. Not to mention losing the time-and-a-half pay for overtime, which the salaried employees don't get despite the fact that they usually work far more hours a week than a contractor.
You won't read that in any of the articles about this case, though. You'd get the impression that BillG puts us all to work sweeping chimneys.
Yet again, we have an intelligent message modded down as a "troll". "Troll" seems to be by far the most abused label around here. Really, you could interpret any message as a "troll", even this one, if you're so inclined. It's just a convenient excuse to mod down anything you don't want to see.
My suggestion: get rid of the troll mod entirely.