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  1. Re:How do you pronounce it? on GUADEC Reports · · Score: 0

    screeching weasel, shut the fuck up, ok?

  2. Re:a question on GUADEC Reports · · Score: 0

    it's pronounced "Mal - da"

  3. Microsoft Trying To Lick Own Arse With CE on Microsoft Trying To Look Open Source With CE · · Score: 0

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  4. Red Hat Drops Acid on Red Hat Drops Linux Expo 2000 · · Score: 0

    Hail Eris!

  5. Re:spinning merrily off on Slackware Being Spun Off · · Score: 0

    Hail Eris!

  6. poop. on Embedded OpenBSD Running the Stallion ePipe · · Score: 0

    It got labelled flamebait because you changed the subject of the discussion and starting preaching about Linux, when Linux has NOTHING to do with this article and any mention of it here will only start a retarded Linux vs. BSD flame war. Don't be a jackass. Go evangelize your Linux in a different discussion that actually has something to do with Linux. Why is the discussion of any non-Linux related article on this site taken as a personal attack on Linux?

  7. Re:Burnt Tacos anyone? on Gnucash 1.3.0 Beta Released · · Score: 0

    Hey, Signal 11 is right. And since when has Slashdot ever kept software announcements to a minimum? Shit, they announce every damn 0.01 version increase in GNOME.

  8. God damn it. on Netscape Communicator 4.72 Released · · Score: 0

    Another Slashdot headline announcing a 0.01 version number increase on an already shitty product. And to top it all off, another jackass chanting the Mozilla mantra "it's getting really really close now" (which is only slightly less annoying than the other Linux mantra "it's coming along nicely").
    Fuck this site.

  9. Re:When Will You Upgrade To Windows 2000? on Perl vs. Python: A Culture Comparison · · Score: 0

    no.

  10. Re:Install on LinuxPPC 2000 - First Boxed Product · · Score: 0

    what really upsets me about Linux distro arguments is this "ease of installation" bullshit.
    come on, we are the smart ones here. who cares if it's hard? i think that things aren't worth doing unless they take a little bit of work.
    christ, it saddens me to hear someone who probably considers themselves a "geek" or at least intelligent/computer-literate say shit like "well, i was going to try OpenBSD, but the installer was too difficult...". do people realize that they are effectively calling themselves stupid by saying shit like this?

    oh well. not everyone can be smart like me :)

  11. Re:*This* is why *BSD rules. on Garfinkel Blasts Linux in Favor of BSDs · · Score: 0

    heheh. god damn right.
    and honestly, would a penguin tatoo in the same place be even remotely sexy? i think not...

  12. Re:Nice ass. on Beanie Award Wrapup · · Score: 0

    cool sig. KMFDM is cool.

  13. Re:now hopefully... on Slash v0.9 Released · · Score: 0

    >> we are using Linux, arent't we?

    no, we are not. we are using OpenBSD and BeOS.


  14. Re:Linux has a serious problem with its image. on Lithtech 3D Engine Coming to Linux · · Score: 0

    dude, the guy you're responding to was obviously joking around. dial a clue.

  15. FreeBSD in CompUSA on FreeBSD 4.0 Code Freeze · · Score: 0

    Actually, here is Boise, they carry FreeBSD in CompUSA, and not BeOS (unfortunately). I was very pleased to see this, although it'll be a cold day in Hell before I buy ANYTHING from those bastards (CompUSA, not FreeBSD :) )

  16. Re:Bruce Campbell?!?! on Sam Raimi to Direct Spiderman Film · · Score: 0

    I agree with you one hundred percent! John Fucking Cusack is the ONLY actor who could play Peter Parker.
    And by the way ...

    This is a letter I have planned on writing for some time, a letter that I believe is extremely important and one that unequivocally must be heeded if we are to undo the damage caused by Slashdot. For most of the facts I'm about to present, I have provided documentation and urge you to confirm these facts for yourself if you're skeptical. Although we can occasionally tie the retailers of warped new claims to older fabrications, there is unfortunately no shortage of new rumor. There are three points I need to make here. First, Slashdot continuously seeks adulation from its cronies. Second, even without making an ethical argument against neopaganism, I can show that the mistaken claim that Slashdot's opinions represent the opinions of the majority -- or even a plurality -- is not only incorrect but is somewhat telling of Slashdot's core sentiments. And third, it is not possible fully to understand the present except as a projection of the past.

    My point may be made clearer by use of an allegorical tale. Suppose a hypothetical group of three people is standing in a room. One of those people realizes that Slashdot expresses insufficient concern about the ozone layer, the Bhopal tragedy, and lesbian theater. Another goes on and on about Slashdot's perfidious feckless beliefs. But the third can't understand why Slashdot simply spouts endless fine-sounding cliches along with unintelligible, stubborn dialectic. In this hypothetical situation, it should be obvious that a common thread runs through most of Slashdot's slurs, a thread so quasi-testy that it disgusts me nearly to the point of physical illness.

    Slashdot is capable of passing very rapidly from a hidden enjoyment of dodgy racialism to a proclaimed attachment to neocolonialism and back -- and back again. If the left of the current political spectrum is brain-damaged stoicism, and the right is silly hooliganism, then Slashdot's politics are sincerely going to be a form of unscrupulous Stalinism. Does Slashdot actually think its arguments through, or does it just chug along on its computer writing about whatever trite quips happen to suit its needs that day? What will be the next object of attack from Slashdot's camp? Which brings me to my point. Licentious flakes who create a climate in which it will be assumed that our achievements reflect not individual worth, talent, or skill, but special consideration will, hopefully, eventually be replaced by people who believe in freedom, justice, and the pursuit of personal growth. At any rate, the outcome of the struggle will ultimately be decided based on the number and influence of people fully informed about Slashdot's communications, committed to Slashdot's defeat, and organized under sound leadership. (Actually, Slashdot has values that are antagonistic to a traditional, moral society, but that's not important now.) With this letter, I hope I have made my views crystal-clear: Slashdot wallows in its basest behavior.

  17. Shooky shooky now .... awwwww yeah on Dell Supporting Linux on Laptops · · Score: 0

    This is a letter I have planned on writing for some time, a letter that I believe is extremely important and one that unequivocally must be heeded if we are to undo the damage caused by Slashdot. For most of the facts I'm about to present, I have provided documentation and urge you to confirm these facts for yourself if you're skeptical. Although we can occasionally tie the retailers of warped new claims to older fabrications, there is unfortunately no shortage of new rumor. There are three points I need to make here. First, Slashdot continuously seeks adulation from its cronies. Second, even without making an ethical argument against neopaganism, I can show that the mistaken claim that Slashdot's opinions represent the opinions of the majority -- or even a plurality -- is not only incorrect but is somewhat telling of Slashdot's core sentiments. And third, it is not possible fully to understand the present except as a projection of the past.

    My point may be made clearer by use of an allegorical tale. Suppose a hypothetical group of three people is standing in a room. One of those people realizes that Slashdot expresses insufficient concern about the ozone layer, the Bhopal tragedy, and lesbian theater. Another goes on and on about Slashdot's perfidious feckless beliefs. But the third can't understand why Slashdot simply spouts endless fine-sounding cliches along with unintelligible, stubborn dialectic. In this hypothetical situation, it should be obvious that a common thread runs through most of Slashdot's slurs, a thread so quasi-testy that it disgusts me nearly to the point of physical illness.

    Slashdot is capable of passing very rapidly from a hidden enjoyment of dodgy racialism to a proclaimed attachment to neocolonialism and back -- and back again. If the left of the current political spectrum is brain-damaged stoicism, and the right is silly hooliganism, then Slashdot's politics are sincerely going to be a form of unscrupulous Stalinism. Does Slashdot actually think its arguments through, or does it just chug along on its computer writing about whatever trite quips happen to suit its needs that day? What will be the next object of attack from Slashdot's camp? Which brings me to my point. Licentious flakes who create a climate in which it will be assumed that our achievements reflect not individual worth, talent, or skill, but special consideration will, hopefully, eventually be replaced by people who believe in freedom, justice, and the pursuit of personal growth. At any rate, the outcome of the struggle will ultimately be decided based on the number and influence of people fully informed about Slashdot's communications, committed to Slashdot's defeat, and organized under sound leadership. (Actually, Slashdot has values that are antagonistic to a traditional, moral society, but that's not important now.) With this letter, I hope I have made my views crystal-clear: Slashdot wallows in its basest behavior.

  18. Shooky shooky now .... awwwww yeah on Dell Supporting Linux on Laptops · · Score: 0

    I take exception to a few key aspects of the Linux community's contrivances. I assume you already know that a common thread runs through most of the Linux community's policies, a thread so insolent that it disgusts me nearly to the point of physical illness, but I have something more important to tell you. There's something wrong with this picture. Think of the Linux community's ideologies as being the sum of two components: an unrealistic component that consists of the Linux community's desire to advertise "magical" diets and bogus weight-loss pills and an infernal component that consists of everything else. We are concerned primarily with the former.

    In many ways, there's always been suffering in the world, and wrongs have been and will continue to be committed. There's a lot of talk nowadays about the Linux community's revolting witticisms, but not much action. The Linux community's virtue and brains are inversely proportionate to its vices and the size of its mouth. Many lives have been lost to fascism. The recent outrage at the Linux community's litanies may point to a brighter future. For now, however, I must leave you knowing that due to circumstances that I have encountered in my research, I find that I must stop the Linux community's encroachments on our heritage.

  19. Re:What an Amazing Pile of Liberal Crap on XXX!!: Sex and Free Speech · · Score: 0

    Since when has fucking Slashdot been about Linux?
    Isn't it news for nerds? Stuff that matters? Hot grits in pants? And by the way ...

    I take exception to a few key aspects of the Linux community's contrivances. I assume you already know that a common thread runs through most of the Linux community's policies, a thread so insolent that it disgusts me nearly to the point of physical illness, but I have something more important to tell you. There's something wrong with this picture. Think of the Linux community's ideologies as being the sum of two components: an unrealistic component that consists of the Linux community's desire to advertise "magical" diets and bogus weight-loss pills and an infernal component that consists of everything else. We are concerned primarily with the former.

    In many ways, there's always been suffering in the world, and wrongs have been and will continue to be committed. There's a lot of talk nowadays about the Linux community's revolting witticisms, but not much action. The Linux community's virtue and brains are inversely proportionate to its vices and the size of its mouth. Many lives have been lost to fascism. The recent outrage at the Linux community's litanies may point to a brighter future. For now, however, I must leave you knowing that due to circumstances that I have encountered in my research, I find that I must stop the Linux community's encroachments on our heritage.


    Thank you, good night.

  20. Shooky shooky now .... awwwww yeah on IBM banks on Linux · · Score: 0

    I take exception to a few key aspects of the Linux community's contrivances. I assume you already know that a common thread runs through most of the Linux community's policies, a thread so insolent that it disgusts me nearly to the point of physical illness, but I have something more important to tell you. There's something wrong with this picture. Think of the Linux community's ideologies as being the sum of two components: an unrealistic component that consists of the Linux community's desire to advertise "magical" diets and bogus weight-loss pills and an infernal component that consists of everything else. We are concerned primarily with the former.

    In many ways, there's always been suffering in the world, and wrongs have been and will continue to be committed. There's a lot of talk nowadays about the Linux community's revolting witticisms, but not much action. The Linux community's virtue and brains are inversely proportionate to its vices and the size of its mouth. Many lives have been lost to fascism. The recent outrage at the Linux community's litanies may point to a brighter future. For now, however, I must leave you knowing that due to circumstances that I have encountered in my research, I find that I must stop the Linux community's encroachments on our heritage.

  21. Re:Not in my experience on Why is BSD Not As Popular As Linux? · · Score: 1

    Is this comment refering to the BeOS still?!?
    "a wholly unintuitive GUI"... what are you, a retarded four year old? what could possibly be unintuitive about Be's GUI? It's as simple and effective as could be. "Broken internet browser"?
    You must have been using an OLD OLD version or something.
    I urge you to give it another try. It really does rock.

  22. whine whine whine on No Star Wars TPM on DVD · · Score: 1

    boo fucking hoo.




  23. Re:YADCCBSWMIDH on Red Hat buys Hell's Kitchen Systems for $80M · · Score: 1

    yeah, no shit.
    who else has stopped giving a crap about what Micro^H^H^H^H^HRed Hat is doing anymore?



  24. Re:Not Free on Linux Opera Beta Released · · Score: 1

    ahh.... "coming along nicely"... I love it. It's the mantra of the Linux community.
    You guys use your half-assed, half-done software that's "coming along nicely". I'll use what works well and gets the job done. Like Opera.



  25. Re:MacOS for X86 / WM?? on Apple Open Sources OS X?/Jobs Permanent CEO · · Score: 1

    Better than an X Window Manager based on the Apple source code, screw X altogether (it's old, tired, and needs to be retired) and redo the whole GUI system using Apple's source. As for an X86 port? Just use BeOS. It's everything MacOS wants to Be.