I like RMS and have a lot of respect for him but what makes me laugh is if you go to the free software song web page on the GNU site and scroll down a bit. There's a link called "other humour",
For someone who espouses capitalism you seem to have read neither Adam Smith or the DOJ judgement and you have no idea about anti-trust laws and why they exist.
If I were you I'd shut up until you know what you are talking about...hang on...your posting on Slashdot..mumble...forget it
Well, I asked my four year old daughter (who's bilingual) and she said that it's Popo,:-)
Obviously shes hasn't had the need to use the word "arschtreten" yet. Which is what most of us hope IBM will do to SCO,
cheers
Phil
Which my company did to me lasy year, even though I'd signed a waiver saying that I was willing to work more than the allowed 48 hours, and I'd taken a 10% pay cut.
When the hours start stacking up and the money starts going down it's really time to satrt sending out those CVs (Resumes)
I'm afraid you aren't even speaking factually. The puritans didn't play a large part in founding the US. In fact the puritans were a small minority of settlers who came to live in the US and played only a very small role in 18th century America.
Your part of europe may enjoy paying taxes but in the UK we've just had a tax hike, disguised as an increase in National Insurance and the streets are still messy, the health service is crap and the transport infrastructure is going downhill quickly,
If you really want to know what was going on with Galileo and the establishment of the time have a read of "Galileo the Heretic" (I can't remember the author at the minute). It's pretty heavy going but it shows that the situation wasn't as simple as it is portrayed in popular versions of the story of "Galileo and the Inquisition.
I think that the phrase "supposedly smart" about Slashdot readers sums up the problems with discussions on Slashdot. For some strange reason Geeks think that they are much smarter than anyone else on the planet, with no discernable evidence, so that they can dismiss research carried out by serious scientific researchers and published in a peer reviewed journal with a wave of their hands and vomit plume of their own prejudice and ignorance.
Sturgeons law says that 90% of everything is shit, Slashdotters opinions are no exception
After following the link and reading his piece, which included accusing Robert Fisk of "The Independent" of being an anti-semite I would conclude that he doesn't have much intergrity of any kind , never mind the journalistoc kind.
Do they buy a truck and ask the tea-lady to drive it. Do they buy a large CNC controlled milling machine and get the accountant to run it. No they use properly trained people to operate machines which they have been trained to use. It is the bossed fault letting Joe Enthusiastic loose on a shiny new box without training,
Much as I disapprove of Pinochet; and agree that on an absolute scale he is a pretty despicable character, he was relatively benign when compared to dictators. He killed thousands of people and not millions like, Pol-Pot, Stalin, Hitler, Mao.
Oh that's all right then, he was relatively benign. I'm sure the pregnant women who were thrown out of helicopters into the sea were so grateful that they weren;t being gassed or being worked to death in a gulag.
Further more, nature is entirely dictatorial, kills millions of people a year, and to quote my Physics teacher 'nothing kills like the laws of physics'. Does that make Nature or Physics evil or immoral ? I would suggest that dictatorship is actually amoral, neither good or evil, it simply is.
Bollocks! Dictatorship is evil and you're an arsehole
I do blame Microsoft. Just because you are a company does not absolve you from behaving in an moral way. Saying that you only care about maximising stock is just another spin on "I was just following orders"
This stigma is not apparent among the Telcos. Our TCS product is attracting a lot of interest from the biggest Telcos on the planet in fact some have already signed up. And not just Telcos, some companies whose hardware is doing a good job in Afghanistan are also interested. These are guys who know reliability,
Slashdot Mirror
I like RMS and have a lot of respect for him but what makes me laugh is if you go to the free software song web page on the GNU site and scroll down a bit. There's a link called "other humour",
OTHER ????!!!!!
For someone who espouses capitalism you seem to have read neither Adam Smith or the DOJ judgement and you have no idea about anti-trust laws and why they exist.
If I were you I'd shut up until you know what you are talking about...hang on...your posting on Slashdot..mumble...forget it
I bet that you're the type of guy that finds those tea-towels that explain the rules of cricket for foreigers "frightfully" funny.
You know the one: "The first team who's in goes out and the other team goes out as well and tries to get the team that's in, out...."
Well, I asked my four year old daughter (who's bilingual) and she said that it's Popo, :-)
Obviously shes hasn't had the need to use the word "arschtreten" yet. Which is what most of us hope IBM will do to SCO,
cheers Phil
A two piece bikini says it much better than a paperback baby
Round here it's a one-piece bikini. Are you jealous ?
Is Communism so fragile that a few extra-heavy-duty flu cases will destroy it?
In a word : Yes
Which my company did to me lasy year, even though I'd signed a waiver saying that I was willing to work more than the allowed 48 hours, and I'd taken a 10% pay cut.
When the hours start stacking up and the money starts going down it's really time to satrt sending out those CVs (Resumes)
I'm afraid you aren't even speaking factually. The puritans didn't play a large part in founding the US. In fact the puritans were a small minority of settlers who came to live in the US and played only a very small role in 18th century America.
Your part of europe may enjoy paying taxes but in the UK we've just had a tax hike, disguised as an increase in National Insurance and the streets are still messy, the health service is crap and the transport infrastructure is going downhill quickly,
cheers
I'm afraid he's stuck with four initials
The other two are U and N
thank you for watching,
If you really want to know what was going on with Galileo and the establishment of the time have a read of "Galileo the Heretic" (I can't remember the author at the minute). It's pretty heavy going but it shows that the situation wasn't as simple as it is portrayed in popular versions of the story of "Galileo and the Inquisition.
You remind me of a whining crying baby
I think that the phrase "supposedly smart" about Slashdot readers sums up the problems with discussions on Slashdot. For some strange reason Geeks think that they are much smarter than anyone else on the planet, with no discernable evidence, so that they can dismiss research carried out by serious scientific researchers and published in a peer reviewed journal with a wave of their hands and vomit plume of their own prejudice and ignorance.
Sturgeons law says that 90% of everything is shit, Slashdotters opinions are no exception
I'm afraid that you MS employees or "supporters" are just getting tooooo easy to spot nowadays.
You really should try harder,
Sophia Loren
:-)
and she's even older
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After following the link and reading his piece, which included accusing Robert Fisk of "The Independent" of being an anti-semite I would conclude that he doesn't have much intergrity of any kind , never mind the journalistoc kind.
Not quite correct. It's not only legal it's compulsory :-)
Waits for flaming death from welsh dragon
cheers
Phil
Are you enjoying the world cup ?
Rubbish!
Do they buy a truck and ask the tea-lady to drive it. Do they buy a large CNC controlled milling machine and get the accountant to run it. No they use properly trained people to operate machines which they have been trained to use. It is the bossed fault letting Joe Enthusiastic loose on a shiny new box without training,
Stick with computers little boy. Your opinions have no value in the real world
Much as I disapprove of Pinochet; and agree that on an absolute scale he is a pretty despicable character, he was relatively benign when compared to dictators. He killed thousands of people and not millions like, Pol-Pot, Stalin, Hitler, Mao.
Oh that's all right then, he was relatively benign. I'm sure the pregnant women who were thrown out of helicopters into the sea were so grateful that they weren;t being gassed or being worked to death in a gulag.
Further more, nature is entirely dictatorial, kills millions of people a year, and to quote my Physics teacher 'nothing kills like the laws of physics'. Does that make Nature or Physics evil or immoral ? I would suggest that dictatorship is actually amoral, neither good or evil, it simply is.
Bollocks! Dictatorship is evil and you're an arsehole
If he regards Pinochet as a benign dictator (oxymoron surely) then he probably only finds that the Nazis were slightly vulgar.
I do blame Microsoft. Just because you are a company does not absolve you from behaving in an moral way. Saying that you only care about maximising stock is just another spin on "I was just following orders"
... and his child....
This stigma is not apparent among the Telcos. Our TCS product is attracting a lot of interest from the biggest Telcos on the planet in fact some have already signed up. And not just Telcos, some companies whose hardware is doing a good job in Afghanistan are also interested. These are guys who know reliability,
www.prismtechnologies.com for info on TCS