If Tech companies (like Microsoft) in general were racist, then there wouldn't be so much clamour for H1B visas.
So the fact that many Indian programmers come to the U.S. using H1B visas, the program is not racist?
Don't you think that these foreigners would rather face informal racism here in the U.S. instead of a rigid caste system back home?
As an aside, I don't usually bitch about the moderation, but this is "insightful"??? -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
It also sounds like this person pursuing the lawsuit might be kind of a jerk. "I didn't get what I deserve; therefore, I am going to sue for
way more money than I would ever make at MS!"
The 5th Amendment to the Consititution ensures equal protection under the law, even for jerks!
If they are a jerk, then I could understand why they got passed over for promotion. Promotions not only depend upon skill level and experience, but also on interpersonal skills, knowing the right people, and being in the
right place at the right time. Maybe this guy just pissed of the wrong person at the wrong time and sees it as "racial discrimination".
Since most IT management is White, insert the word "White" in the parts of your quote that I have highlighted, then maybe will see that when qualified minorities get passed over in favor of less-qualified Whites it truly is racial discrimination... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Does the analysis need to be against "available pool of workers" or against "general population". The former making more sense than the latter,
I disagree. If you use the pool of workers, you accept White dominance of IT and can claim that it will take a long while to change. If you use the general population then you find out that indeed IT does discriminate against minorities, which means that you need to start training minorities in IT to change the status quo.
My company has 20 White IT managers. The three CIO candidates I am aware of are White. Are my employer trying to tell me that in a city the size of Houston there are no qualified minority IT managers? Or is it that they are not looking hard enough?
The percentage of Hispanics in my IT department is 5%. Why should that be compared against the pool of IT workers (where 5% may very well be an acceptable number) when >30% of the population of the greater Houston and Harris County area consists of Hispanics?
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For whatever reasons most people working at any tech firm are going to tend to be white and male or h1b visa types. Therefore it is very easy to
claim that they are behind the curve in the race area.
And it is really easy to use this as an excuse to not change the status quo, so the "good old boy" network remains in place. Companies end up hiring friends and family of their White employees, instead of looking for qualified minorities they can hire...
There may or may not be more that the firms can do about this but I don't think it is really their
fault.
So if companies cannot or will not do anything about discrimination and racism, then it falls to the government to do something about it, which is why the EEOC exists. If we could trust business to keep our air and water clean, then the EPA would not exist.
Where I work, I've had to go to HR. You see, our company has posters all over the place saying that they belive in employee retention and diversity. Yet, all 20 IT managers are White.
Over the last three years, I've had an exemplary record in Operations and an 3.9 GPA in my computer courses at Houston Community College. When I asked to be considered for an opening as a programmer, I was told that the position was eliminated for budget reasons.
A new PC support position was created, one that I am even more qualified for, and I was not given a chance too apply for it. A White contractor was moved to the new position so I got screwed. That is why I went to HR.
I came to find out that the position I applied for was still on the books, but the White contractor had filled it. By doing that they could eliminate the programming position and move the White guy to the new PC support position with no muss or fuss. Or so they thought.
They thought they could get away with it using sleight of hand, but I caught them with their hand in the cookie jar. Now I am waiting on HR and if they don't get off their ass soon I am going straight to the EEOC.
What could my company had done? I thought that when they looked at me and my qualifications answer would be an immediate, unqualified "Yes!". But instead I got the runaround and vague promises that they will take care of me later on.
But I am tired of waiting, which is why I took action. All I know is that no matter what happens now, I have them by their short hairs and that there will be some punitive damages involved!
As an aside, I realize that crimes differ in their severity and prosecution. People look the other way on speeding because everyone does it and police are powerless to stop it. However most people would think twice before killing a bald eagle. I happen to think that people should look at job discrimination as being closer to killing a bald eagle than speeding... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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.
That's because it is a stupid question.
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.
Ah, but you forget the effects of slavery. Blacks are in an inferior economic condition due to the fact that when they were freed, they were never paid for the labor that was stolen from them. They started at the bottom and the only thing keeping them from finding success like the Irish or Italians is the color of their skin.
You can see it to this day. Racial profiling, where Blacks and Hispanics are thrown in jail in disproportionate numbers, when in reality the largest group of criminals are White.
Minorities get a crappier education, so they make less money and thus have a lower level of home and business ownership. Those statistics are a function of White resistance, not our intelligence or drive to succeed.
If Whites did not put up extra roadblocks in our way, then maybe we would believe you when you all say that racism and discrimination don't exist in the U.S. For now we know that you all talk a good game, but after 200 years of empty promises we are not listening to you anymore... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
if someone, somewhere is being compensated, then it's happening at the expense of someone, somewhere else. This is the white
man.
Whites who are benefiting from the land they stole from the Native Americans and Mexicans. Whites who set up a racist White-dominated system that thought nothing of oppressing minorities.
Remember the Dred Scott decision? The one where Blacks were said to be "subordinate and inferior beings"? Or Plessy vs. Ferguson, where "separate but equal" was upheld? Did you sleep through history or are you just stupid?
Simple law of conservation of favoritism... you can only rob from the rich and give to the poor... Even politicians have to obey the laws of physics...
You must be stupid. Economics is not physics. Economies grow, creating wealth where none existed before.
No, the real issue is the conservation of karma (original non-/. definition). What comes around goes around, and Whites will not remain the top dog for too much longer. And when Whites move to the bottom of the economic scale don't expect minorities to shed any tears about it.
Plus, if Whites manage to dismantle affirmative action, don't think that we won't discriminate against you the way Whites have discriminated against us minorities for years... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Yup, that's why I had "who should all be trained with firearms" on there...It's always fun explaining the facts to people like el_chicano who are too busy jerking their knee to do research.
I'll give you the "unorganized" militia point (i.e., arm the the rabble, the unwashed masses that make up the U.S.). Supposedly that is so citizens can stop the Government from taking over.
Excuse me? Small arms vs Abrams tanks, Bradley APCs, F-16, bombs, missiles, nukes, etc.?
Don't give me "little Viet Nam took on and defeated the big, bad U.S.". Most "Americans" can barely lift the remote control and you expect them to move out to the woods and fight the "evil incarnate" government?
Hell, most Americans love government. They want their social security checks, interstate highways, national defense and national parks. They also know that they can't trust big business to keep the very air we breath and water we drink clean!
Anyway, why do you duck well regulated? Could it be that regulation is a governmental task, so maybe gun control is -- dare I say it -- Constitutional?:->
Who the fuck are you to give me shit when you won't even identify yourself? I am an Army veteran "trained in firearms", so I don't have take any crap from a cowardly junior member of the Kouncil of Konservative Kaucasians!!! -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
What fucking part of "...shall not be infringed." don't you understand?
Which part about the "...well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State..." don't YOU understand? -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Ruby Ridge, at which an FBI sniper was convicted (I forget the charge) and sentenced to jail for his role,
FBI sniper Len Horiuchi has NEVER been prosecuted and has NEVER served time in prison, no matter how much he deserves to go for his actions at Ruby Ridge and Waco.
I think the single biggest gain this nation could see is a return to sanity at the federal level. Firing Janet Reno is the first step.
Dream on... This country took a big step backwards by electing Bush. While he may not vindicate Janet Reno (in fact he will probably replace her) he will certainly pick a much worse right-wing "law and order" type (read White male) to continue the federal government's war against it's own citizens (i.e., continue the stupid "War on Some Drugs", continue racial profiling against Blacks and Hispanics, continue ripping off citizens with bogus forfeitures of money and property, etc., etc.). -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
The AT&T (6300?) was the only 8086 "mostly IBM compatible" PC that I know of.
I remember an old DEC Rainbow I ended up with. It was a PC clone but it had an incompatable floppy format -- it could read standard IBM floppies but could not write to them (swift move there, Digital!). However it did have built-in software which let it act as a VT-100 terminal... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
We're supposed to accept the meandering babble of a person who uses M$ Frontpage to build his html.
So his article would have been more insightful if he had used vi (or if he was really hardcore, cat) to write his webpage? -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Yes, I noticed the grammar mistakes all over. I found this rather annoying as it made reading and understanding what the author was trying to
say a little difficult. It, in my opinion, hurts his credibility.
I wouldn't bitch too much -- at least he knows how to use a spellchecker, something which apparently most Slashdotters have never heard of! -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
I've been around since
my first computer, a 80286 with a 32MB hard drive.
You young whippersnappers don't know how good you had it. I remember having to walk home 10 miles in the snow so that I could play with my IBM-PC XT with a 5MB hard drive:-> -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
They're like the adult videostore or strip club that
moves into a peaceful neighborhood with lots of small familes and children and nearby schools and churches. Yes, they have every right
to make a buck. They have every right to set-up shop. But they do so with such disregard for the other people
And that adult videostore or strip club has the right to go out of business when their clientele stops going to that business because they would rather go to a nearby adult videostore or strip club instead of having to drive to the suburbs for their porn fix...
Imagine what it would feel like if a neighborhood gathered together to turn an unused lot into a wonderful playground and then it was obliterated
to make way for previously mentioned porn shop or strip bar.
That is the Capitalistic Golden Rule in action (i.e., he who has the gold rules). Besides, there is nothing stopping those residents from selling their houses and moving to a better neighborhood if that porn shop or strip bar bothers them so much... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
The DR-DOS error to which you refer was disabled in the
shipping version of Windows 3.1.
You may think it is a myth, but I SAW the message, both with DR-DOS 5 and DR-DOS 6. It said something to the effect that Windows works better with MS-DOS. You are correct in that it did not mention DR-DOS or DRI by name, but it sure as hell plugged MS-DOS.
This Urowsky is a Microsoft employee, no? And of course interested parties to litigation NEVER lie during
depositions, do they?
I guess I need to dig up my old DR-DOS and Windows 3.1 disks and take a screenshot...
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OS/2 was roadkill at IBM long before Windows 95 and any Win32 programs shipped.
IBM did not support OS/2 because they did not want to piss off Billy G. Once M$ gave up on OS/2 IBM saw the handwriting on the wall and did all they could not to piss him off so that they could continue to sell/support Windows.
And Microchannel did contribute to OS/2's downfall (clip) This contributed to the (mostly accurate) perception that IBM was trying to introduce hardware/software lock-in and monopolize the PC industry. Which made anyone with any sense run as fast as possible from anything IBM, including OS/2.
Actually IBM HAD a monopoly on PCs until Compaq reverse-engineered the BIOS and came out with the first clones. Once the rest of the industry started building clones, there was no reason to buy proprietary hardware.
Also, you seem to forget that big corporations LOVE IBM. Here at work we have an IBM mainframe with the accompanying DASDs, gateways and tape backups. That plus IBM printers, and quite a few AIX boxes. So your assertion that people stay away from IBM hardware is patently false.
Of course, since you only stumbled on this whole thing with "Warp", it's all prehistory to you, and you have absolutely no clue of the bungles
and bullshit surrounding OS/2 for first 7 years of it's history.
Hmmm... I was working in IT (at a Mac shop) and I read quite a lot of computer magazines. Contrary to what you think, I was fully aware of what was going on at IBM re: OS/2. As someone who saw the Stac Electronics debacle and actually experienced firsthand the bogus error message when I ran Windows 3.1 on DR-DOS 5 & 6, I was fully aware of what MicroShaft was capable of, and I knowingly CHOSE to support FREEDOM OF CHOICE, which is why I bought OS/2 then and use Linux today.
("Warp" was a pathetic last-ditch attempt to improve OS/2's balance book by
taking home user sucker money, BTW. OS/2 was already dead and buried in it's core corporate markets. IBM planned to screw you all
along.)
IBM did not screw me, Bill Gates did. If he had licensed Win32 to IBM I would be running Win32 apps on OS/2 version 5 or 6 right now. I happily got by with OS/2 and Win 3.1 until it got to the point where most of the Windows apps were 32 bit, so I eventually had to shell out another $100 to Bill G. for Win 98 (had I not skipped Win 95 I would have had to pay him TWICE for the privilege of running Win32 apps).
How could you say that I got screwed by IBM if my $90 US got me the best OS and GUI I have ever used bar none? 32-bit multitasking OS/2 was technically head and shoulders above Windows (a 16-bit GUI on top of 8-bit singletasking DOS) that was being sold by Microsoft at that time.
When I got the red spine OS/2 it came with a TCP/IP stack and internet tools. That was when you had to pay someone for an aftermarket TCP/IP stack (remember Chameleon?) just to get Winblows connected to the net, something that OS/2 did out of the box! Unlike Windows, OS/2 gave me my money's worth...
P.S Have you ever heard of civil conversation? I guess not with your charges of "crack smoker" and "clueless". Maybe if you pull those Petrophile pulchella Conesticks out of your ass you will stop acting like an dickhead!!! -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
2. It failed because of windows binary compatability was purposely broken by MS with the release of WIN 3.1.
I think you mean Windows 3.11 (aka the infamous "fixpack" that M$ released to break OS/2-Windows compatability)... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
O/S 2 Failed because it only supported SCSI out of the box. An installer had to modify scripts and data files on the install disks to set up an
IDE system. So only fairly advanced users could do it and, anyway, SCSI is expensive compared to IDE.
Hmmm... I bought the red spine OS/2 version 3.0 Warp (for Windoze) when it first came out and it handled IDE drives perfectly out of the box. Quit spreading FUD!
That and Microchannel killed the IBM OS. It wasn't lack of applications...
More FUD. IBM's Microchannel was HARDWARE, not SOFTWARE. OS/2 Warp ran fine on a standard 386DX with 16 megs of RAM, albeit with quite a bit of disk swapping.
What killed OS/2 was Bill Gates' (or the spawn of Satan as we Warped types called him) refusal to license Win32 to IBM. There were no technical reasons OS/2 couldn't run Win32 programs; IBM was just a victim of Microsoft's monopolistic behavior. IBM never complained because they were afraid that MS would not let them sell/support Win95/NT 3.51 to their customers... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Most of the cancer-causing chemicals are created by _burning_ plant materials (toboacco, or others).
I am not disputing this assertion, but Jack Herer's book "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" has an interesting theory. He states that tobacco companies use fertilizer that contains phosphates contaminated with low-level radioactive particles. If you inhale such a particle it will remain in your lungs radiating away.
It makes sense, as hundreds of thousands die yearly from smoking tobacco. If cannibis was as harmful as tobacco, doesn't it follow that hundreds of thousands of cannibis smokers would get lung cancer too? -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
And that court was packed by partisan DEMOCRAT appointees too. Lest we forget, it was the REPUBLICAN party that freed the
slaves, and it because of REPUBLICAN senators that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. Senator Al Gore Sr. BTW, was one
who voted against it.
Point granted. But the roles of the two parties have switched 180 degrees since then. Why else did Gore Jr. win predominantly Chicano South Texas and win ~90% of the Black vote this last election?
I can name a slew of BAD court decisions, going AGAINST the law and the Constitution, that
CAUSED segregation to begin with. For example, the Dred Scott decision, etc. That Supreme Court MADE a law (ie, blacks are not
humans) that stood as an abomination that required the bloodiest war ever fought in this country's history to right.
However, don't forget that conservative court decisions tend to support Congress (i.e., the Constitution said that Blacks counted 3/5ths of a White person which eventually led to the Missouri Compromise dividing the country into slave and non-slave states which eventually led up to Dred Scott). The courts do not operate in a vacuum...
How else can you explain Kaplan's decision in the 2600 case? (clip) There is no basis for it except in relying on an untested law, and he refused to perform the
required Constitutional test. Also, he MADE A NEW LAW out of thin air by ruling on hyperlinks.
As for Judge Kaplan, I don't know what is up with him. Seeing as how most judges tend to be conservative, they will not disturb a bad law if the intent of the legislature is evident. Congress intended to protect the content owners with the DMCA, and Judge Kaplan let them.
If he had overturned the law in spite of Congress' intent then he is in effect "law making". As it stands now he is upholding the law that Congress created. If anyone, blame Congress for taking the money from the media corporations and making bad laws based on who gives them the most money...
PS: sorry for the White Power crack! I have been a little pissed off since the election (count the damn votes!) and forget that conservatives are all not money-grubbing White guys. However, it sure does seem like an awfully large number of them are!:-> -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Sorry but anyone that kills several people just for the hell of it should be put down just
like a rabid dog.
Are you a Christian? Don't forget that Christ said that "turn the other cheek" should supersede "an eye for an eye"... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
So the FSF is gonna sue for the damages caused by the several bucks of loss they would sustain on the $36 share of stock they bought in order to file the suit?
They'd be laughed out of court.
Not if it was a class-action lawsuit. If they owned shares they would be a member of the group that brings the lawsuit and thus they could submit briefs as a plaintiff. Otherwise as an interested bystander they could only submit "friend-of-the-court" briefs...
So long as ANY judge is allowed to interpret (and make) laws without accountability, this will go on.
You see, there are these three branches. The judges may interpet a law, but they have limited enforcement powers. The President can always refuse to enforce a court decision, and Congress can always change the law. And unless it is a Supreme Court decision, there is always appellate court...
The beauty of the system is that if Congress chooses to act like a bunch of rednecks (like circa 1955), the Supreme Court can desegregrate schools with a courageous decision like Brown v. the Board of Education. However, that decision will only stand if it is enforced by the President.
You
think the congress is bought? How about the judges?
Federal judges are appointed for life. They don't run for office, nor do they take campaign contributions. Are you saying that federal judges will throw away their integrity for the couple of thousand dollars that they earn for giving speeches?
So long as judges remain absolute dictators in their courtroom, this is NOT a free country.
Afraid of a little contempt charge, are we? Many times reporters have been jailed for contempt but have been released without naming their sources. If your assertion is correct, then all the reporters that refuse to name their sources would be in jail right now. Imagine the outcry if that were true!
Maybe if stopped relying on White Power advocates like Rush Limburger for your "political wisdom" and took Political Science 101 you would stop spreading this FUD!!! -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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Don't you think that these foreigners would rather face informal racism here in the U.S. instead of a rigid caste system back home?
As an aside, I don't usually bitch about the moderation, but this is "insightful"???
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My company has 20 White IT managers. The three CIO candidates I am aware of are White. Are my employer trying to tell me that in a city the size of Houston there are no qualified minority IT managers? Or is it that they are not looking hard enough?
The percentage of Hispanics in my IT department is 5%. Why should that be compared against the pool of IT workers (where 5% may very well be an acceptable number) when >30% of the population of the greater Houston and Harris County area consists of Hispanics?
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Where I work, I've had to go to HR. You see, our company has posters all over the place saying that they belive in employee retention and diversity. Yet, all 20 IT managers are White.
Over the last three years, I've had an exemplary record in Operations and an 3.9 GPA in my computer courses at Houston Community College. When I asked to be considered for an opening as a programmer, I was told that the position was eliminated for budget reasons.
A new PC support position was created, one that I am even more qualified for, and I was not given a chance too apply for it. A White contractor was moved to the new position so I got screwed. That is why I went to HR.
I came to find out that the position I applied for was still on the books, but the White contractor had filled it. By doing that they could eliminate the programming position and move the White guy to the new PC support position with no muss or fuss. Or so they thought.
They thought they could get away with it using sleight of hand, but I caught them with their hand in the cookie jar. Now I am waiting on HR and if they don't get off their ass soon I am going straight to the EEOC.
What could my company had done? I thought that when they looked at me and my qualifications answer would be an immediate, unqualified "Yes!". But instead I got the runaround and vague promises that they will take care of me later on.
But I am tired of waiting, which is why I took action. All I know is that no matter what happens now, I have them by their short hairs and that there will be some punitive damages involved!
As an aside, I realize that crimes differ in their severity and prosecution. People look the other way on speeding because everyone does it and police are powerless to stop it. However most people would think twice before killing a bald eagle. I happen to think that people should look at job discrimination as being closer to killing a bald eagle than speeding...
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You can see it to this day. Racial profiling, where Blacks and Hispanics are thrown in jail in disproportionate numbers, when in reality the largest group of criminals are White.
Minorities get a crappier education, so they make less money and thus have a lower level of home and business ownership. Those statistics are a function of White resistance, not our intelligence or drive to succeed.
If Whites did not put up extra roadblocks in our way, then maybe we would believe you when you all say that racism and discrimination don't exist in the U.S. For now we know that you all talk a good game, but after 200 years of empty promises we are not listening to you anymore...
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Remember the Dred Scott decision? The one where Blacks were said to be "subordinate and inferior beings"? Or Plessy vs. Ferguson, where "separate but equal" was upheld? Did you sleep through history or are you just stupid?You must be stupid. Economics is not physics. Economies grow, creating wealth where none existed before.
No, the real issue is the conservation of karma (original non-/. definition). What comes around goes around, and Whites will not remain the top dog for too much longer. And when Whites move to the bottom of the economic scale don't expect minorities to shed any tears about it.
Plus, if Whites manage to dismantle affirmative action, don't think that we won't discriminate against you the way Whites have discriminated against us minorities for years...
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Excuse me? Small arms vs Abrams tanks, Bradley APCs, F-16, bombs, missiles, nukes, etc.?
Don't give me "little Viet Nam took on and defeated the big, bad U.S.". Most "Americans" can barely lift the remote control and you expect them to move out to the woods and fight the "evil incarnate" government?
Hell, most Americans love government. They want their social security checks, interstate highways, national defense and national parks. They also know that they can't trust big business to keep the very air we breath and water we drink clean!
Anyway, why do you duck well regulated? Could it be that regulation is a governmental task, so maybe gun control is -- dare I say it -- Constitutional?
Who the fuck are you to give me shit when you won't even identify yourself? I am an Army veteran "trained in firearms", so I don't have take any crap from a cowardly junior member of the Kouncil of Konservative Kaucasians!!!
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Whether or not he will be prosecuted for murdering Vicki Weaver is still being appealed Dream on... This country took a big step backwards by electing Bush. While he may not vindicate Janet Reno (in fact he will probably replace her) he will certainly pick a much worse right-wing "law and order" type (read White male) to continue the federal government's war against it's own citizens (i.e., continue the stupid "War on Some Drugs", continue racial profiling against Blacks and Hispanics, continue ripping off citizens with bogus forfeitures of money and property, etc., etc.).
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That's all we need: more browser bloat!
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This Urowsky is a Microsoft employee, no? And of course interested parties to litigation NEVER lie during depositions, do they?
I guess I need to dig up my old DR-DOS and Windows 3.1 disks and take a screenshot...
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Also, you seem to forget that big corporations LOVE IBM. Here at work we have an IBM mainframe with the accompanying DASDs, gateways and tape backups. That plus IBM printers, and quite a few AIX boxes. So your assertion that people stay away from IBM hardware is patently false. Hmmm... I was working in IT (at a Mac shop) and I read quite a lot of computer magazines. Contrary to what you think, I was fully aware of what was going on at IBM re: OS/2. As someone who saw the Stac Electronics debacle and actually experienced firsthand the bogus error message when I ran Windows 3.1 on DR-DOS 5 & 6, I was fully aware of what MicroShaft was capable of, and I knowingly CHOSE to support FREEDOM OF CHOICE, which is why I bought OS/2 then and use Linux today. IBM did not screw me, Bill Gates did. If he had licensed Win32 to IBM I would be running Win32 apps on OS/2 version 5 or 6 right now. I happily got by with OS/2 and Win 3.1 until it got to the point where most of the Windows apps were 32 bit, so I eventually had to shell out another $100 to Bill G. for Win 98 (had I not skipped Win 95 I would have had to pay him TWICE for the privilege of running Win32 apps).
How could you say that I got screwed by IBM if my $90 US got me the best OS and GUI I have ever used bar none? 32-bit multitasking OS/2 was technically head and shoulders above Windows (a 16-bit GUI on top of 8-bit singletasking DOS) that was being sold by Microsoft at that time.
When I got the red spine OS/2 it came with a TCP/IP stack and internet tools. That was when you had to pay someone for an aftermarket TCP/IP stack (remember Chameleon?) just to get Winblows connected to the net, something that OS/2 did out of the box! Unlike Windows, OS/2 gave me my money's worth...
P.S Have you ever heard of civil conversation? I guess not with your charges of "crack smoker" and "clueless". Maybe if you pull those Petrophile pulchella Conesticks out of your ass you will stop acting like an dickhead!!!
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What killed OS/2 was Bill Gates' (or the spawn of Satan as we Warped types called him) refusal to license Win32 to IBM. There were no technical reasons OS/2 couldn't run Win32 programs; IBM was just a victim of Microsoft's monopolistic behavior. IBM never complained because they were afraid that MS would not let them sell/support Win95/NT 3.51 to their customers...
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It makes sense, as hundreds of thousands die yearly from smoking tobacco. If cannibis was as harmful as tobacco, doesn't it follow that hundreds of thousands of cannibis smokers would get lung cancer too?
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However, don't forget that conservative court decisions tend to support Congress (i.e., the Constitution said that Blacks counted 3/5ths of a White person which eventually led to the Missouri Compromise dividing the country into slave and non-slave states which eventually led up to Dred Scott). The courts do not operate in a vacuum...
As for Judge Kaplan, I don't know what is up with him. Seeing as how most judges tend to be conservative, they will not disturb a bad law if the intent of the legislature is evident. Congress intended to protect the content owners with the DMCA, and Judge Kaplan let them.
If he had overturned the law in spite of Congress' intent then he is in effect "law making". As it stands now he is upholding the law that Congress created. If anyone, blame Congress for taking the money from the media corporations and making bad laws based on who gives them the most money...
PS: sorry for the White Power crack! I have been a little pissed off since the election (count the damn votes!) and forget that conservatives are all not money-grubbing White guys. However, it sure does seem like an awfully large number of them are!
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If you have never heard of such an animal, here is press release describing the "friend-of-the-court" brief submitted by the Computer & Communications Industry Association during the Microsoft anti-trust trial.
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The beauty of the system is that if Congress chooses to act like a bunch of rednecks (like circa 1955), the Supreme Court can desegregrate schools with a courageous decision like Brown v. the Board of Education. However, that decision will only stand if it is enforced by the President.
Federal judges are appointed for life. They don't run for office, nor do they take campaign contributions. Are you saying that federal judges will throw away their integrity for the couple of thousand dollars that they earn for giving speeches? Afraid of a little contempt charge, are we? Many times reporters have been jailed for contempt but have been released without naming their sources. If your assertion is correct, then all the reporters that refuse to name their sources would be in jail right now. Imagine the outcry if that were true!
Maybe if stopped relying on White Power advocates like Rush Limburger for your "political wisdom" and took Political Science 101 you would stop spreading this FUD!!!
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Nice troll...
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