George Lucas wrote the first three episodes first, as he was learning his story writing skills. It was enough to get a partner to help him with the final three episodes. That partner died before the first Star Wars movie was made and couldn't fix the first three parts like he did the second three parts.
The first three parts could not have been done in the 1970's because they didn't have the tech to animate a whole army of battle droids and clone troopers. The stories needed work anyway, because originally it was about a guy named Starkiller, and later renamed to Skywalker. In the second three scripts originally it was Starkiller's daughter, but they thought that nobody would believe that a young woman could be the protagonist so the part was worked into Luke and Leia and rewritten. Due to budget cuts, they had to rewrite parts of the script because they didn't have the CGI for a true form of Jabba, and they tried to film it with a fat man instead of a Hutt, but cut that part out, only to add it in later and replace the fat man with a CGI of Jabba. Somehow the changes they made to the second three movies worked, and it was more of a fluke. Yet the changes they made to the second three movies, meant that the first three movies had to be changed to make sense, and the Partner that Lucas had to rewrite the second three movies was not around to rewrite the first three movies. Lucas tried to compensate, added in the Jar Jar character for comedic relief and it failed, somehow Lucas botched up how Anakin Skywalker turned into Darth Vader and made him look retarded as he gave into his anger and hate in contrast to the Darth Vader of the second three movies that gave into his anger and hate but was not retarded but an efficient killing machine and badarse Sith. Lucas could not fill in the plotholes, and for every hole he filled, he had more appear causing more questions from the fans.
I think that the second three movies, episodes IV, V, and VI were Space Operas, but more of a Sci-Fi action movie Space Opera instead of a Dramatic Space Opera like I, II, and III apparently tried to be. I think Lucas had rewritten the prequels to appeal to females, in a hope of getting more females into watching the Star Wars films if they saw a better love story between Anakin and Padme, and more Drama between Anakin, Obi Won, and Palpatine. I mean the Jedi, esp Obi Won, believed that Anakin was the one that would bring balance to the force, and they treated him like a red headed step-child or something that one might scrape off of their shoe. Yoda sensed in him much fear, but instead of trying to teach him how to handle his fear like Yoda does with other Jedis, he refuses to train him. Ironic that later in the Empire Strikes Back, Yoda teaches Luke Skywalker how to handle his fear to avoid going over to the dark side, and his teachings worked. Had Yoda done that to Anakin in the first place, he might never have become Darth Vader.
would change the story in that Han Solo gets plastic surgery so that other Bounty Hunters cannot recognize him, because after Jabba the Hut died, other mobsters who were loyal to Jabba kept the bounty on Han Solo's head. Then they could get a new actor to play Han Solo.
Or just play it like the James Bond films, a new face, same character, no explanation to the fans at all. I hear that the daytime Soap Operas do that to their characters quite a bit when they ask for too much money, they simply get a new actor or actress and then say "The part of John Black is now being played by." at the beginning of the series with the new actor.
always making promises to consumers that cannot possibly be kept. Always making promises to developers that cannot be kept. Running a negative work environment and heaping stress on the developers in hopes that they will work harder and faster and also calling them names and yelling at them does not help but only makes things a lot worse instead.
Compare this to the F/OSS development that doesn't have Classical Managers screwing things up, etc. Is it any wonder that most F/OSS projects are better than the closed ones?
Notice how you take things off-topic. There was a forged document, a problem with the accounting books, and emails captured that showed there was something screwy going on with the stock options.
Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple, and must sign off on the accounting books, stock options, and other decisions that a CEO makes. A CEO takes responsibility for his actions and behaviors and the actions and behaviors of his company and the people working under him. The CEO is accountable to the board of directors and the stock holders, but also the SEC and other government agencies. To suggest that the CEO does not sign off on the accounting books, official documents on stock options, and has no idea of what people under him are doing, paints Steve Jobs as a very poor CEO who cannot even manage his own company. So I give you two possible options:
Option #1 Steve Jobs is incompetent and was used as a puppet by those under him.
Option #2 Steve Jobs is not incompetent and knew of everything going on, and is involved somehow but is using a lawyer to protect himself.
One would hope that karma has a way of working these things out, but by experience I can tell you it doesn't most of the time unless one of the people makes a mistake and gets caught because they couldn't lie their way through it or cover up or hide evidence.
All of this, plus Seafox's behavior are examples of Classical Management which is the #1 cause for most of the problems in business that we keep on seeing. Seafox being the person in the Apple Stock Option Scandal thread that claims just because they have a forged document and stole 1% of the profits, doesn't mean that Jobs or any other executive is guilty of anything and asking why they need a lawyer to protect them if they are not guilty is a lie by the little people. Well the little people are tired of being called liars and being stepped on by the big people.
I agree 100%, but reality is full of liars and oath breakers. A lot of companies make big profits by lying to people through marketing, public relations, lawyers, and promises of pay raises and promotions and many other things.
I know because I used to work for a law firm, who had Fortune 500 companies like Apple, IBM, Microsoft, etc as clients. I saw some of the paperwork they asked me to help fix the database that kept track of them. I saw the original and the Photoshopped copies of many documents. Forged papers like stock options, accounting books, etc. As long as they cc or bcc their lawyer in on the emails, they cannot use them as evidence in court. Attorney client privilege, is the word the court uses to dismiss evidence when the employer or executive is caught lying or doing something illegal like faking a document on stock options. I worked for the law firm in 2001 when those Apple documents were forged and they attached the emails to them as well. The court will never see them though, and many executives will get away with lying, due to attorney client privilege.
Apple Execs don't lie about stock options and bosses never lie. It is the people who point out the issues about those execs who lie. Which means the survey was a lie.
Not my idea, but Seafox's idea. Seafox being just another one of those Slashdot trolls that thinks he is right about everything.
Your posting style matches the writing style used to leave threats, even using the "duck" reference. It is called deduction.
Amazing how a CEO takes credit when a company is profitable, but when something bad happens, all of a sudden they are quick pass the blame somewhere else. So much for "The buck stops here" way of thinking. Like you, many refuse to take responsibility for the positions they hold and what their companies are doing or not doing.
Ignore is not the same as deny. I wouldn't expect an obvious Neanderthal like you to understand the difference anyway.
I never said he was guilty, I only said I wondered why he needed lawyers in this case and asked if he had something to hide. Asking a question is not the same as saying someone is guilty. It is you who are making false assumptions.
Yes there is other evidence, like executives cashed in their stock options, the money trail, the emails over the document, etc. That lead the SEC and others to find out about the falsified document.
I was a programmer/analysis for the law firm. Thanks for asking. I made more money in one year than you would even see in three years. I worked on projects that you don't even have any hopes of understanding how they work. I graduated with a bachelors of science with a 3.91 GPA, and I'll bet you never even got past a C average.
So you admit to trolling my old blog site? I guess those death threats and messages telling me to kill myself came from you then? I don't die so easily, you know.
#1 Apple makes an iPod Video with optional SVGA, S-Video, and RCA Jack adapters so the video can be played on TV sets and monitors.
#2 Windows Vista is supported with Apple Bootcamp.
#3 Apple looks to make a cheaper iMac using AMD chips instead of just Intel ones. Maybe they can make a price of $499 or $399 with the AMD chips.
#4 Apple ports iTunes to the XBox 360, Playstation 3, and Wii to use the Internet connection to download songs and videos to those game consoles provided they have hard drives to store the media on.
#5 Due to charges from the SEC and the DOJ, Jobs steps down as the iCEO and lets someone else take over. Jobs cuts a deal with the government over the 2001 stock options scandal and agrees to pay millions in fines and step down as iCEO in order to avoid jail time.
Why even use Delphi any more? All Lazarus needs is proper documentation and some tutorials to be written, and then everyone who used Kylix can port to Lazarus and avoid Delphi.
You completely ignored that the document was falsified, Apple is trying to protect Jobs, and by your faulty logic Jobs is innocent because if you ignore the falsified document and that the iCEO is responsible for everything the company does and every other piece of evidence, yes there is nothing to show that Jobs could have possibly done anything wrong.
I am not 16 years-old by the way, and I used to work for a law firm, and I know what slime they used to protect because they were corporate lawyers who represented companies like Apple.
"You didn't answer any of the questions. This is your logic. And according to it you must be a terrorist-serial-killer with a side job as a drug runner. After all, comrade, the police don't pull over innocent citizens to search their cars!"
Didn't you read my profile? I am a terrorist-serial-killer from 4096 AD because I was a space pirate ninja who traveled back in time. Didn't you also notice that those who argue with me and call me names end up vanishing off of the Internet? Never a body to be found, because I possibly am a cannibal and ate the body? That I am also very smart and can hide evidence and nobody can catch me? You still want to argue with me and call me names after all of that is revealed? Maybe I'm just bullshitting with you, then again maybe not?
Well that is a much better answer, and it answers my question. I expected to get an answer, instead I was accused of being a troll and spreading FUD. I had no idea what rich people use lawyers for PR purposes and other things as well that are not law related. I usually figure that Apple's PR division would handle things and not a lawyer.
My car was searched, my phone lines are tapped, and I do own a gun, yet I never hired a lawyer to protect myself and I never did anything wrong. Orion Blastar is a nickname and it is tied to my real name via paper trails and even things on the Internet.
Usually one hires a lawyer after they get sued or charged with a crime. So what is Jobs being sued over and what crime is he charged with? Can't answer that? Maybe you are the one with FUD here?
Steve Jobs may have one lawyer speaking for him right now, but Jobs and Apple have an army of lawyers on retainer. I know that because they used them to sue the Bejesus out of Microsoft, and they used them to defend them from a Xerox lawsuit. Are you saying that Jobs and Apple only have one lawyer on retainer that handles everything for them? What FUD are you spreading now?
Gee, Apple gave more money to executives than they should have, now where do you suppose that money came from, and how did they hide that fact in the books when the SEC checked it and didn't see the extra money being handed to the Executives, yet it was in the profits for some reason as part of some coverup because obviously they put it in as some sort of investment, just like Enron did when their executives got themselves more money than they were supposed to get. Gee, what a coincidink. Couldn't happen again in a million years! Could the money Apple gave to executives could have been used to give more dividends to the stock holders, and shouldn't that money be taxed as well, and shouldn't not doing that be theft and tax fraud? Do you really have any idea how a business works, or are you some Liberal Moonbat who thinks that Apple just gets their money for free and gives it out for free and has a right to pay their executives any amount they wish, and not give it to the shareholders as they promised to, and that they have the right to hide that fact from the public and the government?
All I am saying is that something smells fishy at Apple, and there may be more to this than meets the eye. I don't think that the public are being given enough information about this at this time.
Ok then, what crime is Steve Jobs accused of? Where is the civil suit against Jobs?
Most people hire a lawyer after they get sued or arrested and charged with a crime. When someone hires a lawyer and they aren't charged with a crime or arrested with a charge against them, it makes me question why they have a lawyer in the first place.
Why does Steve Jobs need an army of lawyers if he didn't do anything wrong?
What other documents were faked? Was the turn-a-round of Apple into a profitable company faked as well? Did Apple cook the books Enron style?
Why does Jobs and other Apple execs have bank accounts in the Cayman Islands and the Swiss Bank?
How does this effect Macintosh and iPod owners? I just bought a used G3 iMac, and I was going to upgrade it so it can run OSX. Will OSX still be offered, or will the SEC and DOJ shut down operations at Apple so they cannot sell anything until this investigation is over?
Well I want full online documentation and tutorials before I will even consider using Lazarus. The Free Pascal Docs are good, but not good enough because Lazarus changes the way Free Pascal works.
After all atheists are not that bad. Why just look at famous atheists like Josef Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Chairman Mao, Pole Pot, Fidel Castro, and that nice fellow Kim Jong Il who is leading the world in nuclear weapons research. Really nice guys, don'tcha know.
Bill Gates is a nice guy as well, look at how he helped his competitors into bankruptcy using "creative" business practices like bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. Now a Christian clearly would not do that, or even try to make products that do the same things as other companies in an attempt to force more businesses into the red.
An atheist will do things like take Muslim states like Iraq and Afghanistan and do a separation of church and state and force secularism on everyone and make it part of the government. I am sure that will stop those radical Muslim terrorists once and for all! I mean once they listen to reason and logic, they will stop blowing themselves up for Allah once they figure out that Allah does not exist, as per what the atheists tell them.
The forms/forums was a Freudian Slip. I have a history of being flamed at open source forums and I saw that as a comedic opportunity to lead to an even more funnier joke when someone tries to correct the spelling mistake and misses the Freudian Slip, and the joke, which goes right over their head anyway. I mean it only goes to show how the person who corrected my spelling mistake thinks with his/her emotions instead of logic and reason and totally missed the satire.
Why not Java? After all pointers and garbage collection are for Pascal and ANSI C programmers. Java helps coddle the intellectually challenged that don't even know what pointers and garbage collection are used for anyway.
I am the Maddox of Slashdot and open source. Posting my satire and wit on the Internet since 1995. Posting it on BBSes since 1986. Maddox is a wannabe Orion Blastar, but I am way smarter than Maddox. You see Maddox hosts his own web site and pays for it, while I post my articles on other web sites and make them pay for it. I am truer to the pirate code than Maddox will ever be. Plus I am a Space Pirate Ninja who travelled from 4096AD back in time. You see, a true pirate don't pay for bandwith, when they can freely post on someone else's web site for free. Just use google to search for "Orion Blastar" to see my articles and Internet humor.
I am Uncyclopedian of the month for October 2006, at Uncyclopedia and it has benefits.
I contribute to open source web sites all over the Internet.
You are correct, Classic Visual BASIC is version 6.0 and earlier. Visual BASIC.Net borrows a lot from C++, Java, and other languages and actually makes an attempt to be more OOP friendly than VB 6.0 was. It looks shitty because of all the new geegaws that Microsoft slapped on it at the last minute without polishing it up. Luckly Mono allows the use of Linux geegaws that don't look as shitty as the Windows geegaws.
I looked at Zope before, it showed promise. I could not find any resources in learning it. I heard it can be used with PHP, which I also tried to learn when it was PHP 3.0 and my code broke when 4.0 came out. You see I know something of some open source languages but every time I asked for help, I was driven away by sociopathic open source trolls. I mean I was only trying to learn something new, and now I have a phobia of learning open source languages. Mono 1.2 helps me in that it allows me to write Visual BASIC.Net open source programs for Linux without having to learn anything new. I can always learn something new later.
Thank you I looked at Lazarus a while ago and saw some promise on it. I think I created an account at their Wiki site and I was waiting for a tutorial to be written and finished on it. Can you recommend any Lazarus web sites and books or mailing lists or forums that could help me learn it without having to face sociopathic open source trolls? Thanks for not trolling me.
Thanks can you recommend any good open source and Linux forums or mailing lists that have people who are not sociopathic trolls on them? Also any book recommendations or web sites would be appreciated. Thank you very much for not trolling me.
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George Lucas wrote the first three episodes first, as he was learning his story writing skills. It was enough to get a partner to help him with the final three episodes. That partner died before the first Star Wars movie was made and couldn't fix the first three parts like he did the second three parts.
The first three parts could not have been done in the 1970's because they didn't have the tech to animate a whole army of battle droids and clone troopers. The stories needed work anyway, because originally it was about a guy named Starkiller, and later renamed to Skywalker. In the second three scripts originally it was Starkiller's daughter, but they thought that nobody would believe that a young woman could be the protagonist so the part was worked into Luke and Leia and rewritten. Due to budget cuts, they had to rewrite parts of the script because they didn't have the CGI for a true form of Jabba, and they tried to film it with a fat man instead of a Hutt, but cut that part out, only to add it in later and replace the fat man with a CGI of Jabba. Somehow the changes they made to the second three movies worked, and it was more of a fluke. Yet the changes they made to the second three movies, meant that the first three movies had to be changed to make sense, and the Partner that Lucas had to rewrite the second three movies was not around to rewrite the first three movies. Lucas tried to compensate, added in the Jar Jar character for comedic relief and it failed, somehow Lucas botched up how Anakin Skywalker turned into Darth Vader and made him look retarded as he gave into his anger and hate in contrast to the Darth Vader of the second three movies that gave into his anger and hate but was not retarded but an efficient killing machine and badarse Sith. Lucas could not fill in the plotholes, and for every hole he filled, he had more appear causing more questions from the fans.
I think that the second three movies, episodes IV, V, and VI were Space Operas, but more of a Sci-Fi action movie Space Opera instead of a Dramatic Space Opera like I, II, and III apparently tried to be. I think Lucas had rewritten the prequels to appeal to females, in a hope of getting more females into watching the Star Wars films if they saw a better love story between Anakin and Padme, and more Drama between Anakin, Obi Won, and Palpatine. I mean the Jedi, esp Obi Won, believed that Anakin was the one that would bring balance to the force, and they treated him like a red headed step-child or something that one might scrape off of their shoe. Yoda sensed in him much fear, but instead of trying to teach him how to handle his fear like Yoda does with other Jedis, he refuses to train him. Ironic that later in the Empire Strikes Back, Yoda teaches Luke Skywalker how to handle his fear to avoid going over to the dark side, and his teachings worked. Had Yoda done that to Anakin in the first place, he might never have become Darth Vader.
would change the story in that Han Solo gets plastic surgery so that other Bounty Hunters cannot recognize him, because after Jabba the Hut died, other mobsters who were loyal to Jabba kept the bounty on Han Solo's head. Then they could get a new actor to play Han Solo.
." at the beginning of the series with the new actor.
Or just play it like the James Bond films, a new face, same character, no explanation to the fans at all. I hear that the daytime Soap Operas do that to their characters quite a bit when they ask for too much money, they simply get a new actor or actress and then say "The part of John Black is now being played by
always making promises to consumers that cannot possibly be kept. Always making promises to developers that cannot be kept. Running a negative work environment and heaping stress on the developers in hopes that they will work harder and faster and also calling them names and yelling at them does not help but only makes things a lot worse instead.
Compare this to the F/OSS development that doesn't have Classical Managers screwing things up, etc. Is it any wonder that most F/OSS projects are better than the closed ones?
Notice how you take things off-topic. There was a forged document, a problem with the accounting books, and emails captured that showed there was something screwy going on with the stock options.
Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple, and must sign off on the accounting books, stock options, and other decisions that a CEO makes. A CEO takes responsibility for his actions and behaviors and the actions and behaviors of his company and the people working under him. The CEO is accountable to the board of directors and the stock holders, but also the SEC and other government agencies. To suggest that the CEO does not sign off on the accounting books, official documents on stock options, and has no idea of what people under him are doing, paints Steve Jobs as a very poor CEO who cannot even manage his own company. So I give you two possible options:
Option #1 Steve Jobs is incompetent and was used as a puppet by those under him.
Option #2 Steve Jobs is not incompetent and knew of everything going on, and is involved somehow but is using a lawyer to protect himself.
One would hope that karma has a way of working these things out, but by experience I can tell you it doesn't most of the time unless one of the people makes a mistake and gets caught because they couldn't lie their way through it or cover up or hide evidence.
All of this, plus Seafox's behavior are examples of Classical Management which is the #1 cause for most of the problems in business that we keep on seeing. Seafox being the person in the Apple Stock Option Scandal thread that claims just because they have a forged document and stole 1% of the profits, doesn't mean that Jobs or any other executive is guilty of anything and asking why they need a lawyer to protect them if they are not guilty is a lie by the little people. Well the little people are tired of being called liars and being stepped on by the big people.
I agree 100%, but reality is full of liars and oath breakers. A lot of companies make big profits by lying to people through marketing, public relations, lawyers, and promises of pay raises and promotions and many other things.
I know because I used to work for a law firm, who had Fortune 500 companies like Apple, IBM, Microsoft, etc as clients. I saw some of the paperwork they asked me to help fix the database that kept track of them. I saw the original and the Photoshopped copies of many documents. Forged papers like stock options, accounting books, etc. As long as they cc or bcc their lawyer in on the emails, they cannot use them as evidence in court. Attorney client privilege, is the word the court uses to dismiss evidence when the employer or executive is caught lying or doing something illegal like faking a document on stock options. I worked for the law firm in 2001 when those Apple documents were forged and they attached the emails to them as well. The court will never see them though, and many executives will get away with lying, due to attorney client privilege.
Apple Execs don't lie about stock options and bosses never lie. It is the people who point out the issues about those execs who lie. Which means the survey was a lie.
Not my idea, but Seafox's idea. Seafox being just another one of those Slashdot trolls that thinks he is right about everything.
Your posting style matches the writing style used to leave threats, even using the "duck" reference. It is called deduction.
Amazing how a CEO takes credit when a company is profitable, but when something bad happens, all of a sudden they are quick pass the blame somewhere else. So much for "The buck stops here" way of thinking. Like you, many refuse to take responsibility for the positions they hold and what their companies are doing or not doing.
It seems you suggest a career as a parent I wonder how much that pays you?
You seem to talk about applying for supermarkets for a career.
Apparently you want children to be more responsible just not adults like you and Apple Execs, if you actually are an adult.
Ignore is not the same as deny. I wouldn't expect an obvious Neanderthal like you to understand the difference anyway.
I never said he was guilty, I only said I wondered why he needed lawyers in this case and asked if he had something to hide. Asking a question is not the same as saying someone is guilty. It is you who are making false assumptions.
Yes there is other evidence, like executives cashed in their stock options, the money trail, the emails over the document, etc. That lead the SEC and others to find out about the falsified document.
I was a programmer/analysis for the law firm. Thanks for asking. I made more money in one year than you would even see in three years. I worked on projects that you don't even have any hopes of understanding how they work. I graduated with a bachelors of science with a 3.91 GPA, and I'll bet you never even got past a C average.
So you admit to trolling my old blog site? I guess those death threats and messages telling me to kill myself came from you then? I don't die so easily, you know.
#1 Apple makes an iPod Video with optional SVGA, S-Video, and RCA Jack adapters so the video can be played on TV sets and monitors.
#2 Windows Vista is supported with Apple Bootcamp.
#3 Apple looks to make a cheaper iMac using AMD chips instead of just Intel ones. Maybe they can make a price of $499 or $399 with the AMD chips.
#4 Apple ports iTunes to the XBox 360, Playstation 3, and Wii to use the Internet connection to download songs and videos to those game consoles provided they have hard drives to store the media on.
#5 Due to charges from the SEC and the DOJ, Jobs steps down as the iCEO and lets someone else take over. Jobs cuts a deal with the government over the 2001 stock options scandal and agrees to pay millions in fines and step down as iCEO in order to avoid jail time.
Lazarus is the new Kylix!
Why even use Delphi any more? All Lazarus needs is proper documentation and some tutorials to be written, and then everyone who used Kylix can port to Lazarus and avoid Delphi.
You completely ignored that the document was falsified, Apple is trying to protect Jobs, and by your faulty logic Jobs is innocent because if you ignore the falsified document and that the iCEO is responsible for everything the company does and every other piece of evidence, yes there is nothing to show that Jobs could have possibly done anything wrong.
I am not 16 years-old by the way, and I used to work for a law firm, and I know what slime they used to protect because they were corporate lawyers who represented companies like Apple.
"You didn't answer any of the questions. This is your logic. And according to it you must be a terrorist-serial-killer with a side job as a drug runner. After all, comrade, the police don't pull over innocent citizens to search their cars!"
Didn't you read my profile? I am a terrorist-serial-killer from 4096 AD because I was a space pirate ninja who traveled back in time. Didn't you also notice that those who argue with me and call me names end up vanishing off of the Internet? Never a body to be found, because I possibly am a cannibal and ate the body? That I am also very smart and can hide evidence and nobody can catch me? You still want to argue with me and call me names after all of that is revealed? Maybe I'm just bullshitting with you, then again maybe not?
Well that is a much better answer, and it answers my question. I expected to get an answer, instead I was accused of being a troll and spreading FUD. I had no idea what rich people use lawyers for PR purposes and other things as well that are not law related. I usually figure that Apple's PR division would handle things and not a lawyer.
My car was searched, my phone lines are tapped, and I do own a gun, yet I never hired a lawyer to protect myself and I never did anything wrong. Orion Blastar is a nickname and it is tied to my real name via paper trails and even things on the Internet.
Usually one hires a lawyer after they get sued or charged with a crime. So what is Jobs being sued over and what crime is he charged with? Can't answer that? Maybe you are the one with FUD here?
Steve Jobs may have one lawyer speaking for him right now, but Jobs and Apple have an army of lawyers on retainer. I know that because they used them to sue the Bejesus out of Microsoft, and they used them to defend them from a Xerox lawsuit. Are you saying that Jobs and Apple only have one lawyer on retainer that handles everything for them? What FUD are you spreading now?
Gee, Apple gave more money to executives than they should have, now where do you suppose that money came from, and how did they hide that fact in the books when the SEC checked it and didn't see the extra money being handed to the Executives, yet it was in the profits for some reason as part of some coverup because obviously they put it in as some sort of investment, just like Enron did when their executives got themselves more money than they were supposed to get. Gee, what a coincidink. Couldn't happen again in a million years! Could the money Apple gave to executives could have been used to give more dividends to the stock holders, and shouldn't that money be taxed as well, and shouldn't not doing that be theft and tax fraud? Do you really have any idea how a business works, or are you some Liberal Moonbat who thinks that Apple just gets their money for free and gives it out for free and has a right to pay their executives any amount they wish, and not give it to the shareholders as they promised to, and that they have the right to hide that fact from the public and the government?
All I am saying is that something smells fishy at Apple, and there may be more to this than meets the eye. I don't think that the public are being given enough information about this at this time.
Ok then, what crime is Steve Jobs accused of? Where is the civil suit against Jobs?
Most people hire a lawyer after they get sued or arrested and charged with a crime. When someone hires a lawyer and they aren't charged with a crime or arrested with a charge against them, it makes me question why they have a lawyer in the first place.
Why does Steve Jobs need an army of lawyers if he didn't do anything wrong?
What other documents were faked? Was the turn-a-round of Apple into a profitable company faked as well? Did Apple cook the books Enron style?
Why does Jobs and other Apple execs have bank accounts in the Cayman Islands and the Swiss Bank?
How does this effect Macintosh and iPod owners? I just bought a used G3 iMac, and I was going to upgrade it so it can run OSX. Will OSX still be offered, or will the SEC and DOJ shut down operations at Apple so they cannot sell anything until this investigation is over?
Well I want full online documentation and tutorials before I will even consider using Lazarus. The Free Pascal Docs are good, but not good enough because Lazarus changes the way Free Pascal works.
After all atheists are not that bad. Why just look at famous atheists like Josef Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Chairman Mao, Pole Pot, Fidel Castro, and that nice fellow Kim Jong Il who is leading the world in nuclear weapons research. Really nice guys, don'tcha know.
Bill Gates is a nice guy as well, look at how he helped his competitors into bankruptcy using "creative" business practices like bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. Now a Christian clearly would not do that, or even try to make products that do the same things as other companies in an attempt to force more businesses into the red.
An atheist will do things like take Muslim states like Iraq and Afghanistan and do a separation of church and state and force secularism on everyone and make it part of the government. I am sure that will stop those radical Muslim terrorists once and for all! I mean once they listen to reason and logic, they will stop blowing themselves up for Allah once they figure out that Allah does not exist, as per what the atheists tell them.
The forms/forums was a Freudian Slip. I have a history of being flamed at open source forums and I saw that as a comedic opportunity to lead to an even more funnier joke when someone tries to correct the spelling mistake and misses the Freudian Slip, and the joke, which goes right over their head anyway. I mean it only goes to show how the person who corrected my spelling mistake thinks with his/her emotions instead of logic and reason and totally missed the satire.
Why not Java? After all pointers and garbage collection are for Pascal and ANSI C programmers. Java helps coddle the intellectually challenged that don't even know what pointers and garbage collection are used for anyway.
I am the Maddox of Slashdot and open source. Posting my satire and wit on the Internet since 1995. Posting it on BBSes since 1986. Maddox is a wannabe Orion Blastar, but I am way smarter than Maddox. You see Maddox hosts his own web site and pays for it, while I post my articles on other web sites and make them pay for it. I am truer to the pirate code than Maddox will ever be. Plus I am a Space Pirate Ninja who travelled from 4096AD back in time. You see, a true pirate don't pay for bandwith, when they can freely post on someone else's web site for free. Just use google to search for "Orion Blastar" to see my articles and Internet humor.
I am Uncyclopedian of the month for October 2006, at Uncyclopedia and it has benefits.
I contribute to open source web sites all over the Internet.
You are correct, Classic Visual BASIC is version 6.0 and earlier. Visual BASIC.Net borrows a lot from C++, Java, and other languages and actually makes an attempt to be more OOP friendly than VB 6.0 was. It looks shitty because of all the new geegaws that Microsoft slapped on it at the last minute without polishing it up. Luckly Mono allows the use of Linux geegaws that don't look as shitty as the Windows geegaws.
I looked at Zope before, it showed promise. I could not find any resources in learning it. I heard it can be used with PHP, which I also tried to learn when it was PHP 3.0 and my code broke when 4.0 came out. You see I know something of some open source languages but every time I asked for help, I was driven away by sociopathic open source trolls. I mean I was only trying to learn something new, and now I have a phobia of learning open source languages. Mono 1.2 helps me in that it allows me to write Visual BASIC.Net open source programs for Linux without having to learn anything new. I can always learn something new later.
Thank you I looked at Lazarus a while ago and saw some promise on it. I think I created an account at their Wiki site and I was waiting for a tutorial to be written and finished on it. Can you recommend any Lazarus web sites and books or mailing lists or forums that could help me learn it without having to face sociopathic open source trolls? Thanks for not trolling me.
Thanks can you recommend any good open source and Linux forums or mailing lists that have people who are not sociopathic trolls on them? Also any book recommendations or web sites would be appreciated. Thank you very much for not trolling me.