A dead governor won an election for Congress in Missouri. Granted he was popular and his widow is filling his place, but you have to see the irony here...
Dead people can accomplish a lot if they put their minds to it.
Except that I like Coke because it tastes good not because someone told me that I like it.
Oh and I don't vote for the same idiots over and over again by choice, the same idiots are the only ones that reach the ballot these days because they take the 'donations'/bribes and then just say what is popular, not what is FACT and in the public's best interest.
How do we fix it? Only way I see possible is if people pull their heads out of their little bubbles and start looking around at what the bigger picture is. Narrow-mindedness is almost as bad as lack of ethics in business/politics, and it is a trait that doesn't require you to be an exec in order to be damaging.
Hold on a minute. Freedom in capitalism is important to the way the US economy is set up. Freedom means freedom to be ethical and freedom to be unethical. It's already been stated that what they did was not a crime, plus it's obvious it didn't work. Maybe it is making things worse for Microsoft. Where in there do you see that they are actually getting away with it? If they were, we wouldn't be talking about how bad MS is, we would be putting MS on our computers.
They did what any self-respecting business would do when faced with something that could be potentially harmful. They tried to counter it. The methods they used were not ethical, and so the result is their efforts become flamebait on slashdot.
Don't get me wrong, I'm as anti-Microsoft as they come, but I would prefer using solid arguments against them rather than MS YOO SUCK DIE BILL GATES or shouting taunts and insults over tactics that are unethical, but common and to be expected.
Ok, I listened to both sides and I have heard the extremists, so the correct opinion is halfway in between. One side says Microsoft is the guardian angel of innovation and the other says Microsoft is the demon that enslaves the people.
In the end, anyone who has to get anywhere through falsifying documents or unethical political tactics is not worth supporting. Maybe Linux supporters have done these things too, but I do not care because I know that the operating system stands on its own merits. Ever since Day 1 Microsoft has had to bully its way through the market in order to keep competitive. Let's count the ways:
- They had to purchase DOS
- Bill Gates remarked something about TELLING the consumer what they wanted rather than scoping for interest first
- THE $@(#* PAPERCLIP that you have to tell to go away so many times that some people just give up
- Commingling (love that word)
- Obvious and unobvious tactics to try to make people and government believe that they are really divine
- The mouse shadows and animated menus that no one cares about, while ignoring bugs, holes, and problems
Eventually, either we will reach the End Times and capitalism will have all of the people enslaved, or there will be some big turning point event and MS will crumble. So, people of the world unite and stuff. Won't happen unless Linux and other OS users remember that MS-smokers could potentially be their allies, but we have to win them rather than insult them. MS insulted me by thinking it could determine what I want without asking me, I don't want the Linux community to be like that.
"But Teacher, I used Microsoft grammar checker on my report on the Ten Commandments and so I know it is right":
1. Thou shalt serve no Gods besides Bill Gates
2. Thou shalt not make for thyself the Tux idol
3. Thou shalt not take the name of Microsoft, they Operating System, in vain
4. Remember the next release date, and keep it Holy
5. Honor your operating system's pay-per-call tech support
6. Thou shalt not ctrl-alt-delete MSIE
7. Thou shalt not install Linux
8. Thou shalt not pirate
9. Thou shalt support Microsoft favorably (even if what you say is a lie)
10. Thou shalt not covet thy personal files because they will be lost when thou must reformat and they were not very important anyway
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A dead governor won an election for Congress in Missouri. Granted he was popular and his widow is filling his place, but you have to see the irony here...
Dead people can accomplish a lot if they put their minds to it.
Amen.
Except that I like Coke because it tastes good not because someone told me that I like it.
Oh and I don't vote for the same idiots over and over again by choice, the same idiots are the only ones that reach the ballot these days because they take the 'donations'/bribes and then just say what is popular, not what is FACT and in the public's best interest.
How do we fix it? Only way I see possible is if people pull their heads out of their little bubbles and start looking around at what the bigger picture is. Narrow-mindedness is almost as bad as lack of ethics in business/politics, and it is a trait that doesn't require you to be an exec in order to be damaging.
Hold on a minute. Freedom in capitalism is important to the way the US economy is set up. Freedom means freedom to be ethical and freedom to be unethical. It's already been stated that what they did was not a crime, plus it's obvious it didn't work. Maybe it is making things worse for Microsoft. Where in there do you see that they are actually getting away with it? If they were, we wouldn't be talking about how bad MS is, we would be putting MS on our computers.
They did what any self-respecting business would do when faced with something that could be potentially harmful. They tried to counter it. The methods they used were not ethical, and so the result is their efforts become flamebait on slashdot.
Don't get me wrong, I'm as anti-Microsoft as they come, but I would prefer using solid arguments against them rather than MS YOO SUCK DIE BILL GATES or shouting taunts and insults over tactics that are unethical, but common and to be expected.
Ok, I listened to both sides and I have heard the extremists, so the correct opinion is halfway in between. One side says Microsoft is the guardian angel of innovation and the other says Microsoft is the demon that enslaves the people.
In the end, anyone who has to get anywhere through falsifying documents or unethical political tactics is not worth supporting. Maybe Linux supporters have done these things too, but I do not care because I know that the operating system stands on its own merits. Ever since Day 1 Microsoft has had to bully its way through the market in order to keep competitive. Let's count the ways:
- They had to purchase DOS
- Bill Gates remarked something about TELLING the consumer what they wanted rather than scoping for interest first
- THE $@(#* PAPERCLIP that you have to tell to go away so many times that some people just give up
- Commingling (love that word)
- Obvious and unobvious tactics to try to make people and government believe that they are really divine
- The mouse shadows and animated menus that no one cares about, while ignoring bugs, holes, and problems
Eventually, either we will reach the End Times and capitalism will have all of the people enslaved, or there will be some big turning point event and MS will crumble. So, people of the world unite and stuff. Won't happen unless Linux and other OS users remember that MS-smokers could potentially be their allies, but we have to win them rather than insult them. MS insulted me by thinking it could determine what I want without asking me, I don't want the Linux community to be like that.
"But Teacher, I used Microsoft grammar checker on my report on the Ten Commandments and so I know it is right":
1. Thou shalt serve no Gods besides Bill Gates
2. Thou shalt not make for thyself the Tux idol
3. Thou shalt not take the name of Microsoft, they Operating System, in vain
4. Remember the next release date, and keep it Holy
5. Honor your operating system's pay-per-call tech support
6. Thou shalt not ctrl-alt-delete MSIE
7. Thou shalt not install Linux
8. Thou shalt not pirate
9. Thou shalt support Microsoft favorably (even if what you say is a lie)
10. Thou shalt not covet thy personal files because they will be lost when thou must reformat and they were not very important anyway