If you want to sound professional, you don't write thousands of companies demanding payment for a product that you didn't even sell the person in question.
I'd laugh in their faces. Going after individual users for a company level infringement is simply unprecidented. They'd be the ones to fold the moment they actually had to defend the claim.
Serial numbers piss me off. I lost the CD cover for half-life, and no in spite of the fact that I paid an arm and a leg for it, I've got a coaster.
Even being forced to hang onto the CD is really stupid. I crack every game I buy. Why? Because I don't feel like digging around for CDs every time I want to play a game. I'm really big into the ddump/daemon-tools thing for that reason.
IBM probably keeps those lawyers on the payroll, so I wouldn't be suprised if the lawsuit isn't costing them a penny. You do that sort of thing when you're oh my god huge.:)
Only in consumer electronics, I swear. If some yahoo tried to sell me a fuse allegedly rated for 10,000 amps, and it turned out to be a 5,000 amp with tin foil wrapped around it, I'd be suing for damages and pressing charges for attempted murder from the ensuing plasma fireball. On the other hand, if you try to sell me an MP3 player with 512Mb of RAM, and it turns out to be 256MB with some hokey technology called mp3-2x, not only can I not sue, but I can't listen to all the MP3s I want either!
I had that happen to me once with a PC Chips Super 7 motherboard (shut up, I was poor.) where the alleged "AGP Video card" built in was actually a shitty 2d/shared ram deal. I would have been really angry if I cared, but I replaced it with a Savage4 right away anyway so it didn't matter in the end. As it stands, I have the board in a computer upstairs with a PCI video card, and I'm using an Athlon XP+Asus motherboard now. Oh well
It did have some Geforce 4 features, such as LMA II, just not all of them. Anyway, most people knew what they were getting, and those who didn't were just plain and simple stupid for not researching a "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" sort of offer. Personally, I've still got my G4MX460-VTP, and It's worth every penny I spend for it -- a lot less than the low end Ti at the time.
Shh, it's best not to bother him. He's a "hardware geek". This generally means he's got part numbers and 3dmark scores memorized, but hasn't the slightest context for any of that information.
I'm glad you seem to think that phrases from the high school debate team matter. Sadly, only in that particular situation will yelling "STRAW MAN!!!" mean anything. In this case, a real discussion tkaing place outside of a classroom or debate club, I've chosen a tangental, but still relevant direction for my response.
Rather than bothering to waste my time trying to meet your post head on, which would ultimately only result in a useless and futile arguement between us, I have instead attacked a fundamental pillar of your post, the idea that there's a reason to use Internet Explorer tweaked over it's competititors. There are few, and you failed to bother listing any. Ironically, your failure to defend your position in any way by relying on the old "straw man arguement" shield has done nothing to help your position.
Remember the teachings of Sun Tzu always, even here. The wise man finds victory first and battle second. Until you can back up your arguement with something a little more substantial than debate club prattle, I'd prefer you not bother replying again. Battle will not be advantageous.
Hi, I read your post and would like to show you things from my point of view, just because "I don't understand why they'd ever think that way" is a shame.
First, let me make perfectly clear that I'm not pro-windows by any means. Over the years I've spent long periods using OS/2 Warp and BeOS, among others(including about a billion DOS clones like dr-dos and xdos), without too many problems, but Linux is usually off my drive as fast as I can put it on there.
Why?
because it's missing critical integration. I'm not talking about "I can't import openoffice documents into kword" integration, I'm talking large scale "I just spent three hours trying to get this program to install and run correctly" integration.
When I download a program off the internet under Windows, OS/2 or BeOS, I need only double-click the installer to install it. In the unlikely event that I need a library, it tells me the name of the library, I enter it into my favourite download site, I install it, and all is well. I double-click the executable and it runs.
When I download a program off the internet under Linux, odds are, off the bat, that I will NOT be able to run it with my copy of linux. It doesn't matter if I have the absolute latest 3 day old copy of Red Hat or Mandrake, odds are it's going to tell me I need to get LibOSG-234_4 or some such before I can compile/rpm/binary install/untar it. I'll probably type that into my freindly neibourhood search engine(because good luck finding it on rpmfind with information like that!), and I'll get two or three different, mutually exclusive libraries. Odds are, I can't just go and install the latest version of the lib either, I need to get the exact version, so after hours of searching, I find that. Of course, there are three libs that I need to install that one, so I go out(armed with more gibberish), and manage to install them, after several more hours of toil, and after that, I may or may not be able to install this program, depending on how which libs are needed. It may be somewhat longer. There are some utilities, like urpmi, which help somewhat, but they're only as good as their pool of resources, which aren't limitless, so you're probably going to have to run out lib searching anyway.
Then, let's say I want to change my video mode. In windows, I right click my desktop, click settings, choose my mode, and click ok. in BeOS, I go to the Be Menu, click preferences, click display, and choose the resolutions I want for the multiple desktops(you can have every desktop at a different resolution if you want, BeOS is really cool that way). In OS/2, you(I think, it's been a while) right click the desktop, go to settings, go to the resolution tab, choose your setting, and hit OK.
In linux, I have to make sure my XFConfig-4 is set up correctly, then hit ctrl-[greyplus] and ctrl-[greyminus] until I hit the right resolution.
To set up my video driver in Windows or BeOS, or OS/2, I click the package. In the worst case scenario in Windows or OS/2(BeOS uses better than plug and play for it's drivers, so all your hardware is discovered every time you start your machine, so you need only install the driver and restart) you have to actually go and install the driver through a device manager of some sort. Not with my nvidia though.
To achieve the same level of functionalty with linux(because I could use nv or vesa, but I could use VesaAccepted in BeOS if I wanted to as well but I'm not going to), I have to run the RPM, then head into my XFConfig-4 file and tweak it in several places by hand, preferably using Vi, because that's my favourite unix editor. Then I start up X, and hopefully it works.
to set up a web server in BeOS, all I need to do is run the web server in the Be Menu. To run one in Windows, I download one(or use IIS....yeah right!) and run it, setting it up with a nice GUI control panel. In OS/2 warp, I go to the services tab and check httpd. It's on.
In linux, it's probably already installed, so I head to /
Wow, you're still here? I haven't been to slashdot in a while so perhaps you took a vacation as well and we're just coincidentally visiting the same post at the same time, but if that is not the case, you sir, are a true obsessive compulsive nerd stereotype. I salute you for being so creepy it makes the rest of slashdot, with it's cult-like anti-microsoft worship, look good.
Are you done being an elitist prick? Good, it's my turn. I hate to say it, but you're the one with the stupid slashdot attitude, The same one that keeps the linux myth alive: "It doesn't matter if it's broken so badly you can barely use it, WE CAN FIX IT! So what if it takes two hours just to patch and another hour of research to secure? So what if using something else would take an hour tops to download(we're talking 7Mb vs. hundreds), and would render me completely immune to these problems? WE CAN FIX THIS AND USE IT!"
I love the hoops people like you will go through to continue running your inferior software. In spite of the fact that mozilla and it's derivitaves are faster, has a better interface(admittedly, it's a subjective matter there, but the fact that it utilizes the middle mouse button to enhance tabbed browsing makes it feel like riding a sport bike vs. the Internet Explorers tricycle), and are infinitely more resistant to widespread viruses and web-borne spyware than IE, and in spite of the fact that mozilla includes pipelining to increase browsing speed even further and native popup blocking which actually works because it blocks only unrequested popups instead of all of them, you decide to go and tweak IE for half an hour so you can keep on using it.
In the same vein are the people who think that there's no reason to go out and get something other than outlook express for their e-mail. sure, if I patch for two hours, then tweak for two more, I can maybe get close to the iron-clad near invunerability to these things I get by using any other mail client or web browser on the planet for a few weeks until another vunerability comes out...on the other hand, I could just use those instead.
But hey, what do I know? Just spend all those hours downloading IE patches, and be sure to come back every day so you are up to date! and download proximatron and MyIE so you can have blocked ads and tabs, and after all those hours of research and downloading.......well, I'll be asleep, because unlike some of the people who are in denial and would rather not, for some unfathomable reason, use a modern web browser, I downloaded the 5mb k-meleon a month ago, and really haven't done much else since. Look ma! No spyware! The alpha layer PNGs are really nice too.:P
There's a problem; every goddamned apple benchmark for the past 10 years has been utterly biased towards the apple because otherwise only artsy people get any sort of increase, and they don't get to use any software.
To me, Apple has always has been like linux without the possiblity of installing windows. Great. Just what I always wanted, no compatiblity for a 4% speed increase.
Bollocks. The site simply isn't satire, for one thing. Trust me, canadians practically invented modern political satire, and that ain't it.
Allow me to demonstrate:
Satire: "In a stunning press-release today, Paul Martin announced that the only way to mend US/Canada relations was to become a state. Canadian sovereingty advocates everywhere protested, saying 'stupid mongorians, stop trying to break down my shitty wall!', to which Paul Martin looked like he was going to cry."
One distinction is I'm pretty sure Martin didn't go, sit on his mighty throne, and proclaim that his lawyers were to "get that damn paulmartintime.com site". In fact, I'm almost positive that if this hits the news it'll be the first he's heard of it.
When you're the PM of Canada, suing the guy who is making a site against you just isn't high on the ol' agenda.
What parody? What satire? I looked at the site, and aside from a few bitter anti-Paul Martin parts on the side which would hardly count as satire unless you decided to remove the satire part, it seems to be nothing more than a huge anti-Paul site unless linking to actual newspapers with actual stories and providing a brief synopsis of the content can be considered satire(is slashdot satire? Maybe, according to this guy). If this guy wants to have a paul bashing site, he can make it himself. Sadly, blatantly stealing an entire website design and plopping in the opposite content just isn't parody or satire. Sorry.
Ironically, what the tories were saying, and the way the liberals were turning it into this sarcastic free-for-all, convinced me to vote conservative. They had the same sound in their words as I do when I'm trying to explain how to make something on a computer to work to someone without a clue.
"No you idiot! You can't do that! Who the hell do you think pays for Ontario Hydros deficits? AND you have a USB keyboard and mouse! Why would you want to disable the USB input service in Windows? Don't touch either of them, you moron!"
The fact that right after he was elected, that Liberal Mcguinty magically found this 5 billion dollar shortfall, and he magically had to drop all his campaign promises only reinforces the image in my eyes. The guy is a smiling jackass who I have the feeling still doesn't know how to run a province half as well as the guys he managed to outmanouvre in the election.
It's not that much. Cretien, the prime minister of many terms(2? 3? 4? I can't remember at the moment) retired, and the Liberal Leadership convention was held. Paul Martin was voted in by a landslide by the liberal party. The leader of the party in power is named the Prime Minister.
To be honest, I think a lot of people complaining don't understand how our system works. We don't vote for the prime minister. You're supposed to vote for the representative in your area, and in the end, the party with the most seats gives the sear of Prime Minister to the leader of the party. It also works for premiers. I didn't vote for Mike Harris or Dalton Maguinty(sp?) or any of them. I voted for the conservative representative for my area. Of course, my area is this podunk little place in the middle of nowhere, so I just voted for the party I wanted in power, but rest assurred, if there were actually any issues on this stretch of highway with a bunch of farms and a dozen scattered homes, I would have made myself aware of them and voted for the best representative in my area.
Anyway, that useless liberal McGuinty made it in, then quickly ran a 180 on all of his promises (oops! sorry, no money. the government who managed to keep a balanced budget for 8 years ran a 5 billion dollar deficit! Yeah....that's the ticket...). I miss the tories already. At least they did what they said they'd do.
Actually, I think the SCO strategy is just lying about everything and hoping everyone is too stupid to realize it.
I think we should follow their lead.
"NO. We have retaken the Unix source code. There are NO SCO execs there. I will take you there and show you. IN ONE HOUR!"
"We defeated them yesterday. God willing, I will provide you with more information. I swear by God, I swear by God, those who are staying in Utah and the SCO headquarters have thrown these mercenaries in a crematorium."
"We are not afraid of SCO. Allah has condemned them. They are stupid. They are stupid" (dramatic pause) "and they are condemned."
"We have destroyed 50 Unix machines today. That 5-ohhh tanks" [while holding up his fingers]
"I am not talking about the Utah people, I am talking about those mercenaries.... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children."
"I would like to clarify a simple fact here: How can you lay siege to a whole Operating System source code? Who is really under siege now? vmsystem.h cannot be besieged. ctype.h cannot be besieged. kernel.h cannot be besieged."
Do us all a favour; ignore US news for about 6 months, read only foreign (even reputable foreign, because that's obviously important to you, with good reason) news or download video clips of said news programs, or listen to them via webradio. Come back in 6 months and watch a day worth of your chosen American news source.
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Where did I leave those supergreenhouse gases? Time for us to head up there and terraform that sucka. I want to rape and pillage 2 planets at once!
I bet you 2 to 1 I can find a crack faster than you can organize your cupboard.
If you want to sound professional, you don't write thousands of companies demanding payment for a product that you didn't even sell the person in question.
I'd laugh in their faces. Going after individual users for a company level infringement is simply unprecidented. They'd be the ones to fold the moment they actually had to defend the claim.
Serial numbers piss me off. I lost the CD cover for half-life, and no in spite of the fact that I paid an arm and a leg for it, I've got a coaster.
Even being forced to hang onto the CD is really stupid. I crack every game I buy. Why? Because I don't feel like digging around for CDs every time I want to play a game. I'm really big into the ddump/daemon-tools thing for that reason.
IBM probably keeps those lawyers on the payroll, so I wouldn't be suprised if the lawsuit isn't costing them a penny. You do that sort of thing when you're oh my god huge. :)
Are you kidding? All criminals are potential EMPLOYEES! Gotta fill out management somehow, why not skip the formalities?
Only in consumer electronics, I swear. If some yahoo tried to sell me a fuse allegedly rated for 10,000 amps, and it turned out to be a 5,000 amp with tin foil wrapped around it, I'd be suing for damages and pressing charges for attempted murder from the ensuing plasma fireball. On the other hand, if you try to sell me an MP3 player with 512Mb of RAM, and it turns out to be 256MB with some hokey technology called mp3-2x, not only can I not sue, but I can't listen to all the MP3s I want either!
I had that happen to me once with a PC Chips Super 7 motherboard (shut up, I was poor.) where the alleged "AGP Video card" built in was actually a shitty 2d/shared ram deal. I would have been really angry if I cared, but I replaced it with a Savage4 right away anyway so it didn't matter in the end. As it stands, I have the board in a computer upstairs with a PCI video card, and I'm using an Athlon XP+Asus motherboard now. Oh well
It did have some Geforce 4 features, such as LMA II, just not all of them. Anyway, most people knew what they were getting, and those who didn't were just plain and simple stupid for not researching a "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" sort of offer. Personally, I've still got my G4MX460-VTP, and It's worth every penny I spend for it -- a lot less than the low end Ti at the time.
Shh, it's best not to bother him. He's a "hardware geek". This generally means he's got part numbers and 3dmark scores memorized, but hasn't the slightest context for any of that information.
I'm glad you seem to think that phrases from the high school debate team matter. Sadly, only in that particular situation will yelling "STRAW MAN!!!" mean anything. In this case, a real discussion tkaing place outside of a classroom or debate club, I've chosen a tangental, but still relevant direction for my response.
Rather than bothering to waste my time trying to meet your post head on, which would ultimately only result in a useless and futile arguement between us, I have instead attacked a fundamental pillar of your post, the idea that there's a reason to use Internet Explorer tweaked over it's competititors. There are few, and you failed to bother listing any. Ironically, your failure to defend your position in any way by relying on the old "straw man arguement" shield has done nothing to help your position.
Remember the teachings of Sun Tzu always, even here. The wise man finds victory first and battle second. Until you can back up your arguement with something a little more substantial than debate club prattle, I'd prefer you not bother replying again. Battle will not be advantageous.
Hi, I read your post and would like to show you things from my point of view, just because "I don't understand why they'd ever think that way" is a shame.
First, let me make perfectly clear that I'm not pro-windows by any means. Over the years I've spent long periods using OS/2 Warp and BeOS, among others(including about a billion DOS clones like dr-dos and xdos), without too many problems, but Linux is usually off my drive as fast as I can put it on there.
Why?
because it's missing critical integration. I'm not talking about "I can't import openoffice documents into kword" integration, I'm talking large scale "I just spent three hours trying to get this program to install and run correctly" integration.
When I download a program off the internet under Windows, OS/2 or BeOS, I need only double-click the installer to install it. In the unlikely event that I need a library, it tells me the name of the library, I enter it into my favourite download site, I install it, and all is well. I double-click the executable and it runs.
When I download a program off the internet under Linux, odds are, off the bat, that I will NOT be able to run it with my copy of linux. It doesn't matter if I have the absolute latest 3 day old copy of Red Hat or Mandrake, odds are it's going to tell me I need to get LibOSG-234_4 or some such before I can compile/rpm/binary install/untar it. I'll probably type that into my freindly neibourhood search engine(because good luck finding it on rpmfind with information like that!), and I'll get two or three different, mutually exclusive libraries. Odds are, I can't just go and install the latest version of the lib either, I need to get the exact version, so after hours of searching, I find that. Of course, there are three libs that I need to install that one, so I go out(armed with more gibberish), and manage to install them, after several more hours of toil, and after that, I may or may not be able to install this program, depending on how which libs are needed. It may be somewhat longer. There are some utilities, like urpmi, which help somewhat, but they're only as good as their pool of resources, which aren't limitless, so you're probably going to have to run out lib searching anyway.
Then, let's say I want to change my video mode. In windows, I right click my desktop, click settings, choose my mode, and click ok. in BeOS, I go to the Be Menu, click preferences, click display, and choose the resolutions I want for the multiple desktops(you can have every desktop at a different resolution if you want, BeOS is really cool that way). In OS/2, you(I think, it's been a while) right click the desktop, go to settings, go to the resolution tab, choose your setting, and hit OK.
In linux, I have to make sure my XFConfig-4 is set up correctly, then hit ctrl-[greyplus] and ctrl-[greyminus] until I hit the right resolution.
To set up my video driver in Windows or BeOS, or OS/2, I click the package. In the worst case scenario in Windows or OS/2(BeOS uses better than plug and play for it's drivers, so all your hardware is discovered every time you start your machine, so you need only install the driver and restart) you have to actually go and install the driver through a device manager of some sort. Not with my nvidia though.
To achieve the same level of functionalty with linux(because I could use nv or vesa, but I could use VesaAccepted in BeOS if I wanted to as well but I'm not going to), I have to run the RPM, then head into my XFConfig-4 file and tweak it in several places by hand, preferably using Vi, because that's my favourite unix editor. Then I start up X, and hopefully it works.
to set up a web server in BeOS, all I need to do is run the web server in the Be Menu. To run one in Windows, I download one(or use IIS....yeah right!) and run it, setting it up with a nice GUI control panel. In OS/2 warp, I go to the services tab and check httpd. It's on.
In linux, it's probably already installed, so I head to /
Wow, you're still here? I haven't been to slashdot in a while so perhaps you took a vacation as well and we're just coincidentally visiting the same post at the same time, but if that is not the case, you sir, are a true obsessive compulsive nerd stereotype. I salute you for being so creepy it makes the rest of slashdot, with it's cult-like anti-microsoft worship, look good.
Are you done being an elitist prick? Good, it's my turn. I hate to say it, but you're the one with the stupid slashdot attitude, The same one that keeps the linux myth alive: "It doesn't matter if it's broken so badly you can barely use it, WE CAN FIX IT! So what if it takes two hours just to patch and another hour of research to secure? So what if using something else would take an hour tops to download(we're talking 7Mb vs. hundreds), and would render me completely immune to these problems? WE CAN FIX THIS AND USE IT!"
...well, I'll be asleep, because unlike some of the people who are in denial and would rather not, for some unfathomable reason, use a modern web browser, I downloaded the 5mb k-meleon a month ago, and really haven't done much else since. Look ma! No spyware! The alpha layer PNGs are really nice too. :P
I love the hoops people like you will go through to continue running your inferior software. In spite of the fact that mozilla and it's derivitaves are faster, has a better interface(admittedly, it's a subjective matter there, but the fact that it utilizes the middle mouse button to enhance tabbed browsing makes it feel like riding a sport bike vs. the Internet Explorers tricycle), and are infinitely more resistant to widespread viruses and web-borne spyware than IE, and in spite of the fact that mozilla includes pipelining to increase browsing speed even further and native popup blocking which actually works because it blocks only unrequested popups instead of all of them, you decide to go and tweak IE for half an hour so you can keep on using it.
In the same vein are the people who think that there's no reason to go out and get something other than outlook express for their e-mail. sure, if I patch for two hours, then tweak for two more, I can maybe get close to the iron-clad near invunerability to these things I get by using any other mail client or web browser on the planet for a few weeks until another vunerability comes out...on the other hand, I could just use those instead.
But hey, what do I know? Just spend all those hours downloading IE patches, and be sure to come back every day so you are up to date! and download proximatron and MyIE so you can have blocked ads and tabs, and after all those hours of research and downloading....
There's a problem; every goddamned apple benchmark for the past 10 years has been utterly biased towards the apple because otherwise only artsy people get any sort of increase, and they don't get to use any software.
To me, Apple has always has been like linux without the possiblity of installing windows. Great. Just what I always wanted, no compatiblity for a 4% speed increase.
Bollocks. The site simply isn't satire, for one thing. Trust me, canadians practically invented modern political satire, and that ain't it.
Allow me to demonstrate:
Satire: "In a stunning press-release today, Paul Martin announced that the only way to mend US/Canada relations was to become a state. Canadian sovereingty advocates everywhere protested, saying 'stupid mongorians, stop trying to break down my shitty wall!', to which Paul Martin looked like he was going to cry."
Not satire: Martin promises government of change and renewal. Stupid Paul Martin. I hate him. Stupid douchebag. He's a true Paulmartinasshole.
The first is allowed protection, the latter is not. Gee, I wonder why?
One distinction is I'm pretty sure Martin didn't go, sit on his mighty throne, and proclaim that his lawyers were to "get that damn paulmartintime.com site". In fact, I'm almost positive that if this hits the news it'll be the first he's heard of it.
When you're the PM of Canada, suing the guy who is making a site against you just isn't high on the ol' agenda.
What parody? What satire? I looked at the site, and aside from a few bitter anti-Paul Martin parts on the side which would hardly count as satire unless you decided to remove the satire part, it seems to be nothing more than a huge anti-Paul site unless linking to actual newspapers with actual stories and providing a brief synopsis of the content can be considered satire(is slashdot satire? Maybe, according to this guy). If this guy wants to have a paul bashing site, he can make it himself. Sadly, blatantly stealing an entire website design and plopping in the opposite content just isn't parody or satire. Sorry.
Ironically, what the tories were saying, and the way the liberals were turning it into this sarcastic free-for-all, convinced me to vote conservative. They had the same sound in their words as I do when I'm trying to explain how to make something on a computer to work to someone without a clue.
"No you idiot! You can't do that! Who the hell do you think pays for Ontario Hydros deficits? AND you have a USB keyboard and mouse! Why would you want to disable the USB input service in Windows? Don't touch either of them, you moron!"
The fact that right after he was elected, that Liberal Mcguinty magically found this 5 billion dollar shortfall, and he magically had to drop all his campaign promises only reinforces the image in my eyes. The guy is a smiling jackass who I have the feeling still doesn't know how to run a province half as well as the guys he managed to outmanouvre in the election.
It's not that much. Cretien, the prime minister of many terms(2? 3? 4? I can't remember at the moment) retired, and the Liberal Leadership convention was held. Paul Martin was voted in by a landslide by the liberal party. The leader of the party in power is named the Prime Minister.
To be honest, I think a lot of people complaining don't understand how our system works. We don't vote for the prime minister. You're supposed to vote for the representative in your area, and in the end, the party with the most seats gives the sear of Prime Minister to the leader of the party. It also works for premiers. I didn't vote for Mike Harris or Dalton Maguinty(sp?) or any of them. I voted for the conservative representative for my area. Of course, my area is this podunk little place in the middle of nowhere, so I just voted for the party I wanted in power, but rest assurred, if there were actually any issues on this stretch of highway with a bunch of farms and a dozen scattered homes, I would have made myself aware of them and voted for the best representative in my area.
Anyway, that useless liberal McGuinty made it in, then quickly ran a 180 on all of his promises (oops! sorry, no money. the government who managed to keep a balanced budget for 8 years ran a 5 billion dollar deficit! Yeah....that's the ticket...). I miss the tories already. At least they did what they said they'd do.
Actually, I think the SCO strategy is just lying about everything and hoping everyone is too stupid to realize it.
... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children."
I think we should follow their lead.
"NO. We have retaken the Unix source code. There are NO SCO execs there. I will take you there and show you. IN ONE HOUR!"
"We defeated them yesterday. God willing, I will provide you with more information. I swear by God, I swear by God, those who are staying in Utah and the SCO headquarters have thrown these mercenaries in a crematorium."
"We are not afraid of SCO. Allah has condemned them. They are stupid. They are stupid" (dramatic pause) "and they are condemned."
"We have destroyed 50 Unix machines today. That 5-ohhh tanks" [while holding up his fingers]
"I am not talking about the Utah people, I am talking about those mercenaries.
"I would like to clarify a simple fact here: How can you lay siege to a whole Operating System source code? Who is really under siege now? vmsystem.h cannot be besieged. ctype.h cannot be besieged. kernel.h cannot be besieged."
There. I feel our public support growing already.
You're pretty gullable, aren't you?
Do us all a favour; ignore US news for about 6 months, read only foreign (even reputable foreign, because that's obviously important to you, with good reason) news or download video clips of said news programs, or listen to them via webradio. Come back in 6 months and watch a day worth of your chosen American news source.
You may then be afraid. Be very afraid.
It's 'cause I'm white, isn't it?
Probably to watch uptight squares not unlike yourself lay a turd everytime he says something. I know at least for me, it's fun to watch.