between "parody" -- which, we'll say, gently pokes fun without suggesting alternatives, thereby reinforcing norms -- and "satire" -- which, let's say, savagely disillusions people and has at least a shot at changing their minds.
If that norm is being a "loser", I suppose he is reinforcing it.
The article is a step up from the usual trash that equates all computers with M$, then goes on to ignore all problems and suggest that this is the best of all world that enables you to... blah blah blah, puke. The thing publishers are afraid of is loosing their chunk of the M$ advert budget. So, while the folks visiting Silicon Valley for National Geographic did'nt mention any OS by name there is not a single computer pictured in the article running M$. It's very funny to flip past two page M$ adverts to see the future of computing. Had the National Geographic editors been a little braver the concept of free software would certianly have made it to print as the major software most of the developers interviewed were using.
Win2k is just as buggy and quirqy as anything else M$. I've been using it on a nice new Dell at work for a month. The machine is a reasonable 850MHz PIII. Nothing cutting edge there, you would think it would work. Supprise, it's got loads of new bugs on top of bizzar dummy features that impede function. Take Office XP. Word's default auto correction features would try the patience of a saint. M$ was nice enough to leave them all turned on by default and make Word the default editor for Outlook. It took me a day to learn how to turn it all off. MSIE has the world strangely devided between intranet, internet and local files. When you view one type the others dissapear from your history view. Pressing the back button accros this devide can crash your computer. This combined with the default OLE behavior, and my company's insistance that we use the propriatory.DOC communications protocal, makes for dreary research eXPeriences. I don't even want to talk about how well word docs sometimes open in the browser and sometimes don't. Let's just say that the rule set is not easy to see. Oh yeah, it still crashes when you try to use it. Oh yeah, those new features borke a slew of old work.
MS XP: eXPenditure, eXcuses, eXasPiration. Nothing new but what you call it.
The problem was that Spice Girls tickets just went on sale. The phone call load to the nearby Ticket Master outlet flooded the system. No one in my area had a dial tone for half an hour. No one could call 911 on a land line!
Don't confuse the issue. There's a big difference between failing because of an overload and just never working.
The New York Times ran dozzens of articles about what a pain it was for victims to get help. Collection became a full time effort as they wandered from agency to agency and filled out horrendous and mind numbing forms with exactly the same information! They did this instead of finding loved ones, shelter, clothes or food.
While agencies not sharing information is nothing new, you have to wonder how much more could have been done if those agencies were using reasonable software. Nothing M$ talks to anything else M$. I know, because we use the junk at my Fortune 500 company. What proportion of innacurate, duplicate, non shared data came from inadequate tools, and what share from the nature of the organizations themselves? It's had to tell about there from here, but where I work it's hard to share information you want to share with other departments in the same building, much has to be entered multiple times and is often corrupted, and data sometimes just goes away on it's own. No, our tech support folks are not incompetent. No, the people I work with are not incompetent. We simply have second rate tools. Pity those same tools have been used in an emergency situation.
There are standards for most Unix utilities, and those standards should have been used instead of the mandating the GNU extensions.
What, standard Unix? ROTFLMAO. The Linux folks had better jump quick and try to make everything Linux work just like Solaris, err no, AIX, NO! True....
The parent of this thread was flamebait. No normal person would say a developer was unaware of sed because they implimented a function.
What does this new OS provide that we don't already have and are not already capable of doing?
Hopefully you will be able to do all of those things without paying an huge fee every two years to M$ and buying a new computer. Sure, you can do these things with free tools now but people don't seem to be willing to take the time to do it. These new masters may make it easier for those who do not want to be free.
It looks to me like they want something with Digital Rights Management, but don't want to work with Microsoft (and Linux is too open). Evil.
Evil vrs Evil. As they fight and splinter their standards those who co-operate most with all shall win. What vendor would dare diss the three challengers of the M$ Domination? They shall be everywhere and their stuff will work and it will be better than M$ psuedo standards like AVI. The greedheads will punish each other.
Digital Rights Management, that is more disturbing. We know they want to put it in hardware. That M$ will also pay toll to the new trolls is cold comfort if such stuff is used as the thin wedge of a legislative attack on general computing with hardware backing it up.
How do you not treat people like objects? They are firmly planted in the three dimensions and respond like all other objects.
If I had a hammer, I'd treat you like a nail. No, that's the wrong way to deal with a human object.
Precious metal and stones are valuable cause they're hard to get. Take a basic economics course. Actually, this is too basic for Economics 101. Head back to grade school.
There are plenty of things that are hard to get that are not worth a cent. You won't find rhubidium earings at a pawn shop anytime soon. I can let you think of cruder examples. Think!
Porn represents sex. You can add some other stuff in there, but someone looking at two sweaty naked people going at it and say "Obviously the extension of a male dominated society blah blah blah" is looking for things that just aren't there.
Porn is about people reduced to their genitals. Much of it is misogynist, but that's not from any love of the men abused by the industry. Sometimes it's about force, more often than that it's about people being overwhelmed by urges. That's because the primary market is loosers who have to pay for sex. They have a snoball's chance of ever having a normal reciprical relationship as they have been trained to be incapable of one themsleves. The thing perpetuates itself in an endless cycle of failure, hoplessnes and hatred. If there were no loosers, there would be no porn. If there were fewer people trying to profit from such discrouagement, there would be fewer loosers. Shame on those who know better but continue to harm others. The money you spend on porn does not make it back to the "artists".
Your strawman is presumptuious and lacks originality.
Isn't some kind of bizare expectation of privacy principle at work here as well? That so many people are denying such a thing for all things internet is very disturbing and in sharp contrast to laws for now obsolete communications methods, phone and post.
How the bastards decide that the government can look into my private communications without reason is much less important than the fact that they will do so. The fourth amendment is going away.
What's to keep them from putting cameras into your house? That have worked just as well to get the passwords.
The objectification of people as sexual objects is the primary cause of violence. Think about it. Armies are groups of men deprived of sex and often rewarded with the rape of whole cities. The person most likely to kill you is the person you have a sexual relationship with. This only happens because people are trained to think of each other as objects rather than other people to be respected as themselves.
Porn, therefore, is one of the largest contributers to violence behavior. Competition for scarece resources pales in compairision. Once basic needs of food and shelter are met, what's left to fight over? Why are precious metals and stones valuable? Because they sparkle in some people's eyes and are thought of as a means to buy sexual company. The whole economy is bassed on this. Porn represents this kind of thinking in it's rawest form.
Most universities are corporations these days. And most of the people in the administration not only treat it that way, but are under serious amounts of pressuer to make a school profitable.
Let's see, University of California at Berkly is a state school. That should make Hoskins a state employee. State schools may be under pressure to trim costs and earn money, and they have strayed into the IP game, but their mandate should still be research and education. What are they making money for if not to create and dissiminate information?
Also, remember that DARP etc was all Federal money. The federal government did not give that money to UCB so that UCB could have a never ending franchise.
Hoskins should resign. His statements violate the spirit of the original research grants and his mandate.
That would be the same as patenting a book. Instead, you patent the
process. I'm amazed there hasn't been an author (such as Steven King) patent his/her story-making
process.
I'm amazed some greedhead is not trying to patent the multifolio codex with ink encoding as a means of conveying page indexed information.
The stupid biznet site seems to be having a problem with that really ugly 20K of crap code and some ad links. Nice of them to pass this little bit of text, without displaying it!
Hallmark Cards settled a lawsuit filed against it by Tumbleweed Communications Corp., agreeing to license Tumbleweed's patented technology for delivering greeting cards online.
Neither company made financial terms of the settlement
available, and both Hallmark and Tumbleweed officials were unavailable for comment.
^M
According to a statement issued by Tumbleweed, Hallmark will use the technology for all Hallmark.com online offerings that "provide for or facilitate document delivery over the Internet, and those that include the provision for sending an e-mail delivery notification to the recipient." ^M
Tumbleweed Chairman and CEO Jeff Smith in the statement said it is the third patent for the technology issued this year. ^M
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One of the other patents was secured in a similar settlement with American Greetings Corp.
So if I send out email to my frineds and family pointing back to pictures of my baby on my ftp site, am I infinging? Do it have to be an html reference to an html page? Do I have to generate some stupid random name for each link? Or do I now have to just mail out megabytes worth of pictures to people who may or may not want them? Geeez!
a recent Goldman Sachs survey found that mainframes, Linux servers and supply-chain management ranked as the three lowest spending priorities for executives in Fortune 1000 companies. About 65 percent of executives polled by Goldman Sachs said they have no plans to use Linux at their company next year.
In other news, 75% of Fortune 1000 executives polled claimed to have turned a computer on last year. Many thought that MS was a subsidiary of IBM that made new and improved typewriters and file cabinets. "Servers?", said one darting accross a hel-o-pad, "We've got the best stinking servers in the business. I have three personal assistants, two drivers, a pilot, as well as the usual secretarial compliment. We don't need anything from this Linux company we keep hearing about. Now go away, you bother me.!" Most found the concept of email good and had their assistants print duplicates for them and their files.
Whether or not there is evidence that the GM foods produced by Monsanto are good, bad or indifferent is irrelevant. When a company shows this much flagrant disregard for the health and saftey of people, it is probably worth taking a closer look at their other areas of operation - not doing so is akin to burying your head in the sand.
This is true, we should be very suspicious of Monsanto's use of GM foods if they have proven themselves dishonest. This is akin to never trusting a convicted felon with money or a weapon. Broken trust should not be forgoten.
It does not make GM inherently evil any more than money or weapons are because they have been misused by a felon. You might ask the biochem folks at the local university about all the good things that can be done with GM and why people might dedicate their careers to making it happen.
If you don't have the background to decipher their claims yourself, find someone who can. But the bottom line is that GM crops are not inherently bad; just that a few of the simplest, greediest, short-sighted implementations by corporations are.
Thank you, this is something that needs to be repeated again and again for many fields. When in doubt seek advice at the local university, read a few editorials in peer reviewed magazines, do anything but throw your hands up and say, "No changes!". Any technology can be used for evil purposes. The more powerful the technology and the sturcture using it, the more evil that can be done. It would be better to force good things to happen instead.
Because, Chester, the Japanese did it first. If you knew more about the weird animation and comics the Japanese produce the parent post would have been offensive AND funny instead of just the former.
I lived in Tokyo for a summer and I never saw anything like that. People will produce things to satisfy a market. Don't assume the Japaneese are pedofiles because you find yourself wading though kiddie porn from Japan. MAMBA does not make the US a nation of pederasts. If anything, the Japanese are healthier about sex than the US.
I'll take my beating for being offtopic as long as the offensive parrent, and you get taken down.
You are right, we should all be nice to our fellow computer users, even M$ serfs and salesmen. I'd like to help Mr. Valentini with his biggest problem,
I have no problem any random Linux person sending me hate mail, junk mail, adding my email address to every list server out there, you name it -- that comes with the job, but I don't want my friends to have to deal with the same junk.
First, you should never trust Hotmail or any other large comercial email provider. Most of them will allow spam and even sell lists of users culled by interest groups to advertisers. I'm even told that some of them force you to look at spam while you are getting your mail and even attach spam to your actual message! No one should span their friends that way.
The best solution is to server your own mail and use the Real Time Blackhole List on your email server. That way, most of the garbage is thrown away. If you use the list on top of a secure and stable OS, the chances of your computer being used as a span cannon by third parties are much less. In this way, you can protect your users and the rest of the world from foul people.
Good Luck, Mr. Valentini! I'm sorry so many people people in your office hate each other and that you do not adequately protect your mail servers. Or was it you that sighned everyone up? Oops, it's evil Linux users that did that, sorry again. I'd never say anything without some kind of proof to back it up. Oh well, Debian and RTBHL will fix things up for you.
Well, you know those crazy Japanese. We can expect to see sex robots with silver dildos on each of their 18 tentacle arms raping hog-tied schoolgirls for HOURS and HOURS on their methanol batteries.
Raping school girls? It's not really something to laugh at. I'm not sure why anyone would think of a child as a sex object, but keep it to yourself. The rest of us should throw some stones at you so other demented loosers are not encouraged. Those who actually do such evil things should be put to death.
Here are a few rocks for you:
off topic. Why not just talk about how nice your new RC Airplane would fly on one of these? Hell, if you enjoy a vibrator tell us about it, but rape?
overrated. dude, it's not funny.
troll. you knew better.
flamebait. Rest of World outraged. Americans, embarrased and outraged.
Is it really easier to get someone to lend you a million than is it to get them to lend you a thousand? Somewhere, in bussiness land, it must be nothing to spend $7.5 million dollars on something as hair brained as a search engine's name.
It's as fast as your network
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Dude, I just insalled it on my spare beowulf pocket cray cluster. Though it's graphics engine was capable of running the holodeck, I decided I'd be better off using a telnet session. Here's a screen shot, honest:
You are in a dark room.
An imp has shot you.
darkness decends, you are dead.
There was a page of text characters that represented a dark room for most of the above transaction. I'll attibute the blazing display of that page on the awsome power of the token ring network adaptor used.
One of OS X's gifts to the world, however, is the end of the reign X Window on UNIX.
I thought their gift was the end of the CLI. You know, the single button mouse intuitive GUI that did not force you to think of how it worked. Oh well.
You cannot easily port an Aqua app to the X Window System.
Difficulty is a virtue? Hmmm, I suppose you are trying to start an X flame war by saying all those nasty things. Hopefully people won't go there. I have to wonder though, do you really program anything or do you just pull buzzwords out of your ass like, "Java apps are Aqua".
Worried about virus and worm propagation? Just tell your clients that you do not support insecure OS and bandwith abusers will be terminated. No Mo M$. Easy, isn't it?
Think of all the other problems you will get rid of. Bloated M$ formats that contain no no real information, you know, 12MB Power Point presentations, 2MB Word wastes and other usless stuff that takes 10 times as much space as needed. Inane calls over BSoD. Unintended video streams. Warez trolls and robots, and all sorts of other evil stuff fostered by comercial software.
You would do us all a favor by not catering to M$ users and the people who abuse them. Untill you do, you are just another piece of the problem. You should insist that your cracked clients take reasonable and free steps to solve their problems.
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If that norm is being a "loser", I suppose he is reinforcing it.
The article is a step up from the usual trash that equates all computers with M$, then goes on to ignore all problems and suggest that this is the best of all world that enables you to... blah blah blah, puke. The thing publishers are afraid of is loosing their chunk of the M$ advert budget. So, while the folks visiting Silicon Valley for National Geographic did'nt mention any OS by name there is not a single computer pictured in the article running M$. It's very funny to flip past two page M$ adverts to see the future of computing. Had the National Geographic editors been a little braver the concept of free software would certianly have made it to print as the major software most of the developers interviewed were using.
Microturd says, "Best Windows Ever!"
Win2k is just as buggy and quirqy as anything else M$. I've been using it on a nice new Dell at work for a month. The machine is a reasonable 850MHz PIII. Nothing cutting edge there, you would think it would work. Supprise, it's got loads of new bugs on top of bizzar dummy features that impede function. Take Office XP. Word's default auto correction features would try the patience of a saint. M$ was nice enough to leave them all turned on by default and make Word the default editor for Outlook. It took me a day to learn how to turn it all off. MSIE has the world strangely devided between intranet, internet and local files. When you view one type the others dissapear from your history view. Pressing the back button accros this devide can crash your computer. This combined with the default OLE behavior, and my company's insistance that we use the propriatory .DOC communications protocal, makes for dreary research eXPeriences. I don't even want to talk about how well word docs sometimes open in the browser and sometimes don't. Let's just say that the rule set is not easy to see. Oh yeah, it still crashes when you try to use it. Oh yeah, those new features borke a slew of old work.
MS XP: eXPenditure, eXcuses, eXasPiration. Nothing new but what you call it.
Don't confuse the issue. There's a big difference between failing because of an overload and just never working.
The New York Times ran dozzens of articles about what a pain it was for victims to get help. Collection became a full time effort as they wandered from agency to agency and filled out horrendous and mind numbing forms with exactly the same information! They did this instead of finding loved ones, shelter, clothes or food.
While agencies not sharing information is nothing new, you have to wonder how much more could have been done if those agencies were using reasonable software. Nothing M$ talks to anything else M$. I know, because we use the junk at my Fortune 500 company. What proportion of innacurate, duplicate, non shared data came from inadequate tools, and what share from the nature of the organizations themselves? It's had to tell about there from here, but where I work it's hard to share information you want to share with other departments in the same building, much has to be entered multiple times and is often corrupted, and data sometimes just goes away on it's own. No, our tech support folks are not incompetent. No, the people I work with are not incompetent. We simply have second rate tools. Pity those same tools have been used in an emergency situation.
What, standard Unix? ROTFLMAO. The Linux folks had better jump quick and try to make everything Linux work just like Solaris, err no, AIX, NO! True....
The parent of this thread was flamebait. No normal person would say a developer was unaware of sed because they implimented a function.
Hopefully you will be able to do all of those things without paying an huge fee every two years to M$ and buying a new computer. Sure, you can do these things with free tools now but people don't seem to be willing to take the time to do it. These new masters may make it easier for those who do not want to be free.
Evil vrs Evil. As they fight and splinter their standards those who co-operate most with all shall win. What vendor would dare diss the three challengers of the M$ Domination? They shall be everywhere and their stuff will work and it will be better than M$ psuedo standards like AVI. The greedheads will punish each other.
Digital Rights Management, that is more disturbing. We know they want to put it in hardware. That M$ will also pay toll to the new trolls is cold comfort if such stuff is used as the thin wedge of a legislative attack on general computing with hardware backing it up.
If I had a hammer, I'd treat you like a nail. No, that's the wrong way to deal with a human object.
Precious metal and stones are valuable cause they're hard to get. Take a basic economics course. Actually, this is too basic for Economics 101. Head back to grade school.
There are plenty of things that are hard to get that are not worth a cent. You won't find rhubidium earings at a pawn shop anytime soon. I can let you think of cruder examples. Think!
Porn represents sex. You can add some other stuff in there, but someone looking at two sweaty naked people going at it and say "Obviously the extension of a male dominated society blah blah blah" is looking for things that just aren't there.
Porn is about people reduced to their genitals. Much of it is misogynist, but that's not from any love of the men abused by the industry. Sometimes it's about force, more often than that it's about people being overwhelmed by urges. That's because the primary market is loosers who have to pay for sex. They have a snoball's chance of ever having a normal reciprical relationship as they have been trained to be incapable of one themsleves. The thing perpetuates itself in an endless cycle of failure, hoplessnes and hatred. If there were no loosers, there would be no porn. If there were fewer people trying to profit from such discrouagement, there would be fewer loosers. Shame on those who know better but continue to harm others. The money you spend on porn does not make it back to the "artists".
Your strawman is presumptuious and lacks originality.
Isn't some kind of bizare expectation of privacy principle at work here as well? That so many people are denying such a thing for all things internet is very disturbing and in sharp contrast to laws for now obsolete communications methods, phone and post. How the bastards decide that the government can look into my private communications without reason is much less important than the fact that they will do so. The fourth amendment is going away.
What's to keep them from putting cameras into your house? That have worked just as well to get the passwords.
Porn, therefore, is one of the largest contributers to violence behavior. Competition for scarece resources pales in compairision. Once basic needs of food and shelter are met, what's left to fight over? Why are precious metals and stones valuable? Because they sparkle in some people's eyes and are thought of as a means to buy sexual company. The whole economy is bassed on this. Porn represents this kind of thinking in it's rawest form.
Let's see, University of California at Berkly is a state school. That should make Hoskins a state employee. State schools may be under pressure to trim costs and earn money, and they have strayed into the IP game, but their mandate should still be research and education. What are they making money for if not to create and dissiminate information?
Also, remember that DARP etc was all Federal money. The federal government did not give that money to UCB so that UCB could have a never ending franchise.
Hoskins should resign. His statements violate the spirit of the original research grants and his mandate.
I'm amazed some greedhead is not trying to patent the multifolio codex with ink encoding as a means of conveying page indexed information.
Hallmark Cards settled a lawsuit filed against it by Tumbleweed Communications Corp., agreeing to license Tumbleweed's patented technology for delivering greeting cards online.
Neither company made financial terms of the settlement available, and both Hallmark and Tumbleweed officials were unavailable for comment.
^M According to a statement issued by Tumbleweed, Hallmark will use the technology for all Hallmark.com online offerings that "provide for or facilitate document delivery over the Internet, and those that include the provision for sending an e-mail delivery notification to the recipient." ^M Tumbleweed Chairman and CEO Jeff Smith in the statement said it is the third patent for the technology issued this year. ^M P One of the other patents was secured in a similar settlement with American Greetings Corp.Yes, it's an ugly display.
Why not the simple Hypertext URL?
Our tears will form a river.
In other news, 75% of Fortune 1000 executives polled claimed to have turned a computer on last year. Many thought that MS was a subsidiary of IBM that made new and improved typewriters and file cabinets. "Servers?", said one darting accross a hel-o-pad, "We've got the best stinking servers in the business. I have three personal assistants, two drivers, a pilot, as well as the usual secretarial compliment. We don't need anything from this Linux company we keep hearing about. Now go away, you bother me.!" Most found the concept of email good and had their assistants print duplicates for them and their files.
This is true, we should be very suspicious of Monsanto's use of GM foods if they have proven themselves dishonest. This is akin to never trusting a convicted felon with money or a weapon. Broken trust should not be forgoten.
It does not make GM inherently evil any more than money or weapons are because they have been misused by a felon. You might ask the biochem folks at the local university about all the good things that can be done with GM and why people might dedicate their careers to making it happen.
Thank you, this is something that needs to be repeated again and again for many fields. When in doubt seek advice at the local university, read a few editorials in peer reviewed magazines, do anything but throw your hands up and say, "No changes!". Any technology can be used for evil purposes. The more powerful the technology and the sturcture using it, the more evil that can be done. It would be better to force good things to happen instead.
I lived in Tokyo for a summer and I never saw anything like that. People will produce things to satisfy a market. Don't assume the Japaneese are pedofiles because you find yourself wading though kiddie porn from Japan. MAMBA does not make the US a nation of pederasts. If anything, the Japanese are healthier about sex than the US.
I'll take my beating for being offtopic as long as the offensive parrent, and you get taken down.
I have no problem any random Linux person sending me hate mail, junk mail, adding my email address to every list server out there, you name it -- that comes with the job, but I don't want my friends to have to deal with the same junk.
First, you should never trust Hotmail or any other large comercial email provider. Most of them will allow spam and even sell lists of users culled by interest groups to advertisers. I'm even told that some of them force you to look at spam while you are getting your mail and even attach spam to your actual message! No one should span their friends that way.
The best solution is to server your own mail and use the Real Time Blackhole List on your email server. That way, most of the garbage is thrown away. If you use the list on top of a secure and stable OS, the chances of your computer being used as a span cannon by third parties are much less. In this way, you can protect your users and the rest of the world from foul people.
Good Luck, Mr. Valentini! I'm sorry so many people people in your office hate each other and that you do not adequately protect your mail servers. Or was it you that sighned everyone up? Oops, it's evil Linux users that did that, sorry again. I'd never say anything without some kind of proof to back it up. Oh well, Debian and RTBHL will fix things up for you.
Well, you know those crazy Japanese. We can expect to see sex robots with silver dildos on each of their 18 tentacle arms raping hog-tied schoolgirls for HOURS and HOURS on their methanol batteries.
Raping school girls? It's not really something to laugh at. I'm not sure why anyone would think of a child as a sex object, but keep it to yourself. The rest of us should throw some stones at you so other demented loosers are not encouraged. Those who actually do such evil things should be put to death.
Here are a few rocks for you:
off topic. Why not just talk about how nice your new RC Airplane would fly on one of these? Hell, if you enjoy a vibrator tell us about it, but rape?
overrated. dude, it's not funny.
troll. you knew better.
flamebait. Rest of World outraged. Americans, embarrased and outraged.
He meant 400,000,000,000,000 Euros.
Is it really easier to get someone to lend you a million than is it to get them to lend you a thousand? Somewhere, in bussiness land, it must be nothing to spend $7.5 million dollars on something as hair brained as a search engine's name.
You are in a dark room.
An imp has shot you.
darkness decends, you are dead.
There was a page of text characters that represented a dark room for most of the above transaction. I'll attibute the blazing display of that page on the awsome power of the token ring network adaptor used.
I thought their gift was the end of the CLI. You know, the single button mouse intuitive GUI that did not force you to think of how it worked. Oh well.
You cannot easily port an Aqua app to the X Window System.
Difficulty is a virtue? Hmmm, I suppose you are trying to start an X flame war by saying all those nasty things. Hopefully people won't go there. I have to wonder though, do you really program anything or do you just pull buzzwords out of your ass like, "Java apps are Aqua".
Just bring a keg to the local LUG. Chug-a-lug, chug-a-lug, chug-a-lug. Now that's a liquid asset.
Think of all the other problems you will get rid of. Bloated M$ formats that contain no no real information, you know, 12MB Power Point presentations, 2MB Word wastes and other usless stuff that takes 10 times as much space as needed. Inane calls over BSoD. Unintended video streams. Warez trolls and robots, and all sorts of other evil stuff fostered by comercial software.
You would do us all a favor by not catering to M$ users and the people who abuse them. Untill you do, you are just another piece of the problem. You should insist that your cracked clients take reasonable and free steps to solve their problems.