"I talk as if there are no Free Software programs that do this, which the responses my comment has recieved have shown there isn't."
I am sorry that other people have not taken the time to do the hard work for you. I am also sorry that nobody had dedicated themselves to making sure you have a free alternative to a programs that costs tens of thousands of dollars. I think it's real shameful that other people don't work harder to make sure you have every little thing you need and desire.
Aside from all that the topic of the conversation was the DOD. Perhaps they could fund such an effort. It would probably cost less then what they are paying MS.
"I would love to have some sort of IMAP-for-calendaring that was open source and reliable. I'm sure others would as well."
Perhaps you guys all could get together and work on something or raise money for a sponsorship. It's bound to work better then whining on slashdot about how you can't get free candy.
I have read it. Oddly enough I am not the only person to accuse of being an MS shill.
You know what this reminds me of? One day I was watching an interview with the grand poobah of the KKK. He kept insisting that he was not racist. You keep insisting that you are not a shill and yet you post shilling comments.
" OK, first of all, can we retire "M$" already? It's not clever anymore!!"
Why? How come you are offended by this? Why do you care so much?
"Microsoft may be running out of ideas (other than finding new ways to keep their stranglehold on the home PC user), but they are by no means desperate."
Their actions seem to indicate they are very concerned about losing market share to linux. Maybe they are not desperate (yet) but they are actively spreading FUD, Lies, smears, insults, and all around sleaze trying to head off linux adoption.
OK sleazy behaviour by MS is nothing new but then again they do seem to have amped up the volume quite a bit.
You talk as if exhchange and outlook were the only programs that do this.
Groupwise, notes, and oracle collaboration suite all have this capability and lots more. They even integrate with outlook for those generals who have trouble learning new software and tying their shoes.
As a bonus they all run on linux.
Why the US govt would patronize a corporation that it found guilty of predetory monopolistic practices is simply beyond me. Aren't there other corporations worthy of getting contracts from the US govt. Why is MS the little darling of the US govt while all other american companies are being snubbed?
Which makes it most ironic that there are two mass grave sites outside of faluja. Both of these used to be soccer fields. One contains over 300 bodies and we are not allowed to know how many the other one contains. I believe that the final death toll there was around 700 so maybe it contains the other 400 people.
Microsoft is a corporation. Like any other corporation human beings should feel free to critize them for any reason whatsoever, whenever they want. It's not like you are going to hurt it's feelings because corporations don't have feelings. They are armoral legal fiction entities.
So damn MS, Damn them all they long, damn them for whatever reason you want to. It's just another corporation.
BTW don't limit yourself to MS. Feel free to critize any corporation.
"At the risk of feeding the troll I have to say that while I'm certain that people who are registered as Republicans have done some horrible things I'm equally certain that registered Democrats can match them deed for deed."
Really? I can't think of any examples maybe you can point them out for me.
"Then prepare to die because I don't think you are able to fully recognize the enemy."
The enemy is the republitards and their hideous and hateful ideology. If we beat them then we get to live. You are right in one respect we are now losing badly. We lost the government, media and the supreme court. This is due to liberals not being willing to come out swinging and resort to violence when neccessary. Liberals need to embrace guns and violence to take our country back. We need to start killing them just as the have been killing us. As I said, turning the other cheek just gets you punched twice
"You do realize that all the "Jim Crow" laws in the south, such as segragation, poll taxes, 'whites-only' businesses and public services, were enacted and supported by Democrats? The university president who denied admitance to black students was a democrat. The Democrat Party ruled the south after the Civil War."
That's right. Then something odd happened. The democrats wanted to give blacks the right to vote and the republicans did not. The strident support of civil rights for blacks lost the democrats the souther vote EVEN TO THIS DAY.
Today the racist have found haven in the republican party. The bulk of the KKK votes republican (just like the bulk of the white southern male). I don't know how many republicans there were in the old lynching parties but you can bet your ass if one was held today it would be mostly republicans.
"As for me, I'd vote for the Libertarians this time,"
In this country you have the right to throw away your vote if you want.
You are presuming that somehow bush is actually responsible for any of that. Cheney is smart, rowe is smart, baker is smart, the rest of the vulcans are smart but bushie boy is their puppet. Bush is evil but he is not smart.
" Lowering yourself to the name calling you find so detestable you've become a paraody of the thing you despise."
Turning the other cheek only gets you punched twice. The republitards are waging war and if we stand by and act nice they will kill us. Not just metaphorically I believe that one day they will actually kill us. They have a habit of shooting abortion doctors, bombing family planning clinics, dragging black people behind their pickup trucks and lynching homosexuals.
It's not lowering myself it's fighting fire with fire. I didn't start this war but you can bet your ass I am going to fight it till I win. It's win or die.
I call em as I see em. They are lucky I am not calling them terrorists, traitors, bedwetters, nosepickers, godless, america haters, pinkos, lefties, fags, comunists, heathens, wackos, feminazis, green nazis, and thousands of other awful things republitards call democrats.
How come you guys can dish it out but you can't take it? Be a man and stop your whining.
"I don't agree with many points of the US judicial system, but that doesn't make it anything close to what killjoe has documented here."
Really. The SCO trial has been going on for two years not and they have just agreed to extend the timeline and agree on a trial date in september of 2005. It has also cost millions of dollars.
Sounds like the judicial system pretty close to what I said doesn't it?
Some other questions for you to ponder.
How often do the supreme court justices rule outside of their party affiliations? How often do district judges rule outside of their party affiliations? How often do rich people go to jail? What kinds of jails do they go to?
Are you seriously advocating that money, race, political affiliation have NOTHING to do with the outcome of a trial? If so just say so and go on record. I will bookmark your comment for posterity.
It was a joke. But then again it's also mostly true.
I am glad an entire murder trial took a day. That's practically unheard of. Most of the time jury selection alone takes a day.
Of course you did not count all the time it took to get to the trial itself either. There were motions, arrests, parole hearings and all kinds of other stuff. Did you ask the judge or attorneys how long it took to get to trial from the arrest date? You should ask that, it might be informative for you.
I would also ask how much it cost the guy to be arrested and found not guilty. Did he have a public defendent? Did he post bail? Did he spend time in jail before the trial started? Was he able to keep his job while in jail waiting for a murder trial to take place?
I also find it highly unusual that a judge would throw out a murder case. Mostly judges want to let juries decide cases.
I have no great love for Kerry. I can't stand listening him drone on and on. I think he is boring and lifeless.
I'll still vote for him though because lets face it my dog would make a better president then bushie boy. As a bonus my dog is smarter then bushie boy.
" And CNN was once known as the "Clinton News Network." "
Yes. It was called that buy republitards. But then again republitards also called clinton "pure evil" and claimed that hillary killed vince foster. Just because republitards say things that does not make them true. To a republitard hitler is too liberal.
I never said CNN doesn't lean left, it does, slightly. FOX on the other hand is nothing but a PR machine for the republitard party.
Slashdot Mirror
"I talk as if there are no Free Software programs that do this, which the responses my comment has recieved have shown there isn't."
I am sorry that other people have not taken the time to do the hard work for you. I am also sorry that nobody had dedicated themselves to making sure you have a free alternative to a programs that costs tens of thousands of dollars. I think it's real shameful that other people don't work harder to make sure you have every little thing you need and desire.
Aside from all that the topic of the conversation was the DOD. Perhaps they could fund such an effort. It would probably cost less then what they are paying MS.
"I would love to have some sort of IMAP-for-calendaring that was open source and reliable. I'm sure others would as well."
Perhaps you guys all could get together and work on something or raise money for a sponsorship. It's bound to work better then whining on slashdot about how you can't get free candy.
I have read it. Oddly enough I am not the only person to accuse of being an MS shill.
You know what this reminds me of? One day I was watching an interview with the grand poobah of the KKK. He kept insisting that he was not racist. You keep insisting that you are not a shill and yet you post shilling comments.
" OK, first of all, can we retire "M$" already? It's not clever anymore!!"
Why? How come you are offended by this? Why do you care so much?
"Microsoft may be running out of ideas (other than finding new ways to keep their stranglehold on the home PC user), but they are by no means desperate."
Their actions seem to indicate they are very concerned about losing market share to linux. Maybe they are not desperate (yet) but they are actively spreading FUD, Lies, smears, insults, and all around sleaze trying to head off linux adoption.
OK sleazy behaviour by MS is nothing new but then again they do seem to have amped up the volume quite a bit.
You talk as if exhchange and outlook were the only programs that do this.
Groupwise, notes, and oracle collaboration suite all have this capability and lots more. They even integrate with outlook for those generals who have trouble learning new software and tying their shoes.
As a bonus they all run on linux.
Why the US govt would patronize a corporation that it found guilty of predetory monopolistic practices is simply beyond me. Aren't there other corporations worthy of getting contracts from the US govt. Why is MS the little darling of the US govt while all other american companies are being snubbed?
Your post history says otherwise.
Hey it's Mr. Microsoft astro turfer. Have fun shilling for your favorite corporation today?
Does it have code completion?
Which makes it most ironic that there are two mass grave sites outside of faluja. Both of these used to be soccer fields. One contains over 300 bodies and we are not allowed to know how many the other one contains. I believe that the final death toll there was around 700 so maybe it contains the other 400 people.
I was watching him the other and thinking "any second now his pants are going to actually catch on fire".
"What you want is for people to just bash them. "
Why yes. You know why? BECAUSE THEY ARE JUST ANOTHER FUCKING CORPORATION LIKE ANY OTHER.
I think it's sick when people defend corporation as if they had feelings or souls or something.
Bullshit. That feature was in Mac OS X before XP was rolled out.
" IMO Fast User Switching is a great innovation."
Please write a letter Apple thanking them for that innovation.
Microsoft is a corporation. Like any other corporation human beings should feel free to critize them for any reason whatsoever, whenever they want. It's not like you are going to hurt it's feelings because corporations don't have feelings. They are armoral legal fiction entities.
So damn MS, Damn them all they long, damn them for whatever reason you want to. It's just another corporation.
BTW don't limit yourself to MS. Feel free to critize any corporation.
"At the risk of feeding the troll I have to say that while I'm certain that people who are registered as Republicans have done some horrible things I'm equally certain that registered Democrats can match them deed for deed."
Really? I can't think of any examples maybe you can point them out for me.
"Then prepare to die because I don't think you are able to fully recognize the enemy."
The enemy is the republitards and their hideous and hateful ideology. If we beat them then we get to live. You are right in one respect we are now losing badly. We lost the government, media and the supreme court. This is due to liberals not being willing to come out swinging and resort to violence when neccessary. Liberals need to embrace guns and violence to take our country back. We need to start killing them just as the have been killing us. As I said, turning the other cheek just gets you punched twice
"You do realize that all the "Jim Crow" laws in the south, such as segragation, poll taxes, 'whites-only' businesses and public services, were enacted and supported by Democrats? The university president who denied admitance to black students was a democrat. The Democrat Party ruled the south after the Civil War."
That's right. Then something odd happened. The democrats wanted to give blacks the right to vote and the republicans did not. The strident support of civil rights for blacks lost the democrats the souther vote EVEN TO THIS DAY.
Today the racist have found haven in the republican party. The bulk of the KKK votes republican (just like the bulk of the white southern male). I don't know how many republicans there were in the old lynching parties but you can bet your ass if one was held today it would be mostly republicans.
"As for me, I'd vote for the Libertarians this time,"
In this country you have the right to throw away your vote if you want.
So is confusing who your enemy is. The enemy is the bush/rumsfeld/neocon cabal not some hick playboy from texas.
You are presuming that somehow bush is actually responsible for any of that. Cheney is smart, rowe is smart, baker is smart, the rest of the vulcans are smart but bushie boy is their puppet. Bush is evil but he is not smart.
" Lowering yourself to the name calling you find so detestable you've become a paraody of the thing you despise."
Turning the other cheek only gets you punched twice. The republitards are waging war and if we stand by and act nice they will kill us. Not just metaphorically I believe that one day they will actually kill us. They have a habit of shooting abortion doctors, bombing family planning clinics, dragging black people behind their pickup trucks and lynching homosexuals.
It's not lowering myself it's fighting fire with fire. I didn't start this war but you can bet your ass I am going to fight it till I win. It's win or die.
I call em as I see em. They are lucky I am not calling them terrorists, traitors, bedwetters, nosepickers, godless, america haters, pinkos, lefties, fags, comunists, heathens, wackos, feminazis, green nazis, and thousands of other awful things republitards call democrats.
How come you guys can dish it out but you can't take it? Be a man and stop your whining.
"I don't agree with many points of the US judicial system, but that doesn't make it anything close to what killjoe has documented here."
Really. The SCO trial has been going on for two years not and they have just agreed to extend the timeline and agree on a trial date in september of 2005. It has also cost millions of dollars.
Sounds like the judicial system pretty close to what I said doesn't it?
Some other questions for you to ponder.
How often do the supreme court justices rule outside of their party affiliations?
How often do district judges rule outside of their party affiliations?
How often do rich people go to jail? What kinds of jails do they go to?
Are you seriously advocating that money, race, political affiliation have NOTHING to do with the outcome of a trial? If so just say so and go on record. I will bookmark your comment for posterity.
It was a joke. But then again it's also mostly true.
I am glad an entire murder trial took a day. That's practically unheard of. Most of the time jury selection alone takes a day.
Of course you did not count all the time it took to get to the trial itself either. There were motions, arrests, parole hearings and all kinds of other stuff. Did you ask the judge or attorneys how long it took to get to trial from the arrest date? You should ask that, it might be informative for you.
I would also ask how much it cost the guy to be arrested and found not guilty. Did he have a public defendent? Did he post bail? Did he spend time in jail before the trial started? Was he able to keep his job while in jail waiting for a murder trial to take place?
I also find it highly unusual that a judge would throw out a murder case. Mostly judges want to let juries decide cases.
Your situation sound like an exception to a rule.
I have no great love for Kerry. I can't stand listening him drone on and on. I think he is boring and lifeless.
I'll still vote for him though because lets face it my dog would make a better president then bushie boy. As a bonus my dog is smarter then bushie boy.
" And CNN was once known as the "Clinton News Network." "
Yes. It was called that buy republitards. But then again republitards also called clinton "pure evil" and claimed that hillary killed vince foster. Just because republitards say things that does not make them true. To a republitard hitler is too liberal.
I never said CNN doesn't lean left, it does, slightly. FOX on the other hand is nothing but a PR machine for the republitard party.
It does not surprise me that you have no answer to anything I said.
Unfortunately all of the people I'd vote for president are smart enough not to run for it. Instead I get to choose the lesser of two evils.
OTOH it's pretty easy to decide the lesser of two evils this election. The only thing more evil then cheney/bush is satan.