Groklaw has a definite bias for the truth, and McBride is a certified liar. Therefore,
Bias for the truth = antiSCO bias
What's not to trust? If you read the articles, you'll find that they clearly point to supporting data from reputable sources and do not offer conjecture nor rumor as fact. It's difficult to find better research on the web or in the traditional press.
Its a search engine remember? Try typing in South Dakota + sports, or South Dakota + politics and you'll see all the news fit to google. Make your own bookmarks this way and you're all set.
Here, let me refresh your memory. 184 lives were lost, including children on a field trip from a local elementary school in DC.
AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 77 Paul W. Ambrose Yeneneh Betru Mary Jane (MJ) Booth Bernard Curtis Brown Charles F. Burlingame Suzanne M. Calley William E. Caswell David M. Charlebois Sara M. Clark Asia S. Cottom James Daniel Debeuneure Rodney Dickens Eddie A. Dillard Charles A. Droz Barbara G. Edwards Charles S. Falkenberg Dana Falkenberg Zoe Falkenberg James Joseph Ferguson Darlene E. Flagg Wilson F. Flagg Richard P. Gabriel Ian J. Gray Stanley R. Hall Michele M. Heidenberger Bryan C. Jack Steven D. Jacoby Ann C. Judge Chandler R. Keller Yvonne E. Kennedy Norma Cruz Khan Karen Ann Kincaid Dong Chul Lee Jennifer Lewis Kenneth E. Lewis Renee A. May Dora Marie Menchaca Christopher C. Newton Barbara K. Olson Ruben S. Ornedo Robert Penninger Robert R. Ploger Zandra F. Ploger Lisa J. Raines Todd H. Reuben John P. Sammartino Diane M. Simmons George W. Simmons Mari-Rae Sopper Robert Speisman Norma Lang Steuerle Hilda E. Taylor Leonard E. Taylor Sandra D. Teague Leslie A. Whittington John D. Yamnicky Vicki C. Yancey Shuyin Yang Yuguang Zheng
THE PENTAGON Craig Amundson Melissa Rose Barnes Max J. Beilke Kris Romeo Bishundat Carrie R. Blagburn Canfield D. Boone Diana Borrero de Padro Donna Bowen Allen P. Boyle Christopher Lee Burford Daniel Martin Caballero Jose Orlando Calderon-Olmedo Angelene C. Carter Sharon A. Carver John J. Chada Rosa Maria (Rosemary) Chapa Julian T. Cooper Eric A. Cranford Ada M. Davis Gerald Francis DeConto Jerry Don Dickerson Johnnie Doctor Robert Edward Dolan William Howard Donovan Patrick Dunn Edward Thomas Earhart Robert Randolph Elseth Jamie Lynn Fallon Amelia V. Fields Gerald P. Fisher Matthew Michael Flocco Sandra N. Foster Lawrence Daniel Getzfred Cortez Ghee Brenda C. Gibson Ron F. Golinski Diane M. Hale-McKinzy Carolyn B. Halmon Sheila M. S. Hein Ronald John Hemenway Wallace Cole Hogan Jimmie Ira Holley Angela M. Houtz Brady K. Howell Peggie M. Hurt Stephen Neil Hyland Robert J. Hymel Lacey B. Ivory Dennis M. Johnson Judith L. Jones Brenda Kegler Michael Scott Lamana David W. Laychak Samantha L. Lightbourn-Allen Stephen V. Long James T. Lynch Terence M. Lynch Nehamon Lyons Shelley A. Marshall Teresa M. Martin Ada L. Mason-Acker Dean E. Mattson Timothy J. Maude Robert J. Maxwell Molly L. McKenzie Patricia E. (Patti) Mickley Ronald D. Milam Gerard (Jerry) P. Moran Odessa V. Morris Brian Anthony Moss Teddington H. Moy Patrick Jude Murphy Khang Ngoc Nguyen Michael Allen Noeth Chin Sun Pak Jonas Martin Panik Clifford L. Patterson Darin Howard Pontell Scott Powell Jack D. Punches Joseph John Pycior Deborah A. Ramsaur Rhonda Sue Rasmussen Marsha Dianah Ratchford Martha M. Reszke Cecelia E. Richard Edward V. Rowenhorst Judy Rowlett Robert E. Russell William R. Ruth Charles E. Sabin Marjorie C. Salamone David M. Scales Robert Allan Schlegel Janice M. Scott Michael L. Selves Marian H. Serva Dan Frederic Shanower Antionette M. Sherman Donald D. Simmons Cheryle D. Sincock Gregg Harold Smallwood Gary F. Smith Patricia J. Statz Edna L. Stephens Larry L. Strickland Kip P. Taylor Sandra C. Taylor Karl W. Teepe Tamara C. Thurman Otis Vincent Tolbert Willie Q. Troy Ronald James Vauk Karen J. Wagner Meta L. Waller Maudlyn A. White Sandra L. White Ernest M. Willcher David Lucian Williams Dwayne Williams Marvin R. Woods Kevin Wayne Yokum Donald McArthur Young Edmond G. Young Lisa L. Young
Do you think computers are making decisions? Do you think humans are sitting there, passively, disengaged from the reality of war?
I spent most of ALLIED FORCE at Aviano AFB, which was the tip of the spear for the NATO Air Forces. I traveled throughout Italy, wiring people to information, and wiring information to the clock.
Members of my team traveled into the mud of Albania, served on US Navy ships at sea, and flew combat missions on Command and Control aircraft. (We used Linux, Open Source Tools, and duct tape extensively and successfully, but that is another story).
It was my job to ensure that US Pilots flew their missions with the best intelligence available. We looked for every possible edge to make sure that the pilots and their crews would come home when the campaign was over.
The pilots that fly these missions do not have a free ride. They get shot at with missiles and anti-aircraft batteries, and many do see what they are hitting with the video feeds wired in the tip of their missiles.
They are prepared with reports, photographs, video, and 3D simulations for the mission at hand.
If you recall, some of these men were shot down and rescued. Special Forces engaged in fierce fire fights in order to bring the pilots home. These rescue teams flew at night, over the tree tops, and into enemy fire. This was not virtual, it was a life and death mission under extreme conditions.
Remember the men lost training to fly the Apaches in the mountainous terrain? It is amazing that the search and rescue teamscame home, let alone the downed pilots.
With technology, you can watch genocide in action.
Car loads of Serbian soldiers would drive into a village, and begin burning down the homes of innocent civilians. They would execute entire families as they fled their burning homes.
On one occasion, the Serbs were reinforced by helicopters and more troops. Predator, a surveillance drone, flew overhead, sending a live video feed back to commanders on the ground who then directed pilots forward to thwart the attack.
I watched dozens die on one such broadcast from Predator while anxiously awaiting a fighter with fuel to arrive on target.
Minutes became hours.
Seconds after the last Serb mercenary climbed aboard, and the rotor began to spin, the helicopter was destroyed by a missile.
Justice was served. Should we judge this particular laser guided munition to be immoral? I think not.
NATO didn t save any lives in this town, but the next village down the road sure did appreciate the effort.
The Serbian attack on Kosovar civilians was well planned. It was systematic. Go back and read the articles from CNN, jot down the name of the towns, and plot them on a map.
The first day of the war, all of the major towns on major arteries leading out of Kosovo were attacked. The next day, all of the secondary roads, and the smaller towns were torched. The third day, we watched refugees leaving on trains, the last major transportation artery in Kosovo. These towns, once annotated on a map, gave the appearance of the hours on the face of a clock. Systematic. Brutal. The Serbs wore ski masks to hide their identities from their neighbors.
Try researching hours of gun tape video that DOES NOT reach CNN. The sterile bomb damage assessment (BDA) videos of buildings and parked aircraft make the public Pentagon briefings. It appears that author Michael Ignatieff just researched theseprime time videos, not the actual BDA used by the warriors engaged in making a peace in the Balkans.
You get to see the men standing there in shirt sleeves, smoking, and then looking up right before impact. The picture is too fuzzy to make out their faces.
Pilots did not see death so clearly from 15000 feet in WWII, or in Vietnam.
I was there at the debriefing of the pilot involved in the convoy bombing.
The Serbs were using civilians as human shields, in addition to using civilian vehicles to move from town to town to commit atrocities and loot. I saw the anguish sweep over this pilot, and his General, as they spent hours listening to tapes and watching video, recreating the strike.
I flew home after the first 3 weeks of this virtual war and got just as drunk flying back 5 days later as I did coming home.
For the war fighter and their commanders, it is truly vivid, and real time, even through the lens of a video camera during an air campaign. Thank God we did not see casualties from a ground campaign. Enough said.
Going to war with advanced weapons and vehicle platforms is not immoral. This is a gross simplification of a complex reality.
A simplification designed to sell a book first, and to offer a weak philosophical discussion second. The aforementioned Star Trek episode sounds more intriguing.
I tend to view the MP3 world on the internet as radio. Like video/television on TIVO, I get music/radio on MP3.
I manage geeks in a computer lab, and all the latest tools that eventually get banned at work find some kind of productive life in the lab anyway. We use instant chat clients to collaborate with engineers geographically separated from the core team, and we use MP3s to entertain ourselves.
MP3s get traded amongst friends, just like Lars described. We also use napster. The stuff that gets downloaded is typically comprised of music we own on vinyl that the ex-wife dumped during the divorce 6 years ago, or stuff our toddlers ruined while wandering a destructive path through the living room when no one was watching.
We do not however broadcast our self produced MP3s the internet (otherwise our friends employed at the firewall will get pissed).
And you know what I do when I hear a track from the Who? I go to Best Buy and grab their latest release, Live at the BBC. The guys in the lab are my DJs and I tend to hear a hit several times over, Sometimes just once. Then I just have to get the entire "album" for the cd changer in the car. (the only good part about the commute).
MP3 and Napster can be the equivalent of the Record label, the marketing dept, the radio station, and the DJ. Why is this bad? Especially if the music has been mad available to us publically via radio, MTV, and the library. And, like TIVO, I get to personalize what I want to absorb while working or playing.
I applaud Lars honest discussion and his eagerness to research and understand the issues. I also respect his opinion.
I just wanted to spin the discussion in a different direction. Here a list of discussion points that I have seen yet in the this thread:
1. What if Napster had positioned itself as the next generation radio station, specializing in customized listening, and DID ask permission from artist to broadcast their tunes.
2. What measures are in place for Metallica to decide what is released for air play on the radio? What are their legal rights if radio stations play bootlegged studio material before they have authorized its release? Are there any precedents that should be transferred to the web?
3. Do recordings that have been released publically for purchase, which can then be freely played on the public airwaves, become pirated if they appear on the net? The medium has changed, but has the context?
4. When FM began broadcasting in stereo, and we had Dolby in our tape decks, did the equation based upon quality change?
Did the legal position on pirating change?
Did more "control" shift to the consumer?
Did more money shift from the consumer to the industry?
Did the shift in money nullify any perceived gain of control by the consumer?
I am not advocating piracy here, just discussion. I wanted to share some of the viewpoints that have passed through my mind as I try to make sense of the issues at hand.
I read Tim O's initial write up summarizing his phone conversation with Bezo's, and now this follow up statement from the Amazon King. Both individuals should be applauded for sharing a variety of perspectives on a complex issue and taking the discussion to the next level.
How many business policies and models have been rewritten, multiple times, because of the technology introduced by the internet? How much has our society and online communities changed as the technology we use affects us at school, work, and at home?
How quickly have our laws changed in the same time frame? How many government services have been altered as dramatically as on line business strategies? How many trade and or defense agreements between countries have been rewritten by the diplomats to allow for the opportunities now available to our diverse societies because of the internet?
I bet you could count them on one hand.
The patent issue that these gentlemen have attempted to address reflects the friction of things changing rapidly in one hand, yet standing still in the other.
The point is not whether we agree or disagree with Bezos. The point has been made that change is necessary, and that Bezos appears to have filled out the first piece of blank paper lying on the table with some recommendations. It is our turn to write our thoughts on the other side.
Kudos to Tim for ringing the bell and initiating a discussion that is currently focused merely on patents, but is much broader.
Today I purchased a book offered by respected innovator's e-business.
It is doubtful that I will purchase a DVD player anytime soon.
Last time I checked, UF found humor in ALL the characters in the strip. The web master, the marketing guy, the techies...
I think he busts on computer users the least.
Get a grip! A parody on techies at work is funny to many of us who live it every day.
Have you ever picked up a BlahBlah for Dummies book? Not only are they informative for the newbie trying to learn, there is a comic for each chapter that portrays the typical computer user as a total loser.
They sell millions of copies and I bet no one has ever complained about the comics.
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Bias for the truth = antiSCO bias
What's not to trust? If you read the articles, you'll find that they clearly point to supporting data from reputable sources and do not offer conjecture nor rumor as fact. It's difficult to find better research on the web or in the traditional press.
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Its a search engine remember? Try typing in South Dakota + sports, or South Dakota + politics and you'll see all the news fit to google. Make your own bookmarks this way and you're all set.
The Smithsonian has a web site to capture 9/11 images, emails, etc. You can browse pictures taken by everyday people...
Here is one from the top of the WaterGate complex showing the Pentagon on fire from across the Potomac river.
Here, let me refresh your memory. 184 lives were lost, including children on a field trip from a local elementary school in DC.
AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 77
Paul W. Ambrose Yeneneh Betru Mary Jane (MJ) Booth Bernard Curtis Brown Charles F. Burlingame Suzanne M. Calley William E. Caswell David M. Charlebois Sara M. Clark Asia S. Cottom James Daniel Debeuneure Rodney Dickens Eddie A. Dillard Charles A. Droz Barbara G. Edwards Charles S. Falkenberg Dana Falkenberg Zoe Falkenberg James Joseph Ferguson Darlene E. Flagg Wilson F. Flagg Richard P. Gabriel Ian J. Gray Stanley R. Hall Michele M. Heidenberger Bryan C. Jack Steven D. Jacoby Ann C. Judge Chandler R. Keller Yvonne E. Kennedy Norma Cruz Khan Karen Ann Kincaid Dong Chul Lee Jennifer Lewis Kenneth E. Lewis Renee A. May Dora Marie Menchaca Christopher C. Newton Barbara K. Olson Ruben S. Ornedo Robert Penninger Robert R. Ploger Zandra F. Ploger Lisa J. Raines Todd H. Reuben John P. Sammartino Diane M. Simmons George W. Simmons Mari-Rae Sopper Robert Speisman Norma Lang Steuerle Hilda E. Taylor Leonard E. Taylor Sandra D. Teague Leslie A. Whittington John D. Yamnicky Vicki C. Yancey Shuyin Yang Yuguang Zheng
THE PENTAGON
Craig Amundson Melissa Rose Barnes Max J. Beilke Kris Romeo Bishundat Carrie R. Blagburn Canfield D. Boone Diana Borrero de Padro Donna Bowen Allen P. Boyle Christopher Lee Burford Daniel Martin Caballero Jose Orlando Calderon-Olmedo Angelene C. Carter Sharon A. Carver John J. Chada Rosa Maria (Rosemary) Chapa Julian T. Cooper Eric A. Cranford Ada M. Davis Gerald Francis DeConto Jerry Don Dickerson Johnnie Doctor Robert Edward Dolan William Howard Donovan Patrick Dunn Edward Thomas Earhart Robert Randolph Elseth Jamie Lynn Fallon Amelia V. Fields Gerald P. Fisher Matthew Michael Flocco Sandra N. Foster Lawrence Daniel Getzfred Cortez Ghee Brenda C. Gibson Ron F. Golinski Diane M. Hale-McKinzy Carolyn B. Halmon Sheila M. S. Hein Ronald John Hemenway Wallace Cole Hogan Jimmie Ira Holley Angela M. Houtz Brady K. Howell Peggie M. Hurt Stephen Neil Hyland Robert J. Hymel Lacey B. Ivory Dennis M. Johnson Judith L. Jones Brenda Kegler Michael Scott Lamana David W. Laychak Samantha L. Lightbourn-Allen Stephen V. Long James T. Lynch Terence M. Lynch Nehamon Lyons Shelley A. Marshall Teresa M. Martin Ada L. Mason-Acker Dean E. Mattson Timothy J. Maude Robert J. Maxwell Molly L. McKenzie Patricia E. (Patti) Mickley Ronald D. Milam Gerard (Jerry) P. Moran Odessa V. Morris Brian Anthony Moss Teddington H. Moy Patrick Jude Murphy Khang Ngoc Nguyen Michael Allen Noeth Chin Sun Pak Jonas Martin Panik Clifford L. Patterson Darin Howard Pontell Scott Powell Jack D. Punches Joseph John Pycior Deborah A. Ramsaur Rhonda Sue Rasmussen Marsha Dianah Ratchford Martha M. Reszke Cecelia E. Richard Edward V. Rowenhorst Judy Rowlett Robert E. Russell William R. Ruth Charles E. Sabin Marjorie C. Salamone David M. Scales Robert Allan Schlegel Janice M. Scott Michael L. Selves Marian H. Serva Dan Frederic Shanower Antionette M. Sherman Donald D. Simmons Cheryle D. Sincock Gregg Harold Smallwood Gary F. Smith Patricia J. Statz Edna L. Stephens Larry L. Strickland Kip P. Taylor Sandra C. Taylor Karl W. Teepe Tamara C. Thurman Otis Vincent Tolbert Willie Q. Troy Ronald James Vauk Karen J. Wagner Meta L. Waller Maudlyn A. White Sandra L. White Ernest M. Willcher David Lucian Williams Dwayne Williams Marvin R. Woods Kevin Wayne Yokum Donald McArthur Young Edmond G. Young Lisa L. Young
Do you think computers are making decisions? Do you think humans are sitting there, passively, disengaged from the reality of war?
I spent most of ALLIED FORCE at Aviano AFB, which was the tip of the spear for the NATO Air Forces. I traveled throughout Italy, wiring people to information, and wiring information to the clock.
Members of my team traveled into the mud of Albania, served on US Navy ships at sea, and flew combat missions on Command and Control aircraft. (We used Linux, Open Source Tools, and duct tape extensively and successfully, but that is another story).
It was my job to ensure that US Pilots flew their missions with the best intelligence available. We looked for every possible edge to make sure that the pilots and their crews would come home when the campaign was over.
The pilots that fly these missions do not have a free ride. They get shot at with missiles and anti-aircraft batteries, and many do see what they are hitting with the video feeds wired in the tip of their missiles.
They are prepared with reports, photographs, video, and 3D simulations for the mission at hand.
If you recall, some of these men were shot down and rescued. Special Forces engaged in fierce fire fights in order to bring the pilots home. These rescue teams flew at night, over the tree tops, and into enemy fire. This was not virtual, it was a life and death mission under extreme conditions.
Remember the men lost training to fly the Apaches in the mountainous terrain? It is amazing that the search and rescue teamscame home, let alone the downed pilots.
With technology, you can watch genocide in action.
Car loads of Serbian soldiers would drive into a village, and begin burning down the homes of innocent civilians. They would execute entire families as they fled their burning homes.
On one occasion, the Serbs were reinforced by helicopters and more troops. Predator, a surveillance drone, flew overhead, sending a live video feed back to commanders on the ground who then directed pilots forward to thwart the attack.
I watched dozens die on one such broadcast from Predator while anxiously awaiting a fighter with fuel to arrive on target.
Minutes became hours.
Seconds after the last Serb mercenary climbed aboard, and the rotor began to spin, the helicopter was destroyed by a missile.
Justice was served. Should we judge this particular laser guided munition to be immoral? I think not.
NATO didn t save any lives in this town, but the next village down the road sure did appreciate the effort.
The Serbian attack on Kosovar civilians was well planned. It was systematic. Go back and read the articles from CNN, jot down the name of the towns, and plot them on a map.
The first day of the war, all of the major towns on major arteries leading out of Kosovo were attacked. The next day, all of the secondary roads, and the smaller towns were torched. The third day, we watched refugees leaving on trains, the last major transportation artery in Kosovo. These towns, once annotated on a map, gave the appearance of the hours on the face of a clock. Systematic. Brutal. The Serbs wore ski masks to hide their identities from their neighbors.
Try researching hours of gun tape video that DOES NOT reach CNN. The sterile bomb damage assessment (BDA) videos of buildings and parked aircraft make the public Pentagon briefings. It appears that author Michael Ignatieff just researched theseprime time videos, not the actual BDA used by the warriors engaged in making a peace in the Balkans.
You get to see the men standing there in shirt sleeves, smoking, and then looking up right before impact. The picture is too fuzzy to make out their faces.
Pilots did not see death so clearly from 15000 feet in WWII, or in Vietnam.
I was there at the debriefing of the pilot involved in the convoy bombing.
The Serbs were using civilians as human shields, in addition to using civilian vehicles to move from town to town to commit atrocities and loot. I saw the anguish sweep over this pilot, and his General, as they spent hours listening to tapes and watching video, recreating the strike.
I flew home after the first 3 weeks of this virtual war and got just as drunk flying back 5 days later as I did coming home.
For the war fighter and their commanders, it is truly vivid, and real time, even through the lens of a video camera during an air campaign. Thank God we did not see casualties from a ground campaign. Enough said.
Going to war with advanced weapons and vehicle platforms is not immoral. This is a gross simplification of a complex reality.
A simplification designed to sell a book first, and to offer a weak philosophical discussion second. The aforementioned Star Trek episode sounds more intriguing.
I manage geeks in a computer lab, and all the latest tools that eventually get banned at work find some kind of productive life in the lab anyway. We use instant chat clients to collaborate with engineers geographically separated from the core team, and we use MP3s to entertain ourselves.
MP3s get traded amongst friends, just like Lars described. We also use napster. The stuff that gets downloaded is typically comprised of music we own on vinyl that the ex-wife dumped during the divorce 6 years ago, or stuff our toddlers ruined while wandering a destructive path through the living room when no one was watching.
We do not however broadcast our self produced MP3s the internet (otherwise our friends employed at the firewall will get pissed).
And you know what I do when I hear a track from the Who? I go to Best Buy and grab their latest release, Live at the BBC. The guys in the lab are my DJs and I tend to hear a hit several times over, Sometimes just once. Then I just have to get the entire "album" for the cd changer in the car. (the only good part about the commute).
MP3 and Napster can be the equivalent of the Record label, the marketing dept, the radio station, and the DJ. Why is this bad? Especially if the music has been mad available to us publically via radio, MTV, and the library. And, like TIVO, I get to personalize what I want to absorb while working or playing.
I applaud Lars honest discussion and his eagerness to research and understand the issues. I also respect his opinion.
I just wanted to spin the discussion in a different direction. Here a list of discussion points that I have seen yet in the this thread:
1. What if Napster had positioned itself as the next generation radio station, specializing in customized listening, and DID ask permission from artist to broadcast their tunes.
2. What measures are in place for Metallica to decide what is released for air play on the radio? What are their legal rights if radio stations play bootlegged studio material before they have authorized its release? Are there any precedents that should be transferred to the web?
3. Do recordings that have been released publically for purchase, which can then be freely played on the public airwaves, become pirated if they appear on the net? The medium has changed, but has the context?
4. When FM began broadcasting in stereo, and we had Dolby in our tape decks, did the equation based upon quality change?
Did the legal position on pirating change?
Did more "control" shift to the consumer?
Did more money shift from the consumer to the industry?
Did the shift in money nullify any perceived gain of control by the consumer?
I am not advocating piracy here, just discussion. I wanted to share some of the viewpoints that have passed through my mind as I try to make sense of the issues at hand.
Thanks for the rant space /.
Bill M.
I read Tim O's initial write up summarizing his phone conversation with
Bezo's, and now this follow up statement from the Amazon King. Both
individuals should be applauded for sharing a variety of perspectives on a
complex issue and taking the discussion to the next level.
How many business policies and models have been rewritten, multiple times,
because of the technology introduced by the internet? How much has our
society and online communities changed as the technology we use affects us at
school, work, and at home?
How quickly have our laws changed in the same time frame? How many government
services have been altered as dramatically as on line business strategies?
How many trade and or defense agreements between countries have been
rewritten by the diplomats to allow for the opportunities now available to our
diverse societies because of the internet?
I bet you could count them on one hand.
The patent issue that these gentlemen have attempted to address reflects the
friction of things changing rapidly in one hand, yet standing still in the
other.
The point is not whether we agree or disagree with Bezos. The point has been
made that change is necessary, and that Bezos appears to have filled out the
first piece of blank paper lying on the table with some recommendations. It
is our turn to write our thoughts on the other side.
Kudos to Tim for ringing the bell and initiating a discussion that is
currently focused merely on patents, but is much broader.
Today I purchased a book offered by respected innovator's e-business.
It is doubtful that I will purchase a DVD player anytime soon.
Last time I checked, UF found humor in ALL the characters in the strip. The web master, the marketing guy, the techies...
I think he busts on computer users the least.
Get a grip! A parody on techies at work is funny to many of us who live it every day.
Have you ever picked up a BlahBlah for Dummies book? Not only are they informative for the newbie trying to learn, there is a comic for each chapter that portrays the typical computer user as a total loser.
They sell millions of copies and I bet no one has ever complained about the comics.
Get Real.