Most likely everybody and his dog submitted this story right as I was submitting it this morning. I'm trying to see some good news in this, and I think I found it as I was submitting. It's that damned exclamation point! My headline read "Microsoft to buy Yahoo!?
Mr. Ballmer, if you succeed in your takeove of Yahoo! please, for the sake of bloggers and slashdot submitters everywhere (yeah, I know, you can't be too happy with us GNU kids on the block), get rid of that stupid dotcomyuppified exclamation mark.
Before slashdotters comment on the irony of my coining a new word by stringing together old words, it was deliberate.
I just thought of another good thing - maybe Yahoo and Microsoft! Will both go broke. I mean, it's hell here in Springfield (You guys know my ex-wife Satan lives here, right?) and we got a foot of snow last night.
That brings to mind two versions of an old joke. ---- A priest, a rabbi, and a lawyer are on the titanic when it strikes an iceberg. The rabbi exclaims "save the children!" The lawyer snarls "fuck the children!" The priest exclaims "no time for that!" ---- A priest and a rabbi see a homeless child hudddled in a doorway shivering. The rabbi says "oh dear, what should we do for this poor child?"
The priest says "easy, take him home and fuck him!" The rabbi says "out of what?" ---- PLEASE mod this disgusting comment down! Think of the children!
Nor should it; they should only count legitimate, licensed copies. The GPL says that all the copies I gave away are legitimate, licensed copies, while the copies of Windows passed around among friends are illegal.
If they're counting downloads only, then only the copy I downloaded would count, and none of the half dozen or so I gave away count. None of the ones I gave away count, even though they're all legal and proper.
There is no meaningful statistic on the number of Linux desktops, period.
Insightful? The above post shows no insight whatever. God is NOT an"invisible super-beings thing". That would be a black hole or an antiphoton, not God. God is only invisible to those who close their eyes to him.
I am deeply offended by the parent poster's rhetoric. The above post was flambait and should be modded as such, whatever your beliefs. Do I have to flame your God Damned ass to prove it to the stupoid fucktard mods?
At first glnce I read the headline as "Dope Denounces Some Biotech as Affront to 'Human Dignity'". Chalk it up to endorphins, the weather change made my arthritis hurt like hell yesterday. Now THAT was an affront to my human dignity, I'll tell you!
The pope may not be a dope, but the idea that artificial insemination is an "affront to human dignity" is a dopey idea. Many Catholic ideas are pretty dopey IMO (of course, I'm sure many Catholics will think some of my beliefs are pretty dopey as well).
An example of what I'm talking about is the "seven deadly sins". Where in the Bible did they get the idea that laziness is a sin? And don't point me to the Old Testament, because the old testament says eating pork is a sin. And how about lust? When a young man lusts after a young woman and the lust grows to love and they marry, how is that a sin?
There are in fact ten deadly sins. Moses brought them down from the mountain.
I would agree with the pope about human cloning, but most definitely not embryonic stem cell research. Rather than an affront to human dignity, it may lead to cures for diseases that ARE affronts to human dignity. Just ask Al Scheimers. Oh wait, Al is pissing his pants and drooling. Human dignity, you say?
-mcgrew
OT but why is a comment subject allowed fewer characters than a summary subject? And why was "human dignity" in quotations?
How do they come up with this figure? Microsoft can count every PC sold with Windows installed plus other licenses sold, Apple can count computers sold, but GNU can be freely given away.
I gave copies of Mandriva to several people last year. None of these copies of that OS is counted as a desktop OS; they are counted as Windows, since they were either added to Windows machines as dual boot or replaced Windows completely.
A lot of GNU desktops MUST be being counted as Windows. Nobody asked ME how many copies of Linux I gave away!
Someone (Clemons?) once said there are three kinds of lies - lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Thank you for that. I stopped voting Republicrat a long time ago.
I want marijuana lagalized. The Republiceats don't. I want prostitution legalized (what unfuckable nerd doesn't?) The Republicrats don't. I want gambling legalized. The Republicrats don't.
I want the DMCA and Bono act repealed. The Republicrats don't.
I want the Republicrats to stop the sellout of jobs to foreign countries to stop. The Republicrats, both wings of whose whose campaigns are financed by BP, Shell, Sony, and the like, don't.
My country's government is run by people who owe their power to foreigners.
So I've been splitting my vote between the Greens and Libertarians. Because a vote for a person who is going to pass laws that are contrary to my interests is worse than a wasted vote. A vote for a person whose campaign is financed by foreigners is IMO a traitorous vote.
Come in here, Dear boy, have a cigar. You're gonna go far, You're gonna fly high, You're never gonna die, You're gonna make it, if you try; They're gonna love you. Well I've always had a deep respect, And I mean that most sincerely. The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think. Oh by the way, which one's Pink?
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy? We call it Riding the Gravy Train.
We're just knocked out. We heard about the sell out. You gotta get an album out. You owe it to the people. We're so happy we can hardly count. Everybody else is just green, Have you seen the chart? It's a hell of a start, It could be made into a monster If we all pull together as a team.
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy? We call it Riding the Gravy Train.
I agree, nothing whatever wrong with it. That's because I'm not forced to put up with it, like I am with other MS programs. YMMV.
If they downgrade* from XP to Vista at work then I'll probably be singing a different tune. But the fact that I not only had no use for Vista nor am forced to use it at work
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Most likely everybody and his dog submitted this story right as I was submitting it this morning. I'm trying to see some good news in this, and I think I found it as I was submitting. It's that damned exclamation point! My headline read "Microsoft to buy Yahoo!?
Mr. Ballmer, if you succeed in your takeove of Yahoo! please, for the sake of bloggers and slashdot submitters everywhere (yeah, I know, you can't be too happy with us GNU kids on the block), get rid of that stupid dotcomyuppified exclamation mark.
Before slashdotters comment on the irony of my coining a new word by stringing together old words, it was deliberate.
I just thought of another good thing - maybe Yahoo and Microsoft! Will both go broke. I mean, it's hell here in Springfield (You guys know my ex-wife Satan lives here, right?) and we got a foot of snow last night.
-mcgrew
Still meaningless. It doesn't count the half dozen or so copies I gave away.
Since there is only one broadband provider in my town, the Capital of Illinois, the free market doesn't apply.
That brings to mind two versions of an old joke.
----
A priest, a rabbi, and a lawyer are on the titanic when it strikes an iceberg.
The rabbi exclaims "save the children!"
The lawyer snarls "fuck the children!"
The priest exclaims "no time for that!"
----
A priest and a rabbi see a homeless child hudddled in a doorway shivering. The rabbi says "oh dear, what should we do for this poor child?"
The priest says "easy, take him home and fuck him!"
The rabbi says "out of what?"
----
PLEASE mod this disgusting comment down! Think of the children!
Nor should it; they should only count legitimate, licensed copies. The GPL says that all the copies I gave away are legitimate, licensed copies, while the copies of Windows passed around among friends are illegal.
His dad.
If they're counting downloads only, then only the copy I downloaded would count, and none of the half dozen or so I gave away count. None of the ones I gave away count, even though they're all legal and proper.
There is no meaningful statistic on the number of Linux desktops, period.
In that case Linux should account for about 99% of the market share!
No, not robots. Cyborgs. I'm a cyborg. The Vice President of the US is a cyborg. Your grandma is probably a cyborg.
You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
OMG PLEASE tell me booze isn't going away!!!
BTW, the magic number is 42, not 40.
Offtopic for the article but on topic for your comment, I'm old enough to remember when they said "Never trust anyone over 30".
They were right. They should have added, however, that you shouldn't trust anyone under 31 either.
I agree, it's a stupid statement. Ethernet may be superceded by newer technologies, but there will always be uses for a local network.
Some networks, for example, should never be connected to the internet in any way.
Exactly who's dignity is being affronted, the clones?
No, the cloned. Didn't you see the Star Trek episode where they cloned Riker?
The other two I'll agree with you on,
Insightful? The above post shows no insight whatever. God is NOT an"invisible super-beings thing". That would be a black hole or an antiphoton, not God. God is only invisible to those who close their eyes to him.
I am deeply offended by the parent poster's rhetoric. The above post was flambait and should be modded as such, whatever your beliefs. Do I have to flame your God Damned ass to prove it to the stupoid fucktard mods?
Fuck off, asshole.
Geek? What does the Pope say about swallowing live animals?
"Dammit Jim, I'm a nerd, not a geek!"
At first glnce I read the headline as "Dope Denounces Some Biotech as Affront to 'Human Dignity'". Chalk it up to endorphins, the weather change made my arthritis hurt like hell yesterday. Now THAT was an affront to my human dignity, I'll tell you!
The pope may not be a dope, but the idea that artificial insemination is an "affront to human dignity" is a dopey idea. Many Catholic ideas are pretty dopey IMO (of course, I'm sure many Catholics will think some of my beliefs are pretty dopey as well).
An example of what I'm talking about is the "seven deadly sins". Where in the Bible did they get the idea that laziness is a sin? And don't point me to the Old Testament, because the old testament says eating pork is a sin. And how about lust? When a young man lusts after a young woman and the lust grows to love and they marry, how is that a sin?
There are in fact ten deadly sins. Moses brought them down from the mountain.
I would agree with the pope about human cloning, but most definitely not embryonic stem cell research. Rather than an affront to human dignity, it may lead to cures for diseases that ARE affronts to human dignity. Just ask Al Scheimers. Oh wait, Al is pissing his pants and drooling. Human dignity, you say?
-mcgrew
OT but why is a comment subject allowed fewer characters than a summary subject? And why was "human dignity" in quotations?
That was the year I installed Linux on my computer. I don't care what OS anybody else uses.
I could say that an asteroid could potentially hit the Earth this year
So lomg as an assteroid doesn't hit me I guess it's ok.
How do they come up with this figure? Microsoft can count every PC sold with Windows installed plus other licenses sold, Apple can count computers sold, but GNU can be freely given away.
I gave copies of Mandriva to several people last year. None of these copies of that OS is counted as a desktop OS; they are counted as Windows, since they were either added to Windows machines as dual boot or replaced Windows completely.
A lot of GNU desktops MUST be being counted as Windows. Nobody asked ME how many copies of Linux I gave away!
Someone (Clemons?) once said there are three kinds of lies - lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-mcgrew
(don't bother with today's journal)
Republicans = Democrats = Sold out
Thank you for that. I stopped voting Republicrat a long time ago.
I want marijuana lagalized. The Republiceats don't. I want prostitution legalized (what unfuckable nerd doesn't?) The Republicrats don't. I want gambling legalized. The Republicrats don't.
I want the DMCA and Bono act repealed. The Republicrats don't.
I want the Republicrats to stop the sellout of jobs to foreign countries to stop. The Republicrats, both wings of whose whose campaigns are financed by BP, Shell, Sony, and the like, don't.
My country's government is run by people who owe their power to foreigners.
So I've been splitting my vote between the Greens and Libertarians. Because a vote for a person who is going to pass laws that are contrary to my interests is worse than a wasted vote. A vote for a person whose campaign is financed by foreigners is IMO a traitorous vote.
-mcgrew
Come in here, Dear boy, have a cigar.
You're gonna go far,
You're gonna fly high,
You're never gonna die,
You're gonna make it, if you try;
They're gonna love you.
Well I've always had a deep respect,
And I mean that most sincerely.
The band is just fantastic,
that is really what I think.
Oh by the way, which one's Pink?
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it Riding the Gravy Train.
We're just knocked out.
We heard about the sell out.
You gotta get an album out.
You owe it to the people.
We're so happy we can hardly count.
Everybody else is just green,
Have you seen the chart?
It's a hell of a start,
It could be made into a monster
If we all pull together as a team.
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it Riding the Gravy Train.
-Pink Floyd
(Shine on, you crazy diamond!)
(emphasis by mcgrew)
who can understand Italians?[1]
[1] No one, not even other Italians.
My sister's husband is Italian, you insensitive clod.
Nobody unbderstands him though.
I agree, nothing whatever wrong with it. That's because I'm not forced to put up with it, like I am with other MS programs. YMMV.
If they downgrade* from XP to Vista at work then I'll probably be singing a different tune. But the fact that I not only had no use for Vista nor am forced to use it at work
Thank God for GNU.
-mcgrew
*I must not be new here (I'm not new, I'm GNU)
Now they want to have a war on filesharing! A WAR ON FILESHARING! We ought to have a war on war, suckers! We ought to have a war on this senseless...
Cary Sherman? Is that you?
-mcgrew