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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: kent on 5 November 2002, 20:35

Title: Maybe it is too expensive to get rid of MS, but ...
Post by: kent on 5 November 2002, 20:35: "One World, One Web, One Program"
- Microsoft promotional ad

"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein F
Title: Maybe it is too expensive to get rid of MS, but ...
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 5 November 2002, 21:06: quote:
"One World, One Web, One Program"
- Microsoft promotional ad

"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein F
Title: Maybe it is too expensive to get rid of MS, but ...
Post by: foobar on 5 November 2002, 22:20: I've seen that German thingy (ein Reich, etc c) on an anti-M$ website somewhere ... are you part of that, Kent?

edit: nice article, btw ...

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Title: Maybe it is too expensive to get rid of MS, but ...
Post by: TB on 6 November 2002, 00:15: There parallels between Hitler and Gates do seem to go somewhat deeper........or i'm just overanalysing.

In the 1930's the way the powers that be handled Hitler was through appeasement, i.e. give him what he wants and hopefully we wont have to go to war. Microsoft equivalent - the past years of M$'s unchecked corporate terrorism, the DoJ's settlement which is little more than surrender. The release Palladium/TCPA will be the formal declaration of war in Gates' attempt to eradicate the users of free software ala Hitler's Holocaust. Perhaps Redmond will become the site of the 21st century equivalent of the Nuremberg trials??? Perhaps more interestingly, what will be the M$ equivalent of D-day???
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Post by: Doctor V on 6 November 2002, 07:05: Hitler II, thats a fitting name. He really does want world domination.

The US freedom and democracy are buried.

This is true.

Enjoy well-covered tyranny.

Never! Theres got to be somewhere to run to. Do you think Canada will be able to stand strong against the evil influence from the south? Can Australia keep the greedy pigopolist's fingers off their shores? Will Eng...uh nevremind.

V
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Post by: enigma on 6 November 2002, 10:54: quote:
Originally posted by Kent B.:
Does the Bush family have interest in Kuwait oil? Can it explain war activity in the Middle East? (Conflicts are a good reason to enter US troops into).

to be COMPLETELY fair... they DID fuck up our towers... now they just look like little, stubs.. like bin laden dicks or something... but yeah... i do think you have a point with that whole Bill Hitler thing...

Bill Gates...
Adolf Hitler...
One in the same...

its sooo true!

Im not sure what the point of this next statement is, but ok.

whenever my teachers tell me to do something, or the security guards hassle me and tell me to do anything i march downthe hall with my arm straight out and saying "Jah mine F
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Post by: TB on 9 November 2002, 22:49: This is off topic in a way but it's in reply to somethin brought up. In regards to Bush's oil interests.....I thought it was bleeding obvious. If Bush can get his grubby mits on Iraqi oil (their reserves are second in size only to Saudi Arabia) then America can free their proverbial cojones from the grips of OPEC. Shit, Bush's buddies in Texas are gonna be yee-hawin their way to the bank. Unocal has already started building an oil pipeline through Afghanistan (which the Taliban was against....gee i wonder why Bush was so keen on having them ousted?). So let's see....Iraq oil + untapped reserves in Bangladesh (discovered by Unocal) + Afghan pipeline (which will flow straight into a market consisting a third of the world's population) = a LOT of $$$.

IMO Bush's "War on Terror" equates to "War for Oil and endless money". Opinions, anyone?
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Post by: rtgwbmsr on 10 November 2002, 00:07: Ummm...why the hell isn't M$ paying taxes?!
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Post by: TB on 12 November 2002, 06:22: why isnt M$ paying taxes??? Ummmm........shouldnt you be asking why isnt ALL OF CORPORATE AMERICA paying taxes????

But the answer is simple.....they're rich enough to exploit loopholes in the tax system. My brother-in-law used to work for Arthur Andersen but he quit because he had a guilty conscience over what he was doing.
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Post by: Pissed_Macman on 12 November 2002, 08:10: Republicans now control the senate, which essentially means that the most powerful nation in the world is being controlled by a bunch of hillbillies. Does this scare anyone else?

Kent B, can I use your rant for my website?

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Post by: Pissed_Macman on 12 November 2002, 08:13: Republicans now control the senate, which essentially means that the most powerful nation in the world is being controlled by a bunch of hillbillies. Does this scare anyone else?
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Post by: TB on 12 November 2002, 21:38: Great........maybe we can make a new TV show - the white house hillbillies! Hell they could use their real names.......i mean we got George, George jr and his brother Jeb (now that's a hick name if i ever heard one).

Now all we need are some lyrics to the opening theme.
"Come now and listen to a story about a boy named george........"
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Post by: voidmain on 12 November 2002, 21:59: This doesn't scare me in the least. I would rather have hillbillies than bums. At least something might actually get done for a change.
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Post by: Calum on 12 November 2002, 20:45: quote:
Originally posted by Got Root?:

to be COMPLETELY fair... they DID fuck up our towers... now they just look like little, stubs.. like bin laden dicks or something... but yeah... ]

who did? oh you mean 'THE WHOLE MIDDLE EAST' do you? yup, those filthy towel headed bastards deserve to be wiped of the face of the united planet of america right enough...

don't get me started. (http://members.lycos.co.uk/polytheism/images/smiles/icon_confused.gif)

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Post by: preacher on 12 November 2002, 22:08: MS cant hurt those of us who choose not to use their product.
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Post by: Calum on 12 November 2002, 22:20: not true, or why would we be posting here?
As RMS is so fond of pointing out, the closed software community is always threatening to stop or put back some aspect of the open software community. In the same way, the conservative party, for instance, are always a threat to the labour administration, regardless of how foolish they look. This is because some people think one way and some think another. Whatever a lot of people use becomes a standard, now that the net exists, and the market, and more importantly the user base, follows along. If only proprietary standards are set, then open style computing is in a lot of trouble.