Linux-Advocacy Digest #593, Volume #33 Sat, 14 Apr 01 02:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: DOWN TO THE SIG LINE (Was: Re: Blame it all on Microsoft ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Blame it all on Microsoft ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Blame it all on Microsoft ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Blame it all on Microsoft ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Blame it all on Microsoft ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Blame it all on Microsoft ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: MS and ISP's ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: MS and ISP's ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.theory,comp.arch,comp.object
Subject: Re: DOWN TO THE SIG LINE (Was: Re: Blame it all on Microsoft
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 01:19:38 -0400
2 + 2 wrote:
>
> Aaron R. Kulkis wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
>
> [snipped and carried out to the trashbin, thank you]
> [I know, I know, the smell was bad, someone had to do it]
>
> >> shut the fuck up before you wind up in court? Accusing a person of
> >
> >make me.
> >
> >> a crime they did not commit is itself a crime. You are, apparently,
> >> a criminal.
> >
> >JUDGE JACKSON HIMSELF said that they were lying, you ignorant sack of shit.
>
> Look buddy, you mess with US and down you go to the sig line
>
> [looks down to the lower subsections]
> [[yells] ANY ROOM DOWN THERE?]
> [[reply] no, the basal lobes are COMPLETELY OVERLOADED]
>
> Ok, then, you get off this time.
> Our mental processes are full.
>
> But watch out, next time, it's DOWN TO THE SIG LINE!!!
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> 2 + 2
>
> PS, hey bud
> What about we start some room in the sig line for helpful people
> like myself, such as:
> "G: 2 + 2: What a brilliant guy!!!!
You have no understanding of my work.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
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K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.theory,comp.arch,comp.object
Subject: Re: Blame it all on Microsoft
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 01:20:42 -0400
Jerry Coffin wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
> [ ... ]
>
> > JUDGE JACKSON HIMSELF said that they were lying, you ignorant sack of shit.
>
> Yes, and the appeals court has made it clear that if it was in their
> power, they'd get Judge Jackson removed immediately. They openly
> stated that his comments were grossly inappropriate at best; they
> made it clear that his judgement was poor (a serious accusation when
> his entire job of a judge is to show, well, good judgement) and
> probably bordered on being a crime in and of itself.
You're saying that Jackson risks facing criminal counts for his comments?
Man, you're stupid.
>
> In short, Judge Jackson's comments prove a lot more about Judge
> Jackson himself than they ever have or will about Microsoft.
>
> --
> Later,
> Jerry.
>
> The Universe is a figment of its own imagination.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.theory,comp.arch,comp.object
Subject: Re: Blame it all on Microsoft
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 01:27:19 -0400
Ed Allen wrote:
>
> In article <9b35k2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Considering that they're both a lying sacks of shit, caught red-handed
> >> committing perjury in Federal Court....let's just say that i don't
> >> trust a word they say.
> >
> >It's not their word I'm questioning. It's yours. Why? I've heard about three
> >different stories about where Microsoft stole Basic from, and if you have the
> >straight poop I'd love to read it.
> >
> >I'm quite prepared to believe Paul Allen did it, by the way. Or that it was
> >borrowed. I just don't believe any of the stories I've seen so far without
> >some kind of evidence.
> >
> http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/gates.htm
>
> NATIONAL MUSEUM
> OF AMERICAN HISTORY
>
> SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
>
> Transcript of a Video History Interview with Mr. William "Bill" Gates
>
> ----- About one fourth of the way down ----
> In any case, the PDP-10 was an exciting machine to be involved with
> because a lot of university campuses were getting these things and
> doing time-sharing. It was being used in a lot of new applications. And
> DEC was very much the up and coming company in computers. People were
> doing great peripherals to hook-up to these things. They were doing some
> awfully good system software.
>
> The BASIC they did which we got ahold of the BASIC source code and
> enhanced it quite a bit was great. They had AID and FORTRAN. They didn't
> have a very good COBOL until a little bit later on. But it was a very
> solid time-sharing system. Lots of great experimentation going on with it.
> ------------------------------------------
>
> He has told the dumpster diving and "we bought surplus tapes which had
> the source to DEC basic" elsewhere. I just cannot find the links right
> now.
>
> He may not recall what really happened after so long a time and so many
> spin sessions.
Regardless...the truth is quite evident.
He gives the source (DEC tapes), and the use of CTRL-Z as end-of-file
is the smoking gun.
>
> --
> Linux -- The Unix defragmentation tool.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.theory,comp.arch,comp.object
Subject: Re: Blame it all on Microsoft
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 01:28:26 -0400
Chad Everett wrote:
>
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 17:09:49 GMT, The Ghost In The Machine
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Chad Everett
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote
> >on 12 Apr 2001 17:09:51 -0500
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >>On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:23:02 -0600, Jerry Coffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>says...
> >>>
> >>>[ ... ]
> >>>
> >>>> Yes, and you can construct bad trees that require exponential time to
> >>>> search -- in reality it rarely happens [/me sticks his neck out on
> >>>> that assertation].
> >>>
> >>>You're not really sticking it out very far -- testing with
> >>>generational scavengers seems to agree quite closely.
> >>>
> >>>> If you view a program as a tree of objects,
> >>>> stemming from the root object, you would end up with a tree and not a
> >>>> list, albeit with circular references.
> >>>
> >>>Which is to say that it's a graph, not a tree. A tree would be an
> >>>acyclic graph, where this is a more general graph that may contain
> >>>cycles.
> >>
> >>A tree is an acyclic, connected graph, not just acyclic.
> >
> >Pedant point: so is a DAG. :-)
> >
> >A tree needs to include the requirement that nodes aren't entered
> >more than once (they can be exited as many times as required, however).
> >
>
> This is not a requirement of a tree. It is a property of a tree when
> it is explored. A tree is an acyclic, connected graph...period.
>
> Hey this is fun! :)
Chad is correct.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Blame it all on Microsoft
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 01:32:20 -0400
Ed Allen wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> GreyCloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >What about BOB? :-)
>
> Before they were married Bill's wife headed a project to "simplify"
> the "computing experience".
>
> It was never part of the monopoly bundle so it sold as an extra cost add
> on. Hardly anybody bought it. Even newbies thought it was too unreal.
>
> Bill got a wife out of it though and now the bundle comes equipped with
> Clippy.
>
> For XP they are not only removing Clippy but are actually trying to
> convince people that "It's less annoying" is a compelling reason to
> upgrade.
>
> MS has a reputation as a company filled with marketing geniuses but as
> their monopoly starts crumbling we can see that it has all been because
> of the monopoly since very early on.
>
> They have had campaigns where they put down their own product by
> claiming that W2K was thirteen times as reliable and therefore "worth"
> ten times the price.
>
> They have addressed complaints that their software crashed too often
> with "This one reboots faster".
>
> Their Astroturf campaign was exposed before it even got past the
> planning stage and their response was "Other companies do it too".
>
> They have resorted to trying to hide DOS so they can pretend "It really
> is all 32-bit".
>
> Not marketing genius, just lock in contracts with the major OEMs.
........achieved through extortion.
>
I just wanted to see that again
> --
> Linux -- The Unix defragmentation tool.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
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can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.theory,comp.arch,comp.object
Subject: Re: Blame it all on Microsoft
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 01:34:33 -0400
Russell Easterly wrote:
>
> I will switch to LINUX when it can reliably run
> Windows NT as a sub-process.
>
http://www.vmware.com/
> Russell
> - I want BillG to be my daddy
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS and ISP's
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 01:37:36 -0400
"T. Max Devlin" wrote:
>
> Said Aaron R. Kulkis in alt.destroy.microsoft on Wed, 11 Apr 2001
> [...]
> >Not only that, but Gates...excuse me, William Gates III, is
> >an elitist trust-fund baby....
>
> Actually, he's really William Henry Gates the IV, but legally his name
> is simply William Henry Gates. The pretentious "the third" didn't show
> up until he was a very rich man.
He's ALWAYS been rich. How else do you think he got into an Ivy league
school in the 1960's (before they were a competitive lot), and his mom
just HAPPENED to hang out with IBM executives on a regular basis..
>
> --
> T. Max Devlin
> *** The best way to convince another is
> to state your case moderately and
> accurately. - Benjamin Franklin ***
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS and ISP's
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 01:39:29 -0400
JS PL wrote:
>
> "Chad Everett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 00:22:17 -0400, JS PL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >"T. Max Devlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > >> Said JS PL in alt.destroy.microsoft on Mon, 9 Apr 2001 12:42:54 -0400;
> > >> [...]
> > >> >MS holds no "right" to be on all computers, but my power company holds
> > >the
> > >> >"right" to be my sole supplier of electricity. That is a true
> monopoly.
> > >[...]
> > >>
> > >> Sounds more like a true public utility. Tell me, is this "right" that
> > >> they have something they always have by their nature, or something
> which
> > >> is imbued unto them from outside?
> > >
> > >It doesn't matter. They are the lawfully granted the right to be the sole
> > >supplier of electricity. No one else may sell electricity in their area.
> A
> > >person who puts up a windmill, or any type of generator may not sell the
> > >electricity they produce, except back to the monopoly holder in my area.
> And
> > >I like the term "sell back" as if it was once and is always theirs. That
> is
> > >a true monopoly.
> > >
> >
> > You're forgetting a crucial detail there pal. If they are granted this
> right
> > in the manner you describe, then there also exists a government entity
> called
> > a public utilities commission (or something similar) that acts as an
> oversite
> > over the company. The government agency has the power to dictate what the
> > company may and may not do, what they can charge for their product or
> service,
> > it can fine the company for violations or actions that it deems is bad for
> > the consumer, etc., etc.
> >
> > Are you suggesting that a similar government oversite be done for
> Microsoft?
> > Sounds like you are.
>
> Why would I suggest that, dumb ass. Microsoft isn't a monopoly.
Yes it is.
Microsoft itself has not challenged Judge Jackson's "Findings of FACT"
Therefore it is a LEGAL FACT that Microsoft is a monopoly.
Hope that helps, MORON.
>
> Here's the part you snipped:
>
> Microsoft has neither exclusive control over operating systems or a right
> granted by a government.
> No one has or ever had the exclusive control over operating systems.
> At least thats what I would assume considering that this page exists:
> http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
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K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
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