"Adam D. McKenna" wrote:
>
> From: Kai MacTane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Unfortunately, MS' various departments and spokesthings have foisted
> > nonsense of a similar level of ludicrousness on the public too many times.
> > They say, in their deadpan way, "NT is at least as robust and scalable as
> > Linux", and "We integrated IE 4 with the operating system to benefit
> > consumers" and "We are winning our court case with the DoJ", and you can
> > only laugh uproariously at such things so many times before it sinks in:
> > these whackos are *serious!*
> >
> > Then it stops being funny. It gets kind of ominous, in a Big-Brother-esque
> > kind of way, and that starts to infect your (or at least, my) view of
> > similar statements.
> >
> > In fact, seeing such a thing on the Qmail list would probably be a bit
> > creepy, if I weren't sure you know better. :)
> >
> > "Bill Gates? Isn't he the guy who invented the Internet, back in 1995?"
> > <shudder>
>
> Would you believe me if I told you that you grasped the exact sentiment that I
> was trying to convey with that joke?
>
> That was pretty... surreal :)
>
> --Adam
Sorry to continue this completely off-topic thread, but... I was
speaking to someone about Microsoft and he said that Microsoft invented
OO (object oriented programming). I mentioned to him that a statement of
such absuridty would put some people in a fury--he then continued to
defend the position--he was serious.
One thing Microsoft has contributed to science (social science, anyway).
It has proved that brainwashing on a massive scale is possible.
--
Joel Shellman
knOcean Interactive Corporation
http://corp.knOcean.com/
