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- by David "cdlu" Graham -
In his latest attempt to quell the Linux uprising, Microsoft mastermind Bill Gates has pledged over $2,500,000.00 to George Bush's 2004 election campaign if he passes a law that bans anyone born in Finland from working in the United States, and condemns all existing Finnish natives living in the US to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba's Camp X-ray, where they are to be collectively punished for the un-American ways of one unidentified resident Finn.
In his latest attempt to quell the Linux uprising, Microsoft mastermind Bill Gates has pledged over $2,500,000.00 to George Bush's 2004 election campaign if he passes a law that bans anyone born in Finland from working in the United States, and condemns all existing Finnish natives living in the US to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba's Camp X-ray, where they are to be collectively punished for the un-American ways of one unidentified resident Finn.
A Finnish citizen working in the U.S., who we will call "Linut" to preserve his anonymity, says he does not believe this effort is directed at him.
"I'm just here having fun working on my pet project," said Linut in a telephone interview earlier today from his office at the Open Source Development Lab.
Gates says his efforts will help maintain the purity of yesterday's software industry. "The software industry is finished with these scandalous Scandinavians," he told a business audience in Seattle last Friday. Gates continued, "They are destroying the very fabric of American life - profits, theft, abuse, and slander!" which was greeted with thunderous applause from the audience of more than a dozen executives.
George Bush, for his part, said that the banning of all Finns from the United States was an excellent and patriotic idea worthy of little study and quick, thoughtless execution. At least, that's what we think he said.
France's Jaques Chirac reacted this afternoon, saying that this effort would be a boost to his country's software industry, but suggested that the banning of all Finns from the United States would require a United Nations Security Council resolution before it could be carried out.
Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen's office released a statement last night that all Finland's remaining software contracts with Microsoft would be cancelled if this effort went through.
President Bush has ordered the Microsoft Windows-operated USS Yorktown to the North Sea to await further instructions.
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer has been dispatched to Finland to offer inexpensive software deals to the Finnish government.
Linut, meanwhile, says he is not un-American. "It used to be illegal to profiteer in the United States," he said, "who is the criminal?"
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If that's the case, then "Linut" <A HREF="http://www.gcn.com/archives/gcn/1998/july13/cov2.htm" TITLE="gcn.com">has nothing to worry about</a gcn.com>.
Bill could better offer this ape 2,500,000 bananas instead of dollars.
You'll believe anything bad that someone says about GWB. Apparently you missed the left-handed comment about the media's gullibility.
You'll believe anything bad that someone says about GWB.
And you'll disbelieve any thing bad. There are reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do, and this is not a time for remarks like that; there never is. Dissenters will be addressed on a <A HREF="http://archive.salon.com/politics/red/2001/07/20/blue/print.html" TITLE="salon.com">case</a salon.com> by <A HREF="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/030720/80/e4lhv.html" TITLE="yahoo.com">case</a yahoo.com> basis.
And you'll disbelieve any thing bad.
Oh, is it tit for tat now? Too bad you couldn't come up with something more creative. Besides, I have my own problems with the Bush administration, but at least I haven't stooped to name-calling, especially in a top-level comment.
By the way, you might want to read the Salon article a little more closely. It has some rather pointed words for you.
Oh, is it tit for tat now? Too bad you couldn't come up with something more creative. Besides, I have my own problems with the Bush administration, but at least I haven't stooped to name-calling, especially in a top-level comment.
By the way, you might want to read the Salon article a little more closely. It has some rather pointed words for you.
(I'm not the root level poster)
To criticize (call names, create satire, etc) is at the heart of political dissension.
The next thing you'll be saying is that the founding fathers were the most civil people in the world, they never did anything illegal and never called anyone names!
Of course, one of the primary acts of patriotism that we talk about them committing was vandalizing a corporate freighter and tossing it's cargo overboard. Not that I disagree with that, it was a good gesture of civil disobedience. However, compared to that, I wouldn't exactly call name-calling "stooping". It's called protected political speech, bub - live with it or shut the hell up.
To criticize (call names, create satire, etc) is at the heart of political dissension.
The next thing you'll be saying is that the founding fathers were the most civil people in the world, they never did anything illegal and never called anyone names!
Of course, one of the primary acts of patriotism that we talk about them committing was vandalizing a corporate freighter and tossing it's cargo overboard. Not that I disagree with that, it was a good gesture of civil disobedience. However, compared to that, I wouldn't exactly call name-calling "stooping". It's called protected political speech, bub - live with it or shut the hell up.
(I'm not the root level poster)
Point taken, but you might consider getting a username. Or not, it's your choice; just don't be surprised when people confuse you with someone else.
To criticize (call names, create satire, etc) is at the heart of political dissension.
It's one thing to criticize based on facts, quite another to call names. It's the difference between ad rem and ad hominem arguments.
The next thing you'll be saying is that the founding fathers were the most civil people in the world, they never did anything illegal and never called anyone names!
I have said, and will say no such things. I know that the Founding Fathers were contentious, loud-mouthed, stubborn hell-raisers. Anything less and we would still be British colonies.
Of course, one of the primary acts of patriotism that we talk about them committing was vandalizing a corporate freighter and tossing it's cargo overboard. Not that I disagree with that, it was a good gesture of civil disobedience.
I agree with you unreservedly.
However, compared to that, I wouldn't exactly call name-calling "stooping". It's called protected political speech, bub - live with it or shut the hell up.
Isn't that contradicting yourself? You claim the right to state your disagreement with me. I have that same right, but nowhere on this board have I told anyone to "shut the hell up," nor will I. Free speech for everybody, or for nobody.
"The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us." -- Mario Cuomo
Point taken, but you might consider getting a username. Or not, it's your choice; just don't be surprised when people confuse you with someone else.
To criticize (call names, create satire, etc) is at the heart of political dissension.
It's one thing to criticize based on facts, quite another to call names. It's the difference between ad rem and ad hominem arguments.
The next thing you'll be saying is that the founding fathers were the most civil people in the world, they never did anything illegal and never called anyone names!
I have said, and will say no such things. I know that the Founding Fathers were contentious, loud-mouthed, stubborn hell-raisers. Anything less and we would still be British colonies.
Of course, one of the primary acts of patriotism that we talk about them committing was vandalizing a corporate freighter and tossing it's cargo overboard. Not that I disagree with that, it was a good gesture of civil disobedience.
I agree with you unreservedly.
However, compared to that, I wouldn't exactly call name-calling "stooping". It's called protected political speech, bub - live with it or shut the hell up.
Isn't that contradicting yourself? You claim the right to state your disagreement with me. I have that same right, but nowhere on this board have I told anyone to "shut the hell up," nor will I. Free speech for everybody, or for nobody.
"The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us." -- Mario Cuomo
You'll believe anything bad that someone says about GWB.
At least I don't believe GWB himself. Like Linus Torvalds would say: "He's lying.".
At least I don't believe GWB himself. Like Linus Torvalds would say: "He's lying.".
Bush hasn't told a truth since he learned to talk coherently (about a year ago)... If it'd be up to him, this whole world be one big war-mongering microsoft product to sell for a license at the "great-american-mall" and anyone who would speak against over even fantasise about any form of open source would be quarantined indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay.
Another one? Another what?
I mean, even besides this being labelled as humor and the end of the story being fake as hell, the prospect of Gates paying Bush the lesser for a favor and the prospect of Bush accepting a bribe for a favor are, well, matters of public record at this point.
Perhaps the reason that some of us can believe anything bad about Bush the lesser is because he is a truly corrupt individual surrounded by other truly corrupt individuals.
If you can't see this for what it is... all I have to say is open your eyes! Look around you and see what is going on. It's not like you have to look far to see what they're doing.
I mean, even besides this being labelled as humor and the end of the story being fake as hell, the prospect of Gates paying Bush the lesser for a favor and the prospect of Bush accepting a bribe for a favor are, well, matters of public record at this point.
Perhaps the reason that some of us can believe anything bad about Bush the lesser is because he is a truly corrupt individual surrounded by other truly corrupt individuals.
If you can't see this for what it is... all I have to say is open your eyes! Look around you and see what is going on. It's not like you have to look far to see what they're doing.
Hey, you people voted for this clown, didn't you?
You get what you ask for.
You get what you ask for.
> Hey, you people voted for this clown, didn't you?
> You get what you ask for.
True!, but why the whole world has to pay for their mistake??
r-dish
> You get what you ask for.
True!, but why the whole world has to pay for their mistake??
r-dish
Damn straight.. just `coz the americans are so fucking stupid and vote for a puppet of a coke head who has the intelligence of an infant, why the hell does the whole world have to suffer and so many innocent people die??? So that americans can keep consuming and consuming on the cost and behalf of the rest of the world????? That shit ain't right... IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!!
I didn't vote for him... and he didn't win the election, either.
A better phrasing:
Don't blame me. I voted for the guy who won.
Translate. Print. Apply to T-Shirt. You are now ready to travel to another country.
Don't blame me. I voted for the guy who won.
Translate. Print. Apply to T-Shirt. You are now ready to travel to another country.
No actually we didn't. We voted for Al Gore who won the popular vote and the election, but were screwed by Bush's brother Jeb and by the crooked Ms. Harris.
So NO we didn't vote for him and we sure as hell didn't "ask" for this. This election was hyjacked by the corrupt Republicans in Florida.
History is going to be very unkind to what happened in the previous election.
So NO we didn't vote for him and we sure as hell didn't "ask" for this. This election was hyjacked by the corrupt Republicans in Florida.
History is going to be very unkind to what happened in the previous election.
Actually, I dont think Bush is corruptible.
I think he is naive and stupid, but for this reason he is very unlikely to be corruptible.
He tends to see the world in black & white and therefor he surely thinks of corruptions as "bad".
Therefor he'll never let himself accept any bribe.
Said that, he IS surrounded by powerplayers whom he trusts and who are able to make him do whatever they want. And I would be supprised if none of these guys are corruptible.
So, if you want to bribe Bush, forget it, bribe his advisors instead.
Disclaimer : I have no evidence whatsoever for above psychological analysis, but usually i'm pretty good at judging characters.
I think he is naive and stupid, but for this reason he is very unlikely to be corruptible.
He tends to see the world in black & white and therefor he surely thinks of corruptions as "bad".
Therefor he'll never let himself accept any bribe.
Said that, he IS surrounded by powerplayers whom he trusts and who are able to make him do whatever they want. And I would be supprised if none of these guys are corruptible.
So, if you want to bribe Bush, forget it, bribe his advisors instead.
Disclaimer : I have no evidence whatsoever for above psychological analysis, but usually i'm pretty good at judging characters.
right
Thanks for the needed chuckle. Problem is, there is still the smell of pork in the air. Pork as in "Fascist Pigs"
I think it's come time to light a fire under their ass and make bacon...
Let's make a list, shall we:
George W. Bush
Dick Cheney
Karl Rove
Donald Rumsfeld
John Ashcroft
William Gates III
Darl McBride
Chris Sontag
Ransom Love (who, if people remember, was the true founder of Caldera's... err... I mean "SCO"'s current anti-GNU/Linux behavior)
This list will grow to include more of these fascists as their crimes against humanity are exposed. I'm quite certain I've left quite a few of them out.
These fascists should be publicly exposed for what they are, and the masses should learn to act in the faith of the masses, and not this follower-style neo-conservative lapdog fly-a-flag-and-you're-instantly-a-patriot crap.
Let's make a list, shall we:
George W. Bush
Dick Cheney
Karl Rove
Donald Rumsfeld
John Ashcroft
William Gates III
Darl McBride
Chris Sontag
Ransom Love (who, if people remember, was the true founder of Caldera's... err... I mean "SCO"'s current anti-GNU/Linux behavior)
This list will grow to include more of these fascists as their crimes against humanity are exposed. I'm quite certain I've left quite a few of them out.
These fascists should be publicly exposed for what they are, and the masses should learn to act in the faith of the masses, and not this follower-style neo-conservative lapdog fly-a-flag-and-you're-instantly-a-patriot crap.
Rice. You forgot to add tha to the dinner<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;)
Afaik the German fleet is operated by the linut operating system<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
Guess our Nato allies use Unix derivates too.
Guess our Nato allies use Unix derivates too.
With all the Homeland Security activity going on, this isn't even funny. One wonders how far fetched such an idea is.
- DonCornelius
- DonCornelius
This posting is even scarrier. Should we all buy a copy of Robert Conquest's "The Great Terror"?
Chaplin's Little Diktator did more to ridicule and minimize Hitler , than all the serious propaganda that the Gov and media put out.
Humor is a powerful weapon, and if it doesn't work at least it gives relief.
Chaplin's Little Diktator did more to ridicule and minimize Hitler , than all the serious propaganda that the Gov and media put out.
Humor is a powerful weapon, and if it doesn't work at least it gives relief.
Here's a few other suggestions for fiction articles:
1. Moon travel was shot in New Mexico.
2. DDos attack causes Titantic to sink.
3. Linux overtakes Microsoft in market share.
4. Linux is most secure operating system.
1. Moon travel was shot in New Mexico.
2. DDos attack causes Titantic to sink.
3. Linux overtakes Microsoft in market share.
4. Linux is most secure operating system.
They are all true, aren't they?
#3 is not impossible in the future and #4 is not terribly far from the truth.
(note: I'm a security analyst and I'm not talking about base-install copies of Red Hat or Mandrake. I'm talking about professionally hardened systems.)
(note: I'm a security analyst and I'm not talking about base-install copies of Red Hat or Mandrake. I'm talking about professionally hardened systems.)
Smell the coffee.
M$ Winblows and Office sales have run into a brick wall. China and India are working to staunch the flow of their money to a giant blood-sucking US corporation, and the rest of the world isn't far behind. That's why M$ is busy looking for new ways to ream users in the US by forcing them to buy intrinsically valueless upgrades.
They've also pretty much pissed in the well here in the US - fewer competive ideas are reaching market because so many know M$ will kill off anything remotely threatening. The vitality and creativity native to the US is being strangled.
Expect the rest of the world to catch up to the US in software technology (and they won't be contributing to M$'s code pile) before enough people wake up from our M$-induced coma to do anything about it. Only count on item #3 for a few more years.
Re item #4, events of the past couple of weeks have placed Linux well ahead of ALL versions of Windows as far as security goes.
Sorry to wake you up.
M$ Winblows and Office sales have run into a brick wall. China and India are working to staunch the flow of their money to a giant blood-sucking US corporation, and the rest of the world isn't far behind. That's why M$ is busy looking for new ways to ream users in the US by forcing them to buy intrinsically valueless upgrades.
They've also pretty much pissed in the well here in the US - fewer competive ideas are reaching market because so many know M$ will kill off anything remotely threatening. The vitality and creativity native to the US is being strangled.
Expect the rest of the world to catch up to the US in software technology (and they won't be contributing to M$'s code pile) before enough people wake up from our M$-induced coma to do anything about it. Only count on item #3 for a few more years.
Re item #4, events of the past couple of weeks have placed Linux well ahead of ALL versions of Windows as far as security goes.
Sorry to wake you up.
Answer to #4: OpenBSD
Wow, can you hook up some of the crack you're smoking, because if you believe OBSD is the most secure OS out there, you're high as hell<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
If Linus had stayed in Finland, he probably wouldn't have come up with the "smoking crack" line to describe SCO executives. Instead, it probably would've been something like "Executives at the SCO Group seem to be mixing milk with their watery beer". So this has been a broadening experience for him.
no the finnish equivalent would be something along lines of sniffing glue or eating mushrooms(these are generally attributed to going bonkers on substance abuse, or bad trip)..
he certainly wouldn't said 'mixing milk with their watery beer'<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;) maybe 'they bought some bad russian vodka' or something.
hmm.. btw. 'pirihuora' is 'crackwhore' in finnish. (pronounced something like pi-ri huo-ra).
he certainly wouldn't said 'mixing milk with their watery beer'<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;) maybe 'they bought some bad russian vodka' or something.
hmm.. btw. 'pirihuora' is 'crackwhore' in finnish. (pronounced something like pi-ri huo-ra).
Hurrah!
Long live Microsoft!
Long live Bill Gates!
Long live President Bush!
This should teach those filthy Finns a lesson they deserve!
Darl McBride
CEO, SCO
Long live Microsoft!
Long live Bill Gates!
Long live President Bush!
This should teach those filthy Finns a lesson they deserve!
Darl McBride
CEO, SCO
You must be suffering from major brain damage or something.
No.... smoking to much crack
Well said, Mr. McBride!
Let's put them away in concentration camps and secretly gas them!
Chris Sontag
Vice CEO, SCO
Let's put them away in concentration camps and secretly gas them!
Chris Sontag
Vice CEO, SCO
Filthy Finns?!! This means war. Stay alert, our Hornets are coming...
Shutup, you don't know what your talking about. I think we should gas you
Fiction or not, I'd personally welcome "linut" into Canada.
Canada was the next nation, despite it's proud, peaceful people and worldwide respect, to be bombed by M$American Department of Microsoft National Defense's SCO Bombers.
True, this is!<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
Linut would indeed be welcome on the planet known as Canada if he would like to continue his Jedi training and join the other Masters of the Source.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
A safe haven, he needs, perhaps.
Welcome, he is!
Linut would indeed be welcome on the planet known as Canada if he would like to continue his Jedi training and join the other Masters of the Source.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
A safe haven, he needs, perhaps.
Welcome, he is!
Uh... You might think this is "humor" but it is not. If something like this really were happening, that would likely signal the beginnings of genocide. It ain't funny at all.
Sorry, someone directed you to this site by mistake. <A HREF="http://www.wininformant.com/" TITLE="wininformant.com">This</a wininformant.com> would be the site you're looking for.
I as scandinavian look with horror at the US passing laws to restrict its citizens freedom... It'great to see someone make fun of it...
I hope your arse leader would think so too.
viva la Estados Unidos
I hope your arse leader would think so too.
viva la Estados Unidos
With anyone other than that retard bush that you guys voted in (possibly) in power over there, this would just be nice lighthearted humor. Please don't put up anymore posts like this until you guys get yourself a sane leader.
Next time, go get pissed *after* voting<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:->
Next time, go get pissed *after* voting<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:->
In case you weren't paying attention in 2000, the U.S. could either choose Bush or *ugh* Gore! You know, he's the willing accomplice to Clinton letting Osama bin Laden go free who thinks truth is trivial and actually believes he invented the Internet.
Unfortuately, the Libertarians aren't prominent enough to take power. So we got the lesser of the evils. (And I do mean "evils"!)
By the way, wake up. There's no such thing as a "sane" leader! Anywhere!!!
--Dan
Unfortuately, the Libertarians aren't prominent enough to take power. So we got the lesser of the evils. (And I do mean "evils"!)
By the way, wake up. There's no such thing as a "sane" leader! Anywhere!!!
--Dan
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Gore, but I'm not sure that getting the guy who thinks throwing enough money, guns and people at any given problem will solve it, to run your country is really better. Anyone found binny laden yet? (Or a weapon of mass destruction anywhere in the middle east apart from in israel's arsenal?). Can't say I'm much of a fan of terrorism, but I'm also sure as hell not a fan of giving terrorism any more media time than it already gets, nor of creating martyrs (and certainly not of using the threat of terrorism to issue draconian curtailments of civil liberties). Fundamentalism is like the mythical hydra - shoot off a head and another two will pop up. I'd suggest just leaving your guns at home and figuring out some other kind of way of killing the damn thing - poison its food, perhaps.
And yeah, I'll conceed that last point of yours. Our own august leader, jonny howard, has unfortuantly recently decided it would be a good idea to take a leaf out of little bush's book by sticking his nose into the affairs of a few south pacific nations. If this trend keeps up in a few years every country'll be making policy decisions for another one. I wonder who'll get the questionable privilage of interfering with the US' internal policies? The new 52nd state (Iraq) perhaps?
And yeah, I'll conceed that last point of yours. Our own august leader, jonny howard, has unfortuantly recently decided it would be a good idea to take a leaf out of little bush's book by sticking his nose into the affairs of a few south pacific nations. If this trend keeps up in a few years every country'll be making policy decisions for another one. I wonder who'll get the questionable privilage of interfering with the US' internal policies? The new 52nd state (Iraq) perhaps?
>Next time, go get pissed *after* voting<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:->
We did vote -- we just were ignored.
Bush lost the popular vote --AND-- the electoral collage.
That point was lost with all the attention "the media" gave the FLorida "hanging chad" ballots... some 2,000 votes.
The bigger scandal were the 7,000+ mail-in votes from the US Military... which SOMEHOW got through the Postal system withour getting postmarked at all. Usually when something is not postmarked, it is LOST not delivered... and never 7,000 at a time.
This was not an election; it was a bloodless coup. Once "the media" was taken out of the hands of "liberals" and put into the hands of Global Media, it all became too easy to manufacture consent.
We did vote -- we just were ignored.
Bush lost the popular vote --AND-- the electoral collage.
That point was lost with all the attention "the media" gave the FLorida "hanging chad" ballots... some 2,000 votes.
The bigger scandal were the 7,000+ mail-in votes from the US Military... which SOMEHOW got through the Postal system withour getting postmarked at all. Usually when something is not postmarked, it is LOST not delivered... and never 7,000 at a time.
This was not an election; it was a bloodless coup. Once "the media" was taken out of the hands of "liberals" and put into the hands of Global Media, it all became too easy to manufacture consent.
Half the damn country didn't vote for this guy. Just remember that before you throw stones.
Very superficial, and distracts attention from the real steps MS is taking by using their pawn SCO and the BackDarl information minister.
Check out this wall paper by iron maiden http://www.ironmaiden.com/downloads/BillGates_800<nobr>.<wbr></nobr> jpg
You should leave the satire to someone who is actually good at it. I am considering sending a bill to you for the 15 minutes of my life you just wasted.
Dude. Fifteen minutes to read that? You ought to learn to speed read or something.
Or become a lawyer - creative timekeeping like that will keep food on your plate for life.
Or become a lawyer - creative timekeeping like that will keep food on your plate for life.
I can't believe you wasted those fifteen minutes reading this piece. Dude, that was your one chance at fame.
Ludicrous, but funny...
to linux.com today to check out what all the fuss about linux is about and I have discovered a bunch
of liberals doing the liberal thing.
I doubt you will post this you certainly will not allow a differing opinion.
Bush was elected by the people and chosen by God
to lead the greatest nation in the world in a holy
war on three fronts.
1 - The enemies of our country both foreign and domestic.
2 - The unholy blasphemic islamic faith.
3 - Against the evildoers and sinners of the world.
After reading this fantasy I realize that
I will not be trying Linux after all.
I would rather pay $500 for Windows than have Linux for free because these left-wingers
are dangerous for our country and will not stop
until they see Kofi Annon as the president.
Where the ru486 is over the counter drug and
Christains are outlawed.
I support Microsoft and the President. So does the Lord. So there you un-american idiots!
of liberals doing the liberal thing.
I doubt you will post this you certainly will not allow a differing opinion.
Bush was elected by the people and chosen by God
to lead the greatest nation in the world in a holy
war on three fronts.
1 - The enemies of our country both foreign and domestic.
2 - The unholy blasphemic islamic faith.
3 - Against the evildoers and sinners of the world.
After reading this fantasy I realize that
I will not be trying Linux after all.
I would rather pay $500 for Windows than have Linux for free because these left-wingers
are dangerous for our country and will not stop
until they see Kofi Annon as the president.
Where the ru486 is over the counter drug and
Christains are outlawed.
I support Microsoft and the President. So does the Lord. So there you un-american idiots!
I agree with your statements about the president. I do not, however, agree with your statements about Microsoft and Linux. Not only is Microsoft (and Bill Gates) one of the most selfish companies (and person) ever to be in business, but the cheat to win people over to their Operating System. Linux creator Linus Torvalds is a good man, and Finnish people have nothing against us, unless we start talking trash to them. If it wasn't for Bill Gates, Finland and the United States could go on as they have been. I blame all of this on Microsoft and SCO.
Anonymous
Anonymous
That's OK, when you're locked away in Camp X-Ray without a lawyer or any outside contact, I'm sure you can call for help with your Windows box that... what? Corrupt TCP/IP stack... IE keeps crashing? Virus? Worms? Ohhhhh... sorry.... guess if you'd have gone with that Un-American, liberal, left-wing system (ever notice how everything that's good for individual people and bad for psychotic, money-and-oil grubbing warmongers is "liberal"... maybe I should look into becoming one since they seem to actually be on the right track) you'd be able to get help from the new land of the free over in Europe **checks Europe**<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... oh cripes... got them too....
you talked from your ass, didn't you?
Troll
Shut up you religious fool. Adapt or die. God I love nature. Besides - Being a bit left-wing hasn't got anything to do with communism or anti-capitalism. Well obviously you didn't know that - because you're just an idiot.
God choosed Bush as the president? I thought the voters did.
God choosed Bush as the president? I thought the voters did.
"God choosed Bush as the president? I thought the voters did."
Actually, they didnt. Counted in number of votes and not in voting areas, Bush lost the election. If you are an american you probably dont know this but it was plastered all over the news outside of the US.
Actually, they didnt. Counted in number of votes and not in voting areas, Bush lost the election. If you are an american you probably dont know this but it was plastered all over the news outside of the US.
He's probably a 15-year old who lives outside the US and wants to stir things up.
Which Troll? The single conservitive one, or all the liberal ones?
Microsoft seeks law to retroactively ban Finnish i
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 26, 2003 04:39 PM
Hey, as a Finn in Finland, I'd welcome a winter in Guantanamo!!!
Jeez - the US immigration is so insane I don't wonder why there are so many illegals - ever seen the paperwork required? What *tribe* do I belong to? Does that mean Jokerit or IFK supporter or am I a Savonian or Ostrobothnian???
PS. Anyone interested in hiring a WebFocus server side & developer guru I am up for takers. As long as you fill in the paperwork... nothing beats the escape from TAX PARADISE<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... you yankees complain about taxes, pay 22% VAT and $4 a gallon for gas and *then* complain... just google HWM or IESAF
Jeez - the US immigration is so insane I don't wonder why there are so many illegals - ever seen the paperwork required? What *tribe* do I belong to? Does that mean Jokerit or IFK supporter or am I a Savonian or Ostrobothnian???
PS. Anyone interested in hiring a WebFocus server side & developer guru I am up for takers. As long as you fill in the paperwork... nothing beats the escape from TAX PARADISE<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... you yankees complain about taxes, pay 22% VAT and $4 a gallon for gas and *then* complain... just google HWM or IESAF
Re:Microsoft seeks law to retroactively ban Finnis
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 26, 2003 07:17 PM
Yeah, we're wimps when it comes to cold weather, taxes, and drinking vast quantities of beer (that's why ours is watered down).
Speaking of Guantanamo, maybe those who file frivolous IP lawsuits should be declared enemy combatants...
Speaking of Guantanamo, maybe those who file frivolous IP lawsuits should be declared enemy combatants...
...even Gates's cluelessness is shown by the fact that they state Finland to be in Scandinavia (it's not).
HEh you twat!
I live in Sweden and as far as i have been thaught since 1rst grade Finland is part of scandinavia. Look it up you stupid imbecill. Only an american can be as lost as you. I love Jay Leno's "Man on the street" where americans express incredible stupidity, live on tv. Only a stupid country with even worse population than in 1930 germany can elect such a monkey as Bush.
I live in Sweden and as far as i have been thaught since 1rst grade Finland is part of scandinavia. Look it up you stupid imbecill. Only an american can be as lost as you. I love Jay Leno's "Man on the street" where americans express incredible stupidity, live on tv. Only a stupid country with even worse population than in 1930 germany can elect such a monkey as Bush.
You're wrong. It's the "Nordic Countries" thet Finland is part of.
Well, as a Finn in Finland I have to say that there is no right answer to the question is Finland part of the Scandinavian countries or not. Every book you read tells you differently. Geographically Finland is not part of Scandinavia, only Sweden and Norway are, but if you also include Denmark, maybe then you can include Finland too, who knows...
i love this article
Altought Finland is a nordic country, it is _not_ a scandinavian country.
U idiot, its certainly is a scandinavia country (and i know because i live in there!) and if Linux is better than windows, then bill should do it better, not try to ban all finnish ppl
http://vesa.lib.helsinki.fi/cgi-bin2/ysa.pl?h=Fen<nobr>n<wbr></nobr> oskandia
Actually Finland really isnt geologically a part of Scandinavia. As you can read from the link if you know finnish.Scadinavia is the peninsula of Sweden and Norway. When you add Finland to it thats called Fennoskandia, but usually everyone just calls it Scandinavia anyway<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:/
Actually Finland really isnt geologically a part of Scandinavia. As you can read from the link if you know finnish.Scadinavia is the peninsula of Sweden and Norway. When you add Finland to it thats called Fennoskandia, but usually everyone just calls it Scandinavia anyway<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:/
Fact or fiction?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 24, 2003 03:37 PMI wouldn't put it past either Gates or Bush to pull something like this.
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