Hey all, heres something really interesting about that lovely company called microsoft...(heard of them?)
Anyway, a 17yr old kid by the name of Mike Rowe opens up a webdesigning company and names it MikeRoweSoft . . . a couple of days later he gets an email from microsoft's lawyers to hand over the domain for 10$...he refuses and says no way, how about 10,000? a couple of days later he gets a legal document of around 25 pages from the lawyers!! They are going after him extortion!!
I have some thoughts about Microsoft. First, I don't go along with the argument that Microsoft is just protecting its coypright, tradename, etc. Sheez, this is the company that thinks it owns the rights to the word WINDOWS. (Let's hope they don't bring out more security flaws packaged as software named Doors, Ashtray, etc.) The key word here is PARODY. For examples, visit some political sites.
Even if Mike Rowe WAS stepping on Microsoft's toes, so what? Microsoft deserves it.
I worked for the Seattle School District for about sixteen years. I was horrified by the corruption in the district (which I later discovered afflicts Seattle in general) and began speaking out. One day I even decided to run for a seat on the Seattle School Board.
I was astounded when I received my first computer virus ever, on the day of the election, from a well known affiliate of the Seattle Times/Seattle Weekly/Microsoft who said he was sending it to me on behalf of Bill Gates Senior! It wiped out all the jpgs on my computer and came with the message, "It just goes to show, you can never be too careful."
It was especially amazing, because, at that time, I wasn't even a Microsoft critic; I was too focused on education issues. But that was a powerful piece of evidence to support what I know now: That Bill Gates effectively controls the Seattle School District (and everything else in Seattle). Last year, Gates' partner in crime, Paul Allen, bankrolled a charter school initiative. This yeare, Gates is the most powerful charter school supporter. But these creeps don't give a damn about kids; it's just business for them.
Anyway, I heard through the grapevine that Bill Gates wanted to get rid of a bunch of teachers, and I wondered what trick they'd come up with for accomplishing that deed. They basically exploited the bad economy, then claimed they had simply lost more than $30 million dollars, then said, "Gee, we're going to have to let some people go."
That's how I lost my job, more than two years ago.
Sending me a computer virus was not a smart thing to do. Most people would have been intimidated. But if Gates had done a little research on me, he would have discovered that dirty tricks like that only make me angrier - and I go for the jugular. Losing my job doesn't make me any happier, but screwing children is WAY over the line. As far as I'm concerned, it's all war, all the time.
My latest present for Mr. Gates is taking shape at http://www.freedomware.us/ And he'll get yet another gift if I decide to run for public office again this year - state office this time around.
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