Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

[Luc The Perverse]

"Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:51:02 -0700, David Schwartz wrote:
>
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>> "Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>>> The first two points are factually wrong, and the third is an opinion
>>> based on the concept, as far as I can see, that Microsoft should be
>>> allowed to do anything they like, even if those actions harm others.
>>
>> Of course this alleged "harm" is simply a lack of a benefit.
>>
>> Why is Burger King allowed to close at 10PM? That harms me when I'm
>> hungry after 10.
>
> Burger King doesn't take actions to prevent you from going to another
> vendor who will stay open after 10PM, as you very well know.
>
> Nor is Burger King a monopoly -- if they refuse to open after 10 in the
> face of great demand, they only harm themselves. As I said a few days ago,
> it is not the place for either us or the government to care about the
> success or failure of any specific vendor, but only about the health of
> the entire market. As there is no shortage of competition in the fast food
> market, the harm done to you by Burger King's refusal to open after 10PM
> is not sufficient for anyone to care. If there is significant demand, then
> Burger King will merely harm themselves by refusing to open because they
> will lose customers to those vendors who do open, and if there is
> insignificant demand, then why should anyone care?

NO!  There ~is~ a conspiracy by Egg farmers to not make burgers available 
before 10 am.

Burger King used to be one of the last great vestiges of the 24 hour burger, 
and now it's gone.

They know no one would buy the shitty egg McMuffins/equivalent if they had 
delicious burgers available, so there is something underhanded going on 
behind the scenes.

Same thing with pizza.  Don't try to tell me that there are not hungry 
partiers at 3 am - but are any of the delivery places open?  NO!

Why is it this way?  Who knows!  But when in doubt, blame the right wing 
extremist politicians.

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Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Examples of Quality Technical Writing

[Luc The Perverse]

"javuchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> Why do you have such a need of being hating everything and everybody
> and expressing it so offen?
> Can you live without hate?
> Can you let others live without your hates?

A person can live without hate, living love and working towards bettering 
humanity.

But as for people in general - I'm not so sure.  I'm not sure my opinion on 
hate - since I value people's opinions and diversity, hate seems unbecoming, 
but then so does computer gaming ;)

Westernization sweeps accross all countries though, and it is no longer 
vogue to be so self centered.   This will help with the most overt types of 
hatred.

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Re: OT: excellent book on information theory

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"Paul Rubin"  wrote in message 
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> Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> That made me smile on a Monday morning (not an insignificant
>> accomplishment).  I noticed in the one footnote that the H.P.
>> book had been "translated into American".  I've always wondered
>> about that.  I noticed several spots in the H.P. books where
>> the dialog seemed "wrong": the kids were using American rather
>> than British English.  I thought it rather jarring.
>
> The US edition even changed the title from "Philosopher's Stone" to
> "Sorcerer's Stone".  American schoolkids weren't expected to know what
> a philosopher was (or anyway what the Philosopher's Stone was).

Which is downright annoying.

Children are capable of learning a word - and causing discongruence in 
semantics causes a serious problem when making a movie

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Re: [Reported] (was Re: A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda)

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"John Bokma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> Reported for excessive crossposting.

Did u report yourself?

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Re: Xah's Edu Corner: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

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"John Bokma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> "Dag Sunde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>>> What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language
>> 
>> PLONK.
>
> Don't post PLONK messages you idiot. PLONK in silence instead of adding to
> a lot of garbage in serveral groups.

Sometimes you need to make a statement about a local troll.

Though I agree - a massively cross posted thread with no one familiar 
probably doesn't qualify

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Re: DO NOT USE JAVA BECAUSE IT IS NOT OPEN SOURCE

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> Programing Languiges Are Ment to be free. That is why i am starting The
> Coo De Tar thats french for Blow of state it is a flash/java
> alternative and if you are going to use a server side languige use
> Perl,Python or better yet Ruby. What is the point of a languige without
> a standerd and without a open source distrabution. Coo De Tar will be
> released as a api for perl,python and ruby. Java sucks because it IS
> NOT FREE. I AM A GNU GUY I BELEVE THAT SOFTWARE MUST AND SHALL BE
> FREE!! do not use java because it is an oxymoron
>

Dear Mr Troll,

There are GNU implementations of JVM and compiler.

And just because Sun's Java is not GNU does not mean it is not free.

Now go get a life.

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Re: DO NOT USE JAVA BECAUSE IT IS NOT OPEN SOURCE

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"steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 13:06:52 +0800, Luc The Perverse wrote
> (in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):
>
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>>> Programing Languiges Are Ment to be free. That is why i am starting The
>>> Coo De Tar thats french for Blow of state it is a flash/java
>>> alternative and if you are going to use a server side languige use
>>> Perl,Python or better yet Ruby. What is the point of a languige without
>>> a standerd and without a open source distrabution. Coo De Tar will be
>>> released as a api for perl,python and ruby. Java sucks because it IS
>>> NOT FREE. I AM A GNU GUY I BELEVE THAT SOFTWARE MUST AND SHALL BE
>>> FREE!! do not use java because it is an oxymoron
>>>
>>
>> Dear Mr Troll,
>>
>> There are GNU implementations of JVM and compiler.
>>
>> And just because Sun's Java is not GNU does not mean it is not free.
>>
>> Now go get a life.
>>
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>>>>
>>
>>
>
> it's April 1st remember

Ah!  Thank you

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