Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ
Xah Lee wrote: > Answer: so did the German population thought Jews are morons by > heritage, to the point that Jews should be exterminated from earth. > Apparently, the entire German population cannot be morons, they must be > right. Y'know, I'm Jewish, I have friends who are Holocaust survivors, and I still think you're a complete asshole for even attempting to compare anything Microsoft does to what Hitler did. It trivializes the Holocaust. Fuck off. Please. (There, I said "please.") -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http://JustThe.net/ Personal blog, resume, portfolio: http://SteveSobol.com/ E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Snail: 22674 Motnocab Road, Apple Valley, CA 92307 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ
Jeroen Wenting wrote: > no, they got their by clever marketing and generally having a product that > was easier to use for the average user than anything the competition made > and a lot more powerful than other products created for their main target > market. People forget that Bill Gates may have dabbled in programming, but his background is in business. He dropped out of Harvard Business School, not MIT. :) -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http://JustThe.net/ Personal blog, resume, portfolio: http://SteveSobol.com/ E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Snail: 22674 Motnocab Road, Apple Valley, CA 92307 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Xah's edu corner: on Microsoft hatred
Xah Lee wrote: > Dear Joe, > > It is well known that you are an avid hater of Microsoft, from their > technologies to their leader to their business practices. I have now > and then seen your impassioned expression of this hatred, scattered > among your newsgroup posts. This has ZERO to do with any of the groups you posted to. Go post to some advocacy groups where you *might* be on-topic. -- JustThe.net - Steve Sobol / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Coming to you from Southern California's High Desert, where the temperatures are as high as the gas prices! / 888.480.4NET (4638) "Life's like an hourglass glued to the table" --Anna Nalick, "Breathe" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Xah's edu corner: on Microsoft hatred
Cong Wang wrote: > M$ is evil! Not as evil as off-topic rants posted to c.l.j.programmer. -- JustThe.net - Steve Sobol / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Coming to you from Southern California's High Desert, where the temperatures are as high as the gas prices! / 888.480.4NET (4638) "Life's like an hourglass glued to the table" --Anna Nalick, "Breathe" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Ban Xah Lee
On 2009-03-09, Kenneth Tilton wrote: > Buddha taught that the universe is ineluctably a single interconnected > web of cause and effect, which is my haughty preamble to this > observation: it depends on the newsgroup. > > comp.lang.lisp is cool so here Xah participates as a normal contributor. That's great, but he trolls like crazy here (comp.lang.java.programmer). -- Steve Sobol, Victorville, California, USA Microsoft's new marketing slogan for Windows is "Life Without Walls." But if you have no walls, how can you have windows? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
