Posted on 02/01/2005 6:38:41 AM PST by KwasiOwusu
A regular Pied Piper you are....
You look through my history. On any tech thread you'll never see where I slammed Apple, or was/am a Linux sycophant, or am a mindless Mozilla flunky. On the contrary, when MS or Mozilla deserves it, I give praise or condemnation.
Quasi has been this way since he got here, and I'm just in the mood to take him down a notch and have fun doing it.
What's with all the whining this morning?
North!
Shares climbed as high as $216.80 before settling back to $211.96, a gain of $20.06. That's up from the previous lifetime high of $205.30 set last month.
So much for MS moving and shaking the market, huh?
Please: NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts.
Those are the guidelines on the posting form. They are easy to understand. You can debate the issues and make your points without resorting to personal attacks against other Freepers.
There are forums where anything goes - like USENET or Google Groups. The name-calling and personal attacks should move elsewhere and quit trashing this forum.
Quasi is the only one I've gone after, and it's easy to see why.
Would it make you happy if this was moved to the "Smoky Backroom"?
And "whining" implies that there's no justification for a complaint: frankly, I think there is. This happens on every single thread regarding computers. Even threads like this one, which have nothing to do with Operating Systems, break down within 10-15 posts into little snide, ignorant OS flame wars between people who -by and large- probably aren't even technology professionals.
It's worse than SlashDot.
Hell, even the Evolution/Creation threads can remain coherent for 30 posts.
It may very well happen on "every single thread", but certainly not by me. I have gone after Quasi exclusively.
He's been a troll from the get-go, but he's still here, and if and until they decide to get rid of him, I figure I'll just rattle his chain while in the mood. (Note that I've left him alone on several of his threads).
Amen, Hal. Open file formats should be a non-negotiable requirement for government agencies. I work on government contracts from time to time, and the process is in many ways exceptionally open. Accountability requires it, and the public benefits from it.
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