[ale] OT: if this won't make you want to puke....

[Geoffrey]

I should have read your post before posting mine.  Well said.

Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Good troll.  I'll bite.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 17:29, Steven M. Jasmin wrote:
> 
>>Thats why the call it a free market people...he deserves his money and has
>>earned it. 
> 
> 
> Only to the extent you consider profiting from criminal activity
> "earned."  Gates is a (say it with me, now)
> CONVICTED...ILLEGAL...MONOPOLIST.
> 
> 
>>If you dont like microsoft for being a huge company with complete
>>market share you might want to consider moving to Russia or some other
>>communist/socialist country. 
> 
> 
> No, I don't like them for basing their entire business on illegal
> practices (all the way down to dumpster-diving for code) and practicing
> social engineering on a scale that would have impressed Joseph
> Goebbels.  I don't like them for making it nearly impossible to provide
> cost-effective and flexible IT resources using their products and for
> infantilizing computer users everwhere ("MY Computer," "MY Network
> Places, "MY Documents," MINE, MINE, MINE!).  I don't like them for
> producing such shoddy software that many people just buy new computers
> when the file system on their old one gets so corrupted that the things
> won't even boot anymore (more money for MS, right?).
> 
> 
>>I mean seriously for all of the reasons to be
>>pissed of at microsoft the fact that they are millionaires is at the very
>>bottom of the list. They earned it and deserve to reap the beneifits of
>>their work. Hence they call it a free market economy and Bill Gates is one
>>of the few people who has truly achieved the fabled "American Dream" that
>>everyone loves to harp on.....
> 
> 
> It's an "American Dream" as envisioned by Kenneth Lay, Jack Welch, and
> their ilk.  It's a question of being able to live in perpetual, armored,
> pampered comfort while their business decisions drive down the standard
> of living of the people who shuffle past in the wake of their
> limousines.  It's a question of, having exhausted LEGITIMATE means of
> making money, moving on to ILLEGITIMATE means.
> 
> 
>>Be pissed of at Microsoft for releasing horrible programs, untested
>>software, and security holes that you can drive aircraft carriers through,
> 
> 
> Only secondarily, as I use less and less of them and buy even less all
> the time.  
> 
> 
>>but do not be pissed at them for achieving the american dream for it is only
>>your own personal jealousy that shines through in that insult.
>>
>>Spam me all you want but i firmly stand by my statement.
> 
> 
> Good; you're an easier target for it.
> 
> NEXT!?
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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Think about it...

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