On Wednesday, October 17, 2001, at 03:18 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Greg Broiles wrote:
Now all we need are Ross Perot and/or EDS and/or IBM telling us they can do the same thing but cheaper and faster.
-- Greg Broiles gbroiles@well.com "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids
Well, Sun already did that. Which is a *real* drag for me -- since boycotting Sun certainly cuts off a large number of job opportunities. Sigh! Although maybe it'll turn out to be a real boost for linux. 8-)
All of these fuckers are trying to show the flag by repressing liberties. Coming soon, "MyEscowedYahoo (TM), the new account management and news tracking system from Yahoo, Inc. "We report your account balances and special news interests to the government so you don't have to!" "IntelInside (TM), Intel's contribution to the War on Terrorism and Bad People. Intel, through its proprietary TrackBurst (TM) technology, reports the location of laptops and PDAs to the FBI through an iGPS (Intel GPS) module integrate into all i840 motherboards. Those who have something to hide should buy AMD!" "Not be outdone in this war on liberty, AMD announces QuantiLiberty, the fractional liberty positional escrow system. We not only report your position, we also anticipate your future movements by examining your daily calendars!" It's 10 p.m....does the government know where you are? --Tim May, Occupied America "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.