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To be efective, a tea bag needs a “tea cup”.

Perhaps we should start referring to the anti-Tea Party demagogues as “Tea Cups”?

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It has gone Big Time.

It is currently (as of 3:50 pm EDT) on Drudge in the left column

Is this a perfect example of one of those highly-educated, superior, intellectuals we keep hearing about?

Guess they're just too smart for us yokels.

ROTFLMAO

No. Now it's simply Matt's preselected assortment of what he considers the "important news". (e.g. "NBC Falls to Third Place in November Sweeps")

Virtually no analysis, no reader feedback and no "debate". Sort of like a "shell" (or shill?) for the MSM's own websites, but without the flashy graphics.

They must think it is their's to control.

I vote we give it back to DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the rightful owner.

You said "hundreds", and list (5) to "prove" your point. Assertions are not proofs.

You said: "Would it be asking too much to ask you to do the same? LMAO! "

Any evidence that I didn't? I owned several of them, and am very familiar with the rest.

You said: "As usual you didn't bother to do any research before opening your mouth, just like in your previous post. :) So sorry. :) "

They fact that I found it is my evidence. (Hint: Google) Your ignorance speaks for itself . The fact that your writing style and phraselogy is so similar reinforces the likelihood that it wasn't on of the other 499,999. I noticed you didn't deny that it was you. Nice try, but it didn't work

You said: "Until Microsoft paid out that huge dividend on Dec 2 (I got a very nice check for $6000) ."

Your bias speaks for itself, and further reinforces the speculation that you are a MS-Droid

You said: "# 3, what has that got to do with the fact that I just clobbered you so far on every single point that you brought up? and continue to do so even as we speak."

Yeah, just like Kerry won all the debates. You haven't refuted a single point yet. You just assert you narrow, prejudidiced position and pretend they are facts. Pure, sophistry.

You said: "You are losing on this thread so you go and drag up some rubbish from somewhere to shore up your fast failing defences? "

Yes, it was rubbish, and the fact that you just requoted as "proof:" of your point speaks volumes.

You said: "Typical. What else can you expect from ?
Sounds to me like you are getting pretty desperate. :) . "

I noticed you carefully dodged the comparison to IBM and AT&T. The arguments you make for Microsoft closely pattern their Kool-Aid drinkers made for years.

Your continual references to "weaselly loony left crazies", "open source lunatics", " bunch of commies and anarchists", "evil propaganda", "biggest fraud and con on the net", "Strengthened means just that, straightened." indicates that you have little interest in discussion.

It's like having a debate with a Democrat - You and JFKerry can sit around and try to convince each other that you both won your respective "debates."

State your assertions, prove that they are valid, then state your conlusion. If you can't do that, you are just a MS-Troll XP (extra pretentious).

BTW the "open source prophets" you so revile have an extensive track record. You should extract your head from your anal orrifice and look around.For example, you said,: "Bottom line: firefox is NOT TCP/IP"

But it is an example of an open-source application, that implements an open-source standard (HTML, et al), that is part of an open-source protocol suite.

"Unix" follows a similar pattern, with various vendors producing their own proprietary implementations over time. Beginning in 1983, the development of various "extensions" to the "TCP/IP suite" have been presumed (first and foremost) that "*nix" was the underlying operating system. All implementations appeared on *nix first, even if later Microsoft implementations were created.

Unix History

History has "proved" that proprietary architectures (e.g.operating systems) eventually die. We live in an Open Standards world.

Deal with it.

"In 2 years time Linux will be reeling from sustained, massive multipronged attacks ".

Rather than continuing what appears to be a pointless conversation, you might all enjoy an article from December, 2003 (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) where a certain Kwasi Owusu was destroyed by about (28) posters responding to another one of his juvenile "Microsoft Rulz" posts.

The consensus of the posters was that Kwasi was smoking some psychotropic tobacco. Perhaps he has just been drinking too much of the Redmond Kool-Aid.

He starts his commentary with:

"So! Old Eric keeps spewing out his loony left Stalinist propaganda, disinformation, half-truths, outright lies an dirty tricks as usual huh?
Nothing new there."

Seems that the statement that "Eric" referred to was a paraphrase of Steve Balmer's direct quotes. Kawasi's comments seem a little passionate, huh?

The (28) people that responded to his rant provided ample documentation, quotes, citations. et al to refute his lame assertions. Clearly he has some "problem" with open-source software, in general. Various posters assumed that he worked for Microsoft, based upon his statement:

"Then there is the little matter of a handsome $51 Billion in cash at the bank! We have a war chest that can wage a very long sustained war and WIN IT, and WE WILL !

He seems to be rehashing the same argument with a new crowd. Perhaps it is some annual "Kwasi ritual", so I won't bother rehashing the same old MS-BS any further here.

Kwasi Getting Sliced and Diced Last December .

Score: Posters 28 - Kwasi 0

Strengthened? What does that mean?

You must mean the first port that they "bought", and forgot that the Microsoft stack had many interoperability problems with the entire TCP/IP world.

But then again, you probably aren't old enough to know that either.

Actually PC-DOS was the defacto standard. MS-DOS had smaller marketshare.

Were there lots of other operating systems?
You bet!
There were over a hundred of them

Really? Besides CP/M and DR-DOS how many can you name.

Truly delusionary.

Perhaps you should do a little homework before you make idiotic statements about "hundreds" of PC operating systems. If your are talking about minicomputers & mainframes, they are all Unix derivatives (also open source).

Before you ridicule open source, perhaps you could consider that the ENTIRE internet is built on "open source", and includes the specification for HTTP & SMTP/POP3, DNS, et al.

Or did you think that Al Gore worked for Microsoft?

IBM and AT&T once had 80%+ marketshare too. International standards encouraged the competition that trimmed them down to size too.

Would that be like Microsoft's belated support for TCP/IP? Ever heard of Mosaic?

If we went by marketshare we'd all still be using Netbeui through a protocol converter.

Its your little firefox that has to comply with IE standards, not the other way round.

Wrong, and bad logic. There is not such thing as an "IE standard". IE is a "proprietary" inplementation of the international standard. Web developers are not about to develop web sites that can only use IE features. Bad for business and consumers are ill served since Microsoft (and others) don't adequately support the standardized features.

HTML standards are set by the [World Wide Web Consortium], or W3C. W3C is a governing body composed of dues paying members most of whom represent large corporations with a vested interest in the development of HTML and the World Wide Web.

What is the HTML Standard?
As you know, there are a number of companies producing a number of different web browsers. So who sets the standard for what is and isn't official HTML?

There is an organization that does this called the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). They are an international consortium that sets the standards for HTML. So if I was a company that was going to make a web browser, I'd go to their site and find out what the standard was and make sure that my browser could read and interpret everything in the standard.

Save some time and money; "commandeer" some existing ones.

Yeah, but what's the bottom line?

Better than Assembler.

Worse yet, the very early PDP11s had 16 toggle switches to program at the 16-bit register level.

Old Star Trek episodes used them because the indicator lights above the switches would blink as each instruction was executed. Flashing lights preceded spinning tape drives to let the viewer know it was a computer.

1957 Vintage Teletype

Reference to Fortran was a anachronism too.

Fortran History

FORTRAN or formula translation, the first high level programming language, was invented by John Backus for IBM, in 1954, and released commercially, in 1957

"We have become a people on the defensive. We work and we fight, we wander, we leave our homes, we suffer and endure, and we do all this with a silent dignity which, in the end, will arouse the admiration of the entire world. Europe may well be happy that it still possesses such a people. Today this people is the salvation of Europe. Tomorrow, therefore, it will be Europe's pride."

Sound familiar?

Who said this: Terry McAuliffe, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Daschle...?

Hint - Social Democrat, Joseph Goebbels in Das Reich of Feb. 11, 1945 -- eleven weeks before the end

But the old one was working so well...

Democrat's Standard Message

The text translates: "Health, child protection, fighting poverty, aiding travelers, community, helping mothers: These are the tasks of the National Socialist People's Charity. Become a member!"

Way too low. We've got some educatin' to do before Nov 08.

That's just her, before she talks policy - that will push the numbers to 6 out of 10.