Has the US Army declared war on Windows 7?

@softwarejanitor: It isn't just you and the resemblance goes beyond the physical. Both are producing things that can cause massive destruction, albeit in very different ways.

Now there's a thought... have Windows declared a WMD...

Problem is, WMD didn't exist in Iraq. Windows on the other hand...

Gus3:

Quoting:I've seen enough long-winded back-and-forth holier-than-thou lectures from you two in the past four months to make my stomach churn when I see your names. If you want to set up someone else with some trumped-up "offense" so you can play the put-upon victims, get your own websites and do it there.

There's a reason you perceive it as holier than thou lectures and why your stomach churns. It's hardly solely me and Bob. Cognitive dissonance can be a pain, I know.

> Problem is, WMD didn't exist in Iraq.

Bites tongue.

Quoting:Bites tongue.

Don't bite to hard, we don't want you to loose it.

> Don't bite to hard...

Just hard enough to keep from adding to an already existing TOS violation. :)

Yeah, I know what you mean jdixon. Probably you also know what I mean?

> Probably you also know what I mean?

I expect so, yes.

Then we had a TOS-violating discussion without words it seems. Someone should ban us!

That infers that you knew what he meant and he knew what you meant and the rest of us could figure out that you were both inferring or referring to something that wasn't said and what it was that you said that you didnt say.

Let's talk about US army and Windows. I hope talking about US army doesn't violate TOS.

Something like: What happened to this? http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7545.ars

Or this? http://www.softwaretechnews.com/stn_view.php?stn_id=42&artic...

> have Windows declared a WMD...

Weapon of Mass Delirium? Weapon of Mass Distraction? Way of Microsoft Domination? Worldwide Microsoft Devistation?

Ah! Way of Mass Deletion!

@Bob:

Does that last refer to Windows or this thread?

"They have computers and other weapons of mass destruction" --Janet Reno

That was taken out of context, of course, but it is a real quote.

Like that one Bob!

I'd say Weapon of Miserable Dummb@ss. Oh, forgot, I asked to discuss about US Army and what happened to their open source plans. Am I the only one interested in discussing that one?

Quoting:Oh, forgot, I asked to discuss about US Army and what happened to their open source plans.

Obviously they were written in a file in a document format MSO no longer supports, and were therefore lost.

Hmm, so they are now migrating to Office 2007 to try to be able to read files in document formats MSO no longer supports; boasting about the standardization that Office2007 gives.

Nonetheless, it can't save in valid ISO 29500 (DoD has to wait for Office 2010 for that!), it can't save in decent ODF, it's worse that OOo when it comes to reading ancient MSO formats; so what standardization is there?

My tax dollars at work :(

Well... at least al-Qaeda can take some solace from this.

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