So, How Does It Feel To Have Been "Had"?

...And Lenovo and HP might be booking dances soon. "

I am more than confident that the members of this website will recognize the world of profound possibilities in your statement Jim.

Let's just see. I hope you are right.

Quoting: The rest are all garage bands.

So is SuSE (Novell) a garage band or not?

> So is SuSE (Novell) a garage band or not?

Novell is the Dixie Chicks.

Well, I don't know about no Dixie Chicks, but I understand Rhode Island Reds are pretty sturdy chickens.

DC, the Dixie Chicks started as a country band and lost their audience when they made public announcements during one of their concerts criticizing Bush. They're now a favorite of the far left Democrat folks, as demonstrated by their recent Grammy's. I'd say the parallels to Novell are obvious.

Here we go with the simple-minded labeling again. "Far left" my aunt fanny- lots of folks are unhappy with the Bush administration, and it always amuses me how folks who claim to be so red-blooded true-blue and patriotic only support free speech when it's their own.

OK...Let's test out this "free speech thing"...

First to be offended loses. But then again, there seems to be a fair percentage of our American Population who is consistently LOOKING for a reason TO be offended.

Case on point:

This linked story reminds me of my ex-wife. Sure, it sounded good in the beginning...even felt good as I began to get comfortable with her, (she didn't even move her lips when she read)...but the closer I got to the end, I realized that the perceived promise of a payoff was dwindling and fizzling down to a major disappointment. And I was right.

http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2007/03/ideastorm_injur....

Seems this author had seats for an 8 o'clock show or something...I've typed grocery lists that had more follow-through than that.

Speaking of no follow through, did anyone ever get a chance to meet my ex-wife...

Or Rob Enderle?

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From an email I recently recieved that seems somehow appropriate at this point.

Quoting:How's this for a definition! Think it'll make Webster? Following is the winning entry from an annual contest calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term.

This year's term: Political Correctness.

"Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

That won?

Maybe next year the term should be "most appropriate definition".

I think that during next election campaign cycle when the "conservatives" start lambasting "liberals", the "liberals" should shoot back with something like this: "I'm not liberal, I'm progressive. I believe that the constitution makes 'general welfare' as important as the 'common defense'. I believe that the Federal Government has a constitutional obligation to provide for the universal, comprehensive healthcare of all citizens, not just a few who no longer contribute the GNP. I believe that the current selfish conservatives who allowed a young boy to die from a tooth abcess should all be stripped of all government healthcare benefits - including the President and Vice President. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02... "

But now I'm getting off track to LXer.com so let me close with this: I believe that our elected officials have a responsibility to spend our tax dollars wisely, and by failing to invest more heavily in FOSS, they are failing to meet this financial mandate.

> "Far left" my aunt fanny- lots of folks are unhappy with the Bush administration

Quite right, and that includes a lot of Republicans. I live in one of the reddest parts of the country, extremely conservative on both economic and social policy, but Democrats won every contested race down to dog catcher. The Dixie Chicks would fit in well here. I don't live in the South.

I'm sorry, did someone try to assert that there is any difference between the "left" and "right" at all?

Both of them want my money for their own pockets. Screw 'em all.

Not to add fuel to the debate, but I just came across this on another site: http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page

Do check the entries for Dinosaur and Brazil :-)

And gravity.

Really.

Quoting:And gravity.

LOL. I missed that one :-)

O.k., I confess. I don't get the Brazil entry. And I'm certainly glad they've informed me that I can trust their encyclopedia. I feel much better now. Say, doesn't Microsoft say the same thing? Oh no. Sorry. They said, "You trusted us".

That reminds me, did I tell y'all about my new encyclopedia venture? That's right. Step right up. Add your own entry. You can add/edit entries for free, but you'll be restricted in what you can say. The more you pay, the more editorial freedom you can have with your entries. This way, you don't have to download & configure Wikimedia on your own server. And remember, freedom isn't free.

> Here we go with the simple-minded labeling again. "Far left" my aunt fanny- lots of folks are unhappy with the Bush administration...

Including me, but that has little to do with my point about the Dixie Chicks. Their paying audience was firmly in the Bush camp at that point in time.

> and it always amuses me how folks who claim to be so red-blooded true-blue and patriotic only support free speech when it's their own.

The Dixie Chicks can say whatever they want. I don't care one way or the other. The problem is they didn't seem to understand why their previous audience wouldn't buy their records any more. They seemed to consider it "censorship".

"it is only a theory"

OK, now I'm stuck Here in a belt of Biblical Scholars

Whose enlightenment consists of tawdry bars And coffee jars Mere ballast For semi-ballistic trajectory of your tear

I'm only a theory Theory of a man Who has at once done stupendous things

And drenched in alcohol Been in shaft of light To know the bacteria That form under the microscope

Do I allude to the prescription? That a theory is merely a tree on which to hang your facts.

jdixon, I just thought the whole mess was simpleminded and hypocritical, and perhaps a tad sexist. There is a whole genre of "drop bombs and kick ass in the name of patriotism" country songs that I think are beyond stupid and offensive, and they go hand-in-hand with "believe what I believe or you're a traitor."

But you are right, the Dixie Chicks drove away a segment of their audience, and they're better off without them, IMO.

> But you are right, the Dixie Chicks drove away a segment of their audience, and they're better off without them, IMO.

And vice versa. :)

Which is exactly what Novell is doing. As I said, I thought the parallels were obvious.