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Titus Pullo
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join:2004-06-26
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reply to chemaupr
Re: Wonder how many used then?

said by chemaupr See Profile :

Sure I can, I read about it almost weekly in zdent... sometimes you just want to hear other pepole opinions and not necesarly post yours... and by the way what is yours,,, if you have read anything yet!!! or should we give you more time?
And this is after the edit.


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X_Digit
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Poster above this: "blow it out your (Unregistered) chvlva.adelphia.net"

I can wager that the chvlva, in the address part, stands for Charlottesville, VA. And, since you're from there, AND have Adelphia HSI for your provider, I bet I could wage who made that post!

I love idiots who post anon, when they have registered accounts here, because they purposely let their pelican beak override their hummingbird ass... and don't want to associate their thwarted posts w/ their registered account!
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Fatal Vector

join:2005-11-26

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And, once again


We see the brainless mindset that somehow anyone who posts anonymously is to be rideculed and ignored as a matter of course because they chose not to register for whatever reason.

It sometimes makes me ponder on who the real idiots are.

Ahrenl

join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA
·Verizon FIOS

Yes, it was such an insightful contribution. It altered my whole reality. I'm writing a check to the EU right now because I might have been successful at some point in my life.

Personally I think Bill Gates was the greatest business theif of all time. That being said, ever used Linux, or pre-wintel compatible mac's? It's a nightmare. Yeah M$ got away with a lot of shady things; should they be paying the EU because they won't supply each of their competitors with a custom version of their source code? I think not.

I love this though:
The fines EU is looking to impose did not just appear out of the blue, they have been told for almost 2 years that they have to make their product more interoperable. Or at the very least provide adequite documentation on how to do some low level operations.
What? M$ certainly isn't the only option for business solutions. I haven't checked in a while, but various UNIX versions held greater than 50% of the server market not long ago.

While they shouldn't be allowed to intimidate and constrain innovation, they should be allowed to define their product.

If the EU really cared about this stuff they'd be levying fines on OPEC. But they have no balls.


X_Digit
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reply to Fatal Vector
Posting anonymously isn't an issue, unless one (who happens to also be registered) uses it as a method of hiding his identity to ridicule other's posts. Actually, registered OR not, this is the issue!

Anyhow, I've stated my opinion (which is far from the true subject of this thread); therefore, I won't state any further comments on this issue.
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Titus Pullo
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I posted it (feel better now, Columbo?) after typing my password wrong - forgot it -- and went back to the main page where FF holds my UN/PW, logged on and then continued posting.

(You do the classy 'you're an idiot' thing very well, BTW.)

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jobr

join:2004-10-21
Halifax, NS
reply to Ahrenl
By the same token, no one is forcing Microsoft to do business in the EU. If they don't like playing by the rules set by the authorities, they are certainly free to leave.

Ahrenl

join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA
I wonder how the businesses in the EU would feel about that? I don't think there are any Microsoft stores in the EU. Or anywhere for that matter.
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