my point exactly. He's probably 1 of their most generous tax payers or better still, they're on his pay roll lol. hahahahahahaha j/k macroslop fans. Shaun.. "We realise we have a problem with communication. However, we're not going to discuss it with our staff." EMAIL: shauno at goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435 YAHOO ID: blindman01_2000 IRC NICK/SERVER: |3|1ndm4n on #aussiefriends on www.jong.com:6667 On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Steve Holmes wrote: > Well the federal government doesn't support me directly but they get a > chunk of my check every couple weeks:). I'm just saying they seemed > unable to overcome the Macroslop monster:(. > > On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > > now now steve, > > would you bite the hand that feeds you? > > > > Shaun.. > > "We realise we have a problem with communication. However, we're not going > > to discuss it with our staff." > > EMAIL: shauno at goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435 > > YAHOO ID: blindman01_2000 IRC NICK/SERVER: |3|1ndm4n on #aussiefriends on > > www.jong.com:6667 > > > > On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Steve Holmes wrote: > > > > > Didn't the US department of Justice try this (in as many words)? > > > <HMMM> > > > Even the government had trouble stopping him! > > > > > > On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > > > > > > Would anyone particularly mind if microsoft were told to go get fucked? > > > > I know if I had half a chance and more money than that pompis ass bill > > > > gates, I probably would. > > > > > > > > > > > > Shaun.. > > > > "We realise we have a problem with communication. However, we're not going > > > > to discuss it with our staff." > > > > EMAIL: shauno at goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435 > > > > YAHOO ID: blindman01_2000 IRC NICK/SERVER: |3|1ndm4n on #aussiefriends on > > > > www.jong.com:6667 > > > > > > > > On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Geoff Shang wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Kirk Wood wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > The moral of the story is that Macroslop has decided users don't know what > > > > > > they want. Therefore they will decide. They will leave a few things in to > > > > > > make those who foolishly believe they know what they are doing think the > > > > > > OS is under control. Meanwhile Macroslop will still decide how things > > > > > > should be done. > > > > > > > > > > My windows box runs win95. This self righteous presumption is bad enough > > > > > there, but struck me as being more and more prevalent in later windows > > > > > versions, thus my reason for not upgrading. Now that I use linux 95% of > > > > > the time, I don't miss it a bit. This single aspect of microsoft's > > > > > operations shits me more than probably any other. This along with their > > > > > rediculous market share gives them the power to do whatever they happen to > > > > > think is a good idea, and the average computer user just wears it. That's > > > > > just so wrong. > > > > > > > > > > Geoff. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >