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Hi John Buy Low , Sell High ,
You whine : " I want a GNU Search Engine " Wall Street , October 31, 2003 http://www.nbcsandiego.com/money/2599128/detail.html " Google is meeting with bankers in preparation for its highly anticipated initial public offering . The Times reported that Microsoft's overture appears to have gained little traction as Google indicates it still prefers going the IPO route. " Ask yourself this question John :
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Jeff Relf wrote: > > Hi John Buy Low , Sell High , > You whine : " I want a GNU Search Engine " > > Wall Street , October 31, 2003 > http://www.nbcsandiego.com/money/2599128/detail.html > " Google is meeting with bankers in preparation for > its highly anticipated initial public offering . > The Times reported that Microsoft's overture > appears to have gained little traction > as Google indicates > it still prefers going the IPO route. " IPOs are notorious for being manipulated. Microsoft may still end up with a large enough block of Google stock to control it. [quoted text, click to view] > Ask yourself this question John : > " Why has the GNU philosophy continued to fail us ? " What failure? Linux aside (because it isn't all that there is to GNU software by a long shot), much of the internet is running on GNU/Open source software. -- Paul Hovnanian mailto:Paul@Hovnanian.com note to spammers: a Washington State resident ------------------------------------------------------------------ Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam. (Translation from latin: "I have a catapult. Give me
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Jeff Relf wrote: [snip]> [quoted text, click to view] > Ask yourself this question John : > " Why has the GNU philosophy continued to fail us ? " Ask yourself this question: Seeing as how the basic operating principles of Google are pretty well known, why can't a software company with a bottomless R&D budget build their own competing product? -- Paul Hovnanian mailto:Paul@Hovnanian.com note to spammers: a Washington State resident ------------------------------------------------------------------ All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.
I microcrap is buying Google -- then I want a GNU search engine ! ( Cant that decrepit creep keep his hands off of anything ? )
Attention all readers . ( Yes ... Both of you ! )
John Anthony Bailo , M.D. has asked your royal author ( me ) : " Why can't you address your posts to the group instead of to * me * in particular ? "
Hi Paul Hovnanian P.E. ,
You say : " why can't a software company with a bottomless R&D budget build their own competing product ? " Because Google is _ Smarter _ than Microsoft ? Pit Money vs. Smarts and Smarts wins every time . But that doesn't mean that GNU won and Google lost . Wiki is an amazingly good concept , but _ Some _ money is always need ... Hence Google beat Wiki . http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki : " The first ever wiki site was created for the Portland Pattern Repository in 1995 .
Hi Paul Hovnanian P.E. ,
You say : " Much of the internet is running on GNU / Open source software . " Yes , Including Google itself . But Google is doing an IPO ... What works , works ... Why be a purist at all costs ? Bailo loves playing the martyr ... Like that drunk I saw the other day saying " I'm Jesus ! I'm Jesus ! "
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 19:06:41 GMT, john bailo <jabailo@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > > > I microcrap is buying Google -- > > then I want a GNU search engine ! > > > ( Cant that decrepit creep keep his hands off of anything ? ) > > That is an EXCELLENT idea. The ads on google are already getting to be a drag, and I know for a fact that they leave out one HELL of a lot of websites. The GNU GOOGLE GNUGLE ? should clearly identify commercial websites and put them in a seperate category- Catalogs. -- Alan C this post ends with w
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john bailo wrote: > > > I microcrap is buying Google -- > > then I want a GNU search engine ! > > > ( Cant that decrepit creep keep his hands off of anything ? ) If you can find the public funding, I'll take my search engine code and build it. It will take: $2k~$20K per month for ISP hosting. $5K per 2U machine, with disk, we'll need about a hundred or two of them. We'll need a great deal with the ISP for bandwidth, because we will be crawling 4 billion pages on a regular basis. We'll need a 24x7 on-line admin We'll need a few web guys and a couple SQL guys, standard salary. We could probably launch in 6 months.
Hi Bailo ,
You prophesy : " GNU search will win ultimately ... "
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:03:30 GMT, mlw <mlw@nospam.no> wrote: > > > john bailo wrote: > >> >> >> I microcrap is buying Google -- >> >> then I want a GNU search engine ! >> >> >> ( Cant that decrepit creep keep his hands off of anything ? ) > > If you can find the public funding, I'll take my search engine code and > build it. > > It will take: > > $2k~$20K per month for ISP hosting. > $5K per 2U machine, with disk, we'll need about a hundred or two of them. > We'll need a great deal with the ISP for bandwidth, because we will be > crawling 4 billion pages on a regular basis. > We'll need a 24x7 on-line admin > We'll need a few web guys and a couple SQL guys, standard salary. > We could probably launch in 6 months. > > There would be no need for GNUGLE to be available to the general public. Just to Linux users. -- Alan C this post ends with w
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Hi Bailo , You say : " GET OFF MY ASS . " What exactly do you want me to do ?
In article <bnBob.10264$Px2.1688@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
[quoted text, click to view] Alan Connor <xxxx@yyy.zzz> wrote: >There would be no need for GNUGLE to be available to the general public. > >Just to Linux users. For a community that promotes freedom and openness, that would be extremely restrictive. And how would you even know if a client is a Linux user? -- Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com Level(3), Woburn, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups.
Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:12:58 -0800, Jeff Relf,
<1abfaza6f3z2$.dlg@__.Jeff.Relf> [quoted text, click to view] > Hi John Buy Low , Sell High , > You whine : " I want a GNU Search Engine " > > Wall Street , October 31, 2003 > http://www.nbcsandiego.com/money/2599128/detail.html > " Google is meeting with bankers in preparation for > its highly anticipated initial public offering . > The Times reported that Microsoft's overture > appears to have gained little traction > as Google indicates > it still prefers going the IPO route. " > > Ask yourself this question John : > " Why has the GNU philosophy continued to fail us ? " Why can't you address your posts to the group instead of to *me* in particular? Can't you speak like an adult? If you want to harangue me personally, my email address is jabailo@earthlink.net. If you want to propose a general comment, go ahead. There's plenty of intelligent people here...
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 23:35:15 GMT, Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> wrote: > > > In article <bnBob.10264$Px2.1688@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net>, > Alan Connor <xxxx@yyy.zzz> wrote: >>There would be no need for GNUGLE to be available to the general public. >> >>Just to Linux users. > > For a community that promotes freedom and openness, that would be extremely > restrictive. > I thought we were promoting Linux. [quoted text, click to view] > And how would you even know if a client is a Linux user? > That would be established when they signed up for access to the search engine. -- Alan C this post ends with w
poster->Jeff Relf <__.Jeff-Relf@NCPlus.NET>
[quoted text, click to view] > Hi Paul Hovnanian P.E. , > You say : > " Much of the internet > is running on GNU / Open source software . " > > Yes , Including Google itself . > > But Google is doing an IPO ... > > What works , works ... Why be a purist at all costs ? > > Bailo loves playing the martyr ... > Like that drunk I saw the other day > saying " I'm Jesus ! I'm Jesus ! " > as the campus cops handcuffed him . GET OFF MY ASS
poster->Jeff Relf <__.Jeff-Relf@NCPlus.NET>
[quoted text, click to view] > Hi Paul Hovnanian P.E. , > You say : > " why can't a software company > with a bottomless R&D budget > build their own competing product ? " > > Because Google is _ Smarter _ than Microsoft ? > > Pit Money vs. Smarts and Smarts wins every time . > > But that doesn't mean that GNU won and Google lost . > > Wiki is an amazingly good concept , > but _ Some _ money is always need ... > Hence Google beat Wiki . > > http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki : > " The first ever wiki site was created for > the Portland Pattern Repository in 1995 . > That site now hosts tens of thousands of pages . " spam bayes proves the concept... implementation is putting it into a search engine. GNU search will win ultimately...
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 19:25:26 -0800, Jeff Relf wrote: > Attention all readers . ( Yes ... Both of you ! ) > > John Anthony Bailo , M.D. > has asked your royal author ( me ) : > " Why can't you address your posts to the group > instead of to * me * in particular ? " > > Why don't you try plonking me ? Idiot -- Rick
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On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 07:13:34 GMT, Rick <rick@none.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 19:25:26 -0800, Jeff Relf wrote: > >> Attention all readers . ( Yes ... Both of you ! ) >> >> John Anthony Bailo , M.D. >> has asked your royal author ( me ) : >> " Why can't you address your posts to the group >> instead of to * me * in particular ? " >> >> Why don't you try plonking me ? > > Idiot > -- > Rick > I just checked my kill.log. My anti-troll utility has killed around 20 posts from that bozo. Judging from the above I'm not missing a thing. -- Alan C this post ends with w
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Jeff Relf wrote: > > Hi Paul Hovnanian P.E. , > You say : > " why can't a software company > with a bottomless R&D budget > build their own competing product ? " > > Because Google is _ Smarter _ than Microsoft ? Actually, no. Microsoft essentially has a bottomless pit of money and has hired some very talented people. I suspect that the mere existence of Google, or any other search engine that ranks pages purely based on content interferes with Microsoft's business model. That model is: If you ever want your page to be found, pay me. The more you pay, the better a score it gets. Since there are no alternatives (we bought them all), you will pay, or starve. [quoted text, click to view] > Pit Money vs. Smarts and Smarts wins every time . > > But that doesn't mean that GNU won and Google lost . Everything comes down to money. GNU wins because it is good and it is cheaper. Google wins because it is good and cheaper as well. Cheaper in this case is the amount that page owners must pay to be listed, which is zero. As a result, they have no 'Microsoft tax' to pass on to their customers. [quoted text, click to view] > Wiki is an amazingly good concept , > but _ Some _ money is always need ... > Hence Google beat Wiki . Wiki is 'free', but since it operates on a slightly different model, the effort to use it (both as a page owner and a page user) is slightly higher. Wiki works very well in situations where information creators must take the time to enter their data into some sort of structure anyway. [quoted text, click to view] > http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki : > " The first ever wiki site was created for > the Portland Pattern Repository in 1995 . > That site now hosts tens of thousands of pages . " -- Paul Hovnanian mailto:Paul@Hovnanian.com note to spammers: a Washington State resident ------------------------------------------------------------------
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Barry Margolin wrote: > In article <bnBob.10264$Px2.1688@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net>, > Alan Connor <xxxx@yyy.zzz> wrote: >>There would be no need for GNUGLE to be available to the general public. >> >>Just to Linux users. > > For a community that promotes freedom and openness, that would be > extremely restrictive. Agreed. [quoted text, click to view] > And how would you even know if a client is a Linux user? > Good question. Maybe Microsoft would soon add code to IE (or winsock or something) that would prevent Windows users from connecting to that site. You could then at least be sure that it wasn't a Windows user. :) --
Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> writes:
[quoted text, click to view] > Barry Margolin wrote: > > > Alan Connor <xxxx@yyy.zzz> wrote: > >>There would be no need for GNUGLE to be available to the general > >>public. > >> > >>Just to Linux users. > > > > For a community that promotes freedom and openness, that would be > > extremely restrictive. > > > > I thought we were promoting Linux. Look where you are crossposting to. This includes gnu.misc.discuss, seattle.general (for whatever reason, I am taking this out of the followup list), microsoft.public.dotnet.general (also taken out since I can't imagine why this topic would be of interest there). But let's talk about gnu.misc.discuss here: it has always been the stance of the GNU project to promote freedom also to those that have to work in unfree environment. More than a decade, GNU tools ran exclusively on proprietary platforms (the whole autoconf business is born from that). Nowadays the situation is such that the FSF does not invest any of their own resources into proprietary platform support, but they certainly don't keep others from doing so, and they don't wilfully cripple their software to fetter in other people to free software. Apart from which, there is now an abundance of other free systems, like FreeBSD, OpenBSD and things like that, and it would certainly not be the policy of the GNU project to keep people from using them. Then search engine technology like Google _naturally_ is based on existing Web technology. There is no point into creating something that would not work with browsers regardless of underlying operating system platform. [quoted text, click to view] > > And how would you even know if a client is a Linux user? > > That would be established when they signed up for access to the > search engine. You are promoting a _very_ discriminatory stance, denying other people access to technology out of sheer spite instead of technical necessity. That's not what freedom is about. --
poster->"Paul Hovnanian P.E." <Paul@Hovnanian.com>
[quoted text, click to view] > Microsoft essentially has a bottomless pit of money and has hired some > very talented people. I suspect that the mere existence of Google, or > any other search engine that ranks pages purely based on content > interferes with Microsoft's business model. That model is: (a) not 'bottomless' you are simply viewing a local maximum. (b) the 'web model' of 'free information' interferes with them. this model -- similar to the GNU model ( which takes it to its ultimate conclusion, and hence evolutionarily will supercede all other models ) makes software a function of information delivery. therefore, the cost of software can float to zero or below in the effort to deliver content, and the content creates the value. (c) microsoft cannot hold market dominance with a 'software' monopoly because of (b) -- and as it tries to convert to a 'content' seller it puts itself into a horse race with players who have a lot more 'smarts' and savvy than they do. (d) at this point, ms is basically a 'bottleneck' -- it is the old wife of computerdom that will not grant computers a divorce so they can join the GNU world of free software. So it continues to harange, interfere and bother people even though it's usefulness ended int 1995 with the ascendency of the Web economy. (e) Is 50 billion not enough alimony for Bill? We will see...
Google doesnt just rank based on content, its also got PAID ranking.
[quoted text, click to view] "Paul Hovnanian P.E." <Paul@Hovnanian.com> wrote in message news:3FA3E301.7061394A@Hovnanian.com... > Jeff Relf wrote: > > > > Hi Paul Hovnanian P.E. , > > You say : > > " why can't a software company > > with a bottomless R&D budget > > build their own competing product ? " > > > > Because Google is _ Smarter _ than Microsoft ? > > Actually, no. > > Microsoft essentially has a bottomless pit of money and has hired some > very talented people. I suspect that the mere existence of Google, or > any other search engine that ranks pages purely based on content > interferes with Microsoft's business model. That model is: > > If you ever want your page to be found, pay me. The more you pay, the > better a score it gets. Since there are no alternatives (we bought them > all), you will pay, or starve. > > > Pit Money vs. Smarts and Smarts wins every time . > > > > But that doesn't mean that GNU won and Google lost . > > Everything comes down to money. GNU wins because it is good and it is > cheaper. Google wins because it is good and cheaper as well. Cheaper in > this case is the amount that page owners must pay to be listed, which is > zero. As a result, they have no 'Microsoft tax' to pass on to their > customers. > > > Wiki is an amazingly good concept , > > but _ Some _ money is always need ... > > Hence Google beat Wiki . > > Wiki is 'free', but since it operates on a slightly different model, the > effort to use it (both as a page owner and a page user) is slightly > higher. > > Wiki works very well in situations where information creators must take > the time to enter their data into some sort of structure anyway. > > > http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki : > > " The first ever wiki site was created for > > the Portland Pattern Repository in 1995 . > > That site now hosts tens of thousands of pages . " > > -- > Paul Hovnanian mailto:Paul@Hovnanian.com > note to spammers: a Washington State resident > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > On a clear desk, you can sleep forever.
Jeff Relf <__.Jeff-Relf@NCPlus.NET> writes:
[quoted text, click to view] > Pit Money vs. Smarts and Smarts wins every time . The comparison may not be appreciated in all quarters, but back when Rockefeller & Nixon were battling for the Republican nomination, Bill Mauldin published a cartoon series of which the first showed Rocky with a pile of chips in front of him, and Dicky shuffling the cards. The caption was "Assets". -- --- Joe Fineman jcf@TheWorld.com
Hi Paul Hovnanian P.E. ,
You say : " I suspect that the mere existence of Google , or any other search engine that ranks pages purely based on content interferes with Microsoft's business model . " Wiki is shear brilliance ... No amount of money can't even compete with them . The people running Google make Bill Gates look like a retard . They were smart enough to wait before doing their IPO . They forgoed buying mansions , yachts , and muscle cars . Instead they peddled their bicycles to work . And they were Linux enthusiasts . Gates needs a billion dollars just to wipe his ass . I've discovered that a " Free " e-mail / news client , 40tude Dialog , beats the crap out of outlook express . ( At least as far as I am concerned ) Why ? Because many of Microsoft's programmers are millionaires . They're too busy sailing their yachts to come into Usenet like Marcus Mönnig does . ( Marcus is Dialog's author )
Oops ! I wrote :
" Instead they peddled their bicycles to work . "
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"news.microsoft.com" wrote: > > Google doesnt just rank based on content, its also got PAID ranking. Googles sponsored links are quite clearly marked as such. As long as they are honest about them, I don't have a problem with their trying to generate some revenue. Any other forms of payment for position in a legitimate search engine are unethical. -- Paul Hovnanian mailto:Paul@Hovnanian.com note to spammers: a Washington State resident ------------------------------------------------------------------ The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.
Hi jbailo ,
You cite Google's lunch menu : http://googlemenus.blogspot.com/ Hmmm . I " Cook " very simply .
poster->Jeff Relf <__.Jeff-Relf@NCPlus.NET>
[quoted text, click to view] > The people running Google make Bill Gates look like a retard . > > They were smart enough to wait before doing their IPO . > > They forgoed buying mansions , yachts , and muscle cars . > Instead they peddled their bicycles to work . the one luxury they afford themselfs is good food. every Google employee can eat lunch at a cafeteria staffed by a Gourmet chef...sure beats the blivet burger... check out this blog: http://googlemenus.blogspot.com/ ps -- most people who work for microsoft are contract employees who are treated like *shit* -- they are routinely lied to by the 'permanent' managers, sexually harassed and threated with their jobs. They are promised full time jobs that never materialize and then if projects go downhill they are blamed.. basically Bill Gate$ the Creep is propped up by a lot of young cannon fodder....
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On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 05:20:47 +0000, jbailo wrote: > poster->Jeff Relf <__.Jeff-Relf@NCPlus.NET> > > ps -- most people who work for microsoft > are contract employees who are treated > like *shit* -- they are routinely lied > to by the 'permanent' managers, sexually > harassed and threated with their jobs. > > They are promised full time jobs that > never materialize and then if projects > go downhill they are blamed.. > > basically Bill Gate$ the Creep is propped > up by a lot of young cannon fodder.... There's some stuff on this in the Naomi Klein book ('No Logo') I was talking about in another thread. Apparently Microsoft were worried that temp workers might start claiming employment rights because many of them had been there so long, so they ruled that MS funded social events were out of bounds to temp workers. andy. -- remove 'n-u-l-l' to email me. html mail or attachments will go in the spam
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"Rick" <rick@none.com> wrote in message news:pan.2003.11.01.07.13.33.514826@none.com... > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 19:25:26 -0800, Jeff Relf wrote: > > > Attention all readers . ( Yes ... Both of you ! ) > > > > John Anthony Bailo , M.D. > > has asked your royal author ( me ) : > > " Why can't you address your posts to the group > > instead of to * me * in particular ? " > > > > Why don't you try plonking me ? > > Idiot > -- > Rick > Brilliant comeback. I believe that the word 'Idiot' has a patent pending in this ng ? -- hash:a -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- a -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 20:43:18 -0800, Paul Hovnanian P.E. <Paul@Hovnanian.com> wrote: > > > "news.microsoft.com" wrote: >> >> Google doesnt just rank based on content, its also got PAID ranking. > > Googles sponsored links are quite clearly marked as such. As long as > they are honest about them, I don't have a problem with their trying to > generate some revenue. Any other forms of payment for position in a > legitimate search engine are unethical. > > -- > Paul Hovnanian mailto:Paul@Hovnanian.com > note to spammers: a Washington State resident > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > The large print giveth and the small print taketh away. > -- Tom Waits So spammers have to obey the rules but you don't? (the limit on sigs is 4 lines, which I am SURE that you know). Look up "hypocrisy" in the dictionary. Killfiled for 30 days. -- Alan C this post ends with w
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listened as Jeff Relf contributed this to humanity: [quoted text, click to view] > Hi Paul Hovnanian P.E. , > You say : > " Much of the internet > is running on GNU / Open source software . " > > Yes , Including Google itself . > > But Google is doing an IPO ... > > What works , works ... Why be a purist at all costs ? > > Bailo loves playing the martyr ... > Like that drunk I saw the other day > saying " I'm Jesus ! I'm Jesus ! " > as the campus cops handcuffed him . Look, I don't know what your marital dispute with jbailo is, but take it to email instead of the group. Oh, and you're an idiot too. Now FOAD! -- Daniel Rudy Remove nospam, invalid, and 0123456789 to reply.
Somewhere around the time of 10/31/2003 17:22, the world stopped and
listened as Paul Hovnanian P.E. contributed this to humanity: [quoted text, click to view] > Jeff Relf wrote: > > [snip] > > >>Ask yourself this question John : >> " Why has the GNU philosophy continued to fail us ? " > > > Ask yourself this question: Seeing as how the basic operating principles > of Google are pretty well known, why can't a software company with a > bottomless R&D budget build their own competing product? > Actually, they tried and failed. Look at MSN search for a case in point. -- Daniel Rudy Remove nospam, invalid, and 0123456789 to reply.
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Daniel Rudy wrote: > > Somewhere around the time of 10/31/2003 17:22, the world stopped and > listened as Paul Hovnanian P.E. contributed this to humanity: > > > Jeff Relf wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > >>Ask yourself this question John : > >> " Why has the GNU philosophy continued to fail us ? " > > > > > > Ask yourself this question: Seeing as how the basic operating principles > > of Google are pretty well known, why can't a software company with a > > bottomless R&D budget build their own competing product? > > > > Actually, they tried and failed. Look at MSN search for a case in point. It was their business plan that failed. Very few web site owners are willing to pay for a position in a search engine. Particularly when free alternatives (like Google) exist. That's why Microsoft needs to 'partner' with Google. -- Paul Hovnanian mailto:Paul@Hovnanian.com note to spammers: a Washington State resident ------------------------------------------------------------------ Tech support: Do you have any windows open right now?
While restarting Outlook, Alan Connor grumbled:
[quoted text, click to view] > Look up "hypocrisy" in the dictionary. > > Killfiled for 30 days. Killfile me, too, okay? -- Windows desktops and servers can find a safe haven on a
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Kingbarry2000 wrote: > "Rick" <rick@none.com> wrote in message > news:pan.2003.11.01.07.13.33.514826@none.com... >> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 19:25:26 -0800, Jeff Relf wrote: >> >> > Attention all readers . ( Yes ... Both of you ! ) >> > >> > John Anthony Bailo , M.D. >> > has asked your royal author ( me ) : >> > " Why can't you address your posts to the group >> > instead of to * me * in particular ? " >> > >> > Why don't you try plonking me ? >> >> Idiot >> -- >> Rick >> > > Brilliant comeback. I believe that the word 'Idiot' has a patent pending > in this ng ? > No. It i just that this NG attracts lots of people where the minimal description would be "idiot". It will quite often not be enough, so instead "moron" or "cretin" is more appropriate, but using any more words would just waste them BTW, you are an idiot -- Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have!
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On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 07:21:51 +0000, Daniel Rudy wrote: > Somewhere around the time of 10/31/2003 19:54, the world stopped and > listened as Jeff Relf contributed this to humanity: > >> Hi Paul Hovnanian P.E. , >> You say : >> " Much of the internet >> is running on GNU / Open source software . " >> >> Yes , Including Google itself . >> >> But Google is doing an IPO ... >> >> What works , works ... Why be a purist at all costs ? >> >> Bailo loves playing the martyr ... >> Like that drunk I saw the other day >> saying " I'm Jesus ! I'm Jesus ! " >> as the campus cops handcuffed him . > > Look, I don't know what your marital dispute with jbailo is, but take it > to email instead of the group. > > Oh, and you're an idiot too. > > Now FOAD! He *is* jbailo. Only he would xposts to seattle.general for no reason whatsever & screems stupid subject lines like this one. He's posting through a different route, thats all. -- Mark Registered Linux User #329755 - http://counter.li.org If you must email me then address to : uk.co.demon.mwgary.nospam@mark (just reverse it and remove nospam)
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Hovnanian P.E. made the following transmission: [quoted text, click to view] > Daniel Rudy wrote: >Tech support: Do you have any windows open right now? >Customer: Are you crazy? Its twenty below out! Have you heard the one that goes like this: Customer: I want to return my computer because it's not well made. Tech support: What's the problem exactly? Customer: Well I put my mug on the coffee cup holder and it just broke clean off. I think you guys should build things properly if you want people to buy them. Tech support: <puzzled> What coffee cup holder is that? <pause> Ah, I see, is that the coffee cup holder that conveniently slides out when you press a button on the front of the case? andy. -- remove 'n-u-l-l' to email me. html mail or attachments will go in the spam
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: Look up "hypocrisy" in the dictionary.
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>> And how would you even know if a client is a Linux user? > That would be established when they signed up for access to the search > engine. The question was "how", not "when". Also, if you require people to sign up, I expect you'll see much fewer users. Might be a good plan if you want to reduce the load even further. But at some point the load of search requested will be so small that it'll be difficult to justify the load created by crawling the web and storing the resulting index.
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