An imaginary place in a reactionary time

Take some comfort that you've convinced this techno-boob to scorn the foetid tit of MS to the extent possible.

I use Opera, and my (free -- I let the subscription expire) hotmail account is now mostly for spam, and lists likely to get me more spam.

If I actually bought, or owned, a computer, it wouldn't have MS on it. But, since others make the purchases, I accept the evil OS.

Mon Cheri, the phrase you're searching for is menage a deux.

as long as you accept evil, you perpetuate evil.

as for the menage, no. the performance artist in question doesn't go for short, fat, bald, and ugly guys: just tall, fat, bald, and ugly guys. she has her standards ya know.

Hi Katheryn

Glad to see you back in Chicago.

Forest for the trees.

MS sucks but they aren't doing anything so shocking in todays enviorment.

Corportions were originally formed for a single purpose under a set period of time. Over time their role expanded. One of the worst decison a Supreme Court ever made was to grant corporations "personhood" or in other word corporations have the same rights as you or I, but none of the responsibilities.

Corporations for a long time after that had a sense of social concience. True it was not that great but they had a national and social indentity that gave them a more ethical course of action than corporations today.

When the social darwinism of reagan and the canabalistic capitolists all considerations other than economic become useless. If it makes money it can be justified is the value of the day.

Problem is the MS's of the world are so pervasive you have to be a real expert (or know one well) in the area to break free of the corporate control. Who has the time for that.

Lets just cut back on corporate power instead. We over turned Dred Scott, we can overturn corporate personhood as well.

speaking of the propogation of lies about power, i see you bought the ms/reagan/bush/shrub line. the trivialization of competitors to monopolists is part and parcal of the FUD (fear uncertainty and doubt) spread by the monopoly and their proponents you don't have to be an expert in any area of monopolization to be able to say, "hmmmm, this is a monopoly, and this isn't." it's simple:
don't eat at mcdonalds.
don't buy a windows based computer.
don't vote republican.
don't buy from walmart.
you don't have to be an expert in retail, restaurants, poli-sci, or computers. by and large you'll get a better experiance in your chosen area of antimonopolistic endever. by and large you will probably pay more. but lets look at the individual cases.

eating at a local mom and pop restaurant: better, healthier food, the customer being right, being able to complain to the owner and or vote with your feet, limited amount of real influence on the bizniz, custom tailored food.

an apple macintosh computer, easier to operate and less prone to crashing then a windows machine, better eula, it doesn't get in your way and it doesn't monitor you, doens't lock you in to working only one way or even with one propriatary format. higher resale value, better looking, easy enough to use that gates bought his late mother one.

not voting republian--not supporting mass murdering bigoted scum and oligarchic rights trouncing treasonious slime. not putting money in wealthy peoples pockets.

not buying walmart. see above. ability to guarenty your clothes weren't made in chinese prisons, or by haitian sweatshops. ability to buy renewable resource products. ability to buy music that isn't censored for content by walmart.

i dunno, jimbo, you don't have to be an expert not to support a monopoly. it doesn't look too hard, and it's got some real ethical and moral and quality of goods/experince reasons going for it. and you don't sound like a stupid lazy decadent tool of the man raising his hand to cover a bored yawn as he intones the mantra of "nothing wil ever happan till we tear down western civilisation which we know will never happan, so will you fix my website for free, while i put gas in my suv?"

Bite me

i'm sorry.