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Sunday, August 03, 2003 |
 Job For John: "Last Thursday, July 24th I was downsized from my job of 3 years at a software company. Later the same day I heard that President Bush's economic team would be doing a bus tour through Wisconsin and Minnesota this week touting Bush's tax cut and its prosperous economic effects. 'What a bunch of BS. I'd like to give their PR tour a dose of reality,' is what I thought. So I packed up the minivan and decided to follow their bus around the countryside and talk to whoever would listen about the real facts -- that this economy stinks, and Bush's tax cuts are making it worse." [Scripting News]
Another Bum looking for an excuse to not work instead of getting off his dead ass and finding a job. Ooooooo ... lets go do the hippy thing and make a fool of ourselves driving around in our Chartreuse Jesus bus. You freaking Idiot !!!!!! You worked for a software company for Christs sake! What the hell did you think was going to happen? You knew when you started there it wasn't stable employment! You should have been spending your time thinking about what you were going to do when the inevitable bottom fell out. No .... that would be too easy .... I'll get on the web and whine about it and blame everyone but myself for being such a fool!
4:05:40 PM 
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Amen! Get a life Gilmore and stop being so damn selfish!
Here's some political incorrectness. I think Jarvis is right, Gilmore was a jerk to wear the Suspected Terrorist button on a plane. If I had been on the plane that turned around I would have been pissed. Did he make some kind of noble point? Nah. He should have stayed home and wrote a blog post. [Scripting News]
3:48:45 PM
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Editorial: War and death are inevitable
How many times in your life have you heard somebody piss and moan about war and how it's wrong? War is definitely not a good thing. Soldiers die, power shifts causing uproars within countries, more soldiers die, and yes, innocents usually die as well. When that kind of picture is painted, of course it doesn't sound great. Even after saying that, do I still think war is necessary? Yes. [JadeBuddha.com]
3:40:13 PM
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Two of the most malignant and cruel mass murderers, rapists and torturers to ever walk the earth have departed the planet – and the left sneers.
There was a time – I can remember it clearly, though it seems a lifetime ago – when “liberals” were people who fought for humanity and human rights, people who despised murder and torture. Now, wherever we look, the people who call themselves the most “liberal” seem to be the sole remaining defenders of murder, rape and torture.
What the hell has happened to those people? [Eject! Eject! Eject!]
2:29:21 PM
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Transvestites with AK-47's. If San Francisco had its own army, it would look very much like the Liberian militia.
According to the soldiers themselves, cross-dressing is a military mind game, a tactic that instills fear in their rivals. It also makes the soldiers feel more invincible. This belief is founded on a regional superstition which holds that soldiers can "confuse the enemy's bullets" by assuming two... [Right-Thinking from the Left Coast]
Yeah ... we really need to rush right over and help these weirdos.
2:00:45 PM
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Human Scum. "Dear Leader" has been throwing a temper tantrum.
Pyongyang called a U.S. State Department official "human scum" for his criticism of North Korea's leader, but the communist nation said it would still join talks on its suspected nuclear weapons program. North Korea said Saturday that it won't deal with U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton because he... [Right-Thinking from the Left Coast]
1:57:31 PM
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Rutan's XPrize craft (thanks Ole) called SpaceShipOne. Totally remakes the idea of a spacecraft. Nice! Some more pics: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14.
A visit to Rutan's company site, Scaled Composites, shows how dangerous this business can be. [John Robb's Weblog]
1:45:48 PM
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Senseless Violence. Once again we prove to the world just what a violent nation we are. Right-wing skinhead extremists have attacked a gay pride parade. This is just one more sign of America's turning tide of social conservative extremism. No wonder the rest of the world fears us. We are... oh, wait. This happened in Sweden. Never mind.
A group of around 30 skinheads attacked marchers in a gay... [Right-Thinking from the Left Coast]
8:41:13 AM
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My reply to Steve Anglin: You claim that Apple is gaining market share. According to the latest industry sales figures, that is incorrect. Apple's market share of computers sold in the past quarter has gone down and now is about 2%. Linux on the desktops is scaring Microsoft, but it gets installed on far fewer systems than OSX does.
I think Steve has been hanging out on the weblogs and at conferences too much. Apple's market share at conferences and weblogs is MUCH MUCH higher than it is in the real world. At recent conferences (like O'Reilly's) it seems that half of the computers are Apples.
If you live in this space, you gotta realize that you live in a distortion field. It's like if you only eat in downtown Palo Alto. You'll never experience junk food (the last Burger King was kicked out more than a year ago). But that doesn't mean that McDonalds doesn't sell more hamburgers than Spago does. [The Scobleizer Weblog]
8:04:38 AM
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