[Wine] Re: Windows vs Linux

Phil Costin philcostin at hotmail.com
Tue May 2 11:24:12 CDT 2006


magnate wrote:

> Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
>> Daniel Skorka wrote:
>> > Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
http://shelleytherepublican.com/2006/04/linux-european-threat-to-our-computers.html
>> >>
>> >> Quotes:
>> >>> And guess what software Osama Bin Laden uses on his laptop?
>> >>>
>> >>> If you guessed it was Linux you would be 100% right.
>> >>> Next time somebody asks you how Al Queda agents pay for their
>> >>> rifles and rocket launchers, you can tell them that foreign hackers
>> >>> make software called Linux which helps them steal from Americans.
>> >> And here I thought that Osama got his money from the Americans for
>> >> helping them out long ago.  Turns out they've just been stealing it.
>> >> Using Linux!
>> >
>> > Wow. Truly amazing. I used to wonder how people could actually believe
>> > in conspiracies about the moon landing. Now I just wonder how they
>> > manage to keep breathing...
>>
>> To me http://shelleytherepublican.com/ looks as if it's satirical.
>> On the other hand when I first heard the song "Die Partei hat immer
>> Recht" I thought it was satirical, too.
> 
> I'm afraid it's not. I've only spent about three minutes on it, but I
> can't find any hint of satire. Shelly is a 28-year-old female Christian
> working in the non-profit sector who holds stomach-turningly right-wing
> nationalist views (I really don't understand how Christians can be
> right wing, when everything Jesus taught was socialist). Sadly this is
> not uncommon in the good ol' US of A. For example:
> 
> http://www.shopmetrospy.com/
> 
> There's a sight I could have sworn was ironic. Except it's not.
> 
> Oh dear.
> 
> CC

She sounds Globalist to me, not nationalist :P




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