Well well well...

I bet you are all wondering about what I'm going to say about the debate. Yea, you are crying forth as a collective mass for some sort of political venom, some piece of acerbic bile to bring both candidates to a huddling, writhing mass of bullshit and furrowed brows... well, I actually enjoyed the debate. My breakdown is like everyone elses:

• Kerry is smarter than Bush, and he did a good job displaying that at every turn. He also managed to do it without being so verbose.


• Bush still scares the pants off of me, but not in a good "Las Vegas" way.


• The moderator was kind of a dick by asking questions that he KNEW the candidates would most likely get steamy over... Promote that man!


• They were both civil to each other at the end, which was nice. America has lost a lot of it's civility (thanks to people like me), and it's good to see that the men who are at the highest stress level in that room can take time from verbally pummelling each other to be civil. I, however, came for blood.

Well, those are my basic thoughts, without getting into too heavy of an analysis. The VP debate is coming up, and I can't WAIT to see that one! If you want analysis, go to CNN. There are plenty of people there who are just ITCHING to tell you what you saw on the debates, despite the fact that you, an intelligent being, can figure it out for your own damn self if you take about 20 minutes. Anyway, on to different news.

Microsoft is a bunch of Punk Bitches.

Now, those of you that know me know that my beef with Microsoft, "their products", and their business model run very deep. (So deep, that I recently installed College Linux on a donated machine, and I'm thinking about converting one of my clients completely to Linux, as long as they can deal.) For those of you that dont know me, my hatred for Microsoft, "their products", and their business model runs very deep. (So there.) Anyway, the latest bullshit to fall out of the collective poop-shoot that is the Microsoft PR department is infuriating, to say the least.

Speaking to an exclusive gathering of press in London on a number of issues, such as security, Steve Ballmer didn't pass up the opportunity to take several digs at his company's arch rival Apple.

At the heart of the debate is Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology which will let content providers such as record labels and movie studios keep control of their intellectual property (IP) - or at least ensure all royalties are paid and copyright observed.

Billing Microsoft as the good guys and Apple the villains of the piece - at least as far as corporate America, rather than users, is concerned, Ballmer said: "We’ve had DRM in Windows for years. The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen'."

'iPod users are music thieves' says Ballmer
[Andy McCue Silicon.com]

The hairs on the back of my neck are still standing on edge, and it's been a good three hours since I read that article. Now, I understand that the MP3 thing is a big bone of contention (which I've written about MANY times), but it's the fact that someone from Microsoft is calling someone else a thief. My want to yell "Hypocrite!" only slightly overshadows my want to grab Bill Gates by the throat, and string him up by his micro-soft, allowing people who has wronged with his overpriced shitware to hit him with a plastic wiffle-bat filled with thumbtacks. However, the next best thing is to write about it. Now, the thing that many people understand about Microsoft is that they are huge, and Bill Gates is a rich genius. Yes, these things are true, says I. I know how to admit my adversary's strong points. However, I will tell you how Microsoft happened to get huge, thus making Bill Gates rich... are you ready?

Pure Thievery.

Inovation my ass, it's all fucking stolen. MS-DOS, upon which Windows 3.1 through ME are based, is just a near-direct copy of CP/M, written by Gary Kildall. In fact, rumour has been going around for years that portions of Kildall's copyright information still exists in DOS before 6.22, when Microsoft finally found it.
Bill Gates is only a genius in so much as he managed to get away with stealing everything from everyone and got away with it. Now, I'm not going to go into how they stole Windows 3 from IBM, or how they stole code from VAX to put into NT, but let's just say Billy Gates is a genius along the lines of Auric Goldfinger. Now we just beed someone to play James Bond, and drop his ass with a Louiesville fuckin' Slugger... and I think I just might be the man for the job.

Now look here. I'm going to be plain and simple about this. I hate Microsoft, mainly because I work in the computer industry during the day, and sometimes late into the night, and I bemoan the fact that everything they put out, with the exception of TweakUI, is a bloated, overpriced, semi-fuctional, buggy sack of llama-shit. However, I'm not saying that anyone associated with Microsoft should be killed. Slow torture, Payback-style is in order, not death. Perhaps something like papercuts on Billy's eyeballs, or maybe pierce his tounge and then attach it to a nose ring on a big, gay biker. But I digress...

I'm not going to say anything about this, I'm just going to say you should probably protect your sack.

Alright, bitches, I'm out. Watch the VP debates and make up your own damn mind, cause Britney Spears sure ain't gonna do it.