[SOC] Can you believe this?

[JMcAulay]

At 06:12 PM 03/29/2002 +1100, Ian C. Purdie wrote:
>Rob Matherly wrote:
>
>> I guess 'ol Bill isn't happy enough with his massive market share :^)
>>
>> http://news.com.com/2100-1001-870805.html
>
>Yeah and I personally know a lot of poor web developers who have to
grapple [endure] with
>the fact that their employers elected to go with Micro$oft Servers simply
because, if it's
>Micro$oft, it must be good!.
>
>Oh duh, another example of business management snatching defeat from the
jaws of victory.
>Ignorance personified.


I would agree wholeheartedly with you, Ian, but I fear that might seem such
an intelligent act, it could impugn my second-class status.

When my house was robbed a couple of years ago, the thieves left untouched
a genuine Windoze machine but stole all my Macs.  At least the SOBs had
taste.  [Also stole the small refrigerator out of my office, leaving behind
all the beer.  Investigating Sheriff's Deputies were genuinely puzzled.]

Also, in passing, here's a thought about the stock market:

Had you bought $2,000 worth of BUD (the beer, not the stock) two years ago,
you'd be better off today financially if you'd been drinking the beer six
cans a night and turning in the empties for the deposit money rather than
if you had spent your $2,000 on Enron stock.

The reader is left to deduce his or her own moral from this factual statement.

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WA6QPL  SOC 263