do any of actually like bush?

[Cathedral]

Let me also add that the quality of the work that was sent from our company to Japan to be done was putrid.
See, what really gets me about it all was that once Kustom took it's maufacturing there it was sent back to us after being imported back into the states.
We did quality control on the beast that was fixing to swallow us whole, i'd laugh if i didn't love that job so much and was not still bitter about it.

We opened the boxes and pulled cabinets out that had vinyl and carpet hanging off of them...seams that had visible gaps exposing the wood, missing or chewed and stripped out speaker screws....Man they were a mess and then, get this, then we had to FIX that shit before it went to retailers.

Kind of like sticking it to ourselves...and then our production standards were sent over there and they still were crap.........Oh yeah, NAFTA was a great idea all the way wasn't it?

[Steve Savicki]

Bush has lied about so many things that even his fellow Republicans dislike him.
I bet Kerry will win the election (won't bet money 'cause I don't live the gamblin' lifestyle), but I think that Kerry will win.

[FORD]

Originally posted by John Ashcroft
Oh, and didn't IBM just make a deal with UNIX? I thought I saw a superbowl commercial alluding to it.

I forget which version of Unix IBM is using, but I believe they are selling it as a network platform. Which is not a bad move in and of itself. Unix/Linux is a far more stable and secure operating system for networking, and was in fact designed to BE a network OS. The internet itself is a Unix network.

But this is just the network infrastructure itself. Odds are that every workstation on those networks will still be running Windows and MS Office. So if every network in the country converted over to Unix/Linux, there's no question MS would lose some major licensing fees from their ridiculously overpriced server software. But it's just as likely that the user licenses for Windows XP and MS Office would take a jump even quicker than gas prices during a Bush campaign season

[John Ashcroft]

My buddy uses slackware for his network needs (and has set up our office using a slackware box as a router). I've loaded Redhat a while back, but didn't like the KDE or Gnome desktop. Plus, couldn't run my games (big minus for a workstation). But I'm trying to get a little smarter on the Linux/Unix OS. I'm moving into the network admin realm at work, and am seeing first hand the power of these OS's. I'll probably set up home behind a Linux box pretty soon.

So, having said that, I can't believe that more software vendors haven't worked on the desktop aspect (or lackthereof) of Linux. Talk about a market! I know Linux itself will always be free, but get Unreal to run on the thing and I may change my desktop OS. I have faith that this certainly will happen soon, and lot's of people will get rich by it. Hell, just the fact that IBM is finally realizing UNIX is a much better server platform is a giant step in the right direction (IMHO). There's always money to be made in America. That's my point. Every time you think a certain market has been cornered, someone comes along and pulls the rug out from under everyone. I love it! It truly happens nowhere else. And guess what? Government intervention has proven only to stymie entrepreneurs and the free market. That's just the truth. It always comes down to "the law of unintended consequences". Europe for instance has government intervention in all aspects of civil life and it's markets. Any guesses to why they don't drive the tech industry? Hell, Germans are crafty mother fuckers. If let loose, they'd probably dominate most of the tech industry. So why aren't they?