Evil Linux

[AfrographX 0]

Quote[/b] ]Like most things that are worth owning, Computers are an American invention. Look at any modern computer and you will see that the whole thing is the product of American brilliance.

For example, this rugged IBM laptop I am using was designed and built by an American company. It runs software built by Microsoft, one of America's most productive organizations. My computer does everything I could possibly want: I can do my work, submit my taxes and even search the Bible.

Like all the greatest American engineering, it's an example of innovation that makes a growing group of European and Chinese hackers jealous. They hate our lead in computing technology and will stop at nothing until they have control of all of our computers.

I'm talking about a project called 'Linux', something you may not have encountered, but might do some day.

It's a computer program that was initially developed in Finland as a means of circumventing valuable copyrights and patents owned by an American company called SCO Group.

Unlike Windows, which is a mature commercial product which is normally included with every new computer, Linux is given away. Now it may not sound like much of a problem, after all there is very little profit in merely giving a product away.

This would be certainly true were in not for the Linux project's seductive Marxist ideology and the effect that it has on 'Blue-State' liberals. Indeed, Linux is so pervasive amongst the blue states and many liberal universities that a leading computer expert Steve Balmer (from Microsoft) described Linux as cancer.

The American software industry is worth more than $7 Billion; Introducing a foreign product like Linux which is often copied for free could threaten that entire industry. A generation of computer users might get use to accepting foreign software hand-outs rather than paying for a superior American products. If only the danger were just to our economy:

These days computers control everything from TV stations to battleships; Our crucial information and defense infrastructure is built on computer technology. If we allow this cancer into our networks, there is no knowing what the effect might be on our infrastructure, but that is just what liberals are trying to do.

Imagine if the State of the Union address were hacked because the TV station decided to save money by using Linux? Imagine if a stealth-bomber crashed because it's software was written by anonymous Chinese or European hackers. It would make as much sense as inviting the French to come over and take over the White-House.

And guess what software Osama Bin Laden uses on his laptop?

If you guessed it was Linux you would be 100% right. Osama uses Linux because he knows designed to counterfit DVDs, curcumventing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and defraud companies like Disney.

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.

This Linux problem is a growing issue, and one that conservative Americans cannot afford to ignore. Fortunately Microsoft have prepared a great deal of information to help computer users get away from this menace. But there is something you can do to help keep American #1 in the computer business:

If one of your friends is using Linux or may be tempted to try it show them this article. Explain that Linux is a genuine threat and that by using it they may be opening their computer to Chinese hackers.

If you see a company using Linux, it may be that they have not paid for this software. Report them to the Business Software Alliance who have the legal authority to inspect any company's computers for illegal programs like Linux.

Finally, remember to include Linux users in your prayers tonight. As individuals we may not be able to change people's minds, but the Bible teaches that God can make any sinner repent.

Source: Shelley TheRepublican.com

[GoOB 0]

God forbid! People running their computers and networks from a stable platform! The man upstairs must be pissed at all the Linux users.

EDIT: Is this crap serious by the way? :S

[echo1 0]

These days computers control everything from TV stations to battleships; Our crucial information and defense infrastructure is built on computer technology. If we allow this cancer into our networks, there is no knowing what the effect might be on our infrastructure, but that is just what liberals are trying to do.

On one of my mate's Win95 manual, there was a warning about the operating system (and I swear this is true)

"[due to software instabilities] Microsoft Windows 95 is not recommended for use with high risk applications such as Life Support Systems, Missile Defence Systems and Nuclear-related applications"

[DBR_ONIX 0]

Err, I seroiusly hope their not serious

- Ben

[5133p39 16]

what a stupidity :-)))))))))))

[Sniperwolf572 758]

OMG, A laugh of my life....silly republicans.

[Colossus 2]

I had a good laugh there.

Remember to read the comments too.

EDIT: Read the second post too.

[canukausiuka 1]

That's very OT, but at the same time ridiculously stupid. Frankly, reading it I didn't think it was serious. But apparently, the whole blog is drivel. Frustrating for me, since I consider myself a conservative and a Republican on most occasions. But that is pure drivel straight up.

Guess it just goes to show you, the internet is full of idiots

[Acecombat 0]

So osama uses linux? No wonder hes so pissed off all the time , the guy cant play any games on that OS .

[raedor 8]

cant play any games on that OS .

Tsts...

Osama is Linus Torvalds! (And is Kegetys Linus, too?)

[shinRaiden 0]

It's a satire site, though not nearly tongue in cheek as some. This is actually a variant of an email that circulates in conservative IT circles, because unlike liberals conservatives have a sense of humor and can laugh at themselves.

[wildo 0]

Anyone else noticed the 2 linux advertisements from google at the bottom of the page?

Wildo

[chipper 0]

wow just read some of comments to his article THEY ACUALLY AGREE WITH THIS SHELLEY. These extremist from both the Democrats and the Republic are really scarring me. We have this far right shelley guy saying linux is evil and against god and what not and then we have these far left crazy people saying that we should not goto funerals of US soldiers that died in iraq cause they did evil things or some bull shit.

I really don't understand people like this. HOW CAN THEY BE SO IGNORANT?? IT'S AMAZING!!

[Tovarish 0]

You know, At first I thought "no one could be THIS stupid" and then I started thinking of some of the people I deal with at work every day...and I wasn't so sure....but when I read:

Quote[/b] ]We had been told that the newest version of RedHat Linux was version 3.0, which for a “flagship†product was surprisingly hard to find. When we did locate it, we were astonished to be told that it was "quite old" and that RedHat no longer provided any level of technical support for it.

When we opened the shrink-wrap box we were astounded to find that it contained a large set of floppy-disks. I cannot imagine what Redhat were thinking in this age of DVDs; still this would be a step up from the magnetic-tapes upon which FreeBSD is normally supplied (Free BSD is an older kind of Linux).

Yeah...sure bud, thanks for the chuckle

*edit*

LMAO This is gold! Bonzi Buddy, Claria, and Comet Cursor mentioned as applications that make Windows shine above Linux

[ghad121 0]

HaHa the americans invented the computer lol

[deanosbeano 0]

hmmm all sounds like a load of babbage to me

babbage

[Balschoiw 0]

"Maintenance work, please come back in 12 hours" with a User login prompt.

That´s all I get.

[stgn 39]

Didn't the FBI or somthing(some high up US agency) release thier own version of linux a couple of years ago??

STGN

[theavonlady 2]

Didn't the FBI or somthing(some high up US agency) release thier own version of linux a couple of years ago??

Isn't that called "Lineups"?

[shinRaiden 0]

Didn't the FBI or somthing(some high up US agency) release thier own version of linux a couple of years ago??

STGN

NSA's SE-Linux extensions and security system.

[Tovarish 0]

A friend and co-worker of mine was practically foaming at the mouth when he read the first post. I almost had to restrain him from replying - long enough to read the second post and realize beyond the shadow of a doubt that this couldn't be serious

[shinRaiden 0]

A friend and co-worker of mine was practically foaming at the mouth when he read the first post. I almost had to restrain him from replying - long enough to read the second post and realize beyond the shadow of a doubt that this couldn't be serious

I could drone on and on about that, but in short, that's been my observation as well, that there seems to be a significant and incompatible difference in the understanding of humor between liberals and conservatives.

As a fundamentalist ultra-conservative running WinXP, Gentoo Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSSH, and having previously had MacOS, Rhapsody, Mandrake, and Redhat, and planning to deploy Solaris and Ubuntu in the future, I thought it was pretty funny the way that article poked fun at a common stereotype.

To attempt to extrapolate that out to an alarm over a presumed policy opinion of the masses is the second half of the joke. The first half is how silly it is, the second half of the joke is watching people react to it.

There's plenty of other more serious issues to be worried about, ie the debate over abuses of liberty to combat the exploits of liberty, and the correlation between domestic and foriegn policy and activities. Those arguments are grounds for real stress, so I welcome silliness like this as an escape relief.