<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi<br>Yes it is over the top, but you cut off the quotation at the end. I will put it back in<br>for you:<br>"Jesters do oft prove prophets." -- Shakespeare, in <em>King Lear</em>,
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<br>To jest one often does go over the top. <br><br>You may have heard this before: "Many a true word is spoken in jest."<br><br>But I am glad that you use the term "over the top". To me nothing is more over the top than the use of the word "Partner" by Microsoft.<br><br>Oh you are a Certified Microsoft Partner are you? A Partner? wow. You get dividend cheques? When is Bill Gates coming over for dinner? When do you attend the next Microsoft board meeting?<br><br>Reality check:<br>You buy enough stuff from us and we will call you a partner. It is almost laughable when adult businessmen swallow this crap. Now they want to pull the wool over the eyes of young people.<br><br>It is a curious trait in modern people this thing I call product worship. You have seen them: "what you drive a Ford? what are you some kind of degenerate?" "Hey man I just buy what I need at the best price I can. It could have been a Chev -- getta life."<br><br>It is scary
when this product worship is directed at a monopolist. I think they will make a good run at it.<br><br>I hope this clears it up.<br><br>Sincerely <br><br>John <br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><span class="intro">Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? -- T.S. Elliot.</span><span class="intro"><br></span>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>==================================<br>John Eddie Kerr | Guelph, Ontario <br>==================================<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 6/23/10, unsolicited <i><unsolicited@swiz.ca></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: unsolicited <unsolicited@swiz.ca><br>Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Astroturf Farming<br>To: "KWLUG discussion"
<kwlug-disc@kwlug.org><br>Date: Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 7:20 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">I think that's a little over the top.<br><br>I've no doubt many other institutions, that you would consider worthy,<br>have similar programs. Perhaps, say, for example, Google's summer of code.<br><br>John Kerr wrote, On 06/23/2010 2:26 PM:<br>> Is it the Ballmer Youth? All they need now is brown shirts and<br>> black shorts. It is written someplace in the Halloween files, I<br>> believe, that to make the "little people" feel important.<br>> <br>> Hail Ballmer!<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kwlug-disc_kwlug.org mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:kwlug-disc_kwlug.org@kwlug.org" href="/mc/compose?to=kwlug-disc_kwlug.org@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc_kwlug.org@kwlug.org</a><br><a href="http://astoria.ccjclearline.com/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org"
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