____/ luisortizhome@xxxxxxxxx on Saturday 08 September 2007 19:10 : \____
> On Sep 8, 1:56 pm, luisortizh...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> On Sep 7, 10:05 pm, "Lt. Stardust" <stard...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> > "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >news:1515700.OfmUS0hTVY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> > > ____/ Kier on Friday 07 September 2007 17:57 : \____
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>> > >> On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:26:42 +0100, Mark Kent wrote:
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>> > >>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> > >>>> ____/ Kier on Thursday 06 September 2007 18:15 : \____
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>> > >>>>> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:02:39 +0100, Mark Kent wrote:
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>> > >>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> > >>>>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 06 September 2007 12:56 : \____
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>> > >>>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> > >>>>>>>>> Microsoft Paid Lobbyist $160,000
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>> > >>>>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> > >>>>>>>>>| Microsoft Paid Paid Bingham McCutchen $160,000 to Lobby Federal
>> > >>>>>>>>>Gov't
>> > >>>>>>>>>| in First Half of 2007
>> > >>>>>>>>> `----
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>> > >>>>>>>>>http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070905/microsoft_lobbying.html?.v=1
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>> > >>>>>>>> And we still allow this to happen? This is outrageous, and has
>> > >>>>>>>> no place in a real democracy, or, for that matter, a
>> > >>>>>>>> constitutional monarchy.
>>
>> > >>>>>>> Exactly! Finally, someone who agrees that this is a disgusting and
>> > >>>>>>> anti-democratic practise (only made legal by those who lobby in
>> > >>>>>>> favour
>> > >>>>>>> of lobbying, or those paying lawmakers to write the law). It's
>> > >>>>>>> shredding
>> > >>>>>>> democracy to pieces. One must wonder how much of that $160,000
>> > >>>>>>> (for 6
>> > >>>>>>> months) Bingham McCutchen just tossed onto some senator's bank
>> > >>>>>>> account.
>> > >>>>>>> Heck. He may have bought Mr. Senator a session with a dozen
>> > >>>>>>> hookers.
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>> > >>>>>>> As Ghost says, welcome to the New World Order.
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>> > >>>>>> Oh, I've been worried about lobbying for a few years now, I'm
>> > >>>>>> merely becoming ever more concerned that it's destroying what was a
>> > >>>>>> vibrant democracy.
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>> > >>>>>> Perhaps we need a move to PR to put a stop to this kind of thing?
>> > >>>>>> If our governments were more representative of the views of the
>> > >>>>>> populous,
>> > >>>>>> then maybe they'd be taken more seriously by the population at
>> > >>>>>> large. On the other hand, since most people seem to watch east
>> > >>>>>> enders, pop idol, big brother and so on, maybe we could have Stalin
>> > >>>>>> running things
>> > >>>>>> and nobody would notice. Or a horse, maybe. Oh yeah, the yanks
>> > >>>>>> have Bush, and nobody seems to have noticed...
>>
>> > >>>>> If that tinfoil hat of yours was any tighter, you'd suffocate. Come
>> > >>>>> back
>> > >>>>> down to Earth for a while, man, and maybe the oxygen will revive
>> > >>>>> your common-sense.
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>> > >>>> You're either in denial or fooled if you feel this way. This isn't
>> > >>>> anything
>> > >>>> new (the corruption at the top), but the proportion of it (and the
>> > >>>> visibility that the Internet gives it) cannot be ignored. All this
>> > >>>> corruption is a case of stealing for the benefit of the wealthy. It's
>> > >>>> also
>> > >>>> a matter of restriction and punishment, which is why Free software is
>> > >>>> so
>> > >>>> crucial to the digital age we're entering.
>>
>> > >>> It's kier - as you're not a troll, you get an attack. If you were a
>>
>> > >> You're a liar, Mark. Oh, and my name is Kier - captital K.
>>
>> > >>> troll and had said the above, he'd be arguing. To put this another
>> > >>> way, *you* just got trolled by kier.
>>
>> > >> Bullshit. I'm just sick of reading paranoid nonsense. Healty skepticism
>> > >> but this kind of stuff is more than that, and it's foolish and IMO
>> > >> dangerous.
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>> > >> Seeing conspiracy and corruption everywhere you look is not healthy.
>> > >> Try for a more balanced view.
>>
>> > > You also called Rex a nutter. I took offence in this.
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>> > Anyone, Rex included, who claims that a major defence contractor like
>> > Martin Marietta broke into his "high school locker" and stole his notebook
>> > and then used that to build military weapons is much worse than a nutter.
>> > Calling psycho lunatics like this a "nutter" is being far kinder than
>> > these screw-balls deserve.
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>> Rex Ballard?
>> Isn't that the guy from comp.os.linux.advocacy that runs around in a
>> dress giving oral sex to bartenders?
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>> http://tinyurl.com/yq4oxn
>> Yes I believe that is him.
>>
>> So now he is claiming that technical secrets were stolen from his high
>> school locker?
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>> He sounds like another usenet kook who can join Roy Schestowitz and
>> Mark Kent.
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> Shit!!!
> I just googled Rex Ballard in groups and on the net and he makes Roy
> Schestowitz and Mark Kent look normal!!
> What a friggen usenet kook if ever there was one.
>
> Between crossdressing for Linux and having ones testicles removed for
> Linux I don't know which one is worse.
>
> I don't see much advocacy in comp.os.linux.advocacy, but it is one
> hell of a funny froup to read.
> Hysterical in fact.
All argument therein are a case of libel and fabrication. It's an attempt at
character assassination, which is better off ignored.
All the interference to your newsgroup comes from the same person who switches
identities (this time luisortizhome@xxxxxxxxx ) and uses proxies (don't
bother reporting abuse) because he must not reveal his affiliation...
http://schestowitz.com/Amusement/images/flatfish-homepage.png
Many thanks,
Roy
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