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Re: Microsoft-Sponsored "Net Applications" Hand-tweaks 'Statistics'


On Feb 6, 11:30 am, Erik Funkenbusch <e...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 11:07:49 -0800 (PST), unionpe...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> Prove it. You have zero proof of what Net Applications "wanted to do" and
> >> you spew this nonsense out over and over again.
>
> > You scream "prove it" quite a lot.  Just what are you looking for?
>
> Rex fantasizes about many things and posts them as fact.  Such as when he
> was claiming he invented cookies, and SSL, or when he claimed he invented
> Java, or that Microsoft took his ideas from a job interview and created
> Windows 2000 out of them, or when he claimed the government broke into his
> high school locker and stol his plans for military technology.
>
> You haven't been around long enough to see the wacky shit Rex tries to pawn
> off as fact.  So yes, "prove it" is a sensible argument when it comes to
> Rex.  He says things that can't be found with any google search, and then
> he claims that he 'read it somewhere' in some 'research paper' that only he
> has access to.

I have been around for a long time.  Started shortly before Deja News
was taken over by Google.  My first name became unusable because my
email address died.  Had to change again when Google Groups left beta
for 1.0

I remember when Rex had great confidence that the compliance officer
would be an effective tool in Microsoft's anti-trust conviction.  Heh,
he should hang around the Scientology newsgroup to see the law at
work.

> Or, it gets even better when he starts with the "may haves" and "could
> haves".  He likes to speculate a lot in a way that sounds like fact, but
> buries weasel words in the middle of it.
>
> > A press release from Microsoft saying Rex is correct?  
>
> How about a google cache showing Net Applications using an ActiveX control?
> That should be easy to find.  Or some site anywhere that confirms any of
> Rex's claims.
>
> > Hell, even with
> > court released evidence, you would find SOME way to make the "proof"
> > inconsequential.
>
> Rex has no proof.  That's the point.

And yet, for all of Rex's "fantasies" and wild claims, his version of
reality is a better predictor of Microsoft behaviour than you or
Amicus.

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