Ernest Citizen

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• July 17, 2001, on Why Bill Gates is Richer than You:

  After 20 years of systems analysis and programming on a variety of systems such as Unix, Solaris and Windows, I've finally reached the boiling point. Last night, after installing a device driver for Logitechs wireless optical mouse, my freshly installed Windows 98 machine crashed once again. I have resolved to get even. All businesses cycle and luckily in this age of technology, the cycles are faster than ever. 80 percent of developers dislike Windows (dislike is a nice word here)... Most typical end users don't know enough about computers to judge Windows, but corporate America is now questioning their continuous Windows investments. Fellow developers, never fear, revolution is in the air. Bill Gates is admittedly intelligent, and very very very greedy... instead of a logical stable operating system, Windows is purely the sum of 20 years of greed. Bill Gates was in the right place at the right time, with the right amount of connections and money (he was born with a silver spoon) and y...

• July 18, 2001, on Greenspun Buys a Condo:

  I think the key to everything is moderation. When the pursuit of material objects and money becomes so great that one is willing to do anything (lie, cheat, steal, forced child labor etc.) it's over the top. There is a point where the amount of money a person has cannot even possibly be used for anything else but to enslave the people (i.e. Bill Gates being able to buy Romania, but not being able to utilize all of the assets personally). That is simply wrong. In response to the quote from -- The First and Second Discourses, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Animals were the first ones to mark out their territory... and they still do it by leaving urine trails... I believe Rousseau was right... humans are about as civil as animals sometimes. (sigh)... so much for M.I.T grads...