Re: Roy Schestowitz proves he's a JACKASS (was - Microsoft Boosts Its 'Jackass' Image with NASCAR)

[Moshe Goldfarb]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:59:12 -0400, Linonut wrote:

> * Erik Funkenbusch peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>>> Once again the long winded douche-bag Roy Schestowitz proves that he's an
>>> unemployed ignorant douche-bag with too much spamming time on his hands.
>>> Wow. How crazy that a company would advertise in one of sports growing
>>> segments.
>>>
>>> http://www.nascar.com/guides/sponsorship/
>>>
>>> Oh wait... AMD is an official sponsor of Nascar. And so is Coca-Cola. And
>>> Sony. And hundreds of other companies.
>>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz - When being an idiot isn't enough. He proves to be a
>>> JACKASS.
>>
>> Yeah, and not too long ago there was.. A Tux car.
>>
>> http://theobromas.blogspot.com/2007/05/tux500-is-in-91st-indy-500.html
>
> Huh?
>
> Microsoft's latest marketing vehicle: NASCAR
>
> Microsoft plans to sponsor a NASCAR team for the 2008 season in a bid
> to boost the profile of its offerings for small businesses. See
> details in this recent blog post by Microsoft's Eric Ligman.
>
> Oh, you mean this:
>
> http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/linux-car-first-to-crash-at-indianapolis-500/
>
> Linux fans didn't exactly get the publicity they were hoping for at
> the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, when the so-called "Linux car" they
> had sponsored proved to be the first in the race to crash, ultimately
> causing it to finish dead last. The car was the result of the Tux 500
> campaign, which raised enough money to put the familiar Tux mascot
> front and center on Chastain Motorsports' #77 car in the hope that
> it'd raise the profile of the OS.
>
> I like that, the fans supporting their OS like that.
>
> Anyway, at least you're a lot more sane than "Ezekial".

The Linux car finished dead last.

No surprise there.


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[Dr.Hal0nf1r£$]

Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:59:12 -0400, Linonut wrote:
>
>> * Erik Funkenbusch peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>
>>>> Once again the long winded douche-bag Roy Schestowitz proves that
>>>> he's an unemployed ignorant douche-bag with too much spamming time
>>>> on his hands. Wow. How crazy that a company would advertise in one
>>>> of sports growing segments.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.nascar.com/guides/sponsorship/
>>>>
>>>> Oh wait... AMD is an official sponsor of Nascar. And so is
>>>> Coca-Cola. And Sony. And hundreds of other companies.
>>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz - When being an idiot isn't enough. He proves to
>>>> be a JACKASS.
>>>
>>> Yeah, and not too long ago there was.. A Tux car.
>>>
>>> http://theobromas.blogspot.com/2007/05/tux500-is-in-91st-indy-500.html
>>
>> Huh?
>>
>> Microsoft's latest marketing vehicle: NASCAR
>>
>> Microsoft plans to sponsor a NASCAR team for the 2008 season in a
>> bid to boost the profile of its offerings for small businesses.
>> See details in this recent blog post by Microsoft's Eric Ligman.
>>
>> Oh, you mean this:
>>
>>
>> http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/linux-car-first-to-crash-at-indianapolis-500/
>>
>> Linux fans didn't exactly get the publicity they were hoping for
>> at the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, when the so-called "Linux car"
>> they had sponsored proved to be the first in the race to crash,
>> ultimately causing it to finish dead last. The car was the result
>> of the Tux 500 campaign, which raised enough money to put the
>> familiar Tux mascot front and center on Chastain Motorsports' #77
>> car in the hope that it'd raise the profile of the OS.
>>
>> I like that, the fans supporting their OS like that.
>>
>> Anyway, at least you're a lot more sane than "Ezekial".
>
> The Linux car finished dead last.
>
> No surprise there.


Just imagine if America had used Linux in the Mars Explorer program:

Newspaper cutting:

"America to Launch Fifth Mars Rocket"

"NASA is ready to launch its fifth attempt at getting the ill-fated Mars
Rover vehicles to the right planet. Following the loss of power in the last
mission which caused the spacecraft to continue on its course but at a
lesser velocity which means the craft will miss Mars altogether and
probably eventually crash into Mercury or the Sun sometime later this year,
a fifth attempt at the mission costing over three billion dollars is to be
launched on Monday. An insider is reported to have said that if this fifth
mission fails then the Linux operating system which runs the onboard
computers is to be abandoned in favour of a more reliable Microsoft
operating system. At present all systems are running to schedule for
Monday's launch and everything appears to be well but that's what we
reported last time also pre-launch. NASA believe that they have located the
first mission en route to Saturn, and they are attempting to remotely
decompile the kernel and fix the incompatibility with the hardware attached
to the thruster directional control rudders that caused the first two
missions to veer wildly off course just outside of earth's atmosphere. It
was confirmed yesterday that the spacecraft used for the second attempt did
indeed hit an asteroid and was destroyed."

" Mission three was lost after the communications interface nysteriously
packed up when the central computer crashed and the backup computer refused
to boot having also crashed earlier. The spacecraft is believed to be
drifting helplessly in solar orbit somewhere around the trajectories of Mars
and Earth: If the current theories concerning its projected position and
course are correct, then the craft should pass earth again in januasry 2145
by which time the Linux operating system may actually work properly."

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[The Ghost In The Machine]

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Dr.Hal0nf1r£$
<femail@nospam.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid>
wrote
on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:55:41 -0000
<MPydnf44Uo3r6nDaRVnygwA@bt.com>:
> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:59:12 -0400, Linonut wrote:
>>
>>> * Erik Funkenbusch peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>>
>>>>> Once again the long winded douche-bag Roy Schestowitz proves that
>>>>> he's an unemployed ignorant douche-bag with too much spamming time
>>>>> on his hands. Wow. How crazy that a company would advertise in one
>>>>> of sports growing segments.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.nascar.com/guides/sponsorship/
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh wait... AMD is an official sponsor of Nascar. And so is
>>>>> Coca-Cola. And Sony. And hundreds of other companies.
>>>>>
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz - When being an idiot isn't enough. He proves to
>>>>> be a JACKASS.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, and not too long ago there was.. A Tux car.
>>>>
>>>> http://theobromas.blogspot.com/2007/05/tux500-is-in-91st-indy-500.html
>>>
>>> Huh?
>>>
>>> Microsoft's latest marketing vehicle: NASCAR
>>>
>>> Microsoft plans to sponsor a NASCAR team for the 2008 season in a
>>> bid to boost the profile of its offerings for small businesses.
>>> See details in this recent blog post by Microsoft's Eric Ligman.
>>>
>>> Oh, you mean this:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/linux-car-first-to-crash-at-indianapolis-500/
>>>
>>> Linux fans didn't exactly get the publicity they were hoping for
>>> at the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, when the so-called "Linux car"
>>> they had sponsored proved to be the first in the race to crash,
>>> ultimately causing it to finish dead last. The car was the result
>>> of the Tux 500 campaign, which raised enough money to put the
>>> familiar Tux mascot front and center on Chastain Motorsports' #77
>>> car in the hope that it'd raise the profile of the OS.
>>>
>>> I like that, the fans supporting their OS like that.
>>>
>>> Anyway, at least you're a lot more sane than "Ezekial".
>>
>> The Linux car finished dead last.
>>
>> No surprise there.
>
>
> Just imagine if America had used Linux in the Mars Explorer program:

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/

$125M, right down the old drain...and that would probably be
worth $180M or so today.

This could very easily be blamed on Linux. (It would be
wrong, of course, but one can very easily blame Linux.
Many do so, in fact.)

[rest snipped]

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[Dr.Hal0nf1r£$]

The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Dr.Hal0nf1r£$
> <femail@nospam.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid>
> wrote
> on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:55:41 -0000
> <MPydnf44Uo3r6nDaRVnygwA@bt.com>:
>> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:59:12 -0400, Linonut wrote:
>>>
>>>> * Erik Funkenbusch peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>>>
>>>>>> Once again the long winded douche-bag Roy Schestowitz proves that
>>>>>> he's an unemployed ignorant douche-bag with too much spamming
>>>>>> time on his hands. Wow. How crazy that a company would advertise
>>>>>> in one of sports growing segments.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.nascar.com/guides/sponsorship/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh wait... AMD is an official sponsor of Nascar. And so is
>>>>>> Coca-Cola. And Sony. And hundreds of other companies.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz - When being an idiot isn't enough. He proves to
>>>>>> be a JACKASS.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, and not too long ago there was.. A Tux car.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://theobromas.blogspot.com/2007/05/tux500-is-in-91st-indy-500.html
>>>>
>>>> Huh?
>>>>
>>>> Microsoft's latest marketing vehicle: NASCAR
>>>>
>>>> Microsoft plans to sponsor a NASCAR team for the 2008 season in
>>>> a bid to boost the profile of its offerings for small
>>>> businesses. See details in this recent blog post by Microsoft's
>>>> Eric Ligman.
>>>>
>>>> Oh, you mean this:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/linux-car-first-to-crash-at-indianapolis-500/
>>>>
>>>> Linux fans didn't exactly get the publicity they were hoping for
>>>> at the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, when the so-called "Linux
>>>> car" they had sponsored proved to be the first in the race to
>>>> crash, ultimately causing it to finish dead last. The car was
>>>> the result of the Tux 500 campaign, which raised enough money
>>>> to put the familiar Tux mascot front and center on Chastain
>>>> Motorsports' #77 car in the hope that it'd raise the profile of
>>>> the OS.
>>>>
>>>> I like that, the fans supporting their OS like that.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, at least you're a lot more sane than "Ezekial".
>>>
>>> The Linux car finished dead last.
>>>
>>> No surprise there.
>>
>>
>> Just imagine if America had used Linux in the Mars Explorer program:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/
>
> $125M, right down the old drain...and that would probably be
> worth $180M or so today.
>
> This could very easily be blamed on Linux. (It would be
> wrong, of course, but one can very easily blame Linux.
> Many do so, in fact.)
>
> [rest snipped]
>
> --
> #191, ewill3@earthlink.net
> Useless C/C++ Programming Idea #12398234:
> void f(char *p) {char *q = strdup(p) strcpy(p,q)}

I must admit that it had nothing to do with Linux it was just America's
usual backwardness that caused it. (9 years-ish ago.)

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[Moshe Goldfarb]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:55:41 -0000, Dr.Hal0nf1r£$ wrote:

> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:59:12 -0400, Linonut wrote:
>>
>>> * Erik Funkenbusch peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>>
>>>>> Once again the long winded douche-bag Roy Schestowitz proves that
>>>>> he's an unemployed ignorant douche-bag with too much spamming time
>>>>> on his hands. Wow. How crazy that a company would advertise in one
>>>>> of sports growing segments.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.nascar.com/guides/sponsorship/
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh wait... AMD is an official sponsor of Nascar. And so is
>>>>> Coca-Cola. And Sony. And hundreds of other companies.
>>>>>
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz - When being an idiot isn't enough. He proves to
>>>>> be a JACKASS.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, and not too long ago there was.. A Tux car.
>>>>
>>>> http://theobromas.blogspot.com/2007/05/tux500-is-in-91st-indy-500.html
>>>
>>> Huh?
>>>
>>> Microsoft's latest marketing vehicle: NASCAR
>>>
>>> Microsoft plans to sponsor a NASCAR team for the 2008 season in a
>>> bid to boost the profile of its offerings for small businesses.
>>> See details in this recent blog post by Microsoft's Eric Ligman.
>>>
>>> Oh, you mean this:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/linux-car-first-to-crash-at-indianapolis-500/
>>>
>>> Linux fans didn't exactly get the publicity they were hoping for
>>> at the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, when the so-called "Linux car"
>>> they had sponsored proved to be the first in the race to crash,
>>> ultimately causing it to finish dead last. The car was the result
>>> of the Tux 500 campaign, which raised enough money to put the
>>> familiar Tux mascot front and center on Chastain Motorsports' #77
>>> car in the hope that it'd raise the profile of the OS.
>>>
>>> I like that, the fans supporting their OS like that.
>>>
>>> Anyway, at least you're a lot more sane than "Ezekial".
>>
>> The Linux car finished dead last.
>>
>> No surprise there.
>
>
> Just imagine if America had used Linux in the Mars Explorer program:

It probably would have landed in the African bush somewhere and the Linux
people would have proclaimed they had discovered life on 'Mars'.


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Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/