LHB posters complain that our trademarks are never seen in the wild.
Not true! Every single one of “Adam and the Sock Puppets’” trademarks are subjected to rigorous editorial analysis before they are finally allowed to be published. Many of them are excerpted from his seminal Masters thesis, but of course we can’t attribute those, because then he’d be accused of plagiarism.
This one, however, has indeed been seen in the wild. It’s an old Tony Hancock joke. He rushes around the stage, shouting “Sanctuary, sanctuary, sanctuary!” And then, in a supreme admission of pointlessness, he turns to the audience.
“Sanctuary Much, Ladies and Gentlemen!”
The FOSS movement is similarly impaired. Traduced from all sides (including, according to Pogson, Phoronix), they need Sanctuary. Let’s consider where they turn, shall we?
IBM. Capitalisation, $214 billion. Doesn’t give a shit about FOSS.
HP. Well, they sort of jumped the shark by abandoning WebOS, didn’t they? (WebOS is or was a Linux knock-off. HP spent a billion acquiring it and threw it away a year later.)
Oracle. Sanctuary for a while, until they turned to the Dark Side. Ie, patents. Which of course are terrible things. Except when they’re good. It’s all rather confusing, but basically, no sanctuary there.
Apple: OSX is based on Linux. Well, no, it’s based on BSD. And it’s thrown X, etc, away. But basically it’s Linux on a stick. Sanctuary for hipsters, if you will.
Google: Sanctuary at last!
Well, apart from the fact that they don’t release any important updates to the code and they’ve just shut down most of Google Labs.
I think we can conclude that not a single one of these companies is of the slightest use to yer average Loon. But it still doesn’t stop them claiming that Freedom is Just Around The Corner, does it?
PS Admin: No need to mention World War Two here. I didn’t, and I think I got away with it.
Comments
Nice implementation of the RockstarAntiHaterObessesion™.
You seem to have a prolific case of it.
Is that Obesession as in Obe Wan Kingobe?
I’m sorry, I lose track of your inability to think and spell correctly sometimes.
Incidentally, cornflakes are vibrant and zingy and tangy if you flambe the vodka first.
I thought everybody in Baltimore knew that.
DrLoser,
What do I bother even talking to you? I don’t even understand what the you are saying 95% of the time.
“Talk” involves an advance from the simple state of being a gibbon, kid.
Which might explain why you don’t understand what I’m saying 95% of the time.
It doesn’t explain the other 5%, however. Out of total and utter disiinterest, what exactly is that 5%? Just one sample would suffice.
No thanks you drunkard.
Oh, I get it … you’re a cultural ignoramus.
Travis Bickle, Jody Foster, Vodka on your Cornflakes:
Taxi Driver (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=8&ved=0CGgQFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTaxi_Driver&ei=gpqITuGfJKO_0QWSrLTZDw&usg=AFQjCNFI1FhJbT7mG36lB5Rv4qF0zsPRSQ).
I still recommend Absinthe, though.
Drunkard.
Are we arguing again, my dear little twinkie?
It really is a farce; they’ve always needed industry support, yet they’ve acted as if said industry was the last thing on their minds.
Now, years later, the “support” is turning out to be a kidnapping attempt and they have no means to stop it.
Had they accepted commercial software at the beginning, they could have mandated such rules that would protect their freedoms and enable the market to flourish.
Instead they just killed any development and progress in the land of the loon (while failing to prevent the industry from kidnapping their little, I mean grand, project).
Well, what can you do, eh?
Hm… Here’s a thought for the freetards: prevent the “ivory tower academicians” from meddling with operational details and thus derailing any project they touch.
That should do the trick… or not, it’s the freetardia, after all.
@RC:
You do realise that this is all about some obsession that Adam has with my alcoholism (or otherwise), don’t you?
It helps him get over the shattering failure of his dream-system.
Don’t let the little lad down. We can always do the Intervention thing later.
Bring torches and kitchen rolls! Basements are dangerous places.
Drunktard..
The GNU/Linux desktop is the best desktop anyone can use.
Oh, did I interrupt Adam in his silly insult attempts?
So sorry. Wait just one moment… no I’m not.
Reverse,
Stfu you Mafia$oft loving scum. You don’t deserve to address me directly.
Were those insults?
Gosh. My default position is that they are rational arguments.
Obviously I take the cornflakes and the vodka into account.
Also, Baltimore. I’ve seen that program.
DrLoser,
Drunkard.
I love it. I post about trying some seasonal beer and suddenly I’m a drunk. With those leaps in logic it’s a wonder I’m not a 900 pound glutton and a serial rapist.
All of the world’s problems are squarely because of people like DrLoser and ReverseControllerse.
“It helps him get over the shattering failure of his dream-system.”
Does it, does it really?
Because to me it looks like he’s getting more and more desperate – he’s dropped down to the level of petty insults (and he’s even bad at that).
At least in the past he tried to argue in favour of the Durden (in a manner most incompetent, but still), nowadays he’s just flailing the insults around, desperately.
Administrator,
Your mind is permanently damaged.
Considering Adam is one of the top 5 posters on this site, I’d say that’s correct. He rails on the regulars here, yet he IS a regular, himself.
I’ve probably written more open source drunk than you have sober, Adam. What projects have you contributed to again?
Good grief, if I only had that much power.
That’d be fun… and lots of it. :)
ReverseControllerese,
You shall find no sanctuary in the arms of Mafia$oft. Repent your evil ways and join the supporters of freedom.
“I’ve probably written more open source drunk than you have sober, Adam. What projects have you contributed to again?”
You are a risk to the smooth functioning of society.
“Considering Adam is one of the top 5 posters on this site, I’d say that’s correct. He rails on the regulars here, yet he IS a regular, himself.”
Yup, he is as emotionally tied up as Adamly possible.
@Adam
I’ve told you before Adam; you’re wasting your time here; we’re not into Windows or against Durden, we’re here to have some plain old fun and release some steam (should the Durden be of any use, we’d be using it).
You need to hang around with kids of your age more – basically, you’re harming yourself by not interacting with your peers (you would stand a chance of winning an argument against them and learn a thing or two in the process).
You have the soul of a Nazi and the will of Satan. YOU ARE THE SOLE CAUSE OF SUFFERING!
CHANGE YOUR WAYS FOR THE GOOD OF YOURSELF AND THE ONES YOU CARE FOR.
CHANGE YOUR WAYS AND REPENT!
I guess daddy yells when he drinks in the King household.
I sold my soul to $teve Ballmer and $atan, and I’m loving it.
The thing is, you need to be free in the first place, to be able to choose either Windows or Durden.
Adam simply fails to see that, hence his accusations of anti-freedom.
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Dear Adam, we are free, it’s you who succumbed to a twisted ideology of GNU, may God help you.
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Also, Windows is $30 (OEM), not infinity.
And you cannot sell anything to those imprisoned in Hell (which is a prison made by God for those who are evil; they are not there by their own will, not even fallen angels).
This one appears to have serious torn your guts, Adam.
Mind explaining why?
Seriously.
Damn that nonexisent edit btton.
Tony Hancock was naturally very funny, btw.
Adam: You need to work on that.
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