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- maxmojo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5ARTHUR: I command you as King of the Britons to stand aside!
BLACK KNIGHT: I move for no man.
ARTHUR: So be it!
[hah]
[parry thrust]
[ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's left arm off]
ARTHUR: Now stand aside, worthy adversary.
BLACK KNIGHT: 'Tis but a scratch.
ARTHUR: A scratch? Your arm's off!
BLACK KNIGHT: No, it isn't.
ARTHUR: Well, what's that then?
BLACK KNIGHT: I've had worse.
ARTHUR: You liar!
BLACK KNIGHT: Come on you pansy!
[hah]
[parry thrust]
[ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's right arm off]
ARTHUR: Victory is mine!
[kneeling]
We thank thee Lord, that in thy merc-
[Black Knight kicks Arthur in the head while he is praying]
BLACK KNIGHT: Come on then.
ARTHUR: What?
BLACK KNIGHT: Have at you!
ARTHUR: You are indeed brave, Sir knight, but the fight is mine.
BLACK KNIGHT: Oh, had enough, eh?
ARTHUR: Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left.
BLACK KNIGHT: Yes I have.
ARTHUR: Look!
BLACK KNIGHT: Just a flesh wound.
[Headbutts Arthur in the chest]
ARTHUR: Look, stop that.
BLACK KNIGHT: Chicken! Chicken!
ARTHUR: Look, I'll have your leg. Right!
[whop]
[ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's leg off]
BLACK KNIGHT: Right, I'll do you for that!
ARTHUR: You'll what?
BLACK KNIGHT: Come 'ere!
ARTHUR: What are you going to do, bleed on me?
BLACK KNIGHT: I'm invincible!
ARTHUR: You're a loony.
BLACK KNIGHT: The Black Knight always triumphs! Have at you!
Come on then.
[whop]
[ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's other leg off]
BLACK KNIGHT: All right; we'll call it a draw.
ARTHUR: Come, Patsy.
BLACK KNIGHT: Oh, oh, I see, running away then. You yellow
bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite
your legs off! - gollux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Translation: We're going deeper in debt so that the bankruptcy liabilities will be larger, so our saleable assets will be owned by our creditors and investors. We're guaranteeing that when we go down, we really are going down.
Crazy Darl McBride laugh here... - DickBreath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This story is quite old. Dec 9th.
If you want to keep up on all things SCO, then visit Groklaw.net. - gnosis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Does anyone know what SCO actually does to make money, besides filing law suits against people..."
They have revenues from two different business segments; UNIX and SCOsource.
UNIX have revenues of $9,321,000, subtract expenses and you have a total income of $999,000. The SCOsource business (If you can call it that) has revenues of a whooping $32,000 and a cost of revenue (read lawers) of $3,085,000 add in business expenses and you have a loss of $3,241,000. All numbers for 3 months ending on Jul 31.
Noteworthy quote:
"The decline in our UNIX business revenue may be accelerated if industry partners withdraw their support as a result of our SCOsource initiatives. The decline in our UNIX business and our SCOsource initiatives may cause industry partners, developers and hardware and software vendors to choose not to support or certify to our UNIX operating system products. This would lead to an accelerated decline in revenue from our UNIX business." - benw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes, all SCO wanted all along was a bail-out of their senior management by IBM. IBM knows this, and wants to crush them completely instead.
- FlyingAvatar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Today is a good day to start shorting SCO again. My investment club buddies have made 1000s on short SCO since the beginning of their insanity.
- gnosis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For just over 36 million IBM could own a majority stake in SCO and put them out of their misery for good.
- nomore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We have SCO Open Server at work... and it really sucks. For the price of it... why people choose to use it these days is beyond me.
They just have a problem that it is now possible to use a cost effective (free) solution which is better supported and more standardised than their servers. As far as I'm concerned... SCO = M$ in a way... remember Xenix? - 5blocksfree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^^Someone who needs a big tax writeoff.
- Bromskloss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Take my advice people. Today is _not_ a good day, was it ever, to buy SCO shares.
- jmullman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good grief. I thought these posers had made there way to the big lawfirm in the sky.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0SCO can't take over linux or stop its advancement.
++digg only if it shows the underhandedness of SCO - zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0SCO is out of there mind. But when you have an old out of date business all you can do at that point is sue and hope to get some winnings.
I have no idea how there paying there lawyers at this point.
They should have run throuh all there reserves at this point.
I'm guessing there still getting free cash from there back door benefactors Microsoft. Sco wounded were just all waiting for them to bleed out. - FishyJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What kind of sucker would dump more money into this piece of trash?
- Lynxpro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why isn't McBride in jail yet? Where's the SEC investigation on the alleged deliberate fraud and misrepresentation carried out throughout the SCO v. IBM case? And why isn't IBM demanding an investigation?
I realize McBride is small potatoes when compared to Ken Lay & Co., but that should make it all the more easy to secure a conviction and real jail time... Just because Sen. Hatch's son worked in some capacity in aiding the SCO case should not be ample enough clout to keep the guy free from prosecution because Hatch isn't exactly all-powerful in the Senate and not exactly a good friend of the White House either. - bnoble, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh, also, mormons suck.
- zagi1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0you can't spell SCrOtum without SCO
- dudley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Does anyone know what SCO actually does to make money, besides filing law suits against people...
- dillitante, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This must be a strategy by the investors. Highly profitable firm invests in SCO, SCO folds, investor takes loss and writes it off, investor buys SCO assets for pennies on the dollar, investor finds legitimate way to make profits on former SCO assets.
Risky - Lynxpro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0
Tidusx, good to know, man. I just like to poke fun at any belief system, mine included...heh.
Gamers can't h8 on Mormons... Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari, was raised of that persuation. - Arbinshire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0SCO is like a wart that just won't go away.
Are they any more than a litigious Intellectual Property firm? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0IBM won't buy them. i won't because they know if they do they will have 100 sco wannbes all filing bogus suits in an attempt to be bought out. no ibm plans to grind sco with the hell of it's foot like a dirty cigerret butt.
- nnonix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0But .... what if they prove their assertions and they win? Are they evil just because of what it might mean for Linux, or would it be IBM's fault?
- Bromskloss, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0gold tablets?
- Lynxpro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1
Uhm, I'm not bashing here, but for a very long time (until they realized they could convert non-whites and make some money off them, for example, the Samoans), the Mormons believed that non-whites were the descendents of Caine and thus their skin color(s) was an indication of the supposed "Mark of Caine" mentioned in the Torah/Old Testament.
They also believe(d) that the Garden of Eden was located in the United States, and that Jesus appeared after his crucifiction to non-existant white Native American tribes (descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel) and preached his new-new testament to them and them as opposed to his Disciples who you think he would instruct his new revealed tenants to first. Such beliefs contradict the New Testament in terms of the Second Coming of Christ, so you be the judge of the "Christian-ness" of the religion. To say that the religion is a sect of Christianity is about as legitimate as saying the Raelians are a branch of Christianity because they believe Jesus existed, had special 1337 powers but was supernatural creation of Cloners from outer space (and not Kaminoans either).
But with that having been said, all scifi fans do owe some gratitude to Mormonism because without it, we would not have *Battlestar Galactica*, the Lords of Kobol and the 13 colonies of man. Not to mention that hilarious *South Park* episode that was only topped by the episodes on Catholicism and Scientology. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I am surprised everyday on how many people are not that familiar with their own religions.
- johnhummel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2"gold tablets"
Yes. Gold tablets. Bnoble is basically performing what some would call "religious discrimination" - this is where you lump all people of one religion based on the actions of a few. It is the equivalent, for example, that saying that "baptists like to lynch people because some are in the KKK", "all catholics are pedophiles because of the actions of a few priests", "moslems argue by blowing themselves up", and so on. While ignoring that the majority of each religion is peaceful, hardworking, and honest.
Bnoble is basically saying that since SCO is run by a Mormon as their CEO (who, from what I've observed, is a pretty piss poor example of one - I'd rather go with Mike Leavitt (EPA chief) or Governor Romney of Massachusetts (though I disagree with his anti-gay marriage stance, but otherwise he's been all right)), therefore Mormons, and their scripture (taken as they claim from gold plates) has "no grasp of wrong or right, good technology or bad, profitable or non".
Now, I can state that the folks running SCO are horrible dishonest people who happen to claim certain religious values, but then I'd turn around and say that they're hypocrites for not following those values, rather than insulting the entire religion over the actions of a few.
Then again, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Lynxpro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Tidusx,
Please advise what I got wrong. "The Mark of Caine" (and I don't mean from *Kung Fu*)? Will you refute that? The Garden of Eden being located in the geographic United States? Fictional white Native Americans descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel? What exactly did I get wrong in those assertions?
And in no way did I connect SCO with the LDS church or lay blame for the ethically challenged behavior of SCO's leaders with said institution. Other people made that claim. - TidusX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Lynxpro
You had some of the information correct which I commend you for. The second section was reffering to others, not you. I just wanted to say that if you know a good LDS member and get to know their religion some you will find out that we are Christians. There are many similarities, I have many friends from other Christian religions and we always discuss similar things. No hard feelings on my part. - Mabu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1As a baptized mormon and a Unix user, I agree that LDS and SCO are two completely different corrupt institutions. I'm not sure however that discussing them in context to each other is relevant.
- bnoble, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0@Mabu
I just thought it was an interesting little factoid to share. You know, in the same way that knowing MySpace was purchased by Rupert Murdoch for $580,000,000 is an interesting little factoid. - Night, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1@bnoble
Being a member of the LDS church and a strong supporter of Linux I find it really irritating that you make rude comments about something you have no true understanding of. I would also appreciate it if you would not leave comments with little connection to the topic at hand. As of saying that I would like to congratulate SCO on their wonderful job of shoving themselves down the toilet.
Thanks johnhummel for your comment and the truth in it. - TidusX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Lynxpro
Your comments are wrong and biased. Maybe you should know some one that is a good LDS person and know some solid facts about the religion before you go off what the anti-mormons say. We are christians and many of our beliefs are very similar to christian religions. And to go on what SCO has done, sure I think its a terrible thing and I don't like McBride he is a bad example of an LDS member. The thing that upsets me is that when some one else does some thing you won't bring their relgion up and insult it, but when some one who is LDS does that gives you a right to do it? - bnoble, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0@Night
@johnhummel
Know what guys, if you're so thin-skinned and freaked out by my poking a little fun at your faith, you have a lot more work to do, I just got 1,270 hits on Google for the phrase "mormons suck". Get out there, guys. It's an all new crusade, JUST FOR YOU! Get these websites SHUT DOWN! Now! - bnoble, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Ah, Johnny, you're so confused. I didn't say that they were a company with no bearing of right or wrong _because_ they were Mormon-owned, I just added the Mormon thing as a footnote, 'cos it's a creepy load of ***** predicated partially on the belief that Lamanites (Native Americans) were evil and needed to be slaughtered. It's about as awesome a religion as Scientology.
For those of you who aren't ship to this shiz, here's a great little biography on the founder of the religion, Joseph Smith:
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/joseph-smith/
And here's another fascinating article called "Mormonism's Racist Theology":
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/seanie/mormon/lds_racism.html
Enjoy! - bnoble, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0What would a "true understanding" of Mormonism be? Blind faith? ***** that, I've done my research.
- bnoble, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0A friend of mine and I were walking by the old SCO campus here in town a couple of days ago, and I remarked how peaceful the buildings seemed, empty, nothing save a couple of Tarantella stickers placed hither and thither to give away the identity of the previous occupant. I found myself kinda glad that they chose to go out quietly.
Then I thought, "Oh wait, no, they've just moved to Scotts Valley. I still have a couple of friends who work for them." See, they're a Mormon owned company with no grasp of wrong or right, good technology or bad, profitable or non. They'll be around for a good long time, like it or not. None of this would have happened had SCO not been mentioned on those ***** gold tablets.
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