Being the World's Richest Man is no guarantee of being the Wisest. But then, like any maxiumum politician, celebrity or other executive, a guy like Gates will tend to find himself surrounded by bootlicking yes-men of the lowest order.
Still, that's no excuse for this. My friend, blog-progeny and fellow boat-bum Rivrdog points out that Emporer Gates is running around his empire, sans clothes.
His post is worth not only reading, but studying! And once you've done your homework there, go and read my Blogfaddah's take on what Rivrdog reveals. From Rob's damned well-written article:
Don't attempt to re-write history to spare delicate feelings about controversial matters. Dig into that crap with both hands and show your children just how corrupt, stinking and at the same time worthless, such symbols were.
You'll find it time well spent. And more than a bit unsettling, too.
Not bad, a three-generation post.
GATES rocks!Butlinux rules!
This is posted in poor humor.
Posted by: loiq | February 24, 2004 at 04:10 AM
And Acidman's comment that Jim quoted hits too close to home. I failed to expose my youngest kid to the horrors of the PC world. I failed to teach her how to defend her culture. I lost her, personally and to the devil-culture that is Liberalism. I'm going to blog about it when the hurt subsides a bit.
Posted by: Rivrdog | February 24, 2004 at 08:46 PM
Just to clarify, Microsoft didn't delete the entire font... they just replaced 3 characters inside the Bookshelf Symbol 7 font: two versions of the swastika and one Star of David. They did this by putting out a Critical Update at the Windows Update site; when your OS prompted you to download updates (or when it did it by itself, if you have WinXP) those characters were replaced with little black squares.
Posted by: Mollbot | February 25, 2004 at 07:03 AM
Damn, wish I had the technical chops to be able to design fonts and do the coding voodoo to make 'em work under the different operating system platforms. I'd drag out a bunch of different designs of swastikas and Star of Davids, call the whole thing "Jews & Nazis" and publish.
We're seeing the early signs of the shit the Bolsheviks pulled in the USSR way back when. If some fact of history ran counter to their doctrine (translate that into today's Political Correctness) it would quietly disappear. Never existed. Nope, your memory's mistaken, comrade. Please accompany me to the Re-Education Camp so we can get you squared away!
As much as I dislike seeing swastikas, they ARE part of cultures other than Hitler's 3rd Reich. Just because that shitheel used them as a symbol of hate & fear is no reason to try and erase them from history.
Microsoft erasing the Star of David was just idiotic. I just wish I'd been a fly on the wall in that committee meeting to hear the justification for that one. I really doubt it was anti-Semitism, just more PC buffoonery.
Posted by: El Capitan | February 25, 2004 at 01:12 PM