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What's the limit of stupidness and ridiculous court filings?

Britney Sued
A man labeled "abnormally obsessed" with Britney Spears and who was ordered by a court on Oct. 7 to stay at least 300 yards away from her for three years has now sued the pop starlet for "extreme emotional distress." Masahiko Shizawa, a 43-year-old Japanese businessman, claims in a lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles federal court that Brit's security guards confronted him on a street, waved a gun, and told him to leave the area, reports Reuters. Shizawa is seeking unspecified damages. And in news that should add to Shizawa's "extreme emotional distress," early word from MTV on Britney's new album "Me Against the Music" (it hits stores Nov. 18) is that it's "sex, sex, and more sex." A sample lyric: "I don't want to be a tease/ Would you undo my zipper please?"

source: http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=138488

Is there a limit for being shameless?
Seriously Confused Organization.(SCO) really broke the limit, even if there was one.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5098610.html

There's also Steve Ballmer's interview, there. Well, the only comment one can make is - you would, normally, expect somebody with so many millions, made in sotware business, to be a little bit  smarter. Unbeleivable stupidness/blindness.

I am getting to realizing something. I doubt this idea first came to me, actually I am almost sure Linus and a bunch of others have mentioned it, but anyway... The fact is - open-source often, seems highly democratic way of the software development from the outside - well, not quite so. Yes, it is and should be a happy, friendly community around the product, if you want it OSS way, but the mechanism is far from democracy. The only way to get things done seems to be - to have the guy - the one who listens to everybody (must-do) but in the end does his own way and allows no compromises. Any more democracy and things turn into a total chaos, eventually - failure.

Get 7 programmers to find the optimal solution to a problem. In the best scenario - there will be 2 guys agreeing on the solution that is the best one, 1 will have no clue and the other 4 will have their own ways which are not that good. To make things more complicated, from the same 7 person, it changes all the time - who falls in that 2, 1 and 4 guys group. One thing remains constant - the best solution is the one that the majority does not agree to. So, open-source is indeed a round table, unlike the closed-source, proprietary hierarchies of the burocracy, but even the round table needs one special seat for King Arthur. You just hope the seat is taken by somebody with Arthur's wisdom and vision. I also think the key for that person is - intuition. He has to have very sharp intuition, guiding the team through the rapidly changing world and leading to the right direction.

Disclaimer: The story is imaginary. Any resemblance to actual persons or trademarks, living or dead is purely coincidental

For the natural needs, one can go to a whore, pay XXX amount.and if XXX > certain YYY, get a quality sex. No problem, no effort, everything done easily, quickly with full customer "satisfaction". Some crazy ones, though, may go the hard way - choose a girl, go 'round and 'round her for months - dates, dinners, lunch coffees, phone calls. A lot of time spent, the TOC definitely higher than the price spent for the above-mentioned direct service. The first result may be as small as - a quick kiss and shiny glare in the eyes, with the "call me tomorrow" at the doorsteps of her house.

So, is it worth using Linux, and spending so much time for a kiss, when you could have gotten "More with Less"? Remember your first highschool sweetheart kiss? Was it worth it?

My answer is - Linux and a kiss.

Good luck, Microsoft. Have a nice time.

I have had dual install for a long time now, but today I have decided to make Mandrake Linux my primary O.S. at work. I am going to run **censored** Lotus Notes via wine and everything else I need, I seem to have on Mandrake. After playing, for an hour, with style, colors and other settings - I really like how it looks, too.

Having spent several late hours at work, I come home to discover this article, on BBC site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3196494.stm

Well, bye-bye Microsoft. Not gonna miss ya. Have fun! :)

I had just got out of the office, when it all began. I could, of course, have taken a cab, but I was really in a walking mood, I had my cellphone radio turned on and there was a CVS across the street, so I figured out buying another umbrella was a far better investmentl besides - I also needed a pack of Gillette blades, so I headed into the CVS.

Now, with all due respect , we all know the quality of stuff in CVS, but as my choice was, clearly, limited, I just bought the largest umbrella they had, which would, probabely, make a petite in a normal store. Saying final "have a good night" to the salesman, I headed out. I noticed that things have gotten worse so I tried holding the umbrella as close as possible, to stay as dry as possible during the 20 minutes it takes to walk to my apartment building.

The most embarassing moment was to see the face of the security woman in the lobby and imagine the look of me - all wet with an umbrella in my hand!..

The only non-wet part on me were the headphones, which is still a good thing - destroying them in a showery rain is not good, is it?

People around blur. Things they say - do not make sense, to me. I look down - blackness instead of the ground; look slowly up, again - people move in a hallway. There's Monika's voice into my head, telling something about Digi? Where is she? She is not supposed to be here. I turn around and see George. Damn, was not he thousand miles away in Tbilisi?

Suddenly there's this shiver through my body. The one I, now, have known for a long time, the one that can mean only one thing - I am actually asleep and this is a dream, dammmit!

Then I try to wake up. Staying asleep after you realize it's a dream is not beareable. But, however you try - you can not wake up immidiately, even though you know now, you are dreaming and things are not real. You have to exert your body, try opening eyes when you can't feel them, try move your hand when you can not control it... God, it's unpleasant! And there's this thought - what if it does not work this time?..

I get out of the bed. There's no way to go to sleep for a while. The "view" from my window sucks. It's a narrow street and a building across. I used to see the whole city from my window in Tbilisi. Standing in an open window, smoking, breeze chilling out my head, looking at the night in the city and thinking - used to be nice. Gone. I don't even smoke any more...

Geneva World Summit on Information Society, video conference.
http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/B-SPAN/sub_wsis_video.htm