================================================ Subject: Re: Origins ... From: "creed -7m3 - live" To: Date: Sat 25 Aug 2001 02:09:41 -0400 ================================================ The reason that I am starting to feel even more strongly about the microsoft subscription issue is the way that a lot of rather ill equiped people would like to reduce my credibility to nil. If you think that outdated material is what I have found. That is great!!! ... I just hope that the climate for Microsoft to start charging people a monthly fee for software is pretty much tensed public towards the ability for them to start such a scheme. Don't you think that you could stop this worthless search engine crap!!!! Here is a dictonary definition for Microsoft. Microsoft The new Evil Empire (the old one was IBM). The basic complaints are, as formerly with IBM, that (a) their system designs are horrible botches, (b) we can't get source to fix them, and (c) they throw their weight around a lot. See also Halloween Documents. Halloween Documents n. A pair of Microsoft internal strategy memoranda leaked to ESR in late 1998 that confirmed everybody's paranoia about the current Evil Empire. These documents (http://www.opensource.org/halloween/) praised the technical excellence of Linux and outlined a counterstrategy of attempting to lock in customers by "de-commoditizing" Internet protocols and services. They were extensively cited on the Internet and in the press and proved so embarrassing that Microsoft PR barely said a word in public for six months afterwards. Jim On Sat, 2001-08-25 at 01:32, Keith P. Mears wrote: > Wow! You DO know how to do a "Search". Too bad the only thing you ever > seem to come up with is either a dictionary entry or badly outdated. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "creed -7m3 - live" > To: "Keith P. Mears" > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 12:20 AM > Subject: Origins ... > > > > I heard the phrase from people that were Jewish. But, I looked up the > > definition Yiddish and came up with the below definition. > > > > Yiddish Yid"dish, n. G. j"udisch, prop., Jewish, fr. Jude > > Jew. See Jew, Jewish. > > A language used by German and other Jews, being a Middle > > German dialect developed under Hebrew and Slavic influence. > > It is written in Hebrew characters. > > > > For schmuck, I got the below: > > schmuck > > n : someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric syn: creep, weirdo, > > weirdie, weirdy, spook > > > > No definition regarding the origin.I tried German translation to > > English. It returned decoration. I tried Russian to English and got > > schyumuchk. I guess the translator could qualify the word as being > > Yiddish. > > > > Done... > > > > Jim > > > > > > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: > http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp -- Where am I? Who am I? Am I? I To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp