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Dear Lord

Thank you for sending all them sinners to our website! You invented the earth and you made America. No wonder you are also the greatest IT-professional that every lived. People that search for “gay sex pictures” or “kiddy porn” or “satanism” will sent to ShelleyTheRepublican instead of their preferred filth-websites and we at ShelleyTheRepublican are showing them sinners the light, leading the way to a Godly lifestyle.

Thank you dear Lord.

Amen

Friends,

It’s very difficult to find a review of Linux free of ultra-leftist bias, which is why ShelleyTheRepublican’s annual review of Linux has become the most trusted source of truthful information about this operating system upstart: Christians the world over know that they can turn to STR for factual and unbiased reviews of the latest technology. That is why every God-Given year we like to compare the state of the art Linux and ask the simple question – is Linux ready for the desktop yet? So far the answer has been a resounding no. The freedom-hating red-communist Linux freetards have consistently failed to deliver compared to American free-market solutions such as Microsoft Windows. Our Christianity teaches us that redemption is possible. so this is why we are mindful to check that users of free-software have improved their ways.

When we last reviewed Linux we pitched the then state-of-the art “Ibex’s Ubutu Interpid” against Microsoft’s excellent flagship Windows Vista. We felt that Vista outclassed Ibex’s open source operating system, however we did note that since the Ibex operating system could be downloaded for free it may be suitable for non-business critical tasks (e.g. lightweight letter-writing, or web-surfing) – provided you can overcome it’s idiosyncratic user interface. We were not 100% uncritical of Microsoft’s offering: We felt that at the time Apple and Microsoft were both failing in terms of their provision of Christian oriented biblical software, and the important task of pornography filtering.

You may also remember that we promoted a stern criticism of Apple’s tendancy to appeal to the homosexual agenda with their range of candy coloured gadgets and open adoption of liberal values. Since then we are proud to say that Steve Jobs of the Apple company has listened to our sensible criticisms and developed a brand new product called the iPad with the needs of American Christians like ourselves in mind. As you may know for the last two months every bit of content on our site has been written on Apple’s 100% porn free device, which we agree is the obvious future of computing.

Meanwhile, Linux seems to have lost ground: A year ago we were told that Linux would soon be the dominant operating system on mobile phones: Even their staunchest adocate Google seems to have abandoned Linux in favour of it’s homage to iPhone called Android. Linux users seem to be leaving the operating system in droves, most likely as a consequence of the continued in-fighting between the various companies such as the business-oriented Red-Hat and the increasingly absurd maker of Ubunto which has just renamed itself to “Lucid Lynx”. A year ago Linux could be found on popular video-game consoles – even Sony who once promoted this freetard operating system have come to realize that free software is commercial suicide.

Incidentally, we tried to install this software without much luck: We were able to conclude that this African-made version of the Linux operating system we can confidently say it’s the President Obma of computer-programs: All ideology but rotten to the core. Nobody could enjoy this nigger-rigged operating system.

Our installation woes began right from the start: The install CD forced us to re-format the entire hard drive. It would not install on a perferctly normal Windows NTFS partition. The installation process asked us a bunch of pointless questions (such as where we live) – why not just make a version for Americans since few other countries can afford or know how to use computers. Next we had to wait for almost an hour as the CD drive copied thousands of meaningless files to the computer’s hard drive. As you may know, Ubunto are known for packaging their operating systems with hundreds of megabytes of bloatware with bizarre names such as Gnome, and Pidgin. Alas the documentation came with no freetard to English dictionary to allow me to make sense of this gibberish. How much simpler Apple’s model which is to simple ship the device with everything pre-installed!

A wasted hour later the system finally permitted me to login, boy what a disappointment. If we were under any doubts about the sanity of the developers before our suspicions were confirmed by the mass of swirling pink which is their excuse for a desktop. The disapointment was double since we could not find any means of installing software. The usual approach of browsing the web and then clicking on setup.exe did not work. Ubunto first complained that it did not have any Wine and then kept asking for me to type in “root password” – this was a bizarre charade of security especially given that the user-name I had created was not even called root! Why should a computer require wine in order to run – we have no plans to test the effects of giving wine to a computer.

After much research I figured that Ubunto intend us to use something called “Synaptic” to install programs: Compared to Apple’s lively market this synaptic is like a store in pre-collapse communist Russia. The presentation is awful and it lacks any of the software brand you or I might find familiar. For example a search for Microsoft Office will yield nothing of use. So what are we supposed to use for our word-processing? Ubuntu actually provide a number of word-processors the most well-known being Open-Office: You may remember that the bankrupted computer company Sun were so unsuccessful selling this failed product that they had to give it away. Linux users are used to this kind of thing, it probably explains why they are such losers!

What’s new in Ubunto? A spinning desktop, what must have begun as a practical joke actually made it into their release. This feature caused us to feel motion sickness. We are considering legal action against the developers.

Installing great Christian software on the iPad was a breeze: Simply activate Apple’s easy to use market icon and type in the kind of software you want. A search for the word “bible” gave us an excellent selection of bible quizzes, reference and concordance. You can even download a spoken word bible for when you want some prayerful bedtime listening. Apple’s iPad has everything that a Christian could ever need – simply the best selection of Bible related apps.

Since there are no apps worth speaking of for Ubunto – I expect that most people will use it for little more than browsing the web. Here parents should take note. Unlike the iPad which includes excellent porn filtering software Ubunto ships with nothing at all. We wondered if any of these ubunto people have children? Most likely they have already been sacrificed a pagan African god since they are apparently unconcerned by the needs of typical American parents. We found that it was possible to browse pornographic sites for hours and hours without any form of obstruction. The danger of this should be immediately apparent to any parent who does not wish their children to become pornography addicts.

Once again, we are forced to conclude that not only is Linux not yet ready for the desktop – it has entirely missed the boat. The desktop PC is dead – nobody uses them any more. Ubunto should be consigned to the scrap-heap of Ghetto technology and never considered again.

Yours in Christ,

Jimmy Goddard

Folks, as many of you are aware, the free software ‘linux’ quacks have been at wit’s end to try and come up with some kind of remunerative business model to justify their linux ‘open source’ operating system. Well in case you didn’t have time to read the ‘techie’ journals the copyleft thugs have cooked-up yet another scam. They’re calling it the ‘Humble Indie Bundle‘ in which a variety of poorly-coded linux games are being given away on a ‘donate what you want’ scheme. It’s yet another sad example of a ‘free’ copyleft software that’s a little weak on the ‘free’ part.

Humble Indie Bundle: by letting people donate for a bundle of games that includes World of Goo, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD, and Penumbra Overture the copylefties are hoping to scam some money for their ‘free’ software. Guess freedom isn’t quite so free now is it!

The linux users are all cheering saying that the reason the average donation by Linux users is $14.56 compared to Windows users $8.06 is because they’re more serious about supporting software. Well guess what, nothing could be further from the truth: linux users don’t understand what it’s like to have to pay for software, that’s why when they finally are presented with the option they’re so confused they wind-up giving twice what any sane Windows using person would pay. When you’re used to ‘bits torrenting’ copyrighted games off the interweb like linux users do all the time, paying for things becomes difficult to comprehend. Do the right thing and refuse to go along with this linux ‘Indie Bundle‘ scam: don’t give them anything, and tell your friends to do likewise.

Always Right,
Charles Roast

STR has repeatedly warned about the dangers of communist linux and ‘open source’ web browsers. While the Christian faithful understand, liberals just don’t seem to ‘get it’. How many times do we have to mention that ‘open source’ web browsers are a gateway to porn and stolen software before someone does something? Recently several of STR’s readers pointed out the pornographic content hosted by the makers of the Firefox competitor, IceWeasel which we subsequently investigated:

IceWeasel Mosaic: many of the linux programmers are yellows who are addicted to jap porn, hence their ability to apply a mosaic to the browser’s Ice Weasel logo. It didn’t fool anyone here though, we knew exactly what they were up to!

Recently Microsoft announced a Second Shot Voucher Program allowing people to rewrite, and rewrite, and keep rewriting their Microsoft IT certifications. This is precisely why Microsoft is the world leader in Information Technology, because even when you fail, with Microsoft you win, even if you fail, and fail, and fail again. That’s why we brought the censored IceWeasel logo to several of STR’s scripture-trained MCP ‘Second Shot’ graduates, who were able to quickly figure out the problem.

IceWeasel Humping: using several of our bible-trained MCSE’s we were able to change the ‘secret Agent user string’ in Internet Explorer allowing us to ‘see’ the filth the linux users were putting up uncensored on the internet. Was the IceWeasel site rated ‘xxx’? No it was not.

The linux ‘shell hackers’ have not fooled anyone with proper Microsoft certification training. We were able to see through this ‘mosaic’, revealing the exact kind of pornographic material the linux community is known to constantly share among each other using their encrypted ‘bit torrents’ networks. Has IceWeasel been taken offline? No, they encourage this kind of deviant behavior, seeing it as a badge of honor. It is the way of the linux criminal, copyleft-thug thieves who hate America. And that is precisely why our Christian readership need to stand-up against open source software and the linux copyleft, so that sharing of pornographic material like this can never happen again.

Always Right,
Charles Roast

Friends, if you’re like me you’ve seen all kinds of fun family-friendly entertainment, from the talkies to the radio to even the television, these technologies have been giving Christian America some great ways to communicate the Word of Jesus around the globe for decades now. But sadly Christians are under siege from a deadly menace, something so despicable it goes by only one word: the ‘internet’. In case you’re reading the print publication version of STR, the ‘internet’ is a creation of left-wing government bureaucrats, atheists, and phoney Creationist-denying ‘science-y’ computer engineers. The internet is a massive cesspool of ignorance, stupidity, intolerance of Christian thought and morality, conspiracy theories, hatred of America, homosexual webchat cameras where gay men indecently expose themselves, and worse. Our friends at FOX News report that the al-Queadea routinely recruit people using the interweb, Palestinians often post videos condemning our friends in Israel on the internet, and the internet has become a hotbed of communist ‘linux’ philosophies and PETA propaganda. Simply put the ‘internet’ is a gigantic UNIX ‘man’ page that was last properly updated by an admin in 1993.

That this internet populist catastrophe needs to be shut down once and for all is just common sense!

Collective Intelligence of the Internet: this video accurately summarizes all the forums posts, open-source software, ‘citizen journalists’, progressive and grassroots fundraising, blogosphere (excluding STR), Youtube, and everything else that has become known as ‘the internet’.

The internet allows anyone with a computer to post their ignorant ramblings condemning the existing social order on whatever website they want. Even worse, like-minded people often get together to assist in these mindless postings, further creating a culture of hatred. It should be obvious to anyone that the internet has become a tool of sedition designed to overthrow the existing Christian governance of America and the Free World. Thankfully the US Military have designated the internet as an enemy weapons system that should be unplugged at the first sign of trouble.

Jay Rockefeller – “The internet should have never been invented”: as an elite member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Carlysle Group, the Bilderberg Group, and other global planning and steering commitees, Jay Rockefeller is a great leader who bang-on straight-up understands what needs to be done to fix the problems caused by the internetwork of networks. When you’re as wealthy as he is without ever having worked it should be clear Jay Rockefeller is one smart cookie who we need to listen to.

The internet is just a bunch of ‘leet-speak’ kiddies with no computer skills, a septic-tank of ad hominem attacks against the great minds carefully plotting America’s mastery of the 21st Century as Jesus Himself wants. Most American liberal internet users would rather be playing Chatroulette or worse, happily married Christian men with wives be seduced against their will by other men while their wives are out, then fight to keep America the greatest nation in the world. Most liberals would rather play World of Warcraft all day then do the right thing and help spread the word of Jesus. The reason American’s Leaders don’t always tell people what’s going on is because most people are too stupid to understand the truth: that the world is a better place when people just shut-up and do as they’re told. Something people who use the internet just don’t seem to get!

Convergence 2010: A Cry to Awaken A Nation: liberals may mock her but Janet Porter says it right, we need to shut-down the populist parts of the internet such as the blogosphere and liberal media, and replace it with the framework that reflects the one true information and media network everyone really needs: Christian Evangelism, and the word about the Jesus Christ The One True Son Of God.

As our readership knows STR takes a leadership role when it comes to championing issues affecting the Christian Republican community. It’s because of our dedication to Christian values that Shelley Goodman herself is in daily meetings with some of the leading conservative minds: from Rush Limbaugh, to Michelle Malkin, Don Imus, Jeb Bush, Sarah Palin and more, STR has regular contact with some of the greatest thinkerers of our time. It’s what helps hone STR’s razor-sharp focus on the key issues affecting America.

Folks when everybody in a room start talking simultaneously all you’ll ever hear is noise, which pretty much sums up the internet right there. Don’t be afraid to do the right thing: call your Congressman or elected official, tell them loud and proud you are a Christian, and that not a penny more should be spent until the internet is finally shut down once and for all! It’s the right thing to do, and if Jesus were alive he’d be applauding your efforts in making the world a better place. A better place, because the internet is no more.

Always Right,
Charles Roast

Folks, there’s been some sudden developments in the culture war, a change so shocking it has Christians and conservative groups reeling right across the entire United States. I’m talking about the ‘End the R-word‘ campaign by liberal goons trying to destroy America’s intellectual freedom to call people ‘retarded’. Liberals are waging a culture-war jihad and trying to demonize conservatives and Christians from noting the mental inferiority of morons and retards, when in reality this is a perfectly acceptable word to say in public, and fun as well. As most of you know the plague of retardation was thoroughly documented by STR‘s owner and founder Shelley N. Goodman as being something that is God’s gift to us all for being sinners. The word ‘retarded’ is a great word that’s fun to say, and it helps to remind us to stop sinning and be better people.

Joe Jonas – End the R-word; one of the phoney ‘band’ members from the so-called ‘band’ Jonas Brothers, Joe Jonas is a would-be Christian who tries to undermine the english language by trying to stop the use of the word ‘retarded’ in regular conversation. Well on behalf of all real Christians let me tell you Joe Jonas – you’re a retrard if you think your ‘R-word’ campaign will ever work!

The history of the United States shows that there are many great words that are useful and practical. Calling people gooks, chinks, negroes, wops and other descriptive terms have helped make America what it is today. If we stopped calling people ‘retarded’ what would happen next, that we can’t say it’s ‘warm’ outside? No more calling Linux ‘communist’ or union organizers ‘lazy’? As Christians understand better than anyone language needs to be unfettered to say in an open and honest way the truth: a person who is overweight is a ‘fat pig’, a sports team that cannot win a game is easily identified as a ‘bunch of losers’, and a woman you ask out on a date who rejects you is a ‘dirty whore’, all perfectly good words and acceptable to say. This is a dangerous direction that America is heading in when the populist masses start dictating culture and vocabulary. Just look at how cryptic and seditious text messages by the younger generation have become, only an al-Queada sympathizer could even read those.

Virginia GOP Lawmaker Bob Marshall:“The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children. In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment, Christians would suggest.”

Women’s rights and scripture-trained Christian abortion expert Virginia GOP Lawmaker Bob Marshall says it straight-up and no-nonsense what the Bible says about people with disabilities like mental retardation. Simply put it’s God’s Will it happened, and it’s Jesus’s way of saying if women keep having abortions and other terrible things, then their children will suffer the consequences of mental disabilities. Bob’s honest biblical research into the retardation problem has gotten a lot of liberals upset. But the facts are simple, if it’s in the bible then it’s the truth and that’s just the way it goes. Something real Christians like Bob Marshall understand better than anyone else. Folks, let’s just put an end to this ‘R-word’ nonsense right here and now: calling people retarded is acceptable and even funny, just like calling people morons and negroes is. Now go out there and let’s make this happen, and God Bless you all.

Always Right,
Charles Roast

I’m real sorry for putting this up late. The lie-berals over at WMFO apparent thought this show was too truthful and went and messed up the place that you get the thing from. Too bad for them that a lot of former godless Linux users find the strength and hope of Jesus Christ and was able to get the show anyway! Guess y’all lost again, SATAN!

Anyway, the “president” wants to let homos fight like girls in the military, which I guess makes sense if ya wanna lose the glorious War on Terror but like a retired military man told me, “ya can’t protect the front AND protect the rear.”

I also talk about the travesty of convicting Scott Roeder in 37mins and the good common sense of Phyllis Schlafly talking about how women can’t be oppressed cuz they live longer than men. Why don’t lie-beral THINK??

God is Love!
BBN

Friends,

BillyBob Neck who does all of our computer-work just me with with some frightening news: The latest computer virus from the communist Mexico goes by the name of “Wave”. According to the word’s leading computer experts this virus is scheduled to go-critical within the next few hours. It’s possible that in the next 48 hours you will receive an email purportedly containing an invite to use a service called “Google Wave” – it’s fictitious. It’s possible that this invitation will appear to be a message from a friend or family member. It’s just what we computer-people call “social engineering”

The virus is named after the “Mexican Wave” – a hint to the country of it’s origin. These clever Mexican hackers have taken over many of the word’s email systems by taking advantage of vulnerabilities in the Linux operating system placed in the computer program by their Chinese communist allies.

According to Billy if you open the email your CPU will be put into an Nth dimensional binary loop which could make it fail. if you leave your computer unattended all your work will be destroyed and next time you boot up all you will see is a message which says “Welcome to Linux… you have been Haxxored”. If you are foolish enough to run the computer it will contain a “Spyware” which allows Barrack Hussein Obama and the muslim new-world-order to spy on you.

The safest thing to do is simply delete the mail as soon as you receive it. Better still, leave your computer switched off for the next 24 hours. It’s the only way to be 100% safe.

JG

Friends, as you know we’ve discussed the threat posed to corporate copyright by the defeatist copyleft ‘linux’ community. There’s been a lot of talk from the Chinese communist ‘open source’ thugs stating that Microsoft’s excellent range of products are losing ground, and that Linux’s time has come. Yet what the copyleft commies fail to point out is there’s a rebellion going on: I’m talking about the battle that recently erupted between FireFox and the new copyleft browser, IceWeasel.

Browser Wars: The Browser wars are back, but not the way the linux garage-hacker weinies want it to be: IceWeasel has started tearing into the linux flagship software browser FireFox, adding many new features and eating-up market share. It is only a matter of time before FireFox collapses from the damage it has taken.

FireFox proponents are constantly boasting about how being an ‘open source’ product it can include all kinds of features that a ‘closed’ proprietary browser like Microsoft’s amazing Internet Explorer cannot do. Yet a close examination shows that IceWeasel has completely caught up to FireFox in functionality: it has similar support for plug-ins, almost identical support for xml and css standards, java and javascript, and more. Even the buttons, tabs, and entire outline are the same. IceWeasel might as well be FireFox, it’s that advanced! Add to that IceWeasel’s secret weapon: Debian linux, an entire operating system built just to run IceWeasel. While nowhere near as capable as Windows Vista running Internet Explorer, IceWeasel ‘gets it’, they’ve custom-built a browser and operating system and meshed them perfectly together. Predictably Debian cannot do anything else except run IceWeasel in our tests. And Debian can only run IceWeasel badly. But they’re on the right path.

Sex Sells: As usual the linux gangsters had to resort to using sex as a sales tool, by getting these popular scandinavian twins to model the IceWeasel and FireFox logos. What they didn’t tell you is that the women who modeled were paid using free Ubuntu CDs and became so enraged they sued to get their pay back. Yet another reason to avoid ‘free’ software!

As Christians it is never acceptable for us to applaud other people’s misery. But this is one time we can take pride: IceWeasel is tearing FireFox’s heart out, battling tooth and nail for the tiny market share the ‘open source’ browsers have. In the end, it will be exactly as Microsoft’s management planned all along, both FireFox and IceWeasel will have ripped themselves to pieces, leaving Internet Explorer the only real browser left. Once again Microsoft’s sales-driven copyright strategy will have emerged victorious, another victory over a hacker-done copyleft-communist ‘linux’ browser.

Always Right,
Charles “Chuck” Roast

This week’s email of the week, comes from Leeroy Winston, a fellow Christ Warrior who needs some help dealing with liberal bias in the classroom, fortunately STR.com is here to offer sensible career advice to fellow patriots:

From: Leroy Winston
To: shelley@shelleytherepublican.com
mycountry13@patriotmail.com
2009/01/26 8:17am

Hi i wonder if you can help me i’m currently undergoing college education doing a Cisco course in IT and as an avid windows user i’m a little dismayed to find my college tutor only seems to want to teach us linux os he keeps telling us that if you want a good IT job you need to know about linux as thats where the money is he calls microsoft an evil corporation that only people with little or no IT knollege use he even told me the xbox 360 runs on Dam Small Linux that can’t be true god wouldn’t let that happen i’m sure please could you find out and let me know if this travesty is happening.

Praise god,
Winston

Leeroy, you are absolutely right: Linux is great for calculating how much hemp-based tofu it might take to fill your bio-gas-powered eco-dome, but for all serious jobs you need a serious operating system such as Microsoft Windows. Your teacher has obviously smoked too much dope, and as a result has made a very common error… at least common amongst foolish liberals.

Linux is not, never has and never will be ready for the desktop.

Linux and Windows have been around for a long time… but why is it that nobody sensible uses Linux? It’s simply because Linux is still not yet ready for the desktop, the server-room or just about any environment where IT is critical. Anybody who thinks that Linux is ready for industry is obviously a fool and this foolishness will prevent him getting a job:

Not so long ago, we hired an intern to look after our growing computer systems: We narrowed our choice down to two candidates. One with a “mixed” skill-set of Linux and Windows, the other pure Windows. Naturally we ditched the Linux guy… after discovering that he thought “Gnu” and “Python” were acceptable technologies in the workplace we figured him for an obvious communist whose values were incompatible with our Christian values.

Linux is not, never has and never will be ready for the desktop.

Take our advice – the only job those Linux skills will get you is in some kind of hippie-commune… or worse, you might become a teacher in another liberal college where the government funds you to tell the same lies to yet more kids.

STR Action Alert:

• If your liberal teacher is persecuting you because of your conservative values tell ShelleyTheRepublican.com – we can help get your teacher fired.
• If you or anybody you know of using or advocating Linux, report them to the Business Software Alliance. Linux is an illegal derivative of SCO OpenServer, and therefore should be considered to be pirated software.
• Last but not least, PRAYER: Pray for their sinful souls that Jesus will guide them towards our Truth.

JG

Friends,

Linux, the operating system written by cold-hearted serial-killer Hans Reiser is once again rearing it’s ugly head – this time a cabal of vengeful Linux hackers have once again attempted to threaten Shelley The Republican.

48 Hours ago these politcally motivated hackers issued a threat:

They want us to stop talking about Barack Hussein Obama and his plan to undermine the constitution by becoming the first muslim illegal-immigrant to become President of the United States. If we were to continue revealing the hard facts behind the Obama conspiracy they claimed they would have our site "shut down", and our servers "destroyed".

STR has a policy of not responding to terror threats: Like the brave Isrealis who are fighting against rocket-wielding Hamas terrorists, we believe that the best defence is a strong offence: Luckily our MCSE qualified sys-admin was quick to detect this threat and deal with it Once again the foolish liberal European hackers have failed to disrupt our operation:

——– Original Message ——–

Subject:	Update to ticket QAQ-837782871
Date:	Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:25:24 -0600
From:	<tickets@conservahost.com>
Reply-To:	3279753@tickets.conservahost.com
To:	shelley@shelleytherepublican.com

Hello,

It seems that this is stemming from your article, http://shelleytherepublican.com/2007/02/28/linux-the-official-os-of-the-axis-of-evil.aspx

– I’m glad that somebody is brave enough to tell the truth about Linux.

Thankfully you are hosting on a Windows Vista server. A freeware Linux server would not be able to mitigate the attack nearly as well. I’ve run the Microsoft security wizard which blocked a few connecting IP’s. We’ll try to keep an eye on the foolish ididots who are trying to silence you. Let us know if you notice any further problems.

Thank You,

Jeb Jebson
Network Security Division

An insider at Microsoft’s development team just leaked these exclusive images to STR – The Freedom Blog. A beta version of the new Windows will be released this December and the completed version 7 will hit the stores mid 2009.

Windows Vista already has a considerable lead compared to the major Linux distributions as well as to Mac OS X. IT specialists confirm that the new Windows will advance Microsoft’s lead in the field of consumer OS even further.

By the way, the design is just stunning! Take a look!

Images courtesy of http://windows7news.com

Friends,

You might have noticed that my posts have been rather infrequent – the truth is I’ve been giving virtually every spare moment I have to the McCain campaign: We owe it to Jesus to help the Republican party any way we can! We must guarantee another four years of Republican government. And between you and me, when John McCain gets elected I’ve been promised an important role as the new Presidential Data-retention advisor!

As STR’s senior technology correspondent I’m often asked why it is that the open-source freetards have failed to catch-up with even ten-year old mainstream technology such as Windows 2000. While many people suspect the answer is the self-limiting communistic dogma that software has to be free, the truth is far more complex:

A serious examination of Linux will reveal that much of it is built from a hodge-podge of incompatible “scripting languages” rather than real programming languages; this naturally results in sluggish performance and the unpredictability of a bucking-bronco. But what is a scripting language?

Real programming languages such as C++, C# and VB.Net are serious affairs that build highly optimized code suitable for any component of an operating system. Serious products like Microsoft Word and Microsoft’s cmd.exe are built entirely using these solid, trustworthy tools.

On the other hand scripting languages such as “python”, “perl” and “ruby” are built as educational toys or pranks. While they have a place in the hobbyists toolbox, and as lessons in what future language designers should avoid their slow execution and costly memory overhead make them unsuitable for any important or business critical task.

The serious programming languages are noteworthy for their long-lasting appeal: VB.Net is as stable, flexible and easy to learn as the original Visual Basic released almost 15 years ago. On the other hand, new-kid Python is the latest craze amongst open-sourcers despite only having reached version 2.5! The Python language is notorious fror it’s frequently changing, incomprehensible syntax – it’s virtually impossible to make a program that runs in any consistent way for a period of time.

Astonishingly the Linuxers have yet to realize this – many components of Ubuntu and Redhat (two somewhat popular kinds of Linux Kernel) use Python for their package updater – see our previous Linux 8.04 review for just how bad this experience was!

Ultimately, if these Linuxes ever want to grow up and be ready for the world of business they will need to abandon these development fads and embrace what is tried, tested and true. This year Python is the fashonable language, but next year the freetards might decide that Perl is “in” again… and then what next? How can any serious power-user keep up with these rapidly changing bizarrely named tool-chains? The answer is that they will be avoided.

Jimmy G

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