Hokuto No Ken

Whereever it is your going pal, you can use those 7 words all you like.

Statement 1: The book [Horton Hears a Who] tells the story of Horton the Elephant who, on the fifteenth of May in the Jungle of Nool, hears a small speck of dust talking to him. It turns out the speck of dust is actually a tiny planet, home to a city called “Whoville”, inhabited by microscopic-sized inhabitants known as Whos.

Statement 2: From his perch high atop Mount Crumpit, the Grinch can hear the noisy Christmas festivities that take place in Whoville, thus becoming the central aspect of the Grinch’s Angst.

Paradox: the Grinch is a member of the microcosm known as Whoville in the Horton related literature.

[13:30:17] mbt — From my networking course teacher: How do you feel about the necessity of Microsoft applications in businesses today ?
[13:30:55] mbt — That question is so _loaded_. First, when did MS apps become _necessary_?

Technalign

Mandrake and Birth

Dianne Ursini is the founder of this jewel. In the 2000s that she would enter the Open Source arena with Himandrake and Heavy Industrial (the now defunct domains mandrake and industrialization). She would lead her then company HeavyIndustrial/Himandrake into a relationship with the Mandrake parent company in an attempt to garner business in the US. Through a series of interactions, Himandrake would rest control over the eBay sales market in Mandrake sales. Anyone who attempted to sell Mandrake (legally or not) would get their eBay auctions stopped by Himandrake (who at the time held a VeRO account on Ebay, thus giving them the right to claim illegitimacy). Numerous users at the time were offering Mandrake Download Editions to users (primarily for the purpose of supplying Mandrake to users that had no bandwidth for downloading the ISOs), all of which were stopped by Himandrake, in many of these cases wrongly. More than a variety of such users threatened legal action against Himandrake for its blatant abuse of such power. Himandrake would represent itself as the parent company, Mandrake, to accomplish these ends. This was seen as falsehood by both the Mandrake Parent company and numerous users as Himandrake.com was nothing more than just a reseller of Mandrake approved product. A spokesperson for Mandriva confirmed that Ursini had been a legitimate distributor but nothing more. Technalign and Mandrake didn’t hit it off as a result of this interaction, and the two parted ways after only a year. Technalign would accuse Mandrake of not having the proper process and direction for making money. Mandrake would cite unresolved financial issues and incompatibilities with their philosophy as the reason for the dissolution.

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