Microsoft Hatred FAQ

[entropy]

axel at white-eagle.invalid.uk wrote...
> In comp.lang.perl.misc David Schwartz <davids at webmaster.com> wrote:
> > "Mike Meyer" <mwm at mired.org> wrote in message 
>  
> >> Sorry, but nobody but the government actually owns property. In most
> >> places, you can't make non-trivial changes to "your" property without
> >> permission from the government. They even charge you rent on "your"
> >> property, only they call it "property tax".
>  
> >    I see you are a totalitarianist or perhaps a communist. If you want to 
> > live in America and discuss things that are relevent to America, let me 
> > know.
> 
> Why would you say that - Mike Meyer made a point to which you have
> obviously no answer. Or do you deny that his comments on this matter
> of property are true?

Methinks David simply missed that Mike was being facetious.  (Irony 
and facetiousness don't translate well into print, as Frank Zappa 
once noted.)