(Tile Image of the Great Seal of the UPGR, Assembly Building, Linusgrad)
The GNUist Party
Deus ex Machina
It the majority political party of the UPGR,comprising 69% of the seats in the National Assembly. It was organized in early 2000 by a group of anyonomus Linux longhairs who wanted to apply the concepts and beliefs of Open Source to the macroenviroment of an entire nation. They first made an attempt in 2000 by running a Beowulf Cluster named THOR for the office of US President.
They were promptly humiliated by the heckiling of the press.The GNUist party sank into hiding while it seemed that Republican George W. Bush would prevail victorious as President.This was not to be.
On April 1,2000,an Army of GNUist Penguins,led by Linux mascot Tux Penguin,overran the defenses surrounding Washington DC.Within hours the White House,Capitol,Supreem Court,and aproximately 78% of the United States. With no possible alternative but nuclear war,President Bill Clinton steped down as President and asked that Congress hand over control to the GNUist Penguins.Congress did so on April 2,2000.Shortly afterwards the Red Penguinitic Army had swept down on all corperations that had oppressed geeks and expelled their leaders.The MPAA and RIAA were broken up under orders from the Government of the newly formed UPGR,which had declaired that the groups held "monopolistic power" over radio broadcasters and motion picture studios.
Today, the membership of the GNUist Party includes aprox. 167,000,000 million members,59% of these living within the UPGR,with the other 41% comming from GNUist Partys overseas.
What do you stand for?
"As the nominee for the GNUist Party...stands for a Bazaar-style
economy, no Internet taxation, strong anti-trust laws, copyright law reform,
and an elimination of oppressive anti-geek laws."
- Exapanding the idea of geek revolution around the world.It is the future goal of the GNUist Party to one day see the people of the globe working together as one,as a result transforming Earth into a giant bazaar where ideas are peddeled like food and cloth was centuries ago.
- The expansion of humanity to other worlds. Earth is becoming crowded. It is dirty from the mistakes and foolishness of the past.With knowledge garnered from our failures we shall colonize other worlds,ensuring that future generations will not face problems that we face today on Earth.
The International Guarantee from all Nations of the Basic Freedoms established in the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
So you are willing to put your physical and mental borders aside and join humanity in a great cyber-revolution?Great!The GNUist Party is easy to join.First,take this pledge:(Say it silently if you are working...people might think you are wierd if you say it out loud)
I,(your name),promise as a Member of the GNUist Party,
to support the ideals and beliefs of geeks around the world,
to support the Open Source Movement and the freedoms it guards,
to speak for those with no voice,
to protect the good of all around me,
to keep an open mind to the oppinions of my peers,
to break down all bariers,both real and virtual,
and to help the Great GNUist Revolution in whatever way I can!
Ok,thats done,Now send an email to linux_ys@yahoo.com with the subject "GNUist Party Application" Include in the body of the message your name (including any funny nicknames your friends call you.But remember this is a family site.) and the reason you want to join.Despise Windows 9x?Got picked on in High School as a geek?Work as the "IT guy who gets blown to bits by coworkers when the network goes down"?These are all valid reasons to throw of oppression and fight the geeky fight(nonTM).I will reply to you as soon as I can (please understand I am very busy) and add you to the list of members that will go on this page.Then add a nifty graphic to your page sying you are a GNUist!That's it!
Now go out there,fight the geeky fight, and remember:it's free as in speech,not free as in beer. :)
NEW!Great GNUist Battle #0:Linux - The Best Windows Upgrade
Linux has been shown to be equal to and/or supperior to Microsoft's
workstation offering,Windows NT(stands for Not Trusted) and
Win2K(the real millenium bug...almost showed some promise...if only it
had arrived earlier.And had fewer than 64,000 bugs.).However,most uninformed
comrades out there are not aware of this.We must show them there is an
alternative out there by tricking them into creating a Linux/Windows dual-boot
setup.Here is our plan:We send out emails telling saying "Visit this site
to learn how to improve Windows performance." MAKE NO MENTION OF LINUX
IN THE MESSAGE,the purpose of this project must remain ambiguous(see,I
can steal Microsoft's ideas as good as they can steal others' ideas!)so
as not to arouse the FUD imbedded in their brains.Put a link in your document
pointing here
Please report in on how well this has worked at your school/office/club/favorite
government agency to annoy...oops,how'd that get in there? :P )Hope to
hear from you'se soon comrades!(hey,my Philadelphia accent is still there!Yeah!)
Members of the GNUist Party(We really have members!)
| Member #0 - Matthew K. Adair
Reason for Joining: Because I founded our party in the name of GNUism! |
| Member #1 - Colin McNally
Reason for Joining: I hate when stuff breaks and I can't get at it to fix it. |
| Member #2 - Vladimir Tauberman
Reason for Joining: After seeing that the big corps. (IBM, M$, Adobe) are terrible at controlling the "have-not" masses (e.g.: M$ untitrust suits) I have come to a realization that there must be a higher Power out there in the tech world, the one that will insure the unity of mankind in the (posibly) near future and since communism is unavailable I wish to join the GNUist Party :) |
| Member #3 - Sven Opitz
Reason for Joining: I want to join, because after you once debugged a program you use to bugfix it, you want to have this freedom in all software. And as a programmer you are always the "bad guy", if your thinking isn't profit-oriented |
| Member #4 - John Ward Reason for joining: 1) Windows and Micro$oft $uck. 2) I want to promote the use of a superior OS and to promote the Open Source movement! Stupid reasons? I really don't care. |
email: linux_ys@yahoo.com