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Beijing Snubs Microsoft For Municipal PCs' Software
jsse points to this Gartner article which says "that on 28 December 2001, the Beijing municipal government selected among seven vendors to provide operating system (OS), office automation (OA) and antivirus software for government PCs. Beijing selected six bidders, including Red Flag, but rejected the seventh bidder, Microsoft -- the only one that was not selected. Gartner listed several reasons why Microsoft lost the bid, but missed out the famous rumor that Microsoft has built a bad relationship with China since the first Chinese Windows 95, which was written by Taiwan programmers, contains Easter eggs carrying anti-communist messages."
This is not the first post so you may ignore it.
The Microsoft XBox, as popular as it may become, also will not be sold in China. As you may know, Microsoft looses money on each XBox they sell. With the realization that piracy is highly rampant in China and they will not sell much software, the console will not be sold there.
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Go here if you want to read up a little more on it... http://www.lik-sang.com/catalog/news.php?artc=238
Berkeley has Republican professors? Get out of here. No way in hell.
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funny... in a not-so-funny, painfully-ironic way... how americans love to shake our finger a the chinese, yet we have had our own 1989-style tienemen square...
may 4th 1970 - kent state university
this summer i hear the drumming... four dead in o-hi-o...
And you know this how? Or did the magical fairy tell you last night?
Jiang's company entered the bidding, Jiang's company won the bidding. The relative merits of Linux, Windows, Open Source, or green tea were immaterial. That's how business is done in China.
And how is this more controversial than Enron being one of Bush's biggest contributers? Or do you mean this, or this, or this? What about Cheney? I personally think you have a chip on your shoulders by your suggestion Jiang should be prohibited from having business ties while Bush and company can. And by the fact a lot of people know this doesn't mean they were hiding it (or trying to). Like you said, "matter of public disclosure and public record."
For many years, I have wished for that time in Harvard, when I met William. It was one Summer day, in the age of the flower girls and war riots, I was a freshman, he was a freshman. We were young spunk fresh off highschool, and by some design of faith, we were assigned to the same dwelling (This was prior to him meeting that fat idiot). I loved William with all my heart, the first three days of life in our commune were spent gently touching and moving away from our love for each other.
Then one night, in the second week of August a freak storm struck most of the Eastern cost. We had hail/snow/rain and everthing in between. William and I, we were forced indoors. For a while, we had nothing better to do than compare notes on punchcard queue jumping techniques and his so called BASIQ language. Then, out of desperation, I asked him the question.
"William, will you rule the world?"
He looked at me for a few minutes, then ran his hand through his shaggy hair, looking straight out at our AD&D cards that where piled up as the pyramid of giza on my study desk. Then he gently removed his black rims and gazed affectionately in my direction again.
I had never felt such love from a young man such as William. My heart skipped five beats, missed to catch up, nearly caught up, nearly sending spasms through my spine. William got up and stood in front of me, I was seated on the bed holding onto the legs of his pants, he was standing in font of me, his legs firmly pressed against my thights.
I have never, ever felt anything like what I felt towards William that minute. I gazed at him just the way he was gazing at me. I felt love and kindess, I felt a window of opportunity opening up between us that had never even existed between me and another human being.
"Bill", I whispered gently, "Bill Darling, Please take me, make me your Slut". He smiled at me, gently nodding, I knew this was the first time for him, and he knew this was the first time for me.
In the actions the followed next, we never ever once said a word, my mouth hung on the word "Slut", with the 't' stressed. We silently undressed, folded our clothes just the way we always did. Then I got on all four, and turned my back on bill.
I felt him, I felt him gentle, then he thrust in. The thrust was gentle, but powerful, and he came almost instantly. I did not mind, this was what I've lived the 16 1/2 years of my life for, for this moment, when William thrust himself into me and ended his childhood. The moment he became a man, and I was there to witness it.
We lay in each others arms, he spoke of me of things that I did not understand, of Windows and Dos, of Linux and Penguins, I just smiled and gently lay gazing at him. Right at that moment, William looked at me, and he was about to say something...
...But the door of our dorm room fell down, and a huge figure jumped through. A fat boy screamed in, pulling me from my love, and kicking my face. I was beaten for what felt like hours, I tasted blood, grime, cum. I smelled the rust of my blood and the stink of my shit. In the corner of my swallow eyes, I saw bill crying. That's what hurt me, my love, crying.
That was the last time I saw William. But, I have loved him ever since, I have always loved him. Bill, if you read this, please call me, I'm listed as Mr. Superime Taco (Father of infamous CmdrTaco), in Holland (no Netherlands). Please. I love you still, I dont want any money, just love. You know it, when you sent me that million dollar check in 1995, I returned it, I know it was soaked, but it was soaked in my love for you. I love you.
Your Darling Superime Taco,
Rannamari Idhuru Kilegefaan.
hmmm... I just looked out my window...
No bums or junkies. Just a couple of kids waiting for the bus.
I think you watch too much TV.
Wow! I just have to take a moment to applaud you, sir, for being the first person in a long, long time I have seen use a verb in the subjunctive mood on the web. "Be that as it may" and a couple other intact subjunctive expressions aren't all that uncommon, but a use of the verb 'be' in its subjunctive form, independent of any familiar expression is remarkable.
The subjunctive may be dead in English, much as differentiation between the nominative and accusative cases in pronouns (e.g., who/whom) is currently going the way of the dodo, but its still nice to see linguistic traditionalism popping up here and there. To a grammar geek like me (if I, like many people, acknowledged the imminent death of the nominative/accusative noun cases, I would have awkwardly said "To a grammar geek like myself") a rare appearance of a verbal mood largely dead now for at least a century is a point of real interest.
I'm curious if you realize just how bloody ignorant you are of the United States?
"But seriously, have you ever been to these European countries? "
I would have to ask if you have ever been to the States? If so which ones, and do you realize how large the US is?
I was speaking with someone from Sweden one day, he commented on the WTC attack and whether I felt safe or not. I had to point out to him that New York City is further away from me than he is from Bosnia. He couldn't quite grasp the concept of it taking several days by car to drive from one side of the country to the other.
If you have been to the US, do you seriously think to presume you understand the country because you have visited New York? Do you know what Texans are like, what about those from Iowa? Nebraska? Montana? Indiana? Have you ever had a three-way in Cincinatti? Do you know what a good pork tenderloin from Iowa is like? What about a Philly steak sandwich? Or a Italian roast beef from Chicago?
In the future before you presume to question the ignorance of Americans it would be best if you instead focused on your own opportunity for learning.
BTW to aid in your education I would like to point out that the three-strike laws would not apply to someone stealing jeans. Shoplifting is generally a misdemeanor offense(unless we are talking about stealing a truck load of jeans), and three-strike applies to felonies. The person would have had to been convicted on three felonies, things such as armed robbery, rape, aggravated assault and so forth.