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Microsoft vs. Northwest Schools Part II
sharkey writes "Simple End User Linux (SEUL) has an article about their visit to the ACPE 2002 conference. Microsoft's visit to the conference is outlined, as well as the school districts' attitude towards GPL software and migration issues. An interesting follow-up to an earlier Slashdot article."
i am a retired truck driver that plays on computers for a hobby, and for communication with distant family members, i worked for a living, and never wore a tie & suit in my life, who cares about a typo or occasional missspelled word, this is a BBS and this whole string will be lost to the archives in a few hours anyway, not like i am writing a book to be published, ROFLMAO!!!
Of course, what you choose to believe doesn't change reality. The truth is, even though you are an athiest, God is as real to you as it is to any devout believer -- you just choose to ignore that...
:-)
cabodog77
"It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Most of the country, not just some corporations (vastly more corporate cash went to Algore) voted for Bush.
You don't tend to keep yourself informed about current events, do you?
1) No, more corporate cash did not go to Gore. I think it was about 2/3 to the Republicans. (Recently all the Democrats and only a couple Republicans voted to get corporate cash out of our elections.)
2) Gore got over 500,000 more votes in the last election. But we use something called the Electoral College, which means that each state counts its votes and then all the Electoral votes of that state go to the winner in that state. So someone can win the election and not become president.
Gore was one Electoral vote short of winning, and Florida was not yet decided. More than 100,000 ballots were thrown out in Florida for various reasons, and several throusahd people, mostly black, were prevented from voting at all. Then hundreds of ballots from military voters were counted, even though they were not postmarked and many were mailed after the election. (Even though ballots in areas where black people lived were NOT counted if they were not correctly postmarked.)
After the election Gore was trying to get a recount, but the Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 to stop the recount. Those 5 were all Republican appointees. The Justice who wrote the opinion said that recounting the voted would "harm" Bush because it might mean that he loses the election, so to prevent this harm they had to stop the recount. (There's a legal technicality that a court can't come in and make a ruling like that unless one of the parties involved will be harmed.)