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EU Crosshair Still Points at Microsoft

T-Kir writes "The BBC has an interesting article saying that now Microsoft has had the settlement granted in the US, it still faces EU sanctions concerning software bundling (or should that be bungling?) into its OS and deliberate attempts at inoperability with non-MS server operating systems."

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  1. Re:DotSlash - anyone interested? by Pike65 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    there'd be no adverts

    And you're funding this how?

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    "If being a geek means being passionate about something, then I pity those who aren't geeks." - Pike65
  2. Notes on the EU from the book of all wisdom: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Horst: [threatingly] We Germans aren't all smiles und sunshine.
    Burns: [recoils in mock horror]
    Oooh, the Germans are mad at me. I'm so scared! Oooh, the Germans!
    [hiding behind Smithers] Uh oh, the Germans are going to get me!
    Horst: Stop it!
    Man 2: Stop, sir.
    Burns: Don't let the Germans come after me.
    Oh no, the Germans are coming after me.
    Man 2: Please stop the `pretending you are scared' game, please.
    Horst: Stop it! Stop it!
    Burns: [brief pause, then resumes]
    No! They're so big and strong!
    Man 2: Stop it.
    Horst: Stop it, Mr. Burns.
    Man 2: Please stop pretending you are scared of us, please, now.
    Burns: Oh, protect me from the Germans! The Germans...
    Horst: Burns, STOP IT!

    SNPP, 8F09

  3. Re:DotSlash - anyone interested? by banana+fiend · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A Utopia!! I'm breathless with excitement - it'd be like that film "the beach", except we'd really succeed this time!!!!!

    Count me in !!! We could make a beowulf cluster of them!!!!!!

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    Johns: Well, how does it look now? Riddick: Looks clear.
  4. Re:Three problems by sydlexic · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    But then you`d have literally every other country on the planet against you!

    what is this you say? you mean that's not the intent of our current foreign policy? must rethink slavish lemming-like devotion to the party.

  5. Re:excellent by sql*kitten · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    are suspicious--and rightly so--of any successful business

    freedom from their oppression

    a handful of ultra-rich masters ruling over millions toiling in poverty

    harmonious cooperation


    Lord, save us from teenage Marxist demagogues!

  6. Re:Muhaha! by Isle · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    And Iraq has 1.5 million soldiers that almost all have families and children to feed, I guess we attack them then...

    (I hope that didnt sound too pro or anti anything except this type of argument)

  7. pre-emptive by dpilot · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "Regime change begins at home!"

    I'd been thinking this for a while, wishing I'd come up with it as a bumper sticker - then the other day I saw one already printed up, on a car in a parking lot.

    It distresses me greatly to see the US acting in many ways like its own definition of a Rogue State. Anyway, this morning on the way to work I did what I could - I voted.

    Tidbit about War with Iraq... IMHO the side-effects are worse than the original problem. Maybe Iraq will develop a nuke in a year, maybe not. Maybe weapons inspectors will do their jobs. If Iraq does develop a nuke, maybe they will use it, maybe not.

    But if we go to war with Iraq, there is a not-too-short list of Arab states which we call allies that may fall to internal Islamic revolutions. One of these is Pakistan, posesser of 15-50 nukes, original home to the Taliban.

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    The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
    1. Re:pre-emptive by EzInKy · · Score: 1, Offtopic


      Arab states like this one need to fall.


      "Saudi Arabia's religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress, according to Saudi newspapers."


      As do other extremist Islamic states like this one.


      "An Islamic court in northern Nigeria has postponed an appeal hearing on behalf of a woman sentenced to death by stoning for the crime of adultery. Safiya Husaini's lawyers had been seeking to overturn the conviction on the grounds that she was raped. But she now says that the baby at the centre of the case was fathered by her former husband. "


      Exactly why again are my fellow "liberals" so concerned with maintaining stability in countries that violate human rights we take for granted every day? When did it become okay to persecute and discriminate against people because that is their cultures way of doing things?



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      Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
  8. OT: Chicago by Amazing+Quantum+Man · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Got this T-Shirt for my mom to wear while voting:

    "I'm from Chicago... TWO BALLOTS PLEASE!"

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    Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.