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ryuzaki0
on from the does-this-thing-ever-end dept.
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."
-- "If being a geek means being passionate about something, then I pity those who aren't geeks." - Pike65
Tom Petty is PISSED
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Tom Petty Is Pissed
And he's got plenty of good reasons
The man who told the world "I Won't Back Down," "Don't Do Me Like That" and "Don't Come Around Here No More" doesn't need any assertiveness-training course. Tom Petty's determined, sometimes defiant attitude has collided with the music business throughout the years. For instance, in 1982 Petty recorded Hard Promises with the Heartbreakers, only to find that his then-record company had plans to use his name to initiate a new, higher $9.98 list price for albums. Petty withheld the tapes and threatened to retitle his record $8.98 in protest.
That same spirit is alive and well on Petty's latest album, The Last DJ, which takes a hard look at the lack of moral grounding in the music business. The title track has kicked up considerable controversy, with some radio stations seeing the song as a slap in the face and banning it. But Petty is not just biting the hand that feeds him. Music is only the beginning of what's pissing him off these days. "The Last DJ is a story about morals more than the music business," he says. "It's really about vanishing personal freedoms."
Notes on the EU from the book of all wisdom:
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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!
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.
-- The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
"Saudi Arabia's religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress, according to Saudi newspapers."
"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?
-- Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
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there'd be no adverts
And you're funding this how?
"If being a geek means being passionate about something, then I pity those who aren't geeks." - Pike65
And he's got plenty of good reasons
The man who told the world "I Won't Back Down," "Don't Do Me Like That" and "Don't Come Around Here No More" doesn't need any assertiveness-training course. Tom Petty's determined, sometimes defiant attitude has collided with the music business throughout the years. For instance, in 1982 Petty recorded Hard Promises with the Heartbreakers, only to find that his then-record company had plans to use his name to initiate a new, higher $9.98 list price for albums. Petty withheld the tapes and threatened to retitle his record $8.98 in protest.
That same spirit is alive and well on Petty's latest album, The Last DJ, which takes a hard look at the lack of moral grounding in the music business. The title track has kicked up considerable controversy, with some radio stations seeing the song as a slap in the face and banning it. But Petty is not just biting the hand that feeds him. Music is only the beginning of what's pissing him off these days. "The Last DJ is a story about morals more than the music business," he says. "It's really about vanishing personal freedoms."
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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
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!!!!!!
Johns: Well, how does it look now? Riddick: Looks clear.
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.
Do bots really crawl over these pages harvesting email addresses?
mikewebb@si.rr.com
I hope so.
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!
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)
"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.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
Got this T-Shirt for my mom to wear while voting:
"I'm from Chicago... TWO BALLOTS PLEASE!"
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
(Answer: the grave)
Please go there as soon as possible, thanks