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Why ICANN Needs Fresh Blood
scubacuda writes "Akash Kapur of CircleID has written an editorial, Why ICANN Needs Fresh Blood: A Deeper View . Kapur writes, "ICANN was born amid the heady days of Internet euphoria. Its early promise to be the world's first global democracy (not to mention an entirely new form of governance) was a product of that euphoria. But like so many dot-coms, ICANN quickly succumbed to the hubris of its own vision. If ICANN has been a troubled organization from the start, then that is in no small measure because it over-promised at the start....What's needed is fresh blood -- new personalities, and new ideas to break the ideological impasse." Kapur lists cancelled at-large elections, the authoritarianism and secrecy of ICANN discussion, and the narrowing possibility that ICANN could represent a new model of governance as indicators that global democracy has failed."
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It is official; Foxnews confirms: middle east is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered middle east community when IDC confirmed that middle east market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Foxnews survey which plainly states that middle east has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. middle east is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Rush Limbaugh to predict middle east's future. The hand writing is on the wall: middle east faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for middle east because middle east is dying. Things are looking very bad for middle east. As many of us are already aware, middle east continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Iraq is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Iraq developers Saddam Hussein only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Iraq is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Palestine leader Yasser Arafat states that there are 7000 users of Palestine. How many users of Jordan are there? Let's see. The number of Palestine versus Jordan posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Jordan users. Iran posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Jordan posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Iran. A recent article put Iraq at about 80 percent of the middle east market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Iraq users. This is consistent with the number of Iraq Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of IraqiOil, abysmal sales and so on, Iraq went out of business and was taken over by Halliburton who sell another troubled OS. Now Halliburton is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that middle east has steadily declined in market share. middle east is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If middle east is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. middle east continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, middle east is dead.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
To avoid roving gangs of African punks, French girls in the town of Vitry-Sur-Seine disguise themselves as boys before leaving home. Cross-dressing is a precaution against suffering the fate of a teenage girl who was burned alive in a garbage dump by an African youth.
Sohane Benziane, 17, was doused in gasoline and set afire after rebuffing the sexual advances of an 18-year-old African male who had been pursuing her.
Rapes, violence, drug trafficking, and a rise in radical Muslim militancy plague Vitry-Sur-Seine and other dilapidated apartment communities that surround Paris. These high-rise concrete blockhouses, inhabited mostly by African Muslims and other nonwhite immigrants, are a source of much crime and anxiety in France.
Fed and sheltered by a socialist welfare state, the jobless African youth have plenty of leisure time to organize gangs, steal cars, and otherwise wreck havoc around metropolitan Paris.
When not committing crimes, African thugs harass young Muslim women who refuse to wear veils or to dress in traditional fashion.
The French government is falling back on conventional liberal solutions to combat the cultural and racial strife plaguing the country. Counseling centers and improved housing are two ways the deluded French hope to overcome the problems created by nonwhite immigration.
probably wouldn't.
Hey! That's my sig you're smoking there!
Everyone hold hands. This spell is going to be creepy, but it's got to be done. Whatever you do, don't touch the sacred vessel---static discharge, y'know. Everyone's shovels ready? Ew. I just horked up Esther Dyson. Okay, here we go. Remember, as soon as the spell's complete, we go dig up Jon Postel.