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MSN Planning to Take on Google?
asyn42 writes "CNet is reporting what should be no surprise, Microsoft appears to be readying itself to take on Google for a position as the top search engine. The long range impact on the relationship between MSN and Yahoo/Inktomi is likely at risk."
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Don't be cocky.
They said the same thing about Yahoo.
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A totalitarian threat to Europe
Sweden has been regarded as a modern, liberal and tolerant country for the greater part of this century. The ?Swedish Model? welfare state set glowing example for the Social Democratic parties of Europe to emulate. But Recent press revelations show there is another, sinister, side to the Swedish Model.
For 40 years, from 1935 to 1976, during the time of Social Democrat rule while the welfare state was being built, Sweden carried out Nazi style ?racial Hygiene? policies.
The leading Swedish newspaper ?Dagens Nyheter? reported in a series of articles, 20-21.8.97 that at least 60.000 people, mostly young women and girls, were forcibly sterilised to protect the Nordic Aryan stock from ?inferior races? and ?moral degenerates?.
Central to the Swedish welfare state is the concept of the ?Folkhemmet? (National Homeland) in which blonde, blue eyed, hard working lutherans live in harmony and security. Throughout the periods immediately before and after the Second World War Sweden was in the grip of a racial mass hysteria. There was to be no place in the National Homeland for inferior races, who would pollute the Swedish stock or for degenerates and non-conformists who would upset the harmony. Dark hordes of sub humans were seen as a threat to the Nordic ideal.
To protect themselves from this threat, the Swedish parliament in 1935, without protest or opposition and with the blessing of the State church, passed laws calling for the sterilisation of inferior racial types, vagabonds, gypsies and the socially undesirable. One Social Democrat, Alfred Petrel, suggested the possibility of exterminating handicapped children until it was realised that these undesirables had parents who loved them and might object. Sterilisation would be sufficient.
Most ?unacceptable? behaviour was considered to be genetically determined, including criminality, immorality and social deviation. Sterilisation was the instrument that would eliminate these perversions from the National Homeland. According to Health Ministry documents, the diagnosis ?psychopath? ?unstable? or ?weak minded? were sufficient grounds for sterilisation. Perhaps even more chilling, if that is possible, ?showing opposition to authority? was considered evidence of weakmindedness and could lead directly to the operating table. The policy continued until 1976 and during this time the health service apparatus, doctors, nurses and officials, complied without question or complaint.
Sweden, in common with most western countries, went through a period of liberalisation in the sixties. Attitudes changed. Dark hordes of inferior races were no longer perceived as a threat, at least by the government. A more open and free life style with liberal attitudes was adopted, especially by young people. Pop music and drugs were central components of a new youth culture. This was viewed with loathing and hatred by the establishment. Traditional Swedish morality was under attack. The National Homeland was threatened again. K.A Westerberg, founder of The Hassela Collective, a militant prohibitionist organisation, wrote in ?Folket i Bild? no.14. 1978: "The values of the working class, diligence and order, solidarity and conscientiousness, a sense of honour and the ability to behave like civilised human beings are no longer fashionable" Liberal ideas and the free lifestyle they encouraged were identified as the new enemy. Establishment and working class institutions were mobilised and drugs, symbolic of the new degeneracy, were to be the focus of the attack.
Drugs were a threat to Nordic values and zero tolerance would be the instrument that would cleanse the National Homeland from them and the degenerates who use them. The War on Drugs would be the means of restoring order to society and returning to traditional Swedish working class morality. Mass movements were formed to fight drugs, liberals and the moral decay they represented. The newspaper of the Riksforbundet Narkotikafritt Samhalle (RNS, National Organisati
Microsoft Search Engine Searches YOU!
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oh, wait, this is really true
Sigs are dangerous coy things
If someone told me they were going to google something I'd slap them upside their stupid little noggin. "Search" is the word you're *ahem* googling for people. See? That's stupid isn't it?
The cutesifying of language is reprehensible. Nobody I know says their going to google unless they mean that they're typing "www.google.com" in their address bar at that very moment. Real people perform google searches.
It's notable that this functionality is customizable.
Please tell me how, b/c this isn't entirely obvious from the user interface options.
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Should computers be able to parse the phrase "police police police police"?
Based on your User-ID number, you have yet to experience the joy that is having access to the "moderator" pulldown menus
This reminds me...what does a user's screen look like when they get mod points (screencap anyone?). Are there like, flashyshiny things, "woop-woop" noises, garish colours and a "Congratulations! You may Now Moderate!" popup?
Just curious.