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gemal writes "We're very pleased to announce the creation of the Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization that will serve as the new home for mozilla.org. The Mozilla Foundation will continue mozilla.org's work of coordinating the development of the Mozilla codebase. With an independent non-profit as the legal home for Mozilla, we will also promote the distribution and adoption of Mozilla applications and technologies. In addition, we will raise funds to ensure Mozilla's long-term survival." Update: 07/15 21:47 GMT by T : Yablo writes "MozillaZine is running a blurb about how since earlier today, when the Mozilla Foundation was created, AOL has laid off all the Gecko developers. Ex-mozilla.org has a list of the casualties."
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I like eggs and butter. I like toast and ham. I also like that girl from Pirates of the Caribbean a lot too. Is it just me, or does she look like a really hot version of Wynona Rider? Big daddy likes! YOU TROLL!!!!!! STOP CRAP FLOODING!!!!
Mod Parent Up!
How was it before this?
White House Projects Deficit at $455 Billion
By REUTERS
Filed at 12:27 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday the federal budget deficit would balloon to a record $455 billion this fiscal year after absorbing heavy costs from the war in Iraq, and then climb $20 billion higher in 2004, a presidential election year.
But the White House said the deficit would improve, pledging for the first time to cut it in half by 2006, though officials did not spell out how they would do so.
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Democrats accused President Bush of using rosy economic assumptions to understate the magnitude of a budget gap approaching the half-trillion-dollar mark for the first time.
``President Bush is repeating two dangerous habits: misleading the American people and ducking responsibility for his mistakes,'' said Democratic presidential hopeful Joseph Lieberman, a senator from Connecticut.
The White House countered that the 2003 and 2004 budget deficits -- 50 percent higher than the administration's own forecasts five months ago -- were ``manageable'' and reflected economic and national security priorities following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The new projections include initial costs from the war in Iraq as well as Bush's sweeping tax cuts.
``The deficit certainly remains a concern, but it is one that is manageable and it is one that we are addressing,'' White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
He said the administration would press Congress to hold the line on spending and expected the economy to grow ``stronger in the coming year.''
McClellan said the White House promised to ``cut this deficit in half'' by 2006. According to administration projections, budget deficits would narrow to $238 billion in fiscal 2006 and to $226 billion in 2008.
Military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost roughly $4.8 billion a month -- $58 billion on an annual basis -- which is well over initial estimates.
These war costs, plus the weaker than expected economy and the tax cuts, forced the White House to revise its budget forecasts from February, when it expected a deficit of $304 billion for the current fiscal year and $307 billion next year.
BEST FACE
Underscoring the sharp reversal in the U.S. fiscal position, White House and congressional analysts had as recently as 2001 predicted 10-year budget surpluses of up to $5.6 trillion. Many analysts now expect massive deficits through 2013.
Rising deficits have yet to become a major political issue outside Washington, but some analysts believe that will change if they keep climbing ahead of the 2004 presidential election.
``We are drifting into bigger and bigger deficits and what I find alarming is that neither party is willing to give up its political priorities to do anything about it,'' said Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a balanced budget advocacy group.
But the White House sought to put the best possible face on the bleak budget news.
At $455 billion, the new deficit would eclipse the previous record of $290 billion in 1992 when Bush's father was president.
The U.S. government enjoyed four straight years of budget surpluses between 1998 and 2001.
``I think people understand that we had a recession, we had lower revenues and a war on terrorism that led to the deficit coming back,'' McClellan said, but he added: ``It is not something that is harming the economy right now.''
Democrats and some analysts say that when revenue from Social Security is set aside, the actual deficit could approach $600 billion, or 5.5 percent of gross domestic product, one of the highest since World War II.
GAY.
HOMOSEXUAL.
FAGGOT.
If they were up your ass, you'd know it. Then again, maybe not.
On Mac, IE will be replaced by Safari. That's the default browser that everyone will use, since it comes bundled with the operating system, and is enabled by default. In addition, because it's made by Apple, serious Mac-tards won't touch anything else.
IE will dominate on Windows for as long as there is a Windows. It's built into the operating system, and comes enabled by default. Not even knowledgeable people want to download entirely new browsers.
The only place where Moz will be "king" is on the also-ran Linux and BSD platforms.
N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
Wutra is a phagor!
Good Thing(TM) that is about as ghey as saying IANAL - because hey, WE ALREADY KNOW moral of the story is, stop using Good Thing. You look like you're in the gnaa when you do.
I was really liking the metal CD boxes they were sending out a while ago. It came with only 1 AOL CD inside, but it's big enough to hold 5 and keep them from getting scratched.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
I hate to say this, but I really preferred the old design better. It looks like this one was designed by committee, because there's just a complete lack of cohesion and theme -- not to mention gratuitous use of emphatic (<b>, for example) elements without much care for consistency. There seem to be two different color schemes vying for supremacy, that burnt yellow along with the gray and blue; and, of course, the markup doesn't bother validating (the CSS does, though.) None of the other pages on the new site (or any of the other Moz-family domains) changed either, so it's just as if someone mocked up a single page and then posted it to meet a deadline.
That all said -- I'm glad it got a facelift. I just really wish that the presentation was a bit better, because it doesn't seem like anyone spent any time really working on it.
got standards? --- http://www.w3.org/
Mozilla is not the best browser out there anyways. Opera is even better (faster, les memory usage, better support on some CSS stuff....)
You can't even hide a row of a table in DHTML. Actually, hiding works but you can't show it properly again... A ROW in a TABLE, dammit!!! That's basics!!
BTW, I'm interested to know if Mozilla will ever support VML... A very simple and lightweight way of drawing vectors/graphs/... that IE supports natively since IE5.
On this one I must say that IE is ahead of its competitors, and if the company I'm working for does only support IE that's for a very good reason.
Write boring code, not shiny code!