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Microsoft's Take on iTunes for Windows
Skruffy writes "The Register has an amusing article about Microsoft's reaction to the launch of Apple's iTunes software on Windows. It seems that Microsoft is very keen to warn its users of the dangers of using a service that would restrict them from accessing music from other sources... Oh the irony."
Lift and smootch, says me.
Does that make me a thief?
even for /.
DUPE!
microsoft can burn in hell
Filty yellowish-blck rotting shit stained teeth with breath that smells like dog vomit. Even wealthy parasites like the royal family have awful decaying teeth. Why is that.
Also is that old hag the queen mum still alive?
I always hated that evil woman.
That is really disgusting, I mean you could actually fit a basketball in there. What sick pervert would do that to himself?
This was just posted a few days ago. Tell my why again I should subscribe? I have been thinking about subscribing for the past few days, but I can make up my mind. Crap like this doesn't help.
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Taco strikes again...again.
He and Ashcroft are responsible for keeping your sorry ass alive from any repeated terrorist attacks. Has there been one incident in US since 9/11? And you show your thanks by calling him a lying demagogue? You should be on your knees thanking these brave men for keeping losers like you safe and sound. Good God consider the alternative; a indesicive alpha male robot like Gore as President? Scary huh?
http://www.techsunite.org/news/techind/031020_md
October 20, 2003
MD State Lawmaker to Fight Export of Jobs
By Mark Gruenberg
Press Associates Union News Service
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'We have to play up the insanity of sending jobs overseas at a time when we have high unemployment in our own country.'
-- Paul Almeida, President, AFL-CIO Department for Professional Employees
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (PAI) -- Pauline Menes wants to stop export of white-collar jobs from Maryland before an exodus starts.
And the way to do so, the state delegate believes, is to put the weight of the state government behind the Free State's white-collar workers.
Menes, a Democrat from College Park, met Oct. 15 in its city hall with unionists concerned about the issue, to discuss strategy for and details of legislation on the issue that she will introduce in the state capital of Annapolis next year.
Her legislation, like measures in other states, would ban state agencies and contractors from exporting white-collar jobs -- computer techs, data processing, engineering and the like -- to other countries. Those exports deprive U.S. workers of jobs.
Though Maryland has yet to experience such an exodus of white-collar government jobs, other states had such migration. And the departure of private white-collar jobs is worse.
Public pressure in New Jersey, for example, forced the state to bring nine white-collar jobs that a contractor had outsourced to India -- handling a "help line" for welfare recipients -- back to Camden, an area of high unemployment.
But in Florida, Gov. Jeb Bush (R) let some similar welfare-related jobs go overseas via a state contractor.
Studies estimate that at least 3.3 million private-sector white collar jobs will be exported in the next decade to nations such as Russia, China and India. There, workers with similar skills would perform them -- at much lower cost -- for firms such as Microsoft, IBM, the Bank of America and Hewlett-Packard.
Meanwhile, high-tech workers here at home would be jobless -- and the vaunted "information economy" which was supposed to make up for blue-collar job losses would not do so.
Menes admits her bill would affect few state government jobs, but it would have more impact on state contractors. And its real impact is as a signal to Maryland's high-tech companies. "It's a way to influence them," she points out.
"We have to take people to Annapolis who know the problem and get them to talk to the (legislative) committees about it" at next year's hearings, she said. "That way they would understand its importance to you and to the rest of the labor movement."
That may be easier said than done. "White collar workers have traditionally not been very good at advocating for themselves," said Paul Almeida, President of the AFL-CIO Department of Professional Employees, who attended the meeting. "If the public was aware and raised its voice, this would stop." That happened in New Jersey, he noted.
Other participants included top DPE official Mike Gildea, and Mike Blain of WashTech -- a Seattle-based Communications Workers local that has led the fight on the issue.
They agreed a state-by-state strategy is the best way to get federal attention to the white-collar job exodus. Some federal lawmakers are already paying attention. The House Small Business Committee held its second hearing on the issue on Oct. 20.
And the Justice Department is investigating a case where a California-based manufacturer of Palm Pilot-type devices sent its techs over to India to train workers, promised the techs their jobs would not be dumped after they came back, and then reneged.
Menes introduced legislation last year to ban export of state-funded white collar jobs, but did not mobilize support for battling the job exports, except for a letter from officials in one d
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OpenBSD 3.4 was a real stinker in these tests. The installation routine sucks, the disk performance sucks, the kernel was unstable, and in the network scalability department it was even outperformed by it's father, NetBSD. OpenBSD also gets points deducted for the sabotage they did to their IPv6 stack. If you are using OpenBSD, you should move away now.
Fact: OpenBSD is Dying.
What is that oatmeal shooting up? It is like a diarreha geyser. Truly horrific. Imagine if that was your girl? I'd rather be a socially inept sexless Linux loser.
All your music are belong to us! It had to be done..... eventually.
60 percent of the time, my comments are right everytime.
To Whom It May Concern (other than myself):
Hi. I have been a huge fan of cereals of all kinds for my whole life. Sometimes I eat it for all three meals of the day, or live on it exclusively for weeks, or put it in my underpants to keep me feeling fresh (and also as an emergency back-up snack). I cereasly love it.
I am especially fond of a lot of your cereals like Boo Berry and Trix and Chex and Lucky Charms and Cookie Crisp. My absolute favorite is Fruity Pebbles though, which I believe is a Post cereal. Maybe you guys should make something that tastes like Fruity Pebbles except manages not to have Fred Flintstone's ugly mug all over the box. Yabba Dabba Eww. Anyway, my point is that I like a lot of your cereals and so I am personally concerned with their condition. And, quite frankly, lately I've been a bit worried.
Let's start with my favorite cereal of yours - Boo Berry. I love Boo Berry... at least I think I do... actually, I know it used to be my favorite cereal but I haven't had any in years so I've kind of forgotten what it tastes like - because it's not in any stores! No stores in my area carry it. I checked on your website and apparently you still make it; you even offer it for sale. Unfortunately I can't justify buying it for the $6.74 for a twelve ounce box price. You do offer buying it in a case instead of a four pack, which would drop the price to $4.71 a box, but that is still unreasonable and would also require me to spend an entire week's pay on a large shipment of haunted cereal. My girlfriend would kill me (if I didn't overdose on blue food coloring first).
I think I have a solution to this dilemma. I know you can't force any businesses to carry your cereals and I know that you can't afford to sell them direct for less than $4.71 and still have money left over to pay for upkeep on Count Chocula's castle, hiring someone to build 400 mind-numbing advertisements disguised as crappy kids games for youruleschool.com, and keep your CEOs rolling in golden Kix. So here's what you should do - open up your own stores all across the country. You've already got one in Mall-of-America, now put one in every mall in America. Even if you don't sell much cereal (and you'd sell a lot, trust me) it would be great advertising. You can sell t-shirts with nifty slogans like "Frosted Wheaties: When You're Too Damn Lazy To Put Sugar On Your Own Wheaties!" or "Honey Nut Chex: It Rhymes With 'Funny Butt Sex' For A Reason!" and other stuff which is even more great advertising plus it makes money up front. I can see it now, picture a young child in the mall with its mother...
YOUNG CHILD: Mommy! Mommy! Look at all the pretty colored cereal!
MOTHER: Oh Honey, you know cereals like that are just a result of the global dentist/cereal/porn conspiracy, we've been through this a million times...
YOUNG CHILD: Awww...
MAN IN TRIX RABBIT SUIT comes out of the store.
MAN IN TRIX RABBIT SUIT: You know Ms. Averagemother, all of our cereals are fortified with titanium plating and deflector shi... er, essential vitamins and minerals; and they are a part of this complete breakfast.
MAN IN TRIX RABBIT SUIT whips out a complete breakfast on a tray.
MOTHER: Well... I guess a few minutes couldn't hurt...
YOUNG CHILD: Gee, thanks mom!
YOUNG CHILD runs in followed slowly by MOTHER. Group of scantily clad dentists appears and drags MOTHER into back room. YOUNG CHILD transforms into a cartoon and spends eternity trying to steal Lucky's Charms and torturing the Trix Rabbit by hogging the cereal.
Now, on to my next suggestion. You need to do something about Cheerios. Really, they're awful. Yes they are good for my heart, but this is overshadowed by the fact that they taste like my butt.
On the other hand, a cereal that already tastes great is Lu
OK, the fact that I run Linux helps. A windows client isn't much use to me...
Well, maybe they thought it was worthy of further discussion. Whatever.
So stick it in a box on the side. Are you actually saying it's okay to dupe the article again with almost the exact same headline?
It's not like it's magnificent hard news or anything. Microsoft just gave an opinion on iTunes.
I didn't see it yesterday, and I find it pretty interesting that Microsoft would have the gall to make such ridiculous statements.
It's called the "Older Stuff" box. Check it out when you miss a day.
The fact is, Microsoft is being extremely hypocritical. That's certainly something a lot of people here are interested in discussing.
I know. We already discussed it yesterday. Even the headline was almost exactly the same.
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" (this is turning into a Sysinternals commercial!)"
/bitter (and no, the Linux version of Filemon does not work with any recent version of Linux).
yeah, that'll happen on exactly the day that Sysinternals starts shipping products for platforms other than Windows.
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