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FBI on the Windows Source Code Theft
Chris Gondek writes "There are various articles about the Stolen Windows Source Code, but today it is confirmed that an FBI task force hunted for a cyber-criminal who posted on the internet source code for Windows which says 'I can confirm that the Northwest Cybercrime Task Force was investigating, FBI spokeswoman Robbie Burroughs said. The posted program is part of the source codes, or blueprints, for Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0, according to the company.' "
it matters what the law and the courts decide is right or wrong.
The Law is an Ass, it is stupid, blunt and rarely just. I don't know why most every 'do-gooder' consists primarily of getting laws passed and then think they've accomplished something. The decline of the west is largely the legislation of freedom and common sense out of existence, sacrificing the greater for the benefit of lessers.
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From how I understand it, there are different varieties of coca plants with different amounts of cocaine. A very high yield coca plant will have 1.5% of its weight as coca, with a normal coca plant at less than .5%. I think Coca-Cola used/uses coca plants that have very little coca in them, so there is less to remove. What is removed isn't actually cocaine, but a precursor to cocaine base (which isn't coke yet either). I was under the impression however that the Coca-Cola company STILL uses the coca plant for flavoring, and they are the only company in the US that can legally import the coca plant. The process is kept quite secret, primarily to prevent threat and/or scandal. From what I understand, they tried to create a version of coca-cola without the coca plant, but we all know that as "New Coke", and we know how that story turned out.
Goes hand in hand with cognitive disassociation, where you belive that our society is stable, sensible, safe and sustainable.
/.ers will understand the science behind these reports and regard them as good, solid science but do nothing to alter society's direction.
Many objective, scientific analyses point to doom and gloom and global system failure less than a hundered years away.
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Really, when the bad news is generated so often by disinterested parties like scientists and grassroots witnesses, and the good news is generated by the oligarchies and stable institutions, it shouldn't take a genius to question the sanity of our western social system as badly designed/engineered/whatever.