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U.S. Representatives Torpedo UN Information Summit
StoneLion writes "The United Nations World Summit on Information Society was established to 'harness the potential of knowledge and technology' and to 'find effective and innovative ways to put this potential at the service of development for all.' You'd think open source software would be a natural for many UN member countries. But NewsForge's Joe Barr discovered that the US is driving policy for the organization, and its official position is that 'using free software to achieve the WSIS goals might get in the way of an intellectual property owner's ability to make a profit'; in other words, they want to make the world safe for capitalism." We've mentioned WSIS before. Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.
Typical septics
The best thing they can do is make it illegal for spammers to get safe harbor anywhere.
Or, failing that, to make sure that spam only gets sent to the country of origin somehow. That would eliminate 90% of my spam, which is from the US.
Probably it will only end up in another treaty the US will refuse to ratify, like Kyoto and the International Court of Justice.
...my bud that works for one of the U.S. Reps...anxious for the reaction.
Around "the second quote" in "the article summary." I "totally lost interest," but "decided to post this 'smart ass' post."
Huuuuggggg!!!! Hug Mummy!!!!!!
Yep, lemee hand-run Windows.
Oh wait! Without hardware, software is useless.
I just read this post which was modded offtopic (it is absolutely offtopic) but which is very interesting and tells us about the 'why' on the war in Irak.
This war is an American failure. You lied and everybody 'told you so' but you did do it for your own fucking interest.
Your behaviour is disgusting, but we are close to the end of the US now, finally. Everybody will feel better after your collapse.
It cracks me up how many people on here sob for the UN when something like this happens but fail to see the correlation with the flight of jobs from our country.
The UN is delighted your job is going to India, China and every other third world nation. In the UN's eyes, the US has too much and has been king of the hill too long. It is more important that we "share" our good fortune and hard work, even if it means by reallocating our money to their failed constituents countries. Later it will be through forcible taxation and possibly occupation.
If you are a citizen of the US and are concerned about your job, your home, your family or maybe just the right to be called a sovereign citizen of the US, demand the US withdraw from the UN, stop funding its activities and forcibly remove them from our shores. Further, demand the US withdraw from the World Bank, the World Trade Organization and every other international organization that wishes to impose its will upon our shores.
Finally, demand a level playing field for our country and the rest of the world. No more foreign aid, no more guest workers and no more handouts.
Make every country maintain its own borders and support itself through the sale and production of goods and services from their own country.
Bring back an industrial and information capacity to the US and ensure US citizens are working, fed and housed through ample, stable employment.
Europe has hundreds of years of evil behind it. The US is, at best, a johnny-come-lately to the game of slaughtering millions of people and supporting brutal dictatorships. European imperialism has done more damage to the world than the US could even dream of.
We dismiss European atrocities of 60 years ago as being old and irrelevant, yet we bring up US sins from the start of the country. Very fair and unbiased.
Our foreign policy is not perfect, but then again, no one's is. The idea is to move forward and try not to repeat the same mistakes. Support democracy and human rights - don't support brutal dictatorial regimes. You'd think it would be easier...
-Erwos
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