SCO - EV1, Licensees, Groklaw, Armed Guards

Camel Pilot writes "It looks like the CEO of EV1Servers underestimated the reaction to giving in to SCO demands and licensing Linux. I know we were looking for a new hosting home, and had EV1 at the top of the list, but now they are not even a consideration..." An anonymous reader writes "InfoWorld has an article with more info on Computer Associates denying being a SCO Linux licensee." Also, Mick Ohrberg writes "Pamela Jones, creator of Groklaw, an independent legal research site, responds to some allegations presented by SCO CEO Darl McBride." Finally, an anonymous reader writes "According to the Deseret News, Darl McBride says he sometimes carries a gun because his enemies are out to kill him. He checks into hotels under assumed names. An armed body guard protected him at Harvard Law School when he gave a speech last month." Update: 03/08 20:17 GMT by S : cdlu writes "Now the SEC is unofficially confirming some interest in the SCO and Microsoft connection, according to Newsforge [part of OSDN, like this site]."

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Great Britain and their gun-control paradise

[Ranten_N_Raven]

Oh, yeah. Great Britain and their gun-control paradise...Riiiiight!

Many of the countries with the strictest gun control have the highest rates of violent crime.
Australia and England, which have virtually banned gun ownership, have the highest rates of
robbery, sexual assault, and assault with force of the top 17 industrialized countries.

(Footnoted by: "Dutch Ministry of Justice, Criminal Victimization in Seventeen Industrialized Countries, 2001")
Gun Facts, version 3.2

The chart on that page (49 of 78) shows the "Contact Crime Victimization Rates" for 1999, giving "% vitimized."

Austrilia (sic): 4.1%
England and Wales: 3.6%
Scotland: 3.4%
Canada: 3.4%
Finland: 3.2%
Poland: 2.8%
Northern Ireland: 2.4%
Denmark: 2.3%
France: 2.2%
Sweden: 2.2%
Switzerland: 2.1%
Netherlands: 2.0%
USA: 1.9%
Belgium: 1.8%
Spain: 1.5%
Portugal: 1.4%
Japan: 0.4%

FURTHER: On page 50 of 78, they graph the sharply rising violent crime & robebry rates, and the declining gun ownership rate. There is certainly a strong positive correlation, implying there might be causation.

YET FURTHER: They point out

In America, a gun crime is recorded as a gun crime. In Britain, a crime is only recorded when there
is a final disposition (a conviction). All unsolved gun crimes in Britain are not reported as gun crimes, grossly undercounting the amount of gun crime there. To make matters worse, British law enforcement has been exposed for falsifying criminal reports to create falsely lower crime figures, in part to preserve tourism.

with footnotes crediting Gallant , Hills, Kopel, "Fear in Britain", Independence Institute, July 18, 2000, and Daily Telegraph, 1996. (Same link as above.)

There's more. Follow the link.

Oh, and why were the first shots fired in the American Revolution? Because the Brits wanted to take away our guns! Battle of Lexington & Concord Abstract, That Memory May Their Deed Redeem, The Continental Congress; Lexington, Lexinton & Concord, etc.

Oh, and the first battle of Texas's independence? TAKE a GUESS what that was about!