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EDS' Secret Love For Linux Laid Bare
Ashcrow writes "'Only a day after flaming open source as insecure, unscalable and unfit for Australian consumption in its Agility Alliance, services vendor EDS has revealed it really does have a soft spot for the penguin deep in its heart.' Apparently the 'Linux environment provides a level of security and stability unavailable elsewhere' which differs from that they had said earlier."
Why? Just because you have nationality in common? I'm American and half of my countrymen are frothing idiots. I won't tell you which ones--just pick the ones you like least and let them be "it." I'm not that interested in letting you know where I stand. You'd probably hate me for it anyway.
"do you realize that telling other people that they're "wrong" for their choice in leaders is part of that?"
Chill dude, I was just curious why the election turned out the way it did and being personally disappointed with how the U.S. election turned out I was hoping the rest of the world would at least get rid of all the poodle's backing the wacky people who've seized power in the U.S. Just wishin' not like I actually seek to influence the outcome.
You want to see "Arrogant American" lecturing people on elections, someone who actually has the power to influence them, check the Donald Rumsfeld speech today when he bashed Spain for throwing out the right wing, pro Bush, government.
Or check how the U.S. pumped $50 million dollars in to the Ukraine with the express intent of influencing the outcome of their election. If some country overtly pumped that much money in to the U.S. to influence an election the targeted party would go ballistic. U.S. does it, its just business as usual, especially for the National Endowment for "Democracy".
In fact the U.S. government, especially the right wing U.S. governments like we have now have actually influenced or outright rigged countless elections over the last half century. Me wishing there had been a different outcome in Australia kind of pales by comparison.
Hey I think America was totally crazy for their choice of leaders too. I was just wondering if some Aussie could explain what the issues were that lead to Howard winning. I'll go first and set an example, in the U.S. the Republican's won due to ruthless exploitation of a wedge issue, gay marriage, and terrorizing everyone over national security.
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I was just wondering if some Aussie could explain what the issues were that lead to Howard winning
Well. Back in 2001, before Sept.11, Howard was losing popularity fast. He looked doomed. Then he decided to pump an enormous amount of money into the housing sector by subsidising first home buyers (a policy which their opponents had once used). There was an instant boom as all the budget surplus was funnelled into this. Then came Sept-11 and the flight of capital from the US. It appears enough Asian or other interests thought the starting boom in Australia was worth investing in.The basic economic fundamentals were good, but he huge amount of spending wasn't. In the end now 4 years later Aussies are in debt up to their eyeballs... In such a climate when Howard said in the last election campaign that interest rates were higher under Labor than his own party then you can guess who they backed. Since then there has been an interest rate rise and coincidently the week afterfor the first time labor is leading the Libs in the opinion polls.
My opinion. People aren't too bright. A basic rule I've learnt is : when an election is called decide then and there who you back because from that moment on all you will hear will be lies and distortion. People forgot the reasons they were about to throw Howard out, and thought him their best PM ever, don't be surprised if their opinions change again. The party is over, time for the hangover -- my opinion of course.
Bitter and proud of it.