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Vietnam Courts Microsoft and Vice Versa
wbren writes "Bill Gates and Vietnam's Prime Minister Phan Van Khai have signed two 'memoranda of understanding' regarding Microsoft's presence in Vietnam, according to this AP story. They met Monday at Microsoft's Redmond headquarters for a closed door meeting and a tour of Microsoft's "home of the future". The agreement reached is expected to strengthen Vietnam's IT industry, as well as provide software training for 50,000 of the country's teachers. Khai's visit also triggered protests in Seattle, reminding everyone of Vietnam's human rights record."
Honestly, Who Cares ?
Oh and First Post
M4d propz to ma home boy Y 2 Khai. FP?
Shouldn't someone point out that "Vietnam is not a place, it's just the name of a war"?
I find it interesting that the "Human Rights Watch" webpage has no page for the United States!?!?!? Oh, I forgot that 'human rights violations' are defined as acts perpetrated by the governments (democratically elected or otherwise) of countries that DON'T do whatever the US tells them.
Offtopic! Ha Ha Ha
metatmoderation -1 : moderator is overly sensitive about Abu Grabe
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make a first post directly referencing gay porn yet still modded up to +3 or higher.
Slow down, Cowboy!
Slow down, Cowboy!
Slow down, Cowboy!
If you say otherwise you're just a commie too. Good freedom loving software is made in Redmond.
When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem
No , its Acceptable and perfectly grammatically correct.
Just because it is not the common phrase,it does not mean it is unacceptable or wrong.
The words can logically be placed together .
"Could've" is fine, and correct, and actually means something.
"I could of died", is the conditional of "I of died", which is meaningless.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Forget the fact that we should have actually committed ourselves to destroying that government 30 years ago.
You can thank Lyndon Johnson for that half-assed effort, BTW. The last Democrat with any guts who made it to the White House was Harry Truman.
Kennedy looked like he had some guts during the Cuban Missile crisis, but that's only because at the time, the public didn't hear about the concessions he made to Kruschev to get the missiles out of Cuba.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
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it was suppose to be some political humor you know like the way George W can't say nukleare -
People wouldn't complain. Slashdotters would complain.
You call that a troll? I have a whole beltway full of trolls better than that!
I tried injecting goodness into my wife via the backdoor once, and if Vietnam is anything like my wife, Microsoft is gonna have blue balls for a while. Wait, what was the topic again?
You're either with us, or you are with the terrorists.
Your sig(k) has been stolen. There is a puff of smoke!
You don't know, man! You weren't THERE!
Yeah, but on the bright side, she was always going down on you.
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Let's see: the US set up a literal puppet governement in 'Nam in '56; refused to allow free and fair UN-sponsored elections, ran a war that killed 1-2 MILLION Vietnames.
Then, the Vietnamese, *not* the US, went into Cambodia to break the self-proclaimed Communist Pol Pot murdeeers, and the US (under Reagan) supported Pol Pot.
Now the US invaded and conquered Iraq on the baiss of 100% lies, and killed somewhere between 60,000 and 100,000 people, and another 1700+ US troops, and destroyed a country.
Meanwhile, at home, 40 years later, we're trying someone for racist murder; blacks and hispanics are under permanent persecution, and down here in the South, I don't *dare* openly reveal my non-Christian beliefs.
Vietnam's got a bad human rights record?
Oh, sorry, I see they're trying to follow our lead, and, as a start, will put M$ on their computers....
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