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EU to Develop Search Engine
William Robinson writes "Digital Media is reporting that French President Jacques Chirac is making plans for a European search engine called "Quaero" to rival US internet companies such as Yahoo and Google. From the article: 'Those involved in the Quaero project, including Thomson, France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom, have said that it will be much more than a typical search engine. It will provide an array of multimedia tools for identifying and indexing images, sound and text. Quaero will also reportedly include a powerful translating tool which will be able to 'understand' audio as well as text. The developers plan to make Quaero available on all platforms, including PCs, mobile devices and digital TVs.'"
of tinfoil hatters and "liberals" coming up bitching about why governments shouldnt run search engines for privacy and "who's paying for it" reasons.
ugh. bye bye karma i'll miss you
perpetually dwelling in the -1 pits
Wow, being so proud as you are I bet you refuse to drive by a car (or train). With your mentality, how it is possible that US is still making cars? Be terrile and write your congresman how US needs to invent their own way of transportation, this one was invented by dirty Europeans. Oh, yes. Be proud and use your OWN national language (without imitating English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Italian) when you're writing that letter.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/auto.html
Read what US inventor did. Patented and never implemented, basicaly he just took two ideas (steam car and gasoline engine), put them together and result is NOTHING.
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But its time to exercise my rights to free speech...
glorifying the USSR and communism, a society that killed over 60 million people
And did you know, you can get merchandise glorifying the USA, a society that killed millions of native americans and vietnamese, to name but a few? I'm shocked, I tell you. And the English, who murdered and displaced millions in a knock-kneed effort at an empire? Did you know you can still get union jacks in some parts of the world? Disgraceful.
Hypocrites de luxe.
So tell me, if I float a zepplin over New York City saying "thank god the twin towers got blown up, all praise allah", that would be cool with you? How about taking out an advert in the LA times explaining why "niggers" should be treated less equally due to their obvious poor social performance? Thats all good? I know, wait, I'll threaten the president. Freedom uber alles, baby!
You either have free speech, or you do not.
The world has more colours in it than black and white, son. That might not jive with a nice totalitarian starship troopers worldview, but that doesn't make it less true.
One man's "hate speech" is another man's "I'm defending myself in an argument and making a point"
If by context one is arguing a point, and not trying to rewrite history, there is no problem with saying what you like.
YOU run afoul of some bogus "hate" law.
Yes, they are churning out those anti-hate speech laws at a fierce rate. Why only last week they set up a new one to deny people the right to dislike traffic wardens! Oh no wait, they didn't. In fact, they haven't set up any new ones at all. Can you say a government that knows when to stop? Must seem like a fantastical concept to you murkins I know...
Listen here, you turkey, heres how it is. We don't like to give the time of day to nazi apologists, nor waste any more time arguing with them. Maybe you have the excess wind to blow (in fact I'd bet on it), but I surely don't. So what I'll do instead is I'll lock the shites up and have done with them, and make sure they don't twist any more young minds to their sick creed, and you can fuck off back to texas where you pig misses you. Hows that?
What he can't kill, he has sex on. Trent.