Microsoft Joins OpenDocument Alliance

Jim writes "Microsoft has joined a committee that has a key role in the ratification of OpenDocument as an international standard, leading to accusations that it intends to sabotage the process. Microsoft has denied this accusation, claiming that the only reason why Microsoft employee Jim Thatcher has joined the group was to get involved in the ISO standardisation of its own file format." From the article: "'There sits Microsoft, waiting, like a spider,' wrote Jones, in a posting on her site. 'I am imagining ODF plodding along, with Microsoft asking questions, fine-combing through the comments, did you mean this or that?, getting bogged down in minutia until, lo and behold, either Microsoft's XML makes it as an ISO standard first, or they arrive neck and neck.'" More information here on a subject we touched on in a recent Slashback. update a few readers have asked for the clarification that MSFT has not joined ODF, but rather the "INCITS/V1 Technical Committee"

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Re:Jesus Christ

[Neoprofin]

Jesus Christ was a jew, he did nothing of the sort.

The Aryans and other historical trivia

[jd]

The Aryans were a particularly violent cult that originated somewhere around Iran (whose name derives from it). They are associated with the massacre of the peaceful citizens of the Indus Valley, placing them under a violent and cruel slavery. There, the trail stops being so clear. The religions of the Aryans never made it into mainstream Europe and DNA analysis shows a surprisingly high percent of very early DNA traces, indicating that a warlike, psychotic race like the Aryans could not have conquered any sizable part of Europe.

DNA analysis strongly indicates a widespread influence from the Nordic cultures, which are often associated with the Aryans. However, the Norse of old would have laughed at such a delusion. The Norsemen are a far more ancient lineage, which spread up through Europe in the stone age - long before the Aryans existed. Indeed, there are few in Europe whose lineage is not provably far older and far more noble.

Is this flamebait? Probably. I have little time for supremacist groups. There's nothing supreme about them, apart from their egos, and their claims are easily disprovable trash. I'd rather go to a Microsoft conference - and that's saying something. Even Discordians are more worthy of respect.