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Startup Webaroo to put the 'Web on a Hard Drive'?
An anonymous reader writes "A new startup called Webaroo is launching Monday with an audacious proposition: You can search the Web without a net connection of any kind. Initial release consists of 'Web packs' on specific topics such as news, city guides or Wikipedia. Later this year they're promising a full-Web version that you can carry on a laptop -- provided you're willing to devote something in the neighborhood of 80 gig."
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Just select "Pres." and use George W. Bush for the name. Now you have the same source as the NY Times!
The last time I told Gov. Bush's brethren that I want to snap Gov. Bush's backers out of their trance, they declared in response, "But you and I are morally inferior to diabolic paper-pushers." Of course, they didn't use exactly those words, but that's exactly what they meant. We must reinvigorate our collective commitment to building and maintaining a sensitive, tolerant, and humane community. Our children depend on that.
"Gov. Bush" has now become part of my vocabulary. Whenever I see someone toy with our opinions, I tell him or her to stop "Gov. Bush-ing". The facts as I see them simply do not support the false, but widely accepted, notion that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding. While I maintain that Gov. Bush has every right to his possession-obsessed opinions, I am intellectually honest enough to admit my own previous ignorance in that matter. I only wish that he had the same intellectual honesty.
Unlike Gov. Bush, when I make a mistake I'm willing to admit it. Consequently, if -- and I'm bending over backwards to maintain the illusion of "innocent until proven guilty" -- he were not actually responsible for trying to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, then I'd stop saying that Gov. Bush ignores the most basic ground rule of debate. In case you're not familiar with it, that rule is: attack the idea, not the person. He claims that conniving carousers should be fêted at wine-and-cheese fund-raisers. I feel that the absurdities within that claim speak for themselves, although I should add that every time Gov. Bush utters or writes a statement that supports scapegoatism -- even indirectly -- it sends a message that divine ichor flows through Gov. Bush's veins. I think we mustn't let him make such statements, partly because his circulars leave much to be desired, but primarily because he hates it when you say that his sophistries don't amount to anything. He really hates it when you say that. Try saying it to him sometime, if you have a thick skin and don't mind having him shriek insults at you. I have a problem with Gov. Bush's use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, he doesn't need to prove his claim that the ancient Egyptians used psychic powers to build the pyramids; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, this makes me fearful that I might someday find myself in the crosshairs of his gormless ideologies. (To be honest, though, it wouldn't be the first time.)
Gov. Bush insists that we're supposed to shut up and smile when he says iconoclastic things. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject. It's undoubtedly a tragedy that his goal in life is apparently to spread hatred, animosity, and divisiveness. Here, I use the word "tragedy" as the philosopher Whitehead used it. Whitehead stated that "the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things," which I interpret as saying that I'll tell you what we need to do about all the craziness Gov. Bush is mongering. We need to place a high value on honor and self-respect. I clearly dislike him. Likes or dislikes, however, are irrelevant to observed facts, such as that all the deals Gov. Bush makes are strictly one-way. Gov. Bush gets all the rights, and the other party gets all the obligations. He wants to empty garbage pails full of the vilest slanders and defamations on the clean garments of honorable people. Is this so he can poke someone's eyes out, or is it to make a fetish of the virtues of manipulative narcissism? You be the judge. In either case, he c
Bender647 produced from a sack strapped onto his back a large book. "The book of teh intarweb", it read in gold lettering on its black leather binding. "Now, my children," intoned the wise old man, stroking his long grey beard, "I shall read you the story of when I got fsir7 ps0t."
This comment seems interesting to me. At least, it does not deserve a 0. I wonder if this startup has addressed the demand for pr0n?
---- "XML is like violence. If it doesn't fix the problem, you aren't using enough."
The Democrat party has left no room for moderates...
My wife was a life long democrat, but turned independent after some anti-christian shenanigans with the State partly locally. She realized those running the party were so arogant that they have no room for her values.
So while am worried, I support the war in Iraq because I think democracy over tyranny is a good thing and I am educated enough to know that more children were dying under Saddam each year (by UN numbers) than all the casualties caused by the war. (UN report showed 5,000 chidlren a month dying because of diverted oil for food funds)
I also support gay civil marriage and a national license being required to carry or buy a gun.
However, when I talk to friends who disagree with my stands who are Republican, they are polite. The Democrats get angry and rude.
The shrill angry left has ruined the Democrat party. The reason Bush is president is because the left refused to look at choices like Lieberman or Gephardt who I would have voted for and gave us loones like Dean and pure politicians like Kerry. Bush may make mistakes and I disagree with him about half the time, but he is consistent and sees some value in America rather than hating it.
When Democrats welcome moderates again, I will consider them again.