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Democracy Player Is Dead, Long Live Miro
MrSpin writes "Democracy Player has relaunched today as Miro. Developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation, Miro aims to make online video "as easy as watching TV", while at the same time ensuring that the new medium remains accessible to everyone, through its support for open standards. The open-source application combines a media player and library, content guide, video search engine, as well as podcast and BitTorrent clients. But why the name change? According to last100, who have published a full review and guide to Miro: "When Democracy Player launched back in February 2006, the feedback received was that the name evoked different, yet equally negative responses. For many Americans it conjured up an image of yet another left wing media project, and to the rest of the world it was, rather bizarrely, being associated with the policies of the Bush administration. In contrast, the new name is purposely abstract.""
I don't think people have a problem with "democracy", it's a problem with "Democracy". When it gets that capital letter it reminds people of the imposed 'democracy' that Bush is now (in)famous for forcing on other countries.
;) It's almost like "anyone can vote as long as they're not disqualified for being: insane, poor, a member of a union, or female" (Pratchett reference?)
"We have free and fair elections, as long as you vote for the people we like"
A republic would be 2 wolves and a sheep voting for who's going to decide what's for dinner.
Either way the sheep's hosed.
Burbage dies on pg. 12
Hedwig dies on pg. 56
Mad-Eye dies on pg. 78
Scrimgeour dies on pg. 159
Wormtail dies on pg. 471
Dobby dies on pg. 476
Snape dies on pg. 658
Fred Weasley dies on pg. 637
Harry gets fucked up by Voldemort on pg. 704 but comes back to life on pg. 724
Tonks, Lupin, and Colin Creevy have their deaths confirmed on pg. 743
19 years after the events in the book:
Ron has married Hermione, their two children are named Rose and Hugo
Harry has married Ginny, their three children are named Lily, James, and Albus Severus.
Draco Malfoy has a son named Scorpius
The epilogue shows all of the children boarding the train for Hogwarts together.
The final lines of the book are: "The scar had not pained Harry for 18 years. All was well."
Plot Spoilers
Part of Voldemort's soul was implanted into Harry whenever he used Ara Kadvara on him when he was a baby. Harry then sacrafices himself a la Lilly Potter style, which allows him to kill Voldemort without killing himself. He also has hacks (stone to bring him back to life, and an uber wand).
Snape went to the good side (Hogwarts, etc.) because he was all emo that Voldemort killed Lilly Potter.
Harry has three kids with Ginny. Ron and Hermoine fall in love.
Read much?
It is strange that there is a two sided street, in America, it was ignored as yet another left wing media thing. Maybe the term democracy was bastardized well before Bush came around.
I mean your comment only dealt with one of the reported reasons. Am I to assume that the other is acceptable to you? Or was this just an opportunity to talk bad about Bush?
Well, maybe if "democracy" immediately evokes "left wing", there are other conclusions that might follow that than "and therefore democracy is bad."
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The "democracy left wing" thing is internal to the USA. On the other hand, just about everyone with access to news media has been exposed to the USA blather about "spreading democracy" and is also aware that what it actually means is "install puppet governments with favourable disposition towards us, with corruption or violence if that fails". As far as Bush goes, he's just the most egregious example of that in recent times.
I have Comcast. I also run only Linux. The two actually do work. Instead of activating my cable modem online, I just called Comcast and asked for them to activate my modem's MAC. They did so, and I was in. You don't have to use their portal or web activation services. Just call them.