OOXML Will Pass Amid Massive Irregularities

Tokimasa notes a CNet blog predicting that OOXML will make the cut. Updegrove agrees, as does the OpenMalasia blog. Reports of irregularities continue to surface, such as this one from Norway — "The meeting: 27 people in the room, 4 of which were administrative staff from Standard Norge. The outcome: Of the 24 members attending, 19 disapproved, 5 approved. The result: The administrative staff decided that Norway wants to approve OOXML as an ISO standard." Groklaw adds reportage of odd processes in Germany and Croatia.

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abusive monopoly watch

[RichMan]

Supposedly Microsoft is still under watch by the Fed for being an abusive monopoly.
Also Microsoft is under close scrutiny by the EU trade commission.

And we have all the wonder full reporters calling in.

I wonder what Microsoft would be pulling if there were not so many watching.
I wonder what Microsoft is pulling where they are not being watched.

Re:Well that is because laws are inherently meant

[DaedalusHKX]

"when passing a lecture to your professor, or passing a report to your boss,"

I used to pass them on paper. Do they demand electronics now? Pity. When I went through college, some half a decade ago, we used to know how to write by hand (amazing skill, I know). Good skill to have.

As for your second part of that statement. I am my own boss. I own two of my own businesses, and I'm pretty much retired at this point. I just check in now and again.

I fired my professors and quit college after 3 years. Had I done it sooner I might have saved some cash and gotten on with learning how life works sooner. As far as I can tell, most curricula teach one WHAT to think, not HOW to think. Sooner one gets out of school, the sooner one gets to live life. Not that I disapprove of autodidacts, or even those who manage to actually squeeze through school and get enough reading and experience on the side, or from the rare "good" teacher, but I haven't met that many.

If you want to experience real life, go boar hunting with a spear. Go bow hunting for grizzly or bow fishing, go king crab fishing in Alaska, or go camp out in the back woods a hundred miles from the nearest bit of "civilization" for a month with only your survival gear and a friend for company, and come back to society after surviving out there. Things such as politics or all this little worthless bullshit we all fight about around here, will seem FAR less important to you than they do now. Real life is what people DON'T live, not this shit they do 9 to 5 while pretending they're more than just meat automatons. Your "job" and "school" are not what real life is. Those are merely things people do while hiding from real life. Eventually, they face it, probably in old age, without having learned how to face it when they were capable of learning such a tough lesson. And then they suffer crises, heart attacks, etc.

And no, the herbs in my mother's garden aren't what you are probably thinking. They were mostly ginseng, aloe, etc... but the "secret" here, is that I started living life, rather than having it lived for me... and I've found that things fell together easier. Granted, the difference was that I've never been one to refuse asking for help. Do yourself a favor and either kick in your TV or fire your cable company... you'll suddenly have enough time in the day to even tend a garden and raise a pet. Hell, I'm still understanding the lesson, and I like to think I've gotten started on it some years back.