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DOJ To Oversee Windows 7 Development
MrKaos writes "Windows 7 is already being reviewed by U.S. government technical appointees. Under the terms of Microsoft's November 2001 Justice Department settlement, and final court judgment issued about a year later, a government-sanctioned 'Technical Committee' has been formed to oversee Windows development. The TC is responsible for ensuring that Microsoft complies with the terms of the final judgment, investigating complaints about Microsoft abuses and regularly reporting on the company's compliance."
Don't worry.... Windows has never added in any GNU code... That is why it is so slow and crashes all the time.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
One they don't want to bring us back to the ideals of the founding fathers that is myth one.
The founding fathers supported slavery and didn't support women's rights. Both of which I consider bad ideas. Do you really think that they would support any form of equal rights? Unless you think you know how they would think if they where born in our times. BTW if you think you know that they are are just flipping nuts.
Libertarians are scary because they have a totally unrealistic view on the world and at the same time are totally sure that they have the one true vision just like every other flavor of extremist. As somebody on slashdot once said,"one look at any online community will show you why Libertarianism will never work". The real answer is that their probably isn't just one answer. Some government protections and regulation is a good thing. Too much can be bad. Some social safety nets are great. To many and people can become dependent.
Even free speech is only good in moderation. Free speech doesn't mean you can yell fire in a theater and it shouldn't mean that you have the right to shutdown a speaker just because you don't like what they want to say.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
Your right that the Republican party leadership has been hijacked, but does not make the rest of the 'non-Republicans'. We intend to take the party back. It will take a few years.
Also, many of use knew President Bush was not a true Conservative, but given the choice of Bush or Gore, we chose Bush. Now many people are claiming that John McCain is a Conservative. The "Conservative Bar" is being lowered by the Republican leadership. Thus by today's standards, President Kennedy was a Conservative. But hey, all the political party's change over the years. There was a time when the Democrat party was not full of Socialists.
Actually I would like to see a binding "None of the Above" ballot option. That way if None of the Above gets the most votes then we get to choose a whole new field of candidates. Yeah I know, it will never happen and we would have to change the Constitution to do it, but it would be interesting.
Cheers, and as I always say "Vote Conservative"
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