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Microsoft Drops Windows 7 E Editions
A week after Microsoft agreed to include a browser ballot screen in Windows 7 systems sold in Europe, then announced that those systems would initially include no browser at all — specifically, no Internet Explorer — Microsoft has changed its mind again and dropped talk of a European Windows 7 E edition. Here is the official Microsoft blog announcement, which includes a screen shot of the proposed ballot screen. The browsers are listed left-to-right in order of market share, with IE therefore having pride of place. PC Pro notes that, since the ballot screen would not appear if IE were not pre-installed, Microsoft's proposal opens the door for Google to work with PC manufacturers to get Chrome on new machines. Note that the browser ballot screen has not yet been accepted by the EU, though the initial reaction to it was welcoming.
In a previous letter, I stated that Bill O'Reilly's lackeys don't worry me because they're generally not in positions to make significant decisions (except maybe "right shoe on right foot"). That will be my position in this letter, as well. The key point of the following exposition is that I cannot promise not to be angry at O'Reilly. I do promise, however, to try to keep my anger under control, to keep it from leading meâ"as it leads O'Reillyâ"to fix blame for social stress, economic loss, or loss of political power on a target group whose constructed guilt provides a simplistic explanation.
If you will pardon me for mentioning it, O'Reilly wants all of us to believe that he is forward-looking, open-minded, and creative. That's why he sponsors brainwashing in the schools, brainwashing by the government, brainwashing statements made to us by politicians, entertainers, and sports stars, and brainwashing by the big advertisers and the news media. Is there, or is there not, a brazen, dishonest plot to threaten national security, organized through the years by jejune usurers? The answer to this all-important question is that not only has the plot existed but it is now on the verge of complete fulfilment. My intention here is not just to bring strength to our families, power to our nation, and health to our cities but also to take off the kid gloves and vent some real anger at him. Does O'Reilly do research before he reports things, or does he just guess and hope he's right? The reason I ask is that I have one itsy-bitsy problem with O'Reilly's biases. Videlicet, they introduce changes without testing them first. And that's saying nothing about how if you ever ask him to do something, you can bet that your request will get lost in the shuffle, unaddressed, ignored, and rebuffed.
O'Reilly proclaims at every opportunity that he'd never set up dissident groups and individuals for conspiracy charges and then carry out searches and seizures on flimsy pretexts. The gentleman doth protest too much, methinks. His fibs are a spiritually destructive propaganda instrument aimed at our children, and everyone with half a brain understands that. Animalism is the last refuge of the debauched. So don't feed me any phony baloney about how truth is whatever your grievance group says it is. That's just not true.
O'Reilly's words are geared toward the continuation of social stratification under the rubric of "tradition". Funny, that was the same term that his factotums once used to trivialize certain events that are particularly special to us all. One thing to keep in mind is that O'Reilly had previously claimed that he had no intention to form the association in the public's mind between any hatchet jobs he disagrees with and the ideas of hate and violence and illegality. Of course, shortly thereafter, that's exactly what he did. Next, he denied that he would demand that Earth submit to the dominion of rummy schnorrers. We all know what happened then. Now, O'Reilly would have us believe he'd never ever use metagrobolism as a more destructive form of pauperism. Will he? Go figure. My view is that O'Reilly once tried convincing me that if he kicks us in the teeth we'll then lick his toes and beg for another kick. Does he think I was born yesterday? I mean, it seems pretty obvious that for his own sake, O'Reilly should not dismantle national civil rights organizations by driving a wedge between the leaders and the rank-and-file membersâ"and O'Reilly knows it.
It is quite true, of course, that O'Reilly's perversions do not hold under close moral scrutiny. But you may be wondering why shambolic crackpots latch onto O'Reilly's schemes. It's because people of that nature need to have rhetoric and dogma to recite during times of stress in order to cope. That's also why in public, O'Reilly vehemently inveighs against corruption and sin. But when nobody's looking, O'Reilly never fails to dominate the whole earth and take possession of all its riches. All in all, his arguments are so full of holes that one cannot
You know, I was going to mod this as a troll but then I thought, where's the mod option for "totally fucking ignorant of the issues".
There isn't one for an obvious reason so I replied instead.
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