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  1. Re:reflects well on Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks · · Score: 2

    What is Romney's policy on FOSS migration?

  2. Re:idiotic politically correct fears indeed on Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The other aspect is his European origin. Politicians like Romney would not be capable of giving satisfaction over here. They are simply too far off. The reason for this is that Republicans are not conservatives in the European sense. Mormonism is quite crazy as a religious belief though their believers seem to be very nice personalities.

  3. Re:This is the European July 4th... on ACTA Rejected By European Parliament · · Score: 1

    Hihi. The god particle.

  4. Re:Act of war.... on ACTA Rejected By European Parliament · · Score: 2

    Come on! The US is not the power it used to be. And in the old times it would not impose its interests in such a blunt way. In fact, ACTA's European demise is also a blow for it as a worldwide treaty.

  5. Re:Thanks to the FFII, EDRI, la Quadrature on ACTA Rejected By European Parliament · · Score: 2

    I don't think so. The ACTA process is terminated now. IPRED+ will be delayed because of the outcome of the vote, and it is EU legislative, not an international monster. It is much easier for civil society to deal with IPRED+ than ACTA because here Parliament sits in the driving seat.

  6. Re:The commission is blatantly against democracy on ACTA Rejected By European Parliament · · Score: 1

    They say so, but the reality is that there is no chance whatsoever for it to return. The reason is simple, the process has terminated. They would have to seek a new mandate for a new treaty and this time member states would be more cautious and the Lisbon treaty of the European Union requires more transparency in regulatory dialogue.

  7. Re:This is the European July 4th... on ACTA Rejected By European Parliament · · Score: 2

    You see, this time US "imperialism" exports independence day. Higgs and ACTA rejection. A great day to celebrate!

  8. Re:Thanks to the FFII, EDRI, la Quadrature on ACTA Rejected By European Parliament · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And the mass popular movement, they cannot stand how the EU Commission treats citizens and members of parliament anymore. Europe is once again reborn as a democracy, of the people, for the people.

  9. Waste on Microsoft Buys 800 AOL Patents For $1 Billion · · Score: 1

    800 trivial patents for 1 billion! Patent reform is cheaper.

  10. Re:Truth, fiction, stranger than on America's Secret Underground Ice Fortresses · · Score: 1

    Actually it is a reference to the movie In the Loop where the name of the informant for the intelligence gets changed from Iceman to Debussy. "You think that's his real name? Iceman? To Mr. and Mrs. Man, a son... Ice?"

  11. Re:Human Rights on Yet Another European Government Drops ACTA · · Score: 1

    Why do other governments support ACTA?

  12. Re:Preliminary on ITC Judge: Motorola Mobility Infringed Microsoft Patent · · Score: 1

    I think they have more than one real legal department.

  13. Re:Nokia Lumia on Windows Phone Homebrew Hits a Snag · · Score: 0

    Ironically the Linux based Smartphones are less free than the Win Mobile7 environment. Anyway, the times of Microsoft world domination are over and they embrace open standards now. Competition is great and drives innovation.

  14. Preliminary on ITC Judge: Motorola Mobility Infringed Microsoft Patent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is quite easy to get preliminary injunctions. But that doesn't mean a thing. Microsoft is trying to bully competitors into licensing of their trivial patents. A dying software empire.

  15. Re:The protests are.... odd. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    I think attacking Wall St is a great idea. We also don't know what else would happen. A non-organised chaotic movement works best. Probably people do not need to gather on the streets. It's better when they work in an office and set up a website.

  16. Re:The protesters need to refocus their anger. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    True, this doesn't sound like a fringe view to me. But he is a fringe politician in the United States. Outside the United States it is difficult to explain what brain wash makes American citizens reject social democracy.

  17. Re:That's my big issue with them on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    From an outside perspective, I think the message from Nader is just great. That inspired me a lot but it would be considered mainstream common sense in Europe while its a fringe view in the United States. I think it was a good idea to finally confront Wall St. The United States citizens are brainwashed to believe that a free market means excessive control of mega-corporations over the political process while at the same time corporations have to be shielded against regulatory interference. Quite the opposite, from an Austrian Economics perspective the role of a government it to set the rules under which competition in the market takes place. Law and order. The US views correspond to a leninist caricature of global capitalism which he called "imperialism". Americans have to rebuild their political system and have to get a modern contitution without cruft. What is special about the Us protests is the lack of education and direction of protesters, a lack of methodologies in political advocacy and a lack of access to media. The Spanish camps were better organised and more result oriented. Given the size of New York, it should normally not be a problem to get 300 000 protesters, you even get that in smaller nations. I found the Leipzig Monday protests in Oct 1989 very inspiring which finally lead to the collapse of the Berlin wall, Nov 9. So how about Wall St? In the Leipzig demonstrations churches were instrumental to make the state socialist regime collapse. For Americans reform is quite easy, they just have to follow the Swedish governance model.

  18. Re:English speakers use English language sources on Wikipedia May Censor Images · · Score: 1

    In any case when you write an article you have to stick to standards and you cannot focus on the reception history of a work of art. Whether a classic Roman proverb was quoted in a contemporary Disney movie is of limited significance. The German wikipedia gets it right, it's articles are often less culturally biased and its an actual policy of the German wikipedia that it should not only reflect a German perspective.

  19. Re:may? on Wikipedia May Censor Images · · Score: 1

    The Wikipedia foundation is totally corrupted as the Open XML article has demonstrated. Furthermore the Wikipedia is completely biased towards the United States. When you have an article on a 19 century parlor song from France the wikipedia article will concentrate on the American entertainer which covered it in the 40ths. Now the Thai King gets control over our speech, censors pictures for us, and it's so easy for the rogues because you could actually corrupt Wikipedia admins and they would put your enemies on the list.

  20. Re:David Lynch on Ridley Scott To Direct New Blade Runner Movie · · Score: 1

    Last time Lynch was around promoting a sect that would save mankind by mass meditation and they bought the Teufelsberg (devil's mountain) for that purpose, alas they didn't pay.

  21. Re:Speaking as a European on European Commission Paints Itself Into ACTA Corner · · Score: 1

    This is not THE EU, that is European Commission TRADE negotiators trying to lie, bent the rules and circumvent the European Parliament. Trade people are special personal and totally ruthless. Oh, and by the way, here is the phone number of Pedro Velasco-Martins and here are the other guys. Pedro Velasco-Martins here explains why they do ACTA.

  22. Re:Mission Accomplished on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    I guess they just want to end the Afghanistan deployment. There seemed to be no sufficient evidence that Bin Laden ordered the attacks which could be used in a trial.

  23. Re:Well two things on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    It is always quite a bit hypocrite. When US troops shoot in Pakistan they commit a terrorist crime unless there is an authorisation of the government and according to the rules of war it is a naturtal civic duty of a Pakistani to resist an invading foreign force of his nation. What would you say when Pakistani soldiers killed a citizen from India in Arkansas? It is plainly stupid to kill Bin Laden because it is an obvious cover-up of the fact that they have no proof whatsoever to convict him of a crime. That may be the reason why they left him there hiding for so long, and applied the nonsensical theatre of "war" on terror to track down a suspected criminal.

  24. Re:Please: NO POLITICAL POSTURING. on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    There is little evidence that he actually carried out the 9/11 attacks. A dead Bin Laden is less dangerous for the United States because it would be very difficult to convict him in a Court.

  25. Re:where's the long form? on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    I mean, in reality, we don't know if Bin Laden ordered these attacks or just inspired the attackers. And the organisation Al-Quaida is not existing as a entity but was a way to frame parts of the Mushaheddin veteran movement. "Taliban" means student (of Koran) etc.

    The date of the attack, 9/11 is telling, it is a clear reference to the Battle of (/near) Zenta where the Ottomans got their Waterloo. That clear historical reference points to a different than an Arab historical background. Most persons from the West are unaware about that battle but in Turkey that is different. Among the trophies was the seal of the Sultan and the holy war banner of the prophet.

    By killing the arch enemy Bin Laden, they simply avoid a court case, where it would be difficult to prove Bin Laden's guilt. He was helt responsible as a token for each and every terror attack around the middle east.