Of course, maintaining the fiction that MS were responsible for the birth of popular computing is a good reason for Bill to invest in computer "history".
The population is becoming VERY disenchanted with the IRA.
Since the IRA ceasefire, Sinn Fein (who represent the political ideals of the IRA) have become the majority 'Catholic' party by a very clear margin. Support for Republican ideals is therefore arguably stronger than ever. The implication of your statement, that things changed (which they clearly have) simply because Catholics became disenchanted with the IRA is very misleading.
I'm sorry if this seems off-topic, but in fact it has an important bearing on your analogy.
Getting Boy Scouts (of whatever nation) to honor someone else's property etc etc
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
"In 1970, one year after he was hired by Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson, an FBI wiretap authorized for the Israeli Embassy picked up Perle discussing classified information with an embassy official, while Wolfowitz was investigated in 1978 for providing a classified document on the proposed sale of a U.S. weapons system to an Arab government to an Israeli official via an AIPAC staffer."
"What reason could you have for running a huge study on the intellectual limits of one sex or another, or one race or another, but to use that information to exclude that race or sex on the basis of their supposed lack of ability?"
I imagine such a study would be looking at differences rather than 'limits'. Why prejudice the research with politicised terminology?
One reason to perform such research might be to examine whether politically enforced 'balance' in enrollment stats is based on a realistic understanding of human nature.
Consideration of these issues does not automatically make one a closet fascist.
As a point of information, Iran was a democratic country up until the government decided to nationalise the oil industry. This was too much for the West to tolerate. The democratic leader Muhammad Mussadegh was overthrown by the CIA and replaced with a Western puppet dictator - the Shah.
These are essential facts for understanding why aggressive nationalism plays such an important role in Iranian affairs.
I mean, here we have a country filled with and ruled by fascists and Islamic fundamentalists, where women are looked down upon
You appear to be somewhat confused. Iraq under Saddam was certainly not an 'Islamic fundamentalist' state, and women were well treated.
The US may be claiming that democracy is its goal, but few in the outside world believe that claim.
People see the occupiers as the 'bad guys' largely because they committed the supreme crime against international law - an unprovoked war of aggression.
Are the Iraqi resistance worse that the occupiers of Fallujah?
it's hard to believe that a conspiracy of three vendors, all of whom sold optical scan machines to different precincts, worked together to create this fraud.
+ 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
+ The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
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At least Britain and Australia only had small majorities against the war
I can't speak for Australia, but up until war was declared, the majority of British people opposed the war.
There's also the small matter of the largest popular demonstration against government policy ever recorded.
The *planet* is doing just *fine*. The planet's survival is not at issue.
Absolutely correct. The planet will be fine.
Human beings, however, may not fare quite so well.
Of course, maintaining the fiction that MS were responsible for the birth of popular computing is a good reason for Bill to invest in computer "history".
Nice attempt at a straw man argument.
The battlecry (as you term it) is actually "customers should have choice".
In a corporate environment the customer is the organisation.
The population is becoming VERY disenchanted with the IRA.
Since the IRA ceasefire, Sinn Fein (who represent the political ideals of the IRA) have become the majority 'Catholic' party by a very clear margin. Support for Republican ideals is therefore arguably stronger than ever. The implication of your statement, that things changed (which they clearly have) simply because Catholics became disenchanted with the IRA is very misleading.
I'm sorry if this seems off-topic, but in fact it has an important bearing on your analogy.
Getting Boy Scouts (of whatever nation) to honor someone else's property etc etc
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"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents
"In 1970, one year after he was hired by Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson, an FBI wiretap authorized for the Israeli Embassy picked up Perle discussing classified information with an embassy official, while Wolfowitz was investigated in 1978 for providing a classified document on the proposed sale of a U.S. weapons system to an Arab government to an Israeli official via an AIPAC staffer."
http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=3478
If the customer is not free to redistribute it is not open source.
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
If the customer is not free to redistribute it is not opensource.
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
What are you talking about???
Suse "license fees"???
What are you on about???
Can someone who is informed about these matters please indicate how concerned citizens can help in getting the directive turned back into a B-item?
Thanks in advance!
What kind of value is added to Exchange by restricting Outlook's interoperability?
MS has no reason to support an open groupware standard for Outlook, because then their "value add" goes away.>/i>
What kind of value is added by restricting interoperability?
"What reason could you have for running a huge study on the intellectual limits of one sex or another, or one race or another, but to use that information to exclude that race or sex on the basis of their supposed lack of ability?"
I imagine such a study would be looking at differences rather than 'limits'. Why prejudice the research with politicised terminology?
One reason to perform such research might be to examine whether politically enforced 'balance' in enrollment stats is based on a realistic understanding of human nature.
Consideration of these issues does not automatically make one a closet fascist.
As a point of information, Iran was a democratic country up until the government decided to nationalise the oil industry. This was too much for the West to tolerate. The democratic leader Muhammad Mussadegh was overthrown by the CIA and replaced with a Western puppet dictator - the Shah.
These are essential facts for understanding why aggressive nationalism plays such an important role in Iranian affairs.
Here's the contact info for Ireland:
r mrep.html
http://www.hillandknowlton.be/irish_presidency/pe
Relevant contact info for people in the UK:
http://www.ukrep.be/representatives.html
It might be helpful if slashdotters from other countries can dig up and post similar info.
I mean, here we have a country filled with and ruled by fascists and Islamic fundamentalists, where women are looked down upon
You appear to be somewhat confused. Iraq under Saddam was certainly not an 'Islamic fundamentalist' state, and women were well treated.
The US may be claiming that democracy is its goal, but few in the outside world believe that claim.
People see the occupiers as the 'bad guys' largely because they committed the supreme crime against international law - an unprovoked war of aggression.
Are the Iraqi resistance worse that the occupiers of Fallujah?
http://www.cnduk.org/pages/UNletter.htm
Sorry - I hadn't read that post.
I hope you don't think I'm harrassing you. I just think that the Florida figures merit further investigation.
Considering that we are prepared to expend human lives in the defence of democracy, attention to detail when vote-counting is surely reasonable.
You do realize that rural voters in the South are more likely to be conservative Democrats?
I hadn't, I'm afraid.
Do you have any evidence that Democratic voters in these counties frequently vote against their own party?
I presume that is what you are trying to imply.
it's hard to believe that a conspiracy of three vendors, all of whom sold optical scan machines to different precincts, worked together to create this fraud.
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+ 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
+ The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Land
How does being 'rural' explain a correlation between the optical-scanning machines and pro-Bush swing votes?
the idea of 3 separate, _competing_ companies collaborating together to defraud the Florida electorate is pretty much completely laughable.
Then perhaps you could explain the massive correlation between the optical-scanning machines and pro-Bush swing votes in Florida.
Doesn't this data deserve serious consideration?
Probably yet another of those notice us! notice us! type publicity stunt by N Korea.
Or perhaps a "notice us! notice us! type publicity stunt" by western security experts?
I note the article does not quote any North Korean sources