I remember well that Dole's Presidential campaign against Clinton seemed to sputter away into nothing; he lost the election; and then became the Viagra "poster child". (coincidence, you say...?)
Greenspan no sooner gets married to some babe 30 years his junior, but his solid economic policies went to crap...
There should be a law against politicians and beauracrats having unlimited access to Viagra (and the other "performance enhancers". They cannot make articulate decisions while under the influence (too much loss of blood flowing to the brain...)
Of course, that COULD BE the real explaination why the Bush administration (collectively) can't seem to plan a war (and aftermath) worth a diddly (,or the economy, for that matter.)
Some people in the administration act like they have a compulsive addiction to this stuff, as they are always walking around in front of the cameras like they have a perpetual "woody".
National Academy of Science and FDA should do a combined study of the negative effects of these drugs on rational thought processes of politicians and beauracrats.
I ordered my M$ "patch" cd as soon as it was announced. The cdrom (actually 2 cds) arrived 7 weeks later. The patch cdrom may have been created in February, but the last patches on the cd were from October, 2003 (way too little, and far too late). The other cdrom had a lightweight AV program from CA. I also go to take a M$ marketing survey, which (by it's tone) indicated that M$ is testing the waters for setting up a patch subscription service. After I told them off in their "additional comments" section, I am certain that I am not on BGatus' XMas card list...
NY DA Spitzer is doing a far better job at protecting citizen's rights from crooked corporations and corporate executives than the US DoJ, which appears to be unenthusiastic about corporate fraud or monopolistic actions. (No big surprise here, huh?)
A recent interview with Spitzer on the "Charlie Rose" program gave me a new level of respect for this crusader. He has no stated political ambitions (or agenda) beyond doing a great job as DA for the citizens of NY and the USA.
I would really like to see him run for President: he reminds me (historically) of Teddy Roosevelt, a populist AND conservative (in it's best definition)!
It has been said that the only way to control a society is by force, by persuasion, or some combination thereof. The rabid dictatorships of the last century primarily used force, with rigid control of the press, to rule. True democracies (life, liberty, fraternity) have relied upon the concensus of the governed to rule. Unity of the people in common cause has been (historically) obtained by a sense of nationalism, frequently spurred by the (sometimes purceived) existance of an external threat.
Government shrouded in secrecy; great effort to pry into the privacy of the individual; secret arrests without formal charges; star chamber judicial proceedings; attacks (real and psych-op) against the opposition (party) organizations; the media (and public opinion) in control of the few; an oligarchy of special interest multi-national corporations; a pattern of official obscuration , half-lies, and double-speak: these are not traits of a democracy, but are of a dictatorship.
Has the (historically recent) democratic experiment called the United States of America fallen so far from the wisdom and grace of our founding fathers to be subjected to such an outrage? Must the American citizen/voter be forced like Diogenes with his lantern, forever vainly seeking for an honest man?
Back in the good old days of the Cold War (before global terrorism with WMD), the US Dept. of Energy cajouled the private sector/ public utilities into building nuclear power plants by promising electrical energy to consumers that would be too cheap to meter.
Above ground nuclear testing (with live troops), and down range fallout were dismissed with the use of the term "sunshine units", as though excess radiation was no greater a danger than forgetting to put on sunscreen lotion before going outdoors.
Little mention was made of the radioactive isotopes that would increase the risk of skin, lung, and thyroid cancers. The same lackidasical attitude still exists in the DoD with the possible long term effects of the use of depleted uranium in tank and artillery shells. The Middle East (and Iraq especially) will not be a very healthy place to be for centuries. Of course, we already have a scapegoat picked out, in the form of Saddam Hussein (who was already an "environmental terrorist".)
Personally, I would not consider either Iraq or Chernobyl as a tourist "mecca".
If any publicly traded company can invoke DCMA to force the removal of search engine links, how long will it be before SCO or MS gets away with stripping out OSS or Linux links?
As SCO is involved in protracted and unjustified (IANAL) lawsuits against Linux vendors and their corporate users, what is stopping SCO from blocking all access to Linux or any "derivative" works?
Or from stopping M$ (or their buddies at DHS) from blocking access to any sites that offer applications and/or operating systems that help circumvent your computer being "owned" by some 3 letter government agency?
"So sorry, but Uncle Sam has decided
to issue a C&D letter to all search
engines that link to software that
violates PA-II, TIA, and MATRIX.
Sincerely,
John Poindexter,
John Ashcroft,
Tom Ridge"
Looks like it is nearly time for the revolution on November 02, 2004. Get out the vote!
In the old days, cheap (slave) labor was brought to where the jobs were. A few exceptions to this day in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia) and Sudan still exist. In this modern era of quick and easy capital flight across borders and oceans, it is cheaper to move the jobs to where the cheap (nearly slave) labor exists.
If uniform environmental standards and reasonable working conditions were a prerequisite for the migration of jobs, and enforced through the various government's restrictions on the flight of capital, this trend would not be prevalent (and accelerating). Unfortunately, many western democracies have forsaken their citizens in favor of the multinational special interest groups.
These same multinational corporations will come begging (hat in hand) to the government when geopolitical conditions change, and they cannot move their invested capital (or earnings) back out of the lower priced markets. The PRC (for example) has severe restrictions on the removal of capital from their markets -- once the money is invested there, it stays there. The investing multinational corporations are dependent upon (1) growth of the new market, and (2) tax benefits in their country of origin. If either requirement does not hold true, then they will have failed in their huge gamble.
Want to guess who will pick up the tab for their miscalculations?
I have found someone who (maybe) understands the Windoze-for-Internet situation: the machine that needs the most patching for vulnerabilities needs to be closest to the source.
( fsck you, M$, for your
hideous online updates). I am running OSX, Solaris, OpenBSD, Linux, IRIX, QNX, and Netware here (besides Windoze), so please don't judge me too harshly...
Actually, as the CPU clock speeds up, port- knocking may prove to be an ideal way to keep the black-hats out of your network. Imagine applications that don't maintain explicit open ports, but only open up a port with the right "shave-and-a-haircut" knock-knock. If generic port scans can't find any holes, how do the script-kiddies break in?
VIA's incorporation of random number generators into the CPU core is a boon for user privacy. Software-based psuedo-random number generators use entropy gathering to furnish a seed number. Poorly implimented software-based RNG have the problem of being more statistically predictable than desired. Problems with RNG negatively effect encryption, including SSH and even TCP/IP. Recent releases of the GNU/linux kernel can make use of the VIA RNG for better security.
Palladium can make use of hardware-based RNG, but the Secure Computing Platform actually uses firmware beyond today's BIOS to restrict software and hardware replacement or additions. Firmware-based DRM, by design, must retain the encryption keys as well as the code to generate them.
So long as VIA does not impliment a change in the current BIOS capabilities, the Palladium/ DRM nightmare can be avoided. However, the latest incarnation of the C3 processor does give VIA a head-start on DRM adaptation.
You have hit the nail on the head. The "Walmart" economy is not a self-sustaining economy, because of the shrinking middle class. This model only works for 60 - 70 percent of the inverted bell curve of declining purchasing power, after which it will collapse. Only so many people can work in the trades and professions that don't get out-sourced. The "cream" of these don't shop at Walmart, anyway. As more illegal aliens enter this country (which has increased by 40% since 9/11/01), even many of the professional trades jobs will be lost to those willing to work even more cheaply here. The three tiered social strata that was America will melt away into a two tiered strata that will more closely resemble Europe in the Middle Ages: the very small and powerful privledged class, and the peons. The disparity of income between the rich and the middle class in America has widened significantly since the 1970's. If you compare the CEO salary and perks in today's economy between the EU, Japan, and America, the American CEO's compensation is obscenely greater. Only when shareholders insist on out-sourcing the American corporate elite will the trend moderate. IP protection, job conservation, and the preservation of societal values must be enforced through legal governmental means, since the corporate fatcats refuse to consider these factors. NAFTA is flawed (as well as structural problems in the WTO), because the regional/national societal values are not part of the equation of trade equality. If working conditions, hours of labor, pay scale, ability to organize, health care, and environmental issues were factored into all trade negotiations, the "playing field" would be much more level.
Just because a thing can be done, doesn't mean that it should, right?
Oh great. A new method to allow Windoze viruses, trojans, and other malware into a "linux sandbox". Microsoft will claim "See, linux applications are vulnerable, too!"
Much better for Wine, Bochs, etcetera to run native Windoze applications well (and in a "Borg-Box" so they can't foul linux).
The decision SUN made to abandon their Sparc-V chip in favor of the Fujitsu part is good news. The death of a chip line, however, is not. Is SUN relinquishing their IP and technical edge by (effectively) out-sourcing their processor development to Fujitsu?
I, for one, am not unhappy to see SUN (or any other USA company) cast off some of their H1-B employees. But these engineers will not be replaced with Americans, but with an entire Japanese company. Long-term, this does not bode well for SUN (or for American ingenuity).
Hopefully, SUN will use the respite to build new processors (and servers) here in the USA. Unfortunately, the deal with Microsoft would tend to indicate that SUN will be a slowly diminishing box-mover. Focusing on competition at the bottom rung (against Dell and HP) is an act of self-depreciation, and a no-win situation.
It may be too early to proclaim "SUN is dead. Long live SUN!"
The Commonwealth of Virginia has been doing this for about 4 years now, for internet and "catalog" sales.
BTW: I had an experience with a NY state electronics (chips) distributor that was ludicrous: without the benefit of having a resellers license, they wanted to charge me VA state sales tax. That is (IMHO) illegal, since they do not have a "presence" in VA, and no cross-state agreement. The tax money collected would have (likely) just gone into their pocket.
I pay the sales tax, because it is the law, but use the VA income tax forms instead. Then I do know where that money is going.
unless it has open source drivers. Without good support for GNU/linux AND BSD, it's not much better than a doorstop. I am tired of pissing away good money on vendors' hardware, when they only furnish lame binary drivers that break with a new kernel, or a new improved X11. Best support for Microsoft? FSCK 'EM.
... is the spread of FUD, while stretching any/all lawsuits out in the courts for many years. MS, particularly, employs this scheme because they can count on either technical progress or "reality on the ground" to change enough to make the original lawsuit a moot point (at which time they settle for a small fraction of all the additional money made in the mean time, or else cross-license technology to whatever remains of their competition). All thanks to (1) deep pockets, (2) bevy of lawyers, and (3) slow gears of American jurisprudence. Really too bad that the Bush DoJ snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, and caved to MS over monopolistic practices -- the IT world would be a much more interesting place with a Microsoft broken into 3 or 4 pieces.
for the Alberta Clipper. If the the USA sealed the border against this terrorist organization, our home heating oil and natural gas prices wouldn't have spiked this winter.
a photo and single fingerprint is only the start. once business has begun adopting RFID tags, I would fully expect every citizen and every visitor to be required to have a sub-dermal RFID implant, as well as a DNA sample. Total Information Awareness (TIA) wasn't named that for nothing.
All we need to do is build a fleet of nuclear powered vacuum cleaners, launch them into low earth orbit, and get to that big "Mr. Clean" cleanup job...
Oh, wait, isn't space a vacuum? Okay, just forget the super-sized "Dysons"
It has become increasingly evident that there needs to be either (1) restrictions on the issuing of Viagra (et.al.) to politicians, or (2) a combined FDA/Nat. Academy of Science study on the impact of loss of blood flow on the mental facilities (and party agenda). (double entendre intended)
Ques) At what point during Senator Dole's presidential campaign against Bill Clinton in 1992 did he effectively lose interest? Ans) When he got his 1st Viagra prescription (ed. note: Dole later became the USA poster
child for "Viagra For Politicians")
Ques) At what point did Alan Greenspan (Fed. Reserve) lose his financial acumen? Ans) When he married a babe 40 years his junior, and needed that Viagra prescription.
A proper formal investigation may well determine that it is not in America's best interests for ANY politician to make new laws in any period less that 72 hours AFTER taking Viagra.
and it is rampant these days: from the CEOs & CFOs in our corporate boardrooms, to our presidents and our congress. no real surprise that MS would jump on THIS bandwagon bound for hades...
Slashdot Mirror
a great new design of medieval armor.
These guys are obviously big time D&D players.
Can't wait till this stuff goes commercial.
I remember well that Dole's Presidential ...?)
...
campaign against Clinton seemed to sputter
away into nothing; he lost the election;
and then became the Viagra "poster child".
(coincidence, you say
Greenspan no sooner gets married to some
babe 30 years his junior, but his solid
economic policies went to crap
There should be a law against politicians
and beauracrats having unlimited access
to Viagra (and the other "performance
enhancers". They cannot make articulate
decisions while under the influence (too
much loss of blood flowing to the brain...)
Of course, that COULD BE the real explaination
why the Bush administration (collectively)
can't seem to plan a war (and aftermath)
worth a diddly (,or the economy, for that
matter.)
Some people in the administration act like
they have a compulsive addiction to this
stuff, as they are always walking around
in front of the cameras like they have a
perpetual "woody".
National Academy of Science and FDA should
do a combined study of the negative effects
of these drugs on rational thought processes
of politicians and beauracrats.
I ordered my M$ "patch" cd as soon as it ...
was announced. The cdrom (actually 2 cds)
arrived 7 weeks later.
The patch cdrom may have been created in
February, but the last patches on the cd
were from October, 2003 (way too little,
and far too late). The other cdrom had
a lightweight AV program from CA.
I also go to take a M$ marketing survey,
which (by it's tone) indicated that M$
is testing the waters for setting up a
patch subscription service.
After I told them off in their "additional
comments" section, I am certain that I am
not on BGatus' XMas card list
NY DA Spitzer is doing a far better job at
protecting citizen's rights from crooked
corporations and corporate executives than
the US DoJ, which appears to be unenthusiastic
about corporate fraud or monopolistic actions.
(No big surprise here, huh?)
A recent interview with Spitzer on the
"Charlie Rose" program gave me a new level
of respect for this crusader. He has no
stated political ambitions (or agenda)
beyond doing a great job as DA for the
citizens of NY and the USA.
I would really like to see him run for
President: he reminds me (historically)
of Teddy Roosevelt, a populist AND
conservative (in it's best definition)!
It has been said that the only way
to control a society is by force, by
persuasion, or some combination thereof.
The rabid dictatorships of the last
century primarily used force, with rigid
control of the press, to rule. True
democracies (life, liberty, fraternity)
have relied upon the concensus of the
governed to rule. Unity of the people
in common cause has been (historically)
obtained by a sense of nationalism,
frequently spurred by the (sometimes
purceived) existance of an external
threat.
Government shrouded in secrecy; great
effort to pry into the privacy of the
individual; secret arrests without formal
charges; star chamber judicial proceedings;
attacks (real and psych-op) against the
opposition (party) organizations; the media
(and public opinion) in control of the few;
an oligarchy of special interest multi-national
corporations; a pattern of official obscuration
, half-lies, and double-speak: these are not
traits of a democracy, but are of a dictatorship.
Has the (historically recent) democratic
experiment called the United States of
America fallen so far from the wisdom and
grace of our founding fathers to be
subjected to such an outrage?
Must the American citizen/voter be forced
like Diogenes with his lantern, forever
vainly seeking for an honest man?
Back in the good old days of the Cold War
(before global terrorism with WMD), the US
Dept. of Energy cajouled the private sector/
public utilities into building nuclear power
plants by promising electrical energy to
consumers that would be too cheap to meter.
Above ground nuclear testing (with live troops),
and down range fallout were dismissed with the
use of the term "sunshine units", as though
excess radiation was no greater a danger than
forgetting to put on sunscreen lotion before
going outdoors.
Little mention was made of the radioactive
isotopes that would increase the risk of
skin, lung, and thyroid cancers. The same
lackidasical attitude still exists in the DoD
with the possible long term effects of the use
of depleted uranium in tank and artillery shells.
The Middle East (and Iraq especially) will not
be a very healthy place to be for centuries.
Of course, we already have a scapegoat picked
out, in the form of Saddam Hussein (who was
already an "environmental terrorist".)
Personally, I would not consider either Iraq or
Chernobyl as a tourist "mecca".
We really won't have achieved success
with automobile powerplants until I
can run my vehicle off of bananna peels
and coffee grounds.
If any publicly traded company can invoke DCMA
to force the removal of search engine links, how
long will it be before SCO or MS gets away with
stripping out OSS or Linux links?
As SCO is involved in protracted and unjustified
(IANAL) lawsuits against Linux vendors and their
corporate users, what is stopping SCO from
blocking all access to Linux or any "derivative"
works?
Or from stopping M$ (or their buddies at DHS)
from blocking access to any sites that offer
applications and/or operating systems that help
circumvent your computer being "owned" by some
3 letter government agency?
"So sorry, but Uncle Sam has decided
to issue a C&D letter to all search
engines that link to software that
violates PA-II, TIA, and MATRIX.
Sincerely,
John Poindexter,
John Ashcroft,
Tom Ridge"
Looks like it is nearly time for the revolution
on November 02, 2004. Get out the vote!
In the old days, cheap (slave) labor was brought
to where the jobs were. A few exceptions to this
day in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia) and Sudan
still exist. In this modern era of quick and
easy capital flight across borders and oceans,
it is cheaper to move the jobs to where the
cheap (nearly slave) labor exists.
If uniform environmental standards and reasonable
working conditions were a prerequisite for the
migration of jobs, and enforced through the
various government's restrictions on the flight
of capital, this trend would not be prevalent
(and accelerating). Unfortunately, many
western democracies have forsaken their citizens
in favor of the multinational special interest
groups.
These same multinational corporations will come
begging (hat in hand) to the government when
geopolitical conditions change, and they cannot
move their invested capital (or earnings) back
out of the lower priced markets. The PRC (for
example) has severe restrictions on the removal
of capital from their markets -- once the money
is invested there, it stays there. The investing
multinational corporations are dependent upon
(1) growth of the new market, and (2) tax
benefits in their country of origin. If either
requirement does not hold true, then they will
have failed in their huge gamble.
Want to guess who will pick up the tab for their
miscalculations?
then BiGatus will be suing Anderson
and Pella next? (How dare they!)
I have found someone who (maybe) understands ...
the Windoze-for-Internet situation: the
machine that needs the most patching for
vulnerabilities needs to be closest to the
source.
( fsck you, M$, for your
hideous online updates).
I am running OSX, Solaris, OpenBSD, Linux,
IRIX, QNX, and Netware here (besides Windoze),
so please don't judge me too harshly
Actually, as the CPU clock speeds up, port-
knocking may prove to be an ideal way to keep
the black-hats out of your network. Imagine
applications that don't maintain explicit
open ports, but only open up a port with the
right "shave-and-a-haircut" knock-knock. If
generic port scans can't find any holes, how
do the script-kiddies break in?
VIA's incorporation of random number generators
into the CPU core is a boon for user privacy.
Software-based psuedo-random number generators
use entropy gathering to furnish a seed number.
Poorly implimented software-based RNG have the
problem of being more statistically predictable
than desired. Problems with RNG negatively
effect encryption, including SSH and even TCP/IP.
Recent releases of the GNU/linux kernel can
make use of the VIA RNG for better security.
Palladium can make use of hardware-based RNG,
but the Secure Computing Platform actually
uses firmware beyond today's BIOS to restrict
software and hardware replacement or additions.
Firmware-based DRM, by design, must retain the
encryption keys as well as the code to generate
them.
So long as VIA does not impliment a change in
the current BIOS capabilities, the Palladium/
DRM nightmare can be avoided. However, the
latest incarnation of the C3 processor does
give VIA a head-start on DRM adaptation.
It is all a question of degree (currently).
You have hit the nail on the head.
...)
The "Walmart" economy is not a self-sustaining
economy, because of the shrinking middle class.
This model only works for 60 - 70 percent of
the inverted bell curve of declining purchasing
power, after which it will collapse.
Only so many people can work in the trades
and professions that don't get out-sourced.
The "cream" of these don't shop at Walmart,
anyway.
As more illegal aliens enter this country
(which has increased by 40% since 9/11/01),
even many of the professional trades jobs
will be lost to those willing to work even
more cheaply here.
The three tiered social strata that was
America will melt away into a two tiered
strata that will more closely resemble
Europe in the Middle Ages: the very small
and powerful privledged class, and the
peons.
The disparity of income between the rich
and the middle class in America has widened
significantly since the 1970's. If you
compare the CEO salary and perks in today's
economy between the EU, Japan, and America,
the American CEO's compensation is obscenely
greater.
Only when shareholders insist on out-sourcing
the American corporate elite will the trend
moderate.
IP protection, job conservation, and the preservation of societal values must be
enforced through legal governmental means,
since the corporate fatcats refuse to consider
these factors. NAFTA is flawed (as well as
structural problems in the WTO), because the
regional/national societal values are not
part of the equation of trade equality.
If working conditions, hours of labor, pay
scale, ability to organize, health care,
and environmental issues were factored into
all trade negotiations, the "playing field"
would be much more level.
(Just my depreciated $00.02 worth
Just because a thing can be done,
doesn't mean that it should, right?
Oh great. A new method to allow
Windoze viruses, trojans, and other
malware into a "linux sandbox".
Microsoft will claim "See, linux
applications are vulnerable, too!"
Much better for Wine, Bochs, etcetera
to run native Windoze applications
well (and in a "Borg-Box" so they
can't foul linux).
The decision SUN made to abandon their
Sparc-V chip in favor of the Fujitsu
part is good news. The death of a
chip line, however, is not. Is SUN
relinquishing their IP and technical
edge by (effectively) out-sourcing their
processor development to Fujitsu?
I, for one, am not unhappy to see SUN
(or any other USA company) cast off some
of their H1-B employees. But these
engineers will not be replaced with
Americans, but with an entire Japanese
company. Long-term, this does not bode
well for SUN (or for American ingenuity).
Hopefully, SUN will use the respite to
build new processors (and servers) here
in the USA. Unfortunately, the deal with
Microsoft would tend to indicate that SUN
will be a slowly diminishing box-mover.
Focusing on competition at the bottom
rung (against Dell and HP) is an act of
self-depreciation, and a no-win situation.
It may be too early to proclaim "SUN is
dead. Long live SUN!"
The Commonwealth of Virginia has been
doing this for about 4 years now, for
internet and "catalog" sales.
BTW: I had an experience with a NY
state electronics (chips) distributor
that was ludicrous: without the benefit
of having a resellers license, they wanted
to charge me VA state sales tax. That
is (IMHO) illegal, since they do not have
a "presence" in VA, and no cross-state
agreement. The tax money collected would
have (likely) just gone into their pocket.
I pay the sales tax, because it is the law,
but use the VA income tax forms instead.
Then I do know where that money is going.
unless it has open source
drivers. Without good
support for GNU/linux AND
BSD, it's not much better
than a doorstop. I am
tired of pissing away good
money on vendors' hardware,
when they only furnish lame
binary drivers that break
with a new kernel, or a
new improved X11. Best support
for Microsoft? FSCK 'EM.
... is the spread of FUD, while stretching
any/all lawsuits out in the courts for many
years. MS, particularly, employs this scheme
because they can count on either technical
progress or "reality on the ground" to change
enough to make the original lawsuit a moot
point (at which time they settle for a small
fraction of all the additional money made in
the mean time, or else cross-license technology
to whatever remains of their competition).
All thanks to (1) deep pockets, (2) bevy of
lawyers, and (3) slow gears of American
jurisprudence. Really too bad that the Bush
DoJ snatched defeat from the jaws of victory,
and caved to MS over monopolistic practices --
the IT world would be a much more interesting
place with a Microsoft broken into 3 or 4
pieces.
for the Alberta Clipper. If the
the USA sealed the border against
this terrorist organization, our
home heating oil and natural gas
prices wouldn't have spiked this
winter.
a photo and single fingerprint is only
the start. once business has begun
adopting RFID tags, I would fully expect
every citizen and every visitor to be
required to have a sub-dermal RFID
implant, as well as a DNA sample.
Total Information Awareness (TIA) wasn't
named that for nothing.
All we need to do is build a fleet ...
of nuclear powered vacuum cleaners,
launch them into low earth orbit,
and get to that big "Mr. Clean"
cleanup job
Oh, wait, isn't space a vacuum?
Okay, just forget the super-sized
"Dysons"
Doh!
It has become increasingly evident that there
needs to be either (1) restrictions on the
issuing of Viagra (et.al.) to politicians,
or (2) a combined FDA/Nat. Academy of Science
study on the impact of loss of blood flow
on the mental facilities (and party agenda).
(double entendre intended)
Ques) At what point during Senator Dole's
presidential campaign against Bill Clinton
in 1992 did he effectively lose interest?
Ans) When he got his 1st Viagra prescription
(ed. note: Dole later became the USA poster
child for "Viagra For Politicians")
Ques) At what point did Alan Greenspan (Fed.
Reserve) lose his financial acumen?
Ans) When he married a babe 40 years his junior,
and needed that Viagra prescription.
A proper formal investigation may well determine
that it is not in America's best interests for
ANY politician to make new laws in any period
less that 72 hours AFTER taking Viagra.
Bush: "Every home in America will have
broadband internet service by 2007."
(meaning: I intend to re-constitute Ma Bell
(the Mother of all Monopolies) and give
them enough tax credits to pay for wiring
Mars.)
Ohhh, yeah. A chicken in every pot, forty
acres and a mule, and free beer (just vote
for me).
and it is rampant these days: from the ...
CEOs & CFOs in our corporate boardrooms,
to our presidents and our congress. no
real surprise that MS would jump on
THIS bandwagon bound for hades