.. I'd port VGS to Be, buy Be (http://www.benews.com/story/3800), port the latter to the Playstation II, expand the platform and take Microsoft on on the desktop market. Yeah!
Having been in this business for quite a few years now I can assure you that the annoyance of people who are left out of novels is nothing compared to the fury of those who fancy that they have been inserted into novels without having given their permission.
Bit of a passing reference to the reason he feels that the Big U is a bad book, perhaps?:)
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This is offopic, but raises something interestig for me.
But before I'll say it, I'll qualify my position on this case. I do not put up a defense for the people behind the icq logs. Quite the opposite: the thing that stops me being a fan of Nixon is the fact he was a wife beater.
I was taken to court a couple of years ago by a former employee who wanted to get aninjunctoin to stop me for working. Thye ripped our email and icq logs, and just spread them before the court. Anything about anything was put in there - including a friend and I talking about burning a video to CDs so we could take them home, a hell of a lot of stuff on no relevance to the court. Three was also a hell of a lot of private material in the logs, as you would expect. ortunately the guy who ripped them discovered really personal stuff about him in them, which means he probably did worse out of it than anyone, but as something of a libertarian, I'm scared as hell by the way you can be laid out by people distributing your email and icq conversations.
Probably noone will read this, because I've just noticed this comment, and need to set the record straight.
But the democrats had said they wouldn't support a GST.
You're abolsutely wrong on this. I can remember the day I was driving home from work just after Howard announced the election, and Meg announced her own GST package. The Democrats went into the 1998 election with a GST package of their own, and promising to not have a GST on food. It was seen as a shock move by them, because it was break from the party's general direction over the last fifteen years towards the left. The Democrats went into the 1998 election with the GST as a policy and you are abosolutely wrong to say anything else. The majority of people in the majority of states voted in the senate for parties whose platforms were in-principle pro-GST.
Natasha's conduct on this matter, as with most of her successful maneuvers in politics, was a disgrace. She stirred up fears about the GST and mislead her supporters over the impact it would have in order to position herself as the leader of the (larger but stupid) socialist membership of the Democrats in ocmpetition the liberals who are more inclined to support Lees. We are seeing the destruction of the original spirit of the Chipp Democrats by socialialists like Natasha, and it's to the detriment of our parliamentary makeup.
If you still have issues over this, feel free to email me:)
I'm quite annoyed at the current handheld situation. I want to buy a handheld computer, rather than a palm. But there's no way i'll buy a WinCE machine because wince is yuck, microsoft is evil, and I want a machine I can do some real development on.
Compaq - I know for a fact that QNX has been successfully run on your machine. I think I remember someone saying that BeIA could as well. So why can't we have options to buy units with these OSs on them? You're crazy. You've got a good unit that appeals almost exclusively to the geek market. Except that it runs wince, and geeks (I hope I can speak for people here) generally *hate* wince and everything associated with it.
If you were to get something - anything - else, you'll sell more units and encourage more of a developer community for the unit. Think about being able to just telnet into the thing from your workstation and type away. And having good *free* tools. Without awful windows API cludge ribbish (ugh). What's more, you (still speaking to Compaq, 'ere) already have an association with Be which you're using to develop machines for parts of the rest of your iPaq range.
If you were to release a BeIA or QNX option instead of wince, I'd go out and buy a unit tomorrow.
They took this as a mandate to introduce a GST (aka consumption tax)
With the combined democrat vote in the lower house, the coalition and Democrats had a clear mandate of both majority of voters and majority of states to introduce the legislation.
John Katz wrote (in a unusually unpretentious sentence): > Were consumers demonstrably harmed by Microsoft?
Absolutely. Market contenders live in fear of opening themselves to a position where they can be stepped on by Microsoft exercising its leverage. For the last decade we have been consistently denied liquidity.
It's a shame that while you're happy to whine about the political situation, but will just sit back and wait for a party to get it right rather than going out there and making it happen yourself.
Given that the Labor Party is a faction-dominated farce, whose decisions are made entirely by backroom deals and where you leading open policy debate is certain to getting you hammered by the right/left faction 'machine' and ruining your prospects, I somehow don't think they're approach to individual freedom is going to be anything special.
This is basically a reaction by a Goverment scared of big swings to the opposition in other state elections and the emerging strength of a nationalistic bunch of rednecks called One Nation.
The standard of debate on slashdot on Auastralian political topics is usually poor, and this is an example of people opening their mouths before they think. The Bill was introduced in November 2000.
It's a pretty fundamental error. Your presentation of the Liberal Party as a purely conservative party is misleading also. It's comparable calling the American Democrats 'just a bunch of unionists'.
I can't see how they could be - the Labor Party is filled with people for whom politics is a life choice.
Surely the dilemma is that people like you sit around whining and don't get up and make a difference. Running around and voting anti isn't going to make the world a better place. Make a difference. Write a research paper on things that affect your industry, join a political party and get some policy happening. God knows they'll probably love you for being a young person with an interest in politics and passion for putting your ideas forward.
Maybe they're just doing some preemptive strikes to try and undermine Australian reputations in preparation for conflict. Check out this extract from hansard attributed to Christopher Pyne (South Australian member of the federal government) late last year:
"Far from closing small business down, that bane of the cheat, the ACCC, has proposed that we help small business by reducing the cost to them of computer software-but, of course, I would not expect [a member of the opposition who had been interjecting] to understand that. This could soon change for the worse. The Sydney Morning Herald reported last week that Microsoft Australia
has announced a 10 to 18 per cent increase in the retail price of its software products, effective from December. Microsoft cites exchange rates
as the reason behind the price hike, but there is little doubt that the price rises are largely due to a lack of competition in the software market.
This impacts on all facets of the Australian economy. The Yellow Pages Small Business Index of February 2000 showed that 84 6per cent of Australian small businesses and 100 per cent of medium sized businesses use a computer and
therefore require computer software. The current monopolistic arrangement of allowing only one importer to source software product does not serve the long-term interests of consumers. Lifting the prohibition on the parallel importing of computer software and allowing people to compete in the
alternative sourcing of products will help push down the price of software and promote product innovation and development. "
The ACCC is the consumer affairs commission, and prioritises fair and free marketplace competition. Could Microsoft be another monolith gearing itself up to avoid a slapping from the Australian authorities?
"..Labor are giving Australian consumers every indication that, despite being proved wrong on the deregulation of the CD market, they are prepared to trundle out the same tired old arguments in the current parallel import debate.
Mr Albanese -Just because Wham CDs are cheaper.
Mr PYNE -As a 1980s child, I am a great fan of Wham. They have moved, and now we are a fan of more modern music, especially some of our own home-grown South Australian music.
Mr Albanese -Name them.
Mr PYNE -I already have. I named them earlier in my speech. People like Kasey Chambers, Killing Heidi and Powderfinger.
Mr Sidebottom -Never heard of them.
Mr PYNE -You would never have heard of them. Of course you wouldn't. You are the troglodytes on the Labor side of the House. Mr Deputy Speaker, I must get on with my address-
Mr Albanese -Mr Deputy Speaker, I raise a point of order. The member opposite is not only insulting members with personal remarks but also misleading the House, because Killing Heidi are in fact from Victoria.
Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER (Mr Jenkins)-The honourable member will resume his seat. Honourable members will cease interjecting."
I really like this. I consider piracy to be the only thing that keeps Windows going. I know plenty of people who pirate Windows, and would make the effort to convert to a better platform if they had to buy Windows to use it.
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Oh dear.
How about that public hair, huh?
Nothing like screwing a punchline.
Exactly where does this Ask Slashdot connect to reality? I seem to have missed the threads asking about how the universe will change when Solaris is open sourced, or Quicktime, or the Macintosh interface, or Windows NT. Isn't it disturbing for all those Open Source fanatic types that there are cool things out there that arn't Open Source, and which arn't going to be Open Source? (I'm talking about BeOS here, not Windows NT btw)
Whoever it is with the "Open Source, Closed Minds, We are Slashdot".sig, I salute you.
I'm an hour away from an exam, and listening to Moonlight Sonata, so you'll have to excuse my -deep-and-meaningful-.
As a software engineer, I live to create systems that people will use regularly and marvell. They'll be so good that you'll not think about the story behind them much, but ocasionally you will, just for long enough to think "Wow - the preson who did this really rocks". People like Muuss are pretty important. (what is with the bloody textbox navigaion in mozilla!?!?! Driving me *insane*)
It feels wired to real death notices on slashdot. (Last one I remember was Alec Guiness..) It doesn't matter how nicely put the death of someone you respect like these people is, it alwas feels chilling.
When I'm out of my exam... well.. I'm going to karioke. But when I'm home and my head's in order again I think I'm going to start a website devoted to these reports, and as tributes to those people.
Moderators shmoderators! Don't mod these up! We've had threads discussing karma whore threads at least the last two times obfuscated perl has come up. Idiots using their brilliance to point out the ridiculous "um like man: perl -> already obfuscated - arn't I insightful". Don't mod up stuff that wastes my time.
This applies in many other circumstances that spring to mind. The French had one of the two monolith democratic national leaders of the last century, Charles de Gaul. (The other was our very own Sir Robert Menzies, PM of Australia twice, the longest period being for nearly twenty years:) yay Menzies;) ) Anyway, de Gaul lead his country almost forever, and the left were destroying themselves constantly by splitting the vote between communist and merely 'left' candidates.
Miterand is credited with breaking this, by getting communist electorates to feel included by his platform. He gave lots of sway to the left of his party for long enough to rout the communists in their core seats before sweeping into the presidency.
My details are hazy, but what you said has triggered some memories.
In South Australia at the moment we've got it even worse. The (Liberal) government is already absolutely at the limit of minoirity government positions. Our least minor party, the Australian Democrats (mid left -> central, certainly left of the US Democrats generally, totally wealthy chardoney socialist base) are expected to pick up four or five seats. They are aided by the fact that they only need to beat one of the major parties to pick up a seat, because the major parties put each other rock bottom on their respective tickets. Now in a balance of power situation, the Democrats are likely to side with the ALP against the Liberals. Yet in the electorates where they are elected, there is likely to be a non-Labor vote well above 80%, in some cases above 90%. That's in an almost completely two-party system. Preferences can be ridiculous.
I favour an optional preferential system. I understand Tasmania to be one of few first world states to have such a system (not that they don't have problems of their own;) ). But it is the fairest system by a long shot. No preferences is totally screwed, and compulsory preferential has plenty of failings.
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I live in Adelaide, and Jeff was the Premire of our (often scorned) neighbourng state of Victoria. Whatever you may think about Victoria, Jeff rocked. I went over to campaign for him at the last election, and despite all predictions, he go taken out and beaten with a big stick. That doesn't stop me wanting to have his children.
At one stage he had registered www.jeff.com.au to promote his campaign, but I think it just redirects these days.
Well, here we go again. An election which usually has zero impact on us but which we have to put up with all over our media for the twelve month lead up. Admittedly, this election has been better (I've seen less of it) than the previous two.
Still.
I've developed opinions. I'm a politics/computer science double major in Arts from Adelaide, Australia. I'm also a member of the Liberal Party of Au (in fact the more conservative of the two major parties, and the one with the economic credentials) and am liberal on social issues.
So here's what I see:
Bush has a bit of the white-trash feel to him, I think. He's also the first one I took a disliking to because I've got an awful feeling he'll rape funding to the DoJ case into Microsoft, and that would be a terrible thing. I also don't like his far-right cliche style of talking. Ugh.
Gore is a total sap. I've read a lot of P J O'Rouke, and what he says is true except more of it. Gore is clearly a liar and speaks whatever he wants his audience to hear. He takes shallow stands on issues. The fact his father was an opponent of democracy in South East Asia during the Vietnam War doesn't exactly help my feelings towards him. Having said that, my biggest concern related to US politics at this time is the DoJ trial, and if Gore can not break that effort, I'd be happy to have you guys put up with him.:p
And then Nader. Somethign about the Corvair investigation jumps in my mind. Consumer protection, etc. The fact he's green - hey that's good. But he's too left, and I am sick and tired of lefties running around claiming they own the environmental platform.
So good luck those of you who are US voters - you've got a really shit lineup of candidates, and I wish you luck in choosing the least bad among them.
I hope you write this into the newspaper and point then to this article. Stuff like that infrequently gets printed, but if you can find a few people from your town to do it you're bound to make an impact.
Slashdot Mirror
Quite possibly twice before, I was talking to a friend about 'this thing I saw in a slashdot post ages ago' at lunch :)
So is there any way (expansion or otherwise) to get palms to play decent quality audio?
.. I'd port VGS to Be, buy Be (http://www.benews.com/story/3800), port the latter to the Playstation II, expand the platform and take Microsoft on on the desktop market. Yeah!
Having been in this business for quite a few years now I can assure you that the annoyance of people who are left out of novels is nothing compared to the fury of those who fancy that they have been inserted into novels without having given their permission.
:)
Bit of a passing reference to the reason he feels that the Big U is a bad book, perhaps?
This is offopic, but raises something interestig for me.
But before I'll say it, I'll qualify my position on this case. I do not put up a defense for the people behind the icq logs. Quite the opposite: the thing that stops me being a fan of Nixon is the fact he was a wife beater.
I was taken to court a couple of years ago by a former employee who wanted to get aninjunctoin to stop me for working. Thye ripped our email and icq logs, and just spread them before the court. Anything about anything was put in there - including a friend and I talking about burning a video to CDs so we could take them home, a hell of a lot of stuff on no relevance to the court. Three was also a hell of a lot of private material in the logs, as you would expect. ortunately the guy who ripped them discovered really personal stuff about him in them, which means he probably did worse out of it than anyone, but as something of a libertarian, I'm scared as hell by the way you can be laid out by people distributing your email and icq conversations.
Probably noone will read this, because I've just noticed this comment, and need to set the record straight.
:)
But the democrats had said they wouldn't support a GST.
You're abolsutely wrong on this. I can remember the day I was driving home from work just after Howard announced the election, and Meg announced her own GST package. The Democrats went into the 1998 election with a GST package of their own, and promising to not have a GST on food. It was seen as a shock move by them, because it was break from the party's general direction over the last fifteen years towards the left. The Democrats went into the 1998 election with the GST as a policy and you are abosolutely wrong to say anything else. The majority of people in the majority of states voted in the senate for parties whose platforms were in-principle pro-GST.
Natasha's conduct on this matter, as with most of her successful maneuvers in politics, was a disgrace. She stirred up fears about the GST and mislead her supporters over the impact it would have in order to position herself as the leader of the (larger but stupid) socialist membership of the Democrats in ocmpetition the liberals who are more inclined to support Lees. We are seeing the destruction of the original spirit of the Chipp Democrats by socialialists like Natasha, and it's to the detriment of our parliamentary makeup.
If you still have issues over this, feel free to email me
I'm quite annoyed at the current handheld situation. I want to buy a handheld computer, rather than a palm. But there's no way i'll buy a WinCE machine because wince is yuck, microsoft is evil, and I want a machine I can do some real development on.
Compaq - I know for a fact that QNX has been successfully run on your machine. I think I remember someone saying that BeIA could as well. So why can't we have options to buy units with these OSs on them? You're crazy. You've got a good unit that appeals almost exclusively to the geek market. Except that it runs wince, and geeks (I hope I can speak for people here) generally *hate* wince and everything associated with it.
If you were to get something - anything - else, you'll sell more units and encourage more of a developer community for the unit. Think about being able to just telnet into the thing from your workstation and type away. And having good *free* tools. Without awful windows API cludge ribbish (ugh). What's more, you (still speaking to Compaq, 'ere) already have an association with Be which you're using to develop machines for parts of the rest of your iPaq range.
If you were to release a BeIA or QNX option instead of wince, I'd go out and buy a unit tomorrow.
They took this as a mandate to introduce a GST (aka consumption tax)
With the combined democrat vote in the lower house, the coalition and Democrats had a clear mandate of both majority of voters and majority of states to introduce the legislation.
John Katz wrote (in a unusually unpretentious sentence):
> Were consumers demonstrably harmed by Microsoft?
Absolutely. Market contenders live in fear of opening themselves to a position where they can be stepped on by Microsoft exercising its leverage. For the last decade we have been consistently denied liquidity.
It's a shame that while you're happy to whine about the political situation, but will just sit back and wait for a party to get it right rather than going out there and making it happen yourself.
Given that the Labor Party is a faction-dominated farce, whose decisions are made entirely by backroom deals and where you leading open policy debate is certain to getting you hammered by the right/left faction 'machine' and ruining your prospects, I somehow don't think they're approach to individual freedom is going to be anything special.
This is basically a reaction by a Goverment scared of big swings to the opposition in other state elections and the emerging strength of a nationalistic bunch of rednecks called One Nation.
The standard of debate on slashdot on Auastralian political topics is usually poor, and this is an example of people opening their mouths before they think. The Bill was introduced in November 2000.
It's a pretty fundamental error. Your presentation of the Liberal Party as a purely conservative party is misleading also. It's comparable calling the American Democrats 'just a bunch of unionists'.
I think Fantasia was targetted at children, but was only received well by adults.
> I don't know if they alternative will be better
I can't see how they could be - the Labor Party is filled with people for whom politics is a life choice.
Surely the dilemma is that people like you sit around whining and don't get up and make a difference. Running around and voting anti isn't going to make the world a better place. Make a difference. Write a research paper on things that affect your industry, join a political party and get some policy happening. God knows they'll probably love you for being a young person with an interest in politics and passion for putting your ideas forward.
Seriously.
Maybe they're just doing some preemptive strikes to try and undermine Australian reputations in preparation for conflict. Check out this extract from hansard attributed to Christopher Pyne (South Australian member of the federal government) late last year:
"Far from closing small business down, that bane of the cheat, the ACCC, has proposed that we help small business by reducing the cost to them of computer software-but, of course, I would not expect [a member of the opposition who had been interjecting] to understand that. This could soon change for the worse. The Sydney Morning Herald reported last week that Microsoft Australia has announced a 10 to 18 per cent increase in the retail price of its software products, effective from December. Microsoft cites exchange rates as the reason behind the price hike, but there is little doubt that the price rises are largely due to a lack of competition in the software market.
This impacts on all facets of the Australian economy. The Yellow Pages Small Business Index of February 2000 showed that 84 6per cent of Australian small businesses and 100 per cent of medium sized businesses use a computer and therefore require computer software. The current monopolistic arrangement of allowing only one importer to source software product does not serve the long-term interests of consumers. Lifting the prohibition on the parallel importing of computer software and allowing people to compete in the alternative sourcing of products will help push down the price of software and promote product innovation and development. "
The ACCC is the consumer affairs commission, and prioritises fair and free marketplace competition. Could Microsoft be another monolith gearing itself up to avoid a slapping from the Australian authorities?
"..Labor are giving Australian consumers every indication that, despite being proved wrong on the deregulation of the CD market, they are prepared to trundle out the same tired old arguments in the current parallel import debate.
Mr Albanese -Just because Wham CDs are cheaper.
Mr PYNE -As a 1980s child, I am a great fan of Wham. They have moved, and now we are a fan of more modern music, especially some of our own home-grown South Australian music.
Mr Albanese -Name them.
Mr PYNE -I already have. I named them earlier in my speech. People like Kasey Chambers, Killing Heidi and Powderfinger.
Mr Sidebottom -Never heard of them.
Mr PYNE -You would never have heard of them. Of course you wouldn't. You are the troglodytes on the Labor side of the House. Mr Deputy Speaker, I must get on with my address-
Mr Albanese -Mr Deputy Speaker, I raise a point of order. The member opposite is not only insulting members with personal remarks but also misleading the House, because Killing Heidi are in fact from Victoria.
Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER (Mr Jenkins)-The honourable member will resume his seat. Honourable members will cease interjecting."
I really like this. I consider piracy to be the only thing that keeps Windows going. I know plenty of people who pirate Windows, and would make the effort to convert to a better platform if they had to buy Windows to use it.
Oh dear. How about that public hair, huh? Nothing like screwing a punchline.
Exactly where does this Ask Slashdot connect to reality? I seem to have missed the threads asking about how the universe will change when Solaris is open sourced, or Quicktime, or the Macintosh interface, or Windows NT. Isn't it disturbing for all those Open Source fanatic types that there are cool things out there that arn't Open Source, and which arn't going to be Open Source? (I'm talking about BeOS here, not Windows NT btw)
.sig, I salute you.
Whoever it is with the "Open Source, Closed Minds, We are Slashdot"
But no .asdf?
What? I want my .asdf
I'm an hour away from an exam, and listening to Moonlight Sonata, so you'll have to excuse my -deep-and-meaningful-.
As a software engineer, I live to create systems that people will use regularly and marvell. They'll be so good that you'll not think about the story behind them much, but ocasionally you will, just for long enough to think "Wow - the preson who did this really rocks". People like Muuss are pretty important. (what is with the bloody textbox navigaion in mozilla!?!?! Driving me *insane*)
It feels wired to real death notices on slashdot. (Last one I remember was Alec Guiness..) It doesn't matter how nicely put the death of someone you respect like these people is, it alwas feels chilling.
When I'm out of my exam... well.. I'm going to karioke. But when I'm home and my head's in order again I think I'm going to start a website devoted to these reports, and as tributes to those people.
Stay tuned!
Moderators shmoderators! Don't mod these up! We've had threads discussing karma whore threads at least the last two times obfuscated perl has come up. Idiots using their brilliance to point out the ridiculous "um like man: perl -> already obfuscated - arn't I insightful". Don't mod up stuff that wastes my time.
This applies in many other circumstances that spring to mind. The French had one of the two monolith democratic national leaders of the last century, Charles de Gaul. (The other was our very own Sir Robert Menzies, PM of Australia twice, the longest period being for nearly twenty years
Miterand is credited with breaking this, by getting communist electorates to feel included by his platform. He gave lots of sway to the left of his party for long enough to rout the communists in their core seats before sweeping into the presidency.
My details are hazy, but what you said has triggered some memories.
In South Australia at the moment we've got it even worse. The (Liberal) government is already absolutely at the limit of minoirity government positions. Our least minor party, the Australian Democrats (mid left -> central, certainly left of the US Democrats generally, totally wealthy chardoney socialist base) are expected to pick up four or five seats. They are aided by the fact that they only need to beat one of the major parties to pick up a seat, because the major parties put each other rock bottom on their respective tickets. Now in a balance of power situation, the Democrats are likely to side with the ALP against the Liberals. Yet in the electorates where they are elected, there is likely to be a non-Labor vote well above 80%, in some cases above 90%. That's in an almost completely two-party system. Preferences can be ridiculous.
I favour an optional preferential system. I understand Tasmania to be one of few first world states to have such a system (not that they don't have problems of their own
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I live in Adelaide, and Jeff was the Premire of our (often scorned) neighbourng state of Victoria. Whatever you may think about Victoria, Jeff rocked. I went over to campaign for him at the last election, and despite all predictions, he go taken out and beaten with a big stick. That doesn't stop me wanting to have his children.
At one stage he had registered www.jeff.com.au to promote his campaign, but I think it just redirects these days.
Jeff! yeah! whoooo!
All you slashdroids need to learn the difference.
:)
My apologise.
Well, here we go again. An election which usually has zero impact on us but which we have to put up with all over our media for the twelve month lead up. Admittedly, this election has been better (I've seen less of it) than the previous two.
:p
Still.
I've developed opinions. I'm a politics/computer science double major in Arts from Adelaide, Australia. I'm also a member of the Liberal Party of Au (in fact the more conservative of the two major parties, and the one with the economic credentials) and am liberal on social issues.
So here's what I see:
Bush has a bit of the white-trash feel to him, I think. He's also the first one I took a disliking to because I've got an awful feeling he'll rape funding to the DoJ case into Microsoft, and that would be a terrible thing. I also don't like his far-right cliche style of talking. Ugh.
Gore is a total sap. I've read a lot of P J O'Rouke, and what he says is true except more of it. Gore is clearly a liar and speaks whatever he wants his audience to hear. He takes shallow stands on issues. The fact his father was an opponent of democracy in South East Asia during the Vietnam War doesn't exactly help my feelings towards him. Having said that, my biggest concern related to US politics at this time is the DoJ trial, and if Gore can not break that effort, I'd be happy to have you guys put up with him.
And then Nader. Somethign about the Corvair investigation jumps in my mind. Consumer protection, etc. The fact he's green - hey that's good. But he's too left, and I am sick and tired of lefties running around claiming they own the environmental platform.
So good luck those of you who are US voters - you've got a really shit lineup of candidates, and I wish you luck in choosing the least bad among them.
I hope you write this into the newspaper and point then to this article. Stuff like that infrequently gets printed, but if you can find a few people from your town to do it you're bound to make an impact.