Well, if you don't take the folks who switch operating systems Microsoft damned well better. There are people in charge of corporate systems that are fed up with Microsoft spewing out crap for code and then issuing patch after patch over a period of years. Certainly a single user switching from one operating system to another doesn't even show up on Microsoft's radar. But when buildings full of users switch there will be a real hit on Microsoft's earnings.
You can fool some of the people some of the time...
Jesus, the PC didn't even exist in 1973. I'm sure many viewed it as a WTF experience, but in the context of the rest of the shenanigans going on at the time...
Karl Rove and Dick Cheney (the real deciders) didn't bother checking on whether people would be at all inconvenienced by the DST switch. And compared with what they're doing to the Iraqi people the DST switch doesn't even make it on to the radar.
Someone else mentioned it - let's switch to GMT and be done with it.
In baseball it's called the double switch - drop the concept of daylight savings time and adopt the metric system.
Now that would be an exciting weekend!
So the little shield appeared on my desktop imploring me to update my XP2 system. Went through a validation check that didn't work with my default web browser (Firefox) because it doesn't support ActiveX controls (duh). The result - a shameless ad for Vista and Microsoft security applications! I keep this windows box to play around on while I dabble in Ubuntu and plan for my next computer - from Apple!
Not since the Reagan administration has this country (U.S.) been so up to its eyeballs in the militarization of space. Mr. Oberg may be very adept at tiptoing around the real issues, but I don't think anyone can deny that the U.S. is hell-bent on denying access to the free use of space by anyone designated as "hostile."
Are we supposed to be surprised that clandestine programs are not splashed across the headlines of publications and web-resources that, through the Patriot Act and other anti-Constititional devices, are mere shells of what they used to be? Yes, the U.S. is working on laser anti-satellite weapons and they will put "killer satellites" in orbit, if they are not there already. Can I produce a web site or newspaper article that names programs or gives details on how these programs will be enabled? Of course not - read the definition of "clandestine."
I guess that if there isn't a well established trail of evidence, then these programs simply don't exist and are therefor "myths."
I'll tell you how they'll act on this audit. They will rely on the vast majority of Americans letting this slip below their radar screens and it will simply go away. The person in the street doesn't realize how many of our personal freedoms were flushed down the toilet in the days following the events of 9/11. Hell, the U.S. Congress was in a perfect position to shoot the Patriot Act down in flames and rewarded Bush and Cheney with a means of squandering the brilliant works of men like Jefferson and Franklin. I can't even stand to hear the President or Vice President speak any more - they are the most morally bankrupt leaders on this planet.
Yep, that'll do it! Just one concern - there are nuclear reactors all over the world producing tons of very hazardous radioactive waste that will be "hot" for thousands of years. I don't think it's out of the question to wonder just where in the hell the proponents of "clean" nuclear power plan to store that waste. Right now clean nuclear power is vaporware. In the meantime why aren't we doing more to develop that convenient source of power (a fusion reactor, at that) positioned a relatively safe 93 million miles away?
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Well, if you don't take the folks who switch operating systems Microsoft damned well better. There are people in charge of corporate systems that are fed up with Microsoft spewing out crap for code and then issuing patch after patch over a period of years. Certainly a single user switching from one operating system to another doesn't even show up on Microsoft's radar. But when buildings full of users switch there will be a real hit on Microsoft's earnings.
You can fool some of the people some of the time...
Jesus, the PC didn't even exist in 1973. I'm sure many viewed it as a WTF experience, but in the context of the rest of the shenanigans going on at the time...
Karl Rove and Dick Cheney (the real deciders) didn't bother checking on whether people would be at all inconvenienced by the DST switch. And compared with what they're doing to the Iraqi people the DST switch doesn't even make it on to the radar.
Someone else mentioned it - let's switch to GMT and be done with it.
In baseball it's called the double switch - drop the concept of daylight savings time and adopt the metric system. Now that would be an exciting weekend!
Planet Earth can no longer sustain the excesses of humankind. End of story.
So the little shield appeared on my desktop imploring me to update my XP2 system. Went through a validation check that didn't work with my default web browser (Firefox) because it doesn't support ActiveX controls (duh). The result - a shameless ad for Vista and Microsoft security applications! I keep this windows box to play around on while I dabble in Ubuntu and plan for my next computer - from Apple!
Not since the Reagan administration has this country (U.S.) been so up to its eyeballs in the militarization of space. Mr. Oberg may be very adept at tiptoing around the real issues, but I don't think anyone can deny that the U.S. is hell-bent on denying access to the free use of space by anyone designated as "hostile."
Are we supposed to be surprised that clandestine programs are not splashed across the headlines of publications and web-resources that, through the Patriot Act and other anti-Constititional devices, are mere shells of what they used to be? Yes, the U.S. is working on laser anti-satellite weapons and they will put "killer satellites" in orbit, if they are not there already. Can I produce a web site or newspaper article that names programs or gives details on how these programs will be enabled? Of course not - read the definition of "clandestine."
I guess that if there isn't a well established trail of evidence, then these programs simply don't exist and are therefor "myths."
We have met the enemy...
I'll tell you how they'll act on this audit. They will rely on the vast majority of Americans letting this slip below their radar screens and it will simply go away. The person in the street doesn't realize how many of our personal freedoms were flushed down the toilet in the days following the events of 9/11. Hell, the U.S. Congress was in a perfect position to shoot the Patriot Act down in flames and rewarded Bush and Cheney with a means of squandering the brilliant works of men like Jefferson and Franklin. I can't even stand to hear the President or Vice President speak any more - they are the most morally bankrupt leaders on this planet.
Yep, that'll do it! Just one concern - there are nuclear reactors all over the world producing tons of very hazardous radioactive waste that will be "hot" for thousands of years. I don't think it's out of the question to wonder just where in the hell the proponents of "clean" nuclear power plan to store that waste. Right now clean nuclear power is vaporware. In the meantime why aren't we doing more to develop that convenient source of power (a fusion reactor, at that) positioned a relatively safe 93 million miles away?