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Google invents another monopoly
Leave it to the web search monopoly to invent another monopoly with which to generate revenue from content they didn’t create. We should all be so clever.
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Iran run by insincere non-believers
Reading this article I see several things. One, there’s a nihilistic nut out there shooting random people. Two, if the leaders of Iran are true believers of Islam, they will publicly denounce the muders of innocent civilians, disband the Basij who are nothing more than vigilantes on a rampage, and hunt down and kill those responsible for the murders of the innocents. Three, what sort of idiot prohibits women from singing in public? Women have the best singing voices.
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Microsoft Marketing Defies Logic
“If you turn your head sideways and look in a mirror, while closing one eye and squinting the other, then you’ll see what we’re saying.”
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A once proud nation slips into chaos
As I understand it, Iran (or rather Persia) should be proud of its heritage. But looking at these photos, you would hardly think that now. Next time the clergy should only allow their own candidates to run, thus avoiding any controversy over voting.
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Hans Rosling on showing statistics
Absolutely stunning, amazing, and eye opening presentation. Very compelling argument for releasing the publicly funded research data to those who really own it, us.
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The Horrors of Hugging
At my high school they banned wearing short pants, because two imbeciles decided to wear shorts in the winter, when snow was on the ground and it was quite cold. That almost makes sense to me when compared to banning hugging. Are these principals descended from Quakers?
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Weird web server config
The first time you visit this site with any browser, you get a weird error about there being no server configured for that address. But, hit the reload button and you’re redirected to the full name, with the www prefix. I’ve never seen that before. Makes me wonder how many customers were turned away by this.
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“ ‘[W]e should just quietly grow j++ share and assume that people will take more advantage of our classes without ever realizing they are building win32-only java apps.’ — Microsoft’s Thomas Reardon ”
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Persistence doesn't always pay off
Calling this puppet of a leader a hard-liner is like calling the Titanic a big boat. He raises “stupid racist” to a whole new level. At the very conference where the U.N. is trying to end racism, this moron is fanning the flames. The good news is he’s up for re-election and it looks like he’s quickly losing support.
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Good reason not to pirate software
Stupid software pirates unwittingly turned their computers into zombies for a botnet. Nice. I call it karma. Paying the reasonable price for the software would have been cheaper in the long run.
