http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071011205044141
If you can't compete, and you can't inovate, and customers don't want your product - sue!
"So in July one Microsoft executive arrives; then as of October 1, there is the second, a patent guy. October 9, IP Innovation, a subsidiary, sues Red Hat. And Novell. So much for being Microsoft's little buddy.
"I think SCO II has arrived. Except it won't be just one. It will be one after another, just like Ballmer predicted. Until Linux gives up the ghost. In their dreams. Here's how to fix it: fix the patent regime, as Ballmer calls it. Otherwise, it will destroy all innovation and you'll be stuck in Vista. Eek. Plus at this rate, I'll never get a vacation."
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http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2439
"This cheese is a delicacy in Sardinia, where it is illegal. That's right. It is illegal in the only place where people actually want to eat it. If this does not communicate a very clear message, perhaps the larvae will, as they leap desperately toward your face in an effort to escape the putrescent horror of the only home they have ever known. Even the cheese itself is ashamed; when prodded, it weeps an odorous liquid called lagrima, Sardinian for "tears.""
We all try to by open minded, especially when it comes to cultural issues, but it seems that the may be things that simply should never be eaten by humans.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/11/jenna-bush-its-not-eve_n_68043.html
Q: If the war in Iraq is so noble, why aren't you and your sister serving our country there?
Jenna Bush: I understand that point, but there are many ways to serve our country, and I think my skills are better suited for teaching and representing the U.S. in Latin America through unicef. I respect the men and women of our country who are over there fighting. It is an unbelievably selfless thing to do. But if people really thought about it, they would know it's not even a practical question.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21163806/site/newsweek/
"The colonel was furious. "Can you believe it? They actually drew their weapons on U.S. soldiers." He was describing a 2006 car accident, in which an SUV full of Blackwater operatives had crashed into a U.S. Army Humvee on a street in Baghdad's Green Zone. The colonel, who was involved in a follow-up investigation and spoke on the condition he not be named, said the Blackwater guards disarmed the U.S. Army soldiers and made them lie on the ground at gunpoint until they could disentangle the SUV."
In pre-Bush times America used soldiers to fight wars. Now it's all farmed out, off the books and off the record. This story isn't from any sort of remotely radical information source. It's from MSNBC. Why aren't people outraged? Well, for one they're too stupid.
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