Undoing mod - went to select insightful and somehow ended up with redundant, sorry about that Anon.

What do you mean "maybe"? It's already happening now.

That's precisely what has Microsoft shitting itself.

They try OpenOffice, see that its more than enough for what they need. Sooner or later people who have to budget for companies IT support needs realise that large chunks of their workforce could use a free alternative that they've got experience with and there goes Microsoft's bread and butter.

OpenOffice, Gimp etc have been good enough for non professional use for a long time now. The only real change is that people are now becoming aware of these free and legal applications.

Well played!

As to the question itself.

I dunno who'll be first. But I would imagine a fair few PR firms and spin doctors in the US and elsewhere are warming up in preparation for it.

Ok, who is going to be the first then to attempt to gain political capital out of this I wonder...

Care to provide an example?

What, rewrite history in order to bolster their religious beliefs in direct contradiction of documented fact and force that on other states?

Yeah, I think you'll find they don't have that right, actually.

I'm sorry what? Since when do "liberal progressives" write out key figures of history, in direct contradiction to the evidence?

I'll have to ask for a citation there, sir. As well as your definition of what a "liberal progressive" is.

Citations needed for all of these claims.

But by the same token neither do these people.

With respect, writing out people who are inconvenient to your religious leanings and omitting large chunks of well established and documented history is a very dangerous path to go down.

Hardly, these local people deciding to rewrite history will have an effect on everyone else's children as practically all textbooks are produced by only a handful of companies. Other states may well having to adopt this revisionism.

If they continue to rewrite history in a way that suits their political and religious sensibilities they may well end up being unable to export workers outside of the state or even the US.

...people still pay to go to this guys seminars?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontrolled_decompression

It all depends on how high the aircraft is when that window is broken. At cruising altitudes, it would be catastrophic.

When Yamamoto struck Pearl Harbor, he was flying a Japanese flag on a Japanese warship made in Japan. It's pretty easy to find the bud and nip it.

When the hijackers attacked, most of them were from Saudi Arabia, all from the middle east, all had proper Visas, all had been in the country for at least weeks if not months or years. They did not fly any flag and did not represent any country. They used box cutters and airplanes as weapons.

Both groups knew the effect of their attacks. I can promise you that bin Laden got exactly what he wanted. A cosmic war of Good and Evil, with Bush even saying as much on television, between Islam and the West. He got us to give up the liberty we fought and won over hundreds of years in less than two hours, with the loss of a lot property and 3,000 lives.

Imagine if instead of torturing people and invading two countries and starting two wars we had produced evidence, fought hard to extradite bin Laden from Afghanistan, tried him at the world court, and locked him up for the rest of his life. We would have said that the West is not barbaric, fundamentalist religious fanatics are. We are constitutionalists - we believe in the rule of law, equally applied to everyone. We may not achieve perfection, but we're the closest thing the world has got. We are genuinely here to make the world a better place, and we have learned from the mistakes of former world super powers.

Everyone says if you want to change the world, start with yourself. How about reminding everyone that freedom isn't free, not because you have to invade and sacrifice the lives of soldiers, but because sometimes you have to obey laws that your enemy does not. Sometimes you have to recognize that liberty and security are mutually exclusive.

If you let emotion and hate dictate your actions, not only do the terrorists get a recruiting tool to attract more followers, they remove the moral high ground where you once stood. Then it's just two barbarians at each other's throat, one with satellite guided weapons and tanks, and the other with suicide bombers and IEDs.