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Submission + - ipod recycle bin in MSHQ

Submitted by

ina_kulot

on Friday May 25, 2007 @06:03AM

ina_kulot writes: "An article in electronista refers to a flickr photo of iPod Amnesty Bins in the lobby of Zune headquarters. The photo, showing a couple or so of sad-looking disposed iPods, also captures the poster label that someone in MS was apparently witty enough to make: a semi-eaten Granny Smith and the words "bite me". Can't get much more mature and creative than that."

Submission + - Is America going fascist?

Submitted by

Random BedHead Ed

on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @12:36PM

Random BedHead Ed writes: "The Guardian this week has a call to arms, examining the ten steps to fascism and proposing that America is quietly taking virtually all of them. It's not as much of a partisan concern as you might think: many conservative groups have joined forces under a new organization called the American Freedom Agenda, which along with the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights has been fighting to put pressure on the federal government to pull the country away from what they see as a slippery slope. From the article: "As Americans turn away quite leisurely, keeping tuned to internet shopping and American Idol, the foundations of democracy are being fatally corroded. Something has changed profoundly that weakens us unprecedentedly: our democratic traditions, independent judiciary and free press do their work today in a context in which we are "at war" in a "long war" — a war without end, on a battlefield described as the globe, in a context that gives the president — without US citizens realising it yet — the power over US citizens of freedom or long solitary incarceration, on his say-so alone.""

Submission + - Facist America in 10 Easy Steps

Submitted by zyl0x on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @12:17PM

zyl0x writes: What would you do if your country was secretly being turned into a fascist regime? An article at The Guardian outlines the 10 steps taken by all fascist countries to rob their citizen's of freedom. Apparently, we're already at step 8. How far will they have to go before we start standing up for ourselves? Or is it too late?
From the article:

It is very difficult and arduous to create and sustain a democracy — but history shows that closing one down is much simpler. You simply have to be willing to take the 10 steps. As difficult as this is to contemplate, it is clear, if you are willing to look, that each of these 10 steps has already been initiated today in the United States by the Bush administration.

Submission + - The Virtues of a Monoculture: Why Microsoft Wins

Submitted by

blackbearnh

on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @11:54AM

blackbearnh writes: "Why does Microsoft win the development environment war so often, when we all know it's a lifetime lock-in to Windows? Perhaps it's because the open source community offers too much choice, as this blog on the O'Reilly ONLamp site suggests. From the blog:

Microsoft offers the certainty of no choices. Choice isn't always good, and the open source community sometimes offers far too many ways to skin the same cat, choices that are born more out of pride, ego or stubbornness than a genuine need for two different paths. I won't point fingers, everyone knows examples.

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Submission + - China to pass US as worlds top CO2 source in '07

Submitted by Socguy on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @11:05AM

Socguy writes: China will overtake the United States as the world's biggest source of greenhouse gases this year, says the International Energy Agency, according to a news report. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/04/24/china-emi ssions.html China had been forecast to surpass the U.S. in 2010, but its sizzling economic growth has pushed the date forward, IEA chief economist Fatih Birol was quoted as saying in an interview in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal newspaper.

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