17 Jan 2004
Oracle apps to work with Mozilla

Smart move ...

The database company is working on a project to let Mozilla's open-source desktop software work better with Oracle's business applications.

(link) [CNET News.com - Front Door]

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CBS Shields Pigskin Fans From Ads

The PETA people just won't give up ... never mind that their claim that "eating meat causes impotence" is a outright lie - Hel, most of their positions are outright lies.

The network refuses to run Super Bowl ads submitted by MoveOn.org and PETA, saying it has a policy against accepting advocacy advertising. Or maybe it just doesn't like the image of jiggly women rejecting a meat-eatin' man.

(link) [Wired News]

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Muslims rally against scarf ban

OK, this just sends me over the edge ... the hypocrisy expressed by this "religion of loonies" is simply too much.

Now, that's not to say that I'm necessarily in favor of the French position: I'm not sure a complete ban on obvious religious symbols in schools is a good thing. But to hear Muslims carping about "human rights" is way out of line. This is the religion that sanctions beating women, chopping off the hands of theives on first offense and mass murder as revenge for sexual indiscretions (so called "honor killings").

I wonder what Muslim reaction would be to the French instituting something like Saudi Arabia has: the Authority for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (APVPV)?

This little gem of an agency recently conducted raids to insure that no ornaments or gifts were sold in Saudi Arabia for Christmas, New Years or Valentine's Day. (link found via Pagan Prattle Online). Where were Muslim protests over human rights there? How many rallied in Cario to support the right the buy a gift for New Years?

These French Muslims are using the Western democratic traditions of openness, fairness and secularism against us: does anybody seriously believe that they'd maintain such traditions were they to become the majority religion in Western countries?

Muslims protest in Paris and other cities against a French plan to ban overt religious symbols in schools.

(link) [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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Hoofbeats and Tank Tracks Share Golan Range

I had no idea that the Golan was now open range ...

For the Israeli cowboys of the Golan Heights, life moves at a very different pace than it does for the rest of Israel, which can seem a vexed, jostling place.

(link) [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

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Workers Assail Night Lock-Ins by Wal-Mart

This adds a whole new meaning to the term "wage slave" - a literal one. It is coincidence that Wal-Mart Corp. is the largest single American importer of goods from Commujnist China? The Chinese reputedly use prison labor in a lot of vexing circumstances - it seems Wal-Mart is merely imitating it's suppliers.

For more than 15 years, the world's largest retailer has locked in overnight employees at many of its Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores.

(link) [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

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BSD For Linux Users

This is just an excellent piece on the history, philosophy and resulting subtle design differences between the families of operating systems known as BSD's and those going under a Linux moniker: BSD for Linux Users

BSD is what you get when a bunch of Unix hackers sit down to try to port a Unix system to the PC. Linux is what you get when a bunch of PC hackers sit down and try to write a Unix system for the PC.
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BSD is designed. Linux is grown. Perhaps that's the only succinct way to describe it, and possibly the most correct.

(found via this link on Slashdot

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Web cam watchers help woman kicked by horse

We thought about putting in a barn cam, and probably would've if we'd stuck with our original intention of building a boarding facility. It sure turned out handy for this gal.

People around the world watching live on a Web cam as a horse gave birth called for help when the mare -- in pain and confused -- kicked her owner after delivering her foal.

(link)[CNN]

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