____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 09 January 2008 13:17 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 09 January 2008 12:11 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 09 January 2008 09:17 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> Darth Chaos <darthchaosofrspw@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>> [H]omer wrote:
>>>>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> CD copying OK, DRM circumvention not OK
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No coincidence that this announcement comes at exactly the same time as
>>>>>>> the "anti-hacking tools" proposal. Clue: they're both part of the same
>>>>>>> agenda. How long before the misconception that "supplying a PC without
>>>>>>> Windows is illegal" becomes fact?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Add MSLabour to the list, under MSBBC.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> IIRC, wasn't there talk about the BBC considering re-vamping the BBC TV
>>>>>> licence fee (which is required only if you receive TV signals) into a
>>>>>> BBC PC licence fee (which would require payment of the fee for mere
>>>>>> ownership of a computer)?
>>>>>
>>>>> That was some time ago, although I don't know what happened to it. As
>>>>> the BBC's licence-fees are now mainly being used to line the pockets of
>>>>> Siemens, Microsoft and others, it's really time to abandon the whole
>>>>> thing. I'd like to see just how much licence-fee cash becomes profit
>>>>> for commercial entities.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the meantime, DRM circumvention "not okay" is utterly unpolicable,
>>>>> and about as sensible as an ID card. Obviously, the government is being
>>>>> massaged (again) by foreign commercial interests, as those of the people
>>>>> are clearly not important to this labour government.
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder how many expensive dinners were involved in getting this
>>>>> abysmal proposal to this stage?
>>>>
>>>> More importantly, when or where is the next Bilderberg gathering? This is
>>>> a disgusting state of affair that shows you just why you cannot separate
>>>> technology from politics.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Having had a quick peek at http://www.bilderberg.org/, my first reaction
>>> was that it seemed a little over the top, but as you start to pick
>>> through, the site does appear to consist of evidence rather than theory,
>>> and where there is theory, it's backed by evidence. It's also hardly
>>> surprising that the site has been pulled so many times, I can see a lot
>>> of influential people being very embarassed by it.
>>>
>>> Local council corruption is the stuff of legend, of course. I suspect
>>> if we started to sort that out, there wouldn't be a town our county
>>> councillor with a seat remaining.
>>
>> Have you seen the information and video in my personal blog (some of it is
>> still in page 1)? I've been finding links to Microsoft and the 'Gateses'.
>> Bill's wife attends these events, apparently.
>>
>
> No, but I'll take a look. Very interesting!
Maybe she meets Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in the hallway and exchanges some
piece of advice. Who knows? They are all regulars. Blair has been there
since /before/ he was PM.
Published days ago:
Melinda Gates goes public
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http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/04/news/newsmakers/gates.fortune/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
What did George's son say about Microsoft? "Let them innovate" or something
along those lines? What is it with oversight ending and being called
a "success"? Antitrust action over when Microsoft rapes ISO and bribes people
in Nigeria to eliminate competition? Yeah, we really ought to buy that sort of
New World 'Justice'...
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