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Still not getting it
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| MPs are still not getting it. Instead of embracing the principal of open
| government and beginning the slow process of re-building their reputation
| with the public, they want to give themselves more money by stealth.
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| [...]
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| However, I should tell those who press and press such issues that, sooner or
| later, the allowances will be rolled into our salary, handed out without any
| claim mechanism or dealt with under some other device, because it is
| intolerable that this intrusion into Members’ private lives should have to be
| endured or should be permitted, and something will happen to prevent it from
| going too far. We can see what will happen: local news reporters and local
| political opponents will start trying to air these issues in public, which
| will be demeaning, as well as reducing the stature of Parliament and damaging
| our democracy. It cannot be right that things should reach such lengths.”
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http://www.yrtk.org/2008/still-not-getting-it/
U.S. and Europe Near Agreement on Private Data
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| But the two sides are still at odds on several other matters, including
| whether European citizens should be able to sue the United States government
| over its handling of their personal data, the report said.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/washington/28privacy.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1214675605-CxtMS9Qaqs7+WCgMPmUToQ
Will the EU Ever Stand up for Its Citizens?
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| Laws which are apparently being chucked away purely because America wants to
| disregard them. This is what happens when European government mouth fatuities
| about the so-called "war on terror": they then get hoist by their own
| rhetorical petard.
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| What's amazing is that probably 90% of Europeans would be against giving this
| kind of data to the US if they were ever given any way to choose. Which they
| won't be, of course: that's democracy?
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/06/will-eu-ever-stand-up-for-its-citizens.html
Politicians are probably as corrupt as Microsoft executives, but that's another
story. That's probably why Microsoft gets along with some corrupted
politicians and other figures of authority.
Last week:
What do Free and Open Source Software Leaders Think of Microsoft?
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| Second, talking about the standards fight in which Microsoft succeeded in
| having its OOXML format accepted as an open standard in rivalry to the ODF
| format favored by OpenOffice.org and other free office applications, Stallman
| notes that "Microsoft corrupted many members of ISO in order to win approval
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| for its phony 'open' document format, OOXML. This was so governments that
| keep their documents in a Microsoft-only format can pretend that they are
| using 'open standards.' The government of South Africa has filed an appeal
| against the decision, citing the irregularities in the process."
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3753076_3
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