Political Correctnes in Technology
Jim Rendon of SearchNetworking.com has an interesting story about the use of the terms “Master” and Slave” as used in connection with Technology.
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Jean-Christophe Mounicq has written a poignant piece on the new European anti-Semitism. And it doesn’t come from the far-right either.
Via: Glenn
2 comments‘…the balance of opinion we have received so far.’
The BBC doesn’t have to pay for all the insightful political opinion found on its site…
I have a message for the Iraqi people: You will now have to fear the rule of George W Bush and his kind forever more. Your dictator was just replaced by another. Sorry.
Mathew Goad, Ojai, CA , USA
There are loads more if you can bear it
8 commentsFree Speech EU style
As Terrance Coyle says: You cannot make this up.
Comments are off for this postAn anti-Bushie writes
Re: Judge ye not, lest ye be judged
Date: 15 December 2003
Sir – The capture of Saddam Hussein marks the true moment of “Mission Accomplished” for the Bush-Blair war on Iraq. After all, the real purpose of that mission was always to topple Saddam and his regime, with “weapons of mass destruction”, al-Qa’eda connections and legalistic interpretations of Security Council resolution 1441 serving as mere cover stories.
So a precedent has been established: the “righteous” are entitled to invade any sovereign state whose internal regime they abhor on moral grounds. It is a precedent that fundamentally subverts a world order based on respect for the sovereignty of states. And it may yet rebound on the “righteous” in the White House and Downing Street: judge ye not, lest ye be judged.
But will the capture of Saddam so discourage the Iraqi resistance fighters that the ambushes of the American occupation forces will cease or greatly diminish? In so far as these ambushes have been perpetrated by Ba’athists, this may prove to be the case.
However, the occupation has also served as an invitation to all kinds of Islamist fighters to enter Iraq through its open desert frontiers. The capture of Saddam will make no difference to them. On the contrary, if Bush’s Washington now indulges in another bout of swaggering triumph, these groups may even be angered into increasing their rates of striking. Strategically, Iraq remains a long and vulnerable American flank.
From:
Correlli Barnett, Norwich
The normally reliable Radley bleats on about this as well. He claims the following:
a man for whom the available evidence suggests hasn’t a single drop of blood of a single American civilian on his hands.
Wonder if the revelation that Atta (mastermind of 9/11) and Saddam’s intelligence services had close links will go some way to change his mind. I bloody well hope so. I think there is hope for Radley, but sure about the rest of the anti-war loons.
Update: There is a petition in favour of suicide bombers.
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PP reports on a small oversight by a printing company. One wonders how they could miss it.
Comments are off for this postOh god no! The LOTR musical!?!
After the great news of this weekend comes this bit of rather distressing news. Some cretin wants to turn Lord of the Rings into a musical.
Having filled cinemas for three years, and after topping the BBC’s favourite
book poll this weekend, JRR Tolkien’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ is now
destined for the West End stage. Theatre producers last week confirmed they
will stage a musical version of the novel in London in Spring 2005. Finnish
contemporary folk group Vrttin are reportedly composing the music for the
show.
Dancing Orks, singing Ringwraithes, and a Gandalf or Sauron solo…the thought of it fills me with revulsion. How can those philistines do this sort of thing to Tolkein’s wonderous works? I mean, is there anyway to stop this madness? Why do we need a LOTR musical? If you want a rather similar story sung to music, there is always Wagner’s Ring Cycle. I am willing to bet that, whatever the leeches doing the musical produce, it will be nowhere near as good as Wagner’s masterwork. How can they top the “Ride of the Valkyries”?!
This dire news comes via CMU.
3 commentsPauvre Chirac……..
Chirac will have to drown in his tears of dismay, again, for having lost not one but two “guerres diplomatiques”. Quel Domage!
JFM, for one, has no sympathy; in fact, she cheered about each one. Being barred from Reconstruction Contracts in Iraq brought out his first “whine”; the second must have happened behind closed doors upon hearing about work on the proposed EU Constitution coming to a screeching whoa when those uppity little “other” countries protested about being subordinated to “les pays superieux”. Mon Dieu!
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So the tyrant is well and truly overthrown; and the oppressed people, sensing that a shadow is lifted off the land, flock to the blog quebecois, demanding to see the dictator stripped bare. Yes, they want nude pictures of . . . Sheila Copps.
I kid you not. I’ve had a dozen hits the last day or two searching for ‘em.
I should explain here that Sheila Copps was formerly Canada’s Minister of Heritage.
I should explain here to Americans, who invariably say “Minister of What?” that Canadians cannot be entrusted with celebrating their own heritage, inasmuch as it mainly involves those icky dead white males, so the Government instead funds authentic emenations of Canadian culture, such as (I’m not kidding) female East Indian hip-hop groups. No link available, but I’ve seen it, and trust me, it’s awful.
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