The Slamlander

Win7 pricing has been released.

This is getting bad folks.

Those who want to upgrade to Windows 7 on a older PC will pay a reduced price for the software. Stand alone versions of Windows 7, that can run on more than one PC, will also be available.

Microsoft said these upgrade options will not be available to Europeans.

"We will not be able to offer an upgrade product within Europe," said John Curran, Windows business lead at Microsoft UK, adding that only the full version of the software will be available to Europeans.

This is market discrimination at its worst.

The upgrade option was not available, Microsoft said, because it was trying to comply with European competition regulations.

Which is pure bullshit! Microsoft didn’t like being called a monopolist and paying billions of dollars worth of fines. Now they are trying to get the fines back out of European customers.

A Commission spokesman dismissed Microsoft’s claim that it was taking the action to comply with European laws.

"For them to claim that this is somehow imposed by the Commission or is going to resolve the problem with the Commission is far from clear," he said. "It’s certainly not because we’ve asked them to do it."

It appears that the commission agrees but will not yet go so far as to state what I just said. This is Microsoft trying to get back at us for those billions of dollars of fines that they were supposed to pay¹

M$ willfully violated the law, was found guilty in court and then willfully refused to pay the resulting fine. They then got fined for failure to pay the fine, with interest, and only made token payment when about to be levied a fine for failure to pay the fine, which was for failure to pay the fine, which was for failure to pay the original fine. All in all, some +20B$² .

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1. They still haven’t paid all of them. [↩]
2. I’m not sure of this, it seems low and I thought the total remuneration was upwards of +90B$ [↩]

Governor Sanford has an affair, big deal! Especially since his wife already knew about it. If it is^okay with her then why is anyone else concerned?

He said his wife and family had known of the affair for the past five months and that he was resigning his post of chair of the RGA.He said his wife and family had known of the affair for the past five months and that he was resigning his post of chair of the RGA.

Mitterand ((Past President of France.)) had a lady on the side… Read more on; What’s wrong with this?.

There is a bogus email

I got it twice. The first one was with an attachment that ClamWin auto-stripped in my hMailserver (I love ClamWin). The second one was with bogus link only.

People should know, Microsoft NEVER sends either update attachments or links to updates. They ALWAYS make you go through the normal update process.

Update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express (KB910721)

Brief Description

Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express. This update is critical and provides… Read more on; Virus alert: Bogus Microsoft update notice!.

Well, my email network is running again. One perforce has to watch and maintain such systems, not because they are unreliable, but because they are under constant attack and will erode over time. It would be nice if, like the old days, one could assemble a server that would stand for ten or more years. However, there is always some twat that is trying to break it. No matter how sound your system is, they will eventually succeed. This is what happened to my systems and they succeeded during a low point for me, when I wasn’t watching. To be honest… Read more on; A bit of progress.

It’s been a while, I know. I’ve been dealing with other issues. True, they are not as grievous as some on my friends list but for me, they are still some things that I can’t ignore.

Some of you may have noticed that my Econ and Politicks posts have tapered off or just plain stopped. They will remain stopped for the moment. Where I used to be glued to the dataflow, both online and on television, I no longer track either. The reason is that it is no longer healthy for me to do so.

The worst… Read more on; Life at large and other things.

Megan isn’t the only one that doesn’t like Anne Coulter. That’s Megan McCain.

Among many other Centrist Republicans, Anne Coulter leaves me mystified. Where does she get the ideas that Liberals are godless ((Anne’s book where she confuses secularism with atheism.)) ? In fact, I really want to know why Liberals are akin to fascists when G.W. Bush wasn’t. During eight years of steady incursions and erosion of our individual rights by the “freedom loving” Republicans of the far right; How can anyone claim that they are not fascist? Neoconservative and neofascist, what… Read more on; Anne Coulter is a fraud..

Suzie Sparks is nothing like you. She isn't really very cool: she blends into crowds, she hangs out on the fringes at parties, and wearing shades after dark makes her run into things. She may have sometimes thought that she was special, or destined for greater things, but probably dismissed the idea as a fantasy. She's got no emotional scars to speak of. And she's gotten no slack from you.

In general, you care deeply about Suzie Sparks, but you're smart enough to let her stand on her own, without burdening her with your personal… Read more on; A Mary Sue test site.

I haven’t even been answering my email. That was just as well because my mail server is FUBAR again.

I have over 100K words in a new book. This one is straight SciFi/Fantasy. I had much fun writing it and the First Draft is now in the can.

More later ……

As much as I dislike many Democrat Party positions, I now favor Obama. I may disagree with many of his positions and attitudes but the McCain/Palin ticket leans too far to the right for me. Like Colin Powell, I have been a life-long centrist Republican. Also like Powell, I have been seriously concerned with the encroachment of the Religious Right, on the Republican Party, for over a decade. The increasing radicalism of the Republican Party has become as repugnant to me as it has to Colin Powell. Is General Colin Powell my hero? Yes he is.… Read more on; Move over Democrats, but don’t get too used to it..

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