Office Politics Give Liberal Radio a Rocky Start
Air(heads) America Radio is having financial troubles.
Al Franken is working without a salary in an attempt to establish a permanent manned outpost on the left side of the spectrum.
It won't work.
The problem is, they need conservative management. They need management that understands how to run a radio network for a profit. They need to understand markets, demographics, strategic placement of hosts to suit the listeners, how to attract real advertisers based on a strong track record of ratings.
They won't get that because the place is run by left-wing moonbats who think that the message is all they need, and advertisers shold buy time because, well, because they Hate Bush. After all, doesn't Everybody Hate Bush? This collection of utopian socialists, guild unionists, and Bush Haters couldn't run that operation as a business if their lives depended on it.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch.
This item on C-Net tells how Microsoft paid the developers of the Opera browser $12 million to avoid having the case come to court (some lingering anti-trust worries?).
Opera developed some devastating evidence that the scamps at Microsoft had designed their MSN portal to only display properly when viewed with Internet Exploiter, I mean Explorer, thus giving the impression that other browsers were flawed. This is an on-going prank at Microsoft, and so 6th grade. I first came across it years ago with a CD of Java training software which used flawed HTML (that IE ignored) to flog Netscape browsers as being broken, when in fact, the code was purposely broken so that only IE could display it properly.
And they are still pulling the same crap today. Look, guys, fraternity pranks were rilly kewl in college, but this is the business world, and ADULTS DON'T THINK THIS SHIT IS FUNNY. And I hope you have a good explanation why your little prank cost Chairman Bill 12 big ones.
Morons.
Oh, and check this:
"Having used its desktop operating system monopoly to help trounce its primary rival Netscape, Microsoft has effectively abandoned significant browser development efforts. That's left companies with negligible market share such as Opera and Netscape's Mozilla open-source project to lead innovation in the field." (My emphasis)
Remember during the anti-trust trial when they kept whining about all the innovation they did? Such bullshit.
U.S. Warns Of Al Qaeda Threat This Summer
Agents in Country Said To Be Planning Attack
Also, this: "...al Qaeda operatives are pleased with the change in government resulting from the March 11 terrorist bombings in Spain and may want to affect elections in the United States..."
Okay so which candidate would most benefit from an attack on the U.S.? Remember, this is from the terrorist's point of view, after Spanish voters wimped out and elected the opposition party following the attack there.
So we know who has the endorsement of fanatic Islamists.
I would hope that, in the actual event of such an attack, the last thing anyone would want to be on this planet is a fanatic Islamist, seeing as that should be a de facto death sentence.
But if Senator Gigolo Chicken Heart gets elected, who knows?
... and I am King of the Poles. Here is a review of Brown's book.
It seems to me, that with all the money Microsoft has, they could get better sock puppets than Ken Brown. From the Sourcefrog review:
"The paper is poorly written, full of contradictions and gramatical errors. If their essay were a program, it would not even compile, let alone work.
Nearly every paragraph makes an unsubstantiated assertion. Brown seems to feel that just inserting "it is clear that", "ironically", "clearly", or "it is widely known" is an adequate substitute for cited evidence. Ironically, it clearly is not.
Brown clearly does not understand the terms he uses, such as "copyright", "public domain" or "open source". He does not seem to understand that copyright protects representations, not ideas. In several places he seems to think that open source is in the public domain. "
Quite the expert researcher, is Mr. Brown. Apparently the world's richest man has problems hiring good help.
I suspect that Mr. Brown can't believe that Linus wrote Linux because those of limited vision and intelligence have great difficulty conceiving of the accomplishments of their superiors. Mr. Brown is clearly a man of limited intellect, and a piss-poor writer to boot.
To quote Nelson Muntz: "Ha ha".
Here's some scary shit: DHS and UK ID card biometric vendor in false ID lawsuit
Their supposedly "unique" fingerprint ID, isn't. So if you are fingerprinted and the print is coded with this system, you just might inherit felony convictions of some other person whose print ID happens to match yours. Police agencies are notorious for trusting completely in their identification systems, and will not believe you are who you say even when it is impossible for you to be who they say.
This is some seriously scary shit.
We are entering some sort of end game with SCO. RBC (Royal Bank of Canada), one of the preferred convertible stock holders (with Baystar), has called for conversion of their stock to common at $13.50 per share. That's nearly 800,000 shares of stock that closed below $6 today, which means they stand to lose $6 million if they get out now.
Additionally, they sold 10,000 shares to Baystar, which gives Baystar, a predatory VC firm, a huge block of SCO's stock. Baystar recently called for changes in the top management at SCO to concentrate on the IP litigation as the core business. Baystar is also entirely too cozy with the Dark Lords in Redmond to say that all this manuvering is just business. Something has been cooked up between Baystar, Canopy, and Microsoft, and when three founts of pure evil come together it does not bode well for the innocent.
We will see soon enough what malice this will bring.
Grady gets four years in prison
In a stunning miscarriage of justice perpetrated by a jury of mentally-deficient Austinites, Ryan Grady, who brutally murdered Johnny Flobeck two years ago in an argument over a parking place, was acquitted of murder charges.
He was convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. How can someone assault another person with a deadly weapon, resulting in that person's death, and not be convicted of murder?
Grady received a sentence of four years and will most probably serve prison time, if the judge isn't as big an imbecile as were the jurors.
I sincerely hope, and fervently wish that Mr Grady's last sight on earth will be several large convicts standing over him in the shower as they beat the living shit out of him. That will give him a taste of what Johnny Flobeck suffered that night in the parking lot.