"U.S. Asks European Union to Be Fair in Microsoft Case"

[Peter]

On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Scott Elcomb wrote:

>> To me, it's downright charming to know that a political party exists to
>> assert British independence from America.

I am curious what the 21th century version of a Boston tea party looks 
like. Probably an exchange of classified emails followed by a vow by the 
relevant leaders never to play golf together again, and a little harder 
visa regime at the borders. Oh wait, they are doing the visa thing now, 
no ?

> In all seriousness though, the US has lots of bright folks.  It's
> simply awful that so much greed has worked it's way into Capitalism.
> The balance is off.

I think that the greed is sort of built into Capitalism, and that's the 
way it's supposed to be. It's the 'Demos' in democracy that is thin and 
far between.

> For what it's worth, the FSF and the EFF are beacons for me - kinda
> like the CN Tower, just nobody seems to remember.

The problem I see with this is, that the people to whom these beacons 
are thorns do remember them all the time.

Peter
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