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Friday, November 08, 2002
Thursday, November 07, 2002
Pinback (II) !

http://macedition.com/cb/cb_20020603.php

Mozilla Composer, or some evolution of it, is what thousands of college professors need to produce the course information they post for their students. It"s what the UN needs to produce its media releases instead of generating multiple kilobytes of steaming Microsoft-proprietary pseudo-XML bumf for a two-paragraph document. And if its developers get their act together and make it easier to user templates and link to existing stylesheets, perhaps using the CaScadeS project, it might even be the right tool for the thousands upon thousands of people who create content for their organisations" intranets.

Pingback!
  1. His site is very nice, full of interesting articles
  2. His site contains a superb review of Mozilla/Netscape Composer
  3. It even contains a very good review of CaScadeS
  4. And look what he did with Composer and CaScadeS !!! Veeeerrrrryyyy nice demo !

Wow, thank you so much Joe.

Germs

The Bush administration (I refuse to assimilate these people to the whole U.S.) accused France (with Iraq, North Korea and Russia !!!) of keeping a stock of smallpox virus, and the French Foreign Ministry strongly denied.

  1. that's only because France and the Bush Administration do not agree on UN resolutions ; next time we have a bigger crisis between those two, the Bush Administration will put France on a worse blacklist. Hey, aren't we eating stinking cheese anyway ?
  2. what's better ? Stocks of smallpox for (I quote the International Herald Tribune) "search for a new-generation vaccine" or bubonic plague in the streets of New-York city ?
Wednesday, November 06, 2002
Thoughts

Right Tantek, the situation is worse than I thought. That does not hide the fact that Microsoft is pushing on the U.S. government and asks it to push on the European Commission. That's just a scandal. This is <digression>wwwoooooow, seeing an Aston Martin by the window</digression> just the kind of attitude that makes other countries complain about the U.S. because it's not discreet enough. Oh, and that does not hide the fact that US judges often turn their coats when they feel the wind is changing of direction ; they want to be re-elected.

Here is a list of thoughts, some related to this case, some not :

  1. the way political parties are financed is one of the biggest sources of corruption in the western world
  2. money donations to political parties should be highly taxed
  3. money donations to political parties should be limited to a given amount
  4. increase of a money donation to a political party from one year to the next one should be limited to a given percentage ; decrease should be unlimited
  5. judges should never be elected ; they should be appointed by a college of other judges, that college of judges itself randomly chosen among all the judges every let's say 5 years (why 5 ? because in the US it must be >4, length of the presidential mandate, and >2 because there are elections every two years ; must also be an odd number to put some spice in political life since 4 and 2 are even); it should be strictly forbidden to any government official to interfer with a decision from a judge or the college of judges ; it should even be strictly forbidden, and punished, to any government official to criticize or condemn a decision from a judge or the college of judges
  6. all references to religion should be banned from the State and in particular from Justice. Separation between religion and state should be considered as a fundamental component of democracy ; in particular, a country where a given religion is Religion of State should be blacklisted as non-democratic. A country where religious arguments are accepted or even required by Justice should be blacklisted as non-democratic. Yes, I do understand that puts some members of the European Union on such a list
  7. political and diplomatic immunity should not exist at all
  8. life sentence should be automatic for barmen/barmaids making bad quality expresso and french bakers making bad croissants or flabby (sp?) bread
  9. always let the music and film industry define formats if they want to ; they usually do it so badly the format is immediately copyable/hackable. Only copyable/hackable innovations succeed
Tuesday, November 05, 2002
Monday, November 04, 2002
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