This video and article says it all, via BoingBoing which also covers it in depth. The Chinese government is a disgrace to their people and history.
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Let me jump right into the water and say: Microsoft’s new Office 2007 is a very different product from its predecessors and as such represents a very weak spot in the usually hardened Microsoft armor. This version of Office may start a huge switch-over to OpenOffice and alternatives.
This is the case not because Office 2007 [...]

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It is already old news apparently, but I’ve only just now seen the videos from the White House Correspondence Association dinner.
While seeing the first video, I felt at first a very strong cognitive dissonance as a fellow commenter on SE described it.
The dissonance arose because usually it takes intelligence and self-awareness for a person [...]

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CNN in a manipulatively titled article reports that [the] “Senate fails to reauthorize Patriot Act“, which translated from corpo-speech means that the Senate has so far refused to renew it.
I hope the renewal fails and that Dec. 31st comes and goes without the Patriot Act, a.k.a the Police State Act, renewed.
CNN also fails to indicate [...]

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If you’ve read my previous post, you might have noticed that last paragraph in which I was hinting at the development that might bring back the balance in Democracy. You would have probably guessed that I was referring to blogs.
Yes, lowly blogs.
For those of you not following closely, blogs, for a while now, have ceased [...]

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Democracy in its purest form was designed to be a balanced system. Separate judiciary, executive and legislative institutions of government are not enough. Thus the freedom of speech exists to create another institution — the press. The press was designed as a watchdog; it was there to pay the price of eternal vigilance to guarantee [...]

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