Microsoft to offer 6 versions of Windows Vista system

Golly, imagine my excitement when my clients upgrade to six different versions of Windows. This opens whole new, er, Vistas of support nightmares, as now there will be multiple versions of Windows, all no doubt with different (and gaping) security holes, their own quirks, and of course the joy of converting from XP to the new OS.

What’s needed is one version of an operating system that just simply works.

Long time Mac user and City of Santa Monica Council member Kevin McKeown summed it up in a comment here.

Stability, security, and no spyware — if only Mac was a form of government.

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I read the following op-ed, which anguishes about the disintegration of Iraq without even mentioning that the primary cause for it was the US invasion, thinking it was from was a right wing source. After all, it ponders whether the US should stay or go, implying the US has an honorable mission to perform there and that Iraqis want them to stay, which is akin to saying the rapist is the best person to care for the victim and that the victim should have no say in the matter.

Iraq spiraling into a failed state is a doomsday scenario not just for Iraq but for the United States. But what’s becoming more questionable by the day are whether the 130,000 US forces in Iraq are any longer the finger in the dike they have been for the last 3 years.

“Finger in the dike?” The US blew up the dike when they invaded the country based on lies. Saying the US has any right to be in Iraq, as this op-ed does, simply supports the imperialist goals of the neocons while offering a fig leaf of limp opposition.

That the op-ed is from the supposedly liberal Huffington Post is bizarre. You can’t claim to oppose the Iraq war and at the same time support US troops occupying that country. Yet that’s what they’re doing. Such muddled thinking is typical of liberals, who often find it difficult to take actual stands on issues, much less take action.

Here’s the action to take. Bring the troops home now.

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United Nations ambassador and Atlanta mayor Andrew Young will be the public spokesman for a group backed by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. that defends the world’s largest retailer against mounting attacks from critics.

Via the Rock and Rap Confidential listserv who quotes Tupac in response

“For all the sellouts living it up
One way or another you’ll be giving it up”

From civil rights leader in the 60’s to defending a notorious exploiter, it appears Young sold out long ago.

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