That’s what the Vista license says. With XP, you can install it on a new computer as many times as you want (after removing it from the old one.)

In Vista, you will only be able to do this once. More than that, you have to buy a new copy of Vista. Even though your original version is quite legal, Microsoft has declared it to to be dead. What a bunch of greedy pigs. But since Microsoft has rather clearly run out of new ideas and innovation, they’ve decided the only way to keep going is to police everything and assume the user is the enemy. A shortsighted strategy, to be sure.

It gets worse. If the Redmond Borg thinks your copy of Vista is pirated, it’ll automatically lock down Vista so, for example, you can only web browse with IE and only for an hour. Gee, I bet that nasty piece of anti-piracy software won’t fail more than on, what, a few million legal users who the anti-piracy software mistakenly decided weren’t.

Yet more reasons to go to Linux.

(The MacBook is nice, but hey, the 13-inch version has so many random lockups that a class action lawsuit is coming.)

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As well they should. The French parliament voted yesterday to make it a crime to say the Armenian genocide did not happen, just like Germany already does with their law banning Holocaust revisionism.

Both atrocities happened. To pretend they didn’t is beyond sick. Turkey says, well, it wasn’t genocide because it wasn’t planned by the state, a statement highly disputed by others. They do not deny that hundreds of thousands, maybe a million, Armenians were killed.

Some history. A soldier was injured in WWII. An Armenian doctor put him back together, and told him of the genocide. When that soldier became a senator, he put forth a resolution each year to recognize the genocide. It was always defeated, but he kept trying. His efforts helped considerably to get the truth out.

Bob Dole had no problem calling it genocide.

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As in, Democrats take the House easily

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That would be Bernie Sanders. No, he’s not hardly revolutionary socialist, more like democratic socialist. But still, he’s at least nominally socialist. And it’s a virtual certainty the hugely popular Sanders, who is running as an independent, will replace retiring Jim Jeffords as senator.

I’ve spent considerable time in Vermont, and you just gotta love a state like that!

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He says staying there just makes things worse.

And in saying so has declared war on Blair.

All of which is a whole lot more committed than anything coming out of the US Congress on the war. Most of the Democratic blabbing is about how the Republicans botched it and how the US should fight a better war, and is not about bring the troops home now.

Which is precisely what the head of the British Army IS saying.

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