http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/080324.jpg

This is an excellent documentary which sheds light on what all money in circulation really is – debt. Highly recommended viewing.

Google Video Link

Direct Download Link (mp4, 153 MBs)

On Oct. 23 HR 1955 the “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007” was passed by the House with 404 members voting in favor of this blatantly unconstitutional bill. – Ron Paul

One is the perceived overly broad and vague definitions of “force”, “home grown terrorism” and “violent radicalization” (section 899A). Critics charge that the vagueness in these definitions would permit the government to classify many types of venerated American political activity, such as civil disobedience, as terrorism. Critics frequently cite Section 899A which reads, in part: “The use, planned use, or threatened use, of force …to coerce the ..government, (or) civilian population ..in furtherance of political or social objectives”,[17] as particularly problematic. They argue that major societal reforms which are now accepted but were perceived at the time as threatening to the government, such as civil rights, suffrage, and others, would be classified as terrorism.

Source

It’s what we’ve all dreamt of and predicted, but now it looks like it’s finally happening.
Source

For the first time, in the history of Microsoft, it is going to go into debt. Yep. Their cash reserves are at an all-time low, and they’re trying very hard to buy Yahoo, so that they can have a chance to compete with Google.

This acquisition would cost them such a large sum of money, that they quite simply will have no alternative but to go into debt and borrow. And that’s if Yahoo accepts Microsoft’s proposal – who knows, Yahoo may even force Microsoft to raise their offer.

Of course Microsoft will not say that this is bad or anything, “business as usual” is the term they will probably use, but you have to consider, that this is in fact the first time ever that Microsoft will go into debt. And moreover, it’s for buying Yahoo.
Doesn’t this show how desperate they are? Doesn’t this signify that they are losing the battle of the internet rapidly? Doesn’t this mean, that they are willing to put everything they have and more – to stake all their assets, into this one gamble move, which may not even work out?

And let’s be serious, there’s just no way anyone can compete with Google, so it’s highly unlikely Microsoft will achieve anything positive for themselves.

I think this is a sign of things to come. Microsoft’s software is getting less and less popular. OpenOffice is widely used in the business community, especially Europe. Windows Vista has damaged Microsoft’s sales more than anything else ever could, with record number of people switching to linux. Vista’s non-OEM sales are almost non-existent. Microsoft is trying to combat this by cutting off all support for Windows XP early, but it’s doubtful this is a move which will earn them any brownie points in the business community.
Additionally, this comes at a time when Novell is pushing SuSE Enterprise as a superior alternative to Windows Professional, with significant success.

In addition, Dell began selling PC with linux pre-installed. And HP has followed. And these are two gigantic, multi-national computer distributors.

Every year, Microsoft sells less and less. They are coming up with fewer ideas, they are degrading in size, while the companies whom embraced open-source and completely changed their operations are growing faster than ever, with increasing net profits.

Lastly, I’d like to link to this;
Reasons why Microsoft is Doomed

So there you have it. This is truly, the beginning of the end for Microsoft.

The latest firefox 3 beta had a massive improvement over firefox 2 in regards to memory usage. It used 140MBs less RAM than firefox 2 in the tests Mozilla Corp ran. This is an improvement of 60%!

It’s edge over IE 7 was 400MBs – not really surprising considering Internet Explorer = fail. They also tried to test IE 8, but it just kept crashing (lol).

It’s edge over Opera was 20-155MBs. Not a lot, but still better, and especially a big difference on low-end machines.

Mozilla Corp says they fixed literally hundreds of memory leaks, thanks to community contributions. This just goes to show that open source software, is the BEST software!

Source

This is so damn funny – I just HAD to post it.

For similar content, search “misheard lyrics” on youtube.

The documentary behind this isn’t actually new, so I’m wondering as to why this is only hitting the news now. Unless they re-made it or something.

http://polidics.com/cia/top-ranking-cia-operatives-admit-al-qaeda-is-a-complete-fabrication.html

Yes we all know that Vista sucks already, but this is still a worthwhile read:

http://www.microsplot.com/news/2007/12/anything_speechless_100_things_people_are_really_saying_about_windows_vista

These photos were taken in succession, second() apart.

I recommend you open them in tabs, scroll an equal distance on each (I did two strokes of the mouse wheel down), and Crl+Tab to move through the tabs.

It’s pretty fascinating stuff.

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=136179
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=136193
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=136192
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=136191
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=136190

ATS Thread