Google Groups : microsoft.public.windowsmedia.drm - the programmer of the Sony Rootkit asks in a newsgroup for free code for his work. Already strange ...
Archive 28. November 2005
Cardinal Sayings Against iPod and Co.
Latest from the most idiotic old men's club in the world. A Cardinal warns against iPods and video cell phones:
Parents should not give devices that can play videos as Christmas presents, says the Bishop of Baltimore. One must protect children from pornography.
Well. One should not publish interviews with priests. Neither at Christmas nor at any other time. One must protect people from too much stupidity ...
In office for only a few days, but corrupt to the core?
Glos insists on the takeover of ProSieben/Sat.1 by Springer:
Federal Minister of Economics Michael Glos is counting on the planned takeover of the television company ProSiebenSat.1 by Axel Springer Verlag to proceed in a normal manner. However, he did not rule out that a so-called ministerial permit might also be discussed in this context. He hopes, however, "that everything will be resolved," said Glos in Munich.
Concerns at the Federal Cartel Office? Screw it, what does the government care ...
A prerequisite for approval is that the restriction of competition is justified by overall economic advantages of a merger or by an overriding public interest in the merger.
Likely, the private coffers of the Minister of Economics are then simply of overriding public interest, or what does he want to base it on? After the CSU supported the Kirch conglomerate in Bavaria far beyond its viability for a long time, is it now Springer's turn? It's already absurd what politicians will stoop to ...
Why our politicians don't want popular initiatives
After a referendum in Switzerland: Swiss agriculture remains GMO-free. The government had hoped for a different outcome. Well, in Switzerland there's something similar to democracy. Not here - it would be too much to ask if the stupid voters might spoil the politicians' bribes from the biotech companies ...