Non Obstante Veredicto

GOP: Silence Speech

nonobstanteveredicto — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:41:09 +0000

Silence debate. That’s what the GOP Senate fat cats who pay $500 for their comprehensive health care wanted. America won tonight.

The hurdles placed in the way of a rule requiring health insurance are absurd. Not just the constant cacophony of lies from certain business interests: Who would expect any less?

But silencing speech on exploring a huge American problem hurting every single person is sickening. Why would the GOP do such a thing to America?

Fortunately, the Democrats proved that Washington is not Moscow, Pyongyang or Tashkent, after all.

Filibuster: A friend thought it means piracy. She had it almost right.

Obama and Microsoft Mistaken

nonobstanteveredicto — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:45:56 +0000

I like Obama and I can’t stand Microsoft. One hurts himself, the other hurts many.

For twenty years, Saturday morning promised a radio update from the president and a response from the opposition. Shortly after Obama took office, the radio update switched to something like 6 am and the Internet. The radio update at a decent time is limited to the opposition–which now means hearing the most vile and vicious distortions, and no rebuttal from the administration. I am on the Internet 24/7 but am I going to listen to radio on the Internet for Obama’s take? Never done that and not likely to.

Meanwhile, I have been needing to buy many PCs for the office. Ever since Vista appeared, I had to stop buying. It does not cooperate with a key Netware server. Multiplied by many others in the same boat, Microsoft’s decision to make XP unavailable on new PCs should hurt PC makers in big numbers.

I know there are work-arounds and alternatives but that is not what I can feed the staff. Same with Obama and the radio–I miss the radio updates but am unlikely to rearrange my life for them.

Picking on Frightened Sarah Palin

nonobstanteveredicto — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:18:05 +0000

First she drops her job because of an imaginary problem with sticking with it.

Now she’s frightened by a bill that doesn’t exist?

Can they get a medic for her, stat?

There is no euthanasia bill in Washington, Sarah! Completing your job is the honorable thing to do!

Just in case she hasn’t had time for history or books: Health care is cheapest when all share in the cost of insurance. The idea came from an arch-conservative, Bismarck. Look him up in the Wikipedia, SP. By they way, he understood the call of duty. He stuck with his job.

Apple, the Warmed-Over Microsoft

nonobstanteveredicto — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:45:14 +0000

Long ago, Microsoft closed the gates to DR-DOS and crippled apps like WordPerfect. Now, Apple sabotages software that opens the iPhone to additional software.

Cydia is a wonderful complementary App Store for the iPhone and offers great software. Can-Do-No-Wrong Apple keeps changing the software playing field to doom Cydia.

Developers use the term jailbreak to re-enable the iPhone to work as it is sold: A Unix-based software platform for Unix-based software programs. The term jailbreak mis-characterizes the sabotage Apple practices.

Apple runs an anti-competitve monopoly. Withholding software from the consumer, restraining them to purchasing only from its store, and changing the software to cripple competitors tastes like warmed-over Microsoft.