Hi Samuel!
11 Jan 2003, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[dhs]
>> And nobody cares !!!
SH> The so-called Big Brother department was created in order to
SH> consolidate the functions of several intelligence and law enforcement
SH> agencies into one big super-agency.
Yes ...
but it has also much more rights than before.
And this rights can be abused. (-> big brother)
Let's hope that this will not happen too much ...
SH> Nobody cares because anything done for the mere purpose of improving
SH> efficiency in government will save the taxpayers some money.
I doubt that it will cost less, and I doubt that it will not limit freedom of
americans.
We will see how much it costed, after the next american budget.
(I'm really, really sure that it will be much more)
>> Back to big brother
>> First move from M$ was to designate Thomas Richey as M$ director for
>> homeland security ... who waits now that W buys software for huge
>> amounts of $$ from M$
SH> What did Micro$oft have to do with getting Thomas Richey a job?
SH> I don't even know who Thomas Richey is. I thought Tom Ridge was the
SH> director of Homeland Security.
sorry ... I did not make myself clear.
M$ has nothing to do with dhs.
But the first move of M$ was to designate a director at M$ who is director for
homeland security. And they wnat to make big $$$ with it.
Anyways that's their right ...
just wanted to tell you that much of your taxes could go to M$ for the
pruduction of technology which will be used to limit the freedom of americans.
SH> The reason why government and most big corporations use Micro$oft
SH> operating $ystem$ and $oftware is that the schools, colleges, and
SH> other educational institutions in the US don't offer many courses on
SH> alternative operating systems and software.
sad ... but this is not only an american problem.
M$ software is largly used in the whole world, and many people get used to it.
But the situation gets less severe when higher postitions are though of.
For example in my university I have seldom met windows ... but used many types
of commercial (aix, hpux, etc) and free (linux, bsd) Unixes.
SH> The teaching staff will officially discourage the students from
SH> becoming very interested in alternative operating systems because they
SH> say that area employers seeking to hire people for computer-related
SH> jobs are looking only for people who know how to do Micro$oft stuff.
SH> Unfortunately this is mostly true.
But very shortsighted.
People who know the basic ideas, can use any software.
People who know only how sw x works, know nothing if they have to upgrade to
another version, or even another program.
>> And another highly sick part is the `Cyber Security Enhancement Act'
>> (CSEA) a law that IMO clearly violates international Law, and UN
>> law.
SH> I have never heard of the "Cyber Security Enhancement Act". If it
SH> were something so highly controversial, why don't they talk about it
SH> in the news?
They haven't talked about other controversial issues :)
But this one is not so controversial for americans.
And I haven't heared/read about it much.
Basically it says that american courts can judge about non americans, who have
nothing to do with america, and haven't ever been, there, nor commited a crime
there.
SH> The average citizen cannot keep up with every piece of new legislation
SH> that comes around.
IMHO this act is not that important that it is a must report for media.
If there will be a case than IMHO it could get important ...
but until than it is no big problem not to report about it.
SH> The citizen trusts the news media to report on all the significant
SH> bills.
Like in all other countries.
SH> I have recently learned from you that the news media is failing us in
SH> this regard.
IMHO it could be that some journalists do misunderstand the word patriotism (a
word which is often used in america ... and IMHO not so often completely
understood)
Anyways not writing about *that* act is no big problem.
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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