Bush's Failure in His War on Terror:
Today's lead story in the New York Times relates the increasing power of the Taliban in Afghanistan, fueled by record opium harvests: '“This year’s harvest will be around 6,100 metric tons of opium — a staggering 92 percent of total world supply. It exceeds global consumption by 30 percent,' Mr. Costa (the executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa) said at a news briefing."
After 9/11 it was well known that if we were to eradicate Al Qaeda from Afghanistan, or at least severly limit its power there, that nation building was an inevitability. The Bush administration has severely limited our ability to accomplish this with its obsession with Iraq and now Iran. The administration has turned a blind eye to the country that was the base for Al Qaeda operations.
It takes time to grow and harvest opium. Obviously no one has been paying attention to what has been going on in Afghanistan or they simply do not care.
Microsoft Rushes its latest Beta Version of Vista to Testers:
What's the panic, Microsoft? Why rush out a Beta to testers on a new version of Windows? Bottom line, meaning fear of falling stock prices. It isn't as if the vast majority of Windows users are dying for a new version of Microsoft's flagship software. The fact is that almost everyone who uses Windows is satisfied with the version they've been using for several years. Many users are still content with older versions of Windows, going back as far as Windows 95 in some cases.
After all, if people were truly anxious to upgrade their operating system they would switch to Mac or Linux, but very few people have or are likely to. So why rush out a newer version of Windows? Simple, the stock market will downgrade the value of Microsoft stock if the company falls further behind in its projected release of the next operating system. Microsoft is worried about one thing and one thing only: the value of its stock. Boom! That's it.
You can read about it here. By the way, will Vista be better than XP? It will require much more powerful hardware than XP or 2000 or 98 in order to run well. That will certainly be better for the few computer manufacturers left standing. Dell has witnessed dropping stock values of late. They are no doubt anxious to see the new OS come out, hoping it will spur sales of new hardware.
Today's lead story in the New York Times relates the increasing power of the Taliban in Afghanistan, fueled by record opium harvests: '“This year’s harvest will be around 6,100 metric tons of opium — a staggering 92 percent of total world supply. It exceeds global consumption by 30 percent,' Mr. Costa (the executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa) said at a news briefing."
After 9/11 it was well known that if we were to eradicate Al Qaeda from Afghanistan, or at least severly limit its power there, that nation building was an inevitability. The Bush administration has severely limited our ability to accomplish this with its obsession with Iraq and now Iran. The administration has turned a blind eye to the country that was the base for Al Qaeda operations.
It takes time to grow and harvest opium. Obviously no one has been paying attention to what has been going on in Afghanistan or they simply do not care.
Microsoft Rushes its latest Beta Version of Vista to Testers:
What's the panic, Microsoft? Why rush out a Beta to testers on a new version of Windows? Bottom line, meaning fear of falling stock prices. It isn't as if the vast majority of Windows users are dying for a new version of Microsoft's flagship software. The fact is that almost everyone who uses Windows is satisfied with the version they've been using for several years. Many users are still content with older versions of Windows, going back as far as Windows 95 in some cases.
After all, if people were truly anxious to upgrade their operating system they would switch to Mac or Linux, but very few people have or are likely to. So why rush out a newer version of Windows? Simple, the stock market will downgrade the value of Microsoft stock if the company falls further behind in its projected release of the next operating system. Microsoft is worried about one thing and one thing only: the value of its stock. Boom! That's it.
You can read about it here. By the way, will Vista be better than XP? It will require much more powerful hardware than XP or 2000 or 98 in order to run well. That will certainly be better for the few computer manufacturers left standing. Dell has witnessed dropping stock values of late. They are no doubt anxious to see the new OS come out, hoping it will spur sales of new hardware.
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