--- Talk about overreaching.

“The critics argue that the internet is a public resource that
should be managed by national governments and, at an international
level, by an intergovernmental body such as the International
Telecommunications Union, the UN agency that is organising the
information summit.
Oh, great. Just what we need: the UN managing the Internet. They
already can̢۪t decide on how to manage the world, so we̢۪ll just put
the most important resource we have going right now in their competent and loving hands.
Puhleeze. And I̢۪ll bet anything that Al Gore wants to be the head of
that organization because he wants to make sure his invention is
governed properly. This is such a bad idea, on so many levels.
--- Today is Veterans Day. I am a warrior, that my son may be a merchant---and his son may be a poet.

---Thomas Jefferson

--- WTF?

--- Give us what we want or the bubbly gets it!
Why are they holding the bubbly hostage? It seems stupid. The
company̢۪s already bankrupt; they̢۪ll just declare the loss of the
stock in the bankruptcy and will move on. It̢۪s a moot point. My
solution, if the kidnappers really want to get vicious about it, is
that they should just drink the hoard and call it even. It seems better
compensation to me than what the bubbly kidnappers are likely to get,
which is fired and thrown in the pokey. I just don̢۪t get Europeans
sometimes. You people are an honest source of bafflement to me. I love
your cities, people and cultures, but hell, why on earth do you think
should have a job for life---particularly when the company you worked
for has gone belly up? Why do you hold champagne hostage instead of
opening up the help wanted ads and finding a new job? What point are
you trying to make here? That there̢۪s some sort of social contract
between employer and employee that̢۪s valid even if they can̢۪t
afford to pay you anymore? What the hell? {shaking head in bafflement}
Answers, please. I̢۪d like to understand this. --- To back up the
husband̢۪s Matrix essay, here̢۪s the transcript from CNN̢۪s American Morning 90 Second Pop Segment.

He̢۪s right: they just didn̢۪t get it.

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