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Freitag, 20. Dezember 2002 |
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I had an IM discussion with a fellow (unnamed) blogger about the post preceding this one. He thinks I shouldn't make political remarks here. Fighting dictators and terrorism is about protecting our freedom. Free speech is part of that. Therefore I speak. Do politics and technology mix? They do and they must. At the newtelligence office, a good deal of the daytime talk is about political issues and world events. We're all interested in many things beyond technology and that enables us to make better strategic judgements. We don't agree on many things. In fact, our basic views are almost evenly distributed across the political spectrum - which makes discussions even more interesting. 9:39:44 PM  comments []
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Aliens pledge their support in war with Iraq. ... "It sounds like Bush is getting desperate," says one skeptic. "Little green men wanting to fight side by side with America? It's like Bush can't get the support of the other countries on our world, so he's counting on getting help from other worlds." ... An completely on-topic post in regards to my blog-title and an opportunity to publicly thank my friend Steve Swartz for a great birthday gift that has very much enlightened me. He signed me up for a subscription to Weekly World News and since I am a curious reader of this insightful paper, I know more about the culture of America than ever before. The best thing about Weekly World News is that they never, ever would report anything that is not 100% true. Never. However, the reference to that satirical WWN article is also on-topic because I honestly think that there are good reasons to be hestitant about marching towards Baghdad. Saddam is a cruel dictator, but establishing a healthy democracy by western measures in the void of power that will come after Saddam after such a war is entirely illusionary. Such a democracy has never remotely existed there and the Arab world as such has a completely different perception and concept of leadership that has little in common with our western ideas and which we should accept to not understand. Also, it's noteworthy that North Korea has just admitted a nuclear arms program and shrugs off complaints about restarting its nuke plants. ... I would consider that a bigger concrete and present threat, really. Probably a third of all countries in the world have some biological or chemical weapons capacity. Something tells me that the rushed urgency in the case of Iraq isn't a good idea. Then again, I could be all wrong because of intelligence information that we all will never know of.
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Welcome a new blogger on the block: Morten Abrahamsen! (Blog, RSS). Morten is a friend of mine who I met at one of my many visits to Norway last year. Morten is, among other things, a key architect of a major B2B exchange system in Norway, has been more than once more than knee-deep in the mud of the not-so-nice areas of Windows DNA and demonstrates a very pragmatic point-of-view towards system architecture that very often truly reflects the coolness of his Nordic home in winter. A blog to watch and a person to learn from. 11:11:41 AM comments []
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