An interesting history of the "chat war" between the AOL and Microsoft messenger services. Also some interesting insights into Microsoft corporate culture generally.
"Thus the burgeoning NetDocs, which was intended to be an internet-based document-editing suite, gobbled up a number of small groups in the late ’90s. But NetDocs got eaten by Office, which then proceeded to kill it, thus leaving the door open for Google to debut Google Docs in the mid-2000s. And on it went. Multiyear projects with hundreds of engineers died without the public ever hearing a word. It continues." n+1 magazine
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I'm not sure whether this is pure hypocrisy or the result of classifying some people as the "right kind of foreigner". It'd really be helpful to voters if UKIP were more publicly explicit about the precise targets of their racism and xenophobia... BBC
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I take it that the Guardian would not feel to frame the discussion as a "debate" if it was the rights of garment workers, for instance, at stake. But it is in any case heartening that the comments appear to oppose criminalisation overwhelmingly. The Guardian
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"Peter and Mbadu say that they are innocent of all charges and played no part in du Preez’s death. They maintain that they are being maliciously prosecuted and framed because they exposed a corrupt South African Police Service (SAPS) officer.
Both work at the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) and are long-standing activists in their communities. For years Peter was the public face of the SJC’s criminal justice campaign and in particular the O’Regan/Pikoli Commission of Inquiry into Policing in Khayelitsha. Peter monitored criminal cases and assisted victims and families dealing with the police and the courts in Khayelitsha and Mfuleni." GroundUp
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"The prevalence of extra-marital partnerships among women was 6.2% within a reference time of six months. Factors that were independently associated with increased likelihood of extra-marital partnerships were domestic violence, women reporting being denied a preferred sex position and spouse longer erect penis . Conversely, women's age – more than 24 years and women's increased sexual satisfaction were associated with reduced likelihood of extra-marital partnerships." Plos One (via Michael Meadon)
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" But it's worse than that: it doesn't even matter where you live.
Moving to a higher-income neighborhood – one where market and regulatory forces have already pushed out the low-income – means you're helping to sustain the high cost of living there, and therefore helping to keep the area segregated. You're also forcing lower-income college graduates to move to more economically marginal areas, where they in turn will push out people with even less purchasing power. You can't escape the role you play in displacement any more than a white person can escape their whiteness, because those are both subject to systemic processes that have created your relevant status and assigned its consequences. Among the classes, there is no division between "gentrifiers" and "non-gentrifiers." If you live in a city, you don't get to opt out" Atlantic Cities
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I take this as a sign the the PLO has officially given up on extracting any concessions from the Netanyahu government for now. We'll see how it goes, anyway...
"Mahmoud Abbas's Palestine Liberation Organisation and Hamas on Wednesday agreed to implement a unity pact, with the aim of forming a government within five weeks. The move, announced at a joint news conference by both sides, includes the intention to hold national elections six months after a vote of confidence by the Palestinian parliament." The Guardian
"Thus the burgeoning NetDocs, which was intended to be an internet-based document-editing suite, gobbled up a number of small groups in the late ’90s. But NetDocs got eaten by Office, which then proceeded to kill it, thus leaving the door open for Google to debut Google Docs in the mid-2000s. And on it went. Multiyear projects with hundreds of engineers died without the public ever hearing a word. It continues." n+1 magazine
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I'm not sure whether this is pure hypocrisy or the result of classifying some people as the "right kind of foreigner". It'd really be helpful to voters if UKIP were more publicly explicit about the precise targets of their racism and xenophobia... BBC
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I take it that the Guardian would not feel to frame the discussion as a "debate" if it was the rights of garment workers, for instance, at stake. But it is in any case heartening that the comments appear to oppose criminalisation overwhelmingly. The Guardian
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"Peter and Mbadu say that they are innocent of all charges and played no part in du Preez’s death. They maintain that they are being maliciously prosecuted and framed because they exposed a corrupt South African Police Service (SAPS) officer.
Both work at the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) and are long-standing activists in their communities. For years Peter was the public face of the SJC’s criminal justice campaign and in particular the O’Regan/Pikoli Commission of Inquiry into Policing in Khayelitsha. Peter monitored criminal cases and assisted victims and families dealing with the police and the courts in Khayelitsha and Mfuleni." GroundUp
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"The prevalence of extra-marital partnerships among women was 6.2% within a reference time of six months. Factors that were independently associated with increased likelihood of extra-marital partnerships were domestic violence, women reporting being denied a preferred sex position and spouse longer erect penis . Conversely, women's age – more than 24 years and women's increased sexual satisfaction were associated with reduced likelihood of extra-marital partnerships." Plos One (via Michael Meadon)
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" But it's worse than that: it doesn't even matter where you live.
Moving to a higher-income neighborhood – one where market and regulatory forces have already pushed out the low-income – means you're helping to sustain the high cost of living there, and therefore helping to keep the area segregated. You're also forcing lower-income college graduates to move to more economically marginal areas, where they in turn will push out people with even less purchasing power. You can't escape the role you play in displacement any more than a white person can escape their whiteness, because those are both subject to systemic processes that have created your relevant status and assigned its consequences. Among the classes, there is no division between "gentrifiers" and "non-gentrifiers." If you live in a city, you don't get to opt out" Atlantic Cities
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I take this as a sign the the PLO has officially given up on extracting any concessions from the Netanyahu government for now. We'll see how it goes, anyway...
"Mahmoud Abbas's Palestine Liberation Organisation and Hamas on Wednesday agreed to implement a unity pact, with the aim of forming a government within five weeks. The move, announced at a joint news conference by both sides, includes the intention to hold national elections six months after a vote of confidence by the Palestinian parliament." The Guardian
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