| Archive for: December, 2007
Paul Murphy Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Trying to predict 2008 Posted in: Linux Enterprise Policy Government Apple E-voting Sun The IT word for 2008 will, I think, be either "continuation" or "consolidation" as existing trends become more obvious to more people and little new enters the market. Herewith, however, some predictions I hope not to be apologizing for next December. At the top of the list of continuations is SCO. No matter how the legal action pans out, it will continue to dominate direction setting in the Linux community - and until or unless IBM gets its collective head straight on the issue and cleans house, the polarization this case has led to will continue to undermine Linux legitimacy.
Lawrence R. Velvel: Halberstam And History
It is often remarked that Korea is a war about which most of us know little or nothing. It is called a black hole by the late David Halberstam in his recent book about it, The Coldest Winter. I personally knew very little about it before reading Halberstam’s book: I was not yet eleven when it started, so, unlike Viet Nam, which was a focus because it took place in my 20s, Korea did not stick in my mind. Halberstam himself knew little about Korea, he says, before he set out to research and write his book about a war which began when he was 16, but which came to interest him because of talks he had about it in Viet Nam in the early 1960s with a colonel who had fought in Korea. .
Gentlemen, start your turnaround
Around GM there is growing confidence, as it prepares to celebrate its centennial year in 2008, that the company is ready to shrug off any lingering whispers of bankruptcy and reclaim its title as an industry leader even if, as many expect, it loses its global sales crown to Toyota. Fortune has periodically looked deeply into the question of GM's survival, and at times the prospect has been bleak. In our Feb. 6, 2006, issue we published a cover story with the headline, "The Tragedy of General Motors." It looked searchingly at GM's history of making poor cars, its abysmal financial performance, and its towering burden of health-care obligations, concluding, "Bankruptcy isn't going to occur next week. But down the road - way past 2006 - its probability is high." Since then, Wagoner has systematically attacked GM's problem areas one by one.
Tasered-teen case raises new questions for MPs
What is going on here with the Halifax police service.
If this girl in question did something wrong then arrest is warranted but with 3 grown police officers there's no way the girl can resist arrest. It doesn't add up.
Also using a taser on a teen. Come on here! When the police did tasers on themselves as an experiment they only did it on themselves and not on children/teens. Looks like harsh treatment here.
I usually thought that the police were here 'to serve and protect' but with so many deaths from tasers, police beating deaths, cover ups etc... we can't even trust the police.
So people get those cell phone cameras ready if you're confronted by the police. Man would it make them look bad. Posted 30/01/08 at 1:31 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
Scots do not want to end the Union, merely modify it
IT'S time. Time for a change. Time to move on. This is the last column from this writer which will appear in this position in this paper. A new and extremely challenging role on the business desk awaits.Sadly, it means no time for the glorious self-indulgence of expressing a weekly opinion on the affairs of the nation.The world of politics is a continuously fascinating one. There is always something new. Political parties take power and always, in the end, lose it. Politicians' fortunes ebb and flow. Plots and conspiracies abound. Policies evolve and change.Over time, the decisions made by our elected representatives really do "make a difference", a phrase politicians use frequently, to the lives of the poor, long-suffering voters whose interests they are supposed to represent. Politics matters.And having spent many years at both Westminster and Holyrood as a reporter – and worked, albeit for only a year, on the "dark side" as a special adviser to former First Minister Henry McLeish – politics had become like a drug.
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