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Expert: Google Earth Endangers World Cup Security

I've heard that Paranoia can indeed be treated within certain limits.

And because the absurdities are not enough yet ...

... sues Google Kinderstart - because they are not ranked number 1 on Google, unlike other search engines, when searching for the term "Kinderstart". Is this somehow a permanent full moon?

Dave Winer Breakdown

Somewhere it was to be expected, nevertheless the way Dave Winer is now completely nuts is pretty rare even for him. I mean, with Rogers Cadenhead he had someone who, despite all his troublemaking (especially around the RSS Advisory Board), tried to make him look somewhat good. Well, that's over now. Dave Winer is just the prototype of an internet sociopath. Shitty Software. Shitty Manners.

Larry's Distorted Reality

I sometimes really wonder what kind of herb Larry Ellison smokes to come up with such nonsense:

"Open source becomes successful when major industrial corporations invest heavily in that open source project," Ellison said at a Tokyo news conference. "Every open source product that has become tremendously successful became successful because of huge dollar investments from commercial IT operations like IBM and Intel and Oracle and others," he said.

Yes, financial support from companies has indeed benefited one or another open source project. But to conclude that without this financing the projects would not be successful is completely crazy. On the contrary: many companies only invest in projects that have already become successful without external help. Smaller projects with less visibility have no chance of getting money from large IT companies - these are sometimes supported by companies, but then usually by companies that have directly started this project or market direct products based on it.

But of course, with the successes that a number of open source database systems have, he naturally has to rattle loudly and talk nonsense so that no one notices how pathetic Oracle really is by today's standards.

United States of Absurdity

According to National Public Radio, severely ill patients were killed with a lethal injection during the Katrina evacuation because they could not have been evacuated in time. Yes, Europe must urgently emulate the American social model that makes such things possible (and other absurdities like the suspension of small children in elementary school for allegedly sexually harassing other children or dismissal of a nurse for alleged incitement to hatred - because she criticized the Bush administration for its Katrina mismanagement). We are not yet stupid enough here.

And to those who will again accuse me of salon anti-Americanism: sorry, but this is no longer salon-like. For me, the USA is a collective case for the madhouse. And don't tell me that one must distinguish between the people in America and the respective government and administration - a not entirely insignificant part of this supposedly defensible population has elected the supreme moron.

And yes, I am fully aware of the irony of the whole thing in view of the current brainless Berlin occupation. We are not far from the same madness.