I Am Bismark

i’ve decided i will start posting links to articles i am interested in and making short commentary on them. it seems like a lazy way to make more posts, but whatever.

microsoft manipulating the ISO standardization process:

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070903110826712

its sad how powerful big corporations are getting these days. what ever happened to competing by ones merits instead of by force? i hope this straightens itself out. i will admit, most of my documents are in .doc format, but that’s because no one has made a ODF capable word processor for the mac that doesn’t run freaking slow on my ibook (i would lose years of my life waiting for neooffice to open up everytime i needed to write something). i wish apple would have done the right thing and made pages ODF compatible.

man arrested for standing up for his rights:

http://newsite.michaelrighi.com/2007/09/01/arrested-at-circuit-city/

this is just messed up. one thing that bugs me about many byu students is they start extending the principle of obedience to God to absolute obedience to any and all authority figures. that’s just not right. the government is a servant of the people. police officers serve us, citizens. we have inalienable rights, and no one can take that from us. one thing that frustrated me with the whole cheney fiasco was when people would say “he is the vice president, we need to respect him.” no, we don’t. if he is not fulfilling his duty as a servant to the citizens of this country, he deserves no respect in that position. sorry, that was kind of a tangent to the original article, but i that’s what i thought about.