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PC game developer has radical message: ignore the pirates
arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080320-pc-game-developer-has-radical-message-ignore-the-pirates.html, posted 2008 by peter in business copyright opinion
The pirates weren't customers, they might never be customers, so spending money to try to stop them serves no purpose.
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The top five reasons why “The customer is always right†is wrong
positivesharing.com/2008/03/top-5-reasons-why-the-customer-is-always-right-is-wrong/, posted 2008 by peter in business management opinion people
Of course there are plenty of examples of bad employees giving lousy customer service. But trying to solve this by declaring the customer “always right” is counter-productive.
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Bush Screws America, Again: Economy Slips to #2
www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/bush-screws-america-agai_b_91760.html, posted 2008 by peter in business eu finance news opinion politics usa
For the first time since World War II the United States is not the world's #1 economy. We have slipped behind the European Union. (This, according to Erin Burnett on CNBC, Friday, March 14th.)
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Opera CTO: How to fix Microsoft's browser issues
www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/19/hakon_ms_reform_plan/, posted 2008 by peter in business opinion politics standard webdesign
Microsoft's failure to respond to its customers' outcry shows that it is time to call on established antitrust laws that allow governments to impose sanctions on a vendor that has a dominant position in a market.
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Fixing HTML, by Douglas Crockford
www.crockford.com/html/, posted 2007 by peter in css design html opinion standard webdesign
This is my proposal for a kinder, gentler HTML 5. The new language I am proposing is not totally compatible with HTML 4. But HTML 4 was not totally compatible with HTML 3, and XHTML would not have been totally compatible anyway, so that's ok.
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Impending Destruction of the US Economy
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18787.htm, posted 2007 by peter in finance opinion usa usdollar
China holds over one trillion dollars, and Japan almost one trillion, in dollar-denominated assets.
Other countries have lesser but still substantial amounts. As the US dollar is the reserve currency, the entire world’s investment portfolio is over-wei
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