Dabei gibt es billig-Autos! Das billigste Auto der Welt ist jedoch in Österreich nicht zu haben. Tatas "People's Car" oder auch "Nano" genannt soll ab Herbst in den Verkaufsräumen der Händler stehen - allerdings nur in Indien und den Schwellenländern. Gänzlich ausgeschlossen wurde Europa als mögliche Absatzregion für den Nano nicht. Mit rund 2500 Dollar kostet das Auto nicht einmal halb so viel wie das derzeit preiswerteste Modell auf dem Markt. Von dem einfach ausgestatteten Kleinwagen mit sparsamem Verbrennungsmotor will Tata zunächst 250.000 Stück produzieren. Mittelfristig erwartet der Konzern eine jährliche Nachfrage von rund einer Million. Zielgruppe sind die Fahrrad- und Motorradfahrer. Bald könnte sich somit auch das gewohnte Straßenbild in Asien gehörig ändern.

Trotz einfachen Designs und sparsamer Technik muss sich das indische Billigauto übrigens zumindest in Sachen Klimaschutz nicht verstecken - ganz im Gegenteil. Der Viersitzer verbraucht mit seinem 30-PS-Benzinmotor dank Leichtbauweise weniger als vier Liter pro 100 Kilometer. Der Kohlendioxid-Ausstoß liegt mit 97 Gramm pro Kilometer schon heute unter der geforderten EU-Norm von 120 Gramm.

Aber - Österreicher, wieder einmal - bitte warten!

What Everybody Has Done With Pakistan

Quaid-E-Azam :

Islamic Republic Of Pakistan

Ayob Khan:

Army Republic Of Pakistan

Bhutto :

Peoples Party Of Pakistan

Yahya Khan:

What So Ever Divided By 2 Pakistan

Zia-Ul-Haq:

Jihad Republic Of Pakistan

Ghulam Ishaq Khan:

ISI Republic Of Pakistan

Moeen Qureshi :

Taxation Republic Of Pakistan

Benazir Bhutto :

Zardari Republic Of Pakistan

Nawaz Sharif:

Abba Jee & Sons Republic Of Pakistan

Gen. Pervez Musharraf :

Pakistan (Pvt). Ltd.

People of Pakistan :

Immigration From Pakistan

]]> http://floydandzeplover.wordpress.com/?p=219 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:37:42 +0000 Creating Havok 24/7 http://floydandzeplover.wordpress.com/?p=219 I love you!
I really do.
Believe me on this one.

Right now I am making a sign for my wall that says "L & P BiTCH".  It's gonna be all colorful and stuff.  So far it's pretty, and I've only got four characters done.  =D.
After a minute or so I'm going to go get some lunches, because I am hungry as all hell.

Okay, so I went and got me some lunches.  Nothing exciting, just PB&J and some chips.  And my vitamins.  Which are nasty with water, but I don't think they like me drinking milk during the day, because it's too expensive.  Well, at least I'm not supposed to get more at dinner time, so I think it would be that way.  I have sometimes though.

Let me tell you about all the people I love, in no particular order.

• Timmy.  He's very cool, me loves him.  But not quite like love love love him.
• Scott.  Me loves Scott, that is true.  Love love love Scott.  Miss Scott because he's not on IM right now,  and he had to work until 8 every day this week, so probably today too, so that means most likely, no getting to talk to him today.
• Brian.  He is so funny, but I love him in a friend way.
• Adam.  He's cool, me loves him a little bit.  He's fun to talk to, but he's not on MSN very much.  That's okay.
• Bryce.  I love Bryce.  He is so funny and even though he's not good at replying to IM very fast, it's okay.
• Christina.  Well, most of the time.  Sometimes she makes me angry, but that's okay.

I guess that's all the peoples I love.
I think.
But most likely, there's more.

I love everyone it seems.....I'm a love-whore.

1. Put on the all the same items a person is wearing, a few items another person is wearing, or one item another person is wearing.

2. Open that persons player card without closing yours

3. Click the items on the other persons player card that you are also wearing.

Have fun!

-Sneezy-

What a nice surprise – received a postcard from Chas sent from Europe somewhere and he wrote that it’s from the birthplace of beer…. Must be a mythical location – nobody makes beer better than Carlsberg….nobody!

Well, some of my US students and friends are visiting this November and I thought it’s time to put up another clip of snapshots from around Kuching.

The song you hear in the background is sung by a Singaporean songstress, Chang Siao Ying.

During her heydays in the 70s and 80s, her songs could be heard playing in every radio station in every street corner and alley……

Kuching kinda remind me of Singapore in the 80s - at least certain parts still does.

Well, you know what they say; you got “MasterCard” for this and that but to live thru the 70s and 80s again, that is priceless…..

For me, “priceless” pretty much describes Kuching……

362 WITH CHERRY BOMB GRADIENT & GOTHIC ROSE

The limited edition "KVA" frames are a collaboration between European designer/Artistic Director of Dior Homme, Kris Van Assche and Oliver Peoples. They are available in two colorways, and are hard-to-the-core!

The frame is hand-crafted in thick polished plastic and is just as sophisticated as it is sporty. Unique technology includes a coin-edge mechanism that allows for changeable lenses (two different lens colors are included), offering the wearer greater opportunity to define his personal style. Metal inlay with the KVA logo is detailed on the top of the frame front.

I'm stuck between both styles, but I dig the cherry tinted lens a bit more! Heck, I'll carry both, the cherry jumpoffs during the day outdoors and the black joints at night to some celebrity event. HAH!

BLACK WITH GREY & ASH GRADIENT MIRROR

For more info about KVA frames by KVA & Oliver Peoples, check out: OliverPeoples.com

Ousting Zardari

July 16th, 2008 · Shaan Akbar

Insider Brief sources report that Pakistani intelligence officials have recently been engaged in a spate of closed-door meetings. The topic of discussion? The ouster of Asif Ali Zardari and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) from power and the engineered return of Nawaz Sharif.

The Why

The news in and of itself should not be surprising, and for multiple reasons. First, the Pakistani military/intelligence establishment has always distrusted and disliked the PPP. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Benazir’s father, recognized this and established the Federal Security Force in an attempt to offset the influence of the ISI. The FSF was promptly disbanded after Gen. Zia-ul-Huq’s 1979 coup. On the other hand, Nawaz Sharif is a child of the establishment, promoted and sponsored by Gen. Zia himself.

People may question – what about General Ashfaq Kayani and his stance on political non-interference? The answer and second reason likely lies in the decreasing ability of the military establishment’s inability to control low-to-mid-level personnel as has been demonstrated by the numerous security lapses and leaks that have led to numerous terrorist strikes against sensitive targets.

This brings us to the third reason. Many in Pakistan’s military and intelligence apparatus remain sympathetic to their former proxies as is Nawaz Sharif. Sharif is well liked by Pakistan’s right and religious fundamentalists. His return would likely mark the end to the Pakistan Army’s push in the country’s northwest.

The How

If Pakistani intelligence is truly attempting to engineer Nawaz Sharif’s return, the question is, how do they intend on doing so? The answer may lie in what Insider Brief sources recently intimated to us. In the on going discussions over Zardari, it was mentioned that the last phone call to Benazir Bhutto minutes before her assassination was made by Zardari himself. He reportedly asked Bhutto why she was sitting in the car and not outside as the “people wanted to see her.”

The story could conceivably be true – there’s no doubt that Pakistani intelligence tapped Bhutto and Zardari’s phones – and Zardari did indeed have a lot to gain from her death. But the far likelier explanation could be that Pakistani intelligence is working to build up a story to incriminate or at the very least, implicate Zardari in the court of public opinion.

The other explanation is that these meetings are just indicative of pressure tactics being used by President Musharraf and the “establishment” as they tussle with Zardari and his civilian government over major issues such as the restoration of deposed judges, tackling terrorism and handling Pakistan’s economic issues.

The Lesson

The major take away is that the government must act with surety and decisiveness. A constellation of forces is aligning against the sitting government as it waits idly by, paralyzed by indecision and infighting. If it doesn’t act, the PPP will have passed up a chance to consolidate fresh democratic foundations for Pakistan and the opportunity to tackle issues from a liberal platform.

These closed-door meetings were just warning shots that time is running out.

0390 - Brennus and Gauls defeat Romans at Allia
0463 - Start of Lunar Cycle of Hilarius
0622 - Moslem Era begins-Mahomet begins flight from Mecca to Medina (Hejira)
0622 - Origin of Islamic Era (Muharram 1, 1 AH)
1054 - Michael Caerularius excommunicated of Constantinople
1099 - Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue and set it afire
1212 - Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain
1251 - The Virgin Mary gives Simon Stork a haircut (legend)
1338 - German monarch signs Treaty of Rense
1429 - Joan of Arc leads French army in Battle of Orleans
1429 - Army entered Reims
1439 - Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading)
1519 - Public debate between Martin Luther and theologist John Eck
1548 - La Paz, Bolivia is founded
1573 - Alva demands submission of Zealand/Holland
1618 - Capt John Gilbert patents 1st dredger in Britain
1659 - Princess Henriette C of Orange-Nassau weds monarch Johan George II
1661 - 1st banknotes in Europe were issued by Bank of Stockholm
1683 - Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa attain Vienna
1769 - Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in Calif
1775 - John Adams graduates Harvard
1782 - Mozart's opera "Das Entfuhrung aus dem Serail," premieres in Vienna
1790 - Congress establishes District of Columbia
1798 - US Public Health Service forms and US Marine Hospital authorized
1801 - Pope Pius VII and 1st consul Napoleon sign concord
1845 - NY Yacht Club holds its 1st regatta
1856 - Statue of Laurens Jansz Coster unveiled in Haarlem
1857 - Sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore
1861 - Manassas Campaign [->JUL 22]
1861 - Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought
1862 - David G Farragut is 1st rear admiral in US Navy
1863 - Utrecht-Swells railway opens
1867 - Amstel Hotel, "the dignified old lady" opens in Amsterdam
1867 - D R Averill patents ready-mixed paint
1867 - Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete
1894 - Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners
1894 - Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan and England
1895 - Archie MacLaren completes cricket 424 for Lancs v Somerset at Taunton
1902 - John McGraw named manager of NY Giants
1902 - Test Cricket debut of K S Ranjitsinhji v Australia, at Old Trafford
1904 - Islands of Manu'a group (Samoa) ceded to US by their chiefs
1909 - Det and Wash play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings
1912 - Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B A Fiske
1914 - Socialist conference in Brussel (Kautsky, Trotski and Rosa Luxemburg)
1920 - Ruth sets season home run record with 30 en route to 54
1920 - Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief
1920 - China joins the League of Nations
1920 - 15th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in Auckland (5-0)
1924 - Conference over German recovery payments begins in London
1924 - NY Giants George Kelly is 1st to hit HRs in 6 cons games
1926 - National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos
1926 - Jaspar govt asks authority to save Belgian franc
1927 - Augusto Sandino begins 5«-year war against US occupation of Nicaragua
1934 - Bradman scores 140 Aust v Yorkshire, 120 mins, 22 fours 2 sixes
1935 - 1st automatic parking meter in US installed (Oklahoma City, Ok)
1936 - NY Giants are 10« games back in NL, and go on to win pennant
1936 - 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, NY
1938 - 21st PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Shawnee CC Shawnee-on-Del Pa
1940 - NSB'er Woudenberg appointed as NVV-trustee
1941 - 100øF (38øC) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle Wash
1941 - Joe Dimaggio goes 3 for 4, hitting in his 56th straight game
1942 - French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris
1942 - Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp
1944 - Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 and break their 16-game losing streak, they will lose another 5 in a row
1945 - Cruiser Indianapolis leaves SF with atom bomb
1945 - Australian Services win 3rd Victory Test Cricket by 4 wickets
1945 - 1st atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico
1946 - Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history)
1946 - US court martials 46 SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau
1947 - Bobo Newsom wins 200th game, 1st as a Yankee and Yanks 18th straight In nightcap Vic Rashi extends streak to 19
1948 - Eddie Sawyer replaces Ben Chapman in Phila, NY Giants Leo Durocher replaces Mel Ott and Burt Shotton replaces Durocher as Dodger manager
1950 - Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12)
1950 - Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 for soccer's 4th World Cup in Rio de Janeiro
1951 - Novel "Catcher in Rye" by JD Salinger published
1951 - Len Hutton scores his 100th 100, Yorks v Surrey at The Oval
1951 - King Leopold III, of Belgium, abdicates
1951 - 1st Dutchman to win Tour de France (Wim Van Est)
1953 - KROC (now KTTC) TV channel 10 in Rochester, MN (NBC) 1st broadcast
1955 - "Golden Horseshoe Revue" 1st of 50,000+ performances, Disneyland
1956 - Last Ringling Bros, Barnum and Bailey Circus under a canvas tent
1956 - King Faisal of Iraq begins visit to England
1956 - Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR
1956 - Detroit Tigers and Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million
1957 - Marine Maj John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08)
1960 - George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on
1960 - 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer
1961 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Tippecanoe Golf Open
1961 - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 2"
1962 - NASA civilian Test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
1963 - Amazon carries 190,000 m3/sec (record)
1964 - Republicans convention selects Barry Goldwater as pres candidate
1965 - Mount Blanc Road tunnel between France and Italy opens
1966 - "Half a Sixpence" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 512 perfs
1967 - Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida)
1967 - Mickey Wright wins Lady Carling Golf Open
1969 - Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on Moon, launched
1970 - Iraq's constitution goes into effect
1970 - Reds spoil Pirates debut in Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium, 3-2
1971 - Franco points prince Juan Carlos as deputy in Spain
1972 - Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes 269th patriarch of Constantinople
1972 - Smokey Robinson and Miracles final live performance
1973 - During Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes
1975 - Commissioner Bowie Kuhn is reelected for a 7-year term
1976 - Rock duo Loggins and Messina break-up after 6 years
1977 - Janelle Commissiong, of Trinidad and Tobago, crowned 26th Miss Universe
1978 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1979 - Premier/pres al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein
1980 - Polish railway workers block railway to Russia
1980 - Ronald Reagan nominated for Pres by Republicans in Detroit
1981 - India performs nuclear Test
1981 - Shukuni Sasaki spins 72 plates simultaneously
1982 - Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud
1982 - NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth
1982 - George P Shultz sworn in as minister of Foreign affairs
1983 - 20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident
1985 - 56th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-1 at Humphrey Metrodome, Minn
1985 - All star MVP: LaMarr Hoyt (SD Padres)
1985 - Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent
1985 - F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1152 kph (716 mph)
1987 - Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of season and ties AL record of homers in 6 straight games (on way to tie major league record of 8)
1987 - Said Aouita runs world record 2000m (4:50.81)
1987 - Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1988 - Wayne Gretzky (NHL) and Janet Jones (Police Acad 5) wed in Edmonton
1988 - San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings
1988 - Michael J Fox marries Tracy Pollan
1988 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women's heptathlete record of 7,215 pts
1988 - Florence Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds
1988 - Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 m in 9.78 sec
1989 - 44th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1990 - Ukraine declares independence
1990 - Rick Dee's "Into the Night," premieres on ABC-TV
1990 - NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-No fatalities
1990 - Civil trial by parents of Suicide victims against Judas Priest begins
1990 - Bridgette LeAnn Wilson, 17, of Oregon, 8th crowned Miss Teen USA
1990 - 400 die in a (7.7) earthquake in Philippines
1993 - SF outfielder Darren Lewis sets record of 267 consec errorless games
1993 - S van Ruysdael's "Winter Landscape" sold for œ705,500 in London
1993 - President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville
1994 - Sweden shuts out Bulgaria 4-0, to finish 3rd in the World Cup
1994 - Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights
1994 - Shreveport Pirates 1st CFL home game (vs Toronto Argonauts)
1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter
1994 - Baseball Night in America premieres (no Saturday day games)
1994 - Anna Nicole Smith (26) weds « billionaire J Howard Marshall II (89)
1994 - 3 tenors-Placid Domingo, Luciano Parvoti, Jose Carreras, perform in LA
1994 - 1st parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hits Jupiter (until July 22nd)
1994 - "Sisters Rosensweig" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 556 perfs
1995 - "Buttons on Broadway" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 40 perfs
1995 - "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" closes at Plymouth NYC after 55 perfs
1995 - 13th Seniors Players Golf Championship: J C Snead
1995 - 50th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Annika Sorenstam
1997 - Jerold Mackenzie awarded $266M for being fired from Miller Brewing for sexual harrassment for relaying a Seinfeld episode to a co worker

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PROFESSOR HICKMANN'S GEOGRAPHICAL-STATISTICAL UNIVERSAL-ATLAS 1921

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PROFESSOR HICKMANN'S GEOGRAPHICAL-STATISTICAL UNIVERSAL-ATLAS 1921
COMPLETELY REWORKED BY ALOIS FISCHER

γ) South Slavs 15.8 million.
Serbs, Croats, Slovenes (in Yugoslavia
and in the bordering
parts of Italy and Austria) ... 10.2 million
Bulgarians, Macedonians ... 5.6 million

Classification of the languages (1920):
I. Indo-Germanic languages 931 million.
...
3. Newgreek 6 million.
...
9. Slavic languages 164 million: ...
i) Serbian 6 million, j) Croatian 2.8 million, k) Slovenian 1.2 million, l) Bulgarian 4.6 million, m) Macedonian 1 million.

Slavs
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Bulgarians and Macedonians

Races and Peoples of the Earth (estimated at the end of 1920)

g.) Slavs 157 million
Bulgarians, Macedonians 5.6 million
Serbs, Croats, Slovenes 10.2 million

Bulgaria
4.6 million
a) Bulgarians and Macedonians 4 million = 86.9%
b) Turks 300.000 = 6.6%
c) Jews 40.000 = 0.9%
d) Others 250.000 = 5.5%

Greece
a) Greeks 3.9 million = 68.4%
b) Turks 1 million = 17.6%
c) Bulgarians and Macedonians 500.000 = 8.8%
d) Albanians 100.000 = 1.7%
e) Jews 75.000 = 1.3%
f) Others 125.000 = 2.2%

Yugoslavia
a) Serbs, Croats and Slovenes 9.5 million = 80.2%
1.) Serbs 5 million = 42.2%
2.) Croats 2.8 million = 23.7%
3.) Slovenes 950.000 = 8%
4.) Muslim Serbo-Croats 750.000 = 6.3%
b) Macedonians 600.000 = 5%
c) Germans 600.000 = 5%
d) Hungarians 500.000 = 4.2%
e) Jews 60.000 = 0.5%
f) Others 600.000 = 5%

The Kingdom of Bulgaria
Highlighted in red.
z. = Census
b. = Estimation
b. = 1920: 4,500.000

Highlighted in yellow and underlined in red.
The statistical data has its origins directly from official sources......
From the latest Censuses are.... Bulgaria (31./12. 1920; Ber.), Yugoslavia (31./1. 1921)

It was funny but some what i think its believable, so just read and enjoy.......................

There was a contest in a company to write a fictional story for 500 words max which would start with the line “On a dark and foggy night, a small figure lay huddled on the railway tracks leading to the Bangalore station "

This is what a guy wrote for the contest....... and surprisingly, it was adjudged the best short story :))

On a dark and foggy night, a small figure lay huddled on the railway tracks leading to the Bangalore station. At once I was held back to see someone in that position during midnight with no one around. With curiosity taking the front seat, I went near the body and tried to investigate it. There was blood all over the body which was lying face down. It seemed that a ruthless blow by the last train could have caused the end of this body which seemed to be that of a guy of around my age. Amidst the gory blood flow, I could see a folded white envelope which was fluttering in the midnight wind. Carefully I took the blood stained envelope and was surprised to see the phrase "appraisal letter" on it. With curiosity rising every moment, I wasted no time in opening the envelope to see if I can find some details about the dead guy. The tag around the body's neck and the jazzy appraisal cover gave me the hint that he might be a software engineer. I opened the envelope to find a shining paper on which the appraisal details where typed in flying colors. Thunders broke into my ears and lightening struck my heart when I saw the appraisal amount of the dead guy!!!!! My God, it was not even, as much as the cost of the letter on which the appraisal details were printed.... My heart poured out for the guy and huge calls were heard inside my mind saying "no wonder, this guy died such a miserable death"... As a fellow worker in the same industry, I thought I should mourn for him for the sake of respect and stood there with a heavy heart thinking of the shock that he would have experienced when his manager had placed the appraisal letter in his hand. I am sure his heart would have stopped and eyes would have gone blank for few seconds looking at the near to nothing increment in his salary.

While I mourned for him, for a second my hands froze to see the employee's name in the appraisal letter... hey, what a strange co-incidence, this guy's name is same as mine, including the initials. This was interesting. With some mental strength, I turned the body upside down and found myself fainted for a second. The guy not only had my name, but also looked exactly like me. Same looks, same built, same name.... it was me who was dead there!!!!!!!! While I was lost in that shock, I felt someone patting on my shoulders. My heart stopped completely, I could not breathe and sprung in fear to see who was behind......... splash!!! Went the glass of water on my laptop screen as I came out of my wild dream to see my manager standing behind my chair patting on my shoulder saying, "wake up man? Come to meeting room number two. I have your appraisal letter ready".

Man you would think something got into me but really this is just coming OUT of me, ya dig? Thanks to a question from Travis "Good" Peoples I went back to a year-long unfinished work and tightened up. I present, The Backstories...these will be mixes of songs that have been sampled by somebody at some point in time and sometimes more than one person. I even threw in the songs that used the samples so you can match them up. One of the originals does not have a current song because its been in too many to go into and do justice. I will put up what goes with what sometime but I think for now you can just match em up.

Good mix to cook, clean, zone, climb trees, spaz to, po' up, gangsta lean, 2-step to, develop sales strategies to, gain foresight from, or whatever you wanna do with it. Go for it fam, just something I thought of sharing...

Peace to all those that understand and peace to those who haven't caught on yet. Click the picture for the link to the mix, The Backstories Vol. 1!!!

DOWNLOAD Part 1of Sample Users

DOWNLOAD Part 2 of Sample Users

Photo: Brian Snyder

Bill Gates legt am kommenden Freitag seine Tätigkeiten bei Microsoft nieder.
Gates schaut damit auf eine 33 Jahre lange Karriere zurück.

1975 brach er sein bis dahin zweijähriges Harvard-Studium ab und gründete zusammen mit seinem Freund Paul Allen das Unternehmen Microsoft.
Bereits 1980 zahlte sich Gates Spitzfindigkeit zum ersten mal aus, welche sich in den folgenden Jahrzehnten immer wieder aufs Neue beobachten lies.

1980 sollte Microsoft für IBM ein Betriebssystem für den ersten Personalcomputer liefern.
Gates und Allen hatten nichts dergleichen anzubieten, beteuerten aber den Verantwortlichen von IBM das nur Microsoft in der Lage wäre das Betriebssystem zu entwickeln.
IBM lies sich auf die Zusammenarbeit ein.
Qdos, das zu der Zeit von Seattle Computer Products entwickelt wurde, schien für Gates und Allen ein brauchbarer Ansatz zu sein.
Sie kauften kurzer Hand die Rechte an dem Betriebssystem und benannten es später in MS DOS (Micrososft Disc Operating System) um.
1985 musste Microsoft eine Million Dollar an Seattle Computer Products zahlen, weil beim Erwerb der Rechte an Qdos der Großkunde IBM verschwiegen wurde.
Auch dieser Ausgang von Rechtsstreitigkeiten ist bezeichnend für das Unternehmen Microsoft.

MS DOS war der Grundstein für alle folgenden Betriebssysteme von Microsoft.

Der nächste Meilenstein in der Geschichte von Microsoft war das Betriebssystem „Windows“.
Eine graphische Benutzeroberfläche die mit dem am Computer angeschlossenen Zeigegeräten bedient werden konnte.
Die Mouse ist eines der revolutionärsten Zeigegeräte in der damaligen Zeit, auch wenn sie nicht Microsofts Gedankengut entspringt.

Microsoft Office, ein Programmpaket mit dem sich sämtliche Arbeiten an einem PC-Arbeitsplatz wie etwa Tabellenkalkulation, Adressdatenverwaltung, Datenbankbearbeitung und vieles mehr erledigen lässt, wird neben dem Betriebssystem Windows eines der Hauptsäulen auf denen der Erfolg des Unternehmens Microsoft aufbaut.

1990, also die Entstehung des World Wide Web und des HTTP-Protokolls verschlief man im Hause Microsoft und sah zu wie Netscap sich etablierte.
Erst im August 1995 brachte Microsoft den Internetexplorer auf den Markt, der aber mit dem damaligen Netscap Browser in Sachen Funktionalität nicht mithalten konnte.
Die Übermacht des Netscap-Browsers wurde letzendlich durch die Verschmelzung des Internet-Explorers mit dem Betriebssystem Windows gebrochen.
Auch hier lassen sich die oftmals angeprangerten Geschäftspraktiken des Unternehmens klar erkennen.
US-Justizministrerin Janet Reno:

„Microsoft nutzt sein Monopol auf ungesetzliche Weise, um seine Alleinherrschaft zu verteidigen und zu erweitern.“

Kartellverfahren gegen Microsoft prägen die Geschichte des Unternehmens. Zeitweise hat Gates in der Rolle des Konzernführers mehr mehr mit juristischen Abwehrstrategien zu tun als er sich auf die Entwicklung der Software konzentrieren kann.

Sein Auftritt im Kartellverfahren, in dem er jegliche unfaire Attacken auf seine Wettbewerber bestritt, ließen etliche Beobachter an der Glaubwürdigkeit von Gates zweifeln.
Im Januar 2000 tritt er taktischer Weise als Chief Executive Officer zurück und nimmt sich somit aus dem juristischen Schussfeld. Er wirkt ab da als Chief Sofware Architekt.

1.Juli 2008,   Bill Gates wird sich verstärkt auf seine gemeinnützige Arbeit in der Bill & Melinda Gates Fondation konzentrieren.

Thank you Leon for the link!

Anyway.....
So glad that school's out tomorrow.

I shall leave you with the words of Alice Cooper (well, his song anyway).
Like you don't know it.....=P
"SCHOOL'S OUT FOR SUMMER"

"We can't salute ya/Can't find a flag/If that don't suit ya/That's a drag/School's out for summer/School's out forever/School's been blown to pieces/No more pencils/No more books/No more teacher's dirty looks/Well we got no class/And we got no principles/We ain't got no innocence/We can't even think of a word that rhymes/School's out for summer/School's out forever/My school's been blown to pieces/Our for summer/Out 'til fall/We might not come back at all/School's out forever"

I haven't birth any children but I can understand why some mothers may want to strangle their kids. The other day, I volunteered to babysit. I don't mind. Babies are adorable when they're not crying or pooing their diapers. I love the happy ones best. They're easily entertained by the slightest things, like my toes or the zipper on my hoodie. xD The worst kind are the ones who cry like they're getting chewed alive by zombies. I just leave them alone and hope the other sitters pick them up. Okay. I'm not totally heartless. But I do pretend to be busy, doing nothing, and if no one still seems to not hear the wailing kid, then I will pick them up.

The highlight of that babysitting session, is getting to watch a bubbly boy give this tiny girl a bear hug. It was cute until I notice that he was actually beating her! Good thing the boy's mother saw it and stopped it before it went too far. Man, kids can be so evil! Children are gifts from God but shoot, they sure do turn sour fast. The funny thing is, the boy's mother told him to apologize by making him give her another hug. Her expression was priceless. Her face was screaming "Woman, you crazy! Your boy just beat me. I'm getting outta here." I wished my head was a camcorder or digital camera, so I could have downloaded it to share.

Pineapples. Don't ask. Oh, Spongebob! Spongebob Squarepants. Brian. Nickelodean. TV shows. Rocko's Modern Life. That one show with the place and you have to go through the obstacle course and then there's this Tiki lookin' thing. Game shows. Jeopardy. I love that show. It's great. Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Oh, I do! I'd buy a house and a car and then some other stuff. But first a car. Then get drivers lisence. Wouldn't that be nice? Yes. It would. Moving on. Driving on. On what? The street? No. The highway. Just keeps going and going like the energizer bunny.
This teacher person that is sitting right next to me typing is rather annoying. It's like he's trying to speak what he's typing, yet under his breath, yet not. It's kinda creepin' me out. Christina says that he's creepy too. Like stalker creepy. He looks it too. I mean, come on.....Who would employ that sort of person in a SCHOOL!!!????!?!? I surely wouldn't.
Moving on!
Isn't that what directors say? Something like that, when there's a director in a movie, they always end up saying that. Someone does anyway. Whatever.
Moving on!
I'm tired. And bored. Bored and tired. Tired and bored. Wait, I'm not tired. I lied. I'm hungry. That's what it is. Hungry and Bored. Bored and hungry. I like the second one better. Root beer floats.
Oh dear god, not that one again.......=D

My shot is at the top left, the 'Bicycles in Beijing' :) I found this image with images.devilfinder.com which I'd never used before but someone had found my blog with it so I gave it a go and did a bit of searching for myself. Its nice to see myself, my photography, in print :) I'd be unsure which agency it was purchased from so here's the list of places you can buy my shot:

www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=1428098
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www.bigstockphoto.com/photo/view/432162
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www.fotolia.com/id/439726/
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www.dreamstime.com/beijing-china---portrait-view-of-bicycles-rimage585212
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