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"The Virginia Tech terrible massacre should prompt a radical review of the utility of SWAT teams which now infest almost every community in America. Each time there's a hostage taking or a mass murderer on the rampage, one sees the same familiar sight: overweight SWAT men, doubled up under the weight of their costly artillery, lumbering along in their body armor and then hiding behind trees or cars or walls while the killer goes about his business. SWAT teams perform most efficiently when shooting down unarmed street people menacing them with cellphones. The answer is to disband SWAT teams and kindred military units, and return to the idea of voluntary posses or militias: a speedy assembly of citizen volunteers with their own weapons. Such a body at Columbine or Virginia Tech might have saved many [lives]. In other words: make the Second Amendment live up to its promise."
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn04212007.html
"We are all generally drawn to the merits of the people who are not in power! So it is hardly surprising to see a rise of 'left libertarians' in a time when the chief threat to liberty comes from the right, that is, from the red-state fascists who celebrate militarism and see no downside to every form of human-rights violation. Right now, it seems as if most of the intelligent non-libertarians are on the left. I would only caution that the left is beset with as many problems as the right."
http://www.mises.org/story/2557
"My hope for liberty making a comeback in the future lies with finding ways to act individually, in very small organized alliances, in spontaneous or unorganized temporary mass action, etc. My part in promoting and increasing liberty has nothing to do with and will not be influenced by what has happened at Virginia Tech."
http://www.crackerscentral.com/enjoyeverysandwich/2007/04/not-damned-thing.html
"But they’ve won precisely because they aren’t restrained by the smothering patronage of government-approved labor relations: without government recognition, there are no government strings attached, and that has allowed the CIW to make use of fight-to-win tactics — such as secondary boycotts — that are simply illegal for NLRB-recognized unions to use."
http://radgeek.com/gt/2007/04/19/si_se/
"Doesn’t it occur to people that allowing vocal - if impotent- criticism is also a way in which the state diffuses threats to its power? It bothers me that people can actually call for more gun laws and then tell libertarians that we despise the 'free society.' How do you have a free society when the state is armed to the teeth and law-abiding citizens are largely disarmed?"
http://lilarajiva.wordpress.com/2007/04/21/virginia-tech-the-dangers-of-the-police-state/
"Each truck will be fitted with a five-camera system intended to record purported violations. The trucking companies who have decided to 'partner' in this effort donate the vehicles and drivers free of charge, no doubt in consideration of certain non-monetary political or regulatory favors to be named later (and behind the scenes). The first of the corporate Quislings to offer such services was the appropriately named Yellow Transportation of Wichita."
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/04/highway-robbery.html
"I learned that Virginia Tech was officially happy last year when a bill that would have restored the students’ right to carry guns was defeated. A Virginia Tech spokesman was quoted as follows: 'I’m sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly’s actions, because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus.' I learned that the bill was introduced after a Virginia Tech student was disciplined for bringing a handgun to class, even though the student had a permit to carry a concealed weapon with all of the training and education required under concealed-carry laws. I wondered how many lives could have been saved if Virginia Tech had not moved so aggressively to prevent students from having the tools to act in their own self-defense."
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070418/ADV06/70417142/2014/adv
"I expected it. Then again, I expect something bad to happen every April, some act of shocking barbarity or police abuse that makes us wonder what kind of country we live in."
http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=2196
"Anarchy isn't about having no rules. It is about having no rulers who enforce unwanted rules on you. The rendezvous are a lot of fun, but there are strict rules. Usually anything invented after 1840 is forbidden from being visible in camp. You can’t fire your rifle anywhere other than in the shooting areas. Everyone is expected to behave with common courtesy, which really is common in camp. I accept the rules at rendezvous because they are not forced on me. I voluntarily agree to abide by the rules while I am there. "
http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/mcmanigal/mcmanigal1.html
"For the state to forbid others from having the same weapons it provides its own legions of armed forces at home and abroad, all funded through tax dollars, is the height of hypocrisy, as is the idea that pointing guns at peaceful people and hauling them off to jail if they violate gun control laws – which is what enforcement of such laws boils down to – is somehow a good way to combat gun violence. ... Gun control does not protect the innocent. It only renders the innocent all the more defenseless, empowers law enforcement in totalitarian ways, and facilitates the further construction of the police state. It is only one aspect of how the state claims to protect us, yet it only does the opposite."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory134.html
"By prohibiting individuals from attempting to make reasonable provisions for their own security, security service provision is restricted on the supply side (in terms of supply and demand). That is, after the manner of all monopolists and cartelists backed by coercive government-doled privilege, supply is not allowed to grow, despite the price of security services being kept artificially high (you ever try to hire a bodyguard?), as a consequence of suppliers being restricted to only approved service providers — police and corporate security organs. Do-It-Yourself, the typical market response of the lower classes to temporary unaffordability of important services, is not allowed at all or is severely curtailed by means of statist restrictions both blatant and subtle."
http://www.bradspangler.com/blog/archives/589
"In other words, the only system that would satisfy both of Rawls's principles is a system that makes moot who is the least advantaged, since the same arrangements that benefit the less advantaged will simultaneously benefit the more advantaged."
http://www.mises.org/story/2534
"Most of your life is – and will continue to be – spent in peaceful relationships with others. But there will be the occasional thug with whom you may have to contend. Your ability to defend yourself will always depend upon the actions you take, with the resources you have available."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer153.html
"If the luckless dormitory resident assistant had been armed, he might have survived his encounter with the fuck-up, or at least stopped him from any more mayhem, saving 30 lives. Or if anyone in the classroom hall had been armed, the fuck-up would have been stopped sooner than he was, and most of those 30 people would still be alive now. If several people in Norris Hall had been armed, no one save the fuck-up need have died."
http://www.bigheadpress.com/TheTimeSink/?p=106
"Connecticut has moved one step closer to becoming the first state to reform its so-called 'drug-free' school zone laws. The state's Joint Committee on Judiciary voted in favor of House Bill 7406, which includes school zone reforms, just last week."
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/041907ct.cfm
"In March 1982, 25 years ago, the small town of Kennesaw – responding to a handgun ban in Morton Grove, Ill. – unanimously passed an ordinance requiring each head of household to own and maintain a gun. Since then, despite dire predictions of 'Wild West' showdowns and increased violence and accidents, not a single resident has been involved in a fatal shooting – as a victim, attacker or defender."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55288
"In response to the horrible mass shooting at Virginia Tech on Monday, overseas leaders as well as many Americans have condemned the 'gun culture' of the United States. Perhaps these overseas leaders and American citizens would be less hard on our country if we discuss what has been happening in other countries."
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=041907D
"Well, Mr. Condescending BBC Newsreader, maybe you do. You could remind us of Scotland's Dunblane massacre eleven years ago, in which a pederast Scoutmaster murdered 17 little kids, despite the stringent gun laws in effect at the time, and how the resulting uproar enabled the British elites to push through a near-total ban on guns. And you could tell us how well things have worked out in Britain since then. You could point out how violent crime has skyrocketed, how ordinary citizens are now prosecuted when they desperately use umbrellas or other ordinary implements to defend themselves from criminals...."
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/dtw_blacksburg.htm
"Even in democratic nation-states, rulers surround themselves with ambitious and unscrupulous flunkies who will faithfully nourish the boss's colossal vanity. Political chieftains, who fancy themselves great men, require that members of their entourage constantly reinforce their grotesquely warped self-conception with obsequious expressions of admiration for their virtues, capabilities, and all-around greatness. "
http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs57.html
"Commodities such as oil, uranium, natural gas, potash, geothermal energy and a wide range of metallic ores could be extracted from the earth under a regime of private property rights. Their cost could remain competitive since fewer state bureaucrats would be involved in the resources sector. Prospecting for and mining these resources could still prevail in a regime that is free from the state sanctioned coercion that is presently found across Canada. "
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/07/070415-3.htm
"The Bush administration's determination to exercise American hegemony through warfare, and its assaults on civil liberties, the separation of powers, American prestige and on good American jobs and the value of the dollar have destroyed the party's support."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts04162007.html
"The gun controllers have a second rationale for gun control — that with harshly enforced gun-control laws, guns would disappear from the marketplace and, therefore, murderers would be unable to acquire guns. You know, sort of like drug laws, which, as everyone knows, have caused illicit drugs to disappear from the marketplace, thereby preventing drug users from acquiring them."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0704i.asp
"The most annoying thing about the Don Imus fiasco? The instant it blew up into an absurdly overdone national controversy, we all knew exactly how everyone was going to play it -- or overplay it, as it were."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/14197433/
"As is almost always the case when atrocities of this sort occur, the government's role was limited to disarming the victims, penning them for slaughter, and then sending in heavily armed police to draw the chalk outlines and string up the crime scene tape. And since government is the only entity that grows and prospers through failure, we can anticipate that this State-facilitated mass murder will result in new initiatives to disarm potential victims, embolden private sector criminals, and empower the criminals who rule us and the rented thugs who do their bidding."
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/04/massacre-at-v-tech-death-by-government.html
"[E]ventually it will dawn on you that the only way to keep America secure is by (A) abolishing the welfare state, (B) enforcing the Second Amendment, and (C) running a strictly non-interventionist foreign policy. Every one of those measures is sensible and easy, but they're career-enders for politicians and their hangers-on."
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle413-20070415-02.html
"'The entire human genome is therefore probably developed to give us a limited lifespan,' says Breivik. He believes that many of our genes are constructed such that they protect against cancer in the first part of our lives, but that they are programmed for destruction as we get older. ... 'It's the mind, our thoughts and consciousness that we desperately want to preserve. If we look at technological developments as a whole, that may be exactly what’s happening'."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070416160429.htm
"With polar bears facing dual threats from changing habitat and illegal poachers, hunting them might not seem like a good idea. Yet that's exactly what the Russian government is proposing, believing that legalized hunting will provide incentives for effective conservation...." [Interesting that many Russians now seem to understand this when many Americans seem to not understand.]
http://www.abetterearth.org/blog/id.3898/news_detail.asp
"Like many other manufacturers, Dell started phasing out Windows XP once Vista was released at the end of January. By mid-March, only two of its machines were available with XP preinstalled. Dell's customers were unhappy with the move, and a suggestion on its IdeaStorm customer feedback site to bring XP back received over 11,000 votes." [That will work until Jan. 2008, then Linux may get another surge of demand in Dell purchases.]
"For every study showing the superiority of private schools, there is one showing the opposite. My point is not that we can’t know which kind of school is likely to [be] better. Rather, it’s that such studies are not likely to change people’s minds. Most observers will tend to believe the study that already lines up with their political and cultural convictions."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0701b.asp
"It’s frankly almost beyond my imagination that these idiots think they can get away with such a sweeping prohibition. But they do think it. They managed it with ephedra. And if they don’t manage to kill all complementary and alternative modalities (CAMs), they might well make a big dent just from the compromises that are usually made in these cases."
http://taranjordan.wordpress.com/2007/04/21/vitamin-supplements-by-prescription-only/
"While satellite radio still seems to be figuring out how to make a profit, it's soaring in popularity, winning over 14 million paid subscribers in just a few years. Of course, that may not be a reflection of XM or Sirius' quality so much as the mundanity and drollery of Clear Channel America. With only two business models to choose from, it's unlikely that satellite radio has come anywhere close to fulfilling its potential. So when XM and Sirius announced a highly-publicized merger this year, everything changed for the NAB. Clearly, the two startups it so feared for so long were floundering. And with no other licensed satellite providers around, the NAB's position on the merger became clear: What's bad for satellite is good for the NAB. So the NAB would oppose an XM-Sirius alliance."
http://reason.com/news/show/119743.html
"In my opinion, the unholy alliance of government and big corporations has created a situation in which the food supply is particularly vulnerable. We get our food from God knows where, handled by God knows whom, and treated with God knows how little care. It is difficult to trace the origin of food borne pathogens or toxins, and nobody much remembers what entity was responsible for the last outbreak. The FDA exists to make us more comfortable with buying food from strangers, but it doesn’t really have the capability to protect us. It’s a con."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2007/04/fda-is-scam.html
"Honor is important to militaries, which need to regard themselves as distinguishable from hit men for the Mafia. They aren’t, of course. Both kill people they don’t know on orders from people they don’t know in order to make a living. Is this not literally true? When a man becomes, say, a fighter pilot, he agrees to bomb anyone he is told to bomb. Perhaps he has never heard of Lithuania, or Guatemala, or Baghdad. He has never met a Lithuanian, and no [Lithuanian] has ever harmed him. One day orders come from above to bomb Vilnius. He does. Doing so, and doing so bravely, is a point of honor. It is exactly what Guido and Vito do. A torpedo for the Cosa Nostra however has the self-respect not to lie to himself about what he is doing. "
http://fredoneverything.net/Honor.shtml
"Other losers will be the government contractors who have made out like bandits in this war. While wars are not typically fought primarily for the profit of contractors, that economic consideration is an ever-present ingredient in the mix. Nor should we overlook the oil motive. U.S. policy in the Middle East has always had oil security as a major objective."
http://fff.org/comment/com0704j.asp
"Last week, Dick Cheney, in expressing his displeasure for Congress's attempt to control the war through appropriations, displayed his contempt for the [Constitution] yet again when he declared that "military operations are to be directed by the President of the United States, period[.]" This might certainly sound strange to anyone who has actually bothered to read Article I of the Constitution of the United States."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/mcmaken/mcmaken121.html
"Americans of who are not on the vice president's payroll are inclined to recognize Cheney's manipulation of intelligence prior to the Iraq War, his active role in going after administration critic Joe Wilson and Wilson's wife Valarie Plame, and his ongoing links to the Halliburton war-profiteering cartel as arguments against giving the vice president any prizes for 'honorable' government service." [I have a button somewhere I bought from a friend a few years ago which states the essay title.]
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=187164
"[I]t is the democratic state in America that slaughtered American Indians at Wounded Knee and religious outsiders at Waco. It is that state that nuked Nagasaki and set Cambodia ablaze. It is that organization of moderation and the American way of life that was starving Iraqi children with a hunger blockade as the Oklahoma City bombing unfolded, dropping cluster bombs on Yugoslavia during the Columbine tragedy, and maintaining violent occupations abroad as Virginia Tech fell victim to the largest school shooting in America."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory135.html
"Blacks and other oppressed minorities have often found ways of getting weapons when they needed them for self-defense or to attack the system of white supremacy, sometimes with the help of white allies. Let's remember that John Brown spent a lot of time gathering donations for arms for his raid at Harper's Ferry and the anti-slavery battles in Kansas. The point of the raid - and some of the fund raising itself - was to get guns into the hands of the slave class so that it could overthrow the chattel system in the South."
http://phoenixinsurgent.blogspot.com/2007/04/disarming-robert-williams-re-arming-jim.html
"Perceptively, Ekirch adds, 'Also vital to big business was Unites States patent law, with its provisions granting exclusive rights to an inventor for seventeen years; this enabled companies to buy up and hoard patents, using such control to maintain a monopoly.' In identifying tariffs and patents as agents of monopoly, Ekirch echoed an earlier individualist critic of government interference with the free market, Benjamin Tucker (1854-1939), editor of Liberty magazine. "
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1251
"Guns have been around for a long time, but these crazy shootings are a new development that point to a failure of culture to produce people with a sense of responsibility and self-control. When I was a kid, a youngster could walk into a local hardware store and buy a gun. There were no restrictions. If a kid was so young that he couldn't see over the counter, the store owner might call a parent for approval. We all had guns, and we never shot ourselves or anyone else."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts04172007.html
"News outlets in the United States combine the totally proper condemnation of killing at home with a notably different affect toward the methodical killing abroad that is funded by the U.S. Treasury. We often read, see and hear explicit media commendations that praise as heroic the Americans in uniform who are trying to kill, and to avoid being killed, in Afghanistan and Iraq. In recent decades, the trends of war have been clear. A majority of the dead – estimated at 75 to 90 percent – are civilians. They are no less innocent than the more than 30 people who suddenly died from gunshots at Virginia Tech."
http://www.antiwar.com/solomon/?articleid=10841
"Now, U.S. politicians and the public are beginning to realize that the greatest military in history may not be able to defeat a bunch of rag-tag and loosely organized guerillas and militias in Iraq, and the Taliban in Afghanistan. The good news is that these twin failures, however tragic and painful, will likely usher in a new period of U.S. military restraint...."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1956
"When you consider the events of the last week in Iraq there is no reason any sane Iraqi--Sunni or Shia--would have any confidence in the Petraeus plan. Petraeus and U.S [forces] are in trouble. Desperate trouble. "
http://www.counterpunch.org/johnson04192007.html
"The death last Sunday of six Canadian soldiers in southern Afghanistan reminds us of Santayana’s famous maxim that those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it. The soldiers were killed near Maiwand, a name meaning nothing to most westerners. But there, on 27 July, 1880, during the bloody Second Afghan War, the British Empire suffered one of the worst defeats in its colonial history."
http://www.ericmargolis.com/archives/2007/04/the_endless_war.php
"In 1771 ... he became totally blind. Because of his remarkable memory he was able to continue with his work on optics, algebra, and lunar motion. Amazingly after his return to St Petersburg (when Euler was 59) he produced almost half his total works despite the total blindness. ... He was the most prolific writer of mathematics of all time. ... He made decisive and formative contributions to geometry, calculus and number theory. ... He introduced beta and gamma functions, and integrating factors for differential equations. ... We owe to Euler the notation f(x) for a function ... e for the base of natural logs ... i for the square root of -1 ... Sigma for summation ... and many others. "
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Euler.html
"Señor Wences was known for his speed, skill, and grace as a ventriloquist. His stable of characters included 'Johnny,' a childlike face drawn on Wences' hand, which he would place atop an otherwise headless doll, and with whom Wences conversed while switching his voices between Johnny's falsetto and his own voice at amazing speed. ... Another popular Wences character was the gruff-voiced 'Pedro', a disembodied head in a box." [Try a sample from YouTube.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%B1or_Wences
"When Benny Goodman heard him play, Goodman immediately asked Hampton to record with him, Gene Krupa on drums and Teddy Wilson on piano. The Benny Goodman Quartet recorded the jazz classics 'Dinah,' 'Moonglow,' 'My Last Affair,' and 'Exactly Like You.' Hampton's addition to the groups also marked the breaking of the color barrier; the Benny Goodman Quartet was the first racially integrated group of jazz musicians."
http://www.uidaho.edu/hampton/bio.html
From the biography sub-page: "Notable early film roles included The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) and Johnny Cool (1963). She is best remembered, however, for her leading role as the witch Samantha in the top-rated ABC sitcom 'Bewitched' (1964)."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000548/
"Idiocracy takes place five centuries into the future, in a United States where Americans are idiots from dozens of generations of the least intelligent people breeding the most and the most intelligent being too cautious and responsible with their life choices to catch up in their own reproduction." [Sounds much like Kornbluth's Marching Morons.]
http://thestressblog.com/2007/04/17/idiocracy-and-the-therapeutic-corporate-state/
"Meanwhile, far away in Mordor-On-the-Potomac ... Deep in the bowels of A Nameless Federal Agency (ANFA), a statistical analyst shoved his glasses up his acne-pocked nose and adjusted the ink-stained pocket protector over his heart. He hunched just inside his boss's door, tremulously waiting to be recognized."
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe070416.html
"Completed 34 years after the famed author's passing, Húrin is based on an unfinished manuscript begun in 1918. The blanks were painstakingly filled in by Tolkien's son, Christopher."
http://movies.ign.com/articles/781/781161p1.html
"Mayor Mike Branden was not a college graduate, but he had guts, common sense, and imagination. He immediately saw the problem, and the solution. 'Well, I think we’ll change those gun laws, Bud. Thieves and rapists have it too easy around here. They know they can rob houses and rape women with no risk. Let’s put the risk back. Let’s see what happens when they get shot if they break into a house or bother one of our women. I’m sick to death of all the gun laws in this country, so let’s try a little experiment. I’ll convince the City Council to revoke our gun-control laws."
http://www.newswithviews.com/Turtel/joel40.htm
Stephen shares a video about Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, aka "Jesus Milk."
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/?lnk=v&ml_video=85569
"Panelists discuss the need to protect America's borders with a moat. "
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_the_u_s_moat
"Alberto Gonzales doesn't know what happened, but he assures us that it was handled properly."
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/?lnk=v&ml_video=85561
"McCain, once considered a shoo-in for the Republican presidential nomination, insisted that his upcoming stay at the Hanoi torture facility was simply a late addition to a previously planned trip to Southeast Asia, and has nothing to do with his faltering campaign."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/60693
"The 'normal' effort that an employer is entitled to, when he buys labor-power, is entirely a matter of convention. It's directly analogous [to] the local cultural standards that would determine the nature of 'reasonable expectations,' in a libertarian common law of implied contract. If libertarians like to think of 'a fair day's wage' as an open-ended concept, subject to the employer's discretion and limited by what he can get away with, they should remember that 'a fair day's work' is equally open-ended."
http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2007/04/media-print-projection-embossed-body.html
"The problem is that we don't know in advance precisely what level of risk is present in any given situation or when or how the problem of human evil will show its face. So it does no good to turn society into a prison camp, nor does it makes sense to be naïve about evil and therefore at its mercy when it does appear."
http://www.mises.org/story/2556
"How do you solve this? You need what economists call a 'signal,' a way for buyers to tell the difference. [Warranties] are a common signal. Alternatively, an independent auto mechanic can tell good cars from lemons, and a buyer can hire his expertise. The Secustick story demonstrates this. If there is a consumer advocate group that has the expertise to evaluate different products, then the lemons can be exposed."
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/04/a_security_mark.html
"When all is said and done, the right to bear arms, the right to self-defense, is the very definition of the right to life. The concept of 'right to life' is meaningless if it doesn't suggest, in its very definition, the right to bear arms. If one is prevented by the State from defending oneself from aggression, then life is a privilege granted by the State, not a right."
http://independentcountry.blogspot.com/2007/04/random-thoughts-on-gun-control.html
"Ubuntu 7.04 features better integrated wireless networking support, improved multimedia functionality, integrated virtualization technology, and a new Windows migration assistant that is integrated into Ubuntu's graphical installer."
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070420-ubuntu-7-04-feisty-officially-released.html
"Most new cars are already pretty clean-burning by virtue of efficiency and government standards. And while future vehicles will undoubtedly take advantage of systems currently in place inside hybrids, the engines aren't going to plant a tree or clean trash off road medians. You are."
http://www.thesimon.com/magazine/articles/canon_fodder/01367_smug_emissions.html
"Two men with foreign, suspicious-sounding names, Elahwal and Iqbal, were arrested for the capitalistic entrepreneurial crime of using satellite dishes to distribute Hezbollah television station broadcasts to their New York-area customers. Since the USSA government designated the station, al Manar, as a global terrorist entity, the two men face five-year prison terms for stupidly believing that freedom of speech exists in America. The thinking, apparently, is that anyone watching a terrorist TV station is guilty of aiding global terrorism."
http://www.freecannon.com/CrimeOfFreeSpeech.htm
"The problems started shortly after I received my stuff. All the hardware was fine, but I started having huge problems when I loaded my existing Office 2002 versions on the machine. I kept getting repeated messages that an application was trying to access my Outlook mailbox. By repeated, I mean something like 20 popup boxes, one right after another, all saying the same thing."
http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com/Archives/2007/20070417.html
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