15 March 2008

Farce as tragedy

The Jewish joke is that of a someone who kills his parents and then asks the court for mercy because he’s an orphan. The tragedy is two Israeli Arabs who killed their sister because she violated the family “honor”, and then pleaded for mercy from the court because their family was bereaved. (via Dhimmi Watch)

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It's all about the Euros, baby

Via No Pasarán we find out that while the EU is hitting the Dark Empire with repeated fines for being sufficiently open, it itself refuses to be open in its interactions with its subjects by using proprietary software. Was the whole legal proceedings just a way of getting a vendor discount?

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