Here is an idea to quell the violence and mayhem caused by a group of out of control idiots that took over the peaceful May Day protests in Seattle and other cities. It also would make great television. First off we have to detain people who act violently towards people and property. The police knew this was coming, but did not act in accordance with the law to abort the melee. We in Seattle witnessed several hours of violent acts in our city caught on local news cameras and broadcast into our homes. But nobody detained or stopped the instigators. We have to interrupt them to demonstrate intolerability of these acts. The attitude of containment due to the more peaceful protests that were occurring on the same day is not the right solution. Deter these self proclaimed anarchists and expose them for what they really are, misguided, immature, angry idiots.

Here is the pitch. Send these people to an island in the same vein as “Survivor”. Let them alone for at least a year to show what comes of an anarchical society. Let them try to evolve to an understanding that the answer is not survival of the fittest or every man for himself. Our strength lies in cooperation and community, not violent protests, riots and revolution. Let’s not decay into the abyss of loathing and hate. Lets evolve into a higher level of consciousness and understanding.

Sure the economy is bad and our democracy is imperfect, but we can move forward into a promising future. My take on these black clad, masked and goggled anarchists is clear immaturity, lack of understanding and pure stupidity. They have been sold a philosophy that is self-destructive and ineffective. They lack the emotional maturity compelling the basic respect for other people. They are dissing our life and our city. This is sad to see and hard to watch, but can be forgiven given this time and place. We can learn from the abhorrent behavior of a small group and maybe try to comprehend the psychology behind their collective ego causing their misdeeds.

Send them on to Anarchy Island and let them examine how society develops. Let them see what social chaos would truly bring to all. But wait, this would be to severe a punishment. We have to show them thorough example and lovingkindness the path to maturity. The idiots would probably kill themselves, rebelling against any perceived authority or societal controls. Back in the day Peace Love and Understanding of the 60s turned into Sex Drugs and Rock & Roll of the 70s we constantly evolve and devolve as a whole. Let us move forward and learn from this experience.

As a user of Microsoft computer software products over the past two decades I have learned a lot about their peculiarities. Besides personal usage and local familiarity with their culture I have worked closely with their people and even have some MS friends. I am just continually disappointed with their constant output of manipulative products.

My current experience to this meddling involves XML and JavaScript. Using standard practices the Web App we are developing breaks in the tainted MS IE browser environment. The research involved in rectifying and continuing production for this platform is hindered even by MS. Looking at their documentation at MSDN it is insufficient in tutorials and examples to demonstrate the proper creation of the necessary JavaScript objects for XML development, at least from my perspective. This is a new area for us so learning to appease the ever evolving IE browser would be a solution involving a good learning experience. But it is easier, at this stage of app development, to just not give the IE browser any regard. Make the app less functional for those who use it and warn them of the consequences of using this noncompliant platform and supporting a company that continues to makes life difficult for developers.

MS has been railing against Javascript and subverting it even though it is well known to be the defacto standard for client side scripting. They want their own VBsript to be dominant. With XML they have their own version of XML even though the W3C has set the standards for using this newer web language. Why MS, why? Let the production of good web apps be vibrant and fun. There is no need to try to control the world and the web when compliance will save software development companies millions of dollars. The affect is to disenfranchise the people who would support you.
These opinions are presented from personal experience and are meant to enhance communication and development of computer software.

Throughout their history continuing till today they combine the arrogance of their position with the leverage of their power. Even the people I know personally from MS have these characteristics that are both socially and practically counter productive to establishing positive relationships. Since 1997, after years of being subjected to their manipulative techniques I have espoused the usage of Open Source software from Linux OSs to the Firefox browser. This is even more pertinent at this stage of the game. Let us not allow one or two enterprises dictate the course of the industry. MS this is like trying to grasp a handful of sand at the beach. The harder you hold it the more slips through your fingers. Loosen your grip and enjoy the sounds of the waves. Just my opinion. Go, go, go Open Source the true future of software development.

There are currently several websites on-line that clain to promise free credit scores or reports. Some of these have used extensive advertising campaigns aimed at young people to get them to use their site to check their scores. The concept of periodically checking credit scores to discover idenity theft is valid. Unfortunately it has been reported by consumer groups that some of these sites may ask for your credit card numbers and surreptiously charge you money, or worse. They may use hard to find clauses in there agreements to autherize these payments.

It has been recently reported to me by a reliable consumer resource that a trussted place to truly get your credit rating freely is anualcreditreport.com. I trust this report, but will check into it further this week, and report back to you here with further details when verified. This website will added to the top100k.com website as well.

I have absolutely no affiliation with this or any other credit reporting website or service and am just reporting this as a way to help others.

Erik Holm

Producer of Top100k.com

There are currently several websites on-line that clain to promise free credit scores or reports. Some of these have used extensive advertising campaigns aimed at young people to get them to use their site to check their scores. The concept of periodically checking credit scores to discover idenity theft is valid. Unfortunately it has been reported by consumer groups that some of these sites may ask for your credit card numbers and surreptiously charge you money, or worse. They may use hard to find clauses in there agreements to autherize these payments.

It has been recently reported to me by a reliable consumer resource that a trussted place to truly get your credit rating freely is anualcreditreport.com. I trust this report, but will check into it further this week, and report back to you here with further details when verified. This website will added to the top100k.com website as well.

I have absolutely no affiliation with this or any other credit reporting website or service and am just reporting this as a way to help others.

Erik Holm

Producer of Top100k.com

My fav two websites with easy to use frameworks for site creation are wordpress.org and Joomla.org.  Both are outstanding in there use of modular coding and theme based design and are open source.  They both produce dynamic content driven websites that can be used in social networking, since they both support multiple user types and ability for users to publish to the websites easily. They are both great for creating various social media sites.

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Abbie R.