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When Democracy Fails

Something terrible has happened. Women in this country have just become second class citizens. The Supreme Court just declared that guns have more rights than women and children do. Women will die because of the decision made by the Supreme Court. Before I continue, there is something that I need to state: I hate abortion. At the same time though, this is a private, personal choice that isn't up to me or any preacher or politician to make for that matter. I have my belief system, but, it would be wrong to force my beliefs upon others.    Any religion has a right to exist in this country. I will uphold the rights of others when it comes to exercising there right to worship, regardless of whatever that religion is. It doesn't matter if that person if Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, or Muslim. And that includes the rights of those who choose not to worship at all. As long as that group in particular doesn't advocate hate or death, they have a right to worship need be. In a democrac

Windows Computing In The Late 90's (Microsoft Goes Nuclear: The Internet And The First Browser War)

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Microsoft Goes Nuclear: The Internet And The First Browser War One time, I ran across this 500 page book about the Internet that was published in 1994. It was interesting to see what PC users prioritized when it came to the Internet back at that time. It seems that most of that book covered email. There was also a very sizeable section about FTP followed by a smaller section about the Gopher protocol. However, the technology that would eventually define the Internet was covered in roughly 40-50 pages. The World Wide Web was a small bleep on a massive radar that was consumed with mostly email and FTP. While the WWW got a big break with the release of the Mosaic web-browser, it's stake wasn't exactly guaranteed either as the Gopher protocol, which was mostly like the WWW minus images, still had a massive following though a huge stretch of 94. It wasn't until late in that year that it would be a given that the WWW, through the use of the HTML programming language, would domina