June 14, 2004
The New York Times > Technology > Phone Giants Are Projected to Dominate Internet Calls
The inexorable march to VoIP has begun. With 600,000 customers, the IP phone services are beginning to make inroads into the circuit switched marketplace, but there's still a long way to go.
June 12, 2004
The New York Times > Washington > Excerpts From the Eulogies: Recollections of Hope, Humor and One Very Big Heart
With the high attendance by leaders and 'ordinary' Americans and the meticulous attention to detail, President Reagan's funeral is a glorious testament to the man, his accomplishments, and the nation that spawned and honored him.
Well done, America!
His family's eulogies last night were very appropriate and the interment ceremony was wonderfully moving. The Christian basis for all this provided the opportunity for some of the Gospel to be made known to the world.
With such a display of Christianity, America's enemies and the enemies of God must have been angry.
Well done, America!
His family's eulogies last night were very appropriate and the interment ceremony was wonderfully moving. The Christian basis for all this provided the opportunity for some of the Gospel to be made known to the world.
With such a display of Christianity, America's enemies and the enemies of God must have been angry.
June 11, 2004
Thoughts About Freedom
This is making the rounds...
The following passage is from a sermon by John Hagee of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio:
I want you to close your eyes and picture in your mind the soldier at Valley Forge, as he holds his musket in his bloody hands. He stands barefoot in the snow, starved from lack of food, wounded from months of battle and emotionally scarred from the eternity away from his family surrounded by nothing but death and carnage of war. He stands though, with fire in his eyes and victory on his breath. He looks at us now in anger and disgust and tells us this...
I gave you a birthright of freedom born in the Constitution and now your children graduate too illiterate to read it.
I fought in the snow barefoot to give you the freedom to vote and you stay at home because it rains!
I left my family destitute to give you the freedom of speech and you remain silent on critical issues, because it might be bad for business.
I orphaned my children to give you a government to serve you and it has stolen democracy from the people.
It's the soldier, not the reporter who gives you the freedom of the press.
It's the soldier, not the poet who gives you the freedom of speech. It's the soldier, not the campus organizer who allows you to demonstrate.
It's the soldier, who salutes the flag, serves the flag, whose coffin is draped with the flag that allows the protester to burn the flag!!!
"Lord, hold our troops in your loving, hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen."
The following passage is from a sermon by John Hagee of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio:
I want you to close your eyes and picture in your mind the soldier at Valley Forge, as he holds his musket in his bloody hands. He stands barefoot in the snow, starved from lack of food, wounded from months of battle and emotionally scarred from the eternity away from his family surrounded by nothing but death and carnage of war. He stands though, with fire in his eyes and victory on his breath. He looks at us now in anger and disgust and tells us this...
I gave you a birthright of freedom born in the Constitution and now your children graduate too illiterate to read it.
I fought in the snow barefoot to give you the freedom to vote and you stay at home because it rains!
I left my family destitute to give you the freedom of speech and you remain silent on critical issues, because it might be bad for business.
I orphaned my children to give you a government to serve you and it has stolen democracy from the people.
It's the soldier, not the reporter who gives you the freedom of the press.
It's the soldier, not the poet who gives you the freedom of speech. It's the soldier, not the campus organizer who allows you to demonstrate.
It's the soldier, who salutes the flag, serves the flag, whose coffin is draped with the flag that allows the protester to burn the flag!!!
"Lord, hold our troops in your loving, hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen."
Yahoo! News - Text of Bush's Tribute to Reagan
"And where does that strength come from? Where is that courage learned? It is the faith of a boy who read the Bible with his mom. It is the faith of a man lying in an operating room who prayed for the one who shot him before he prayed for himself. It is the faith of a man with a fearful illness who waited on the Lord to call him home.
Now death has done all that death can do, and as Ronald Wilson Reagan goes his way, we are left with the joyful hope he shared. In his last years he saw through a glass darkly. Now he sees his savior face to face."
I can only say...Amen!
Now death has done all that death can do, and as Ronald Wilson Reagan goes his way, we are left with the joyful hope he shared. In his last years he saw through a glass darkly. Now he sees his savior face to face."
I can only say...Amen!
June 10, 2004
Yahoo! News - U.S. General: Iraq Police Training a Flop
This general has the guts to admit he and we failed to train the Iraqis for their defense and security. Nevertheless, if Iraqis won't fight for their own security, their future is bleak as a 'free' society. I wonder if they have the motivation to change their country? Perhaps we expect too much.
Perhaps Wolfowitz is a brilliant dunce.
Perhaps Wolfowitz is a brilliant dunce.
Google mulls RSS support | CNET News.com
This is too important a technology standard to be consumed in the fires of geek arguments. Better that active collaboration to create one standard begin soon. Perhaps Ruby and Winer should have dinner together and invite Google and Microsoft.
The New York Times > Arts > $50 Billion Question: World, Where to Begin?
A very interesting approach to identifying big world problems that would diminish if financial resources were targeted to them. This Dane may be controversial, but he's brilliant.
The New York Times > Business > States' Big Role in Phone Rates May Be Only a Cameo
I agree with Powell that the federal rules should trump the anachronistic approach of state determined access charges. Consumers are moving rapidly away from wireline telephony and to wireless where none of the old rules apply. The rapid trend to wireless Internet access to broadband via Wi-Fi and other approaches also works against the old state regulatory paradigm.
The Internet changes everything, not least the regulatory regime that grew up with the old Bell System. By nature the Internet and the services provided on it is an interstate/interLATA network and should not be subject to state jurisdictional rules. To do otherwise would lead to Balkanization of the Internet in the U.S, an untenable situation.
The Internet changes everything, not least the regulatory regime that grew up with the old Bell System. By nature the Internet and the services provided on it is an interstate/interLATA network and should not be subject to state jurisdictional rules. To do otherwise would lead to Balkanization of the Internet in the U.S, an untenable situation.
June 7, 2004
Why the FCC should die | Perspectives | CNET News.com
While a sudden death may be a bit radical, it is time the functions of the FCC were reviewed keeping only the important needs for the FCC.
A great deal of business strategy rests on the regulation of the FCC. That can't be undone quickly.
That serious consideration exists for abolishment is intriguing.
A great deal of business strategy rests on the regulation of the FCC. That can't be undone quickly.
That serious consideration exists for abolishment is intriguing.
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