A new book and website I found of interest on Jonbenet Ramsey


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By Mari on Wednesday, November 10, 1999 - 03:30 pm:

    I have posted this entry at other forums, I didn’t want to change it because I felt it said best what I had to say. So here it is.:
    My name is Mari and like some of you, I've been following the JonBenet Ramsey murder since it happened and have visited this site and every other possible site that has talked about the murder over the years.. Recently I've begun working for a company in Long Island, New York, as a receptionist and administrative assistant for a brokerage firm that is in some way associated with an organization called the Stillwater Committee, to my knowledge made up of a group of retired and semi-retired medical doctors, and some wealthy criminologists, pathologists, and forensics experts spread out from here to Switzerland whose grisly hobby appears to be the pursuit of solutions to famous unsolved murders. It seems that Stillwater with its deep pockets has, since February 1997, conducted an extensive private investigation into JonBenet's slaying and is poised to release their findings to the public in the coming months through a book that is called: Quiet, Samantha Foster. I thought I'd alert you to the website www.quietsamanthafoster.com which is about this organization. At the site, their Artemis diary entries are particularly intriguing.



By Nate on Wednesday, November 10, 1999 - 05:32 pm:

    i could give a fuck.


By Cyst on Wednesday, November 10, 1999 - 05:39 pm:

    does anyone know the url for a site with the full text of the malicious monopoly ruling?


By Droopy on Wednesday, November 10, 1999 - 05:56 pm:


By Cyst on Wednesday, November 10, 1999 - 06:30 pm:

    thanks! it's great. it contains the words "specious" and "facile."


By Droopy on Wednesday, November 10, 1999 - 06:55 pm:

    ok.

    have you ever masturbated to the thesaurus, cyst?


By Cyst on Wednesday, November 10, 1999 - 07:51 pm:

    no.

    "The special multimedia support provided by the BeOS may, for a small number of users, outweigh the disadvantages of maintaining two large, complex operating systems on one PC. Of that group, however, it is likely that only a tiny number of users will find that support so attractive that they would be willing to ***forego*** Windows, and its huge base of compatible applications, altogether."

    I think the justice may have meant "forgo," meaning "to go without," rather than "forego," which, as I recall, means "to go before."


By Droop on Wednesday, November 10, 1999 - 08:06 pm:


By Rhiannon on Wednesday, November 10, 1999 - 08:15 pm:

    Interesting. My beloved Merriam Webster's Collegiate dictionary agrees with Cyst.

    forego: to go before; precede

    forgo: 1. to give up the enjoyment or advantage of 2. to do without


By Cyst on Wednesday, November 10, 1999 - 09:05 pm:

    Microsoft...

    would invest whatever resources were necessary

    would not be constrained by the fact that authoring software generated only modest revenue

    did not intend to capitulate.

    began to retaliate in earnest

    justified its exclusion

    actually has limited rather severely

    no longer affords this flexibility (it is the only operating system vendor that does not)

    formalized the prohibition against

    prohibited

    prohibited

    prohibited

    added the restriction

    refused to relent on the bulk of its restrictions

    brought still more pressure to bear

    asserts that it restricts the freedom

    stopped caring about the consistency of the Windows experience in 1998

    has argued that the limitations it imposes

    imposes

    has secretly agreed to provide

    has largely succeeded in exiling Navigator

    has substantially increased the cost

    achieved this feat by using a complementary set of tactics

    imposed additional technical restrictions to increase the cost of promoting Navigator even more

    threatened to penalize

    was willing to pay this price

    enticed ISPs with small subscriber bases to distribute Internet Explorer and to make it their default browsing software

    required the IAP to abandon a distribution agreement already entered with Netscape

    readily made this sacrifice in order to induce

    therefore paid a high price to induce the most popular IAPs to encourage their customers to use Internet Explorer and discourage them from using Navigator

    retaliated in subtle and not-so-subtle ways

    took umbrage

    therefore set out to convince developers

    has succeeded in forestalling for several years Navigator's evolution in that direction

    also discouraged its business allies from aiding Sun's effort

    continued to refuse to implement Sun's native method until November 1998, when a court ordered it to do so

    did so, but with respect to the RMI beta release, it buried the link in an obscure location and neglected to include an entry for it

    refused to alter its developer tools until November 1998, when a court ordered

    pressured Intel

    was not content to rely solely on its anti-Navigator efforts

    induced dozens of important ISVs

    went further than that, however

    used threats to withhold

    has succeeded in greatly impeding

    also engaged in a concerted series of actions designed to protect the applications barrier to entry, and hence its monopoly power

    created confusion and frustration for consumers, and increased technical support costs for business customers

    forced those consumers

    deprived consumers of software innovation that they very well may have found valuable, had the innovation been allowed to reach the marketplace


    by Thomas Penfield Jackson


By heather on Wednesday, November 10, 1999 - 09:05 pm:

    websters on the web also says that forgo is interchangeable with forego