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AbiWord Weekly News #103

Submitted by stro on Sun, 2002-08-11 23:34. AbiWord

This has been a week full of surprises, and not like the nice kind, where a bank error is sided in your favour. This has been more along the lines of the revenue service wonders why your forms are in crayon, whether "Sparky" is really your six year old son or if your mistress can really count as a dependent. Luckily for us, we have Arthur Anderson and Aberdeen! Abisource went into infinite fcsk mode, and on the second day, asked, "Hey, man, this is wrong for some reason, and where do all these packets keep coming from?" It rebooted and life got better. Take heart, it didn't stop the hackers from hacking or the users from abusing. It did delay AWN for a few days.

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Update:AWN for this week is also out, get it here.

Re: bad taste

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2002-08-12 05:23.

And here's a Heidegger passage to ponder, too (from "The Thing"):

"Yet the frantic abolition of all distances brings no nearness; for nearness does not consist in shortness of distance...

What is happening here when, as a result of the abolition of great distances, everything is equally far and equally near? What is this uniformity in which everything is neither far nor near--is, as it were, without distance?

Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. he does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened. Not to mention the single hydrogen bomb, whose triggering, thought through to its utmost potential, might be enough to snuff out all life on earth. What is this helpless anxiety still waiting for, if the terrible has already happened?"

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