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Unfortunately a moral and money rarely goes together as many history examples show. Do I understand correct that effectively in a modern economics it's only the US can print money (by Fed)? With that the ruling elite can do whatever needed to prolong its ruling, unfortunately far outside the US borders.

Can keyboard be the cause? A spellchecker "stats collection" for example.

Power is ability to make people do what you want. It can be measured in money. Facebook has lots of it, like it or not.

How would they get gcc crash reports if you refuse to upgrade to latest? :)

I see another name as author and no trace of Fabrice in history. Can you elaborate please?

You write:

> ...astounding achievement from Redmond. It boasted interactive tools to create GUI drag and drop features users were accustomed to in VB6 but glaringly missing in the Java world. This was with Visual Studio 97

Thay were not "glaringly missing in the Java world" in 1997 when Visual Studio was released. By that time at least these 2 IDEs with "drag and drop" were released and used already: Symantec Visual Café (a good one!), and a beta of IBM VisualAge (second part of 96). VisualAge came with specific ibm's understanding of drag and drop, however the Visual Café's experience was really similar to VB and much easier than J++ from what I remember. I tried all of them at the time including JBuilder and Sybase. JBuilder was my best for quite time.

The work of this system does not seem different from what's known of chinese face detection and surveillance systems.