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1375 days ago
We discovered by chance why our MSN Spaces appears in German even though we originally and expressly set all settings to English. We live in Germany and thus have a German version of Internet Explorer because that is all that is available here, so that the language of the browser apparently overrides the language settings. Fed up with Internet Explorer for this kiind of language tyranny and for many other reasons, we have shifted to the English-language version of Mozilla Firefox, finding the latter to be much the superior browser for a number of reasons. Under the english-language version of Mozilla Firefox, our MSN Spaces now appear in English. Microsoft seems to think that it will continue to prosper without paying attention to the users and we think that the company is due for some hard times if it does not change its attitudes and policies toward its customers.
1556 days ago
I have stopped using MSN Spaces because MSN has changed the command interface from English to German language without my consent. I see no button or other possibility for the user to select the language he or she wants to use. It is time the big companies learn that this sort of tyranny will simply not be tolerated.
1821 days ago
Is there really anthing at all? All things known to us are in a constant state of flux. Heraclitus wrote, panta rei "everything flows". What we view as "reality" is a a constant, everchanging process where things have no "fixed" identity in Time. All things are processes, never actually "themselves". They are neither Something nor Nothing, so are they Anything at all? But even if things are figments of our imagination, they are still THAT, which is Something, and hence more than Nothing.
1821 days ago
Things have beginnings and ends, but is the Universe really a thing? How could the Universe have a beginning? and what preceded that beginning? Beginnings and ends involve the concept of Time. Can Time ever have started, or has Time always existed? If Time started, how did it start? But if Time has always existed, then the Universe can have no beginning...and also no end. But how could something simply be, without having any origin at all?
1821 days ago
At the root of all inquiry are the questions of something or nothing. Could the universe have started out of nothing? But how could nothing lead to something? On the other hand, if the universe started out of something, then WHERE did that something come from? WHO made it, and WHO made the maker? etc. And WHAT was that something if it were more than nothing?
