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To: pragmatic_asian

>>Ain't MS's fault that those countries want to stifle free speech.

You ever read the Indian or Paki press?

Stop shilling for MS; if their stupidity and ignorance leads to them making mistakes, then it's their fault. Simple.

If they put out a product, it's incumbent upon them to be accurate.


18 posted on 08/19/2004 11:03:20 AM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: swarthyguy

>>You ever read the Indian or Paki press?

Some. Not impressed with either. Both are nominally free but all I've seen is that they're free to be inaccurate, partisan and anti-American. Doesn't make both of their repression of the Kashmir topic of discussion any less an act of censorship.

>>Stop shilling for MS; if their stupidity and ignorance leads to them making mistakes, then it's their fault. Simple.

How did you jump to the assumption that I'm shilling for MS? I'm only bashing uninformed detractors. The only thing I'm defending is their right to sell a product. As for mistakes: Taiwan isn't it's own country? Is that MS's mistake or China's delusion? You think that Kashmir belongs to India. So is it MS's mistake when Pakistan claims otherwise? Hagia Sophia didn't used to be a church? Hembra doesn't mean woman in Spanish despite some Central American country's bastardization of the word? Christians don't get offended when Gregorian chants are used in all sorts of non pious situations. Was MS making a mistake in using a Koranic chant for a game or are the Islamists being too sensitive? It's not as simple as you think.

>>If they put out a product, it's incumbent upon them to be accurate.

Yes and you have the right not to buy it. All I'm saying to other countries is to stop being such sensitive pansies about every little mistake.


22 posted on 08/19/2004 1:12:26 PM PDT by pragmatic_asian
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