Daily Archives: March 8, 2007

The Shorter Microsoft Warranty

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Bryan, Why Now, tells us why we should trust Bill Gates:

Any member of Congress who is tempted to vote for anything based on the testimony of Bill Gates should read a Microsoft warranty¹. After reading that piece of legal prose and having it parsed to explain exactly what it says, the member of Congress should be able to understand how trustworthy Bill Gates isn’t.

Here is Bryan’s shorter Microsoft warranty:

Microsoft only guarantees the quality of the media [CD-ROM or DVD] that their products are shipped on. They don’t guarantee that anything will be on the media, and if there is something on the media, they don’t guarantee that it will do anything. If the media is defective, they’ll replace it.

Letting Microsoft hire a bunch on H1-Bs will not change their unwarranty.

Bryan’s analysis of high tech unemployment and H1-Bs is correct. Nevertheless, here we do support open borders whether it be Mexican, Indian, Canadian, Cuban,…..
Governments should not be allowed to get in the way of people’s voluntary movement or their voluntary exchange of goods.

Getting the Marriage Debate Right

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It is not an answer that politicians will like but Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat gets it right:

I have long thought the solution to the marriage fight is to get government out of the marriage business. Let churches marry — or refuse to marry — whomever they choose. Have the state support families through civil contracts. For the most part, families are what they define themselves to be.
This is already happening, without government. For the first time in more than a century, married households now are the minority in America. In Seattle, a whopping 67 percent of households are headed by unmarried adults.

Politicians, be they republicans or democrats, and bureaucrats do not like giving up control. Indeed, it is one of their greatest failings.

This is one area where we can start removing the bonds imposed by our state and federal governments and work to make sure that current and future legislative bodies do nothing more to discriminate against whatever form of living arrangements consenting adults may choose.