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...Finally, the committee is noting when one individual or a few ‘hijack the discussion,’” O’Brien continues...
Without copyrights the GPL would not work because any company could hijack the code (like Microsoft), extend it with proprietary code and release it as a binary only without giving others the opportunity to change the code. Eventually such a fork might discourage open source developers to write new code and the code would no longer be freely available after a short while...
California voters should reject this recall for the safety and stability of their government. They should not let special interests and capricious elections hijack the state government and they must amend this serious flaw in their Constitution to prevent future abuse by predatory politicians. If Arnold and the others have a genuine concern about California, they should run for governor in a real election...
...light of these observations, it is difficult to take seriously Dean’s assertion that special interests hijack the will of the people. A Sept. 22 Pew Research Center poll refutes Dean’s second claim that people’s faith in government has eroded. Fifty-five percent of respondents approved of “the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president,” roughly equivalent to the fifty-three percent who responded similarly in the Pew Research Center’s first poll after Bush took office. If we Americans...
...agents to find much. But when they combed through embarkation cards of individuals who had passed through immigration in Sungai Kolok, agents turned up the name of Mas Selamat Kastari, an alleged JI operations chief in Singapore and the suspected mastermind behind a foiled plan in 2001 to hijack a plane and crash it into Singapore's Changi Airport...