RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:The Gartner "Leader" quadrant Hello Yasch,
thanks for your reply, I guess you're right when you say that people can in a matter of seconds make a decision whether or not they want to continue to read the rest of the message or not. And I know, I've seen some of these side journeys into politics and also into other topics. And I personally don't mind. I am interested in a lot of topics, and politics is certainly one of them. But I can also understand those people who say something like: "this is a BlackBerry discussion board, so don't bother me with all kinds of other issues which have nothing to do BlackBerry, if I want to read (discussions) about politics or about the adventurous life of the goldfish for that matter, well then I will visit such a board."
That which you said about WW3 is probably quite true, but then again perhaps one could argue that when WW3 breaks out people should have more important things to do than discussing the radiation effects of the KEYone, or to be on a BlackBerry board all together.
I'm sorry to hear your family wasn't spared during the 2nd World War. As I'm sorry for all the people who have been suffering in the past and are suffering today. That's perhaps the main reason why I so strongly dislike the Islamic religion, because the way I see it, it has caused indescribable and unmeasurable suffering from the very first moment it came into existence, about 1,400 years ago and it continues to do so wherever it shows its ugly face. This religion or ideology is the biggest violator of human rights the world has ever seen. Even worse than the many other horrors we've seen throughout history. And what's so flabbergasting for me is that in contrast to other evil ideologies this one is not fought against, but instead protected and sanctified. Precisely the same people who are obsessed with and talk all day about human rights seem to do whatever they can to defend this religion/ideology instead of fighting against it. They much rather fight against people who dare say anything unpleasant about their Muslim comrades.
It wasn't just Queen Juliana's personal belief. In fact, she probably spoke on behalf of the government. But it's my impression it's indeed a belief she shared herself. Our kings and queens are by no means dictators, so even if that would have been solely her belief, that wouldn't have caused so many people to leave the Netherlands. As I have come to understand the whole thing, because I wasn't around at that time, the Dutch government, with Willem Drees as prime minister at the time, actively encouraged Dutch citizens to leave our country and to start a life elsewhere, because our country was full. (By the way, when in the '80s a right-wing politician said exactly the same thing, he was prosecuted and convicted for it. By that time the population was around 14 million) Anyways, they encouraged Dutch people to leave, I guess you could say by means of propaganda, to instill the idea in people's minds that it might indeed be a very good idea to pursue your fortunes elsewhere. And on top of that they also offered money to people who indeed decided to migrate to another country.
As a Dutch person I definitely know Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She's very well known in my country, but unfortunately she's no longer living here. She's a very brave, strong and clever woman. She came to the Netherlands in 1992 at the age of 22 or 23. About 10 to 11 years later, she had mastered the Dutch language, had studied political science at the university and made it to the Dutch House of Representatives. So I am familiar with her views (although lately I haven't heard much about or from her) and I think people would be wise to listen to her and to so many other (brave) people who have been warning about the dangers and horrors of Islam. She has also written several books, in one of them she describes the time she had been living in madhouse Saudi Arabia. You can't criticize the religion of peace without endangering your life. Which should speak volumes about what it is you're dealing with. Theo van Gogh as you said was indeed brutally murdered by one of the followers of that in the eyes of leftists gorgeous religion. That happened in November 2004, not only was a striking personality and a great grandson of the brother (also called Theo) of the very famous painter Vincent van Gogh murdered that day, it was also a savage attack on our freedom of speech. The Netherlands have definitely changed because of this imported Muslim population. The left calls it cultural enrichment, I call it a grotesque mutilation of my once peaceful, harmonious, tolerant and beautiful country. In a way the Third World War has in my view already begun. Muslims have sent us countless declarations of war, but still, most seem to be in denial. Anyways, this is the last I will say about it on this board. (At least so I hope) First, because it's off topic. Second, because I can't rule out that one day (in the not too distant future) I shall be arrested for expressing my opinions.
Then getting back to copying and pasting pictures. For some very weird reason I could paste pictures which I had copied from the internet, but not when I had copied them from my own computer. I tried several things, but nothing seemed to work. Then I decided to simply try another browser. First Internet Explorer, which I only use for specific purposes. There I wouldn't even get the Stockhouse toolbar and pasting by using CTRL-V did nothing. Then I tried the Mozilla Firefox browser and oddly enough it was the opposite as with my default browser. In Firefox I couldn't paste pictures from the internet, but I could however paste pictures I had copied from my own computer. Very, very weird in my view. But at least now I know how to paste pictures directly onto this board.
I am interested to see what you have to say about the Professional Services revenue. And of course what we shall be hearing on the next conference call, only 12 days from today. And what they will be doing in terms of making new revenue categories in their financial statements.