Slashdot: Charlie McCreevy slammed as "arrogant", "loose cannon"

by weekend supplements Fri Oct 14, 2005 19:01

One you all should read. Did you know that today is the 20th birthday of Microsoft Windows for example?
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/13/2219236&from=rss
Mc Creevy was was in his 6th year in the Dail as a TD and was just about to lose his seat as a councilor on Kildare county council when Bill Gates (his junior by only 6 years) first shipped to the world a "slow operating environment".

That "slow operating environment" was so aggresively marketed in the following decade that it made its company the richest corporation on the planet, and brought it through more monopoly challenges than had been seen in either US or Global economics since the XIX century. I firmly believe, it also sped up most of our problems and to no small extent shaped many of us.

I was in school in dublin, I suppose risible was in school too somewhere, and indeed I presume most readers of this site were. Since then we have learnt a vocabulary. In 1985 they didn't tell you what a "site" was at school unless it was somewhere often in London where you did real work. We would never have thought how often we'd click a rodent on the living room table. Or how close we'd be sitting to a television everyday of our life. I suppose liebniz turned in his grave.

anyway

I doubt Mc Creevy or any of his generation really understand the potential for human disaster which the sudden arrival of technology in all western lives meant, or just as damning a criticism - I doubt Mc Creevy or any of his generation really understand the potential for human wellbeing and progress which the fair - open - free - & just use of this technology offers.

in 1985 we could not have imagined 20% of our genes with ownership tags stored on some most probably Microsoft database.

anyway - check out slashdot always!
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by glaniggles Fri Oct 21, 2005 14:35

"Mr Schultz, who last week described Mr McCreevy as "a loose cannon whose arrogant opinions have provoked anti-EU feeling across Europe" said he was impressed with the commissioner when he could understand him.

"I met him. I didn't understand one word of what he said, but after it had been translated. I found that he was very impressive," said Mr Schultz, who has asked commission president Jose Manuel Barroso to deliver a public reprimand to Mr McCreevy for comments he made on a trip to Sweden last week.

Mr McCreevy has been criticised for publicly commenting on a Swedish legal row over a Latvian company wanting to set up in Sweden but refusing to sign a Swedish wage agreement. He was interpreted as siding with the Latvian company in resisting wage bargaining agreements as a restriction to the free movement of workers."

read the article at Irish Times today at link.
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But know that most FF men and wimmin can understand him. Part of their national success has been built on promoting the inarticulate, a lack of elocutory skill goes down well with the lumpen speculators who feel represented at an international level by voices like McCreevy's and Ahern's. Even this is a sign of Mc Dowell's terrible talent, a man who strategically uses mispronunciation amidst his bluster to RTE. I have carefully analysed 6 press statements of Mc Dowell on garda investigations and found 3 seperate pronunciations of the word "i-n-v-e-s-t-i-g-a-t-i-o-n". If Mc dowell says the word in his usual dubliner barrister you know he's in charge. If he chooses some rural lilt, you know he's telling the gaurds they're in charge. Honestly do the research yourself, make MP3s of mc dowell.


Mr McCreevy, who is commissioner with responsibility for the internal market, has already been summoned by MEPs to the European Parliament in Strasbourg next Tuesday to explain his comments.