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Who do You Trust<br />
There is a group in the<br />
United States that<br />
is pushing for all candidates<br />
putting themselves up for election<br />
in Public Office, to undertake a<br />
polygraph test. This, they say, will<br />
result in only honest people being<br />
elected to politics.<br />
I hear many people say<br />
what a great idea – or is it? The<br />
opposing argument is that this<br />
would lead to only the very best<br />
liars being elected because the<br />
really honest people would not<br />
pass the test. What has happened<br />
to trust?<br />
Our telephone account is in<br />
my wife’s name. Even though<br />
I have all her details including<br />
secret answers to secret<br />
questions, I am not allowed to<br />
enquire into our account details.<br />
Where is the trust?<br />
Recently I broke the law. I<br />
opened a piece of mail that was<br />
not addressed to me. I have been<br />
returning the same piece to the<br />
sender for over twelve months<br />
with the note – no longer at this<br />
address. When I opened the letter<br />
it stated – We have been sending<br />
notices to you at this address for<br />
some time and it is returned to<br />
us with the message – no longer<br />
Woorilla Word<br />
by Bill Clohesy<br />
at this address – please forward<br />
your current address as we are<br />
not permitted to obtain your<br />
address from any other person<br />
other than yourself. Even if I<br />
knew of a forwarding address,<br />
the sender would not be allowed<br />
to accept it from me.<br />
What has happened to<br />
trust? Where has our belief<br />
in the fact that all people are<br />
basically honest gone to? Once<br />
we, as a society, start to mistrust<br />
everyone, we are only left with<br />
doubt and insecurity.<br />
I would rather be wronged<br />
once, than mistrust everyone I<br />
know or meet. ♦<br />
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By Dennis Dawson<br />
By the time you are<br />
reading this article the<br />
long awaited release<br />
of Windows 7 will have taken<br />
place. The question that has<br />
been on everyone’s mind for<br />
the past 12 months is “will it<br />
be worth the wait?”<br />
Following the somewhat<br />
luke warm reception given<br />
to Windows Vista I suspect<br />
that Microsoft have been very<br />
conscious that the computing<br />
community has been expecting<br />
great things for their latest<br />
incarnation of Windows. For<br />
many months Microsoft have<br />
been allowing computer users<br />
to download<br />
and evaluate<br />
interim versions<br />
of Windows 7<br />
and the common<br />
consensus is that<br />
A001053<br />
it does appear to<br />
address most of the<br />
criticisms that were<br />
levelled at Vista.<br />
A major part<br />
of the problem<br />
was that Windows<br />
XP was such a<br />
successful and<br />
popular operating<br />
system that many<br />
computer users<br />
have been reluctant<br />
to change. The old<br />
adage of, if it isn’t<br />
broken, why fix it certainly rings<br />
true here. This is especially true<br />
in the business sector where, in<br />
difficult financial times, owners<br />
are reluctant to spend money<br />
on major upgrades unless they<br />
can be convinced that there is a<br />
definite dividend at the end.<br />
The prospect of having to<br />
upgrade hardware and retrain<br />
staff that are already familiar<br />
and productive with the existing<br />
software, inevitably results in a<br />
large degree of inertia when faced<br />
with an impending upgrade. Of<br />
course many computer dealers<br />
have tried to muddy the waters<br />
by telling prospective purchasers<br />
that Windows XP is no longer<br />
available. This is definitely<br />
not true as XP is still freely<br />
available on both desktops and<br />
notebooks. Although Microsoft<br />
has tried hard to put it to rest,<br />
the demand from the public has<br />
guaranteed it has persevered well<br />
past its planned expiry date.<br />
Of course whenever a new<br />
operating system appears there<br />
are always some who have to line<br />
up with their credit cards to be<br />
the first with the latest. Others<br />
are more conservative and like<br />
to reserve judgment until the<br />
jury has made a decision. ♦<br />
Happy<br />
Birthday<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>ember<br />
folks!
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