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BILL: “There's two things. There's what we expect we're trying to do; and the state of implementation of the things we're trying to do. We've done the “mea culpa” ...

(It's like the Macarena, the steps are a little different ...)

“ ... we should have kept the browser curve to be a more continuous curve. Believe me, we wish that we'd done that differently. Dean's group is getting more resources, and so you'll actually see us not only going back to a state of what we were innovating before but actually innovating at faster speeds than we were before. A lot of that has to do with implementing standards.”

MOLLY, LATER: “I’m not arguing with you. I’m asking a question ... ”

BILL: “No, no, but eventually a question has to be answerable, what did we do in 1995? What did we do in 1996? What did we do in 1997? ... You can skip like three years and say we did nothing. We didn't do anything proprietary either! That's criticizing not our intent, our strategy, that's criticizing our execution and we fully accept that. But every year for thirteen, fourteen years now we've not just followed and implemented standards, we've contributed. This WS stuff ... we contributed more Web Standards than anyone! We have our smartest people who go and work on that stuff ... we just did the OpenOffice ... Our Office XML formats we contributed to them ... We've got XML at the core of all our products. Back in 1996 it was us and a few small companies that proposed XML in the first place. At some point you just have to say hey, look at out track record and if somebody's track records doesn't prove something to you, then I'll probably never convince you of something. What is it that we're not doing?”

(Anyone?)

“You know, if you name some obscure thing and say hey, Microsoft ought to do more on that, I'll probably just send Dean mail and say hey, she said that such and such a thing we should go and do and we’ll go and do it …”

Brave Molly. I think I'll go lie down.

Oh Bite Me, Bite Me, I Knew It

NEW YORK Reuters Health - Continuous treatment with an oral contraceptive combination of levonorgestrel and ethinyl estradiol LNG/EE can safely eliminate menstruation in most women, according to study results appearing in the medical journal Contraception.

The bane of my fucking existence since I ten years old, until some hippie OB-GYN told me that in Europe they take their hormones every day.

And then there was that article in, was it The New Yorker? I want to say The Atlantic, but I don’t really want to, if you know what I mean and I think you do.

It was about the Pope—follow me, here—and how the inventor of the pill MADE UP the idea of monthly periods so as to SEEM more “natural,” to the Church? To the Church Fathers? Slice me an unending slice-o-break.

Fuck ‘em all. For having a single thought of a say-so in women’s suffering lives, never mind the great gasping tragedy of Latin America, never mind that this is the Modern Age, pious bastards. Because they have no business in my sex life or married life or womb nor anyone else’s. Hey, I don’t go around trying to control how and who and when popes and cardinals and presidents fuck—not but what men might give the subject a tad more thought—and the slightest objectivity reveals how truly bizarro …

Let us not Accept, Oh Lord, that which is Bizarre and Horribly Misbegotten, Resulting in the suffering of Women and Oh, the Children, Just Because It Is So Widespread it Almost Seems Normal.

Amen.