[Gllug] perl querying SQL server 7

[Bruce Richardson]

On 8/23/01, 10:11:02 AM, "John Hearns" <john.hearns at framestore.co.uk> wrote 
regarding Re: [Gllug] perl querying SQL server 7:


> By the way, everyone should have a look at page 2 of the Guardian Online
> today.
> But make sure to be sitting down with a strong coffee first.
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,540894,00.html

There's no point in letting the Online section get to you.  It just 
doesn't seem to be a part of the paper as a whole.  It shares none of the 
politics or social conscience of the rest of the paper.  Everything is 
great so long as some big corporation tells them it is great.  Nothing 
with money is questioned.  There was an article the other month on online 
gambling and how it will soon be much more available and easy in the UK.  
And the Online section thought that was great - aren't these online 
casinos terribly clever and run by such wonderful chaps etc.  If the same 
article had appeared in any other section it would have at least 
mentioned the problems of gambling addiction and subjected the financial 
and technical operations of the online casinos to some scrutiny.  But the 
Online section just laps up anything any PR company hands it.  Might as 
well be the Telegraph's computing section.

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Bruce

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