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The Netscape 8.0 beta is out.

So, what we've got now is three very similar products from basically the same sourceforge: Netscape 8, Firefox 1.1, and Mozilla 1.7.

What value does Netscape add to this mess? Besides taking the Firefox 1.0 platform and mucking it up with their own AOL shi7, they also made it less functional, made it 11MB (more than 2x heavier than Firefox) with no support for either themes or extensions, and with a butt UGLY user interface. In addition, its plugin to access IE's engine makes Netscape 8 vulnerable to the same security issues as IE regardless of what engine is being used. Talk about a waste of resources. Who's going to download and actually use this crap?

How could you "improve" on Firefox by messing it up completely?

Way to go, Netscape.

Users don't want bloat-ware, AOL/Netscape. They want less. Only you want more. You want your AOL crap to self-install on my PC (which is why you don't bother telling users about this on your product page). You want me to use AIM and other future AOL crap.

Does AOL still use IE for their browser? Does anyone still use AOL besides clueless suburban familes? Netscape went from browser company to AOL baby to low cost ISP. Now they are wasting time and effort on this browser. Why do they even still exist?

Netscape should have died a long time ago.

The Globe and Mail had, on page F9 a few weeks ago a short article about Hunter S. Thompson, who apparently was writing an expose -type book or piece on the 9/11 WTC demolitions.

Hunter telephoned me on Feb. 19, the night before his death. He sounded scared. It wasn't always easy to understand what he said, particularly over the phone, he mumbled, yet when there was something he really wanted you to understand, you did. He'd been working on a story about the World Trade Center attacks and had stumbled across what he felt was hard evidence showing the towers had been brought down not by the airplanes that flew into them but by explosive charges set off in their foundations. Now he thought someone was out to stop him publishing it: "They're gonna make it look like suicide," he said. "I know how these bastards think . . ."

The New York Post also talks about it on March 4, "suicide fuels conspiracy buzz".

"There was a spent shell casing, but although there were six bullets left in the gun's clip, there was no bullet in the firing chamber, as there should have been under normal circumstances."

There was also a power down around the WTC buildings a couple of days before. Also see the video, "New York Firefighters Discuss Bombs in WTC Towers"

Funny, the Lone Gunman (X-Files spinoff) pilot episode on 3/2001 was about a WTC/airplane conspiracy.

The only conspiracy here is that the secret government wants a story on the WTC buildings being demolished by Bush & co. so that you won't think about his love monkey, Jeff Gannon.

If you haven't seen it already, check out the Paris Hilton Sidekick Simulator. A friend of mine, Albany Supereight, sent this to me. It's pretty damn funny.