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to include europe and asia in the contest might be a nightmare but Canada is still the US market especially since NAFTA

Of course, radio stations will ask the winner something really hard, like : "John, what is your name?" , thus making a mockery of the whole thing. I have never figured out why this law exists.

"After what your f***ing president did today, I say you americans should be EXCLUDED from EVERYTHING. just BANNED."

huggy, why don't you put your money where your mouth is and boycott everything American?

Whoops. Better get your ass off of this *American* site.

Whoops. Better trade in your PalmOS handheld for a unit that uses an OS not developed in *America*.

Think before you open your ignorant mouth next time. I could care less what you think about my government's actions in Iraq right now, but you take stupidity to a whole new level when you condemn everyone in this great nation because of it.

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Forty Six and 2 are just ahead of me

don't worry, I WILL

don't worry, I HAVE ALREADY, just came to say hello :-D

don't worry, sony will buy palmsource soon and,

¿¿¿GREAT NATION??? WHERE?!!!

Yo huggy-pooh--if your profile is veracious and you're really in Spain--did you notice that OUR president was fully supported by YOUR president? (Smart man, he is!)

Just move a little North and you'll be right at home with the French, the self-described "counterweight" to American influence in the world.

Personally, I'm one American who's tired of finishing Europe's wars. Their laissez faire "pacifist" attitudes don't intervene with dangerous & oppressive regimes even on their own continent (in Germany, Romenia, Italy, Albania, Yugoslavia/Bosnia, and that's just the last 60 years), much less elsewhere.

In the 12 years that the UN has played cat & mouse with Saddam, he has put his opponents to death by the thousands; and raped and pillaged many times more. You forget that the reason the no fly zones in northern & southern Iraq were established was because Saddam was bombing his own people.

I'm proud to be on the side that had guts enough to stand up and tell the world, "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!" and to put an end to it.

the VisorMiser
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Where will ya be when ya get where you're goin'?

-Pepper

I love my Palm . . . do you?

To bring this back to the topic of Palms/Handhelds --
when was the last time you saw (or bought!) a handheld
made (=manufactured) in the US?

(I think the Treo I recently broke was assembled in
Mexico... which would qualify as "American product",
I guess.

And there's no need to boycott the PalmOS --
PalmSource is based in Northern California, which
isn't part of the "Coalition of the Willing" ;-)

He was referencing how Spain is the country that colonized most of S.America (Hence, every country in S.A. speaks spanish except for Brazil-->They speak Portugese<--and another country that I can't remember right now, that I think speaks french)

Lo_Pro

Someone else made a good point: When the hell was it that *any* of us bought a 100% Made in America product?! Even Japanese products are being made in China these days! (Sony just signed to move Playstation production to Chinese factories!) (I guess when we order our Chinese food, we better start getting some language lessons. -- except my tongue was not made to say things like "Bong wa chah nah!")

/politics off

-- yeah, but ONLY you feel that way.

(Just kidding.)

Sorry you were left out. To be really honest about what happened, we used an outside company to help us write the rules, because those of us who moved from Palm into PalmSource haven't done this sort of contest before. They set the entry guidelines.

That's not to make excuses, I just don't want you to think that we have something against younger users.

The web folks here have gone back to the contest company to see if there's anything we can do. As was the case for folks outside the US, I can't promise anything, but we'll see what we can do, at least for future contests.

And by the way, thanks very much for submitting your story anyway. You're a good sport.

Mike
CCO, PalmSource

You're very welcome! Several of us at PalmSource lurk here and in a few other forums frequently, but we don't always have time to post.

I was really excited this afternoon when I checked in and saw that there were 35 replies to this thread. "Wow, people are really excited about the contest," I thought. It was a little disappointing to see that only a couple of the replies were actually about the contest.

I guess it's not realistic to expect something as serious as a war not to have an impact online, but one of the things that I really love about the web is that people usually react to one-another as individuals rather than as a particular nationality or other label. I hope that as the immediate tensions and frustrations fade, we'll be able to move back toward that.

Mike
CCO, PalmSource (but that last bit was me speaking as an individual, not a company spokesperson)

Thanks PalmSource!