MS tears swastika from roof of Office

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

MS tears swastika from roof of Office
By Lester Haines
Posted: 11/02/2004 at 16:37 GMT

Microsoft today released a critical update to remove "unacceptable symbols" from Bookshelf Symbol 7 font.

Just 58-odd years after the Red Army hoisted its standard on the roof of the Reichstag on 30 April 1945, effectively ending the European war, MS has finally flushed the swastika from its last hiding place - an otherwise innocent font shiped with Office 2003.

This has hardly been a Blitzkrieg on Microsoft's part. The company has been aware of the presence of the Mark of the Beast since December. At the time it promised an immediate utility to remove the characters. It also passed the buck onto the hapless Japanese (from whose happy land the font apparently originated), and launched a damage-prevention campaign by contacting Jewish organisations before the whole thing got out of hand.

More on this earth-shaking story at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/35494.html

[JailForBush]

1. I thought the Mark of the Beast was "Microsoft"?

A think a swastika is a fine symbol for Microsoft - maybe a swastika on a lemon.

[Madrone]

5. swastika on a lemon

lol!

[IronLionZion]

2. the swastika is actually a good symbol

most of the world views it as a good luck symbol rather than a Nazi symbol. The reverse swastika is the bad one, but the Nazis took the good one and bastardized it.

[CanuckAmok]

3. They should have talked to my pal "Manwoman", first...

http://www.manwoman.net/swastika/index.html

"Artist ManWoman's long awaited book Gentle Swastika was released in April 2001 by Flyfoot Press, ISBN 0-9688716-0-7.

For thousands of years almost every race, tribe, and religion on earth has revered the Swastika, using it in a variety of shapes and styles, associating it with the hammer of Thor, the footprints of Buddha, the emblem of Shiva, Apollo, Jupiter, and even Jesus Christ. Scholars agree that for the first three hundred years of the infant Christian religion the Swastika was the only form of cross used in the catacombs and early churches...

Think of the most sacred thing in your life, think of the most precious thing and put the swastika into that place. Put the swastika into your heart. Put the swastika on your altar. Put the swastika on the image you use to represent God, love, peace, or the cosmos. Put the swastika on the thing that makes you happy. You will begin to see what the swastika has meant to humans over this entire planet for all of our human history. For these places are exactly the places it occupied for thousands of years until the Second World War, when it fell victim to a chronic infection..."

[IronLionZion]

6. I saw the swastika a lot in India

and there is a lot of artwork and stuff. I thought about getting a t-shirt with it but I didn't because Americans will say its a Nazi symbol.

[Endangered Specie]

4. That is stupid... The swastika was used alot before the Nazis...

Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, other ancient civilizations have all used it in one form or another.

Before the nazi's got ahold of it, it was a symbol of peace and good luck