Update:
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After creating this original post I discovered the explanation of what is happening. Look here
Apparently it is a Windows problem. The same results can be obtained with other strings like "Matrix can not lie". No conspiracy after all!
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In Windows XP try this:
1) Open notepad.exe and create a new file
2) With no quotes type "bush hid the facts" (no quotes)
3) Save the file
4) Exit notepad
5) Re-Open notepad and open the file with the line from #2 above
What is up with that?
Regardless of your political beliefs, if this was done intentionally, it has got to be one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen in the technology world. Are we so divided as a country that individuals now resort to injecting their political beliefs into the most atomic actions they perform in their professional lives?
What if I'm wearing something that is colored Red or Blue? Am I now a Crip or a Blood? Will I be judged as a person on my political beliefs if I wear a blue shirt to work? Will our current political war in the US someday become a war on the streets?
It seems like we are slowly heading down the path where at some time in the future there will no longer be a common thread making everyone in the US an "American". At that point the concept of having one single country called the "United States" no longer makes sense. I believe the correct term is balkanization. For our children's sake I hope it never comes to that.
In the mean time, I think I'll wear a blue shirt with a red tie.
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After creating this original post I discovered the explanation of what is happening. Look here
Apparently it is a Windows problem. The same results can be obtained with other strings like "Matrix can not lie". No conspiracy after all!
======================================
In Windows XP try this:
1) Open notepad.exe and create a new file
2) With no quotes type "bush hid the facts" (no quotes)
3) Save the file
4) Exit notepad
5) Re-Open notepad and open the file with the line from #2 above
What is up with that?
Regardless of your political beliefs, if this was done intentionally, it has got to be one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen in the technology world. Are we so divided as a country that individuals now resort to injecting their political beliefs into the most atomic actions they perform in their professional lives?
What if I'm wearing something that is colored Red or Blue? Am I now a Crip or a Blood? Will I be judged as a person on my political beliefs if I wear a blue shirt to work? Will our current political war in the US someday become a war on the streets?
It seems like we are slowly heading down the path where at some time in the future there will no longer be a common thread making everyone in the US an "American". At that point the concept of having one single country called the "United States" no longer makes sense. I believe the correct term is balkanization. For our children's sake I hope it never comes to that.
In the mean time, I think I'll wear a blue shirt with a red tie.
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