Posts from — March 2004

The Coming Draft. With the military facing a dramatic overextension of troops and a rapidly declining enlistment, a draft could come as early as 2005. [AlterNet]

If Bush remains in office, we will have a draft. There is no way tey can maintain the military readiness they claim to need without one. Almost 50% of the soldiers in Iraq will not re-enlist. The Guard and Resreves are pretty wel down. ONly by bringing back the draft will they be able to keep it going. The numbers and the legislation are all there. The American people are not prepared for it but I am sure that this Adminstration will coordinate events to make it seem necessary.If they are elected this time. [A Man with a Ph.D. - Richard Gayle's Weblog]

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yep, there likely will be a draft, at least of certain experts. really there has to be because no one will volunteer to serve under this president, at least no one that I know and respect, he's a walking death sentence of sorts and with that a bane to the concept of a volunteer army.

Digital Warfare.

Stryker's got a new blog going and he's looking for contributors.

Digital Warfighter: Total Information Dominance

A mil blog for the digital warfighter. Now come ON!!! I know some of you geeks are getting all tingly just thinking about it. Get in there!!!

[Wizbang]

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Interesting new blog, it fits with some of my interests.

hmmm, if high electric bills are probable cause, how did they get the bill and thus the cause to search these people's houses… did they just go and ask for all the high electric bills? doesn't that seem odd?

is not the right to assemble and it hasn't been for some time, with permssion required, surveillance provided, everything you do might be held against you…. welcome to america land of the free…. well no, not free… not anymore.

alot of interesting things here…. all audio.

60 Minutes Exposes Halliburton's Fake Subsidiary In The Caymans. This is from the January 25, 2003 program of 60 Minutes. This piece is riveting from beginning to end. Don't miss a second of it. I've made the files available as a single download or in three smaller parts. Doing Business With The Enemy (60 Minutes – January 25, 2004) Leslie Stahl is my new hero. She's been taking her responsibility of reporting for one of the best rated news programs in the United States very seriously by going out of her way to fill us in on things we need to know about what the Shrub Administration and its… [On Lisa Rein's Radar]

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this is classic investigative reporting, and it needs to be done…. too bad so few american's will really care that their vice president's friends are in bed with the enemy and always have been. they haven't cared when they showed the president's connection to the house of saud and their terrorist relations…

Ambition. Though I’ve made my decision and don’t see myself revisiting it—I found just the right kind of beeswax to stop my ears, you see—I am still pondering my way through the ramifications of last week’s bizarre little Dorothea-hunt. Because, sure, against all my better judgment, against the gut feeling that… [Caveat Lector]

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I think Dorothea is spot on here. While my story is different, I admit that i want a Ph.d. because I just have always imagined myself having one. I also am not certain that the path post-ph.d. which everyone expects is optimal for me. I'm not sure that I want to be what the norms allow and of late i've come to realize that the academic job hunt really involves me making statements about my identity that are projections of aspects, and in that denials of other aspects given that any projection requires investment of time, and growth in that direction which will require me to give up other things.

I realize that this isn't really what caveat lector is getting at, but then again it is parallel, there is a certain care of the self, and self-knowledge going on in her post that generates her ethical stance, and mine is parallel. I know that I want to have a ph.d. I know that i enjoy teaching, research, and service, but I am also positive that i don't like doing only that, i really also like management, outreach and advocacy. i prefer system administration and research management over writing and programming. In short, i think while i'd like to participate in academia, and i have alot to offer at many levels, and i really like teaching certain types of topics and students, but i'm not really a normally produced ph.d. student in any discipline even my own interdisciplines and i don't really fit the mold of an assistant professor as such. so i'm faced with the question of where to go next in my career. I know i have one goal that is immediate, finish the dissertation, then i'll have my ph.d. and then i'll be able to decide things without that hanging over my head.

Weekend Update… with Chevy Chase.

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Julia has finally gotten set up at Clever Girl and Zero Cost Computing blog has been moved over there as well. Just Pollenation left to deal with. After that, just figuring out how this Drupal really works, now that I got the basics 'under control'.

That's about it.

[Team Polysynchronous - Just Differently Intelligent - - Just Differently Intelligent -]

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weeee! jason is getting things going again

i used, like i have the last 2 years, tax.yahoo.com. it is fast, easy, and it works.

Susan Crawford Is Blogging Yale's Cybercrime Conference. Susan Crawford is blogging Yale Law School’s Cybercrime conference. I’ll be speaking on the last panel of the day, starting at 4:30. (By which point I and no doubt everyone else will be exhausted.)… [Discourse.net]

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interesting, cybercrime material…