Posts from — March 2004

US Govt “quietly threatening” supporters of online gambling. Matt Richtel reports in today's New York Times that “Federal prosecutors have begun a wide-ranging effort to curb the growing popularity of online gambling in the United States by quietly threatening legal action against American companies that do business with… [InternetPolicy.net]

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why don't they just come out and pursue this above the board instead of being secret. this secret stuff is very problematic for national policy.

11 objections, 11 replies. BioMed Central just released (Mis)Leading Open Access Myths, a catalog of 11 objections to OA with a careful reply to each one. The objections are distilled from the publishers' testimony in the UK inquiry. This is a superb aid for advocates and for the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee as it digests the testimony of the publishers. [Open Access News]

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interesting set of posts and replies.

A. Marriage in the United States shall consist of a union between
one man and one or more women. (Gen 29:17-28; II Sam 3:2-5)

B. Marriage shall not impede a man's right to take concubines in
addition to his wife or wives. (II Sam 5:13; I Kings 11:3; II Chron
11:21)

E. Since marriage is for life, neither this Constitution nor the
constitution of any State, nor any state or federal law, shall be
construed to permit divorce. (Deut 22:19; Mark 10:9)

F. If a married man dies without children, his brother shall marry
the widow. If he refuses to marry his brother's widow or
deliberately does not give her children, he shall pay a fine of one
shoe and be otherwise punished in a manner to be determined by law.
(Gen. 38:6-10; Deut 25:5-10)

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and now you might wonder why the constitution doesn't say 'we the christian people' or more likely 'we the christian men' it says 'we the people' and no where specifies christianity, or supports any religion as basis of the federal government.

one more reason why i am quite glad i threw out the tv….

Collaborative web publishing as a technology and a practice. [This is the first of a multi-part post ] It seems clear that weblogs existed well before they were… [Blog de Halavais]

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alex is up to something…. and it looks good.

politics gone awry.

A year ago, i broke my hatred for protesting and took to the streets to publicly state my disagreement with my government. My support for their decisions has not grown. I still don't understand what we're doing in Iraq and i'm tired of the propaganda. But, unlike last year, i didn't go to the streets. I find protests a bit frustrating because i don't feel as though i'm actually helping any cause and the supposed community goodness part of it tends to turn me against my fellow dissenters.

That said, it makes me sick to my stomach to hear of police violence against protestors. Worse, i'm absolutely horrified to read about how the government operates to outlaw dissent in this country [a *scary* must read article - use the day pass - it's worth it].

To cheer me up, a friend sent along a list of the marriage status of some of the biggest defenders of the sanctity of marriage (from The Daily Show):

Ronald Reagan — divorced the mother of two of his children to marry Nancy Reagan who bore him a daughter 7 months after the marriage.

Bob Dole — divorced the mother of his child, who had nursed him through the long recovery from his war wounds.

Newt Gingrich — divorced his wife who was dying of cancer.

Dick Armey, House Majority Leader — divorced.

Senator Phil Gramm of Texas — divorced.

Governor John Engler of Michigan — divorced.

Governor Pete Wilson of California — divorced.

George Will — divorced.

Senator Lauch Faircloth — divorced.

Rush Limbaugh — and his current wife, Marta, have six marriages and four divorces between them.

Senator Bob Barr of Georgia — not yet 50 years old, has been married three times. He had the audacity to author and push the “Defense of Marriage Act.” The current joke making the rounds on Capitol Hill is “Bob Barr — WHICH marriage are you defending?!?)

Senator Alf onse D'Amato of New York — divorced.

Senator John Warner of Virginia — once married to Liz Taylor.

Governor George Allen of Virginia — divorced.

Representative Helen Chenoweth of Idaho — divorced.

Senator John McCain of Arizona — divorced.

Representative John Kasich of Ohio — divorced.

Representative Susan Molinari of New York (Republican National Convention Keynote Speaker) — divorced.

The bottom line — “Don't let gays destroy marriage — that's the job of the Republicans!”

“If you really want to protect the institution of marraige, how about a constitutional amendment against adultery?”Ê – Jon Stewart

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this is funny, but also very very true of american conservatives, they want others governed in ways they have not allowed themself to be governed by.

provided with no warranty or anything related, but:

find . -name 'mbox' -exec ~/bin/zap {} \;

is a shell script that removes duplicate mail from mail.app files by first finding the files, then executing the zap script from script macosxhints.com

#!/bin/sh
formail -D 1000000 idcache < $1 -s > ztmp && mv ztmp $1
rm idcache

all in all, it works well enough to save me quite a bit of space.

it does set all your messages as unread, so be forwarned.

it was made with the help of karlcow and shiruken on #joiito who knew -exec where i was trying |

You are the TVR Speed 12. A bad boy of the car
world, and a nice little mover. Who needs a
factory in Italy or Germany, when you can do
just as well in Blackpool!

You're outside “the norm” and you
couldn't give a toss. You're honest, you're
sexy, you're damn well good at what you do!
Buuuuuuut you can be a bit tempremental, like
most people. ^_^

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Two pictures that tell it like it is….

What more can one say about the world? Actually, I have nothing to say, but the way I have drupal set up at the moment, it is forcing me to add content because the post is too short.

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