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Posted on 03.08.06 by Widge @ 2:47 am
Jeff Jarvis points out the epitome of dumbass legislation–like we need any more examples of that in this country–that states any website would have to "require and obtain legal names and addresses for anyone who posts online… or else the services can be sued for anything false or defamatory posters say." Read his full post. Is this what passes for "conservatism" in this country these days? That's rhetorical. We all know the answer. Is it paranoid to think that once all websites have everyone registered, we can be all assigned a government-issued Net-ID that enables them to track what we're all saying online? Uncle Bill would say no, that wasn't paranoid at all. Also, I agree with Jarvis that the FCC is a load of shite. Granted, that's not quite how he phrased it, but you know what I mean. Musical Postscript: Inoffensive pop. That's hard to accomplish with my brooding ass. The New Pornographers' "The Laws Have Changed" manages it, however. Found via…well, The Laws Have Changed. More Paranoid Postscript: I wonder what weird hits from search engines I'll get having "Pornographers" and "FCC" in the same post. (scary noises and exeunt) Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 02.24.06 by Widge @ 6:55 pm
If this original story is accurate, then this is genius. Found via Reason's Hit and Run. Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 12.03.05 by Widge @ 3:41 am
And I'd like to say up front that I don't have the cojones necessary to, based on a Reuters article, claim that I'm smarter than a federal judge. But the reason, this article claims, that the subway searches are considered constitutional is they are "an effective and appropriate means to fight terrorism." The hell they are. Go read this. And this. And come back here and tell me how this is effective. Screw appropriate. Just tell me how it's effective. If you want effective searches, you have to search everybody and it cannot be optional. Now, how you make that legal and constitutional isn't my problem. I'm just saying: when you can opt-out at one entrance, cross the street and enter the same subway station via another entrance, you have done nothing but delay an attack by two minutes. Whoopee. Drudge set me off. Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 11.19.05 by Widge @ 11:52 am
Jeff Jarvis has the best response to the Sony rootkit hoohah I've seen. He puts it all in perspective with four words. Filed under: General BS
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John Robinson is a writer of prose, poetry and comics who also writes under
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