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"If the case proceeds, then the best hope for justice may well lie in the common sense and decency of people on the jury. Even if Nifong demonstrates that some technical violation of a broadly-interpreted law did occur -- e.g. 'sexual assault' which can include verbal threats or attacks -- the jury can refuse to convict. The controversial process is called jury nullification. It means jurors can reject the law itself when that law or its application is unjust. Despite the fact that jurors are routinely instructed to judge only 'facts' and not 'the law', there is precedent for their judging both."
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,221819,00.html
"If you oppose tyranny and value freedom, and if you wish to take part in a ritual that will return freedom to the United States, while banishing tyranny from its borders, please click here. Spread the word, before it is too late. Post it on your journal. E-mail the link to friends. Get the word out however you can. Everyone who may want to participate should be made aware as soon as possible. At the stroke of midnight on the Fifth of November, Justice returns to our great nation. May she stay long."
http://knave.gratis-server.de/
"Troy Dayton of the Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative, who was largely responsible for persuading Webb and the other religious leaders to back Question 7, notes that support from members of the clergy, which was important in repealing alcohol prohibition, 'forces a reframing of the issue.' It's no longer a contest between potheads and puritans."
http://www.reason.com/sullum/101806.shtml
"Libertarians must shift their mindset and start darting down new reality tunnels. As Jerome Tuccille wrote 36 years ago in Murray Rothbard's Libertarian Forum, 'On the rapidly changing American scene, the distinction between Left and Right is becoming more and more a question of personal psychology'."
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2006/10/psychology-of-comradeship.html
"Anyone who hoped that U.S. military detention of Americans accused of terrorism expired with the transfer of American citizen Jose Padilla from military custody to Justice Department custody have seen their hopes dashed by the Military Commissions Act that the president signed into law yesterday."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0610f.asp
"Upset by the war in Iraq, Julia Wilson vented her frustrations with President Bush last spring on her web page on MySpace.com. She posted a picture of the president, scrawled 'Kill Bush' across the top and drew a dagger stabbing his outstretched hand. She later replaced her page on the social-networking site after learning in her eighth-grade history class that such threats are a federal offense. It was too late."
http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71953-0.html?tw=wn_index_7
"FBI Director Robert Mueller on Tuesday called on Internet service providers to record their customers' online activities, a move that anticipates a fierce debate over privacy and law enforcement in Washington next year."
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6126877.html
"In late August, Ditsler posted a quote by Dave Barry on his office door in the philosophy department. The quote read, 'As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government.' On September 5, Philosophy Department Chair James South sent Ditsler an e-mail stating that he had received several complaints and therefore removed the quote. "
http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/7396.html
"If you look carefully, you can follow its logic. It is nicely written, the way gentlemen would conduct a revolution. The flaw lies in the basic, unarticulated premise; that government is a given, that it is some integral part of human existence. The Declaration states that when government becomes too big and intrusive, it's our responsibility to make a new one. We're responsible all right, but not to make a new government."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/fontana/fontana10.html
"An individual can cajole, persuade, or even beg, but he has no right to use force to stop others from killing themselves. Most importantly, institutions, particularly the state, should certainly stay out of all such affairs. The state's involvement is inherently corrupting, invariably creating worse problems than it solves. It cannot change the problems' roots. It can only sanitize the façade, brushing the real problems under the carpet. Problems will then simmer and, eventually, surface in new avatars. Worse, by creating resistance in communities, the state only ingrains the maladies."
http://www.mises.org/story/2349
"It is not as though a reasonable person, who is capable of loving the place of his birth and the home of his compatriots, is logically barred from detesting the nearest criminal gang that calls itself a state and lays claim to his region. It is not as though moving from one location, out of hatred of the goons who rule it, will likely take you anywhere totally free of thugs in uniforms and flagged buildings."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory124.html
"Is there any way around this problem? Yes, in fact there is -- anything that the government can find a way to not do, it shouldn't do. The fewer things the government does, the fewer minority rights it will be violating, and the closer we will be to a government which truly rules by the will of all the people. But can any government which has the final say on any issue be trusted to 'color inside the lines'? In a system where government can interpret those lines however it likes -- which is the situation in every state, past and present -- it cannot be."
"For my part, understanding that the federal government, regardless of the party in power, actively connives against my interests as a free man, that my elected leaders in Congress no longer believe in the American experiment (while spending my tax dollars in furtherance of its failure, galling thought), I am increasingly inclined to renounce the United States. I renounce it in favor of Brooklyn, New York, and Moab, Utah, in favor of the local over the global, of the polis over the imperium. Being anti-United States, I am most certainly pro-American."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/ketcham.php?articleid=9877
"Madison knew, and Iraq proves, that a rifle over every mantlepiece can safeguard freedom. American insurgents from 1776 would see Iraq through the filter of their own occupation: the struggle against the Crown and its Hamiltonian successors. They would see the setbacks of the 75th Rangers in Baghdad and the 8th Cavalry in Fallujah, and would mourn the casualties among the professional soldiers, as we do, but another part of them would be saying I told you so -- and might even be glad. "
http://www.mises.org/story/2332
"According to convention organizer Kirkpatrick Sale, the purpose of the meeting is to 'provide a forum where people with a serious interest in secession from throughout North America can present information on what each organization is doing, learn the policies and tactics of other organizations, trade ideas on organizing, strategizing, and politicking, assess the strength of the secession movement, and figure out ways to make it stronger and more effective'."
http://www.vermontguardian.com/dailies/102006/101806.shtml#article2
"As I discuss the Independence option throughout the State, I find that most people are somewhat sympathetic to the concept of Independence. Most people sense that this country is on a dramatically wrong course, and would like to see something change. However, while many are sympathetic to the ideas of the Republic of New Hampshire, we find that does not usually equate to unequivocal support for our movement. Usually, one of several objections stand in the way."
http://www.keenefreepress.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=315&Itemid=36
"What do they do? The answer is easy: They spend. ... This year, more than sixty-five percent of all the money borrowed in the entire world will be borrowed by America, a statistic fueled by the speed-junkie spending habits of our supposedly 'fiscally conservative' Congress. It took forty-two presidents before George W. Bush to borrow $1 trillion; under Bush, Congress has more than doubled that number in six years. ... [N]ot only does Congress not care what intelligence was used to get into the war, what the plan was supposed to be once we got there, what goes on in military prisons in Iraq and elsewhere, how military contracts are being given away and to whom -- it doesn't even give a shit what happens to the half-trillion bucks it throws at the military every year." Long, but with no "fat" and lots of "meat" -- this piece reads fast for those interested in Washington DC politics.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12055360
"For those with concerns about civil liberties, Cornell assures us that SAP will be limited strictly to foreign publications. Oh, really? Hands up out there, everyone who believes that this technology will not be used to ferret out 'potential threats to the nation' arising in the Homeland press as well. After all, the Unitary Executive Decider-in-Chief has already decided that the nation's iron-clad laws against warrantless surveillance of American citizens can be swept aside by his 'inherent powers' if he decides it's necessary."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=887&Itemid=135
"The Military Commissions Act is widely seen as legalizing torture, but the article avoids any such mention of the T-word. Though the act revolutionizes American jurisprudence by permitting the use of tortured confessions in judicial proceedings, the Post discretely notes only that defendants will face 'restrictions on their ability to ... exclude evidence gained through witness coercion'."
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/shoptalk_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003284714
"I felt surprisingly calm. I was imagining the damage this statement could do them in court; it would expose much of their tactics too. However, I didn't know what the parameters of the law were anymore: everyone had said that after 9/11, new laws had taken immediate effect in the US, and that was frightening. How could American laws apply, in retrospect, to a British citizen, who had never travelled west of Dublin, for crimes that never existed in the first place? Were they going to judge me on what Nathan had said in Kandahar: 'We're determining cases based on what we think were your intentions, and on our intelligence reports'."
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2864
"The upcoming congressional elections are going to be important for a lot of reasons, not the least of which being the dramatic change in Congress' oversight profile should the Democrats win one or both houses. But I don't see any reason to expect that there will be a dramatic increase in civility or a sudden challenge to corporate influence on the Hill if the Democrats take the House. "
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12053713
"The ravenous predator that is government preys upon our collective fear. They point fingers at danger, make more laws for us in the name of eliminating those dangers, putting us in jeopardy. They take our guns to keep us safe, putting us in even graver danger. They ratchet up our fears and play off of them like professional criminals. They use it to grab more money and power for themselves, even though they are truly impotent, ignorant and evil, torture-loving, feral scoundrels."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/fontana/fontana9.html
"Guiding the crusade was the Evil One, Crazy Lord Cheney, King Bush's favorite counselor. It was he who staffed the kingdom with elves and liars, while his oil company and military-industrial backers saw the crusade as a way to gain control of Iraq's oil, to keep the oil price high, and to sell lots of new warships, jets, and expensive missiles to try to shoot down other missiles the terrorists did not have. Billions were wasted on shiny new weapons irrelevant for the war on terror. When the children were then dying because they had no suits of armor, it took a year to gear up production."
http://www.antiwar.com/utley/?articleid=9867
"Kuo expects strong attacks from the White House and its supporters. He knows he will be viewed as a betrayer and that they will 'go after him.' He expects that he will be labeled as a 'liberal' or an 'idealist.' But David Kuo says he is fine with that. He said, 'I felt like I had to write this.' David Kuo's book should serve as a wake up call for America's evangelical community. We have been had. It's time to admit it. "
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin327.htm
"What the poor really want is an environment in which undertaking a profitable venture is not a nightmarish bureaucratic and legal process. The world is full of examples of poor and uneducated communities that have been able to create wealth thanks to entrepreneurship, rather than governmental assistance. I have been looking at cases of entrepreneurial success around the world for the past year and the conclusion is overwhelming: The best way to fight poverty is to eliminate barriers that currently hold back private enterprise among the poor."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1834
"As word spreads that you can make your own videos for major hits without infringing copyright, we're going to see a lot more of these fan-created music videos. Even if people don't catch on right away, they will when an infrastructure grows around the idea, with more software and services centered on producing your own videos with major label music. This could be an important new way for the YouTube generation to interact with music."
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71943-0.html?tw=wn_index_2
"[P]eace and commerce have gotten separated in the public's mind over the years, perhaps because opponents of the market and free trade have been the most visible critics of war. Yet you would be hard-pressed to name a great liberal who did not see peace as both a cause and consequence of prosperity: among them, to pick from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Frederic Bastiat, Cobden, John Bright, Herbert Spencer, William Graham Sumner, Albert Jay Nock, Ludwig von Mises, and Murray Rothbard."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=860
"Instead of clueless pointy-haired bosses with MBA Disease, who rely on 'industry trends' to identify 'best practices' on which to base their policies (i.e., who base their understanding of 'what works' mainly on the perspectives of equally clueless idiots at the tops of other organizations), they might start making policy based on feedback from below, from the productive workers of their own organizations--the people who actually know something about how to make things more efficient."
http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2006/10/importance-of-competitive-ceo-salaries.html
"If the government imposes travel restrictions and sets up checkpoints for internal passports, which is indeed quite likely if Fatherland Security gets its way, the population will be far more vulnerable to such police controls thanks to government promotion of the automobile. And Mr. Meekins can rest assured that those citizens classified as loyal to the corporate state will be let through the checkpoints. But with decentralized local economies, the rest of us might be a lot less dependent on the good pleasure of the Gestapo manning those checkpoints."
http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2006/10/case-of-misdirected-fear-meekins-vs.html
"Such government acts stems from a war mentality that allows government almost unlimited powers during times of war or warlike circumstances. Starting with the Civil War and continuing with World Wars I and II and the Korean and Vietnam wars, the U.S. government claimed the power of conscription, to draft men into the army by force. Given this maximal government power over the lives and bodies of citizens, any other powers seem secondary. The thinking goes, if the government has the power to draft a person into the army, how could it not have the lesser power to just confiscate property?"
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002363.html
"It seems to go against common sense that student academic achievement could drop with smaller class sizes. One reason this happens in public schools is that when class sizes drop, schools have to create more classes to cover all the students in the school. Schools then have to hire more teachers for the increased number of classes. However, public schools across the country are already having trouble finding qualified teachers to fill their classrooms. As a result, when reduced class sizes increase the need for more teachers, schools then often have to hire less-qualified teachers."
http://www.newswithviews.com/Turtel/joel27.htm
"The legal regime of segregation has been extinguished for more than two generations, and while blacks and whites still tend to live in separate neighborhoods, it is more a matter of economics and personal preference than any legal apartheid. Over the last 50 years, sufficient redress has occurred."
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/10/15/Columns/The_time_for_forced_i.shtml
"We have lived as if in a trance. We have lived as people in fear. And now--our rights and our freedoms in peril--we slowly awaken to learn that we have been afraid of the wrong thing." The link below has both video and transcript, YouTube has only video. Enjoy doesn't quite capture what you should do with this. Please, watch, listen and think what you might do.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15321167
"Bringing our fellow Americans to a greater understanding of the evils of a government-dominated society and the virtues of a free society has always been difficult and frustrating work. It's no wonder that Albert Jay Nock likened it to Isaiah's job. People are easily misled by promises of government salvation, especially when they are consumed by fear for their physical safety or their economic security."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1835
"You wonder why Bush and his minions maintain the seemingly irrational belief that 'things are going well' in Iraq, that 'we're making progress,' etc.? That's because things are going well in the war they are fighting: the war for money and power. What happens to the human beings caught up in this war -- Iraqi civilians, or American citizens at ever-greater risk from the terrorism spawned by the war -- is, again, no concern of the Bush gang."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=886&Itemid=135
"Ever since 9/11, U.S. officials have been telling us that the 'war on terrorism' has made it necessary for the U.S. military to hijack America's criminal justice system by taking suspected terrorists into military custody and punishing them, denying them the rights normally guaranteed to criminal defendants in the Bill of Rights."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0610e.asp
"This is the 'Director's Final Cut' authorized version of Aaron Russo's documentary, America: Freedom To Fascism (AFTF). It is being uploaded to Google Video for the first time during the evening of October 19-20th, 2006. Aaron has listened to everyone's feedback - volunteers, students, lovers of freedom & liberty, young and old alike - and, true to his word, he is putting this up 'for free' on Google Video knowing that the hour has come for Americans to either be awakened to restore the Republic or be swept aside by the dark global forces of fascism that seeks to enslave mankind." Watch free at Google, and visit the film's site for more options.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4312730277175242198&hl=en
"Since 1679, the time–honored doctrine on Habeas Corpus has been codified in English law. It was meant to ensure that the government could never detain people without at least presenting at a hearing a reason for the detention. It was so important that it was explicitly enshrined in the Constitution even before the Bill of Rights was considered and ratified. The Constitution allowed for its suspension in cases of rebellion and invasion, as a concession to nationalists and conservatives who wanted the new American government to be as powerful as the British monarchy."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1837
"The Panthers absolutely believed in the Second Amendment. Today's black liberal Democrats scurry for the hills whenever anybody mentions gun rights. In 1966, Newton and Seale had the gall to tell Oakland and the world that both the spirit and letter of the words 'a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed' applied to black folks."
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/kane1019
"Just as an empire on the rise, like the United States on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, is often inclined to take rash and ill-considered actions, so an empire on the decline, like the British and French empires after World War II, will engage in senseless, self-destructive acts. And I fear the same can happen to the United States today, as we, too, slip into decline."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/klare.php?articleid=9890
"On October 21, a U.S. naval battle group led by the USS Eisenhower will arrive in the Gulf of Hormuz, just off the coast of Iran. There is every good likelihood that such a deliberately provocative act will lead to what will be termed as an Iranian attack on an American vessel. This Tonkin-like incident will be used as the justification for a U.S. military strike against Iran -- or alternatively, for a mighty rattling of American sabers at the perfidious Persians that stokes war fever and 'rally-round-the-flag' sentiment but falls short of an actual attack at that time. This flashpoint -- however it is expoited -- will occur some time in the brief interim between the arrival of the Eisenhower group and the U.S. elections on November 5."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=889&Itemid=135
"It took me that long to recognize that the secrecy agreements we had signed frequently conflicted with our oath to uphold the Constitution. That conflict arose almost daily, unnoticed by me or other officials, whenever we were secretly aware that the president or other executive officers were lying to or misleading Congress. In giving priority, in effect, to my promise of secrecy--ignoring my constitutional obligation--I was no worse or better than any of my Vietnam-era colleagues, or those who later saw the Iraq war approaching and failed to warn anyone outside the executive branch."
http://harpers.org/TheNextWar.html
"[W]ar by its very nature creates innocent victims. A war waged against terrorists is even more likely to claim innocent victims because terrorists tend to keep their whereabouts hidden. The deaths, injuries, and humiliation of civilians generate rage and resentment among their families and communities that in turn serves to build support for terrorists. ... [T]he war on terror drives a wedge between 'us' and 'them.' We are innocent victims. They are perpetrators. But we fail to notice that we also become perpetrators in the process; the rest of the world, however, does notice. That is how such a wide gap has arisen between America and much of the world."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/soros.php?articleid=9873
"A rapid U.S. withdrawal would halt the training of Shi'ite forces for an expanded civil war and foil al-Maliki's plan to win it. Also, by threatening to remove U.S. backing from a government dominated by the Shi'a and Kurds, the U.S. would put pressure on those groups to reach a decentralization settlement that shared either oil revenues or oil wells with the Sunnis."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1833
"Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of traditional morality and Christianity. He believed in life, creativity, health, and the realities of the world we live in, rather than those situated in a world beyond."
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/
"In the Tony Award-winning The Crucible (1953), for instance, he wrote of the witch-hunts in colonial Salem, Mass., and implied a parallel with the congressional investigations into subversion then in progress. The probing psychological tragedy A View from the Bridge (1955) questions the reasonableness of U.S. immigration laws. After the Fall (1964), which includes a thinly disguised portrayal of Miller's unhappy marriage to film actress Marilyn Monroe, offers a second, candid consideration of the congressional investigations in which Miller had been personally involved."
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/millera.htm
"Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and gifted improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unknown in jazz. In addition to his instrumental skills, Dizzy's beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn and pouched cheeks, and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop.... ... Gillespie taught many of the young musicians on 52nd Street, like Miles Davis and Max Roach, about the new style of jazz."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie
From Bio page: "In person Rita was shy, quiet and unassuming; only when the cameras rolled did she turn on the explosive sexual charisma that in Gilda (1946) made her a superstar."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000028/
Political thriller action / adventure stars Will Smith, Regina King, Gene Hackman, Lisa Bonet, Jon Voight; screenplay by David Marconi, directed by Tony Scott. “The technology highlighted by the movie: computers, satellite networks and even surveillance gear has become widely prevalent and mostly available to anyone. However, the legal ability to monitor the private lives of people in every walk of life belongs only to the State. The consequences of that monopoly of power echo through our society and this film.”
http://endervidualism.com/agora/enemy_state_1998.htm
"The Kerrigans are 'battlers.' Within Australian culture, this term has a specific and respected meaning in much the same manner that 'rugged individualism' has in America. The 'little Aussie battler' is an archetype that depicts the working man (Darryl is a tow-truck driver) who triumphs through sheer will and merit over those who consider themselves to be his superior. Usually, the battler's opponents are the rich, the privileged, or the government."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0607g.asp
"After a brief interlude, we move into the tale of how 'Wanting to Live Forever' was composed. 'WTLF' is the true story of a morning in January 1986 when I sat down with my guitar with a goal to write a new song, got stuck on two chords, and found myself wondering what the point was. As I wrote, I ended up with some words of encouragement for anyone who ever wonders why they're following."
http://unclewarrensattic.blogspot.com/2006/10/uncle-warrens-attic-5.html
"Two [applications] in particular stand out as candidates for the most awful way to use spychips. One is a patent pending deep organ implant that would be embedded in the pockets of internal organs where it can't be removed. In our book, we reprint one of the diagrams from the Patent and Trademark Office showing places they propose putting this in the female body. It has optional accessories like a microphone that can transmit conversations remotely, and an electric shock feature. Not surprisingly, the patent document talks about putting these in prisoners, but goes on to recommend them for military personnel and even business travelers. We're not making this up. This is in the inventors' own words."
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/books.php/2006/10/21/p11677
"America: continuing to push the envelope of what can technically be defined as food." Also at YouTube
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=76986
"According to the CIA, over 500 tons of compressed purchasing power, the equivalent of 40 years of goods and services produced by the impoverished country, vaporized in 560 billionths of one second. The device consumed 15 years of peasant wages' worth of uranium, two decades of agricultural- and fishery-export profits' worth for its above-ground emplacement tower, and the lifetime earnings of the entire workforce of the Kilchu fish-canning factory for tungsten/carbide-steel bomb casings."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/54113
"For his part, Mr. Bruckheimer was tight-lipped about his plans for the war-torn nation, but he did offer a sneak preview, telling reporters, 'Nicholas Cage will be playing a key role.' Mr. Bruckheimer added that Iraq had 'all the ingredients' necessary to become a major summer blockbuster: 'lots of explosions, thousands of people running for their lives, and a world-class villain, Saddam Hussein'."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=6608&srch=
"People drive the cars but it's cars that cause global warming, and it's global warming that heats up the atmosphere that causes it to snow less in the winter which reduces the mountain snow packs which reduces the flow of fresh water into our streams and rivers which means salmon can't swim up rivers which means northern grizzly bears can't eat as much which causes them to be undernourished which results in having fewer cubs which therefore injures our wildlife which costs tens of millions of dollars worth of investment in our state's infrastructure that our taxpaying suckers have to pay for. "
http://www.freecannon.com/CarsCookClimate.htm
"The price of high-end processors 'goes up nonlinearly with performance,' he observed. Connecting innumerable cheap processors in parallel offered at least a theoretical chance for a scalable system, in which bang for the buck didn't erode as the system grew. ... By building its own infrastructure rather than relying on commercial data centers, Schmidt told analysts in May, Google gets 'tremendous competitive advantage'. ... Google appears to have attained one of the holy grails of computer science: a scalable massively parallel architecture that can readily accommodate diverse software." Reasonably long, but well worth the read to someone interested in technology.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/cloudware.html
"In his book, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Lawrence Lessig describes how decisions about technological infrastructure -- the architecture of the internet -- become embedded and then impracticable to change. Whether it's technologies to prevent file copying, limit anonymity, record our digital habits for later investigation or reduce interoperability and strengthen monopoly positions, once technologies based on these security concerns become standard it will take decades to undo them."
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/10/architecture_an.html
"The beauty of a shipping container data center isn't just that it operates stand-alone and can be plunked down in the parking lot of your existing data center or dropped by helicopter on the roof of your headquarters building. A great proportion of its beauty lies in the shipping container's efficiency not as a server but as a network. It's the largest sneakernet ever built. Moving a petabyte of data across the country using even the biggest optical fiber connection could take weeks, but the Blackbox can be installed in at most a few days."
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20061020.html
"Starting in the late 1990s, investigators in our laboratory at the University of California, San Diego, set out to explore whether there was a connection between autism and a newly discovered class of nerve cells in the brain called mirror neurons. Because these neurons appeared to be involved in abilities such as empathy and the perception of another individual's intentions, it seemed logical to hypothesize that a dysfunction of the mirror neuron system could result in some of the symptoms of autism."
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000B7F38-893D-152E-88E283414B7F0000
"Lapham grew up very wealthy, and it shows. His style, which includes frequent references to fashionable places and style trends, is not always my favorite. But what he understands about George W. Bush as a rich kid seems right. I've read analyses of Bush by people who've spent time behind bars and who see the criminal in him. Lapham sees the rich kid in Bush."
http://www.blackcommentator.com/202/202_bush_as_brat_swanson_guest.html
"The Internet in particular provides a medium by which large, geographically-scattered groups may provide support for a single project. ... Internet-age technology and thinking also provide the means of distributing movies and series. ... Since works paid for by patronage are already paid for up front and truly are ars gratia artis, moviemakers can use permissive copyright licenses, like those of the Creative Commons, to guarantee that the work is accessible to anyone while preventing others from profiting from their work."
http://www.reflector-online.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/10/20/45382d3295cd5
"The second a government shoves its hand into your pocket without your specific individual consent or tries to order a peaceable person to 'comply' with some rule or another that you didn't specifically agree to, then -- voila! -- that quick, it isn't legitimate any more. No consent, no governing."
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe061015.html
Gitmo won't be necessary nor large enough for most Americans. Camps existed in America during WWII, they may come again soon.
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