I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about politics, laws, etc, lately. Not my usual fare, but it’s been good in that there’s a whole lot of websites with interesting things to read about it that I don’t normally explore.
My brother pointed me to the Michale Moore, Bill Oreily transcript, and I was half-way [...]
I was thinking about copyrights while taking a shower last night (what, you don’t?) and I thought of a funny loop-hole that Bittorrent and other similar p2p places could take advantage of. Fair-use (the thing that nobody used to worry about because fair-use wasn’t even necessary, most activities in general just weren’t even covered [...]
For all my blustery talk about copyright issues and other silly things that get me in a wad, I rarely do something. Well, the EFF made this too easy for me not to. So I’m encouraging everyone else to do the same. Go, read the letter, and send it automatically to [...]
I’ve been reading, from afar, a lot about San Francisco issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and while I find it interesting from a number of perspectives I have no real interest in debating it here. I do, however, have one question that I want to ask because I know that some people here [...]
There was a sidebar link (the top one as of this writing) posted recently linking to two stories about John Kerry, one a speech from 1992 and the other a story from just a few days ago, containing a 180° reversal on his feelings about whether Vietnam service should be brought up during a presidential [...]