Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Tuesday, December 14th, 2004
From an AP story (via Dani):
A judge has ruled that Maryland's anti-spam law — the first state law to penalize senders of junk e-mail — is unconstitutional because it seeks to regulate commerce outside the state's borders. Last week's ruling, which threw out a lawsuit against a New York e-mail ...
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2004
Two newsites (RIA and Lenta.ru) reported today that Russia has asked Interpol to declare Yulia Timoshenko, a very popular member of the Ukraine's opposition, a fugitive. It is well known that Russia opposses the Ukraine opposition since it is pro-Western. But to resort to such dirty tricks in public by ...
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Saturday, December 4th, 2004
Some time ago I mentioned a new political action comitee called "IPAC" focused on addressing some of the problems with the current IP laws. They just opened a blog which seems to be an interesting read.
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2004
In another bizarre twist of American politics, the Democracts are prepared to declare victory on Election Day even if they lose and then sue to get it (via LGF):
Unlike the former vice president, who lost a recount fight and the 2000 election, Kerry will be quick to declare victory on ...
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Monday, October 18th, 2004
I ran across a story at NewsForge describing a new Political Action Comitee (PAC) called iPAC for influencing the current intellectual property issues. Their principles sound pretty good to me but it remains to be seen how much impact they will make:
1. Creators of ideas and inventions have the right ...
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Monday, October 11th, 2004
I just ran across an monthly interesting column titled "To Evil" written by Danny O'Brien of NTK (via BoingBoing). Its funny enough to make it to my RSS reader. This month's evils are Microsoft's Sender-ID Team, Jonathan Schwartz of Sun and John Kerry? Sender-ID is simple, although this quote is ...
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Sunday, October 10th, 2004
About two months ago I wrote about the exclusion of FBI.GOV from search engines and The Internet Archive via the use of ROBOTS.TXT. Now it seems that it was removed and everything is back to normal.
Also, on an interesting sidenote, it seems that the Internet Archive does not delete content ...
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2004
According to an "Inside the Beltway" article (via LGF):
New research by Burke's Peerage reveals that Mr. Kerry is the only presidential candidate in U.S. history who has genealogical descent from Muslims, Jews and Christians.
Among the most interesting parts is that John Kerry is a direct descendant from the prophet Muhammad. ...
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2004
The AP is reporting that Space Ship One, a first private space vehicle has sucessfully made its first launch attempt for the $10 million Ansari X Prize. And Virgin Atlantic has opened up a new subsidiary to commercialize the Space Ship One technology which they just licensed - Virgin Galatic. ...
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Thursday, September 9th, 2004
The big media and the blogsphere has been abuzz for the past few days about the new memos that turned up putting President Bush's National Guard service in a bad light. Well, it seems that the memos are likely to be forgeries according to many document experts. But there is ...
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