Comments (0) Radioactive snails lead to Spain-U.S. atomic probe | Reuters.com
Sound tasty. So there are 3 bombs underground in that area and folks still living around them. Nice of the governments to show so much concern…
Techdirt: Making Sure You Don’t Get Your Rebate Money: Patented!
And the bad part is, this is real. And they got a patent on it. Stupid patent office!
OregonLive.com : Everything Oregon
Restaurant owner says songs may cost him his business
And once again the only winners will be the lawyers… 🙁
The Blog | Martin Lewis: That Bush-Foley Photo: The Contest Winners! | The Huffington Post
They would be funnier if they weren’t so true. Go, look, laugh, get pissed off…
Paper and pencil or pen doesn’t have this problem.   Just a pain to count. But there IS a trail there unlike the electronic machines. Now we get to watch yet another election get stolen thanks to Diebold and the asshats in power. I still say lets vote them ALL out and start over!
CITIZEN-TIMES.com: Liberty Dollars face legal scrutiny
To hell with the US mint. I’d use them if there were places around here that accepted them. Anything to show my nonsupport to this nonwar that the nonprez has the country in.
PBS | I, Cringely . October 6, 2006 – Risky Business
Cringely has bit of a different take on the internet gambling law just passed. Nothing like living in interesting times…
Not safe for work – Watch/Listen
Detroit Judge says Patriot Act suit can proceed
Not much but at least a small step. And there I will stop, for now.
Boing Boing: Day Against DRM — TODAY!
Preach it in the streets! End the insanity! Free the content!
Technology Review: Vocational education classes may be poised for comeback in U.S. high schools
And about time too!
Boing Boing: Unpaid diplomatic parking tickets as index of national corruption
Interesting corrolation. Now lets see one for OUR elected officials in washington.
Ice the size of Texas melts in one year – earth – 26 September 2006 – New Scientist
May be this is Earth’s way of telling President George W. Bush that global warming cannot be ignored: in just one year, the perennial sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean has shrunk by nearly three-quarters of a million square kilometres, an area comparable to that of Bush’s home state of Texas.
But will he bother listening. After all he makes it all up anyway… 🙁
Friedman, Ventura pair up for campaign swing
Give em hell, Kinkster!
GROKLAW
The British Library Gets It!
Monday, September 25 2006 @ 04:04 PM EDT
Finally! Somebody gets it that DRM is altering the copyright law bargain, by not allowing fair dealing/fair use. And it’s the British Library that is speaking out and saying that the same rules of the road should apply in the digital world as they have always done. Copyright law includes fair use/fair dealing, and there will be incalculable damage if copyright law in the digital environment doesn’t retain those limitations on the copyright owner’s rights. The Library has issued an IP Manifesto [PDF]. I wish to say thank you to the British Library for issuing this document.
The IP Manifesto’s key recommendations include, quoting from the press release:
* Existing limitations and exceptions to copyright law should be extended to encompass unambiguously the digital environment;
* Licenses providing access to digital material should not undermine longstanding limitations and exceptions such as ‘fair dealing’;
* The right to copy material for preservation purposes – a core duty of all national libraries – should be extended to all copyrightable works;
* The copyright term for sound recordings should not be extended without empirical evidence of the benefits and due consideration of the needs of society as a whole;
* The US model for dealing with ‘orphan works’ should be considered for the UK;
* The length of copyright term for unpublished works should be brought into line with other terms (ie: life plus 70 years).
In other words, copyright law should not change in the digital environment, and if it doesn’t change, then fair dealing and fair use are just as applicable there.
Glad to see that there are some folks out there that are starting to fight back aginst the damn DRM crowd…
Marc Fisher – If Paper Ballots Restore Trust In Elections, Let’s Switch – washingtonpost.com
AMEN!
CTV.ca | Ornery scientist gets rehired by federal gov’t
So he was fired for the attitude of his email, then rehired but doesn’t get paid and is gonna do it? Guess he likes what he was doing. Be damned if I would go back without a raise in pay…
Now if this just makes enough folks to actually think about what is going on so we can get those arsehats out of there and start the world back on the road to recovery from this outragous administration…
Santorum, Frist, Burns Make List Of 20 Most Corrupt Members Of Congress… | The Huffington Post
Tis a good beginning for a list of the ones to vote out of office!
The Blog | Harry Shearer: We Fly So You Don’t Have To | The Huffington Post
This is scary, but overall sounds to be right in line with so many other stories about out of control airline security personal world wide. Stupid, stupid, stupid!
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