Archive for February, 2004

You can’t watch DVDs you bought

Sunday, February 22nd, 2004

Think hard about this:
“This Court agrees with the Corley court that the purchase of a DVD does not give to the purchaser the authority of the copyright holder to decrypt CSS.” – US Dist. Ct. for the Northern Dist. of California in 321 Studios v. MGM (2004).
Umm. Boy is that dumb. If the purchaser [...]

Sheikh Terra – Dirty Kuffar Video

Friday, February 13th, 2004

This is troubling. See the rap video that people are talking about. It reminds me of one of the things that makes me so angry about the Bush rhetoric. He repeatedly says he is fighting against people “who hate freedom” and who “hate our liberty” and so on. That’s just idiotic on its face. No [...]

Hey, It Worked For Reagan

Thursday, February 12th, 2004

Donald Rumsfeld claims not to recall Tony Blair’s claim that Iraq could deploy WMDs within 45 minutes. Stunning. If, like Donald, you missed it, the claim that Iraq could deploy its deadly WMDs within 45 minutes appears FOUR times in the UK Dossier on Iraq, including Tony Blair’s FOREWORD. I mean really. Give us a [...]

A Simple Question

Wednesday, February 11th, 2004

Brilliant.
“Mister President, can you give us the names of three National Guard Service colleagues who served with you between May 1972 and October 1973?”
Now a journalist needs to ask that question before Karl Rove starts thinking up the President’s answer for him. Also, read from another Guardsman at the time what is currently the most [...]

Aaron on Campaign Finance Reform

Wednesday, February 11th, 2004

Aaron Swartz is pointing out the solution to the biggest problem facing the United States today. Or at least, that’s what I called it about eleven months ago on this blog. The impending war and our helplessness to do anything about it led me to say,
the most important issue facing this country today is, of [...]

Bush or Palpatine?

Tuesday, February 10th, 2004

Who said it? President G. W. Bush or Emperor Palpatine? (Star Wars Trilogy) Read over these fourteen quotations and try to guess. I don’t want to spoil it for you, but the really funny part is when you change your mind three or four times…”That one’s Bush. No, wait. Palpatine. No. No. I’m gonna say [...]

Bush and the WMDs

Monday, February 2nd, 2004

A lot of fuss is being made lately as the Bush White House has realized that its best strategy on the non-existent WMDs in Iraq is to bite the (missing) bullet and admit that they aren’t going to find them. The next step in their strategy is to distract everyone with investigations into how they [...]