Tuesday, July 30, 2002

i love it when a plan comes together. Stallman: "[Information on how to make a copy of a DVD] is being is being treated as even more dangerous than how to make an atomic bomb, and that is perfectly understandable, because an atomic bomb could only be used to kill people, whereas this might endanger the profits of the corporations which the US Government exists to serve." [Copyright vs. Community in the Era of Computer Networks] [Aaron Swartz: The Weblog] bravo! 7:08:56 PM    Comments []

Dwight D. Eisenhower. "I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." [Quotes of the Day] 10:22:54 AM    Comments []

"It is not an overstatement to describe the arrests in Tulia as an atrocity". The entire operation was the work of a single police officer who claimed to have conducted an 18-month undercover operation. The arrests were made solely on the word of this officer, Tom Coleman, a white man with a wretched work history, who routinely referred to black people as "n*****s" and who frequently found himself in trouble with the law. [Daypop Top 40] Disgusting! I'm glad I finally joined the ACLU yesterday. 10:19:21 AM    Comments []