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Friday, February 08, 2002
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Thought for the day:
Whenever you're tempted to believe that those who are responsible for all the world's problems are involved in some vast conspiracy, consider the far likelier possibility that they're just stupid.
Aaron Zelman & L. Neil Smith, Hope
11:31:31 PM 
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 I've started a small experiment with e-gold. e-gold is an electronic currency backed by real gold which is stored in a vault. It seems promising as a way to buy and sell online (significantly cheaper than PayPal or credit cards, and no danger of credit card fraud), and to preserve privacy.
I'm going to buy a small quantity of e-gold and try using it for small transactions such as buying books or ammo. I'll post my experiences here for anyone who might be interested.
7:54:57 PM
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Here's an experiment using the new SCNS driver for SOAP 1.1. If it works, the whois info for orange-road.com should appear below:
[Macro error: Poorly formed XML text, we were expecting . (At character #193.)]
Hmm, that sort of works, in a "Network Solutions sucks" sort of way...
7:05:45 PM
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Cambodia defies UN over genocide court. Cambodia vows to go ahead with its own trials of former Khmer Rouge
leaders despite UN objections. [BBC News: world]
Good for them! It's always nice to see someone standing up to the UN for national sovereignty. If the UN bureaucrats don't like it, they can always move to Cambodia, become citizens, and vote.
5:59:54 PM
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It looks like Radio has a memory leak. I've been leaving it running on my G4 all day--when I leave in the morning it has 2.5MB free, and when I get home it's down to around 700K. Frontier 4.2.3a has a memory leak involving outline processing, could this be the same bug?
5:54:03 PM
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Campaign Finance Reform: Now or Never..... The day has finally come. Americans will finally have a chance to see their representatives vote on Campaign Finance Reform. I suppose we can thank Enron. Its unfortunate that such a tragedy had to occur in order for a simple vote to commence. [kuro5hin.org]
This proposed "reform" is a blatant violation of the First Amendment, but of course that won't matter to anybody in power. We can also be sure that the media will support it strongly, because banning political advertising before elections makes the media's voice the only one which can still be heard.
2:15:00 PM
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ANGERED BY SNUBBING, LIBYA, CHINA
SYRIA FORM AXIS OF JUST AS EVIL Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil," Libya, China, and Syria today announced they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil," which they said would be way eviler than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of his State of the Union address. [SatireWire]
10:30:35 AM
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Interview With Jeff Snyder. Carlo Stagnaro at LewRockwell.com -
Interview With Jeff Snyder - Mr. Snyder wrote the book,
Nation of Cowards. This is long, but very good. Once again, the
non-agression principle is all we need. [lew]
I do not believe that rights are founded on prudential grounds, nor do
I believe that individuals are entitled by society or their government
to possess or exercise rights only so long as society or the state
judges (whether rightly or wrongly) that the rights confer an
aggregate net benefit upon society or the state as a whole. I have
been concerned in many of my writings to demonstrate this, as well as
the corollary proposition, that rights cannot be defended or justified
on utilitarian grounds, since to undertake such a defense is to imply
that rights require a utilitarian justification, and are therefore
contingent on positive aggregate outcomes.
[End the War on Freedom]
9:39:22 AM
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Music Sales Down: Is it Napster? Or is it lack of inspiration?. The latest issue of Rolling Stone Magazine (Printed edition) states that the RIAA has reported a 3% decrease in music sales this past year. 3% may not seem like much, but in the music industry, that is actually enough to cause alarm. The RIAA would like you to believe that Napster, and other similar projects are to blame. I tend to believe otherwise. I blame the decrease in sales on the lack of inspiration, and therefore lack of consumer interest, in current music. [kuro5hin.org]
The RIAA has it half right. It's true that I haven't bought many new CDs lately because of Napster. But it's because Napster is gone! When it was around, I would listen to something a friend or coworker recommended, and buy the CD if I liked it. Now, I can't listen to it ahead of time, so I'm not going to waste my money. The music industry's very bad attitude towards customers doesn't exactly make me want to give them money, either.
Actually, the only new CD I've bought lately was Right Now, which independent singer/songwriter Mari Iijima sells through her web site.
9:05:37 AM
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ArsDigita Shut Down [Slashdot]
This was inevitable, ever since the venture capitalists took over the company. It's a shame, really--it might have survived if the founders had gone for the VC funding.
6:28:00 AM
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Radio's email-to-weblog feature couldn't handle that email, by the way. SimpleMail on my Newton converted my handwritten note (with box) into a GIF, but I had to send it to myself and move it from Entourage to the upstream folder. It would be nice if I could mail pictures directly into Radio!