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Thursday, March 07, 2002
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Treasure hunters trash Bronze Age archaeological site. According to a story that appeared in The Scotsman, amateur treasure hunters found what sound like interesting and important Bronze Age artifacts. They sold them for money to buy beer and stereo equipment. A dealer who tried to resell these items for a substantial markup was arrested. [kuro5hin.org]
No mention of what law the dealer was supposed to have broken. This did happen in Europe, so perhaps his crime was simply to own something the government wanted.
4:32:19 PM 
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Fox Explains Why SSSCA Is Bad [Slashdot]
The article, published by Fox News, is certainly interesting. It also explains how the Republicans could use the Democrats' betrayal of their principles against them. This gives too much credit to both parties, though--to the Democrats, for suggesting that they have principles, and to the Republicans, for suggesting that they are smart enough to take advantage of the situation.
3:02:39 PM
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What the Enron scandal means to you. Enron was a perfect example of corporate executives turning to politicians for help. The politicians obliged. They helped subsidize Enron and thereby made Enron less able to carry its own weight in the free market. [WorldNetDaily]
Enron would have collapsed anyway, because it was basically just smoke and mirrors. Governments subsidies helped it, though.
12:54:15 PM
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Nat Hentoff: "The press ought to awaken the citizenry not only to the FBI's harvesting lists of what 'suspect' Americans read, but also to the judicial silencing of bookstores and libraries that are being compelled to betray the privacy and First Amendment rights of readers."  [Scripting News]
There are ways to deal with this. The most obvious is to simply pay cash and refuse to give personal information to the bookstore. Also, bookstores and libraries could stop keeping records (or destroy them when the book is returned).
10:45:40 AM
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Powell condemns 'war on Palestinians'. US Secretary of State Colin Powell criticises Israel as at least 12
Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers are killed in fresh violence. [BBC News: world]
"If you declare war on the Palestinians and think you can solve the problem by seeing how many Palestinians can be killed - I don't know that leads us anywhere," Mr Powell told the congressional hearing.
Surely former General Powell knows better than this. The Palestinians declared war quite a long time ago, and have been conducting a strategy of almost exclusively comitting war crimes. The Israelis, even under Sharon, have been going out of their way to avoid fighting a war in return. The problem is, many Palestinians want to die and take Israelis with them. The best solution is to help them die as quickly as possible and without letting them hurt anyone else.
10:33:18 AM
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News.Com: Amazon, Barnes&Noble settle patent suit. Amazon.com said Wednesday that it has settled its long-running patent-infringement suit against Barnes&Noble.com over its 1-Click checkout system. The details of the settlement were not disclosed. The settlement filed Tuesday with the U.S. district court in Seattle ends the dispute... [Tomalak's Realm]
I stopped buying from Amazon in protest of their ridiculous patent policy. If this settlement involved Amazon admitting they were wrong, they ought to say so publicly so that they might get back they customers they had previously driven away.
10:19:45 AM
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UK 'needs more nuclear stations'. The government's chief scientific adviser wants the UK's nuclear power
station programme revived, to cut carbon dioxide emissions. [BBC News: sci/tech]
It's very amusing to me that England might need to build more nuclear reactors to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The whole "emissions" thing is a cause made up by the ecofreaks, who regard anything with the word "nuclear" in it as their Great Satan.
10:07:51 AM
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