Saturday, December 21, 2002

Buy a flight manual, get a grand jury subpoena? [Politech] Another example of our government's idea of security. The grand jury appearance referred to hasn't happened yet, I hope the author writes another article on his experience. comment () trackback ()  11:31:44 PM     'Twasn't Ever Thus [OpinionJournal] Some comments on the weak response to the ongoing collapse of British civilization. comment () trackback ()  10:16:29 PM     HDTV Pact: Finally a Done Deal. The agreement between TV set makers and cable operators clears a major stumbling block on the road to digital television. However, it may still encounter resistance from Hollywood. Michael Grebb reports from Washington. [Wired News] Negotiations, however, didn't include content owners, who worry that individuals could make a perfect digital copy, transfer it to a computer hard drive, and then post it on a peer-to-peer file sharing service. "It's a balancing act," said Comcast senior vice president, Mark Coblitz. "We were very sensitive to copyright holders' rights, and stealing content is not right." Nonetheless, the proposal included one aspect likely to meet resistance from Hollywood: It would ban content owners from purposely degrading HDTV signals out of fear that a consumer might make a perfect digital copy. That's very good news, but unfortunately that's not all there is to it. The FCC dictates whether the standard may actually be used, and there's a danger that the entertainment industry will successfully use the FCC to impose some horrible restrictions on the technology. comment () trackback ()  7:54:39 PM     The Nazi Roots of Modern Radical Islam. The is little doubt that throughout history the Arabs and Jews have encountered the kind of friction that comes from any two distinct religious or ethnic groups sharing the same geography. However, that history has largely been one of relatively peaceful coexistence. The divergence from that pattern occurs in 1920 with the rise of a virulent anti-Semitic mufti of Jerusalem whose ideology embodied more similarities to that of Nazi Germany than to the historical Islam of Saladin or the Ottoman Turks. The wave of extremist Islam that has plagued the world in the latter days of the 20th century and into the opening days of the 21st, has little to do with ancient history or Islam. The cause lays largely at the feet of Haj Amin Muhammad Al Husseini, who utilized murder and anti-Semitism to consolidate his power over his fellow Arabs and further his personal quest to be caliph of the pan-Arab world. [Soldiers For The Truth] It turns out that the neo-Nazi tone to anti-Israeli Arab propoganda isn't just a coincidence. comment () trackback ()  5:12:29 PM     Preliminary Overview - Saudi Arabia's Education System: Curriculum, Spreading Saudi Education to the World and the Official Saudi Position on Education Policy [The Middle East Media Research Institute] A heavily-footnoted summary of how our good friends the Saudis work to spread the vicious and insane Wahhabiyya version of Islam around the world, and exactly what sort of hatred they're teaching. comment () trackback ()  4:30:51 PM     Pakistani May Have Offered Iraq Nuke Aid [AP World News] Ironic considering that one of the main excuses given for invading Iraq is that Saddam might hypothetically give nuclear weapon technology to enemies of the US. Once again Pakistanis are doing something in reality that Iraq is merely accussed of possibly wanting to do. But of course the Pakistanis are our wonderful allies. comment () trackback ()  2:43:19 PM

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