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Tuesday, January 07, 2003
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I ran across this post on a web forum. Things like this explain why ordinary people don't like cops:
My boss got all bent out of shape because I ended up patting down a guy who was just asking for directions. Hey, if he didn't want me touching him he wouldn't have kept putting his hands in his pockets. Day shifters need to get a little more Officer Safety oriented anyway. Had a Cpl. put a guy in his car w/o cuffs when he already knew he was gonna arrest him, and the guy had a pretty good idea as well.
The sad thing is, this poster is probably an honest cop who's following his department's procedure.
10:27:11 PM 
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Just so nobody thinks that Bush's plan to extend Social(ist) (In)Security to Mexican citizens is not representative of Republican policies, here's a long list of Bush's Big Government Accomplishments.
9:24:40 PM
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Safari. Safari doesn't excite me. How do I de-underline links? I noticed that OmniWeb is conspicuously absent from Apple's comparisons -- an interesting way to treat a loyal developer. [Hack the Planet]
I'll reserve judgement on the browser's performance until I try it myself. However, isn't bundling a browser with the OS supposedly illegal? Isn't that what the Department of Justice was affter Microsoft about?
8:39:46 PM
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Defector: Chavez gave $1 million to al-Qaida. Recent high-level Venezuelan military defectors say President Hugo Chavez gave $1 million to al-Qaida shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the United States.
Air Force Maj. Juan Diaz Castillo, formerly a pilot for the Venzuelan leader, was smuggled to Miami last week where he is warning the U.S. of what he calls Chavez's dismissal of the constitution and his ties to terrorism in collaboration with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. [WorldNetDaily]
This is rather interesting. I wonder if the CIA is working on confirming it independently? Although if they do it probably still wouldn't affect US foreign policy. I can almost see the headlines: "Chavez linked to bin Laden; Bush says, 'Saddam Must Go'".
5:28:14 PM
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Slashdot | Your Rights Online - Cryptome Log Subpoenaed. PaulBu writes "Stopped by on Cryptome tonight... It seems that their logs have been subpoenaed by Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General Chief, Corruption, Fruad (sic) & Computer Crime Division. Cryptome's answer was that "logs of Cryptome are deleted daily, or more often during heavy traffic, to protect the privacy of visitors to the site." (Good job!) See here" [Privacy Digest]
A very good response! I hope other web sites follow this example, and delete their logs.
4:32:10 PM
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Terror police find deadly poison. Anti-terrorist police have arrested seven people after finding traces of the highly toxic poison ricin at an address in London. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition]
Materials and items of equipment were found at a residential address in Wood Green, north London, where one of the men was arrested.
Isn't North London where the infamous Finsbury Park Mosque is? The article also mentions young men of "North African origin," and that large quantities of ricin were found in Afghanistan, but somehow the author doesn't seem to make the connection that maybe, just maybe, there were Islamic terrorists involved.
10:11:03 AM
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N. Korea Warns 'Sanctions Mean a War' [AP World News]
I'm inclined to think Kim means it, since sanctions would interfere with his ability to feed and supply his army. In any case, I'm not in favor of sanctions. Instead, I think the US should simply stop giving free aid to North Korea and encourage other countries to do the same. The whole point of Kim's nuclear weapons program is to extort food, fuel, and technology from South Korea, Japan, and the US. If we all stop giving in, he'll have to find a new way to get what he wants.
10:05:28 AM
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What Clayton Cramer Saw and (Nearly) Everyone Else Missed. Unfortunately, it seems to me that the Bellesiles scandal exposed the lack of political diversity within the profession. You see, at least part of why historians swallowed Arming America's preposterous claims so readily is that it fit into their political worldview so well. I don't mean that historians consciously decided not to look at Bellesiles's claims because they were afraid of what they would find; I mean that Arming America said things, and created a system of thought so comfortable for the vast majority of historians, that they didn't even pause to consider the possibility that something wasn't right.
At this point, some of readers (perhaps many) may be saying to themselves, "That's ridiculous! Our department is very diverse politically!" I am a little skeptical. To paraphrase the barkeep in the movie The Blues Brothers, "We've got both kinds of politics here! Liberal and progressive!" My experience in college--and that of most history majors that I have ever talked to--was that the range of political opinions in history departments is astonishingly narrow. Even liberal history majors usually recognized that this was the case. [History News Network]
An article by Clayton Cramer on his discovery of Michael Bellesiles's fraud, and what it says about integrity among academic historians.
9:55:38 AM
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DVD Jon is free - official. DeCSS verdict vanquishes MPAA [The Register]
Judge Irene Sogn ruled that there was "no evidence" that either Johansen or others had used the decryption code (DeCSS) illegally, Aftenposten reports. Judge Sogn dismissed prosecution arguments that Johansen intended to aid and abet DVD piracy.
Apparently when the MPAA bought off the Norwegian prosecutors they forgot to also buy off the judge. Oops!
6:03:09 AM
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