RIAA v. Verizon decision

Groklaw talks about RIAA's recent wing-clipping:

[Groklaw/RIAA v. Verizon]: Decisions are sometimes disapointing, but now and then, a judge stands up and says: we have a rule of law here, and no matter who you are, no matter how much money you have, no matter how powerful your friends are, here in my courtroom, the law is applied fairly and without partiality. When you see it happen, it's a beautiful sight.

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Is This The Way It Is?

There was a time when I dreamed a lot. Often I would go to the same places in my dreams, places that I recognized both as a character in the dreams and as the dreamer on the outside.

There was a place in a clearing in the woods. It was underground, beneath a hill with an entrance on one side and some other secret ways. And there was this bear, not a frightening bear, but one that nevertheless made the hill a useful refuge.

Year after year I returned to this place in my dreams. It became a home far away from home, a familiar place.

That was long ago. Today, I don't seem to dream anymore. Or if I do it is not the same, for I don't remember dreaming, and I certainly do not have any familiar places I go.

Is this the way it is? Is this the beginning of the end? As our faculties begin to leave bit by bit, does it start with dreams long before we notice anything else?

Or am I just sleeping better?

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