After Columbine, Eric Holder Advocated Internet "Restrictions" (8)
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ErikTheRed writes "In an audio clip discovered by NewsBusters, then-Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder advocated federal censorship of the Internet. This was in the aftermath of the Columbine High School shootings. From the clip: 'The court has really struck down every government effort to try to regulate it. We tried with regard to pornography. It is gonna be a difficult thing, but it seems to me that if we can come up with reasonable restrictions, ...
LAT Writer: Obama Defense Picks are 'Centrists'; Peace Activist: You 'Can't Directly Criticize' Obama (1)
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Well, isn't this a hoot? As Barack Obama appears to be appointing less than totally pro-surrender officials to his inner circle, far leftists are feeling constrained in their criticism by Obama Mania. A Los Angeles Times article by Paul Richter with an amusing title ("Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet") notes that Obama has appointed or is considering many people who originally supported the war in Iraq (this apparently automatically makes them ...
Dutch Blitz & Me Too (3)
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I am in the middle of reading Rob Bell’s latest book and in it he quotes writer Anne Lamott. She says that the most powerful sermon in the world is two words: Me too. The truth of that statement smacked me upside the head. (Not literally. Obviously.) Each and every human being is a completely different creature. My thoughts, my desires, my preferences, my habits, my everything is unique to ME. Out of every single ...
The Internet: Pro-Iranian Blogger Arrested By Iran For Blogging (2)
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This would be ironically funny as an Onion article, but in real life it's just awful: Hossein Derakhshan, pictured, is a Toronto-based Iranian blogger who has grown more pro-Iran over the past two years, supporting the country's nuclear program and its three-decade-old Islamic revolution in the press. The dual Iranian-Canadian citizen blogs in both English and Farsi and generally tries to help people understand his home country. PR win for Iran and its blogger-in-chief Mahmoud ...
Are Speech Codes Coming Back? (1)
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Before Constitution voters start doing a victory dance over the Obama win, lets not forget that threats to free speech come from the left as often as they come from the right. See Unlike Others, U.S. Defends Freedom to Offend in Speech. The article quotes a “legal philosopher” as saying that he isn’t sure that the Europeans are wrong - referring to European restraints on so-called “hate speech.” Of course, it is only “hate speech” ...
Chicago bans M-rated game advertisements on public transit (14)
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Shortly before the April 29th Grand Theft Auto IV launch, the Chicago Transit Authority pulled ads for the game from its vehicles and facilities. Prompting the move was a rash of unrelated shootings in Chicago and a Fox News hit piece that linked GTA IV to the violence, even though the game hadn't yet been released.Just a week later, Take-Two warmed the hearts of censorship opponents by suing the CTA in U.S. District Court for ...
Anyone have experience with SimplePie? (1)
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SimplePie is the RSS module of choice for us when we're doing such things on large client websites; I have nothing against Magpie and use it for a couple of smaller things, but I have it on good authority that SP is more sustainable for large operations. Could all be propaganda though...
Reverse censorship psychology Aussie style (2)
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Like most other countries around the world governments are trying hard to enact laws; or publicly shame companies, into censoring the Internet. In most cases; unless you live in China are some other draconian type country, these attempts have to this point been a massive failure. Even though, it still hasn’t stopped governments desperate for votes to keep on trying. The most recent case has been in Australia where the government has been pushing far ...
Lese-majeste : Democrats propose a law to crack down on Internet (1)
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What can you do when you’re a member of a party that : -has absolutly no ideas -has mediocre leaders -and is unable to win any elections ? The Democrat Party has the answer : lese-majeste of course. It’s not the first time that some MPs try to get their 15 minutes of fames by toying without any shame with the higher institution (read here). But now, they go one step further : with a ...
DA: landlines V by *Octavus (1)
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Європейський Освітній Портал (1)
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«Найкраща наука створюється там, де збирається критична маса вчених, здатних генерувати ідеї…» 14.11.2008 На останньому засіданні Українського наукового клубу перед академіками – членами клубу, серед яких Олег Кришталь, Анна Єльська, заступник міністра освіти та науки Максим Стріха, виступив директор Міжнародного інституту молекулярно-клітинної біології, професор Яцек Кужницький (Польща). Він поділився з українськими колегами досвідом створення наукової інституції, на сьогодні однієї з провідних у своїй галузі. Газета «Дзеркало тижня» оприлюднила актуальне інтерв’ю з президентом Українського наукового клубу ...
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Зреформований за європейським зразком Міжнародний інститут молекулярно-клітинної біології (Польща) всього за кілька років зробився одним із найкращих в Європі.Досвід цього інституту вплинув на польську наукову систему в цілому. До Польщі почали повертатися провідні науковці, котрі раніше, за більш несприятливих обставин, працювали за кордоном. У країні запровадили і нині підтримують грантову систему фінансування наукових проектів. /За матеріалами газети «Дзеркало тижня», №42 (721)/
Down to Earth (2)
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give. —Thomas Jefferson, letter to Alexander Donald, 7 February 1788 What should we seek to get out of life? To a secular humanist, what is the goal toward which ...
Russian Authorities Resort to Censorship to Cope with Financial Crisis (3)
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We have already heard voices in the blogosphere that media people (both bloggers and reporters from traditional media outlets) should be cautious about how we cover various economic events in these hard times as we are partly responsible for what our readers will think and how they will behave. And since it is hardly arguable that the financial crisis is partly due to panic and irrational behavior of traders and investors, this issue definitely deserves ...
iRobot Looj: Hands-On Experience (1)
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Over a year ago, we wrote about the iRobot Looj gutter cleaning robot. At the time, we thought it looked pretty cool, but it turns out that looks aren't even half the story. A fellow who runs a blog called der5er had some hands on experience with the tool and the results are somewhat less than spectacular. ...Add to this the fact that if a pine cone happens to be directly under a gutter support ...
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Cool! der5er.com quoted and linked by Toolsnob.com
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