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This page is for miscellaneous bits of information which might be useful in the future.

To File

See also: news too fast to digest and Rich Veins

2007-07

  • 2007-07-18: You are Destroying America. Yes, You.: strongly-worded editorial about the "me too"ism of the Bush followers, a form of authoritarian follower personality which perhaps needs a page all to itself.
  • 2007-07-17: Companies Claim Right to Interfere with eBay Auctions for Charging Too Little: some of the anti-competitive / pro-monopolistic outcomes of the decision in Leegin Creative Leather Products v. PSKS
  • 2007-07-16: MIT Project aims human buffer overflow at Secret Service: project to protest against "yellow dots"
  • found 2007-07-15: wikipedia:Jobbers Canyon Historic District might be a good item to have on an article about the excesses of big business
  • 2007-07-13 A matter of national security involving the relationship between local food production and peak oil
    • Woozle notes: reading this sent me on a train of thought which ended with the idea that "restrictively zoned" areas where ability to farm is reduced (either by law or by practical considerations) should maybe pay some kind of food-sustainability tax to support local (i.e. close enough to be transportable by muscle power) farming... or something...
    Though I'm hesitant to propose anything which increases the complexity of the tax system... but just because 99% of something is crap doesn't mean that it has to be crap, I guess. However, the next thought that comes up in my head is that the tax system needs to be hugely cleaned up and simplified before we start trying to use it productively... Which is a much larger problem.
    Actually, what would be better than an ongoing tax (from a fairness POV) would be a local impact fee paid by the developer -- that's when the decision is made... though I suppose millage rates could also be scaled by "desirability of use", which would include farming. (More desirable use = lower millage rate) Here in Durham, there used to be an impact fee -- which had more to do with the extra infrastructure costs of supporting new developments, e.g. fire stations, police, ecological maintenance... (oh, yeah, and schools) ...but the developers are very powerful here, and managed to get that done away with. I need to write an article about that.
  • found 2007-07-04:
  • 2007-07-03 Liberia's Taylor appears in court: "Liberia's former President Charles Taylor has appeared at his war crimes trial in The Hague for the first time."
  • found 2007-07-02:
    • The Digital Display Working Group "are supposed to agree on some logical and simple means of connecting video devices such as your computer monitor, TV or HDTV, DVD player, projector, etc. ... I now have to sort between a veritable CLUSTERFUCK of cable types, and buy costly adapters that may or may not actually work! The list now includes (but is not limited to): HD15, HDMI, DVI-A, DVI-D, DVI-M, DVI-I, DVI-Mini, Optical DVI, S-Video, RCA, Component (Y,Pb,Pr), SVGA, DFP, Hi-Res BNC, SVHS, etc etc etc." I was rather suspicious of USB cable design, as I could never fathom why the device end has to be completely different from the host end. Isn't that what connectors usually use gender for? Perhaps there is actually more to this.
    • Need a page for all the issues surrounding the US income tax:
  • found 2007-07-01: The Hippies Were Right! and mainstream culture is finally starting to embrace the ideas put forth by hippie culture 40 years ago

2007-06

  • found 2007-06-15:
  • found 2007-06-14:
  • 2007-06-06
    • The Ballad of Ake Green: "bloggers have been noting the acceleration of a right-wing disinformation campaign that I first noticed on election day in 2004."
    • Cities fight bill to limit broadband in North Carolina: "House Bill 1587, "The Local Government Fair Competition Act," is supported by the telecommunications and cable industries, which say cities have unfair advantages—they don't pay taxes and can subsidize a money-losing Internet business with revenue from the city budget. The bill sets out a long list of strict financial and political requirements should a government get into the broadband business. But the N.C. League of Municipalities and a growing number of cities oppose the measure, saying it would effectively make it impossible for local governments to provide Internet service in rural and low-income areas where private industry has decided not to."
  • 2007-06-03 GOP chief: New strategy key: "At the end of the day, I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [ 9/11 ], and the naysayers will come around very quickly to appreciate not only the commitment for President Bush, but the sacrifice that has been made by men and women to protect this country,” Milligan said.' He probably didn't mean it the way it sounds, but it does rather illustrate the kind of "thinking" at work among Bush supporters: better to have another 9/11 than to have to keep dealing with (much less acknowledge the validity of dissent). The right wing truly does have more in common with the Islamic extremists than with most everyone else.
  • An idea, inspired by this entry: people should be able to sue media outlets for reporting false information. The fine should be proportional to the number of viewers or readers, with some kind of scale set for severity of the error. So local newspapers wouldn't be hit very hard, but large "trusted" newspapers would... and TV news would get clobbered. (The conclusions Rove draws, though, are still questionable at best, even if his facts were right.)

2007-05

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