This is great; a US court has ruled that the RIAA has to “actually file charges on someone”:http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,61670,00.html/wn_ascii before ISPs can be required to turn over information on their subscribers. And in the Netherlands, a Dutch court has said “Kazaa is not responsible”:http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,61672,00.html/wn_ascii for what people do with their software.
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I haven’t wanted to write about the “lefties don’t understand capturing Saddam is a good thing” because it makes me cross-eyed-angry. Of course we think it’s a good thing. So far I haven’t heard anyone say it’s a bad thing.
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I recieved email today from Blather.net letting me know (among other things) that Google pulled their Adwords accounts because Blather.net contained language critical of George W. Bush.
Google told Dave Walsh:
bq. We permit sites containing commentary, analysis, and opinions, as long
as they do not advocate against specific individuals, groups, or
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Morgan’s “elsewhere” sidebar sends me to George Monbiot’s screed on airplanes, “A Weapon with Wings”:http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1107861,00.html. Monbiot’s take:
bq. Tomorrow should be a day of international mourning. December 17 2003 is the centenary of the world’s most effective killing machine.
Silly me; I thought that would have been the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Consider:
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In other news, “the Udvar-Hazy center”:http://www.nasm.si.edu/museum/udvarhazy/ — expansion to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum — opens today in Chantilly, Virginia. The Mall museum may have the Wright Flyer, an Apollo Lunar Module, and the actual Star Trek Enterprise prop. But the Udvar-Hazy center has the Enola Gay, an SR-71, and the _actual_ Enterprise space [...] Read more »

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