Truth, Justice, and the American Way

If youve been following the net news, you know that the thug regimes of the UN are trying to seize control of the Internets DNS. The latest threat is that the net will fall apart within months if the U.S. does not turn over control. What does this mean?

Hidden behind the claims of [...]

New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is at it again—this time, forcing Yahoo Chat to close their chat rooms (used by millions of people) to anyone under 18, and give a few hundred thousand in extort.. err, donations to placate a few interest groups.

Time for an economics quiz. The likely outcome [...]

There’s a discussion on the forum about a violent raid by SWAT teams on a legal rave in Utah. Comments on the forum: “In my mind, this gets filed as yet another experiment by our government, to test the reaction of the public to martial law and dictatorship…”

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Have you seen the new food pyramid issued by the USDA? Ive been trying to decipher it, but all Ive been able to figure out so far is that Nabisco, Kraft, Kellogs, the Milk and Beef lobbies, and PETA sent a lot of $ to Congress.

Check out Kevin Kelly’s article at Wired about the historical context of the web. He makes some interesting points about the influence of commercialization of the web, the shift in how content is created, and the way it functions as an extension of the human mind.

Have you been following the space news?

While the shuttle awaits its long-delayed launch, Congress has approved a $36 billion NASA budget for the next two years. The bulk of NASA’s budget is devoted to Pres. Bush’s “Vision for Space Exploration” a plan to establish bases on the Moon and Mars and [...]

I normally dont bother ranting about the evils of the “drug war” but this is just insane: after five years of ignoring the trade in “research chemicals,” the government is sentencing the vendors to life in prison for selling psycodelic drugs online. These are not stereotypical drug dealers they are individuals who privately [...]

AMD launched an anti-trust lawsuit against Intel for strong-arming major customers to accept exclusive deals. AMD is taking the unusual step of using a public campaign asking consumers to “demand innovation.”

Well, congratulations AMD - your campaign is working. After using four generations of AMD processors, I bought my first Intel chips – [...]

I was pleased to find this press release floating around the blogosphere:
Weare, New Hampshire – Developer Logan Darrow Clements filed papers with the Weare, New Hampshire code enforcement officer to get the ball rolling on a hotel project on property owned by Justice David Souter of the United States Supreme Court.

Souter voted in favor of [...]

Gee, you mean that forcing a company to release a crippled product isnt going to be a big seller?
PC makers and distributors are holding back from buying the new alternative version of Windows XP that Europe’s competition commissioner ordered Microsoft Corp. to offer as part of the punishment in the software maker’s long [...]

Freedom-loving Americans suffered a major defeat today, and they face another blow to liberty next week. In Kelo vs. New London, the Supreme Court voted that local governments can seize private property for private uses, so long as it serves the public benefit. The ruling legitimizes the already common practice of coercively redistributing [...]

ThoughtCrime in Australia:
A Christian pastor found guilty of vilifying muslims says he is prepared to go to jail in protest over Victoria’s racial tolerance laws.

Two pastors involved with the Catch the Fire Ministries were last year found to have vilified Muslims at a Christian conference, and on a website, by suggesting the Koran promotes violence [...]

Following up on my previous post, a man was sentenced to 20 years last week for looking at child porn on the Internet. The man did not save any porn to his computer, but rather had it in the cache of his Internet browser. As the defense unsuccessfully argued, a computer user [...]

This story begins in 1983, when a 15 year old with used a fake California Driver’s License and birth certificate to get a state identification card that identified her as Kristie Elizabeth Nussman, age 21. In the next three years, she became the adult industry’s first superstar, making about 107 porn films and winning [...]

Chinese bloggers posting their thoughts via Microsoft’s net service face restrictions on what they can write.
Weblog entries on some parts of Microsoft’s MSN site in China using words such as “freedom”, “democracy” and “demonstration” are being blocked.
Microsoft said the company abided by the laws, regulations and norms of each country in which it operates.
...The [...]

There has been a trend in the UK to outlaw driving, and ridiculously low speed limits combined with speed cameras are one of the main weapons of the environmentalists. To avoid the cameras, UK drivers are resorting to tricks like spray-on mud to obscure license plates and GPS devices which warn drivers when [...]

The Chinese government has ordered individual owners of websites and bloggers to register with the government or face being shut down…

The decree requires owners of websites, whether commercial or non-commercial, to comply with the edict by the 30th of June and give the name of the person or persons responsible for the sites.

Bloggers in China [...]

From Division of Labor: India is censoring tobacco products in cinema and television, including any new or past films and television shows. The Indian government has enaged in official censorship since 1952, so this is nothing new, but I wouldn’t be surpised if “voluntary” restrictions of the same sort came to the U.S.

There are SPCAs, or Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in many cities in America. They are charged by city governments to stop animal abuse and have the right to confiscate and sell all the animals of any owner with a judges warrant. In states like Texas, the SPCA can seize [...]