I was listening to The Diane Rehm Show this morning, and I heard one of her guests put forward the same tired lie about FISA and retroactive telecom immunity, that the telecoms thought what they were doing was legal and now are going to suffer for it. The problem is that this is totally false, and after months of this discussion everyone speaking ( Read more... )

Last night I had a dream where I was grocery shopping with John McCain.

WTF?

saramwrap showed me this scene from Pulp Fiction rewritten in Shakespearean style, because she thought I'd like it, and she was completely right; for whatever reason I think that's totally awesome. Randomly, I was watching part of the DVD of the sci-fi channel Dune miniseries the other day while I was doing some dishes, and I noticed that many of the ( Read more... )

I was pretty amused yesterday by an article in the NY Times about how Alberto Gonzales can't find a job He's been looking for a job for a year, but apparently the law firms ( Read more... )

I watched the documentary The Corporation today, which is a film that examines the history of the corporation as a legal entity, examines the behavior of corporations and their negative impacts, and basically asks us to reconsider whether having corporations, as they exist today, is really a good idea. As you might guess, their answer is no.

I ( Read more... )

You know EULAs, whose stupid End User License Agreements you have to agree to in order to use many pieces of software and no one ever reads? Well, I just ran across a link to one that contains the following terms buried in the legalese:

WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, THE TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF MOZY INCORPORATED AND ITS SUPPLIERS ARISING ( Read more... )

I considered today effectively the first real day of spring. To celebrate I went out and played some tennis. I'm no good at tennis, really, but I do enjoy playing it nonetheless.

Apparently I wasn't the only one who thought it was insane that an Iraqi coming to the U.S. would be designated a terrorist for having fought against Saddam Hussein ( Read more... )

I was looking through news stories on my RSS reader tonight and I came across a few interesting ones: Taking the award for best title is the one called, Forecasters Warn of Flooding in Ark. Since when is Ark. the abbreviation for Arkansas? Another story out of good ol' Ark. concerns an exploding meat packing plant. I can just imagine now all ( Read more... )

As you may have heard, a week ago the House of Representatives rejected retroactive immunity for telecoms that participated in illegal domestic spying by passing an update to FISA that contains no such provision. I'm a bit surprised to see that part of Congress grew a spine, but boy am I glad. Things are probably a bit uncertain now, as the ( Read more... )

So, for the past little while I've been trying to pull off a magic trick: Get my friends-only LJ posts imported to Facebook as notes. Unfortunately, it seems this cannot be accomplished by any craft that I possess. I managed to import my public posts as notes using Facebook's "Import a Blog" feature to grab the RSS feed from LJ. I thought I ( Read more... )