Bob Morris @ Feb 13th 2003 22:51 - Category: Unfiled ;
We’re back
A telco gremlin took down our ISP for a few hours today. However, the gremlins have been banished and all is well.. Even the sometimes cranky commenting system appear to be working!
Bob Morris @ Feb 13th 2003 12:20 - Category: Unfiled ;
Google may not be a friend.
Read “Google deserves your nomination for Big Brother of the Year“.
After reading it, I deinstalled my Google Toolbar. You might want to also.
Bob Morris @ Feb 13th 2003 12:13 - Category: Unfiled ;
Every step yoo take, I’ll be tracking you…
Connie Adams found it impossible to escape her ex-boyfriend.
He would follow her as she drove to work or ran errands. He would inexplicably pull up next to her at stoplights and once tried to run her off the highway, authorities said.
When he showed up at a bar she was visiting for the first time, on a date, Adams began to suspect Paul Seidler wasn’t operating on instinct alone.
He wasn’t _ Seidler had installed a satellite tracking device in Adams’ car, according to police in Kenosha, Wis., 30 miles south of Milwaukee.
Just as the global satellite positioning system can help save lives, so can its abuse endanger them, advocates of stalking victims say.
“As technology advances, it’s going to be almost impossible for victims to flee and get to safety,” said Cindy Southworth, director of technology at the National Network to End Domestic Violence in Washington.” [Smart Mobs]
Bob Morris @ Feb 13th 2003 00:38 - Category: Unfiled ;
A $250,000 automatic public pay toilet, 25 cents per visit
Pittsburgh is proudly boasting about their “computerized, state-of-the-art, heated, constantly disinfected, graffiti-resistant, remotely monitored, well-lit, landscaped, wheelchair-accessible, ornamental-iron-and-brick-adorned automatic public toilet.”
However, I am a bit concerned about that “remotely monitored” feature…
Bob Morris @ Feb 13th 2003 00:31 - Category: Unfiled ;
Precursors to Fascism
From MetaFilter
“NeoConservatism in a Nutshell!
Lately I’ve been researching the NeoConservative movement and stumbled upon this European website which is by far the best overview I have encountered. Be sure to read the end called The Dangers for Europe. Here is a little tidbit -
“What ought to be of concern to Europeans is the fact that Americans are being indoctinated into beliefs which many Europeans (particularly those who are old enough to remember the 1920’s and 1930’s) would characterise as extremely dangerous…. A country considers itself at war against an ill-defined foreign enemy who threaten its way of life. To protect itself against this enemy, civil liberties are abrogated, arrest and detention without trial are introduced and the state creates a secret police which can spy on citizens and foreigners alike.
The state allies itself with big business to protect its way of life and promote national security. Public opinion is manipulated so that dissent from the “national purpose” becomes socially unacceptable. Those are the conditions which Europeans will recognise as the precursors of fascism.”
Bob Morris @ Feb 13th 2003 00:23 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bob Morris @ Feb 13th 2003 00:20 - Category: Unfiled ;
Patriots for Peace!
Get the Patriots for Peace pdf, complete with the name of your state on it, for downloading and making into a poster.
This is a side project from the fine folks at True Majority, who also have some nice posters, bumper stickers, etc. for download
United for Peace also has excellent resources and links for peacenik paraphernalia
Bob Morris @ Feb 13th 2003 00:01 - Category: Unfiled ;
Voting machines
“He who controls the voting machines controls the election”. Paranoia or realistic?
See the Forest has a gaggle of links about voting machines. Check it out.
PS I made that quote up.
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