Bob Morris @ Jun 29th 2006 14:11 - Category: Torture ;
Court curbs Bush power, fans Guantanamo debate
By declaring the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals illegal, the U.S. Supreme Court put fresh curbs on President George W. Bush’s powers in the war on terrorism and gave ammunition to those demanding the prison be closed.
Rumors that Cheney said “this shows the Supreme Court loves the terrorists and hates freedom” are as yet unconfirmed.
Bob Morris @ Jun 29th 2006 14:09 - Category: Unfiled ;
This blog will be getting seriously geeky for the next few days as I blog about Gnomedex, a conference about blogging, web 2.0, cutting edge web stuff, and what we can do with it. The opening party is tonight here in Seattle.
Bob Morris @ Jun 29th 2006 00:29 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Palestine;
Tanks by the hundreds, bridges blown up, Dozens of lawmakers arrested, (Lefti says “‘Arrested’? On what charge? ‘Resisting while Palestinian’”?), assassinations of others threatened. 1.3 million people now have little or no electricity and water. All, Israel says, to rescue one soldier.
This bloodthirsty over-reaction by Israel throws gasoline on the fire. Maybe that’s what they want. The reaction from MSM and has mostly been crickets.
Blowback is “the unintended consequences of actions.” The blowback from this could be monumental.
How many innocent civilians are already dead, and how many more will die?
Madness, complete madness.
Bob Morris @ Jun 29th 2006 00:18 - Category: Unfiled ;
From Martini Republic
In other words: fair or no, Jerome [Armstrong] is damaged goods. The sooner Kos owns up to that, the more quickly he stops hemorrhaging readers. And despite his bravado, his readers mostly former Deaniacs â€â€are just now beginning to lose the site’s built-in, obsessive-pandering stickiness and check out other options.
Bob Morris @ Jun 29th 2006 00:12 - Category: Unfiled ;
Howard Dean: ‘We’re about to enter the ’60s again’
America is about to revisit one of the most turbulent decades in its history, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean told a religious conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. “We’re about to enter the ’60s again,” Dean said.
I agree, the coming period looks to be turbulent indeed. The pendulum moved way to the right, now it’s coming back. Which is just what happened in the 60’s too. Good.
Bob Morris @ Jun 29th 2006 00:06 - Category: Unfiled ;
Grace Hopper was a giant of the early days of computing. She invented the compiler, had the outlandish idea that computers could be used for business, and this led to the creation of COBOL, the first programming language for business purposes. She also discovered the first computer bug…
From CounterSpy News
Another of her claims to fame was the discover of the first computer “bug”, and this was literally true when she came upon a moth trapped within the relay points of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at Harvard University, 9 September 1945. Her team successfully “debugged” the computer and a new term was born.
And here, preserved for posterity, is the very first computer bug.
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