] Working with the Bush administration, Congressional
] Republicans are maneuvering to make permanent the
] sweeping antiterrorism powers granted to federal law
] enforcement agents after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,
] officials said today.

Republicans Want Terror Law Made Permanent

] There doesn't seem to be much awareness in the Bush
] administration of the terrible distress of the unemployed
] American worker. This is an ache that does not extend to
] the gilded towers of the very wealthy, which is where the
] administration has always focused its concern.
]
] The White House response to the latest job loss figures
] is the same response it has had all along to bad economic
] news: more tax cuts are the cure.

Workers Who Feel Discarded

] In the old days, staff members in the nine-branch Santa
] Cruz Public Library System would destroy discarded
] paperwork as time allowed, typically once a week.
]
] But at a meeting of library officials last week, it was
] decided the materials should be shredded daily.
]
] "The basic strategy now is to keep as little historical
] information as possible," said Anne M. Turner, director
] of the library system.
]
] The move was part of a campaign by the Santa Cruz
] libraries to demonstrate their opposition to the Patriot
] Act, the law passed in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks
] that broadened the federal authorities' powers in
] fighting terrorism.

Librarians Use Shredder to Show Opposition to New F.B.I. Powers

This is a complete Super-DMCA page with the text of the laws in various states and detailed information. Who can fight this in Tennessee??

Freedom to Tinker: Status of State Super-DMCA Bills

Jeremy wrote:
] What do they hope to gain by this? It seems likely to
] encourage private full-text archival of NYT articles, rather
] than on-demand online retrieval. Some may be dissuaded from
] linking to NYT at all, given the short fuse, and migrate to
] other publications that don't have a similar policy.

Personally I use my local library's proxy server to access the full text of NY Times free of charge(*).

-andy

** -- Paid for by my taxes, already.

RE: NYT Archive Disappears from the Net

] The recording industry is suing students at Michigan
] Technological and two other universities, saying they ran
] Napster-like file sharing systems on the schools'
] high-speed Internet networks.
]
] The lawsuit says Michigan Tech student Joseph Nievelt and
] three others ran systems offering more than 1 million
] copies of songs for illegal downloading.

Michigan Tech student sued by music industry over file sharing

] Not to be outdone by Dell's recent revamp of its PC
] recycling programme, HP has said it will double the
] incentive it offers to consumers for handing in their
] old, unwanted computers.

I applaud both Dell and HP for putting their money where their mouth is by offering cash incentives for environmentally friendly options while pumping up their own sales volume. It may even be a net win for them if the recyclable parts can be sold to others for more than the incentive.

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