] ICANN has initiated arbitration [PDF] (before the ICC's
] International Court of Arbitration) against VeriSign
] under the .net Registry Agreement, seeking declaratory
] judgments that many things VeriSign has done or attempted
] to do over the years (Sitefinder, ConsoliDate, IDN, WLS,
] and stemming the abusive actions of shell registrars when
] they destructively query the registry for secondary
] market purposes) violate that agreement.

ICANN, VeriSign, and the Swamp

This is totally assinine. The real problem here is that we
don't have a theory of ethics that adequately accounts for
abortion. If abortion is murder, then what is miscarriage?
Logically, it would have to be something like involuntary
manslaughter. A theory of self-defense might allow late-term abortions even if they were proscribed otherwise.

The problem is that this isn't the debate that we're having. The debate we're having is on the level of one about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

RE: Women denied access to birth control

] Pope Pius IX reversed the stance of the Roman Catholic
] church once more. He dropped the distinction between the
] "fetus animatus" and "fetus inanimatus" in 1869. Canon
] law was revised in 1917 and 1983 and to refer simply to
] "the fetus." The tolerant approach to abortion which had
] prevailed in the Roman Catholic Church for centuries
] ended. The church requires excommunication for abortions
] at any stage of pregnancy.

Historical abortion beliefs of the Christian church

] PARIS (Reuters) - Yasser Arafat lay in a coma ``between
] life and death'' on Friday as senior Palestinian
] officials met to consider a future without him.

When he first went to Paris, I was going to pose the question "What if Arafat dies?"

Arafat Is in Coma 'Between Life and Death,' Spokeswoman Says

] BOSTON -- The federal government must have regulatory
] authority over VoIP (define) if the technology is to
] develop quickly and uniformly in the United States,
] Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Michael
] Powell said today.

Powell Calls for Federal VoIP Rule

] UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi
] Annan on Thursday endorsed scientific studies that
] involve the cloning of human embryos, differing with the
] Bush administration's push for a treaty to ban such
] research.

Annan Backs Stem Cell Studies, Differs with Bush

] Those who live and work in this fortified city woke up
] Wednesday to find a 178-foot white blimp floating in
] highly restricted airspace about 1,000 feet above some of
] the most visible symbols of American democracy and
] military strength - the White House, the Capitol and the
] Pentagon.

A 178-Foot Surprise Rises Over Washington

]
] PARIS, Sept. 21 - Iran defied the United Nations' nuclear
] agency on Tuesday, announcing that it had begun
] converting tons of uranium into gas, a crucial step in
] making fuel for a nuclear reactor or a nuclear bomb. The
] International Atomic Energy Agency called Saturday for
] Iran to suspend all such activities.

Iran Moves Toward Enriching Uranium

] Instead of implementing a registry that would, at best
] have no impact on spam and, at worst, cause it to
] increase, the FTC%u2019s plan recognizes the need for an
] authentication standard. The FTC%u2019s Report explains
] that %u201Cwithout effective authentication of email, any
] registry is doomed to fail. With authentication, better
] CAN-SPAM Act enforcement and better filtering by ISPs may
] even make a registry unnecessary.%u201D

Apparently, the FTC is holding a summit on mail authentication
in November.

New System to Verify Origins of E-mail must Emerge Before %u201CDo Not Spam%u201D List Can Be Implemented, FTC Tells Congress

] The FTC today issued a report assessing whether and how a
] system that rewards members of the public for tracking
] down spammers would or could help improve enforcement of
] the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography
] and Marketing Act of 2002 (CAN-SPAM Act.) That Act, which
] became effective on January 1, 2004, required the FTC to
] conduct a study and provide a report to Congress on a
] CAN-SPAM %u201Cbounty system.%u201D

FTC Assesses Reward System for Catching Spammers