NEW YORK (AP) -- A complex of angular buildings and a 1,776- foot spire designed by architect Daniel Libeskind was chosen as the plan for the World Trade Center site on Wednesday, The Associated Press has learned.

Libeskind's design beat the THINK team's "World Cultural Center" plan, which envisioned two 1,665-foot latticework towers straddling the footprints of the original towers.

The new building is planned to be taller than the trade center towers, which briefly stood as the world's tallest at 1,350 feet. Libeskind's tower also would surpass Malaysia's 1,483-foot Petronas Twin Towers, the tallest buildings in the world.

CNN.com - New WTC plan is taller than twin towers - Feb. 26, 2003

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INTERESTING TIMES, By Saul Singer: The fall of pacifism

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Men can only be happy when
they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1945

These are words to live by, if there ever were. But they are equally true regarding peace as they are about happiness. Peace, in a way, is a form of happiness; a positive state of being that paradoxically becomes more remote the more it is set up as an absolute.

There is a related paradox. The masterfully synchronized demonstrations last weekend seemed, particularly after the floundering of the anti-globalization movement, to be a show of strength for the "peace movement." In reality, this dramatic attempt to prevent the liberation of Iraq could end up being the greatest blow to pacifism since World War II.

INTERESTING TIMES, By Saul Singer: The fall of pacifism

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by JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, February 27, 2003 (02-27) 18:24 PST SAN FRANCISCO (AP) --

The California Highway Patrol settled a major racial profiling lawsuit by agreeing to extend a ban on some car searches and requiring that officers articulate a reason for each drug-interdiction traffic stop, instead of offering a hunch the driver may be running contraband.

Under the settlement, filed Thursday in federal court, the CHP effectively foregoes policing practices that the U.S. Supreme Court has deemed legal but state officials have concluded, on balance, aren't worth it.

The settlement also requires the agency to track all stops and review that database to ensure no officer is pulling over a disproportionate number of black or Hispanic motorists. It requires CHP to pay $875,000 in legal fees and damages.

California Highway Patrol settles major racial profiling lawsuit

Friday, February 28, 2003 Posted: 5:06 PM EST (2206 GMT)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Police Chief Earl Sanders and nine other policemen have been indicted in connection with an off-duty fight outside a bar and an alleged attempt to cover it up.

Those indicted Thursday included an assistant chief, his police officer son, and a deputy chief. It was not immediately clear whether Sanders and the others would turn themselves in, or be arrested.

The indictments stem from a November incident in which three off-duty officers allegedly beat two men in front of a bar just after closing time, and from the alleged cover-up that followed.

Sanders and six others each face one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice in the alleged cover-up. The three officers allegedly involved in the brawl face felony assault and battery charges.

CNN.com - San Francisco police chief, others indicted in connection with fight - Feb. 28, 2003

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So don't think you can fool me with your political tricks
Political right, political left, you can keep your politics
Government is government, and all government is force
Left or right, right or left, it takes the same old course

Oppression and restriction, regulation, rule and law
The seizure of that power is all your revolution's for
You romanticize your heroes, quote from Marx and Mao
Well their ideas of freedom are just oppression now

Nothing's changed for all the death that their ideas created
It's just the same fascistic games, but the rules aren't clearly stated

Nothing's really different cos all government's the same
They can call it freedom, but slavery's the game
There's nothing that you offer but a dream of last year's hero
The truth of revolution, brother.....................is year zero.

BLOODY REVOLUTIONS - By Crass, 1980

This is soooo cool. So "cyber"!!!

Luminex

Transcript of Bill Moyers interview/expose on Patriot II from PBS's show "NOW"..

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MOYERS: The Patriot Act was passed six weeks after 9/11. We know now that it greatly changed the balance between liberty and security in this nation's framework. What do you think — what's the significance of this new document, called the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003?

LEWIS: I think the significance is it just deepens and broadens, further extends the first Patriot Act. That act in 2001, they had six weeks, which was not a lot of time to throw something together. Now there's been 18 months of all kinds of things that have happened and court decisions that have tried to roll back some of the Patriot Act.

NOW: Bill Moyers interviews Chuck Lewis (ed- re: patriot act II)| PBS

The original post on the phpnuke.org site, for reference.

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What a shame!

This is the worse thing I saw in many time. A web site called LawMeme which topic is the LAW, copyrights and legal stuff (hosted by the Yale Law School at Yale University) that simply removed the PHP-Nuke copyright notices. I know that some people removes the copyright notice but to see this done by a LAW related site!?!?! This is a call to the those few PHP-Nuke's users that likes to remove the copyrights to think about it and try to respect the hard work that many people did for you. Not to mention that this great system is free. Nothing more... just an advice.

PHP-Nuke - What a shame!

The PHP-Nuke people mail the FSF, the FSF confirms that they are 'right' and Lawmeme is wrong.. huh. Doesn't this mean that any given linux system should have to display copyright notices to the user all the time?

I wonder if they'll send me a cease-and-desist for quoting their post without appending a copyright notice. . .

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MissS writes "Awhile back, questions were raised as to whether or not the copyright notice at the bottom of PHPNuke created pages could be removed. Now there is an answer to this question, straight from the GNU people.

The GNU website states that if you have any questions concerning licensing, you can simply email them for clarification. That is exactly what I did and what follows is my email to them...

(My email written to licensing@gnu.org on 9/19/2002 with their response indicated by '---gt'):

PHP-Nuke - PHP-Nuke GPL Copyright Removal Question Finally Solved

See, even open source authors can be dicks about copyright! (As if there were any doubt.. ;P)

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Lawmeme operates its website using PHP-Nuke, a GNU/GPL application used to maintain blogs. Ever since our inception, Lawmeme has used PHP-Nuke (since version 5) because it is rich in features, fast, and supported by the open-source community. However, some PHP- Nuke users and the author appear to have become angry at Lawmeme because we have removed a copyright notice from the footer of the page template.

PHP-Nuke's default setting is to display the following notice at the bottom of each page that it generates:

Web site engine's code is Copyright © 2002 by PHP-Nuke. All Rights Reserved. PHP-Nuke is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL license.

This default setting wasn't always so. When Lawmeme originally used PHP-Nuke, the footer was fully customizable via the administrator's interface. Naturally, we changed the footer to meet our site's needs. As PHP-Nuke was found to have numerous cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, we began to upgrade to the most recent versions of PHP-Nuke. With every upgrade came new features, and after heavily modifying PHP-Nuke's code to fit our needs, some of the upgrade scripts didn't work correctly. In fact, the most recent upgrade, where configuration settings are stored in a database, never copied the copyright statement.

Read on for more details.

LawMeme: Feature - PHP-Nuke's Copyright Notice