] The bears can make a persuasive case for a continued
] pullback, and I think we're looking at another decline.
] Here's how to play the weakness.

MSN Money - 7 reasons the bears might be right - Jubak's Journal

] "We've got Justice Kennedy writing decisions based upon
] international law, not the Constitution of the United
] States. That's just outrageous, and not only that, he
] said in session that he does his own research on the
] Internet. That is just incredibly outrageous," DeLay said
] in the interview.

Tom Delay death spiral watch. This is Fox news. Fox news closed with a quote from a Democrat saying that they need to get Delay out of the public sphere for a little while and let him cool off. Fox news.

How dare judges attempt to research questions that are presented to them! Delay's position is that judges shouldn't be interested in the truth, per say. They shouldn't seek out objective perspectives on matters they need to consider. Rather they should be beholden to the power and money that drives the "democratic" government.

Delay wants to use the "good behavior" text in Article III Section I to bring all federal judges under fine grained political control.

He seems to be operating under the perception that the American people don't realize that the legislature is corrupt, or that politicians are bought and sold, or that people think that judges ought to live in a bubble. He is wrong on all counts, and he is starting to sound like a fool.

FOXNews.com - Politics - DeLay Calls Justice Kennedy 'Outrageous'

] The Ambient Office Dashboard is one of those desktop
] gadgets you didn't know you needed.

I really like this. Its three analog dials that are controlled by the pager network. I hope they release an SDK.

First Look at Ambient Devices Office Dashboard - The Wireless Weblog - wireless.weblogsinc.com _

From Elonka:
] The next Pope on the list is the last one that Saint Malachy
] predicted: In persecutione extrema S.R.E. sedebit Petrus
] Romanus, qui pascet oves in multis tribulationibus: quibus
] transactis civitas septicollis diruetur, & Judex tremêdus
] judicabit populum suum. Finis.
]
] (In extreme persecution, the seat of the Holy Roman Church will
] be occupied by Peter the Roman, who will feed the sheep through
] many tribulations, at the term of which the city of seven hills
] will be destroyed, and the formidable Judge will judge his people.
] The End.)
]
] More info here: http://www.catholic-pages.com/grabbag/malachy.asp

Well, great, more apocalyptic death cult stuff. The guy who wrote this page is positively stark raving nuts, but there are other links that seem to line up with this general story about the Popes, give or take debate on details and authenticity. If you see any lambs breakn' any seals...

Prophecy: The Future and the Popes

] From the navigation of a badly damaged spacecraft
] to impending carbon dioxide poisoning, NASA's ground team
] worked around the clock to give the Apollo 13 astronauts
] a fighting chance. But what was going on behind the doors
] of the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston now Lyndon
] B. Johnson Space Center wasn't a trick, or even a case
] of engineers on an incredible lucky streak. It was the manifestation
] of years of training, teamwork, discipline, and foresight
] that to this day serves as a perfect example of how to do
] high-risk endeavors right.

How to do high-risk endeavors right

] Today, the rights of individuals are being eroded: by
] government, by corporations, by society itself. This
] icon the Individual-i represents the rights
] of the individual.

So, here is Schneier's logo for individual rights. The problem with this symbol, much like Raymond's hacker logo, is that the originator of the symbol is attempting to impose a meaning for the symbol, while also associating the symbol with a concept that has a different meaning to most people. Symbols that work work because of the meaning that the masses choose for them and not because of the meaning their originators conjure up.

In Raymond's case he is holding on to a mid 80's view of computer ethics. He doesn't understand that computer security is orthagonal to the hacker ideal. The people who are most likely to use his symbol don't draw the lines he draws.

In Schneier's case he has taken a conservative concept (individual freedom) and wrapped it in some liberal ideas (such as freedom of sexual orientation.) This is a case where both sides claim to support individual freedom but neither really do. He should add gun ownership to his list of things the symbol stands for, just to see what impact that has on who employs it.

Individual-i

flynn23 wrote:
] Not really. CC license would allow you to commercialize the
] content as long as you gave proper citation.

Not to detract from your point, but I want to correct this as its a common misunderstanding. CC is not a specific license. It does not allow or disallow particular things. CC is a structured way of reserving some rights, rather then reserving all of them. The NIN license could be expressed as a CC license. So could more liberal licenses.

The CC people need to be more careful as many people think CC is the same thing as public domain. I constantly run into folks who are convinced enough about this to argue about it. (Of course, I also run into people who think they can put all rights reserved AND a gnu license on the same file, but thats another story entirely.)

RE: Boing Boing: NIN's Trent Reznor releases song as GarageBand file

] What we are seeing, for the first time, is a fundamental
] challenge to the rule of law itself.

I keep telling myself they aren't this stupid... its all theater... They won't actually do this stuff...

Latest Assault on Judges Threatens Rule of Law

] On nin.com, Trent Reznor is offering a complete mix of a
] song from the forthcoming Nine Inch Nails album as a
] Garageband 2.0 file.

This is the moment when upgrading from my G3 began to sound like a good idea.

Boing Boing: NIN's Trent Reznor releases song as GarageBand file

k wrote:
] [ Be fair, the vast majority of people don't even know this
] happened, so they really have no opinion on it. They're
] getting fucked in the ass while they focus on other shit, like
] American Idol, or being poor already.

Yeah, but the pundits have been talking it up a bit in certain circles.

Its worth pointing out that the Democrats are certainly to blame here. They are all taking handouts from the finance industry. Publically visible figures like Edwards and Pelosi are "speaking out" to maintain some sort of connection with their constituency while the vast bulk of party voted for the bill. In Edward's case its positively creepy. He has voted for this stuff over and over again, and now that he is a party leader he is using opposition to this to promote himself. The only thing worse then a bunch of guys kicking cancer victims in the teeth for personal profit is a bunch of guys who do that while claiming to oppose it.

RE: MarketWatch: Illness And Injury As Contributors To Bankruptcy -- Himmelstein et al., 10.1377/hlthaff.w5.63 -- Health Affairs