newsblurb: April 2002 Archives
Thong-Wearing Teens Kicked Out Of Dance
Oy.
When uptight morals collide with sexual casualness in one person, it all goes so terribly wrong.
"The original library of Alexandria housed 500,000 scrolls, which made it a center of culture and scholarship from the third century B.C. into the early Christian era. The modern Bibliotheca aims for similar stature as a global hub of information."
-- Wired
"Likewise with the Online Personal Privacy Act. It is masquerading as pro-consumer when in fact it is pro-business. The new legislation is similar to laws passed in Europe that divide your personal information into two types. The first is "sensitive" information, such as your financial and medical history, race, lifestyle, religion, political affiliation, and sex life. The second is "nonsensitive" information, and among that will include your name, address, and records of anything you buy or surf on the Internet. Under the act, business can't collect or divulge the sensitive bits without your express consent, but anything classified as nonsensitive can be freely collected and sold at will.
"But the nonsensitive clause is a huge gaping loophole through which business will ride roughshod. Never mind that part about "sensitive" information being forbidden. Most things that businesses want to know about us can be inferred just by examining the things we buy, read and click on. If they can put that information together with our names, which the bill allows, then any concept of "privacy" protection is rendered meaningless. The Online Personal Privacy Act legitimizes the kind of intrusive spyware program activity that is currently proliferating. "
-- Salon.com
Israel Lists Demands for UN Mission to Jenin
(Reuters) Apr 29 2002 7:12PM
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel appealed to the United States on Monday to make sure a U.N. fact-finding mission it has held up for more than 10 days into the devastation at the Jenin refugee camp would not present conclusions in its final report.
-- AOL's Today's News
So now the people being investigated are allowed to make demands of the investigators? Man... why didn't someone tell me this when I was growing up... I so could have gotten out of cleaning my room.
Wal-Mart cultivates an aw-shucks, we're-just-folks-from-Arkansas image of neighborly small-town shopkeepers trying to sell stuff cheaply to you and yours. Behind its soft homespun ads, however, is what one union leader calls "this devouring beast" of a corporation that ruthlessly stomps on workers, neighborhoods, competitors, and suppliers.
-- AlterNet
These people make Bill Gates and Company look like the playground bully.
Bringing you tommorrow's headlines today:
The Caspian Sea. The next big story, (assuming the planes stay in the air).
Patient having op on backside breaks wind, causing fire
I don't think I'll be able to uncross my legs for weeks.
Wait... I think I know this one... name of Greystoke, right?
I'm never gonna get old.
Their successful track record with major demonstrations, including the April 2000 large-scale protests against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, has brought them or their aides invitations to share their crowd-control tactics with numerous other police forces across the country and around the world.
mmmmmHM.
Their success in dealing with the 2000 protests. Would that be their famous 'handling' that got them sued by every major civil rights organization in the country? For little things like locking people up on buses, not allowing them to take their medication? Or maybe how they told those people that if they paid $50 and signed a form letter declaring their guilt (yup, that almost sounds like due process), they could go?
"Further, the system would not require users to toss their current computers or force service providers to create an entirely new, separate Web. Rather, it would be an evolution of the existing Web, using much the same technology. "
No, but it would require that more people out there are out for something more than just to make a buck. The majority of people offering information and services on the Internet do so in the simplest manner which will bring in the most revenue with the least work.
Ask them to improve the experience for the customer? Yah. That ccould happen.
Will any new songs show up on the upcoming tour?
We will not, because if we did, those songs would be bootlegged immediately and they would be on the Internet and downloaded. We would have to start all over again.
-- Don Henly on the Eagles Tour
Oh my God! Someone needs to bitch-slap this man to make him stop whining.
Embattled Chavez resigns in Venezuela
Something you're not likely to hear much about in American news.
After a General Strike began this week, including the all-important oil workers, and at least 13 protestors outside the presidential palace were shot to death by police, all the branches of the Army openly withdrew their support from the president.
A leader without a country.
I wish the American media woud shut the fuck up about the fact the oil prices may be affected.
It's not like any country in that area has an incredibly stable government. But come on.
While the Court didnt exactly tell the government to go to hell, it did specifically state that citizens have a right to purchase books without government interference.
Thank you.
Did the Secretary of Defence just say "onesies and twosies" when refering to warfare?
Flasher escapes after being caught in his own zipper
YeHa! I gotta meet this girl in ten years.
We gossiped a bit, and she scolded me for having visited a Washington shopping mall without appropriate protective equipment. Whenever she goes to a mall, she brings along a polyurethane bag "big enough to step into" and a bottle of bleach. "I can detoxify myself immediately," she said.
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