Tag: Kulture

“WASHINGTON (AP) — The way many high school students see it, government censorship of newspapers may not be a bad thing” Brain washed, brain dead, or brainless, either way the future doesn’t look so bright.  –Source CNN

Ted Turner called Fox a propaganda tool of the Bush administration and indirectly compared Fox News Channel’s popularity to Adolf Hitler’s popular election to run Germany before World War II. Could it be Micheal Moore is correct?

“Alexandria, VA, Jan. 7 (UPI) — A Maryland man has been sentenced in Northern Virginia to 18 months for distributing pirated software over the Internet, the Justice Department said Friday” He should have just downloaded songs and only been fined the entire annual loss of the RIAA   –Source Washington Times

“ITHACA, N.Y. – Nearly half of all Americans believe the U.S. government should restrict the civil liberties of Muslim-Americans, according to a nationwide poll.” Why stop at muslims? Southern Baptists, Baptists, Satanists, Wiccians, Athiests, Catholics, Neo Age Pagans, Democrats, the list can go on and on. —Link

The small cabin that inspired the B52’s hit, Love Shack burned to the ground. A rusted tin roof is all that remains.

One of the highest quality of life in the world, no terrorist enemies, and now legalised gay marriage. Reminds me of Monty Pythons “Hes a lumberjack”

A women who worked for an Airline was fired in September for her Blog. She isn’t the first to be fired for her blog, and no doubt it  will not be the last. Free speech or Employers rights ? Either way, watch what you say on the net. –Source COM

Apple now allows its users to purchase items via Paypal. Great if you have an ex paypal account with Ebay and need to buy some MP3’s

“A Maryland judge has tossed out a lawsuit against an alleged spammer, saying a state law restricting unsolicited e-mail is unconstitutional because it unfairly restricts interstate commerce.” Why bother? Instead of trying to impose retarded laws that have absolutly no real basis in reduction of spam (hence over seas spammers) get a better mail filter, such as Spamassassin

MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) in a grand effort to stop Bit Torrent style networks has decided to press all its legal options against the fire sharing networks. Really, a futile maneuver considering Bit Torrent technology and other Peer to Peer technology could be used to fuel both the MPAA and the RIAA’s pocket books if they just started their own services.  Source Wired

“What we hear from a wide spectrum of artists is that, despite the real challenges of protecting work online, the Internet has opened new ways for them to exercise their imaginations and sell their creations,” said report author Mary Madden” The report doesn’t state how great it is to sue 12 year old children in poverty over file sharing.

Images and histroical transcripts form both sides of the Air Raid on Pearl Harbor, December 7th 1941 —Link

“America has no better than a 10 percent chance of avoiding economic “Armageddon.” The Great Depression, round two. —Read More

Blogs now effect politics, that is news worthy? CNN really is scaping the bottom of the news barrel lately. –Source CNN

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — A jury convicted Scott Peterson today of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and now will decide whether the philandering husband whose lurid trial became a TV and tabloid sensation should pay with his life.” This is news worthy? He should get the death penalty.  More over at Chron

“The record number of single men living in the UK could soon be fielding offers from the Orient.” In other news, Americans flee America in terror.  Source BBC