March 22, 2001 -
Is
Your Doctor A Spy? - Anti-self defense lobbyists
have enlisted family-practice physicians and pediatricians
into collecting firearms ownership data. Doctors have been
receiving literature urging them to ask their patients a lot
of detailed questions about firearms ownership...
March 06, 2001 - School
Shootings and White Denial - Tim Wise, AlterNet,
I can think of no other way to say this, so here goes:
white people need to pull our heads out of our
collective ass. Two more white children are dead and
thirteen are injured, and another "nice"
community is scratching its blonde head, utterly
perplexed at how a school shooting the likes of the
one yesterday in Santee, California could happen.
After all, as the Mayor of the town said in an
interview with CNN: "We're a solid town, a good
town, with good kids, a good church-going town…an
All-American town." Yeah, well maybe that's the
problem...
March 22, 2001 - Turn
off the power-hungry - By Hiawatha Bray,
DigitalMass.com, I'm feeling nostalgic, in a
dismal sort of way. The economy hasn't looked this bad
since Bush the First barfed in the Japanese prime
minister's lap. And the last time Americans fretted so
much about energy shortages, there was a law-abiding
Democrat in the White House...
March
19, 2001 - The
GOP’s Libertarian Problem, Nader wasn’t the only spoiler
- By NR’s John J. Miller & Ramesh Ponnuru,
Chuck Muth of the Republican Liberty Caucus is in
Washington, D.C., this week to meet with GOP operatives on
what may be the most underreported political phenomenon of
the last two election cycles: Libertarian Party candidates
are seriously hurting Republicans. While much has been said
about Ralph Nader arguably keeping Al Gore out of the White
House — the Green Party nominee drew more than 97,000
votes in Florida, for example — hardly anybody has noticed
how Libertarians have put Republicans on the brink of losing
the Senate. In both 1998 and 2000, a Republican candidate
for Senate lost to a Democrat by a margin much less than the
Libertarian's total vote...
March
21, 2001 - Oh,
Mexico! Fox Calls for Drug Legalization as Zapatistas Call
Congress's Bluff... - The drug war is heading for a
collapse...Vicente Fox, President of Mexico has done the
unthinkable. He has mentioned the "L"
word-legalization. The American government fears any kind of
debate or discussion about the drug war because they know
they can NEVER logically defend their immoral and ultimately
unconstitutional prohibitionist drug policies. Of course the
American media will not cover Fox's statements because they
"toe the government line". Very interesting...
March
20, 2001 - Liberty
cannot exist without the right to privacy... - The
government is attempting to eliminate your medical privacy
safeguards. We should have the right to control our medical
records and not trust a government bureaucrat to make those
decisions. If you trust the government to "do the right
thing" then do NOTHING, but if you want to protest this
government intrusion on your privacy, then please sign the
petition...
March 15, 2001 -
Teaching
Kids To Be Web Literate -
By Alan November, TechLEARNING by CMP
Media, Inc., "The impact of the Internet
on our students is already powerful and growing every day.
For many kids, including my own, it's the medium of
choice, replacing television or print in hard copy form.
We are faced with a host of consequences of this
persuasiveness. Chief among them is the illusion that
anything found on the World Wide Web must be true..."
March 05, 2001 -
Stomp the identity thieves
- The Register, By: Kevin Mitnick,
"Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in
the country, and there's no doubt that the Internet
makes it easier. But while some argue that sequestering
personal information from the Web is the only solution,
I have seen the future of identity theft, and I believe
that approach would prove a complete disaster..."
March 21, 2001 - The
“Gaying” of America - By Chuck
Baldwin, Toogood
Reports, A recent Reuters report declared,
"More Americans Having Gay Sex, Study
Shows." The article stated, "Positive media
images of gay life — like hit TV shows 'Ellen' and
'Will and Grace' — may be helping spur an increase
in gay sexual activity among Americans, a new study
suggests. A national survey has found the percentage
of US women who say they recently had gay sex has
increased 15-fold from 1988 to 1998, with rates among
American men doubling over the same period..."
March
09, 2001 - Trusting people to do the right thing?
- It basically comes down to who do you trust to
"run your life", the government or yourself. If
you are afraid of your shadow and don't want responsibility
for your actions, big government, sponsored by either
Republicans or Democrats is your salvation. If you truly
believe in the Bill of Rights, in free enterprise and a
much, much smaller government, you are a Libertarian at
heart. Harry Browne's article explains why a Libertarian
society would be such a refreshing change from our current
socialist, big government environment. - Dan
March
16, 2001 - Sixty
Second Activist - As usual, our low life
Congressmen are attempting to sneak in another "pay
raise". Of course they do not have enough guts to go on
record and VOTE it in. Maybe if enough people show their
disgust by writing to Congress and the press, this travesty
could be stopped in it's tracks. - Dan
RETROSPECT
June 26, 2001 - your
profile, please - BY ANDREW LEONARD,
Copyright © 2000 Salon.com, When the giants of
Net business say they want to protect your privacy,
they're really trying to make you feel comfortable
about giving up more information about yourself...
REVISITED
November 16, 2000 -
NY
TIMES: Saying Income Tax Is Illegal - LAKE SHASTA,
Calif. Al Thompson squeezed most of his manufacturing
company's 28 employees into a conference room here in
October to say he had good news: Income taxes must be paid
by only a few Americans, mostly those working for
foreign-owned companies. So, he told the workers, they would
not have to pay income taxes ever again. His business is
exempt, too, he said...
March 12, 2001 - Technology
is far from dead - By Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols, Sm@rt
Partner, First, let me say I don’t own a
single share in any technology company. That’s part
of being a real journalist; you don’t profit from
investing in what you cover. Now, with that out of the
way, let me just say this: Would you idiots insisting
on treating all technology stocks like they have
hoof-and-mouth disease please get over it?! Yes, the
technology and Internet boom of the late '90s is over.
Yes, those who invested in the Nasdaq are getting to
see what a bear market looks like up close and
personal. It was a bubble, it burst. Welcome to life
in the real economy instead of Fast Company's New
Economy wet dreams...
March 22, 2001 -
GODS
ADDRESS BOOK -
David Coursey, Executive Editor, AnchorDesk © 2001,
"It will start simply and helpfully as online
services learn to interact with your desktop computer. It
will become easier to log on: A single password will give
you access to many more services, and you will only enter
it once. You'll ask to be notified of events that are
important to you--and the notification will just appear on
your desktop, or perhaps on a cell phone or pager. The
system will know where you are and how to reach you. To
accomplish this ultimate linkage, Microsoft will create,
perhaps with partners, a giant database to collect,
manage, and dispense information from what amounts to
God's address book: Everything you might want to know
about everyone will be in there..."
March 08, 2001 - Beating
the 2003 clock - by John Moore, Copyright
(c) 2001 ZD Inc., Sm@rt Partner, The
regulatory deadline looms for healthcare providers and
tech partners. The regulatory clock is ticking for
health-care providers and their technology partners.
Late last year, the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) published new standards intended to
protect the confidentiality of "individually
identifiable" health-care information. The
privacy rules say how patient information can be used
and disclosed within a health-care organization, and
dictate how the information can be shared with other
parties. The regs stem from the privacy provisions of
the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act (HIPAA), which became law in 1996...
March
14, 2001 - Is
XP where Microsoft needs to go? - By John
Taschek, eWEEK (c) 2001, Take this with a grain of
salt. I'm by no means a usability expert. When it comes to
computer interfaces, I'm not looking for the easiest way
of getting something done. I'm looking for the fastest
way. And yet, I'm writing about the usability of Windows
XP, with Microsoft saying XP refers to the
"experience." I've had lots of experiences with
Windows, and not all of them have been pretty. One of
Microsoft's goals, however, is to make its operating
system prettier and more usable. Stability is also a goal
because Microsoft has realized that instability detracts
from the operating system's usability...
March
14, 2001 - Why
Mac Zealots Need to Chill, BYTE OF THE APPLE By
Charles Haddad - These Ayatollahs aren't doing their
beloved company any favors by calling fire down on any
faithful who stray ever so slightly. Heaven forbid. Guy
Kawasaki, Apple Computer's former chief evangelist, was
recently sighted giving a presentation in London to a
bunch of IBM loyalists using -- gasp! -- a ThinkPad. Such
a blasphemy could not go unpunished. The self-appointed
Ayatollahs of the Mac world set out to clip Kawasaki
wings, flaming him on bulletin boards and chat rooms
across the Internet. You would have thought 46-year-old
Kawasaki had sacrificed one of his own children in public
rather than giving a presentation on the dot-com bust...
March
13, 2001 - How
to protect your PC against its worst enemy - YOU
-
David Coursey, ZDNet
AnchorDesk (c) 2001, "The biggest threat to your
data isn't some virus or hacker. It's YOU. That's right,
the worst killer of information stored on personal
computers isn't some external threat; it's the user
sitting at the keyboard who accidentally does something
that wipes out anything from a single file to an entire
disk..."
March
10, 2001 - Abuse
of 200 Boys in Middleton: Has it Changed Our Thinking? Will
Liberals Give Up 'Normalizing' Pedophilia? - By
J. Edward Pawlick, DA*DI, The sexual molestation
of more than 200 young boys is being revealed in the
Salem Courthouse and everyone is revolted by the abuse
... or, at least, they say they are. No one appears to
have noticed, however, that the molestation of boys
was carefully being "normalized" by the
liberal intellectuals in the state until the crimes of
Christopher Reardon suddenly became big news in June.
His story has made the liberal intellectuals more
cautious...
March
02, 2001 -
Microsoft
feeling cocky after appeals hearing? - By
Rebecca Buckman and John R. Wilke, WSJ Interactive
Edition, March 2, 2001 4:50 AM PT,
WASHINGTON--Microsoft has reason to feel a little
cocky these days. Proceedings before a federal appeals
court here this week suggest the company won't be
split in half after all. Microsoft is moving ahead
with a new wave of Internet-based products. And it is
relishing the dot-com implosion that it says has sent
some employees scurrying back to their old jobs in
Redmond, Wash...
