Monthly Archives: September 2006

Torture Bill passes Congress

By probabilityZero | September 30, 2006

H.R. 6166: Military Commissions Act of 2006
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Messing with the design

By probabilityZero | September 29, 2006

No new content today!

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Wired article on Ebaums world’s stolen content

By probabilityZero | September 28, 2006

Dude, That is so not Funny
Viral media is all the rage these days, and Bauman runs one of the few viral sites actually making money. Without spending a penny on direct advertising, he’s turned the high school hobby he ran out of his bedroom into one of the Internet’s top-ranked humor sites, getting 1.2 million [...]

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“Die for Oil, Sucker” poem by Jello Biafra

By probabilityZero | September 27, 2006
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No gravatars for now…

By probabilityZero | September 27, 2006

I tried to sign up for the gravatar service, but I’ve been waiting days for my avatar to be rated. I’ve decided to disable gravatars for now, since the service seems to be very unreliable.

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I steal music off the Internet

By probabilityZero | September 26, 2006

Does File-sharing Hurt the Music Biz?
Though the methodology is complex, the results are straightforward: some US music consumers “could have decreased their CD purchases (prior to 2004) by about 13 percent due to Internet file sharing.”
The scholarly consensus is not unanimous, however. Michel notes that Oberholzer and Strumpf (2004) found no correlation between file-sharing and [...]

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Words you can’t say but should

By probabilityZero | September 25, 2006

I just got a lecture from someone who didn’t like my use of “profane” language. I generally avoid it, and I’d go so far as to say I almost never use language that people would call profanity. I do, however, have a problem with people who take offense at the mere use of a word, [...]

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Working on the layout

By probabilityZero | September 23, 2006

I’ve switched to K2, and I’m busy working on customizing it, so no new content for today! I’m working on getting some new features working, including gravatars and comment editing.
You might recognize the header image and the animated gif below from a sketch from Monty Python’s Flying Circus. I think it fits the style of [...]

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When I bring up religion…

By probabilityZero | September 22, 2006

I’ve had too many discussions lately about politics and philosophy that have ended prematurely because of people’s unwillingness to discuss religion, or think about it in the critically in the same way they would other subjects. When someone says that it’s their faith that life is sacred and abortion should be illegal, you can’t respond. [...]

Posted in Atheism, Opinion | 10 Comments

Why did ABC air Path to 9/11?

By probabilityZero | September 21, 2006

Al Manar, the Hezbollah television network in Lebanon, broadcast a television miniseries based the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an anti-semetic book that has been throughly and completely debunked. In fact, it is based on nothing. It has no evidence to back it up, yet they represented it as historical truth.
A little while ago, [...]

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The Internet of Tomorrow

By probabilityZero | September 20, 2006
Posted in Tech and games, Videos | 3 Comments

Congress votes on allowing random searching of students

By probabilityZero | September 19, 2006

The Student Teacher Safety Act of 2006 (HR 5295) is up for vote soon in Congress, and it allows teachers and school officials to conduct thorough searches of any student, at any time, for any (or no) reason. Yup, schools could have the freedom to strip search any student they think might be carrying some [...]

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