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Sklyarov Bail Hearing Monday
mr_don't writes: "I just saw that the Electronic Frontier Foundation has just posted an Action Alert entitled "What YOU Can Do To Help Set Dmitry Sklyarov Free"
... Around 11am on August 6, 2001, at the San Jose Federal Building, Dmitry is set to have another bail hearing in front of Magistrate Judge Edward A. Infante. Protests are planned to coincide with the hearing. I hope as many people as possible can come to the demonstration... Help the EFF pack the courtroom during the hearing." A short article in the Mercury News mentions the hearing too, as well as the half-million dollar, five-year penalty that could be imposed.
Yeah a bunch of unwashed, dirty acne-ridden computer geeks are really going to impress a judge. Get real. Maybe they could get the Air Force to napalm the courtroom and do society a favor! I shall call General Ripper at once!
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Yey! Aug 6th! Happy Birfday to me! I hope my birthday bad-luck does not rub off on this. Jeez. That would suck. Yea, totally off topic but its my birfday! Also don't forget the first atomic bomb was dropped on Aug 6th!
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I just made my $500.00 donation to the EFF. Have you made yours?
Don't give us that crap.
You can't seriously mean a product that does something (for example software) should be regarded as free speech just because you implement it as text. BUTTHEAD. Free speech was put into law so that people could critizize leaders, it's an important part of any democracy.
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President Bush seems to bolt from the White House every chance he gets. He begins a month long vacation on his Texas ranch Saturday, and by the time he returns he will have spent nearly two months of his presidency there. And that doesn't include the many weekends he's spent at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. The White House calls the Texas trip a working vacation and notes that he'll have staff with him to help him attend to presidential chores. He also plans trips outside Texas a few days each week, using the 1,600-acre spread in Crawford, near Waco, as his base. But there is no denying Bush's impulse to get away from the office. "I think it is so important for a president to spend some time away from Washington, in the heartland of America," he said the other day, discussing his love for the ranch he and Laura Bush bought two years ago with proceeds from the sale of his share in the Texas Rangers baseball team. Bush prefers wide-open spaces where he can run, hike and walk his dogs to the confining White House environs. He also says he likes to get in touch with "real" people outside the Beltway. He has spent 14 weekends at Camp David, bringing paperwork and an aide or two along. He played host to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain there. Bush also logged a long weekend last month at the family's Kennebunkport, Maine, compound, throwing horseshoes, playing golf, fishing. Sensitive to suggestions that the president might be loafing, the White House has dubbed the remainder of August as Bush's "Home to the Heartland Tour." "It's going to be a working vacation in the classic definition of the word," presidential press secretary Ari Fleischer said Friday. Presidents have a lot more flexibility on taking vacations than the average salaried employee. And Bush has a lot of help in making travel arrangements. He has a fleet of helicopters and a jumbo jet at his disposal. Bush says he plans to "work and take a little time off" in Texas. "They just want to get away from Northwest Washington and have a little privacy and relax," said Khachigian, who spent time with both Republican presidents during their California vacations. "They want to feel like they don't have to wake up in the morning and go to some boring meeting with a budget guy, or have to listen to a Cabinet officer talk about something." In all, Reagan spent all or part of 335 days of his eight-year presidency on his ranch. The first president Bush spent 153 days in Kennebunkport vacationing, and 390 at Camp David. [ from salon.com ]
Oakland cares about Dimitri too!! We're going to stage a big protest at 2:00 AM tomorrow at 7th and Vine. Everyone show up and drive your best cars so you can show off to all your nerd homies. And be sure to bring lots of cash just in case you want to buy something. Bring your girlfriend or your sister if she's hot too.
So remember to show up!! If you don't then you aren't a Dimitri supporter!!
Should I bring my Rolex and the title to my house too??
Dmitry farted in his cell this morning at 9:02 a.m. Full details at 11.
You should familiarize yourself with sarcasm and irony.