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Slashback: Justice, Settlement, Cosmos
"It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration ..." zarathud writes "Logan Darrow Clements has begun the application process to build a hotel on land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter. This could be allowed under Eminent Domain after the controversial 5-4 Kelo vs. New London ruling which Souter voted for. Justice Souter's home currently occupies the land. The planned hotel, to be called 'The Lost Liberty Hotel,' will include a public exhibit on the loss of American Freedom. 'This is not a prank,' said Clements, 'The Towne of Weare has five people on the Board of Selectmen. If three of them vote to use the power of eminent domain to take this land from Mr. Souter we can begin our hotel development.'"
Call everyone Sir, just to be safe. Yesterday we posted an item about the first self-proclaimed Jedi in Parliament; here are two updates to the already-updated story. Americans (like me!) may still be baffled by the complications of the honorifics involved.
Stefan Magdalinski writes "If you want to link to the actual speech, then can I suggest you use our volunteer-run, open source, reimplementation of parliament's awful website?"
And reader Russell Dewhurst writes "All MPs (Members of Parliament) are called the Hon. Member for X... If the MP for Copeland were a Privy Councillor he would be the _Rt_ Hon (Right Honourable) Member for Copeland. So the original article was correct, and the correction was wrong, I'm afraid!"Thanks to everyone who's weighed in on this.
MozNews interviews Daniel Glazman, NVu Lead Dev bluephone writes "Now that NVu 1.0 has been officially released, we at MozillaNews asked Daniel Glazman to take some time to give us another interview to book-end our first interview with him, early in NVu's development. He was gracious as always, and fast! Read the interview for unavoidable laws, plans for the future of NVu and Daniel, and even news about his company's upcoming release."
Tom Clancy, eat my shorts. hydraa16 writes "The Cosmos 1 Solar Sail failed to reach orbit. This video shows its loading in a Russian Delta III Submarine, and its launch in the cold Barents Sea!"
If you accidentally blew up your DeskStar, the Empire will repay you. hardreset writes "Remember the day when the IBM 75GXP was the hot new drive? Then ... do you remember the day(s) it bit the dust? If you still have the serial number(s), you may be eligible for a $100/drive settlement from IBM. The settlement page is over here, claim form is here, and the Inquirer article is here. For those of you wearing tinfoil hats, you don't have to send in your drive. For those of you who work for IBM or live overseas, don't bother. If you're hoarding these drives, it might be a good payday!"
You'd have to pay me a lot to listen to the results. Kethinov writes "Because Trent Reznor's release of The Hand That Feeds was a spectacular success, he's decided to release more free musical source material for remixing and listening delight. The new release is another track off his new album With Teeth entitled Only. Interestingly, now he's offering multiple formats for the material instead of just Apple's Garageband format. So now non Apple users too can join the fun."
...over government actions now, because of the internet and the ease of idea transfer and instant publishing. It used to be a royal PITA to get any contrarian views published outside of letters to the editor or expensive vanity press. For all I know, back in 54 it might have been contentious,we don't really know, but now when government does something that angers people, millions can and do say something about it. It's much easier now, people are reacting almost instantly to governmental transgressions. We don't have to get filtered through some millionaires corporate newspaper chain to get published, or go to some shady vanity press outfit and shell out the big bucks. Maybe if we had the internet sooner we wouldn't have such a screwed up system, it's corrupt and bogus. All the judges are POLITICAL APPOINTED CORRUPT TO THE CORE LACKEYS. PUPPETS. All of them. They ALL have paid their dues in the democrat and republican government hijacker mafias, or they never would have gotten close to being appointed and confirmed. The US Government as it stands now-all the branches and agencies and departments- is a for-profit criminal racket,using threat of armed force to steal people blind over and over again, it's just easier to expose it and take action now. We can actually get our voices heard, it's just starting in earnest the past few years now, and they are desparate to contain it and control it, you can see it in their actions.
The next step is to fight back after the words are spoken or posted to the web, this proposed seizure of the judges land is just one excellent example of the people fighting back against corporo/fascistic so called "government". It's TIME these career-criminal bozos got a taste of their own medicine, in this issue or any number of critical freedom issues.
What happened in the past is then, this is NOW, which is way more important in the over-all scheme of things.