Justice Scalia Supports Dictatorships Around the World- January 16, 2008 It's mind-boggling the logic being applied in politics these days. Why was Scalia one of the worst supreme court appointees in history How about this, after ruling against someone who refused to make patronage appointments repaying republican politcal favors in New York:Justice Scalia and the other members of the high court were not persuaded by arguments that one-party rule effectively denied some people a fair shot at a judicial nomination.The reason one-party rule is entrenched may be (and...http://clickstream.blogspot.com/2008/01/justice-scalia-supports-dictatorships.html Network Solutions Again Pushing Legal Limits- January 12, 2008 A couple days ago the news came out that Network Solutions (evil bastard domain registrar you should avoid like the plague) is swiping domains when you search. If you go to their site and search for a domain, they will automatically register it and then offer to sell it to you. They get away with this because of a rule that allows domains to be registered for 5 days without payment. They can take advantage of unsuspecting consumers and if no purchase results, free up the domain 5 days later....http://clickstream.blogspot.com/2008/01/network-solutions-again-pushing-legal.html Retro-future Research- January 11, 2008 I've been updating materials from one of my future-oriented presentations and came across this video on the future of cars from 1958. I think the only thing they got right was suburban sprawl.Lots more of these retro-future videos on Youtube. It's funny how people were saying things like "It's useless. Who wants to watch kids on skateboards all day" at YouTube's inception. Another example of poor predictions.http://clickstream.blogspot.com/2008/01/retro-future-research.html Diebold Voting Machine Hacks Demonstrated- January 11, 2008 Black Box Voting has an article up about how bad the Diebold electronic voting machines really are. Three different hacks were described. To make it worse, some states like deservedly maligned Florida, have laws forbidding counting of paper ballots so there's no mechanism to look for manipulated elections. This company should be forced out of business. Let's hope your state isn't one using their machines.http://clickstream.blogspot.com/2008/01/diebold-voting-machine-hacks.html Another Reason to Oppose Retroactive Immunity for Telecoms- January 7, 2008 Because it would probably mean illegal government activities get grandfathered in as well.http://clickstream.blogspot.com/2008/01/another-reason-to-oppose-retroactive.html Secret Underground Tokyo- January 7, 2008 One thing we lack in most of America is mystery, like this supposed discovery of mysteries under Tokyo. Although it might land us in the land of Focault's Pendulum, which incidentally makes for a fun comparison to WTC conspiracy theorieshttp://clickstream.blogspot.com/2008/01/secret-underground-tokyo.html Nominate Giuliani for This Kind of Performance- January 7, 2008 Great article in Discover on the effects of the toxic dust from the WTC building collapse. Yet another thing to add to the list of governmental failures. After reading this, it's hard to believe that anyone would consider Giuliani for any job, no matter how small.http://clickstream.blogspot.com/2008/01/nominate-giuliani-for-this-kind-of.html |