Maikimo.net - weblogMike James' webspace. Welcome.Unfuddle project management cool, plus provides free Subversion repository- September 30, 2006 I realized today anyone can experience the benefits of version control without needing a webhosting account. Because an account at Unfuddle.com provides your own Subversion repository &8212; to which you have unfettered http access &8212; as one piece of even their low-end free account. (Granted, the free account is constrained to 15MB storage.) Of course, for people already knowledgeable about version control and full-service webhosting, this is no big deal. But I notice there are...http://maikimo.net/weblog/unfuddle-provides-svn Broken by design (Military Commissions Act)- September 29, 2006 Concerning passage of yesterday&8217;s U.S. torture legislation, a Friend whom I respect wrote &8212; You are, so long as this law is on the books, now in a dictatorship. No deep thought is required to recognize he&8217;s right: If one person, or a small group of persons, can accuse then torture anyone he or she chooses andor put the accused person in prison indefinitely without provision for due process under the law, then the result is indistinguishable from a dictatorship. Think.http://maikimo.net/weblog/broken-by-design Im baaaaaack.- September 26, 2006 Wow, watching Keith Olbermann&8217;s special comment tonight &8220;Are YOURS the actions of a true American&8221; <deep breath I felt for the first time in years <hairs standing on end that the nuclear warhead of truth has finally been detonated inside the alien mothership. What happens next is the slow-motion annihilation of this ship of death, its fiery chunks falling to earth, the sun washing the sky of its brooding malevolence, and just in the nick of time. On the one hand,...http://maikimo.net/weblog/im-baaaaaack Torture = evil. Oppose it. Now.- September 23, 2006 PastorDan has it right about today&8217;s U.S. torture legislation, &8220;a Republican deal on terrorism trials and interrogations that would give President Bush wide latitude to interpret standards for prisoner treatment&8221; (CBS News). What is happening on Capitol Hill today is plainly evil. &8230; Anyone &8212; anyone &8212; who accommodates torture takes part in evil. That might not make us all equally responsible, but it does make us all guilty. Yes: Torture is...http://maikimo.net/weblog/torture-is-evil Torture = moral decay. Treat it. Now.- September 19, 2006 In response to yesterday&8217;s Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) action message, The Senate Can Stop Torture, which points out that Congress is in a bind. Many members of Congress are opposed to any legislation that would condone torture, secret prisons, or other programs that would undermine U.S. security, and violate the moral principles on which this nation was founded. But members of Congress are under pressure because the president is arguing that these techniques are...http://maikimo.net/weblog/torture-is-moral-decay |