Three fresh polls reveal some startling information about the religious outlook of the American people and how faith is unhealthily mixed with secular matters and confused with proto-ideas about democracy. I think we all knew it was bad, but not quite this bad.
Today there have been three different polls from Zogby, Gallup and Harris, respectively, [...]
Thanks to the so called Liberals in the so called opposition, dreaded Justice Minister, and defacer of Social Democracy, Thomas Bodström was finally able to realize his longstanding dream of adding bugging to the Police toolbox. The convenient excuse? “Terrorism” of course. For now at least the procedure will require a court order, but that [...]
Sploid notes that a “San Diego woman got fired for having a bumper sticker on her car advertising a liberal talk-radio station, and now she’s suing her boss.” In the new America, an “Air America” bumper sticker is apparently equated with “terrorism.” According to the nazi manager in question, the U.S. is “on a high [...]
Niels Ferguson, Microsoft developer and cryptographer claims that back doors into BitLocker-encrypted data will happen over his dead body. It seems reasonable that not even MS would compromise their software, which Ferguson notes will protect government secrets around the world as well as private data. Back doors would be very counterproductive and like they point [...]
A secretive group calling themselves Limozeenz has claimed responsibility for last year’s spree of thefts in the indie music community. Apparently they are activist music critics who prefer “guerilla” methods to verbally berating the bands. Regardless of the veracity of the article, it’s a pretty damn timely idea that falls well within the current global [...]
Via Gizmodo. I can’t deny the Schadenfreude here. The Apple acolytes are still scurrying to protect Steve and unlike most rats they deny that the ship is sinking.
So, the Apple “Fun” Event could be considered a bust by many, so we are here to offer our support to the Post-Traumatic Apple Event Disorder sufferers out [...]
Commentary is basically superfluous …
NYT via Angry Arab - Shawanna Nelson, a prisoner at the McPherson Unit in Newport, Ark., had been in labor for more than 12 hours when she arrived at Newport Hospital on Sept. 20, 2003. Ms. Nelson, whose legs were shackled together and who had been given nothing stronger than Tylenol [...]
Here is the updated World Classification. Sweden is still second with 45.3% of course. But where in the world is the U.S., or indeed Israel? You’ll have to scroll way down to place 69 and 70 respectively to find them. The Congressional Research Service usually denotes these figures as being “record numbers.” A mediocre result [...]
BBC went seriously overboard with the Friday edition of Newsnight, launching into a blistering tirade against the Bittorrent protocol and its relationship to, listen to this, terrorists and pedophiles. Also they insisted that what little non-conspiracy, nonmalignant end-of-the-world usage there is left was simply “theft.” And as evidence for this they brought in ex-CIA spook [...]
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