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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Wed, 08 Mar 2000 13:00:00 GMT
It appears that the repubocrats and the demlicans have chosen the socialists that they will run for president. Yawn.

My friend, Mirabai, sent me this {@Letter from God} in which He comments on "Idiotic Religious Rivalries".

{@Math Fun}: 111,111,111 x 111,111,111

Edward Dunnigan at Sierra Times - So Where Do We Draw the Line? "If Amadou Diallo's death did nothing else, it served to give us a glimpse of just what our true status is in this nation: we are slaves and the men and women of the law enforcement community are our overseers. Overseers who have been given government sanction to do with us as they see fit so long as the powers of the state are enhanced." Ruby Ridge... Waco... Rodney King... "What is the answer? When DO we draw the line? Amadou Diallo didn't even get to ask the question." [sierra]

L. Neil Smith at LNS 2000 - L. Neil's response to a question on education policy: "The one bright spot is the way that the public schools' recent efforts -- stripping kids of their First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Amendment rights, searching their persons, lockers, and cars, making them submit to urine and other drug tests, forcing them to wear convict clothing, failing to defend them from violent lunatics while forbidding them the means or opportunity to defend themselves, and subjecting them to ceaseless socialist environmentalist police state propaganda -- effectively undermines not only the education monopoly's hold on their minds, but the likelihood that they'll take any kind of authority seriously when they've grown up. In short, they're doing my work for me, more effectively than I can, and it's a measure of my public spiritedness that even so, I want to put them out of business."

Jon Katz at Slashdot - The Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Part Two: "Everywhere it reigns, from Wal-Mart to AOL/Time Warner to Microsoft, corporatism discourages creativity, pushes individuals to the margins and promotes conformity and control of software, hardware, intellectual content and culture... The primary political struggle of the 21st Century -- corporatism versus individualism -- has erupted right under our noses. And with little political consciousness or response, we seem to be losing the first big battle."

Declan McCullagh at Wired - DVD Battle Heats Up: The DVD defendants are apparently having a hard time coming up with lawyers. Openlaw's Open DVD discussion list to the rescue, maybe. [wired]

NewsAlert - C. Robert Coates Announces Resignation From Inprise Board of Directors: he doesn't think the merger will benefit Inprise's shareholders, him for instance: "Mr. Coates currently owns 3,005,440 shares of Inprise Corporation." [/.]

timothy at Slashdot - FreeMWare Renamed 'plex86': There's an LGPL'd replacement for VMWare. It used to be called FreeMWare, but they've renamed it to plex86. It appears that their implementation is still pretty young, definitely not ready for anyone but developers to try out.

" CrushFTP is a full scale FTP server... It's written entirely in Java using SWING stuff for the GUI. Performace has been well above my expectations for a JVM. Its mutithreaded and has proven it can saturate a 10mb network easily even with many simultaneous connections." $20 shareware, "never crippled...yet!" It's no speed demon using JDK 1.3 my 350MHz Dell Inspiron running Windows 98. FTP from our Unix machine reported a 9Khz transfer rate. This may be due to Windows multi-processing (I was running emacs, Outlook, Opera, Xoftware, & JBuilder at the same time) and not the speed of the server code, but it's still pitiful. [meat]

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