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I am happy even before I have a reason.
I am full of Light even before the sky
Can greet the sun or the moon.
Dear Companions,
We have been in love with God
For so very, very long.
What can Hafiz now do but Forever
Dance!
I Heard God Laughing -- Daniel Ladinsky
Dave Winer & Roger McGuinn at DaveNet - Roger McGuinn on MP3.Com: Roger McGuinn recorded 25 albums as a royalty artist with the Byrds, McGuinn Clark and Hillman, and solo. Many of the albums were very popular. He never received a cent in royalty money, except for "a modest advance on royalties". The recordings DID make his performances more popular, so he's been able to support his family on that, but he could NOT support them on royalties. His newer folk music is available from MP3.com. According to his artist page there, he has earned $3,133.80 in payback earnings. 3 of his CDs are for sale there for $7.99 apiece [script]
AP via Nando Times - Online magazines Feed and Suck joining forces: About this, Dan Lyke of Flutterby says: [script]
I wonder if they're gonna call it 'Seed' or...
Mike Shelton at the Orange County Register - Florida Cigarette Lighter: Cartoon commentary of the fate of the Tobacco Industry in Florida. [ocr]
Mike Shelton at the Orange County Register - cc: FBI: cartoon commentary on Carnivore. LOL! [ocr]
Gannoc at Slashdot - Today's Numbers: 17 42 69 ^H ^H ^H: An MSNBC article says that there's an internet gambling ban headed for the house floor. He asks what's the difference between this and state-sanctioned lotteries. Well, the latter money goes into the law-maker's pockets, that's what. This appears to be H.R.3125, the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act of 2000. It provides a $20,000 fine and/or 4 years in prison for running an internet gambling operation and requires ISPs to remove internet gambling sites immediately on receiving notice from federal or state law enforcement. No court hearing. Nothing. Sort of like the asset forfeiture jokes (I use the word "joke" in its pejorative sense. Having your property or your web site stolen by government goons is not funny). [/.]
Keith Dawson at TBTF - Small ISPs considering abandoning the UK over surveillance bill: Britain's new Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill (RIP) makes it a 2-year crime to refuse to give your encryption key on demand to a law enforcement officer. It also gives Britain the power to monitor all internet communications. At least one small ISP is moving out of England because of this. Others will likely follow. Shame on Jack Straw. [tbtf]
J.D. Tuccille at CivilLiberty.About.Com - Jack-booted censors? Mr. Tuccille comments on the recent letter from John Ross' attorney to the BATF. I pointed to this story on Monday. [market]
If the ATF has moved on from abusing gun owners and dealers to actually targeting writers who criticize the Bureau in print, then matters are getting worse, not better. Such overstepping is bound, eventually, to turn Unintended Consequences from fiction into reality.
BTW, according to Sierra Times, Unintended Consequences has soared from 611th ranked to 28th at Amazon.com. Sure 'nuff. Amazon's Unintended Consequences page reports that it's now up to 24th. What was that I said a little while ago? Oh yeah, "Prohibition doesn't work". [sierra]
Eric Raymond - Why Libertarians Should Not Love Bill Gates: Says that amongst libertarians there are two camps on the Microsoft anti-trust case. One camp thinks that the market has failed and the government needs to step in. The other canonizes Gates. Both are wrong. Microsoft has engaged in unsavory business practices, but anti-trust law cannot fix the problem. Only the market can do that. Bravo! [market]
The only principled response to the facts is to condemn both the DOJ and Microsoft. That one party is a villain does not make the other a saint, and even the fact that one side is clearly using coercion does not automatically redeem the other from the charge of having behaved badly.Indeed, publicly taking a position condemning both antitrust law and Microsoft could provide libertarians with a valuable opportunity to set a moral example and educate the public about our values.
Joe Farah at WorldNetDaily - My new favorite movie: Joe reviews The Patriot. He loves it! Big time. [wnd]
John Zedlewski at osOpinion - Endgame for SCO: The Santa Cruz Operation may be for sale due to bleak third quarter earnings forecast (a loss of $0.50 to $0.55 a share). Discusses options for the future of SCO's products and employees. The SCO press release is here. Slashdot discussion about this article is here. [/.]
michael at Slashdot - Just Say No To Reading About Drugs: a good overview of the censorship land mines in recent bills in congress. Points to another good overview article at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a bunch of others. [/.]
bob lonsberry - A Fateful Day for Walter Casper: a very good job of expressing the appropriate attitude towards a cold-blooded murderer. Strong language. Don't look here if you are easily offended.
By Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet News - Microsoft bids bye-bye to Java: Microsoft is dropping J++ from Visual Studio. Not surprising. C# is their new baby. Rational Software may be taking over J++ development, but neither company would confirm that rumor. [cafe]
Jeff Collins and Michael M. Gorlick of The Aerospace Corporation Python to Palm Pilot Port: an alpha release, but still nice to see. Haven't tried it. Linux may be necessary to do development. [cafe]
Arthur Griffith at O'Reilly - C# is Pronounced 'See Sharp': I only skimmed this, but it appears to be a good overview of the C# language. [cafe]
Chris Burlingame at Spintech Magazine via Cannabis News - How I Became a Dove: in the war on (some) drugs that is. Lots of reasons that even someone who is "not an antigovernment libertarian who believes one has a constitutional right, if he so desires, to get as high as a kite" would still be opposed to the war on freedom. During the last presidential election, Dole used rhetoric claiming that Klinton would be a bad president because his non-inhaling cannabis use would make him unlikely to properly fight the war. Well, the Klinton administration has fought it like noone else. [cn]
It's kind of an anticlimax but I have to wonder where we'd be if Bill Clinton would have just inhaled.
Hand to Mouth Recordings - The Cuckoo Egg Project: battling music piracy by posting songs to Napster that look like pirated music but really contain something else. Oh it do get interesting, don't it? Lots of discussion at Slashdot. One good comment was that this kind of thing will likely cause Napster to add a market rating system like eBay. [/.]
