Let There Be Stories

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 03 Jun 2001 12:00:00 GMT
Do It Anyway is a poem written by Mother Teresa. I know I've seen this before, but I don't remember where. It's nice.

From my friend Brad in Wyoming:

He said... I don't know why you wear a bra; you've got nothing to put in it.
She said...You wear briefs, don't you?

He said... Let's go out and have some fun tonight.
She said...Okay, but if you get home before I do, leave the hallway light on.

He said....Shall we try a different position tonight?
She said...That's a good idea, you stand by the ironing board while I sit on the sofa and fart.

I pointed the "Stories" link in the left-hand column to my local Stories page. I converted the stories I have text for, which is, I think, most of them. It's much better organized than it ever was over at editthispage. I finally took the time to make an index page. Check it out.

I'm headed for D.C. this afternoon. There's a Progress Users Conference Monday through Thursday. Hopefully, I'll have connectivity from my hotel room so I can do updates. My major task for my free time in D.C. is to work on documentation for BlogMax.

Garry Reed, The Loose Cannon Libertarian - "Jury Neutering" - good commentary on the Kalifornia supreme court's recent jury nullification elimination ruling. Hoho... Hoho....

Here's how it works: Suppose a fellow citizen is facing twenty years in a government issue jumpsuit for dabbling in an illicit substance (such as several of our current government power czars have admitted to doing). He hasn't harmed a soul. As a jury member you think the law is, well, stupid. Technically, he broke the law but your now forbidden conscience compels you to vote for acquittal anyway. It means you're judging the law as well as the facts. It means you're exercising your time-honored right of jury nullification.

No, you haven't nullified the law. The law is still there, chiseled deep into the big stone tablet in the hollowed halls of judicialness. It will be used again in other courtrooms in other trials against other peaceful, nonviolent fellow citizens. All you did was nullify that particular application of that particular law in that particular case. Nothing more.

Jury nullification is just one additional check against the checkered power of the power czars.

Dirty Secrets - Data Interception by Remote Transmission - the data sheet on the D.I.R.T. application by Codex Data Systems, available to law enforcement only. This is a commercial virus (what a disgusting thought: a commercial virus) that intercepts keystrokes and steals files. Remember, if the security of your PGP messages is vital to your physical security, you need to have a separate PGP machine whose only connections to the rest of the world are a power cord and floppy disks containing encrypted messages. [grabbe]

The Center for Individual Freedom - Killer Law - now that it's illegal in New York to use a hand-held cell phone while driving, what's a person to do? Many pull off to the side of the road. That's what William Vasquez did. He was rear-ended by a truck and killed. Unintended consequences strike again. [market]

JDK 1.3.0_03 is available from Sun. This is a bug fix release. The bugs it fixes look pretty obscure to me. I don't plan to download it. [cafe]

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