Dr Wingnut

Day: August 8, 2005

  • Getting Ugly in Mass-a-two-shits

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    Who owns the air? by ZDNet‘s Dana Blankenhorn — I can easily imagine private apartment complexes and commercial structures using such language to keep WiFi out, then selling the “right” to “sell” such service to someone else.Unless the FCC steps in and corrects this kind of abuse pretty soon, there will be lots of unhappy…

  • Compensation

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    It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without also helping himself.Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • A War by Any Other Name

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    Four and a half weeks after I posted Bush declares “Win” in “Drug War”, in the 8 August 2005 issue of Time Magazine, they posted the following:The U.S. has a long history of fighting wars on nouns.  In the 1930s, F.D.R. fought a war on crime.  Lyndon Johnson launched a war on poverty in 1964. …