Adam Fields (weblog)

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm

http://www.airform1.com/html/airform.html

A call for a very simple but meaningful protest at the Inauguration.

"We’re calling on people to attend inauguration without protest signs, shirts or stickers. Once through security and at the procession, at a given signal, we’ll all turn our backs on Bush’s motorcade and continue through his speech and swearing in. A simple, clear and coherent message."

http://www.turnyourbackonbush.org/

I’ve started tracking mozilla/firefox extensions I use, if you’re interested:

http://del.icio.us/fields/mozilla+extensions

This is a good article detailing some of the ways in which our government is being dismantled from the inside. It’s pretty clear that both the Democrats and the Republicans are at fault here in creating this situation, although the Republicans are wielding their time in the sun like a bulldozer in a dollhouse.

‘"There was no way that every member of Congress could hold up their right hand and say, `I read every page of that bill before the vote,’ " said Nita Lowey, a New York Democrat, noting that members had just one day to examine the 400-plus-page bill before voting on a law that would change health-care allotments across the country.’

and

‘Democrats are arguably suffering from their own decisions: It was the then-majority Democrats who changed the makeup of the Rules Committee to give the majority more than a 2-to-1 advantage over the other party, acknowledged a Democratic staff member close to the panel.

"Our hands are not clean, no question," the staff member said. "But it’s like a thin layer of dust compared to what the Republicans are doing."

Now, rank-and-file members sometimes have trouble even finding out when the Rules Committee is meeting. The powerful committee frequently decides bills in hastily called, late-night "emergency" sessions, despite House rules requiring that the panel convene during regular
business hours and give panel members 48 hours notice. So far in the current Congress, 54 percent of bills have been drawn up in "emergency" sessions, according to committee staff members.’

I stand with the Libertarians on this one. I believe that power should be both given and taken with a light touch, for the following two reasons:

1) Power, once given, is never returned willingly, and if you want it back, you have to take it.

2) Power to an elected or appointed office should be given with the assumption that it will be misused at some point in the future (even if the current holders would never do that), and appropriate controls should be put into place to prevent it from the outset.

Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have any understanding of this.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/10/03/back_room_dealing_a_capitol_trend?pg=full

Apparently, many color laser prints are traceable to the printer by a series of microscopic yellow dots encoding the serial number, which are included on every print made by the printer. Ostensibly, this is used to foil counterfeiters.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&e=6&u=/pcworld/118664

I’ve started receiving a number of emails like this. Unfortunately, there’s nothing in the message that looks like spam, so they’ve been getting through the filters.

I assume that the spam is entirely in the image, which I didn’t see, because I don’t use an html mailer for my main email. As far as I’m concerned, this is yet another reason NOT to use an html-capable email client.

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