Looks like someone has finally had enough.
A poster by the name of Michael, has refused to include a direct link to a news story at washingtonpost.com:
although this story was written by the Washington Post and I have the URL to the original story available, I declined to link to washingtonpost.com because of their intrusive registration.
For more on the story he was talking about, have a look at the post on slashdot.org.
It’s about time that someone stood up and let their voice be heard over the registration process that so many news organization require for people to view their stories.
I have usually used Google to feret out a link that bypasses the registration, but it is high time that the news organizations stop requiring such onerous procedures.
I think that all U.S. Government officials that have not served active duty in a combat situation should be forced to watch movies and documentaries that deal with the subject.
I will start off the list:
What are your suggestions?
Every time that President Bush gets on stage, he always talks about the “War on Terror” and how we need to be vigilant so that we will win.
Has he not noticed that we have already lost? Yes, that’s right we have already lost.
According to Merriam-Webster, Terrorism is the systematic use of terror for coercion.
Can anyone point to a day in the last year or two that there wasn’t a news story about a bombing or killing or death in Iraq?
The main goal of any terrorist is to change the way their victim goes about their daily life. Sometimes it is through fear. Sometimes it is through tragedy, as in the destruction in New York. Sometimes it is through the actions taken by our very own government’s reaction.
In the U.S., our government has used to bullwhip of terror to enforce all sorts of infringements on the civil liberties of ordinary citizens. If you don’t support all the actions of the government, people call you un-patriotic. If you don’t approve whole-heartedly in the troop placement in Iraq, you are being disparaging of the good people of the armed forces, both past and present.
Does this ring a bell with anyone out there? Wake up people and smell the jackboots bearing down on your freedoms.
Next thing you know the Department of Homeland Security will be coming into ordinary stores and shop and enforcing complaints that have no validity. Oh wait, they already have as you can see in this story.
Some people think that this is way too geeky…
Old code at LexisNexis is not only deleted, but the coders give it a proper burial.
I can see why people might consider this weird, but one of the reasons for funeral services is to provide a ritual of closing for a period in life. I can easily see why certain pieces of code would be so pernicious as to need a closing ceremony when they are retired.
Well, the collective will has spoken. John Kerry lost and now we have to endure four more years of President Bush II.
So, why did Bush win again? Maybe this story in the LA Times will shed some light on the problem.
Read it and weep, America.