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MickC @ April 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Association of Committee to Elect Rev.. Dr. Kamal K. Roy v. John McCain, et al.
Any time you get a lawsuit written on printouts and which has major political candidates, political parties, and legal documents as defendants, it worthy of a look just for the humor value.
So, here’s the complaint, but be warned, I couldn’t make [...]
MickC @ April 10, 2008 # 26 Comments
If you didn’t already know it, FUSSP stands for “Final and Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem”. And now Mark Mumma, made famous in the Mummagraphics v. Omega World Travel, Inc. case, has reinvented the wheel with his new website: http://optout1.com/.
That’s right, kiddies, it’s a global, domain-wide opt out site! And yes, this [...]
MickC @ April 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Sometimes you really really wish that your problems were like those of the movies. In The Sound of Music, the nuns at Nomberg Abbey are exasperated with Maria for being too frivolous, flighty and frolicsome for the staid, austere, ordered life of the Abbey. The theme of the song invites a question with [...]
MickC @ April 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’ll admit it, I’m a policy wonk. I have a bachelors degree in Government. And, I read the Dipnote, the US State Department’s blog. It’s in my non-work blog feeds in Thunderbird. So, sue me.
Today, John Matel writes a post titled: “Hidden Posperity [sic] and the Banana Index in Iraq“. [...]
MickC @ April 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
So, Colorado has passed a new anti-spam bill. If their governor signs it, we Could See a Crackdown on Spam (says the email from Google Alerts). Or will we?
What this bill does is replace Colorado’s existing anti-spam law with a new one that makes it a state criminal offense to violate the federal [...]
MickC @ April 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Douglas Wallace claims that a woman cannot be President. His reasoning?
Douglas Wallace, 80, contends that because the U.S. Constitution relies on the pronouns “he” and “his” in describing the duties of the president, no woman can hold the office.
Wallace argues the constitution would have to be amended to specifically allow a female president and [...]
MickC @ April 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m going to follow through on this because I’m just stupid enough to do so. But, I really wonder why Google feels it necessary to go this distance to kill off an AdSense advertiser. Well, no I don’t. There’s money in it for them. But still…
Let’s start with the email I [...]
MickC @ April 7, 2008 # One Comment
It’s hard to write a blog when you don’t do so professionally. And, sometimes, when it is (see, for instance, my wife’s blogs).
It’s not that I don’t have anything to write about, but it’s that I’m having a hard time finding the time to do so. And the general lack of comments I [...]
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