Instead of the scheduled discussion, several hundred conference attendees were read the cease-and-desist letter, said Scott Milliken, an attendee. Attendees said they saw the case as a clear infringement on the First Amendment rights of the two students, and they contacted the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford law professor who specializes in copyright issues, seeking advice on what to do next.

Hey, that's me!

Decius added: "We live in a society in which we are increasingly dependent on this high-tech infrastructure which our lives are arranged around, and if we can't take these things apart and understand how they work, then I think we have a very serious threat to our freedom."

Hey, I know that guy, too!

Dolemite

The copyright cops strike again

] His personal zoo has lions, cheetahs and a bear. His
] storehouse has $1 million in fine wines, liquor and
] heroin. His house has Cuban cigars, cases of champagne
] and downloaded pictures of prostitutes.

Don't you know the soldiers going through this place are loving it.

Palace of Saddam's son reveals love of fast life

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] Who is that masked man? One of Japan's newest
] politicians.
]
] A professional wrestler who fought his way to victory in
] local assembly elections under his ring name and wearing
] his trademark mask has vowed the mask will not leave his
] face even after he enters the staid halls of Japanese
] politics.

Masked Wrestler Wins Japan Assembly Seat

Here's a great story detailing the history of Saddam Hussein. Feel free to forward to anyone who says that Bush is worse than Saddam..

=darwin

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Tales of the Tyrant
by Mark Bowden

What does Saddam Hussein see in himself that no one else in the world seems to see? The answer is perhaps best revealed by the intimate details of the Iraqi leader's daily life

The Atlantic | May 2002 | Tales of the Tyrant | Bowden

Battleground God

Can your beliefs about religion make it across our intellectual battleground?

In this activity you’ll be asked a series of 17 questions about God and religion. In each case, apart from Question 1, you need to answer True or False. The aim of the activity is not to judge whether these answers are correct or not. Our battleground is that of rational consistency. This means to get across without taking any hits, you’ll need to answer in a way which is rationally consistent. What this means is you need to avoid choosing answers which contradict each other. If you answer in a way which is rationally consistent but which has strange or unpalatable implications, you’ll be forced to bite a bullet.

Battleground God

] The doors of the town house opened to reveal a playboy's
] fantasy straight from the 1960s: mirrored bedroom, lamps
] shaped like women, air-brushed paintings of a topless
] blonde woman and a mustached hero battling a crocodile.
]
] On the wall and in the bedroom were photos of Saddam
] Hussein and one of his mistresses. Military officials
] suspect they found one of the paranoid Iraqi leader's
] many safe houses.
]
] "This must have been Saddam's love shack," said Sgt.
] Spencer Willardson of Logan, Utah.

Safe house or bachelor pad? Troops discover home of one of Saddam's hideaways

] What the war costs in dollars is not the most important
] thing. What it costs in lives and what it achieves are
] the most important things. But right now you can't help
] thinking about the cost in dollars...

What the war will cost you.

] MOSCOW, April 11 (RIA Novosti correspondent Viktoria
] Prikhodko) - On Friday head of the State Duma committee
] on international affairs Dmitry Rogozin stated to
] journalists that the statement made by US Deputy
] Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz regarding the necessity
] for Russia, Germany and France to write off Iraqi debts
] "most probably was a careless rather than a well-thought
] idea." Rogozin stated that to forgive Iraqi debts to
] France, Germany and the Russian Federation was like
] mocking at common sense which would never be accepted.
] The head of the Duma committee was confident that it was
] the USA that should repay to Russia USD 8.5 billion of
] the Iraqi debt and about USD 2 billion for losses which
] Russian companies incurred in connection with military
] actions in Iraq.

RUSSIAN DEPUTY SPEAKS IRONICALLY OF WASHINGTON'S DEMAND TO WRITE OFF IRAQI DEBTS TO RUSSIA, GERMANY AND FRANCE

] THREE WEEKS AGO, based on early reports from Iraq, I
] suggested that war against repressive regimes no longer
] necessitates massive casualties. Opponents of the war
] fired back. Some argued that war was always immoral;
] others argued that this war was hasty or unjust. All
] agreed that the immorality of war was based on the
] immorality of killing. Now that Baghdad has fallen,
] here%u2019s my question to peaceniks: Are you against
] killing, or are you against war? Because what happened in
] Iraq suggests you may have to choose.

The redemptive side of war