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May. 4th, 2006 09:45 amThis is the low-power update. If at any time there are posts during the weekend, it's probably because I have a free moment, a friendly laptop, and a wireless connection shamelessly hoisted from one place or another.
But boy, oh, boy, have I got stuff to keep you occupied. The contributors are again, varied and wide, and mostly uncredited, sorry.
Mexico's decriminzlizing small drug amounts. Small step in the right direction of avoiding prison overcrowding and the focus of the police is on big-time dealers and gang/organized crime elements. Smart move, Mr. Fox.
Speaking of gangs, appreantly Iraq has quite a bit of their symbols spraypainted on it. Exporting democracy, one accurate facet at a time.
In other news, some thugs found out why you don't want to rob a professional magician - he'll make sure he's got nothing on him.
Illumination through blender-lamps. Again, proving the people will modify anything at all with something else.
An article that most of corporate and political America has probably read, taken to heart, and practices ever day: In Praise of loopholes. (I get a bit of a sense of Deja vu over this, like I've linked to it before).
Some memes and internet fads never die. As![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lordmork has found out, though, occasionally one kicks the bucket.. And not a moment too soon, I'm sure.
Another good reason why you should go target spam at the source, or at least provide effective end-user tools for spamblocking - do-not-spam lists can be taken advantage of. Pretty easily, in fact. At some point, we hope that spam just goes away, like we've been hoping for junk mail to go away.
Why isn't everyone a shaman? According to this article, it's mostly because we don't have the mindset for it, with high-powered cognitive sciences and medicines - we trust the shamans in the white coats with the prescriptions more than the shamans who convince us that we can heal ourselves. Plus, we don't have the space or the time in our busy modern lives to have the shamans around in any great numbers. Which very well could be bad fror all our psyches.
Other religious-related materials, probably things that will have Bill complaining about the War on Christians again - to wit, that social services does not have to accomodate an employee's belief that he must share his religious beliefs unsolicited with his clients, which makse sense from the perspective that the employee is a state agent and that his behavior might be taken as an endorsement by the state of that particular tactic and religion, and discrimination policies based on orientation can be upheld, even in religious settings.
Hopefully that holds you over for the weekend. If not, well, there are other people and places around - they'll do in a pinch, I'm sure. And now, off, to the Freaking Suite II!
But boy, oh, boy, have I got stuff to keep you occupied. The contributors are again, varied and wide, and mostly uncredited, sorry.
Mexico's decriminzlizing small drug amounts. Small step in the right direction of avoiding prison overcrowding and the focus of the police is on big-time dealers and gang/organized crime elements. Smart move, Mr. Fox.
Speaking of gangs, appreantly Iraq has quite a bit of their symbols spraypainted on it. Exporting democracy, one accurate facet at a time.
In other news, some thugs found out why you don't want to rob a professional magician - he'll make sure he's got nothing on him.
Illumination through blender-lamps. Again, proving the people will modify anything at all with something else.
An article that most of corporate and political America has probably read, taken to heart, and practices ever day: In Praise of loopholes. (I get a bit of a sense of Deja vu over this, like I've linked to it before).
Some memes and internet fads never die. As
lordmork has found out, though, occasionally one kicks the bucket.. And not a moment too soon, I'm sure.Another good reason why you should go target spam at the source, or at least provide effective end-user tools for spamblocking - do-not-spam lists can be taken advantage of. Pretty easily, in fact. At some point, we hope that spam just goes away, like we've been hoping for junk mail to go away.
Why isn't everyone a shaman? According to this article, it's mostly because we don't have the mindset for it, with high-powered cognitive sciences and medicines - we trust the shamans in the white coats with the prescriptions more than the shamans who convince us that we can heal ourselves. Plus, we don't have the space or the time in our busy modern lives to have the shamans around in any great numbers. Which very well could be bad fror all our psyches.
Other religious-related materials, probably things that will have Bill complaining about the War on Christians again - to wit, that social services does not have to accomodate an employee's belief that he must share his religious beliefs unsolicited with his clients, which makse sense from the perspective that the employee is a state agent and that his behavior might be taken as an endorsement by the state of that particular tactic and religion, and discrimination policies based on orientation can be upheld, even in religious settings.
Hopefully that holds you over for the weekend. If not, well, there are other people and places around - they'll do in a pinch, I'm sure. And now, off, to the Freaking Suite II!
