Bush is just hating that pesky U.S. Constitution

This guy, a US citizen, was held for 2 and a half years with no trial and no charges filed... Bush thinks he can do anything he wants.

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A federal judge ordered the Bush administration Monday to either charge terrorism suspect Jose Padilla with a crime or release him after more than 2 1/2 years in custody.

"The court finds that the president has no power, neither express nor implied, neither constitutional nor statutory, to hold petitioner as an enemy combatant," Floyd wrote in a 23-page opinion that was a stern rebuke to the government. Floyd, appointed by Bush in 2003, gave the administration 45 days to take action.

Pretty good internet radio...

So I found a pretty good internet radio station, plays via iTunes or other media player... seems like pretty good tunes, I listened this afternoon for a few hours, and hear some good stuff.
The "nerd rap" from Revenge of the Nerds, songs from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (the Varuca Salt song), silly samples, some old school 80's and punk. Pretty good stuff, with a sense of humor too. 8-)

Let me know what ya think.
Charlie

So this guy is blogging full time...

Beats me if this will work, but I guess he thinks it's worth a try. Weird thing is that he's not doing it with advertising at all. I'm not sure if people will donate on an ongoing basis... I did it once, but we'll see/hear about it I'm sure if it works out. Good luck I guess!



Charlie

Now this is just funny...

the latest bush budget item... heh.

Adware maker joins federal privacy board.... um wha?

OKay, what FECKING PLANET am I on?! A Gator/spyware exec working on privacy guidelines? Aren't there drug tests anymore for these people? The fox designing the henhouse here...

The Department of Homeland Security has named Claria, an adware maker that online publishers once dubbed a "parasite," to a federal privacy advisory board.

An executive from Claria, formerly called Gator, will be one of 20 members of the committee, the department said Wednesday.

"This committee will provide the department with important recommendations on how to further the department's mission while protecting the privacy of personally identifiable information of citizens and visitors of the United States," Nuala O'Connor Kelly, the department's chief privacy officer, said in a statement.

Claria bundles its pop-up advertising software with ad-supported networks such as Kazaa.

Not WHO is Deep Throat, But IS Deep Throat.

Did Woodward and Bernstein, the reporters that brought down Nixon and wrote "All The President's Men", work with a character named Deep Throat or did they create the character for the book and screenplay?

Not to take anything that reporters from Fox News state as fact, but Eric Burns, a news analyst for Fox stated that one of his sources shared the same publisher with the duo who and swears the first draft didn’t mention the D.T. character. Their literary agent corroborated that fact in his memoirs “Too Good to Be Forgotten.” (Nice title for you memoirs, what a narcissist).

I'm sure there are endless investigations that show how implausible their methods were for interacting with the character, but the fact that Woodward's New York Times was delivered in a pile with several others in the lobby of his building would have made it impossible for D.T. to write the meeting times on page 20 of HIS paper.

While the truth about the D.T. character is unclear the "follow the money" advice that he gives is good and, I think, has totally made Greg Palast's career as an investigative reporter.

Big Stuff!!!

So my big man DeeCee has decided to grace us with his thoughts and observations on a more regular basis... he's been sending me great stuff for a while now, and I post them regularly. I thought it would be fun if he had access to just do it himself from now on, so here he is, ladies and gentlemen, the man from Milwaukee: DeeCee!

Welcome brudda.
Charlie

The win-at-all-costs president: Secret tapes reveal George Bush's combative, even arrogant heart

Nice, this is the leader and representative of our nation... "Win at all costs".

WASHINGTON - Here are two stories about young “Georgie” Bush that you may not have heard, but which are worth recounting as he travels the globe as a world leader.

As a boy in Maine, he was the oldest of many cousins, and would set the rules for summer games at the family compound. “If he was losing he’d change the rules – or take the ball and leave,” one cousin told me. Then there was the time when, as a new kid, just up from Texas at his prep school Andover, Bush was tripped and mocked early in an intramural soccer match. He waited for a chance to exact revenge – then blindsided his foe so viciously he nearly broke the boy’s ankle. “He spent that match angling to take me out,” said the Andover alum, now a successful businessman. “And he did.”

I have a very strict isolation of my qubits

Very kool stuff.
What makes a quantum computer so different (and so much faster) than a conventional computer?

...For example, a central problem in modern cryptography is the search for the factors of very large integers. In a normal computer, the most efficient approach essentially consists of dividing the integer by every number smaller than its squareroot to see which ones will factor it. As more digits are added to the integer, the time required for this test grows very rapidly. With a quantum computer, however, factorization is a snap, because we can perform the test on all numbers simultaneously and thus only a single test is needed to find the right answer.