The US Supreme Court today declared illegal the military commissions being run by the Bush administration at the Guantanamo Bay Prison. The white house wanted to hold military trials of some of the prisoners held there on war crimes charges. In a 5-3 decision the court ruled this illegal. Demonstrating his continued ignorance Justice Clarence [...]
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You know those seven “Home-Grown Terrorists” that Alberto Gonzales made such a big deal about busting in Miami last week? The seven guys who apparently wanted to attack the Sears Tower in Chicago? Well it turns out these guys were at worst some small time criminals. They had never actually had any contact with any [...] I just got an e-mail at work from some new wellness (what a stupid word by the way) committee about some new walking program they are organizing. In the message they include a couple of facts: • According to a Harvard University Study, you will gain about two hours of life expectancy for each hour [...] So Arlen Specter says that the White House may allow a federal court to look at it’s secret surveillance program? Excuse me, but since when does the executive branch get to dictate what the judicial and legislative branches do? it shouldn’t matter if the Bush likes it or not, both the congress and the judiciary [...] Last year the US Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal on a patent infringement case. This was a prime opportunity for the court to take a stand on rule on the limits of the fundamentally broken US patent system. For at least the last decade the USPTO (US patent and trademark office) has been [...] Today is the summer solstice, meaning it is the longest day of the year. This should be the day when we have the greatest amount of the daylight hours of the year. Unfortunately, the weather has been really crap, raining all day and at times being really dark. Hopefully things will clear up this afternoon. [...] Google made their reputation by indexing the content of the the internet. They’ve done some truly remarkable things with search. Their pagerank system although far from perfect does provide some great results. Some time ago they announced a project in conjunction with five of the largest university libraries including the University of Michigan to scan [...] |
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