SUNDAY BIG BROTHER
SEIG HEIL!
I was planning to post this Sunday on a place I like to call "Woodhenge", but something caught my ear on Friday. nothing important, mind you, just news reports of more freedoms disappearing under the George W. Hitler regime. this time, Dubya & his band of crypto-fascist cronies are forcing internet services to hand over search engine inquiries. AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo have already knuckled under, with Google holding out on general principals. you go, Google. the government of
the United Snakes of Amerika has already been opening mail, and tapping phones has become en vogue. these, on top of all the shit they make you go through at the airports nowadays. maybe we should adopt a different stance, perhaps like the French (yeah, those French...), whose President Jacques Chirac has now stated they might just nuke any terrorist bastards who fuck with them. but, then again, we're talking about W, the most empty-headed puppet-ruler of the 21st century. by next week, I'm sure I won't be able to write a post like this anymore.
GOODBYE, FREEDOM.
21th JAN 15:28 hrs IST
Google refuses to oblige US govt on search query info
Silicon Valley: While Yahoo, Microsoft and America Online have complied with the US administration's requests to hand over millions of search queries, the world's biggest search engine - Google - refuses to oblige. In court documents, the US administration asked a federal judge in San Jose, California, to force Google to comply with a subpoena for random sampling of one million internet addresses accessible through its search engine as well as a random sampling of a million search queries submitted to Google during any one-week period.The US Justice Department said that America Online, Yahoo and Microsoft had complied with its requests saying that the information did not violate their users' privacy because the data did not include names or computer addresses, according to CNETNews.com. However, Google has said it would not hand over the data. "Google's acceding to the request would suggest it is willing to reveal information about those who use its services. This is not a perception that Google can accept," the company's attorney Ashok Ramani wrote in an October 10 letter to the US Justice Department.Instead, the search engine suggested that the government seek its information from the Internet Archive, a non-profit archive of web pages that Google said more appropriately reflects the breadth of the Web, CNET said.
from the Google News Site
SELECTIVE SERVICE?
how'd this get by me? when I was at the Post Office a couple of days ago, in lieu of the tax forms I went for (which were out of stock -- as usual!) I got this thing. it happened to be sitting right by the tax stuff that wasn't there... but what struck me as odd was that, as far as I knew, the Draft had been rescinded. when did they start this crap up again? fuckin' socialists....
THE DUBYA AWARD
...here it is, people, the both dreaded and coveted "Dubya Award", given to individuals and corporate entities who willingly participate in the turning of the screws. this week's co-winners are, of course, Microsoft, Yahoo & AOL. thanks a lot, you batch of fucks, for making the American people a little more downtrodden, a little less proud, a little less free. by the way, you fuckers.... they're keeping Hell hot for you.
1776 - 2006
R.I.P.
last week's Big Blog
SEIG HEIL!
I was planning to post this Sunday on a place I like to call "Woodhenge", but something caught my ear on Friday. nothing important, mind you, just news reports of more freedoms disappearing under the George W. Hitler regime. this time, Dubya & his band of crypto-fascist cronies are forcing internet services to hand over search engine inquiries. AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo have already knuckled under, with Google holding out on general principals. you go, Google. the government of
the United Snakes of Amerika has already been opening mail, and tapping phones has become en vogue. these, on top of all the shit they make you go through at the airports nowadays. maybe we should adopt a different stance, perhaps like the French (yeah, those French...), whose President Jacques Chirac has now stated they might just nuke any terrorist bastards who fuck with them. but, then again, we're talking about W, the most empty-headed puppet-ruler of the 21st century. by next week, I'm sure I won't be able to write a post like this anymore.
GOODBYE, FREEDOM.
21th JAN 15:28 hrs IST
Google refuses to oblige US govt on search query info
Silicon Valley: While Yahoo, Microsoft and America Online have complied with the US administration's requests to hand over millions of search queries, the world's biggest search engine - Google - refuses to oblige. In court documents, the US administration asked a federal judge in San Jose, California, to force Google to comply with a subpoena for random sampling of one million internet addresses accessible through its search engine as well as a random sampling of a million search queries submitted to Google during any one-week period.The US Justice Department said that America Online, Yahoo and Microsoft had complied with its requests saying that the information did not violate their users' privacy because the data did not include names or computer addresses, according to CNETNews.com. However, Google has said it would not hand over the data. "Google's acceding to the request would suggest it is willing to reveal information about those who use its services. This is not a perception that Google can accept," the company's attorney Ashok Ramani wrote in an October 10 letter to the US Justice Department.Instead, the search engine suggested that the government seek its information from the Internet Archive, a non-profit archive of web pages that Google said more appropriately reflects the breadth of the Web, CNET said.
from the Google News Site
SELECTIVE SERVICE?
how'd this get by me? when I was at the Post Office a couple of days ago, in lieu of the tax forms I went for (which were out of stock -- as usual!) I got this thing. it happened to be sitting right by the tax stuff that wasn't there... but what struck me as odd was that, as far as I knew, the Draft had been rescinded. when did they start this crap up again? fuckin' socialists....
THE DUBYA AWARD
...here it is, people, the both dreaded and coveted "Dubya Award", given to individuals and corporate entities who willingly participate in the turning of the screws. this week's co-winners are, of course, Microsoft, Yahoo & AOL. thanks a lot, you batch of fucks, for making the American people a little more downtrodden, a little less proud, a little less free. by the way, you fuckers.... they're keeping Hell hot for you.
1776 - 2006
R.I.P.
last week's Big Blog
SEIG HEIL!I was planning to post this Sunday on a place I like to call "Woodhenge", but something caught my ear on Friday. nothing important, mind you, just news reports of more freedoms disappearing under the George W. Hitler regime. this time, Dubya & his band of crypto-fascist cronies are forcing internet services to hand over search engine inquiries. AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo have already knuckled under, with Google holding out on general principals. you go, Google. the government of
the United Snakes of Amerika has already been opening mail, and tapping phones has become en vogue. these, on top of all the shit they make you go through at the airports nowadays. maybe we should adopt a different stance, perhaps like the French (yeah, those French...), whose President Jacques Chirac has now stated they might just nuke any terrorist bastards who fuck with them. but, then again, we're talking about W, the most empty-headed puppet-ruler of the 21st century. by next week, I'm sure I won't be able to write a post like this anymore.
GOODBYE, FREEDOM.21th JAN 15:28 hrs IST
Google refuses to oblige US govt on search query info
Silicon Valley: While Yahoo, Microsoft and America Online have complied with the US administration's requests to hand over millions of search queries, the world's biggest search engine - Google - refuses to oblige. In court documents, the US administration asked a federal judge in San Jose, California, to force Google to comply with a subpoena for random sampling of one million internet addresses accessible through its search engine as well as a random sampling of a million search queries submitted to Google during any one-week period.The US Justice Department said that America Online, Yahoo and Microsoft had complied with its requests saying that the information did not violate their users' privacy because the data did not include names or computer addresses, according to CNETNews.com. However, Google has said it would not hand over the data. "Google's acceding to the request would suggest it is willing to reveal information about those who use its services. This is not a perception that Google can accept," the company's attorney Ashok Ramani wrote in an October 10 letter to the US Justice Department.Instead, the search engine suggested that the government seek its information from the Internet Archive, a non-profit archive of web pages that Google said more appropriately reflects the breadth of the Web, CNET said.
from the Google News Site
SELECTIVE SERVICE?how'd this get by me? when I was at the Post Office a couple of days ago, in lieu of the tax forms I went for (which were out of stock -- as usual!) I got this thing. it happened to be sitting right by the tax stuff that wasn't there... but what struck me as odd was that, as far as I knew, the Draft had been rescinded. when did they start this crap up again? fuckin' socialists....
THE DUBYA AWARD...here it is, people, the both dreaded and coveted "Dubya Award", given to individuals and corporate entities who willingly participate in the turning of the screws. this week's co-winners are, of course, Microsoft, Yahoo & AOL. thanks a lot, you batch of fucks, for making the American people a little more downtrodden, a little less proud, a little less free. by the way, you fuckers.... they're keeping Hell hot for you.
1776 - 2006R.I.P.
last week's Big Blog
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