complich8′s journal

Crap. Bush gets two supreme court justice appointments. Sucks that Rehnquist is gone (though I didn’t necessarily agree with his positions on a couple things). Ahh well. I guess it was only a matter of time.

… to remember Peter Jennings, a great journalist who is no longer with us. That’s all.

Recently a NY Times Editorial linked from slashdot talked about how blanket wifi coverage should be a public utility, similar to roads and water, and touting an Oregon county that already has complete blanket coverage. It chides major cities, New York in particular, for not already having the same sort of thing up and running. [...]

This article on the former secretary of health pushing Verichips, with this article tongue-in-cheek denouncing the same technology as a dubious “mark of the beast”. I think it’s interesting that in the first article, this quote comes out: “There is a vast range of people who could benefit from having an RFID chip inserted under [...]

This abcnews story talks about how Japan is about to levy very large tariffs on US Steel imports, in retaliation for the US’s unfairly high tariffs on non-US steel. But the US steel industry can’t compete. Probably because of overreaching unions in the 70′s and 80′s, and so on. I dunno, it’s 2 hours after [...]