Fairly Symmetrical 2005-09-29T16:15:52Z tag:www.randomtree.org,2007:/eric//1 Movable Type My Civic Duty tag:www.randomtree.org,2004:/eric//1.808 2004-10-19T00:34:34Z 2005-09-29T16:15:52Z I voted early today; stood in line for half an hour at a Home Depot surrounded by tawdry plastic Christmas... Eric http://www.randomtree.org/eric/ eric@randomtree.org Why I refuse to purchase from Amazon.com tag:www.randomtree.org,2003:/eric//1.412 2003-03-11T15:44:12Z 2005-09-29T16:15:52Z I haven't bought anything from amazon.com in a long time. I don't expect I ever will. I refuse to support... Eric http://www.randomtree.org/eric/ eric@randomtree.org Supreme Court: No Free Mickey tag:www.randomtree.org,2003:/eric//1.294 2003-01-15T17:40:51Z 2005-09-29T16:15:52Z So the Supreme Court has ruled on the Eldred case. Unfortunately for pretty much everyone, they ruled that the Sonny... Eric http://www.randomtree.org/eric/ eric@randomtree.org Fighting the war in Iran tag:www.randomtree.org,2002:/eric//1.281 2002-12-09T17:05:16Z 2005-09-29T16:15:52Z OxBlog has an interesting post about the administration's ongoing reaction to the current unrest in Iran. Apparently they're using subversive... Eric http://www.randomtree.org/eric/ eric@randomtree.org Copyright and the First Amendment tag:www.randomtree.org,2002:/eric//1.275 2002-11-05T23:31:15Z 2005-09-29T16:15:52Z Evidently the Yale Law Journal has begun putting some of their articles online. They have a really good article up... Eric http://www.randomtree.org/eric/ eric@randomtree.org Software copyrights == patents tag:www.randomtree.org,2002:/eric//1.272 2002-10-22T15:55:10Z 2005-09-29T16:15:52Z I've been reading Lawrence Lessig's weblog for a few days now, and I'm really interested by his proposal to reform... Eric http://www.randomtree.org/eric/ eric@randomtree.org Some more good news in the Copyright Wars tag:www.randomtree.org,2002:/eric//1.264 2002-10-08T14:21:03Z 2005-09-29T16:15:52Z There's a couple of encouraging developments in the War on Fair Use. Two bills have been introduced to Congress (though... Eric http://www.randomtree.org/eric/ eric@randomtree.org Are we using the same dictionary? tag:www.randomtree.org,2002:/eric//1.263 2002-10-01T21:15:58Z 2005-09-29T16:15:52Z From today's UPI story entitled Blix: Iraq accepts all UN inspector rights: "On the question of access, it was clarified... Eric http://www.randomtree.org/eric/ eric@randomtree.org Captain Euro Goes to Sunnydale tag:www.randomtree.org,2002:/eric//1.262 2002-09-24T20:17:52Z 2005-09-29T16:15:52Z Okay, Captain Euro Goes to Sunnydale is brilliant. Mac captures the voices of the characters absolutely perfectly (and incidentally, the... Eric http://www.randomtree.org/eric/ eric@randomtree.org Moral bankruptcy in higher education -- and the lack thereof tag:www.randomtree.org,2002:/eric//1.261 2002-09-24T17:40:56Z 2005-09-29T16:15:52Z Every once in a while someone in a position of authority will stand up and say something that needs saying,... Eric http://www.randomtree.org/eric/ eric@randomtree.org <![CDATA[The UN Reorganizes…again.]]> tag:www.randomtree.org,2002:/eric//1.258 2002-09-23T18:10:45Z 2005-09-29T16:15:52Z How you can tell when a government has jumped the shark: they start issuing "five year plans", each of which... Eric http://www.randomtree.org/eric/ eric@randomtree.org Complicated tag:www.randomtree.org,2002:/eric//1.253 2002-09-12T04:59:00Z 2005-09-29T16:15:52Z The world is a complicated place. It was a complicated place on 9/10/2001, and it's an equally complicated place today.... Eric http://www.randomtree.org/eric/ eric@randomtree.org Anarcho-fascist nutjobs tag:www.randomtree.org,2002:/eric//1.252 2002-09-09T14:15:12Z 2005-09-29T16:15:52Z Ref: USS Clueless: The Fringe of the Fringe Den Beste says: Of all the odd statements in here, easily the... Eric http://www.randomtree.org/eric/ eric@randomtree.org More good news in the Copyright Wars tag:www.randomtree.org,2002:/eric//1.250 2002-08-28T13:56:39Z 2005-09-29T16:15:52Z I stumbled across this interview with general counsel for Verizon about peer to peer, and found it somewhat reassuring. The... Eric http://www.randomtree.org/eric/ eric@randomtree.org Democracy in the Arab World tag:www.randomtree.org,2002:/eric//1.240 2002-07-03T21:33:39Z 2005-09-29T16:15:52Z I've been reading a number of articles that discuss Bush's speech demanding that Palestinians vote for their own government. Most... Eric http://www.randomtree.org/eric/ eric@randomtree.org