I’m now less upset about the initial protests where they were claiming that they wanted to take over the southwest and kick everyone there back to europe. I guess that means I can outline the plan I thought of over the past few months about how to deal with immigration without being unfair to legal immigrants already here. Basically, you have to punish those who came here illegally for that crime, then allow them to transfer back to the legal path after that punishment.

I tried. Really, I did. I spent lots of time trying to figure out a fair way of improving our immigration system to promote legal immigrations and still find a way to allow the illegal aliens to eventually become legal after paying a debt to society (greatly higher than the one paid by ones who came in entirely legally.) Then I saw this site made by some of the marchers in california.

Copy protection in movies doesn’t bother me as much as it used to. Why? Because I just don’t watch movies anymore. I had to think really hard about the last movie I saw in theaters, or the last few DVDs I’ve purchased. (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for the last theater movie, Wallace and Gromit, Father of the Pride, and Serenity for DVDs.) The Hollywood movies these days are just so pretentious and boring that there’s really no point anymore.

I see Russia’s little gambit to manipulate the Ukrainian political process through extortion was successful. I wonder what country they’ll target next?

Something about new DVD formats from business week. But at least one claim isn’t true.OPTING OUT. The new content-protection scheme would be the first time customers who have no intention of breaking copyright laws would be penalized because of piracy concerns. Current DVD releases like Batman Begins and Walk The Line include software to prevent unauthorized duplication, but still play normally.Not true. Customers who have no intention of breaking the law are penalized constantly for piracy concerns.

To paraphrase Jay Bennish, “I’m not saying that global warming isn’t happening and the whole thing is a scare, but there are eerie similarities between the current global warming talk and the 70’s talk (Link Dead) about global cooling” :)

One of the few articles to actually say something different… (Link Dead) This one had me laughing at work. And, of course, pissing people off remains the pair’s top priority. “We’ve always been f***-the-system punks,” says Stone. “And the only way to be punk anymore is to go into a party and say, ‘George Bush f***ing rules!’”

Fascinating display of religious intolerance and an example of what is to come if this religion is allowed to have their laws inserted into constitutions around the world. Afghan authorities are trying Abdul Rahman, a 41-year-old Christian convert, on charges of rejecting Islam – a death-penalty offense under Afghanistan’s constitution, which is based on Islamic law.Gee, rejecting islam. This could also be applicable to people who are not muslim. Imagine this scenario.

Tunnels across the border (Link Dead) are pretty common. What I’m wondering is, why don’t we have sensors to detect these? Mythbusters demonstrated a tunneling alarm drum that was very simple and primitive, but could probably be refined into some sort of automated sensor for digging. Why not put these every so far along the border then monitor them from a central location?

It has been very useful culturally for the conservatives. ;)