Merck is more interested in protecting it’s executives then it’s customers. What can I say? This is the problem with Amerika today…
Archive for November, 2004
GS should look at this page of LED art objects (so should you). totally cool.
A wooden laptop bag.
Tasers aren’t all that damn safe. Duh. Old news, finally documented by the NYT. It’s also well known that the damn things don’t always stop the people who get shot…
the chief p[roblem with so called “humane weapons” is that they’re considered “safe” so they get used more often then not. In other words, a cop with a “humane weapon” and a gun is more likely to resort to the HW then a cop armed only with a gun is likely to resort to the gun. Makes people feel all proactive, instead of talking they get to push a button or pull a trigger.
“Taser has performed only minimal research on the health effects of its weapons. Its primary safety studies on the M26, its most powerful gun, consist of tests on a single pig in 1996 and on five dogs in 1999. The company has resisted calls for more tests, saying that it is comfortable with the research it has conducted.”
“Tasers are largely unregulated and have never been studied for their safety or effectiveness by the Consumer Product Safety Commission or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. But for two years the Defense Department has studied Tasers as part of military research into weapons designed to be effective without being deadly.”
The cia is investing money into chat room monitoring software. So don’t hit those singles rooms if you don’t want teh man to blackmail you later…
UPDATED:
We’re back from our three year tour of Europe.
Cleaning up the spam comments from our friend in spain, then back to posting.
I’ve turned on comment moderation, which is a huge hassle to me. It means I have to find bandwidth at least twice a day to approve or disprove your posts. By hand. Because only GS bothered to get TypeKey accounts, and because MovableType’s fsck’d up authorization system keeps posting email addresses. When Ben gets back from his three year tour of Canada, I’ll begin the move to WordPress. In the mean time, it will take hours or in some extreme cases days for your posts to appear on the site. Please don’t keep hitting the post button in hopes it will speed things up or magically make your post appear. It won’t, and it will get all your posts deleted. and due to temper tantrumage on my part, all posts complaining about the new system will be deleted as well. I’m way to annoyed with having to do this to put up with anyone else’s whining about it.
It appears to me that Istook lied like about inserting the legislation into the budget proposal. (read all the way down and make your own mind up)
Color copiers and printers create unique serial numbers and print them on documents for tracking. This is troubling for many reasons, not the least of which is they lied to me personally 
I guess we’ve arrived: we’ve been blocked by Pannera Bread’s filtering software. We are now considered porn.
Thank you, thank you thank you.
The senate passed a scaled back version of the copyright bill.
We have a new intellectual property czar. Do we still have a drug czar? Have we had a terrorism czar since whats-his-name stepped down? Do we still have an energy czar?
“Buried inside the massive $388 billion spending bill Congress approved during the weekend is a program that creates a federal copyright enforcement czar.”
“You need a head. You need someone who has to answer,” the aide said. “If staffed out and funded by a number of different agencies, it never does anything. Agencies don’t want to give up good people. When you don’t have an agency responsible, their attitude gets to be, ‘I don’t have to do anything about it.’ “
