T writes that Nokia has finally designed a phone for cities all over the world where crime runs rampant.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Nokia's new phone for risky areas
T writes that Nokia has finally designed a phone for cities all over the world where crime runs rampant.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Obama's half-sister implies he is an ex-Muslim apostate
Editor & Publisher has a preview of a Sunday New York Times Magazine interview with Barack Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng.
"...Mom didn't really emphasize the Koran, but we read little parts of it. We did listen to morning prayers in Indonesia."
Solomon then wonders if she was "worried" about even mentioning Islam, given the false accusations against her brother. She answers, "I'm not worried. I don't want to deny Islam....At the same time, it has been erroneously attached to my brother. The man has been a Christian for 20 years."
I'm not real good at math, but Obama was born in 1961 and therefore must be -- uhm... carry the one... -- around forty-seven.
What LGF looked like in February 2001
I like the modern LGF better.
Hat tip: Wayback Machine
AT&T: We'll be the Gatekeeper of the Internet
Writing in Slate, network legal pundit Tim Wu asks, "Why does AT&T want to know what you're downloading?" Wu refers to AT&T's unbelievable proposal to filter all Internet traffic looking for... wait for it... copyright violations.
Today, in its daily Internet operations, AT&T is shielded by a federal law that provides a powerful immunity to copyright infringement. The Bells know the law well: They wrote and pushed it through Congress in 1998, collectively spending six years and millions of dollars in lobbying fees to make sure there would be no liability for "Transitory Digital Network Communications" — content AT&T carries over the Internet. And that's why the recording industry sued Napster and Grokster, not AT&T or Verizon, when the great music wars began in the early 2000s.
Here's the kicker: To maintain that immunity, AT&T must transmit data "without selection of the material by the service provider" and "without modification of its content." Once AT&T gets in the business of picking and choosing what content travels over its network, while the law is not entirely clear, it runs a serious risk of losing its all-important immunity. An Internet provider voluntarily giving up copyright immunity is like an astronaut on the moon taking off his space suit. As the world's largest gatekeeper, AT&T would immediately become the world's largest target for copyright infringement lawsuits.
On the technical side, if I were an AT&T engineer asked to implement this plan, I would resign immediately and look for work at Verizon. AT&T's engineers are already trying to manage the feat of getting trillions of packets around the world at light speed. To begin examining those packets for illegal pictures of Britney Spears would be a nuisance, at best, and a threat to the whole Internet, at worst...
AT&T can't seem to get it over the fact that the Internet has rendered its precious network a bunch of "dumb pipes." They've wasted tens or hundreds of millions on lobbyists, astroturf, and campaign donations trying to defeat network neutrality.
And, at the end of the day, they're still dumb pipes.
If I were an AT&T shareholder, I wouldn't be very pleased.
Early Morning Larwyn Links
* Today's must-read: James Lewis at American Thinker ("Hillary's Oedipal Problem"):
* It's not just MLK. Gateway Pundit ("The Race Wars Continue") describes the propaganda battle being waged within the Democratic Primary and aimed at Hispanics.
* Rick Moran answers the question "Who is the anti-soundbite candidate?"
* PrairiePundit demonstrates that the UK's political correctness crowd just parsed itself into an hysterical conundrum.
* Newsbusters' Tim Graham straps the hyperbole-meter on Chris Matthews and then watches quietly as the needle shatters its housing.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Are Frank Luntz's focus group Democrats really this dumb?
* "I have to work really hard to make ends meet"
* "CEOs make too much money while the middle class gets shafted"
* "Everything Bush does is to benefit his "big oil" buddies"
Coincidentally, these are precisely the themes promulgated unceasingly by the mainstream media.
* Income inequality: a meme constantly harped upon by the likes of Paul "Economoron" Krugman. What this rocket scientist hasn't deduced is that, yes, Bill Gates pulled down tens of billions of dollars by creating Microsoft. This "income inequality" was the direct result of creating many tens of thousands of jobs directly... and probably millions of jobs, worldwide, indirectly. So: is "income inequality" good... or bad?
* Big oil: news flash for the focus group geniuses - the big oil companies are publicly held. Therefore, I'd wager at least three quarters of the focus group were either direct or indirect (via mutual funds) owners of oil companies. Think Bush is cheating the system to benefit "big oil"? Tell you what. Try something really crazy like buying shares in XOM or FSESX.
Democrats have prohibited drilling in all areas marked in red
While you're at it, read The No Zone to see how Democrats keep oil prices high by preventing drilling in, well, pretty much any area where America has oil.
The mainstream media's constant marketing of these fabricated themes really resonates with certain --er-- uneducated voters. That's why the likes of the New York Times can't die quickly enough.
Oh, and Dem focus group: enjoy the tax hike and the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) that you'll get with a Democratic presidency. Does the name "Jimmy Carter" ring a bell?
Hat tips: Don Surber and Larwyn
It's all in the family
Gateway Pundit:
Sometimes family issues are a stumbling block for candidates so this may sound a bit old-fashioned... But, I personally like to draw the line at mass killings...
* Bill Clinton's brother was arrested for
drunk driving and disturbing the peace.
* Hillary Clinton's brother was paid $400,000 in exchange for getting people pardoned.
* Jimmy Carter's brother was a registered foreign agent of the Libyan government and urinated in public at the Atlanta airport.But, here's a new one...
Barack Obama's cousin Raila Odinga is charged with ethnic cleansing by Kenyan officials...
When Odinga gives a stump speech, he means stump literally.
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Voter ID and the breathtaking hypocrisy of the Democrat Party
Democrats have argued for years that requiring IDs of voters is onerous, disenfranchises the elderly poor, and causes smoking.
Opponents of [voter ID] laws, including Democrats and the AARP, say the measures would suppress voter turnout among the elderly, poor and minorities who are less likely to have government-issued photo IDs... "It's another hurdle in the way of voters," said Neil Bradley of the Voting Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union.
Of course, the Democrat Party position on voter ID hinges on the situation.
Democrats ignore that it was only last week they argued before the Supreme Court that an Indiana law requiring voters show ID at the polls would reduce voter turnout and disenfranchise minorities. Nevada allies of Hillary Clinton have just sued to shut down several caucus sites inside casinos along the Las Vegas Strip, potentially disenfranchising thousands of Hispanic or black shift workers who couldn't otherwise attend the 11:30 a.m. caucus this coming Saturday
D. Taylor, the president of the Culinary Workers Union that represents many casino workers, notes that legal complaint was filed just two days after his union endorsed Barack Obama. He says the state teachers union, most of whose leadership backs Mrs. Clinton, realized that the Culinary union would be able to use the casino caucuses to better exercise its clout on behalf of Mr. Obama, and used a law firm with Clinton ties to file the suit.
...Democrats will also be asking for identification at caucus sites...
We need a new word that means "egregious hypocrite." Or perhaps the term we should use is simply "Democrat."
Put simply, the only thing voter ID deters is fraud. Without identification, a person cannot apply for welfare, can't drive, can't fly, can't hold a job, can't have a bank account, can't apply for either social security, Medicare or Medicaid, and can't apply for food stamps or WIC.
So much for hurting the "elderly, poor and minorities."
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
HillaryCare™ Update: Wait for UK dentists now at 2 years
Another success story for socialized medicine. London's Daily Mail reports that "seven million patients can't find a dentist on the NHS for two years."
More than seven million patients have been unable to see an NHS dentist for almost two years.
Most of those denied access have paid for private care instead, says Citizens Advice.
But almost three million have gone without treatment altogether, claims the charity.
The figure includes thousands of children and is much higher than Government estimates...
Greedy British. How many teeth do they think a person needs?
Al Qaeda's top cyber-terrorist: suprisingly stupid
Here's how London's Daily Mail put it:
A computer nerd from Shepherd's Bush, West London, became al Qaeda's top internet agent... Younes Tsouli, 23, an IT student at a London college, used his top-floor flat in W12 to help Islamist extremists wage a propaganda war against the West.Under the name Irhabi 007 — combining the James Bond reference with the Arabic for terrorist — he worked with al Qaeda leaders in Iraq and came up with a way to convert often gruesome videos into a form that could be put onto the Web...
His capture led to the arrest of several Islamic terrorists around the world, including 17 men in Canada and two in the US... His 10-year jail sentence was increased to 16 years last month.
At first intelligence operatives who came across his activities dismissed him as a joke. It was only when anti-terrorist detectives began trawling through files on his computer after his arrest that they realised his true significance.
When he was seized, forensic science officers found that Tsouli had been creating a website called YOUBOMBIT.
...Tsouli arrived in London in 2001 with his father, a Moroccan diplomat. He studied IT at a college in central London and was quickly radicalised by images of the war in Iraq posted on the internet... In 2005, Tsouli became administrator for the web forum al-Ansat, used by 4,500 extremists to communicate with each other, sharing such practical information as how to make explosives and how to get to Iraq to become a suicide bomber... But the enterprise had become so huge, it began to attract the attention of cyber-trackers who monitor the internet for extremists, leading to Tsouli's arrest...
Looks like Tsouli fell down the steps as left his flat for the police station.
And I'm a bit surprised some venture capitalist didn't fund YOUBOMBIT, thinking it was a YouTube competitor.
Iran's media joins the nutroots
Gateway Pundit catches a FARS News (Iran) "fake but accurate" story in the grand tradition of Dan Rather and the nutroots. In all seriousness, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Mahmoud Ahmedinejad signed on as a Daily Kos diarist.
I'm a little bummed they didn't reprint my sign.
Some people never learn
Over the past year, the market value of troubled mortgage lender Countrywide has dropped by about $22 billion. The meltdown set the stage for its acquisition by Bank of America for a paltry $4 billion. And its lending practices arguably set the stage for a global credit crisis.
Today I surfed to a business website and noticed this ad:
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton blasted Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo's $36 million pay package stating, "There's no way on Earth that Mozilo's worth three times what Allan Mollohan is!"
My mistake!
Reader Bob helpfully provided the image mentioned the other day when I wrote:
...someone navigated to this august journal using a Google search for "dog urinating on hillary". Don't bother clicking on the link, there's no story there. In fact, there's no story of that ilk anywhere. So you've just got to wonder about some folks. And, no, I don't have any proof that it was a Ron Paul supporter -- just a queasy hunch.
Early Morning Links
Curt at Flopping Aces is organizing a much-needed blog-burst over the Flight 93 Memorial, which appears to honor the attackers more than the victims.
Wretchard at Belmost Club describes a brief confrontation between the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk battle group and some Chinese warships in the Straits of Taiwan. You know, trying to figure out what the PRC is really up to is harder than Chinese arithmetic.
Gateway Pundit spotlights angry Michigan Democrat Don Riegle. Riegle compared the Clinton Machine's stripped-down Michigan ballot (on which only Hillary appeared) to the old Soviet Union. He forgot to mention that the New York Times serves as today's Pravda.
Gaius at Blue Crab Boulevard munches on brie and sips wine at a posh gathering of Congressional muckety-mucks. Actually, it's the new menu ("...pan-roasted Chesapeake rockfish with sweet potato fennel hash and yellow pepper relish. Or pears with Stilton cheese and watercress...") in the House of Representatives' various eateries, brought to you by Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic House leadership.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Michigan Primary: Hillary edges Uncommitted
It was a nail-biter, but Hillary squeaked out a narrow victory over Uncommitted.
Uncommitted was visibly disappointed, but vowed to continue the fight against the Clinton Machine.
Update: Fox is reporting that Mitt takes Michigan.
Larwyn's Links
* The Anchoress has a sobering gut-check for primary watchers. Caution: graphic photos -- an air-sickness bag is highly recommended.
* AJ Strata says that, after their initial investigation, Scotland Yard believes Benazir Bhutto was capped by Al Qaeda. Apparently they've ruled out Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansar al-Islam, Abu Sayyaf, Islamic Jihad, Jemaah Islamiyah, Fatah and Darul Islam.
* The Belmont Club is warning servicemen and women that use Facebook about a serious threat. Al Qaeda is reportedly mining the social network for personal details of U.S. military personnel.
* Jammie Wearing Fool reminds us that only 24 hours remain to ask questions of Ayman al-Zawahiri during his web chat. JWF suggests several candidate questions, such as 'is Britney Spears really converting to Islam' and 'are Ron Paul's supporters are driving you as crazy as the rest of us?'
* Bizarre search o' the day: someone navigated to this august journal using a Google search for "dog urinating on hillary". Don't bother clicking on the link, there's no story there. In fact, there's no story of that ilk anywhere. So you've just got to wonder about some folks. And, no, I don't have any proof that it was a Ron Paul supporter -- just a queasy hunch.
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