manchicken here…

Well, as most have probably noted by now, I’m a bit of a nut for freedom. I love the idea that I can do whatever I want as long as I’m not causing physical damage, property damage, property loss (read PROPERTY LOSS, not “potential revenue loss”), or causing public unrest.
Paramount to those, as I’m […]

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“Eight Mile Style and Martin Affiliated, Eminem
’s music publisher and copyright manager, has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Apple, alleging that the company violated copyrights by allowing downloads of Eminem’s songs onto iPods.”
Boo hoo. Eminem is just another idiot in a long stream of idiots who is making millions of dollars in the distribution […]

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Wow, so today I saw the O’Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel. It’s been a long time since I’ve watched any real news program other than local news, and I must say I was stunned.
I saw Mr. O’Reilly hounding somebody from freerepublic.com about “hate speech” on the web site. Mr. O’Reilly suggested […]

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WARNING: This post contains a considerable amount of very serious religious content. If you are in any way offended by religious content, please do not read ahead as I wouldn’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings. If you do choose to comment, please do try to stay on topic.
Today I was made aware of […]

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Howdy folks. Well, yesterday afternoon I got a voice mail from someone at Senator Durbin’s office. Today I returned their call and spoke with a fella named Josh (withholding last name). Josh did his best to be considerate, professional, yet politically deceptive. Most of my questions were met with either more […]

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Howdy folks. I’m a little pissed here. So two days ago I got my EFFector newsletter which brought the Department of Justice’s new Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2006 to my attention. Naturally, like all good citizens, I contacted my senator to try and determine how I am being represented in Washington. […]

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Okay… so we’ve had this discussion going on for a long time. In the BadVista mailing lists Ubuntu has taken quite a beating due to its default inclusion of non-free hardware drivers. Well, that and the use of the words “open source” where the words “free software” are more appropriate.
Well, I’ve been a […]

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Wow. So, Sony, you think that DRM stops people from sharing content, eh? Is that so? I search the torrents (I just searched, didn’t download, so you can heel your blood-thirsty attorneys) for two of the films mentioned in this article (Casino Royal and Rocky Balboa). Casino Royal came up with […]

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Okay, so have any of you heard “excuse me sir, but…” lately? I heard it three times today and none of them had done anything prior to excusing themselves that would warrant an excuse.
When did it become okay to apologize before doing something to hurt or inconvenience someone unless it was requested or unnecessary? […]

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In this installment I will explain why Perl is the ideal language to automate your tests for any application at the unit level.
There’s been a lot of difference of opinion on what unit testing is supposed to be. I think this is a good discussion, but I don’t think it goes anywhere near addressing […]

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