manchicken here…

Many of you know that I’m the very happy and proud owner of an American Pit Bull Terrier. This type of dog gets a lot of guff because of several cowards–worldwide, but particularly in the United States–like to train them for violence, put them in a ring, and make them kill one another.
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So, on June 15th of 2007 I wrote this letter to the current domain broker owning notsosoft.com:
You all have a parked domain at notsosoft.com. I’m wondering if you would be willing to sell it at a reasonable price since it’s just parked. Thanks.
Today I got a reply from them. Here is the reply:
Hi [...]

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So, it seems as though my blog is Ron Paul central today, and I don’t mind. I think the exceedingly unwise political opinions of this man, Dr. Ron Paul, are worthy of as much rebuke as possible. I encourage you to read this guy’s article. It’s a little more over-the-top than I [...]

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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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