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There is a progressive news talk show called Democracy now featuring the fairly well known (in the underground scene) Amy goodman. For a while now I've been catching the early morning show on my satellite dish, but anyone who wants can listen on 99.5 pacifica radio. Today's headlines included the proliferation of government materials that suggest the united states and UK government planted bugs on UN security council members in an attempt to garner support for their new resolution, the "code pink" march on Washington DC this past weekend (where Goodman was arrested for filming the protesters), and the issue of MSNBC firing Donahue in favor of more conservative talk show hosts in an attempt to seem like "less of a hotbed for the antiwar movement".

The show is in general great; I found out about Michael moore's bowling for columbine from their broadcast featuring the documentary film maker; and from what I heard on the show this morning they are expanding to 2 hours. I urge anyone who cares about the world at large, the perceptions of the people of the united states and our government by the people of the world, or just the future in general to watch or listen during their commute or at work and become informed.

You can't please jackasses at all; or at least, that's what the past few days have taught me. I'll have to keep editing and updating my backend to get the site running again, but at least its at the point where I can add 'things'.

Everything that I read during work gets commented on while I'm still there by others, rendering my existence meaningless but with much more time to read stories that expand my mind. Of particular interest is the entire column dedicated against the war.

One story that I could not leave without comment is the story of SCO vs IBM and Linus Torvalds' statements on such. What interested me most with the article was not the cool and collected way in which Linus deals with the allegations, but the bold yet callous, reprehensible, offensive tone in which SCO details the "reasons" Linux could not have progressed where it has without insider information in its kernel from IBM's Unix knowledge. Basically, their arguments amount to..

1. It took us a long time, so they couldn't have done it faster.
2. Unix is a luxury car and Linux is a bycicle.

As for the luxury car/bycicle argument, it serves only to prove how stupid and desperate this lawsuit for a cool $billion is. I hope that IBM buys out SCO, then dissolves it and fires all of its employees. Either that, or they draw out litigation to the point that SCO runs out of money because its run by a bunch of talentless assholes whose business it is to buy the intellectual property of others, sell it, and then complain how hard it was for them to develop it when someone else develops something better.