Dear Santa, thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you but... honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know its not cause at night there's voices so... please please can you send someone to fix it? Or a policeman, or...
Back in a moment.
Thank you Santa.
Wednesday, August 23
Free Speech, Victorian Style
From
the worst major metropolitan newspaper in Australia:
Justice Geoffrey Nettle said: "Surely that can't justify restraining them from saying something that said by anyone else would be legal? In the case of the newsletter, for example, Pastor Nalliah says many churches have closed down. What's wrong with saying that?"
Ms Mortimer replied: "The tribunal has found there is something wrong with saying it. Truth is not a defence, it's irrelevant to contravention of the act."
If truth is not a defence in a freedom-of-speech case, something is seriously fucked up.
Fortunately, it appears that in this case what is fucked up is the legislation, and that the Court of Appeal has retained at least a modicum of sense. Even if plaintiff's counsel has not.
Justice Ashley said so many of the statements were entirely innocuous and asked how the pastors could legitimately be restrained from making them. Ms Mortimer replied: "Because the tribunal found that when they made them they made them in a way that contravened the act." She said the comments had to be seen in the overall context.
But nothing will save the Solicitor-General:
Solicitor-General Pamela Tate said the case did not come under the implied constitutional right to free speech because that right applied only to political and governmental matters.
In fact, the right to freedom of speech in Australia has its roots in English Common Law going back to Henry II. And Common Law is based on the rejection of Ecclesiastical Law. I think there is a very good argument that blasphemy, and indeed all religious vilification, is a purely Ecclesiastical crime, and that the Victorian legislation is unconstitutional on that basis. Even apart from being totally fucked up* and an unsupportable abridgement of fundamental human freedoms.
* I'm allowed to say this because it is a political and governmental matter, because I don't live in the state of Victoria, and because I don't give a shit anyway.
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Thursday, August 17
It Pays To Advertise...
If your business happens to involve theft, fraud, extortion, and child pornography, you might think at first think that you wouldn't want to publically announce these facts.
Now blackseo.com turns conventional wisdom on its head.
Wonder if the FBI would be interested in these shitheads?
(I haven't visited that site and wouldn't advise it, but their spam conveniently lists all of their "services".)
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I can't help visiting sites where people say "don't visit this site". I don't know if it's human nature, but it's certainly
my nature. To be safe, I use a perl script (Pixy loves perl, but does not know it yet) to grab it as a txt file in case there is something malicious going on. In this case, there wasn't. It's just a Russian front company peddling whatever they are peddling, and hiding this fact behind the title page:
"BlackSEO Anti-Spam Administration notice: We have received a number of complaints on the spam. Blackseo.com is online since October 2005 and it is the largest private SEO related webmaster forum in Russia with over 900 webmasters registered and more than 47000 posts. There are no child porno or credit card fraud related discussions on Blackseo.com. We do not offer any illegal services."
My guess would be that they are lying. Not sure how to catch them though.
Posted by: Kevin at Thursday, August 17 2006 10:47 PM (++0ve)
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If you fixed all the problems with Perl, you'd end up with Python (or at least Ruby). I saved myself the time and just switched languages.
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Never heard of Ruby, but Python is the bastard son of perl. It's too much in love with the CPU for my needs.
Posted by: Kevin at Friday, August 18 2006 07:26 AM (++0ve)
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I should add that I'm not being confrontational here. I'm just a staunch supporter of perl and c (without the evil ++ if I can help it). It's probably because those are the two languages I find it easiest to think in, not because they are the best languages.
Scratch that. They ARE the best languages.
Posted by: Kevin at Friday, August 18 2006 07:53 AM (++0ve)
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Quote: "If you fixed all the problems with Perl, you'd end up with Python (or at least Ruby)."
Them's fighting words. Unfortunately, the Python warriors were late getting to the fight because someone left a tab character out of the instructions, and the Ruby team got confused by the Unicode characters, so Perl won by default. :-)
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Friday, August 18 2006 01:03 PM (7qszq)
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Yeah, guys, you really think this is true? If they would spam themselfs like a CP,fraud etc company, why should they post this "anti-spam" message and close their forums? now their domain got suspended. Belive me, if someone would spam your forum like blakseo's, you would be closed even faster... But your forum isnt commercial, so no one needs it.
Posted by: shit at Sunday, August 20 2006 03:52 AM (KvwZl)
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With a name like "blackseo.com"? Registered out of Russia?
You expect me to be surprised or something?
It could be that someone decided to take out a competitor or something like that, yes. If that is true, then I apologise, and I hope they get their domain back.
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Looks like although this person was maybe not the most ethical in the world, the email may have been sent purposefully to get him shut down. See:
http://www.happyhacker.org/sucks/index.shtml
Posted by: Dot at Thursday, August 31 2006 09:40 PM (Ak2lS)
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Ah, thanks.
I can't be too sorry that a bunch of forum spammers got shut down, given the amount of time I've had to spend cleaning up after them. But I still don't approve of the method.
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Sunday, August 13
Grrrr!
I want to say
if you're going to attack my bloggers, you have to come through me first, but that's silly; they're all adults (almost), all smart* and able to look after themselves.
But I will say, if you're going to attack anyone over what they've written, it might be a good idea to read what they've written. You know? Basic courtesy. Also helps if you don't want to look like an idiot.
Also, threats? Comments or email. Not cool.
* Even the morons are smart morons.
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Now I'm curious as to what brought this on... not that the thought isn't appreciated!
Do you do hits, too? I'm kinda tired of seeing Parky Schumacher on my TV screen... him and his Ferrari, ick.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sunday, August 13 2006 05:07 PM (6YRS5)
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Someone take off after the Jawas again?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, August 13 2006 05:34 PM (+rSRq)
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Not the Jawas. Major right-wing blogger took an ill-advised swipe at a munuvian. Not in itself a big deal, but it lead to a lot of nasty comments and emails, and the munuvian in question had to shut down comments completely.
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Were you aware that all the entry URLs in your RSS feed end up pointing at http://ai.mu.nu/archives/?
Posted by: Horatio at Sunday, August 13 2006 09:21 PM (33NPZ)
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Wups. Need to fix that!
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Friday, August 11
Evil Set Loose Upon The World
Townhall.com is using an
ANIMATED GIF for their favicon.
Bastards.
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Townhall has also started spamming me with daily news reports, despite the fact that I've responded with 'remove me from this mailing list' emails and despite the fact that I got into my profile and set that I didn't want to receive anything from them.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Saturday, August 12 2006 04:06 PM (+rSRq)
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Well, they seem to be completely offline right now, so you should get a break from that.
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