Republican Senator Wants to Regulate Private Speech

A “biparistan” bill is a democrat sponsored bad idea with a useful idiot republican as a obstensive co-sponsor.   Not content to attempt to strangle free speech on the public airwave, democrats are now proposing to regulate private speech.  Adam Thomas

I see by way of REGHARDWARE that Dell is now picthing their XPS series laptops at the mainstream.

This is no surprise; yesterday’s game machines, while they are starting to show signs of age in terms of being able to

Slashdot sends word of a British steam powered car that will….

…attempt to set a world record speed of 200 mph. The car, constructed on a tubular chassis, holds four boilers that deliver four megawatts of power, producing 300 bhp.

-(Fox)-Power cables and even batteries might become a thing of the past using a new technique that can transmit power wirelessly to cell phones, laptops, MP3 players, household robots and other electronics.

Scientists lit a 60-watt light bulb from

Just a few days ago, I told you……….

The lighter the vehicle is, the more miles per gallon it will get, but it’s also far more dangerous to those inside said tin can when they have a wreck, air bags

There’s a number of sub-plots involved with this post. (read it, and come back)

Full disclosure time: I’m an XM subscriber, but I don’t listen to O&A, and have never cared for that kind of radio, be it Stern,

I’m getting mail again, about how I ought to be writing about gas prices.

I’ve already done that.

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About two years ago, I posted a list of causes of high gasoline prices. The situation, has not changed, except for

Ahem…. 

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‘ Nuff said.

Here’s the problem;

I have perhaps 40gb of MP3’s that live on my big server.  I’d like to separate them down to collection of 650mb or so, for the purpose of archiving them on CD in MP3 format. I mean,

Billy mentions this morning the compact fluorescent lamp.  I went to some length on this subject, several days ago, sometime around the beginning of the month. One topic I didn’t get into, with regards to those units (old habit,

Glenn and Don are all lit up about Compact Fluorescent Lighting… (CFL).

Don links the argument to the overall global warming scare:

Only 2 percent of India is air-conditioned versus 71 percent of the United States. India not only is

And we see our hero, are running out of the building, slamming the door behind him running across the parking lot and jumping behind any large truck just before the building blows up.  Says our hero, “Gee, I guess I

Some of the cynical, such as myself, have long been suspicious of the American Civil Liberty Union’s motivation.

Locally, Monroe County(Rochester), NY provides some six million dollars in funding to the local library system.  When, the county executive, Maggie Brooks,

I see that Billy Hollis has posted an article on his new Q&O digs, as regards digital rights management.  For those of you who don’t know that phrase the translation is “copy protection” .

My response was that of a

I suspected a DOS attack on DNS servers, somewhere. Turns out I was right. I could see my server’s IP address, and converse with it on that level, but that was all. I even issued a trouble ticket to my