Friday, January 07, 2005

Apple and the First Amendment


Bill Gates discussed Apple in an interview with CNet News published early Thursday...He also, perhaps accidentally, spoke of the Mac as a has-been hit in the same company as the Apple II.

http://www.macobserver.com/article/2005/01/06.13.shtml


Unfortunately, the demands of our respective careers have made it too difficult for us to continue as a married couple.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=492&e=5&u=/ap/san_francisco_mayor_divorce


"Maybe they want the oil in North Sumatra," he said.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/06/news/jakarta.html


"Apple does not seek to discourage communication protected by the free-speech guarantees of the United States and California constitutions," Apple said.
http://www.macminute.com/2005/01/06/think-secret/

In Britain, in the basement day-care center of a church near London's Hyde Park, a Christian group holds a workshop on heckling Muslims at the park's famous Speakers' Corner. Participants then head there for the afternoon debates.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/050110/usnews/10muslims.htm


From my vantage point, the UN seemed to be directly connected to this global deterioration. Had it not taken responsibility for multilateral diplomacy over the future of Afghanistan during the rise of the Taliban, or not claimed to protect international security through the mechanism of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and finally not deployed peacekeepers on the ground in Rwanda and Bosnia prior to the mass killings in those areas, then I couldn't make that charge. But peoples of the world looked to the UN to protect them, and the UN let them down.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16564


Recent research suggests that French priests have become so old that half of them will die in the next eight years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4149645.stm

Once class begins, students at North Dallas High School say, they can't go to the restroom or the nurse's office without an escort by a police officer or a school official.
That, and several other concerns, prompted more than 200 to walk out of class Thursday morning and stage a protest at Dallas school district headquarters.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/010705dnmetprotest.77401.html


2 Comments:

Blogger Aaron said...

Thanks for posting that article about Mayor Newsom...and what a great photo of the epitome of what Champagne Socialists look like with their glasses of fine Napa Valley Wine.

Fri Jan 07, 02:50:00 PM GMT-7  
Blogger bryan said...

yeah... i just thought it was really demonstrative of the types of people that are trying to redefine marriage and criticize "fly-over" country as being Neanderthal. this guy doesn't even love his wife more than his job that he refuses to uphold.

Sat Jan 08, 08:02:00 AM GMT-7  

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