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		<title>Colbert v Steele in a Rap Battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Mesa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been pretty ridiculous recently with Steele claiming to bring Urban cred to the Republican party.  I think they feel like they have to have a black guy too.  It&#8217;s just odd that suddenly after Obama&#8217;s President, they have a black chairman.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been pretty ridiculous recently with Steele claiming to bring Urban cred to the Republican party.  I think they feel like they have to have a black guy too.  It&#8217;s just odd that suddenly after Obama&#8217;s President, they have a black chairman.</p>
<p>Well, I know that eventually Hulu will pull this clip.  But until they do, enjoy the extremely creative editing of the The Colbert Report&#8217;s team in this rap battle between Colbert and Republican Chairman Michael Steele.<br />
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		<title>The Election is Over</title>
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Exactly how I feel, Randall - over at xkcd.



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<p>Exactly how I feel, <a href="http://xkcd.com/500/">Randall - over at xkcd</a>.</p>

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		<dc:creator>Eric Mesa</dc:creator>
		
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If you are an American reader of this blog, make sure you vote.  It doesn&#8217;t matter who you vote for - just vote.  And keep your eyes out for any hanky-panky with the voting machines.



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If you are an American reader of this blog, make sure you vote.  It doesn&#8217;t matter who you vote for - just vote.  And keep your eyes out for any hanky-panky with the voting machines.</p>

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		<title>The Current Financial Mess - We Never Should have ended up Here</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I was listening to Fresh Air on NPR.  They had an economics guy on who&#8217;s now a professor at one of the University of Maryland campuses and was involved in Clinton&#8217;s economic team.  (Although he didn&#8217;t always see eye to eye with Clinton&#8217;s treasury secretary)  This guy put the current economic crisis in the [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I was listening to Fresh Air on NPR.  They had an economics guy on who&#8217;s now a professor at one of the University of Maryland campuses and was involved in Clinton&#8217;s economic team.  (Although he didn&#8217;t always see eye to eye with Clinton&#8217;s treasury secretary)  This guy put the current economic crisis in the best terms and framed it so well, I can&#8217;t believe that we&#8217;re in this mess.  Those stupid jackasses on Wall Street &#8220;were betting that people who did not have money to pay their mortgage would pay their mortgage.&#8221;  Just take a second and read that again.  Yeah, pretty nutty, isn&#8217;t it?  If people had just used their noggins we wouldn&#8217;t be in this mess.  &#8220;Sure,&#8221; you might say, &#8220;hindsight is 20/20.&#8221;  Yeah, but it doesn&#8217;t take hindsight to see that people who have bad credit probably aren&#8217;t going to pay their mortgage.  Couple that with the fact that Wall Street swindled them into interest only loans and variable rate mortgages, and you HAD to see that a disaster was on the way.  Again, they were betting that people who didn&#8217;t have the money to pay their mortgage would somehow pay their mortgage.  Again, in their defense you might say, &#8220;but they thought housing prices were always going to go up.&#8221;  And to that I say, WHEN has ANY market EVER gone up FOREVER?  Hello!  The tech bubble was just 10 years ago!  Nothing ever goes up without an end.  That&#8217;s just ridiculous.  Sigh!  Seriously, I don&#8217;t know how they let this happen.  These guys all have degrees in finance.  They should have known and done case studies on how whatever&#8217;s hot now won&#8217;t be hot in a few years.  And then AIG freakin&#8217; insures the mortgages of people with bad credit?  I just can&#8217;t believe it!</p>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of news for the past 3-6 months about the new FISA bill and how it provides immunity for the telecommunications companies.  A lot of people including the Electronic Frontier Foundation are opposed to this provision of the bill (if not bill in its entirety) because they say the telcos have acted [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of news for the past 3-6 months about the new FISA bill and how it provides immunity for the telecommunications companies.  A lot of people including the Electronic Frontier Foundation are opposed to this provision of the bill (if not bill in its entirety) because they say the telcos have acted illegally by assisting the Executive Branch with their warrentless wiretapping of phone calls.  The reason they argue this is illegal is that the original FISA bill, as written in the 1970s (and ammended throughout the years) requires a warrant for all wiretapping of US Persons.  That includes foreigners who are physically in the United States.   As the New York Times revealed in 2005, the Bush Administration started acting against this law in 2001 because of opinions written by some radicals in the Justice Department (such as Yoo).</p>
<p>Now, normally I&#8217;m against most of what this administration has done.  They&#8217;ve been unnecessarily sneaky with a lot of things that have caused an erosion of the trust of our citizens in the Government.  For example, they&#8217;ve been sliding the reason for attacking Iraq around until they find one that&#8217;s palatable and sticks.  If they just would have been honest from the beginning - that they just wanted Saddam out of the way - perhaps they could have just drummed up enough support for that.  And, if they couldn&#8217;t, well we&#8217;re a democracy (or like to pretend we are) so they shouldn&#8217;t be able to do it.</p>
<p>However, I think the telcos need immunity and here&#8217;s why.  Let&#8217;s say I&#8217;m the CEO of a telecommunications company that rhymes with Horizon and some guys from the US Justice Department show up in my office.  They say, &#8220;We need you to wiretap phone calls in the USA to stop terrorists.  We could have stopped 11 Sept if we only had been able to do this.&#8221;</p>
<p>I say, &#8220;One Moment Please.&#8221;  And I check with my lawyers.  Then I respond with, &#8220;They say you need a FISA warrant and for us to cooperate with you would be illegal.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then the Justice Department guys say, &#8220;Look, this is legal.  We have this letter here that says it&#8217;s legal.  Anyway, we&#8217;re the government and we promise not to arrest you over this.  If something happens, we&#8217;ve got your back.  After all, it&#8217;s legal - see&#8221;</p>
<p>Now what can I say?  If the US Government itself has told me that this program is legal, who am I to argue?  After all, who is in charge of police and arresting people?  The US Government.  So they tell me this is legal, then it&#8217;s legal.  So it&#8217;s unfair if I cooperate with them, thinking they&#8217;ve cleared it with whomever (like Congress), for my company to get sued.  How was I to know they didn&#8217;t do things correctly?  It was underground spy stuff, I can&#8217;t exactly call around and check to make sure that it really is illegal.</p>
<p>So I think the telcos are just victims in the Government&#8217;s deception.  They shouldn&#8217;t be punished for that.  Otherwise, what&#8217;s going to happen the next time those Justice Department guys show up asking for [legitimate] favors?  I&#8217;ll just want to CMA and I&#8217;ll say, &#8220;No thanks.  Why don&#8217;t you go ask that telephone company with the Death Star Logo.&#8221;</p>

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		<title>Obama is an Oreo?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Mesa</dc:creator>
		
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This year has been an incredibly racist year from people being afraid to vote for Barack Obama because they believe he&#8217;s a secret Muslim (so?  Any American-born person should be allowed to run for president) to people who say he&#8217;s too black or not black enough.  Now this old guy claims that Obama&#8217;s [...]


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<p>This year has been an incredibly racist year from people being afraid to vote for Barack Obama because they believe he&#8217;s a secret Muslim (so?  Any American-born person should be allowed to run for president) to people who say he&#8217;s too black or not black enough.  Now this old guy claims that Obama&#8217;s an Oreo and it&#8217;s unfair for him to reap the rewards of the Civil Rights battles of the previous generations.</p>
<p>I think this is outrageous.  It&#8217;s bad enough that children in lower income areas accuse their classmates who are doing well of &#8220;acting white&#8221;, but now to hear this guy saying the same thing is just beyond words.  We need to be proud of the fact that Obama might be the first mulatto president and not criticize him for acting white.  After all, would anyone vote for a ghetto president?  I think not&#8230;.</p>

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		<title>The Myth of Race</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eric Mesa</dc:creator>
		
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Obama will not be the first African-American President of the United States.  Barack Obama will be the first mulatto President of the United States of America.  This is the myth of race in the USA.  Apparently because Barack is half-black, he&#8217;s the first African-American President.  But if he&#8217;s half-black then he&#8217;s [...]


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<p>Obama will not be the first African-American President of the United States.  Barack Obama will be the first mulatto President of the United States of America.  This is the myth of race in the USA.  Apparently because Barack is half-black, he&#8217;s the first African-American President.  But if he&#8217;s half-black then he&#8217;s also half-white.  So why isn&#8217;t he just the 40-somethingith white President of the US?  I don&#8217;t understand, if one half is valid, why isn&#8217;t the other?</p>
<p>In a way, however, I think the fact that Obama will be the first mulatto President of the USA is a more significant event.  There was actually a time in the USA when people of two races could not legally marry.  Even after that legal restriction was lifted, many people faced hurdles in life for being biracial.  However, with more and more people mixing it up, as it were, I think Obama&#8217;s candidate signals a turning point in our country&#8217;s history.  It&#8217;s not historic for him being a black President (because he isn&#8217;t) it&#8217;s historic because he symbolizes the true and logical conclusion of a melting pot society.</p>
<p>Up until now, the US has been more like a salad bowl than a melting pot.  People came from all over the world to the US and then settled in racial enclaves - Chinatown, Little Havana, Little Italy, etc  So they were Americans, but had separate experiences from other Americans.  But now more and more people are choosing partners based on all of their qualities other than race.  And we find ourselves in a true melting pot where children will learn about one set of grandparents from an ancient empire and another set of parents from the newer nations of Europe or South America.</p>
<p>So I view Obama&#8217;s (probable) election as marking the point where race ceased to be relevant.  When we&#8217;re all every race, then there isn&#8217;t race anymore.  Sure, all the old people who run the news networks can&#8217;t see it yet.  They&#8217;re seeing everything through their generation&#8217;s eyes.  Obama&#8217;s got some black blood in him, so he must be a black candidate.  But historians will look back and say, this is the point where America truly became a melting pot and truly began to be wholly different from all the other homogeneous nations in the old world.</p>
<p>This makes me happy because racism is really the only type of -cism that can be enacted on just by looking at someone.  Classism is hard in the US because our clothes aren&#8217;t so different between the classes as they were in the Victorian Age.  When I see a female in jeans, I have no idea if they are designer jeans or $20 Walmart jeans.  Additionally, some people with money choose to purposely dress innocuously to avoid attention from criminals.  Agism, to whatever extent it exists, can be cheated by plastic surgery.  Sexism is hard to do on a large scale (at least given where we are now as a society) because we&#8217;re roughly 50/50 so I think men (or women) will have a hard time convincing women (or men) to go back to 2nd class status.  But with racism, it&#8217;s the worst right now.  Look at the World War Two time period.  It was easy to round up the Asians and send them to internment camps because you just had to look for &#8220;asian eyes&#8221; and other such features.  But when everyone is mixed together you won&#8217;t be able to say, &#8220;watch out, there goes a black guy&#8221; or see an Asian and make fun of their language.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m excited about Obama&#8217;s potential win.</p>

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		<title>The Continual Dumbing Down of American Politics</title>
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Yes, the race for the White House has hit new lows, even for this race.  It appears that we haven&#8217;t learned from the past two races and it&#8217;s starting to scare me.  Both in 2000 and 2004 one of the biggest reasons stated for George W Bush winning was that both Al Gore and John [...]


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<p style="text-align: left;">Yes, the race for the White House has hit new lows, even for this race.  It appears that we haven&#8217;t learned from the past two races and it&#8217;s starting to scare me.  Both in 2000 and 2004 one of the biggest reasons stated for George W Bush winning was that both Al Gore and John Kerry seemed too &#8220;elite&#8221; and &#8220;aloof&#8221;.  George Bush seemed a little more down to earth, someone you could invite to a BBQ.  Well look where that got us!!</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">The whole idea of a presidential candidate being too elite is the most ridiculous thing I have EVER heard.  It defies logic.  We Americans like to think of our country as the best country in the whole world.  So shouldn&#8217;t we have the best, smartest man (or woman) in the job?  I don&#8217;t want just anyone to be president!  It&#8217;s a special and unique post.  We need the best and the brightest guiding our foreign policy, setting the agenda for the country, and controlling the executive functions.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">This is not a wholly new complaint of mine, but what set me off was <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/ts_nm/usa_politics_dc">this article</a>.  In this article Clinton says:</p>
<blockquote><p>Clinton &#8230; while dismissing economists who have said her plan to suspend gas taxes over the summer would do little good.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to put my lot in with economists,&#8221; Clinton said when asked to name an economist who backed her proposal.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to get out of this mind-set where somehow elite opinion is always on the side of doing things that really disadvantage the vast majority of Americans,&#8221; said Clinton, a former first lady who would be the first woman president.</p></blockquote>
<p>So she&#8217;s saying that she, who has no training in economics is a better person to decide what&#8217;s best for the country than someone who&#8217;s studied economics.  She doesn&#8217;t want to listen to their opinion because it&#8217;s too elite.  What kind of absurdity is that?  Look, econ is hard and I&#8217;ll be the first to admit that it&#8217;s SO HARD that even the economists barely know what they&#8217;re doing.  But I&#8217;d still trust them over someone with no training any day.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s wrap this up with a great mind exercise.  When you are sick are you going to not go to a doctor because that&#8217;s too elitist?  Surely you should just ask a random coworker what you should do.  And why hire construction workers to build new buildings, that sounds pretty elitist to me!  Are you saying that he&#8217;s better qualified to determine how to build a building than the average joe?  And when my car breaks down, why take it to a mechanic when I could just pick some random person off the street and have them replace the engine block.  Do you now see how silly all this elitist talk is?</p>
<p>I just hope that this doesn&#8217;t become a huge trend because I see America going down the toilet if we keep this up.  It may just be the case that my children will have to be immigrants in some other country - one that hasn&#8217;t elected some yokel to office just because he looks like someone you can have a beer with.</p>

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		<description><![CDATA[As you know, unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock, the US Government (USG) wants to give us all rebate checks to spur the economy along.  All you have to do is file your taxes and you&#8217;ll get up to $600 if you&#8217;re single or $1200 if you&#8217;re married.  What hasn&#8217;t really been publicized in [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As you know, unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock, the US Government (USG) wants to give us all rebate checks to spur the economy along.  All you have to do is file your taxes and you&#8217;ll get up to $600 if you&#8217;re single or $1200 if you&#8217;re married.  What hasn&#8217;t really been publicized in the mainstream media, however, is the drastic measures the USG is willing to go to make sure you spend your rebate and to help the economy.</p>
<p>Ever since the story broke that the USG wanted us to spend our money on material goods, there have been many people appearing on the news saying that their real problem was that they had too much debt and they were going to use their rebate check to pay down their debt.  Unfortunately, if everyone did that responsible thing, it would make the rebate checks pointless as a way to help the economy.  Therefore Uncle Sam decided to help you out.</p>
<p>Our wonderful government has put people&#8217;s social security numbers into a computer program to figure out who is most likely to use this money to pay down debt.  Do you owe a lot on your house or credit cards?  Are you a student?  If so, you may be a bit surprised when you file your taxes this year.  According to a story that aired on National Public Radio (NPR), via American Public Media&#8217;s Marketplace, if you&#8217;re likely to use your money to pay down debt, the government will buy something for you and send it to you.  To a family in Arizona they sent an air conditioner.  Never mind that they may already have one or may not want to use one.  That&#8217;s what the good ole government has determined you should get.  People in the north may find themselves getting snow blowers.</p>
<p>I find the whole thing disgusting.  What do they know about what I want or need?  If they truly want to make sure that we can&#8217;t use the money to pay down debts, they could just send us Visa Gift cards.  That way we&#8217;d have to use it to buy things, but we&#8217;d be able to buy whatever we pleased.  If I wanted to buy computer parts or a DVD, I&#8217;d be able to do so, rather than be stuck with what some computer in DC says I need.</p>
<p>Sometimes this administration just pisses me off.</p>

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		<title>The Kind of Racist Remarks You Don&#8217;t Expect on the Nightly News</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Hardball on MSNBC they were talking about Barack Obama&#8217;s poor bowling performance during his campaigning in Pennsylvania.  One of their political commentators quipped, &#8220;Perhaps he should have stuck to shooting hoops.&#8221;  I absolutely couldn&#8217;t believe they would say something like that on the news.  And it wasn&#8217;t some random yahoo, it was someone that [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Hardball on MSNBC they were talking about Barack Obama&#8217;s poor bowling performance during his campaigning in Pennsylvania.  One of their political commentators quipped, &#8220;Perhaps he should have stuck to shooting hoops.&#8221;  I absolutely couldn&#8217;t believe they would say something like that on the news.  And it wasn&#8217;t some random yahoo, it was someone that I&#8217;ve seen on MSNBC making political commentary in the past.  If it matters in how you think of this, this commentator was white.</p>
<p>Now, I have no idea about whether Barack is awesome at basketball; perhaps he is.  However, if I had been working on this piece for MSNBC I would have erred on the side of not appearing racist.  But then again, this entire political season has been one excuse after another to talk about all kinds of borderline racist stuff.  I remember when Barack was dancing on The Ellen Show and CNN had reporter Moost asking people if he was dancing as well as a black guy should.  What kind of a question is that?</p>

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		<title>Are We Still at War?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Mesa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had this rhetorical question in my mind for quite some time now.&#160; There was a time, not too long ago, when the Iraq War dominated the news.&#160; Not only that, but people were protesting.&#160; Remember Cindy Sheehan who was camped outside Bush&#8217;s house in Texas and leading all these anti-war rallies.&#160; About four months [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve had this rhetorical question in my mind for quite some time now.&nbsp; There was a time, not too long ago, when the Iraq War dominated the news.&nbsp; Not only that, but people were protesting.&nbsp; Remember Cindy Sheehan who was camped outside Bush&#8217;s house in Texas and leading all these anti-war rallies.&nbsp; About four months ago, it all disappeared.&nbsp; Coincidentally, this is more or less the same time when Britney Spears had her breakdown and the Presidential Primaries started getting interesting.&nbsp; </p>
<p>Of course, I&#8217;m not the only one who&#8217;s asking this question - on 14 February&#8217;s The Daily Show, Stewart had a segment called &#8220;Iraq?&#8221; where he asked, &#8220;Is this still going on?&#8221;&nbsp; He went on to mention that Iraq is still f-ing around in Iraq and that the Parliament had approved a new flag.</p>
<p>So what has caused everyone to suddenly stop talking about the war and what has caused the protesters to stop protesting?&nbsp; It would have been Richard Nixon&#8217;s dream come true with the Vietnam War.&nbsp; I wonder if it&#8217;s because things are finally doing well enough that people think it&#8217;s going to come to an end anyway, so there&#8217;s point in protesting.&nbsp; Or is it because, with a presidential race, perhaps the right president will win and get us out of there?&nbsp; </p>
<p>The information about the war and the protests against it ended so suddenly, I just wonder what happened.&nbsp; And I always find myself wondering&#8230;.did the war end?</p>
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		<title>Would you elect a black man or white woman?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always been a bookworm and so around the age of 11 or 12 I asked all my male and female friends whether they would vote for a black man or a white woman for president.&#160; Everyone, male and female alike would always say black man.&#160; I was surprised that the ladies didn&#8217;t stick up [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve always been a bookworm and so around the age of 11 or 12 I asked all my male and female friends whether they would vote for a black man or a white woman for president.&nbsp; Everyone, male and female alike would always say black man.&nbsp; I was surprised that the ladies didn&#8217;t stick up for one of their own.&nbsp; I was so surprised, that I would ask my friends this question every couple of years.&nbsp; We moved a little and I also changed who I hung out with so I wasn&#8217;t always asking the same people.&nbsp; Yet, even though high school and college a majority would say they would rather go for a black man.&nbsp; </p>
<p>When I would ask the women what was wrong with having a woman president, they would think for a bit and answer something like, &#8220;I just can&#8217;t see a woman as president,&#8221; or &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t trust a woman president.&#8221;&nbsp; It was rather a strange thing to hear.</p>
<p>Now, strangely, we find ourselves in the position that either one of those two will be selected as the Democratic nominee.&nbsp; Right now they&#8217;re roughly neck and neck.&nbsp; So I wonder if perhaps something about the people I always chose to hang around with biased them against liking a woman president or if it&#8217;s different just because now it&#8217;s real and not just a lunch-time hypothetical.&nbsp; </p>
<p>I think the final result tells us a lot about what&#8217;s stronger in our country - racism or sexism.&nbsp; After all, I&#8217;ve actually heard people call into NPR shows saying they won&#8217;t vote for Obama simply because he&#8217;s black.&nbsp; That&#8217;s the kind of stuff I thought we were way over from in this country.&nbsp; But no, we find ourselves still dealing with this as a nation.&nbsp; On other shows I&#8217;ve heard people express all kinds of feelings about having a woman president which we&#8217;re supposed to also be over as a country.</p>
<p>Then it&#8217;s off the the national elections, but there I see it as much less about the race or gender of the person than the party the voters prefer.&nbsp; I doubt more than a vocal minority will vote for the other party (or not vote, which is equivalent to voting for the other party) just because the Democrat is black or a woman.&nbsp; Most people who will vote for McCain will be doing it because they like Republicans, not as a rejection of a race or sex they don&#8217;t like.
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		<title>Is it really stealing?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publishers often refer to prohibited copying as “piracy.” In this way, they imply that illegal copying is ethically equivalent to attacking ships on the high seas, kidnapping and murdering the people on them.
If you don&#8217;t believe that illegal copying is just like kidnapping and murder, you might prefer not to use the word “piracy” to [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Publishers often refer to prohibited copying as “piracy.” In this way, they imply that illegal copying is ethically equivalent to attacking ships on the high seas, kidnapping and murdering the people on them.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t believe that illegal copying is just like kidnapping and murder, you might prefer not to use the word “piracy” to describe it. Neutral terms such as “prohibited copying” or “unauthorized copying” are available for use instead. Some of us might even prefer to use a positive term such as “sharing information with your neighbor.” - rms on Piracy in <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">Some Confusing or Loaded Words and Phrases that are Worth Avoiding</a><br />
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<p>Copyright apologists often use words like “stolen” and “theft” to describe copyright infringement. At the same time, they ask us to treat the legal system as an authority on ethics: if copying is forbidden, it must be wrong.</p>
<p>So it is pertinent to mention that the legal system—at least in the US—rejects the idea that copyright infringement is “theft.” Copyright apologists are making an appeal to authority … and misrepresenting what authority says.</p>
<p>The idea that laws decide what is right or wrong is mistaken in general. Laws are, at their best, an attempt to achieve justice; to say that laws define justice or ethical conduct is turning things upside down. - rms on Theft in <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">Some Confusing or Loaded Words and Phrases that are Worth Avoiding</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Recently I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of thinking about copy protection and unauthorized downloading of video content.  I saw unauthorized instead of illegal because I believe that, using common sense principals, it is easy to see that this should not be an illegal process in some circumstances.  My arguments in this post hinge on ethical and logical assessments of the situation, not legal arguments in any way shape or form.  IANAL (I am not a lawyer) so don&#8217;t use the opinions of this post to legally justify your actions.  I do encourage you, however, to use them to try and persuade our leaders that the rules need to change.  </p>
<p>Quickly, to comment on why I chose the above quotes by rms.  I think, as he does, (and all politicians) that the words we use to describe things end up framing the debate.  When downloading of videos is called &#8220;stealing&#8221; it&#8217;s easy to get behind Hollywood&#8217;s side.  After all, who is for stealing?  No one.  I say that stealing requires the taking of some object and denying its use to others.  This is a good definition, right?  If I steal your bike, you can no longer use your bike for riding.  If I steal your car, you cannot get around any more.  If I steal your money, you may be unable to buy the things you need to sustain yourself.  However, if I download video content, who is being denied the ability to watch it?  In fact, with digital media, copying is the opposite of stealing.  As objects are copied, they are seen by more and more people.  </p>
<p>So, when should you be ethically in the clear when it comes to sharing video content?  I feel that anything being shown on network Tv should be legal for me to download; it&#8217;s certainly ethical to do so.  Why?  Because any show I can watch on network Tv is available 100% free.  If I have a Tv and an antenna I can get those channels.  If I don&#8217;t have to pay for them in the first place, then how can it be stealing if I download it?  That would be like saying that if I used a free public wireless access point with a PDA instead of a computer that I&#8217;m stealing the network.  I find it impossible and an utter failure of logic to say that anything that&#8217;s FREE can be stolen.  There should be no limitations on the way I obtain free things.  </p>
<p>Now you might bring up one of the favorite arguments of the copyright owners, &#8220;Network television isn&#8217;t free!  It&#8217;s paid for by commercials!  And the Tv programs you download do not have commercials.&#8221;  That would be a fine argument, if there were any way to actually force me to watch commercials.  It could be an infringement upon my rights as an American to force me to watch commercials.  Who says I can&#8217;t use commercial time to use the restroom or flip channels?  Do they expect us to watch the commercials and then go to the bathroom during the content we are actually tuning in to watch?  I have to admit that I rarely ever watch commercials, thanks to my wife.  She hates commercials so much that she gets antsy if I don&#8217;t let her flip through the channels.  It&#8217;s the same with newspapers, magazines and anything else subsidized by advertisements - I don&#8217;t look at them.  (And no one can make me!)  And if I could be forced to view them, no one can force me to pay attention.  Because, if they can do that, then I&#8217;m getting the hell out of this country.  </p>
<p>One more thing on the issue of commercials.  I can always get a VHS tape or computer and do what I used to do as a kid - hit pause during commercials and start recording after the commercials.  I never recorded commercials as a kid.  And, since I can record Tv without commercials, what does it matter if someone else has done the recording for me?  </p>
<p>So, while the companies might have a legal case against me in court, if we look at this like intelligent, rational engineers, we see that there should be no case against me when it comes to downloading network television.  They were never making any money off of me in the first place, so they lose nothing if I don&#8217;t watch.  The commercial sponsors have already paid for the content and <strong>GAMBLED</strong> that some portion of the viewing public would watch the commercials.  There were absolutely no guarantees, just statistics.  (Which we all know are BS numbers made up during sweeps week)</p>
<p>So now we move to cable television.  When it comes to cable Tv, I argue that I have an even stronger case to be allowed to download the content - I&#8217;m actually paying for it.  Not only am I paying for the programs I watch, but I&#8217;m also paying for thousands that I don&#8217;t.  In fact, since I pretty much only watch Scrubs, The Office, and The Daily Show, I&#8217;m already paying for tons of shows I don&#8217;t even watch.   Plus, all of these except for the premium channels are also paid for by advertising.  They are already paid (sunk cost) and, as I said before, there&#8217;s no way to force me to watch commercials.  </p>
<p>When it comes the the premium channels, I&#8217;m paying a <strong>premium</strong> to watch it, so I think I should have <strong>premium</strong> rights to download this content.  The ethical parts comes in that I should only ethically download shows that play on channels which I am subscribed to.  I would not see the content on the ones I&#8217;m not paying for, so I don&#8217;t have the right to watch them.   This brings me to my next topic, what should I not ethically download.  </p>
<p>I should not ethically download any movies still showing in the theaters and not yet showing on Tv.  There is no way for me to watch this content other than going to a theater, so therefore, there is no logical or ethical reason that I should be allowed to download those movies.  Once they show on Tv, I should be able to download them.</p>
<p>As I mentioned above, we&#8217;ve always had the right to use VCRs to time shift programs.  What logical difference does it make if I&#8217;m using a VCR, TiVo, or downloaded content to the the time shifting?  Think about it - there&#8217;s NO difference!</p>
<p>What it all comes down to is control.  The video companies don&#8217;t like the idea of not being in control.  They don&#8217;t like the fact that Europeans can download American shows while they&#8217;re still showing in America.  Why that artificial system is still in place, I have no idea.  They simply have not joined the technology era.  People of my age group do not want to be inconvenienced by bull crap.  If there&#8217;s a real, logical reason why something can&#8217;t be done, then we accept it.  But, given today&#8217;s digital world, there&#8217;s no reason why I can&#8217;t watch all the stuff they produce in Britain, Spain, or any other country whose language I can understand.  </p>
<p>If they truly need the advertising money, then just move to a James Bond model for all video content.  Have companies subsidize the cost of the show by paying to have the characters wear/use their products.  Then, it won&#8217;t matter if they view it on Tv or off of the internet, they&#8217;ll have to see the products being advertised.  AND, here&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t logically understand why they don&#8217;t do this.  Right now video producers have absolutely no idea how many people watch a Tv show.  All they know is what Nielsen Families watch.  And they are occasionally wrong.  For example, shows like Family Guy that apparently tested negatively or they wouldn&#8217;t have canceled it.  Then they suddenly realized that a ton of college students and other people loved it.  If their products were watched on computers, it would be a trivial task for them to count up how many people were watching the show.  So they&#8217;d be able to accurately charge advertisers based on how many people were seeing the products advertised.</p>
<p>Of course, there is one other issue.  That is the fact that, at any time, a friend of mine could come over with a DVD or VHS tape of some Tv show and I can watch it with him.  This cost me nothing and it may convert me to a fan.  Thanks to my brother bringing over The Office for me to watch, I&#8217;m now watching it on NBC.  Would it not, ethically and rationally, have been the same thing if I had downloaded the first few seasons and then liked it so much that I now watch it on NBC?  I think if you answer honestly, you&#8217;ll see that I&#8217;m right.  Yet, the Tv and movie producers are trying to make it more and more so that stuff you buy only plays in your house.  I can tell you for a fact that if I would have had to go to my brother&#8217;s place to watch The Office I would not be a fan today.  There was just too much inertia working against me going to his place.  </p>
<p>I would like to address one final issue which I also feel exactly the same way about when it comes to music.  For those who cry of the apocalypse whenever someone talks of downloadable content (meaning that if everyone downloaded then the Tv and movie studios would go out of business), I have this to say to you.  First of all, that&#8217;s false for the reason I outlined above - just adapt and build the commercial into the video content.  But even if it did implode, I could not care less.  Look at the FOSS software movement.  While it is true that today a small to medium portion of developers are paid by companies to do the work, a lot of the key work for the first 20 years of the movement was done by volunteers.  And look at the amazing things they created - the Apache web server which runs approximately half of the internet, the Linux kernel, countless programs which run on Linux and other platforms, Firefox - the list goes on and on.  Similarly, I&#8217;ve seen a lot of amazing videos and Tv shows on the internet.  Sure, there&#8217;s a lot of crap out there - monumental amounts.  But I also believe there&#8217;s a lot of crap on Tv (otherwise I&#8217;d watch more than 4-5 shows).  There are a fair degree of people out there with talent who simply do video work in their spare time.  For some great examples, check out this work by <a href="http://vimeo.com/remyyyxarchive">ReMyyyx</a>.  It might not be your cup of tea, but there&#8217;s more out there like <a href="http://vimeo.com/279286">this</a>, <a href="http://vimeo.com/262990">this</a>, and <a href="http://vimeo.com/248092">this</a>.  </p>
<p>I hope I&#8217;ve helped you see past the MAFIAA rhetoric and helped you see things through the logical and ethical point of view.</p>
<p>Please share this with as many people as possible and even send it to your elected representatives to see if we can knock some sense into them.  Leave comments, I&#8217;d love to hear what others think.  They are moderated, so it may take a while to appear.   </p>

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		<title>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Tase Me Bro!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Mesa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As you know, a student was tasered at UF a few days ago.  I hadn&#8217;t written anything about it until now because I wanted to get some details from my brother who matriculates there.  Before I get to his info, I just want to say that this incident has shown why video is [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As you know, a student was tasered at UF a few days ago.  I hadn&#8217;t written anything about it until now because I wanted to get some details from my brother who matriculates there.  Before I get to his info, I just want to say that this incident has shown why video is important in news.  Anyone who, like me, saw the video thought the kid deserved to be tasered.  Why?  The kid, who had the smirk of a self-entitled jerk as he stepped up to the podium, was clearly resisting arrest.  When the police detained him, he pushed them away and broke free.  He then pumped his hands in the air victoriously, although this was cut short by the police catching him again.  He continued to push and shove the cops until they finally tasered him.  You don&#8217;t want to listen to the cops, that&#8217;s what happens.  But the people who only read about the tasering though that it was undeserved.  Undoubtedly those written bits of news left out the way he was acting, the look on his face, and the shoves against the cops.  </p>
<p>Now, here&#8217;s what my brother said, which gives further evidence that he was acting like a total jerk and needed a few volts pumped into him:</p>
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It was a stupid kid who comiendo mierda.  He even has a website where there&#8217;s videos of him doin stupid stuff.</p>
<p>John Kerry came to our school to give a speech.  So he gave his camera to his friend n said &#8220;Make sure to get this&#8221; and then he got up n asked a question. I don&#8217;t know what it was, but he kept on pushing, and trying to cause an uproar by everyone there, legally defined as &#8220;enticing a riot&#8221;.  so the uf police asked him to leave, which just made him act stupider.  So eventually after trying to get him to leave, they told him that he was under arrest and they tried to handcuff him, but he resisted, so now he was &#8220;resisting arrest&#8221;.  Then they finally pinned him to the floor, and he tried to convince them that if they let him go he&#8217;ll leave, but at this time, they already said &#8220;you are under arrest&#8221; so it was too late.  Then they still hand problems cuffing him, so they said &#8220;if you don&#8217;t stop resisting, we will have to taser you&#8221;.  and then the kid starting screaming &#8220;don&#8217;t taser me&#8221; and still kept resisting, so they tasered him, cuffed him, and booked him.  OH, and when they got him to the care, he was quoted saying &#8220;i&#8217;m not mad at you guys, u were just doin his job&#8221;.</p>
<p>SO all in all he was purposefully making a scene, and i think it became bigger than he anticipated it would.  There were then protests on campus the following day, and people are selling shirts that say &#8220;don&#8217;t taser me&#8221;.  so now it&#8217;s globally known, n uf even gets phone calls from london to tell they how they are disgusted with them. etc etc </p>
<p>btw, 2 of the cops were tiny women and definately could not out power the 6 foot tall andrew meyer
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<p>So you see, this guy likes to generally act like a jerk.  On his website he&#8217;s shown at a Harry Potter event holding a sign that reads &#8220;Harry Dies&#8221;.</p>
<p>Also, I found out from my brother today that the UF police are totally handling this in the right way.  There was a protest outside the police station and the cops gave them all complaint forms to fill out.  After that, they didn&#8217;t see what they should do.  Someone thought it would be funny to call in and say, &#8220;I love tasering college kids, where can I apply for a job?&#8221;  Instead of hanging up the phone, the cop gave him the URL to the HR page for hiring.  I hope the cops get cleared because this guy is definitely a jerk who wasn&#8217;t raised right.  His parents are even suing - even though he provoked the whole event.</p>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Mesa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Stanford University, a leader in trying to get Congress and the public to understand the importance of the Public Domain have done what I&#8217;ve been dreaming of doing for a few months now.  They decided to test the doctrine of Fair Use in copyrights by creating the following video.  Any Disney fan should [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stanford University, a leader in trying to get Congress and the public to understand the importance of the Public Domain have done what I&#8217;ve been dreaming of doing for a few months now.  They decided to test the doctrine of Fair Use in copyrights by creating the following video.  Any Disney fan should be sure to watch.  Don&#8217;t know what fair use is?  Don&#8217;t worry, they&#8217;ll explain it below.<br />
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In the case that the above video should be removed from youtube, <a href="http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/documentary-film-program/film/a-fair-y-use-tale">download it from their page</a>.  If that page should happen to be down, then you can download it from me <a href="http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/video/blog/Fairy.mp4">here</a>.</p>

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