Quick tidbits
In the last 72 hours, I have read a lot of annoying things, and this exactly why I’ll skip 98% of them. They’re boring, if not depressing. Today’s late mini-crop:
- Conficker infects UK parliament, and Microsoft comes with an Update on Conficker.D. If I’m not wrong, the French parliament is infected with… Kubuntu? Cool, this should prevent them from opening 20 Firefox tabs on YouTube or Dailymotion, otherwise the Flash plugin might crash their browser…
- In France, there is a Criminalisation de la pauvreté. Specifically, if you collect some food from the dumpsters of a supermarket, you’re handcuffed and arrested as a thief! Yes, taking something from garbage is considered theft in the country of Jean Valjean, but also of Vincent Bolloré, Serge Dassault, Bernard Arnault, Arnaud Lagardère or Martin Bouygues.
- Graphic Artists Condemn UK Ban On Erotic Comics. Apparently, owning some drawings that appear to be under 18 and appear to be involved in some sexual activity makes you a criminal, a pedophile.
- UN Attacks Free Speech, in that the UN Human Rights Council adopted in a 23-11 vote a non-binding text that urges member states to adopt laws outlawing criticism of religions. The discredited UN Human Rights Council is attempting to drag the world backward. Instead of the Enlightenment, medievalism. I’ll express my opinion while I still can: all religions are dumpshit. Atheism is not a religion. (Wikipedia: “Atheism is the philosophical position that deities do not exist, or that rejects theism. In the broadest sense, it is the absence of belief in the existence of deities. [...] In Western culture, atheists are frequently assumed to be irreligious or unspiritual. However, religious and spiritual belief systems such as forms of Buddhism that do not advocate belief in gods, have been described as atheistic. Although some atheists tend toward secular philosophies such as humanism, rationalism, and naturalism, there is no one ideology or set of behaviors to which all atheists adhere.”)
- Here’s Why Toddlers Don’t Do What They’re Told. It’s because they store the information for later use. It’s still not clear why the politicians never do what their own mouths say that they’ll be doing.
- In Romania, the project of the future Code of Criminal Procedure is going to allow, “exceptionally” (as an exception set to become the new rule?!), at Art. 100, the evidence obtained through illegal means, including evidence obtained through or derived from evidence obtained through torture, inhuman or degrading treatments. Also, electronic surveillance and criminal pursuit can be directed to persons that are suspected they intend to attempt to commit a crime for which the penalty is of 5 years of prison or more. Moreover, such persons are called “suspects”, even if normally a suspect is someone suspected to have committed a crime, not to have the intention to do so in the future! Details in Romanian on CRJ.ro, and the projects of the legal texts on OpritiCodurile.ro (also in Romanian).
- The Full Text of the “exclusive” Obama interview for FT (taken on March 27 and printed today) is terribly boring.
- I wasn’t aware of this, but exept for Vista Home Basic and Home Premium, Vista’s MSG.EXE Replaces NET SEND. Good to know.
Mar 31, 2009 at 18:37
"In France, there is a Criminalisation de la pauvreté. "
C'est pour lutter contre la pauvreté (quel meilleur moyen que d'envoyer les pauvres en prison -et on pourrait les taxer : comme il ye a beaucoup, ça ferait beaucoup d'impôts-) et promouvoir la richesse en abaissant (mais pas assez, suite à l'inertie de l'Europe et au cryptogauchisme) les taxes sur les produits de luxe (qui font vivre des millions d'emploi français, comme leurs représentants l'écrivent).