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Monday, April 14, 2003
10:26 AM      

The server ate my posting?

This weekend at Chris' place, I wanted to pull up my mind-music lists. I only found one of them. I'm certain I'd posted three lists, and the first posting was the one that would have made a little more sense out of the entry titled "More music of my mind" from the other day.

So, here's the deal: I've been compiling lists of the tunes that flow through my head. The first entry was titled "Radio-head." I doubt that there's any particular meaning to the occurence or frequency of the tunes, although sometimes the tunes seem to be like theme songs for something I'm looking at or reading. I just think it's kind of fun to track what tunes pop up. Luckily for me, I don't hear any tunes by bad 70's hair bands!

HeadRadio FM 98.6- the music that plays inside my head
Andrea has played a particular Lil' Kim tune for me several times, and that's running through my head as I type. Here are some others that have come up on a couple of different days:


• Watching the wheels - John Lennon
• Kodachrome - Paul Simon
• You're so vain - Carly Simon
• John McKee - Jack De Johnette
• Hideous Mutant Freekz - Axiom Funk [the real Funkadelic]
• Bang a gong - T. Rex
• (smile a little smile for me) Rose Marie - The Flying Machine
• Chocolate City - Parliament
• Third stone from the sun - Hendrix
• Oye Como Va - Santana
-::-
• It's too late - Carly Simon
• Hotel California - Eagles
• Standin' by the highway - Graham Central Station
• None of the above - Duran Duran
• Brown Sugar - D'Angelo

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I spent a good part of this weekend studying principles of design and layout. I learned about "Golden Section" [1:1.618] and "Root 2" [1:1.41] Rectangle proportions. Thee are very powerful tools in organizing layouts on a screen or a page. Suddenly, a number of the designs I've been seeing make structural sense. It's not the first time I've read about unity, balance, rhythm, and proportion. This time, though, the consice approach made sense out of it all. I think the courses at Sessions.edu keep getting better.

 

:::

Uggh! Denise just sent me a link about the Patriot II law that Bush&Co are trying to worm through into legislation. Basically, it boils down to heightened secrecy for the government, complete invasion of privacy for citizens, and no right to sue if you're wrongly investigated.

Some excerpts from "Patriot II: The Sequel--Why It's Even Scarier than the First Patriot Act ":

...under Patriot II, federal agents would not need a subpoena or obtain a court order to access our consumer credit reports. ...

To see the information, the feds would only have to certify that they will use the information "in connection with their duties to enforce federal law." Note that they would not have to certify that the person whose information was accessed was suspected of terrorism, or indeed, any other crime . And no one would be notified that their records had been accessed. ...

...one could envision a disruptive war protester who resisted arrest being tagged as a "suspected domestic terrorist," and forced to provide DNA. Would the government need to get a court order to procure the DNA? Not under Patriot II.

And what if the protester wouldn't comply? That would be a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in prison and a $100,000 fine. ...

...Patriot II would, if enacted, makes it even easier for the government to engage in surveillance of U.S. citizens, without having to establish traditional probable cause under the Fourth Amendment. ...

...Patriot II would provide immunity from liability to law enforcement engaging in spying operations against the American people. The proposed act provides a defense for federal agents who engage unauthorized searches and surveillances relating to foreign intelligence when they are acting "pursuant to a lawful authorization from the President or the Attorney General."

...don't even think about trying to protect your email. ...

... as currently drafted, [Patriot II] would make it a new, separate crime to use encryption in the commission of another crime.

Notably, the federal felony relating to the "incriminating communication" need not be an act of terrorism . It could be any federal crime, from the most major to the most minor, the most violent to the most excruciatingly technical. And that's frightening.

For instance, if a peer-to-peer website's users swap files, thus violating the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and encrypt the files they are swapping, they may automatically face five years in prison, and could serve ten, for the encryption alone.

While the government, according to Patriot II, has the right to know virtually everything about you, you have little right to know anything about the government. ...

It's a clever strategy: Collect private information. And then when citizens try to find out what you've collected, cite their own privacy right back at them as a reason not to divulge it.

Suppose you, as a citizen, attended a legal protest for which one of the hosts, unbeknownst to you, is an organization the government has listed as terrorist. Under Patriot II, you may be deported and deemed no longer an American citizen.

The original USA Patriot Act has sunset provisions, under which the Act will expire if not renewed in five years. Patriot II, however, does not have such provisions. Indeed, it would go so far as to remove this important check from the original Patriot Act.



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