Walter Williams on academic racism
Many of America’s colleges and universities have become the modern leaders of racism and intolerance. Recently, we were treated to information about racism at the University of Michigan, where its
academic elite gave students 20 extra points toward admission based solely on race. The U.S. Supreme Court found this explicit racism unconstitutional but did allow continuance of a more hidden form, where universities can consider race as ‘a plus’ in admission decisions. But this is the tip of the iceberg.” (09/05/03)
Until we start making academic institutions aware that the Constitution exists on their campus they will continue their actions. Lets face it, these institutions do not believe they need to worry about a certain dead tree document that was written so long ago.
Comments are off for this postLet’s all join the fun, shall we!
It’s a given that the beeb has become a disgrace.
However, there’s been naught to be done about it, as HMG holds the reins on that particular wagon. Not that anyone who cares about doing it right is even available there to do the steering; quite the contrary, as the obvious forms of bias are shoved down the public’s throat 24/7 with nary a peep or push to be seen. The ultimate insult is being compelled to pay £116 each year, even if one NEVER watches the beeb, but just to be permitted to tune one’s TV to anything.
In addition to the new service via the Daily Telegraph,
Readers are warmly invited to point out examples, but please make them specific and give the name of the programme and the date on which it appeared, and send them to beebwatch@telegraph.co.uk.there are sites such as this, this, and this on the Web devoted to exposing the beeb for what it really is; the designated mouth for the Leftist Brigade. Now we all can jump in. Time to take the beeb to account; we have a lovely opportunity by using the eMail address in the opinion piece to send in very specific and annotated instances of each and every time the beeb goes wrong.
Those are your marching orders for the day, and every day thereafter!
Comments are off for this postAl Queda rattling the cage again
Rational Review reports this cheery news.
A new tape purporting to be from Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network yesterday threatened an onslaught against Americans so devastating it would obliterate memories of the September 11 suicide attacks. The audio tape message, dated September 3, was broadcast on al-Arabiyya satellite TV channel yesterday and seemed timed to coincide with the
second anniversary of the devastation in New York and Washington in which about 3,000 people were killed.” (09/08/03)
MEMRI reports that this lot of Islamo-nazis has got their website back up as well. How long before that is hacked?
1 commentE hysteria bollocks
It was billed as the one of the most dramatic warnings the world has ever received over the dangers of ecstasy. A study from one of America’s leading universities concluded that taking the drug for just one evening could leave clubbers with irreversible brain damage, and trigger the onset of Parkinson’s disease. ... But today, scientists are facing up to the humiliation of admitting that the stark results they reported in the study were not a breakthrough but a terrible, humiliating blunder.” (09/07/03)
Rational Review has found this wonderful example of scientific cock-ups. Of course, E may not be dangerous, but it turns its users into total wankers.
Comments are off for this postWell Alabama could be worse, it could be Nigeria
Gavin Esler writes about how minor religious squabbles are compared to somewhere like Nigeria. Americans sue each other over religion, Nigerians slaughter and maim each other by the thousands. That homicidal religious nutter Hill was the exception, not the rule.
Comments are off for this postIn The Jungle, The Mighty Jungle…
Just when I thought that these guys couldn’t get any dumber. Yet they continue to surprise.
From the Washington Post. (I forgot to get the link. So sue me.)
Amnesty in Works for Music File Traders
Reuters
Saturday, September 6, 2003; 8:49 PM
By Bill Holland
WASHINGTON (Billboard) – The Recording Industry Assn. of America plans to announce an amnesty program this week that will let noncommercial online copyright infringers off the hook if they remove all illegal music files from their computers.
Sources tell Billboard that the amnesty program would apply only to alleged infringers who have not yet been sued by the RIAA or identified by Internet service providers as a result of the RIAA’s subpoena process. Those deemed for-profit commercial pirates cannot participate in the amnesty.
Additionally, RIAA amnesty applies solely to sound-recording infringement. The file sharer still could be held liable for infringing upon the underlying music composition.
The RIAA would not comment on the proposed program.
Sources say the RIAA will not pursue legal action if all unauthorized music files are deleted from the copyright infringer’s computer. The infringer must also destroy all copies of the material in any format, including CDRs, and promise not to upload such material in the future.
Each household member who is an infringer would have to fill out an amnesty form, have it notarized and mail it to the RIAA with a copy of a photo ID.
Those who renege on their promise could be referred to the Department of Justice for willful copyright infringement.
The RIAA plans to announce the amnesty program, which will be posted on the Web site of the music industry antipiracy coalition musicunited.org, at about the same time it is expected to announce the filing of “several hundred” lawsuits this week.
The trade group, using a subpoena process authorized by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, requested and received the names and addresses of more than 900 alleged infringers.
2003 ReutersI thought I should include the Reuters copyright in case they get pissy about it; though maybe they should instead be feeling nervous about reprinting Hamas propaganda wholesale.
As much as I’d love to continue financing the cocaine-fuelled careers of the fine folk who’ve inflicted Mariah Carey and Justin Timberlake upon the long-suffering public, I’m afraid they’re going to have to tweak their legal strategy somewhat.
Suing your putative customers is a bad idea. Making them swear to some kind of Trumanesque loyalty oath is laughable.
Engage brain. Give people what they want when they want it for a competitive price and you just might recapture your market.
Either that or the P2P geeks will redouble their anonymizing efforts and then you’ll truly be in a room of twisty little passages, all alike.
7 commentsThoughts for the Day
Can you cry under water?
How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
If money doesn’t grow on trees then why do banks have branches?
Since bread is square, then why is sandwich meat round?
Why do you have to “put your two cents in”...but it’s only a “penny” for your thoughts”? Where’s that extra penny going to?
Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
What did cured ham actually have?
How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
Why is it that people say they “slept like a baby” when babies wake up like every two hours?
If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?
If you drink Pepsi at work in the Coke factory, will they fire you?
Why are you IN a movie, but your ON TV?
Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
How come we choose from just two people for President and fifty for Miss America?
Why do doctors leave the room while you change?
They’re going to see you naked anyway.
If a 911 operator has a heart attack, whom does he/she call?
and finally…
Why is “bra” singular and “panties” plural?
Comments are off for this postNew Eye of the (hard) Left
Blogs of War has morphed into Eye on the Left. It is the place you go to find stuff written by the loony left that will wind you up. If you are ever in search of something to cosh, you are sure to find something here.
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