Poor West Virginia. They have it really bad. Every county in that state has a sign saying “a certified business location”. I always wondered just what the bloody hell that was supposed to mean. They are outright begging people to put a business there. I was amazed to see the unemployment rate is really low, [...]
Archive for 24 August 2007
West Not-so-Virgin-ia
Posted: 24 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: appalachia, big corporations, bush administration, devastation, environmentalism, mining, mountaintop removal, W, west virginia
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Windows or else!
Posted: 24 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: bittorrent, constitution, law, microsoft, piracy, punishment
Movie pirate Scott McCausland must switch to Microsoft Windows as part of his sentence for uploading Star Wars: Episode 3 to a BitTorrent site. This is blatantly unconstitutional and I’m amazed any judge would do this. Here is the pertinent line from the constitution expressly forbidding this sort of thing: Amendments to the Constitution Article [...]
Beam me up!
Posted: 24 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: discoveries, physics, quantum computing, quantum mechanics, real sci-fi, teleportation
I love reading an innocuously titled science piece and then coming across an absolute gem like this: “Australian and French scientists have made another breakthrough in the technology that will drive next generation computers and teleportation.” Teleportation? Quantum teleportation as it turns out. Which is much different from the conventional teleportation featured in The Fly [...]
