Year archives: 2003

You’re All Criminals!!

Recently, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has been pressing states to enact new legislation aimed at criminalizing the possession of what they call “unlawful communication and access devices.” These measures represent an unprecedented attack on the rights of technologists, hobbyists, tinkerers and the public at large. In essence, these proposals would allow “communication …

Who Said It’s Fair?

There have been allegations of French military and other supply sales to Iraq, in violation of U.N. sanctions. Now it seems the Russians could also be involved in such things…. I guess it’s so easy for other nations to ignore the United Nations “behind its back”, so to speak, and not have to face the …

Welcome Back Qatar

I’ve been hearing the country Qatar’s name being pronounced so many various ways in all the war coverage — from “gutter”, “cutter” and “gatter” to “guitar” (or maybe it was “gitter”)(!) — I started to wonder just how the heck it’s supposedly properly pronounced (in American English)… According to Merriam-Webster and their online audio pronunciation, …