"No livejournal post yet?" she says

[xoder]

So, work.
Lightning closed things early, but I still got paid. Its all good.

Regarding the Pledge of Allegiance debate:
"Under God" is a blatant state endorsement of monotheism. My (and your) First Amendment rights protect us from such.
The original Pledge of Allegiance (written by a minister!) read:

I Pledge Allegiance
To the Flag
of the United States of America
And to the Republic
For which It stands
One Nation
Indivisible
With Liberty and Justice
For All

It was changed in 1954 to prove to the Knights of Columbus (and other religious and quasi-religous groups) that the United States of America was not a Godless Communisim. I know I loved McCarthyism, didn't you?
Lets keep it as it was written before.

And in other news, faboo has pointed out a very disturbing concept in computing today. Hit up his journal and click the link for one of the more recent posts... Fucking SCARY

that is all,
PETER

Comments

[faboo.livejournal.com]

well, not necessarily monotheism. but, to think that something can be "under god" in any fashion is kind of, well, humorous.

it should be noted that I'm something of a pantheist. as far as being `under' god then goes, well, as tyler says, you determine your own involvement.

(oh, and, the government shouldn't be forcing impressionable children (that would be all of them) to do anything but stay black and die. err, no that's morgan freeman. the government should only force kids to obey their parents and not kill people; for the most part)

[faboo.livejournal.com]

oh, and it's not a concept. intel started lubing us up for with the p3. it wasn't well recieved, but microsoft is in on it now. hailstorm (think, hotmail) will help, the doosy is media player. media _has_ digital `rights' management (I got news for them - you ain't got many rights, and making copies of old stones songs isn't one of them). if you rip a cd with it you can't take that wma file to another computer. ms is also unvailing pavillion, which I'm sure will be woven into .net. intel has specs for a chip that will essentially kill your ability to download random crap from the internet to view media, as well as keep you from developing media viewer programs yourself.
sometimes I think I should perform more intellectual theft as a form of civil disobedience.

silly people

[(Anonymous)]

Yes...I find it sort of silly that our congress would _add_ a religious reference in there at all. (I've been wondering what the average IQ is for congress a lot lately) This might cause people to *gasp* call in to questions other references of god.

From the Democrat & Chronicle:

"Other critics of the decision were flabbergasted and warned that it calls into question the use of "In God We Trust" on the nation's currency, the public singing of patriotic songs like "God Bless America," even the use of the phrase "So help me God" when judges are sworn into office."

Gee, I've been questioning these references for many years. The "under God" line is one reason why I stopped repeating the Pledge a long time ago.

And yes, stupid people are scarry. Stupid people w/ power are even more scary. It's like the whole "region" thing on DVDs. If I move from New York to California, I need two different players for the DVD's bought in two different regions, or I need to buy all my DVDs over again. And they think people pirate stuff just because they want to steal their property when part of it is that people don't wanna deal w/ stupid shit like that.
Again, bad people, NO Biscut!

re: dvd regions

[faboo.livejournal.com]

really? I thought region 1 was all of the US and canada.

Re: re: dvd regions

[xoder.livejournal.com]

And Mexico, I believe

Re: dvd regions

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm... you're right. Silly me, believing that professors would actually know what they're teaching about.