While suing a guy for illegal downloads, they also are trying to push that the CD’s he owns and ripped to MP3 for personal use are also illegal: In legal documents in its federal case against a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the industry …
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Mild santa ana winds
It is a little counterintuitive to open the windows in order to warm the house up, but strange are the ways of living in a 100 year old house with no heat. It was very cool last night (not far from freezing I’d guess), but gorgeous today. The sun is out and the canyon is …
Pentecostals in Latin America
The CS Monitor has a great 3 part series on the explosive growth of the Pentecostal movement in Latin America. The first two parts, dealing mostly with Guatemala and Brazil are posted and have been quite interesting. I’m looking forward to the third. As church lights dim across the US and Europe, Christian houses of …
The city of my birth
(part of my notes from a few weeks ago) For my flight out of Williams Lake there is the same number of airport security people as there are passengers. Bored out of their minds, they took the opportunity to test out all of their new tools – swabbing, testing, and probing my backpack and laptop …
Bailouts
This makes my blood boil: Bush to outline 5-year rate freeze plan “…sources, who are familiar with details of the trade group’s pitch, said the plan envisions covering subprime loans taken out between January 1, 2005, through the end of this past July, with rates that are due to reset over the coming 2-1/2 years. …