Category Archives: Rant

Bitching and moaning about whatever I feel like bitching and moaning about.

JREF Youtube Account Suspended

We haven’t heard an official explanation as to *why*, of course, but I can guess — a fake DMCA takedown request from the religious right or some practitioner of “woo” offended by Randi’s straight talk and overwhelming correctness compared to … Continue reading

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For The Bible Tells Me So

Really, you people should read the book. It’s got some CRAZY rules. I really should have watched West Wing.  Every time I see something from it, it’s great.  Maybe I’ll borrow the DVD set from somebody or… something.

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Atheists Irritation?

This is a response to Blogosaurus Vex’s post, which you may want to read first.  I’ll take it point by point, with a summary. Here are some things that bother me about how some athiests think and behave: Some athiests … Continue reading

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Harper values his position more than he does Canada

The non-Conservatives decided to form a coalition government because Harper wasn’t doing anything about the crumbling economy, and what does he do?  He suspends parliament for seven weeks, so absolutely nothing can be done. And already the attack ads have … Continue reading

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Conservative Party Will Reintroduce the “Canadian DMCA” If Elected

It failed once, thankfully, but that doesn’t mean their corporate backers don’t want them to try again. The Conservative Party has released its platform and it devotes a half-page to copyright that leaves little doubt that it plans to bring … Continue reading

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Warner Music dinosaur’s death throes

Warner Music says music video games must pay more.  Apparently they signed deals that were acceptable but now think they should get even more. Rock Band tracks cost around $2 each, which doesn’t include the ability to actually just listen … Continue reading

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Canadian DMCA is worse than the American one

From BoingBoing.net: Canadian Industry Minister Jim Prentice introduced his answer to the American Digital Millennium Copyright Act today as planned, and it’s even worse than the US DMCA. The Canadian DMCA allows every single exception to copyright to be eliminated … Continue reading

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Creative Labs Creatively — I mean Unethically — Encourages Hardware Upgrades

Full info at this Wired News article.  The gist of the problem is this:  Creative Labs has written their sound card drivers (the software that tells your Operating System how to use the hardware) so that they don’t work very … Continue reading

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PZ Myers expelled from “Expelled”

PZ Meyers, the man behind one of a few of my daily must-read blogs, Pharyngula was refused entry into a screening of the upcoming creationists propaganda film “Expelled“.  I’ve already talked about what a pile of crap that movie obviously is, … Continue reading

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The Data So Far

This really needs to be stressed more to the people who counter skeptics with “Well you never know!” Yeah, we don’t.  But neither do you, and so we fall back to probability based on previous similar claims, which is ZERO.

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