In a couple of calls to the AP he has basically stated that if abortion remains legal more violence will occur. Let me repeat that, a known domestic terrorist is threatening more violence, and only he knows the details about that violence.

So using the logic of our former VP doesn’t that mean we should water board him? Waterboarding is wrong but using the logic of the far right, if we only do it to one person its okay right? (No of course it’s not)

60% of companies use IE6 as their default browser

I just finished reading an excellent post over at the webware blog, by Larry Dignan entitled What Browser Wars? The Enterprise Still Loves IE6. In this article he details the corporate worlds long (and continuing) love affair with Internet Explorer 6.

In this article he doesn’t break any new ground but he does reveal some stats that are just amazing. I knew that corporations love IE6, out of the people I am closest with I am the only one without IE6 in my life. However, I did not expect to see that IE6 enjoyed a 60% market share in the corporate world, I expected something between 45 and 50 percent.

The article goes on to ask many questions about how IT departments are killing productivity with browser specific solutions (theres no excuse for those any more, period) and uses the usual anology of giving workers an antiquated piece of technology to deal with current problems.

Where I really enjoyed the article however was where he talked about reasons to switch. All too often these articles pile on about IE6′s myriad amount of problems without detailing why even IE7 or IE8 are better. This article is worth a read because it not only showcases why IE6 is bad but it also provides a great crib sheet you can use for winning over your IT department to your line of thinking regarding IE6.

If you need help killing IE6 there is a number of solutions out there in addition to the article talked about here, these include the website from .net magazine bringdownie6.com, and saveIE6.com, or you can simply do a search to find many more.

Upon reading it, I now know. The case stems from a woman who wanted to have a baby with her partner and the medical office she was a patient of denying her service, they say because she was an unwed mother, she says because she happened to be lesbian. Unfortunate but not all that surprising unfortunately. The part that set me off was to follow however.

Chief Justice Ronald M. George, asked a lawyer for the doctors whether they could refuse to treat patients of their ethnic backgrounds.

Kenneth R. Pedroza, who represented the North Coast Women’s Care Medical Group replied “the answer would seem to be yes.”

Why must we accept peoples religious bigotry? This argument appears to say that slavery would be okay, if it were a deeply held religious belief. What else could we excuse? We have shown in this country that certain “deeply held religious beliefs” are not acceptable, ie. polygamy, why can’t stomp out what can be only referred to as discrimination.

Religion is a wonderful thing for some people, but it should be used as a tool to bring people from all walks of life together, not as a tool to further push us apart.

They are wrong because they are going to asess a new tax that will fund an institute that will look for ways to curb California’s global warming output. Now some of you might say, but Robert global warming is an incredible problem and we must do all we can to stop it, and I couldn’t agree more however this is not the PUC’s job and that is why I object.

It is my understanding (and I could be wrong) that their job is to “regulate privately-owned utilities in the state of California, including electric power, telecommunications, natural gas, water and transportation companies. In addition, the commission regulates household goods movers and rail crossing safety.” thanks wikipedia, their job is not to develop new technology no matter how noble the goal.

We have a California Air Resources Board for that.

I believe the climate crisis is possibly the number one threat to our planet, but this is not the way to solve it. The PUC should do its job, and quit taxing residents of this state for research and development that is outside the scope of the agency.

For more you can read an article at the LA Times.

Once the page loads I happily roll my mouse down from the tabs towards the article link when suddenly I am attacked by…. well the image below will show you.

Yes, that is a ginormous effin breakfast burrito. Problems like this at digg have happened before only I haven’t been exposed to them as I have happily used adblock at work to stop annoying flash based ads and media players, but that doesn’t work when I am at work.

I am an ardent user of digg, it’s one of the sites I visit every day and probably multiple times a day, but lately it’s been seeming less and less like the hang out for whats going on in the world and in tech and more and more like a money driven myspace clone.

I want to stick with digg, and I don’t expect them to stop serving up ads with their links, but stop with the obtrusive ads, because if you don’t the crowd will leave and then who will you serve the ads to?

We sit on the eve of firefox 3, (I’m using the beta build right now to post this from) and looking back on the last ten years online for myself personally it’s incredible. I used netscape back then but soon moved on to IE not knowing how derided and detested it would end up being for various reasons by those the world over myself included.

Without firefox I would have viable alternatives in browsers like Konqueror for Linux, Opera and heck even Safari for Windows but I would not be as satisfied as I am now.

I felt I wanted to write something to mark this day, not as a way to say Happy Birthday to firefox or to congratulate them on the last ten years but rather to wish them success over the next ten.

Hopefully market share can be gained and Microsoft can finally be pushed to support web standards, who knows maybe in ten years Internet Explorer will have gone the way of Mosaic, at the least we will be done with IE6 (Thank god).

If you want to read more here’s the original Netscape press release regarding the GPL release of the source code, or you can read the post marking the anniversary over on mitchell’s blog @ mozilla.

Or if you would like click the button below to “rediscover the web”.

“The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation’s security.”

That wouldn’t be terribly alarming if it came from the likes of Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity or others of that ilk like Rush Limbaugh but no it came from United States senator Jeff Sessions from Alabama in regards to the debate surrounding the FISA bill before the senate.

Now I will keep myself from going on a rant and just finish this post with a merging of a couple famous quotes from great historical figures.

We can not defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home, if we give up a little of our freedom for a little safety we will have neither ultimately.

If you don’t know what FISA is, then get educated from @ wiki

Oh and thanks digg, and thanks UnamericanRevolution

With all that said this is the story of how SitePoint tried to give Internet Explorer a fighting chance … and it lost anyway.

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But shame for doing this, and while I agree with “legal authorities” that VZW is well within its rights in doing this, it doesn’t mean that it is right.  If this was a program where text messages went to all customers on a mandatory basis then blocking it entirely would be appropriate.

Instead however you decided to duct tape the mouth of a group who simply wanted to communicate with like minded people, not convert those who disagreed.  Shame.  When there was so many good and valid reasons to accept this, you chose the cowards way out to avoid controversy, well you let this customer down.

Denying this program is something I just don’t understand, at all.

The war in Iraq has cost LA County over 14 billion dollars alone, the time is now to end this war and impeach the men who started it! They have swindled our treasure away, reduced our influence abroad and worst of all, they have allowed thousands of our bravest to perish for a lie.

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