Comindico raises the white flag

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Bear Raises Red Flag About IBM Bookings

Bear Raises Red Flag About IBM Bookings 01/02/2004 06:20 PM
TheStreet.com Jan 2 2004 5:42PM ET

Dell raises Red Flag Linux in China

Dell raises Red Flag Linux in China 12/04/2003 03:41 PM
ZDNet Dec 4 2003 3:13PM ET

Record Heat Raises a Flag (Los Angeles
Times)

Record Heat Raises a Flag (Los Angeles
Times) 05/03/2004 05:27 AM
Los Angeles Times - Record high temperatures in Southern California on Sunday sparked increased concern about the region's renewed vulnerability to wildfires and sent flocks of people from sunbaked inland neighborhoods to the beach in search of rare ocean breezes.

Under-administration Comindico to be
sold ASAP

Under-administration Comindico to be
sold ASAP 09/23/2004 09:21 PM
ZDNet Australia Sep 24 2004 0:48AM GMT

Cisco pulls plug on Comindico

Cisco pulls plug on Comindico 09/24/2004 12:05 PM
Melbourne Age Sep 24 2004 3:45PM GMT

The Velvet Underground's White Light
White Heat

The Velvet Underground's White Light
White Heat 07/23/2004 09:36 AM
The Velvet Underground's White Light White Heat played on banjo, bass guitar, ruler, music box, violin, toy piano, electric guitar, accordion, squeezebox, euphonium, ukulele, kazoo, xylophone, pixiphone, uumskither, mbira, pod, delay, turntable and percussion.

White Light / White Heat

White Light / White Heat 07/23/2004 11:15 PM

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White men bad; white dogs worse

White men bad; white dogs worse 04/05/2005 09:24 AM

We spent the weekend in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with an anthropologist friend who has two 3-year-old bitches (Lab and Husky) and 4 acres of land on which Alex and Sammy could play with them.  One of the nice things about colleges located in areas where real estate is cheap is that the professors live close to the campus and are available to students for informal dinners and shared extracurricular activities.  Thus over the weekend we encountered a few other Gettysburg College professors.  I asked one of them whether faculty could bring their dogs to work.  She replied "The college's Affirmative Action lawyer, before she left, made up a lot of new rules.  One of them was that junior and senior faculty could not sleep together.  Another was to ban dogs in the buildings."

This is a good measure of how desperate PhDs are for jobs as college professors.  The college pays lower salaries, to people of the same age, as the public high school down the street.  The high school teachers were able to go to work at age 22 without suffering through a long period of starvation wages as graduate assistants.  The high school teachers are union members who ever have to worry about losing their job, compared to the college professors who live for 7 years in fear of being tossed out as a middle-aged has-been ("denied tenure" is the polite term for this event).  And now these poor souls are expected to get through their day without a dog at their side and without the possibility of an interlude with a more senior professor.

[Note to parents:  if you want to know why tuition prices have risen so fast, consider that a very small liberal arts school was paying a full-time lawyer to work on affirmative action; Walmart has a "Chief Diversity Officer" but they had $billions in revenue over which to spread the cost.]

No Red Flag at Red Hat?

No Red Flag at Red Hat? 06/17/2004 01:45 AM
Business Week Jun 17 2004 6:08AM GMT

"That flag is our flag"

"That flag is our flag" 07/26/2004 05:51 PM
Veterans, led by war heroes Wesley Clark and Max Cleland, charge out of the trenches in Boston for John Kerry.

To Liberate From the White House the
White House Press

To Liberate From the White House the
White House Press 03/14/2005 04:35 PM
Dan Weintraub, who covers politics at the Sacramento Bee, wants "an aggressive, curious and analytical press corps, based anywhere (including cyberspace), fact-checking the snot out of the White House and writing critically about the president's statements, proposals and actions."

"Flag on the Play"

"Flag on the Play" 09/07/2004 02:01 PM

A Red Flag Over Lakes

A Red Flag Over Lakes 05/04/2004 04:49 PM
A management focused on its stock price is a good reason to fold.

Raise your Flag.

Raise your Flag. 02/19/2004 06:33 AM
Thanks to Baba Yoshihiko Fink has now taken the necessary steps to allow for internalisation efforts. The improved infrastructure enables us to display a multilingual web-site to our visitors from all over the world. This also means that we need volunteers. The Fink web-site needs to be translated into the language of your choice. A translation into Japanese is being worked on and the translation into French has been taken over by Michele Garoche. Which language are you willing to translate? If you are willing to become a member of the internationalisation team or wish to provide acknowledgement on the web-site feel free to join the new mailing-list. You can do so by going to our mailing-lists page. The full announcement on the existing mailing lists can be read here.

Chequered Flag

Chequered Flag 04/01/2005 07:59 PM
Welcome to Chequered Flag

Fly your freak flag!

Fly your freak flag! 05/26/2004 07:40 AM
Dylanesque rhymes from "outsider" Danny Cohen; a carefree tune from the obscure The Robot Ate Me; and a coming-out song that evokes George Michael -- and that's a good thing.

The tarnish is the flag...

The tarnish is the flag... 05/16/2004 07:25 PM

It's probably evidence of the good that a couple of days off work can do to a man that I suddenly find myself able to write a brief post about politics - a subject that I'd normally handle with kid gloves attached to the end of a long barge-pole, itself glued to the end of some kind of excrement-encrusted stick. In my experience, most arguments about any subject function by flattening down complexities to tiny arguable issues. Normally we derive significant utility from this style of argument - but I think with politics our ability to find core and simple arguable issues disappears. With each person added to a political situation, the complexity grows exponentially, and when we try to reduce things down to first principles we end up with the sparsest and most atavistic of binaries - things like "them" and "us", and appeals towards cheap solidarity or patriotism, desperate attempts at face-saving and feeble gestures towards self-interest.

Which brings me to a post from the 37 signals weblog called It's good that you're upset. It's not an evil piece, it's not even a stupid piece - it's actually a desperately sad and mournful piece that tries to scrabble for positive meaning out of the behaviour of a small selection of incredibly stupid American servicemen overseas. Here's a quotation:

The world is rightfully disgusted by the treatment of some Iraqi prisoners, but the fact that the world is outraged is a good sign that America is still held to a higher standard. The Arab street remained mostly quiet when Saddam tortured for three decades or when American soldiers were dragged through the streets and hung to dangle in public a few weeks back. And how many leaders in the Arab world will be outraged that one of their own ruthlessly beheaded an American contractor after forcing him to name his parents and his siblings (and don’t forget about Daniel Pearl who had to admit he was a Jew before his head was cut off)? The world barely gave notice to the Taliban’s systematic and despicable treatment of women in Afghanistan or the destruction of ancient works of irreplaceable art and culture. The world was barely interested in stopping the carnage in Bosnia until over a half-million were killed (and then the UN still didn’t want to get involved). The world is still barely affected by the genocide taking place right now in Africa. But, when the US humiliates some Iraqi prisoners, people are outraged and are calling for resignations at the highest levels of our government. And that’s a good sign for America. We’re held up to a higher standard and it’s something we should be proud of. Not the vile treatment, of course, but the world’s response. We’re in trouble when people stop caring about how we act as a nation.

I wish I could agree, because although the UK's own parallel media situation has been resolved, I don't doubt for a minute that some British soldiers somewhere have undertaken very similar actions to the ones that these American servicemen perpetrated. But to try and find in that evidence that the tarnish is so noticeable because the flags are so bright... Well, it's pretty far from convincing.

The world is not looking towards these things as a momentary blip - that's not why they're so powerful. They're seen as emblematic, as representative, as illustrative of a relationship that America has with the rest of the world. These actions are seen by people to be illustrations in microcosm - direct analogies - with the way America (and the UK) acted flagrantly without consent from the United Nations. They're seen as directly illustrative of their disregard for international law, directly illustrative of America's perception of itself as superior to the rest of the world and qualified to police all of it according to what best serves it's own best interests. Those countries that are railing against America because of these pictures are not doing it because they're holding America to a higher standard, they're doing it because they finally feel they have human-scale evidence of the enormous insensitivity and clumsiness of the entire nation.

I think the most important thing I could say at this point is that it doesn't matter whether that's true or not. It doesn't matter whether or not America is a rampaging power, it doesn't even matter that an incredibly small minority of US forces have been behaving in this way or exposed. What matters here is that we in the west actually understand and accept that the stances of our governments are not seen by much of the world to be moral or good or positive, but rather self-serving, arrogant, interventionist and actually corrupt, and that pretending that we're well-liked isn't going to anyone any good.

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Red Flag Over the Reichstag

Red Flag Over the Reichstag 04/12/2004 03:43 AM
Some very moving Soviet war photography, notably several shots of the famously doctored (not to mention staged) but nonetheless dramatic hoisting of the Red Flag over a burned out Reichstag (a scene which, by the way, recently appeared in a videogame).

Why the Broadcast Flag Matters

Why the Broadcast Flag Matters 03/14/2005 06:12 PM

Susan Crawford explains why this week's oral argument concerning the FCC's broadcast flag ruling is important to the future of the Net.

Canada's Broadcast Flag

Canada's Broadcast Flag 09/08/2004 04:44 PM
Cory Doctorow: The Broadcast Flag is a US regulation that nominally prevents Internet redistribution of digital TV signals, but in fact sets up a world where Hollywood studios and their captured regulators get a veto over the design of all new TV technology -- and distort the market for PC components like hard drives and video-cards in a way that will hobble innovation, drive up prices and shut out open source.

Weirdly enough, Canada seems to think that this sounds pretty good.

Given the controversy associated with the broadcast flag in the U.S., one would think that Canada would be wary about embarking on the same route. Accordingly, it came as a shock to many when an Industry Canada official recently indicated that Canada was likely to follow the U.S. lead by quickly implementing a similar system by July 2005. The official suggested that there was broadcaster support for the measure and that since the U.S. had adopted it, Canadians had little alternative but to follow suit.

While Canadian broadcasters may or may not support the broadcast flag (they have in fact been rather publicly silent on the matter), it is essential Canada craft its own policy by considering the privacy and copyright policies associated with the proposal.

Pre-judging the issue, as some in Minister Emerson's department appear to have done, is a dangerous course of action, that should be replaced immediately by a working group of all stakeholders, including the broader public interest, intent on studying the Canadian options. The suggestion Canada faces a Y2K-like deadline with respect to the broadcast flag appears as overblown as was the Y2K threat itself.

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Tivo and the broadcast flag

Tivo and the broadcast flag 08/02/2004 11:50 AM
Want to see just how absurd our attempt to regulate the sharing of content has become? Read Rob Pegoraro's excellent explanation, in The Washington Post, of TiVo's recent proposal to the FCC for an exemption to the Broadcast Flag ruling....

FCC Approves Broadcast Flag

FCC Approves Broadcast Flag 11/04/2003 07:06 PM
As was very much expected, the FCC ignored plenty of reasons why this is a terrible idea and has approved the "broadcast flag" for digital TV programs. All digital TV receivers will need to recognize this flag, meaning that people will (a) need to buy new equipment and (b) lose plenty of fair use rights. Note that it will do nothing to stop "piracy" as the industry claims. It's unclear from the quick Associated Press version of the article how the broadcast flag is going to be implemented (that is, who is going to set it up and approve it), but I'm sure that information will come out shortly. Anyway, here we have another political decision that will do nothing to solve an actual problem, but will make most people worse off.

Red Flag On Silicone Implants

Red Flag On Silicone Implants 11/06/2003 06:28 AM
CBS News Nov 6 2003 5:38AM ET

Flying the product flag

Flying the product flag 04/16/2005 10:09 AM
Express Computer India Apr 16 2005 2:14PM GMT

Lawyers act in Turkish flag row

Lawyers act in Turkish flag row 03/28/2005 01:26 PM
Turkish lawyers file a complaint against the country's most senior military officer in a row over an attempted flag burning.

Is flying the flag patriotic?

Is flying the flag patriotic? 06/08/2004 06:03 AM
The St George's flag is everywhere in the run-up to Euro 2004, but many people still feel threatened by it. Send us your views.

Broadcast Flag Burning

Broadcast Flag Burning 08/02/2004 07:00 PM
I wasn't convinced that the broadcast flag was such a big deal. But this story about Tivo asking the FCC for permission to add new features is changing my mind. Creative destruction doesn't ask for permission. (Thanks to Jonathan Zittrain, Susan Crawford)....

Red Flag to red rose to red tape
(FT.com)

Red Flag to red rose to red tape
(FT.com) 01/23/2004 04:15 PM
FT.com - Over the past couple of months a team of Treasury officials has been redeployed - as event organisers. Gordon Brown's conference on advancing enterprise on Monday, with its stellar guest-list of international policy-makers and business leaders, has presented unaccustomed problems to officials more used to dealing with the minutiae of economic policy. Tours of Numbers 10 and 11 Downing Street have had to be arranged and the invited audience has had to be guaranteed swift passage through security checks: 40 people a minute, the Treasury has been promised. ...

Can we deal on the Broadcast Flag?

Can we deal on the Broadcast Flag? 06/17/2005 07:13 PM
Congressman Richard Boucher says that the broadcast flag should only be approved if Congress is also willing to establish clear legal pathways to fair use. But what does the content industry really want?

"Canadian flag causes flap in the U.S. "

"Canadian flag causes flap in the U.S. " 12/10/2003 10:15 PM

Broadcast flag goes into effect 7-1-05

Broadcast flag goes into effect 7-1-05 07/06/2004 11:34 AM
Build your own PVR. Why TiVo when you can freevo? A cool little forum for couch potatoes warriors.

Canadian flag causes flap in the U.S

Canadian flag causes flap in the U.S 12/09/2003 08:28 AM
it pisses Americans off .. Ottawa Citizen .. more

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Thai flag with porn

Thai flag with porn 12/07/2003 08:39 PM
CNET Asia Dec 7 2003 8:05PM ET

Capture the Google Flag

Capture the Google Flag 01/04/2005 11:39 AM
From Germany comes this nicely-done game that pits you against the computer or another human, as you each try to take over the world by doing Google queries that turn up documents localized in various parts of the world. The game uses netgeo which finds the geographic location of the IP address of the page. Once you start the Flash app, you'll get instructions in English......

Wal-Mart Waves Red Flag

Wal-Mart Waves Red Flag 06/28/2004 11:53 AM
The leading retailer lowers its June sales forecast as worries persist over a lawsuit.

Microsoft Waves the Flag?

Microsoft Waves the Flag? 04/28/2004 08:52 AM
On the heels of blasting the European Commission for its proposed antitrust remedies, Microsoft is making available for download "The European Flags Screensaver."

Flag Day, June 14th

Flag Day, June 14th 06/15/2004 03:56 AM
What the Heck is Flag Day Anyway? .. June 14th .. feestdag

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It's like the broadcast flag... in your
pants!

It's like the broadcast flag... in your
pants! 12/02/2003 01:52 AM

"Does Madonna have the right to tell you how to dispose of your jeans? From the way Time Warner, the Gap stores, and eBay are acting, you'd think she does."

-- from the strange tale of not being allowed to sell a CD the Gap gave away to you.

The odyssey of the german parliament
flag

The odyssey of the german parliament
flag 07/17/2004 06:25 AM
Oh how much can this flag endure?
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