we voted...

...and still managed to get cyd onto her bus on time.

how 'bout you?

avoid Sony DRM-protected CDs

Someone with the knowledge and tools discovered their software for permitting you to make backup copies (and in doing so, theoretically limit you to three, max) is a major root-kit that abuses your system and does somewhat nasty things.  They also work rather hard to hide the fact that the software exists and in no point of the EULA of the software does it say that you as the consumer agree to having this software daemon installed on your box.

(note: to avoid DRM-protection on import cds from the EU, particularly Spain and France, look for cds from the same label's canadian division at amazon.ca -- Mike Oldfield's TB 2003 was "protected" in its Time-Warner-Spain release, but its Time-Warner-Canada release had no protections at all.)

Keep reading the followup articles linked at the bottom -- the story gets worse...

interesting thought...not comfortable, though...

The Uncredible Hallq: Depression and the definition of disease

"[a Slate article on depression as a disease] ends by mentioning the influence pharmaceutical companies have on our ideas of the ideal. We may be heading for a world where our idea of the perfect mind is every bit as controlled by corporations as our idea of the perfect body."

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seen all of the shiny happy people holding hands out there? even more so than car commercials, cosmetics, or the music industry, the drug companies are definitely the ones out there in the forefront of telling us what "normal" is, all the things that "everybody else is doing and you aren't".

all i have to say (to the #1 image in most commercials i've seen so far) is i haven't thrown a frisbee in about 8 years.

and i think that's normal.