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Damn! The Feds are nuts. How are they going to prosecute a million-plus people for doing this? [here]
I know why the publication ban: criminal trials and jury selection. The optics of the publication ban made it a target for leaks.
Frankly, the Liberals and all of their appointees might as well start looking for new positions.
Oh, and for the readers from the US: The Liberals are actually a lot more small-“c” conservative than the name applies.

Scott Berkun’s monthly essay is on the topic of why and how Smart People defend Bad Ideas. [here]

I have been in and seen people in these situations many times in my life. One of the great faculties we as human beings have is that which allows us to make decisions and then defend them.

But because you have arrived at an idea, doesn’t mean that it is the right idea. New evidence, further discussion and growing experience will affect the answer you give to the same question at ages 20, 40 and 60.

However, where I see this happening most right now is at Apple. To say it is a new phenomenon would be ignoring history. Steve Jobs Computers and Electronic Gadgets, Inc. has had a history of saying “we’re right and the customer is stupid.”.
Eventually, this attitude will catch up with them, and they will get to spend 4-5 years clinging to life, until they are able to generate a new whizbang gadget to pull them back from the edge. I am starting to see the rumblings of discontent from the Apple Fanatic community: Apple is their friend until they wander “off-message”. Then they are loose cannons that must be silenced.

Smart people defending stupid ideas. I know that some folks from Apple Inc have stopped by to read my postings. The question is whether they are brushed off as the ramblings of a lunatic who doesn’t use an Apple computer (YET!), or if it has sparked some internal conversation.

If Apple has not noticed the rumblings of discontent, then they are far more insular than I have heard them described.

Apple, let the other people out in the world who use and love your products talk about them freely. Let someone else invent the idea for a change. Steve Jobs will not live forever; and based on Apple’s success without Jobs, I believe that you need to apply an old ad slogan to yourselves now:

Dear Darren, et al. (al.):
Thanks for linking to the new Google Maps Satellite Feature. [here]
It’s 7:15AM EDT, and I can go home knowing that my geek nature has been fulfilled for the day.

PS: The arrow is at the wrong end of the block. I suppose that doesn’t matter with an ICBM…

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Captain’s Quarter Blog! (c/o Autonomous Source.)
And my Web Traffic looks like that of the Autonomous Source. So, if you can, donate to keep the aging Industry hardware running, and the Bandwidth Demons at bay.

The Gomery postings have drawn a huge amount of traffic to my server. It’s been fun to watch the numbers explode all day.
I will return to normal blogging tomorrow.

I love this! One of the few reasons why being in the US makes me feel better slamming this topic!
Mike Brock on the Attack: Gomery Considering Charging Bloggers

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Apparently, there has been direct verification that the report on the Captains Quarter’s blog got the main facts of the Brault testimony correct. [here]
Link removed from origin site due to threat of legal action in Canada.
I always did enjoy Spring elections…

Canadians Are hungry for Gomery news. My Web server has seen more traffic today than it has in a very long time, and today is likely to be one of, if not the, busiest days in a long time.
bound by gravity continues the Gomery Link-o-Rama. He saw 3522 hits on Sunday…his server will likely meltdown later today.
Could be an interesting day in Canada. If I were Paul Martin, I would call the election now, before anything else gets out. He’ll be lucky to save his own seat.
Mainstream Media Links:
Globe & Mail
news.google.ca

Hits for April 2005

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Why wait until tomorrow when the BQ reads Friday’s Gomery Testimony into the Hansard Record during Question Period? Get all your Gomery Rumour and innuendo in the US media and blogs…and from ex-pats who are out-of-country and can say any damn thing they want on the topic.
Frankly, I think that the Liberal Government should fall. It was a shock to me that they managed to hang on to a minority. In a new election, Quebec won’t be so nice to them, and Western Canada will be shocked by the Quebec favouritism and vote en-masse for the Conservatives, with the NDP picking up some scraps in BC, Ontario and the Maritimes.
Chretien should be made to pay it all back — all $1 billion+ he and his cronies stole from the Canadian people.
Frankly, Canada is just a giant deep pit of greed. Moving to Europe is looking more and more like the only way to escape the stupidity of the Americas.

Bang, Bang
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer came down upon his head

Snopes has a great discussion of the myth of the Silver Hammer Technique upon the death of a Pope. [here]