Posted in Academia, legal, politics on Jan 27th, 2007
Via Sara at Orcinus (read at Geoff‘s blog): I’ve been saying for a long while now that the power to end the Intelligent Design fiasco, firmly and finally and with but a single word, rests in the manicured hands of the chancellors of America’s top universities. The message is short and simple: “Teach what you [...]
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Posted in legal, politics on Dec 17th, 2006
It is truly sad to see Americans holding Corporate America to higher standards of transparency and accountability than their own government. Acts such as Sarbanes-Oxley passed in 2002 greatly increased the civil and criminal penalties for executives who knowingly lie (or fail to properly disclose relevant information) to their shareholders. Yet, the current administration is [...]
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Posted in Academia, legal, life on Oct 25th, 2006
Every year, thousands of studies and experiments are conducted on humans by universities and research centers across the nation. The experiments span the gamut from pharmaceutical trials for potential new cancer drugs to basic psychiological studies testing human reflex speeds. The one thing that all the experiments have in common is their relations to an [...]
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Posted in computers, legal, politics on Jul 12th, 2005
The warez scene has once again suffered some significant losses due to the recent multi-country crackdowns. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8419601/ Alleged Net pirates raided across globe 11-nation operation targets large-scale online distributors Updated: 1:00 p.m. ET June 30, 2005 WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced Thursday an 11-nation crackdown on large-scale Internet pirates who illegally distribute first-run movies, [...]
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Posted in legal on Mar 3rd, 2004
MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut (AP) — A woman charged with causing a fatal car crash in 1999 says that she couldn’t have been behind the wheel because she was performing a sex act on the driver at the time. Heather Specyalski, 33, was charged with second-degree manslaughter in the crash that killed businessman Neil Esposito. Prosecutors allege [...]
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