Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

It’s now thought that over 1,600 anti-war protesters have been arrested in San Francisco since the demonstrations began in the Land of the Free. Some of the SF protestors got more than they expected, as a video shot by Lisa Rein shows. There were, of course, protests elsewhere.

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I’m back in the UK after returning from San Francisco, and I’m watching today’s considerable strike on Baghdad on the BBC. Seeing the plumes of smoke rising into the sky from the buildings that had just been hit by US cruise missiles, I was struck by the similarities with the 911 attack on the Twin […]

There’s some interesting anti-war protest planned here in California. There’s lots of poster around like “Are you sick of war? Phone in sick when the war starts” and people are planning to protest in the San Francisco financial centre in an attempt to stop it.
Most radically, a group is planning to invade Vandenberg Air-force […]

I think that people aren’t taking the threat of war seriously. Sure they talk about it, how awful, how silly it all is, but these days we live such a cosseted existence that people think that it might go on, they’ll watch some of it on TV, maybe a few troops from their country die, […]

The World’s most famous hacker, Kevin Mitnick, has had a pretty harsh treatment (understatement) since his first incarceration in 1995.
Today, 21.Jan.03 he is finally free of the restrictions that have been placed on his forbidding him to use the Internet.
At last, many may be saying.

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The Times has a pretty sobering opinion piece.
Following the link a the bottom of the article I found, what poports to be a transcript of George Bush addressing US troops in Texus. It starts withNow you’re called again into action, to defend America and the cause of freedom in the first war of the […]

Where’s the equality Dude?
I was doing some research for a piece on MS Xbox sponsoring a skateboarding competition and was amazed to see the imbalance between the value of prizes that men and women get for the same competition.
I would have thought that these ‘dudes’ would have been more enlightened and wouldn’t have allowed, at […]

Both this piece and this raise a number of points I’ve been concerned about for a while. As you may have read in my other site, I’m concerned about the erosion of our freedoms to do what we want with our legitimately-owned content. The paranoia that has been endemic in the US entertainment industry is […]

Los Angeles Police Department are expanding video surveillance. But now they are doing in true LAPD style - with bullet proof casings and with a speaker attachment, which exclaims “Stop! This is the LAPD, we have just taken your photograph. We will use this photograph to prosecute you. Leave now”. Don’t you just love them?

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It’s not surprising to see that the face recognition trials in Florida have been a failure, so much so that they’ve now removed the system.

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