Top Stories published by Desiderium Sciendi in December of 2004

The only serious one today: Pro-free speach activists condem the new New Labour proposed bill to make “Incitement to Religious Hatred” illegal. Commedians fear that their material may become illegal after the law is passed. How long before you can only satarise people of your own culture? How long before satire is illgal (and wouldn’t the politians…


So much stuff…

It’s a pain updating here from my Dad’s PC. It’s so easy to get used to tabbed browsing in firefox that it’s really irritating to have to go back to IE.

Anyway! I’ve not posted for a few days becuase I’ve been mostly eating, sleeping, watching really shite TV and defusing…


The MP/RIAA carry on suing their customers to shore up their old business model. They don’t seem to grasp the idea that it’s very hard to sue either a decentralised service (eDonkey) or one where the list-sites are often hosted outside the US in countries with no reciprical legal conventions (Bittorrent).


Rushed to Press…

Been reading the excellent new Peter F. Hamilton novel Pandora’s Star which contains the excellent new word “mechanthropomorphism” (the tendancy to treat advanced machines as people) which, quite possibly for one night only, is currently a Googlewhack but only as part of “Is mechanthropomorphism a…

These were the top 10 stories published by Desiderium Sciendi in December of 2004. You can also dive into daily archives for December of 2004 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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