What if the SCO case was on IRC?
Posted June 17, 2003 
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American firm sued for Genocide
Posted June 17, 2003 Comments(0)
Comments(0) A friend of mine is staying with us this week because he’s in San Francisco attending precedings at the 9th Circuit Court of appeals. He’s volunteering for a law firm which has been persuing a case since 1996 against Unocal 76, which charges them with complicity in atrocities committed by the Burmese goverment on their behalf in building a pipeline near the Thai-Burmese border. This article from Forbes is one of many that have mentioned the suit in the past few days.
Many people I’ve talked to think that it shouldn’t be American corporation’s responsbility to police the actions of foreign governments they work with, that it should be the job of our government. Well, the government doesn’t even have diplomatic relations with Burma; and besides, Bush is against this case because it might “hurt the war on terrorism” (meaning we wouldn’t be able to sub-contract out our torture).
Corporations should be responsible for who they do business with. The governement forbids companies from dealing with Communist or Terrorist countries, they put the same embargos up against oppressive regimes, make a dollar cost for atrocious behaviour oversees. But wait, then we couldn’t enjoy cheap goods made by Chinese prison labor…
AIDS LifeCycle 2
Posted June 9, 2003 Comments(0)
Comments(0) I got up extremely early this weekend to help send off the second annual AIDS LIfeCycle 2; the successor to the AIDS Ride which is run completely by the SF AIDS Foundation and the LA Gay and Lesbian Center.
I rode in the AIDS Ride for three years (CAR 5, 6, 7) and crewed on CAR 8 (Bike Tech). The tone of the rides changed dramatically in the later years, culminating with the overblown ego-fest that was CAR 8. Finally, the SFAF and LAGLC decided to take their fundraising in to their own hands (these events are responsible for a large portion of their yearly budget). Last year they launched LifeCycle which competed with Pallota Teamworks CAR 9. Shortly afterwards, Pallota tried to sue the LifeCycle, and then his company closed it’s doors.
Not many of us participated in last years ride because we felt bitter over everything that was going on. Neither ride had an attendance more than 900 riders (down from a high of 2700 just a few years earlier). And of course, AIDS services here and in LA suffered for it.
This year, the only event running was the LifeCycle, and my good friends Erick and Wes decided that it was time to get on their bikes (I chose not too this time for all of the other projects I had going on). I did go over to volunteer on Day Zero and Day One, and as soon as I walked in the gym I’d wished I had signed up. The amazing energy of the previous rides was definitly back. The LifeCycle directors were definitly keeping a frugal eye towards expenses, but using the experience of the last ten years to run a well-organized and exciting event.
The ride should just be entering the Central Valley now, with 6 days of amazing adventure ahead of them. I hope they find the wind at their backs, their campsites dry and warm, and all the best on their trek to LA.
Subversion (CVS Replacement)
Posted June 6, 2003 Comments(0)
Comments(0) I lost track of this a while ago, then found it again as I started looking in to WebDAV subversion.tigris.org
OSX, X11, and Emacs
Posted June 6, 2003 Comments(3)
Comments(3) A holy grail decision for me to move to OSX was the rumored ability to run X11 apps (Emacs, for example) in the native OSX windowing environment. I’ve heard rumors from a few people who got it to work, but I never have actually seen it running…until today…
There were a couple of steps to get this to work, so let me point them out in case it helps anyone out.
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