OK, I've successfully moved the glossary, the poll system, and QOD over to the new server and they seem to be running fine. I'm going to continue moving pieces over, and then I'll be moving IAM (which means custom layout gets turned on too!). So… later today I'll make that announcement and I'll try and give a good estimate of how much downtime the IAM move will generate.
In other news… I'm going to be a bit vague who I'm talking about (he reminds me of Kimble), but I had a Canadian friend recently travelling from overseas come back home to Canada and had a stop-over in the US. Even if you're just stopping over, you still have to pass through US immigration for some reason. Anyway, he works in the tech sector as well, and has in the past had involvement with various hacker circles and got himself in some trouble along those lines a long time ago, but since then he's travelled and lived extensively in the US and abroad without difficulty (he lectures on scientific subjects internationally, as well as conducting business around the world).
Anyway, this time he got tagged as a “potential terrorist”… They used some “moral turpitude” clause and held him for a day and a half in an immigration prison. Luckily they eventually released him (although they didn't want to allow to continue to Canada; they wanted to make him return to overseas and then get a direct flight)… Anyway, I wanted to remind everyone that the FBI is now able to break into your home with very little to no proof, plant monitoring devices in your computer and elsewhere, and then give you “delayed notice” three or more months later (as long as they want — the “delay” can be extended indefinitely). This isn't conspiracy stuff — this is happening, and it's law.
I'll also mention that the US government is currently doing everything in its power to block peace acts in the Sudan, and to keep the civil war going and to aggressively drill for oil (that's a link to the summary of the bill being blocked, which has been ammended to stop big oil companies from interfering in the Sudan). And it's not like they have to justify it… After all, Rumsfeld has actually said that proof should not be a requirement for starting a war when there's terror involved.
Finally, now America and Britain are talking about sending troops to India and Pakistan in an attempt to diffuse the upcoming nuclear war. Ah, good. America and Britain are there as well — hello World War Three!
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