FTC faces reality about anti-spam provision

PC World says that Spammers Find More to Love in anti-spam Law but I think that misses the point.

Email is governed by an open standard, not a US Statute. But the technical specifics for RFC compliance is somewhat better. If Congress wants to fix email, they should find a way to promote a modification to RFC 821 that will be widely adopted.

Trav, before you get all libertarian on me, I should point out that its in the Constitution (Article I, Section 8) under "To promote the Progress of Science." If you want to argue that this merely sets up the Patent office, then I will need to get back to you after I take Con Law.

But back to my RFC 821 argument. This standard is outdated and needs to be replaced. Oh... Okay, that was all I had to say.

Happy Birthday, Eugene

With a brother who is seven years older, he would (at times) take on Daniel Boone-like qualities.

 

• "Once my brother went backstage at the Hollywood Bowl"
• "Once my brother held the spotlight on-stage at the Palladium"
• "Once my brother met Brooke Shields and pretended like he thought she was Gilda Radner"

 

Here's to my brother, King of the Wild frontier.

Personal Jurisdiction: All your base are belong to us

Point

INTERNATIONAL SHOE CO. v. WASHINGTON, 326 U.S. 310 (1945) : "Historically the jurisdiction of courts to render judgment in personam is grounded on their de facto power over the defendant's person. Hence his presence within the territorial jurisdiction of court was prerequisite to its rendition of a judgment personally binding him. But now that the capias ad respondendum has given way to personal service of summons or other form of notice, due process requires only that in order to subject a defendant to a judgment in personam, if he be not present within the territory of the forum, he have certain minimum contacts with it such that the maintenance of the suit does not offend 'traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice.' "

Counter-point

Zero wing (Sega)
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'zig'.
Captain: For great justice

Why does every good exam answer begin with a standard?

Because every legal question can be answered "it depends"

Ray Charles 1930-2004

The very first movie I ever saw in the movie theatre was a double-feature. Feature #1 was The Blues Brothers which, while being a very funny and silly movie, is based on some extremely sad material. Broken lives, desperate poverty, impossible hopes, rascism, oppression, incarceration... I guess that's why they call it the blues.

Anyway, this entry is about Ray Charles and his musical number from that movie (aka "Shake your tailfeather") which is sadly my only link to any of those post bop dances of the 60's. By the time the concept of dancing had come to my middle school years (which are the years that count for learning how to dance... remember that when you are raising kids) these immortal dances had been pillaged first by Go-Go then by Disco then by slam dancing then by break dancing (especially the Freakin' Robot!) such that all that was left... all that was permissable was to stand around awkwardly and convulse.

How much happier would everyone have been if we could have done the fly, the swim, and the bird, and well... the duck, aah the monkey, hey hey watusi. And what about the food? The mashed potato! What about the boogaloo? Oh, the bony marony... come one let's do the twist AHHHHHHHH

Twistin' shake it shake it shake it baby!

But I digress. Ray Charles was a wise and soulful dude and a dynamite musician. Many have said it, and I say it too.

God Bless the soul of Ray Charles.

Herb Roasted Chicken

Herb Roasted Chicken is both a description of a meal and a declaratory statement about the person who made it