Cap and Slave, errrr Trade

California, New Mexico and three Canadian provinces to jointly have a cap and trade program. Regionalism, isn't it nice?

News sites to require personal information of posters

Interesting article from CNN on how news websites are beginning to require people use their real names and provide personal information to post. You watch, one day they are going to require the same for bloggers. That will have a chilling effect on free speech.

Readers of my blog know that I don't cuss on the site nor allow others to. In person I cuss every other word. I also attempt to keep the discussion civil and readable by anyone. I see the outrageous things said on news sites, I have read the racial and gender attacks. Bomb this and kill that type of conversations. I believe it is the job of the website to manage itself by deleting or refusing inappropriate posts. Every comment left on my site is reviewed first. I made a mistake in the beginning and some got by me, I changed the settings.

I allow people to post anonymously because I want people to discuss whatever they want. We have to balance these things. The press is becoming oppressive. They want to regain their control over the news. While a few of the people who follow this blog know me personally, the others do not. Because of this I am able to speak more freely about anything. The vast majority of readers will not know the people I discuss.

I have talked about my ex-wife. The people I know saw what happened, my writing about it doesn't change their opinion. I would not want people who knew her; but, did not know me or what occurred to have an opinion on her. Our examples come from our life, if we are discussing what we learned from them and that is the issue then the reader does not need to know who the parties were.

If I told you that the ex was Demi Moore and that I was Bruce Willis (I am not but do have the same hair) the point of the blog would be lost. It is about issues and not personalities. MySpace is all about personalities and not issues. We don't want to see news commentary revert to MySpace levels.

Privacy a place.

Some stuff

Five people hold keys that would allow them to restart the whole internet if it ever crashed completely. The five people from around the world would meet at a United States Military base to do it.

Hey wait a second, does that mean that the U.S. Military holds the key to all of the web? Makes sense.