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Google's G1 phone is looking kinda hawt

I really, really, really smacked down the urge to get an iPhone because it was bound to the detestable ATT; whereas I am already bound to the somewhat detestable TMobile.

Obligatory segway into political commentary : I hate ATT because it's the company that came after the breakup of ITT which was one of the major corporations to finance dictatorships all across Latin America in the 60s and 70s.

Anyhow ...

Am looking at this image and am totally feeling my bossom heave. HAWT!

BTW : Does the G1's trackball have an outie?

To be honest, I am not so enamored with the actual casing. As one twitterina said, "it looks cheaply made". Yet the price is looking all right : Starting at $179, which by the time you get your data and voice plans in place and pay taxes and fees, it's probably going to run to about $225 initial price with about $40/month in usage fee.

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The irony

I am looking for a new hosting company. I can't out of principle stay with company who'll cave-in to bully tactics and ennable complete lack of legal procedure in dealing with DMCA claims. The DMCA can be used in an abusive manner by IP and hosting companies and I believe this has been the case with me.

I used the cover of Hello! to not even discuss Brangelina or Shiloh but the idiocy behind the idea of exclusivity in the digital age. Meanwhile, there are at last count 15+ prominent gossip blogs running not just front cover pages but scans of the whole magazine article.

I have been discussing this issue with some people who have had a lot of experience on this issue (I will be announcing them soon) and the comment of one of them struck me as totally ironic. I can't tell you who said this to me, but the quote is priceless : "You may have to get a hosting company with servers in another country ... like Russia.

Unfruggingbelievable.

To exercise my first amendment and fair use rights I may have to get a server in the former Soviet Union, the bastion of European communism and the reason the world was caught in the deep freeze of the Cold War.

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Words to live by

One thing that I've found unsettling, though, in listening to coverage about the protests thusfar, is this "good immigrant/bad immigrant" rhetoric that's present in what some people are saying, protesters and organizers alike. This morning, while listening to NPR, I heard one woman speak about how Latino immigrants aren't doing anything to harm this country, that they "love America" and just want to become good, hard-working Americans. Then I heard one organizer, speaking at one of the rallies, say something like this: "Nineteen people hijacked planes and participated in the 9/11 attacks, and not one of them were named Gonzales, Rodriguez, or Santiago. But you can bet that many of the people dying serving their country in Iraq are named Gonzales, Rodriguez, and Santiago" so on and so forth.

I understand that much of this is in response to the whole immigration debate getting wrapped up in worries about "national security" - how the specter of terrorism seems to make allowances for all manner of discrimination, racism and xenophobia, and how countless immigrants are nonsensically made to suffer because of it. However, it definitely seems like a very bad, very problematic move to buy into this sort of dichotomy that pits "good" immigrants or "good" brown folks (here, Latinos) against "bad" ones (apparently people of Arab or Middle Eastern descent - because, you know, the actions of individuals become the responsibility, the fault, the burden of their entire race and religion.) Latinos, like all other immigrants to the United States, deserve to be treated with respect and dignity and are entitled to certain rights and protections because they are human beings, not because they're good, flag-waving*, American-loving immigrants. No one is illegal, no matter whether your name is Juan or Mohammed, Gonzales or Atta.

— AngryBrownButch | no one is illegal