Wenn die Verfassung ein EULA wäre
am 28.03.2005 von http://www.aktenvermerk.atUnter dem Titel Important Changes to Your Citizenship Agreement—Please read and retain for your records schreibt Evan Eisenberg auf Slate eine bissige Satire auf die US-Innenpolitik.SECTION 5.The Freedom of Speech section of the Agreement is amended to distinguish between “Regular Preferred Speech” and “Non-Preferred Speech”. The Non-Preferred Speech rate applies to all speech which is not in good standing as defined under the …
Eliminiating Freedom - One Civil Right at a time
Aktenvermerk / The (US) Government Printing Office sells a set of flash cards that are designed to help soon-to-be citizens learn about our government. Question 80 asks, “Name one right or freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment.” The answer lists fre…
Danish Cartoonists c./ Free Speech
Law & Justice / The never ending story about the 12 Muhammad-cartoons c./ free speech continues. Read the whole thing. A real must-read! Even Franco Frattini, the vice-President of the European Commission, got involved and called the publication of the twelve carto…
Anonymous Speech
blat.antville: Simons Blawg / Wendy Seltzer about The Importance of Anonymity - in the Internet and elsewhere. Zusammenfassung: Ein ausgezeichneter Artikel über das Recht auf anonyme Meinungsäußerung, namentlich im Internet, über den in den USA hierfür…
Islamophobe Danish Cartoons: EU Can Run, But Cannot Hide
Law & Justice / Four months ago to the day, on September 30th, Jyllands-Posten published its twelve Muhammad cartoons. Over the past four months The Brussels Journal, an internet publication, has posted 19 (!) stories about the affair, but the mainstream media…
Anonymität und Meinungsfreiheit
Handakte WebLAWg / Über die Wechselwirkung von Anonymity mit Freedom of Speech als Grundsatz mit Verfassungrang in den U.S.A. schrieb Wendy Seltzer: The...…
English translations of speeches by Federal German President
Transblawg / Heiko Hebig has an entry: Are all English translators in Germany on strike? Surely Horst Köhler has delivered more than one speech. He links to this page of English speeches by Horst Köhler. They have his inaugural speech to the...…
Unusual in Texas
neues aus schwabenheim / In den USA werden einige Verfassungsänderungen vorbereitet: SECTION 13The Cruel and Unusual Punishment section of the Agreement is unchanged, except that unusual is amended to read unusual in Texas. (via Aktenvermerk)…
Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition
Handakte WebLAWg / The Voice Browser Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition. The draft...…
