I've now changed the archive link at the bottom of the front page. It used to link to some feature that our original developers started but never came close to finishing.
So now that link goes to the regular diary page for the Front Page diary. It's not perfect, as when you click the link you'll get a duplicate of the stories on the front page currently, but it'll do for now. You can at least get to older stories from there by clicking the year and month as needed.
At about 7pm tonight, I was on my way to Circuit City. For work I need to be in reliable contact so, against the desires of every bone in my body, I have to go buy a wireless phone. A block away from the store, my hate for phones, and the wireless variety in particular, became my last concern.
Yeah, it's not really on topic to anything here, but I'm excited and wanted to share.
Just look. Look at it. It's the introduction to Mega Man 9!
Heh heh heh. I so badly want this game to be the start of a trend. After Mega Man 9 I want Super Mario Brothers 4, Space Harrier 3, Fantasy Zone 4, and more, more, more!
I'm not normally one for lawyer bashing, but...
Most people, when we sign a contract, we understand that we're supposed to follow through with what we promise. Contracts are one of the pillars of our economy, without which we would have the mess you see in any lawless banana republic.
Alameda County, California is going bananas though, as a county Superior Court judge has ruled that wireless phone service providers may not enforce their contracts with customers, and people are free to wriggle out of them whenever they want, with no termination fee allowed.
Quoting the Mercury-News:
Californians fed up with being charged for ending their cell phone service prematurely won a major victory in a Bay Area court decision that concluded such fees violate state law.
In a preliminary ruling Monday, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Bonnie Sabraw said Sprint Nextel must pay California mobile-phone consumers $18.2 million as part of a class-action lawsuit challenging early termination fees.
Say goodbye to subsidized hardware, folks, if this ruling isn't smacked down hard. I hope all the people who enjoyed getting an iPhone cheaply are ready their warmest regards to the the California courts if this forces AT&T to charge full price instead of giving you the hardware cheap with a commitment, because if this ruling is the future, that model just became impossible to sustain.
I'm done with her
It appears that Rep. Mary Bono Mack has decided she's done playing the bait-and-switch on California district 45, and is now openly flaunting her leftward drift over the years. Via Red County, Mary Bono Mack is bragging about voting to override President Bush's veto of runaway socialist spending by the Pelosi-Reid Congress.
It's no longer enough for her to be a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership, and to have gradually slid away from being the continuation of Sonny Bono's own representation. Now she's on the record as being with Pelosi and against Bush, with the Democrats against the Republicans, and so I'm done with her.
Governor Schwarzenegger has announced a new slate of judicial appointees, and he is now completely favoring left-wing Democrats. In the past he was managing to appoint slightly more Republicans than Democrats, as Jon Fleischman points out, but now he has gone completely over the line and favors Democrats over Republicans.
The numbers: in May he appointed 9 Republicans, 8 Democrats, but now he's appointed 16 Democrats, 12 Republicans, and 2 independents. And given that this is California, being a Democrat is a sign of much more than it may mean in some states. Our Democratic party is far-left, and yet our "Republican" governor is packing the courts with Democrats.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the cost of the "win first, principles second" mentality that drove the support for the Girly Man, and other pro-abort, left-wing 'moderates' to begin with. We've been told repeatedly by a faction of the party that if only we'd just chuck out inconvenient platform planks on abortion, marriage, and the like, we could win and at least achieve some positive Republican governance. But now Schwarzenegger is living, party-betraying proof that running as Democrat-lite only gets you Democrat-lite governance.
The only way to achieve anything is to stick to your guns, and fight to the last. That is what conservatives in California must do. Without us holding our ground, all will be lost in this state. California needs a sensible Republican party doing what it can in the minority more than it needs a go-along, get-along Republican party with an occasional majority.
Before it becomes a dirty word around here, an explanation
Regular readers of Red State 3 feature discussions have noticed a common thread in many of my responses to them:
So what is this caching, what's it for, and do we really need it?
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