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Friday, February 13, 2004
If you're willing to use IE 6 and Windows Media Player 9, there's a video linked about half way down this page featuring Mike and Aric's ceremony. The story itself is about conservative responses, but the video is just swell.
posted by jeev |
6:53 PM |
 
These are my friends, Mike and Aric. They just got married.
Huzzah!
posted by jeev |
1:45 PM |
Microsoft, unwillingly open-sourced:As previously reported, Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla said late Thursday that incomplete portions of Windows 2000 and Windows NT were illegally posted to the Internet.
On Friday, Internet users were ferociously downloading pirated versions of the source code, stoking concerns that hackers and virus writers could use it for a new wave of cyberattacks.
posted by jeev |
10:17 AM |
Gavin on the bottom line:Newsom said not granting same-sex couples marriage licenses is discriminatory.
"We are reading the direct language within the state constitution, and we directed our county clerk to do the right thing and extend the privilege that's extended to my wife and myself and millions of us across the country to same-sex couples," the mayor told CNN's Bill Hemmer.
Newsom said he did not accept that gay marriages were against state law, again citing the California Constitution.
"Where is the fundamental decency to extend the same privileges and rights the rest of us are afforded?" the mayor asked. "What is the fundamental right to perpetuate a policy of separate but unequal that people seem to suggest is a compromise?"
posted by jeev |
9:36 AM |
Thursday, February 12, 2004
Whoo ha!:History was made at 11:06 a.m. today at San Francisco City Hall when Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon took their wedding vows, becoming the first same-sex couple to be officially married in the United States.
Mabel Teng, the city's assessor-recorder, officiated over the ceremony, inserting the phrase "spouse for life'' in place of "husband'' and "wife.'' From the Chronicle.
posted by jeev |
12:31 PM |
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
It's all For Your Protection:Meanwhile, protesters arrested at antiwar demonstrations in New York last spring were extensively questioned about their political associations, and their answers were entered into databases. And last week, a federal prosecutor in Des Moines, Iowa, obtained a subpoena demanding that Drake University turn over records from an antiwar conference called "Stop the Occupation! Bring the Iowa Guard Home!" that the school's chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, a civil libertarian legal group, hosted on Nov. 15 of last year, the day before a protest at the Iowa National Guard headquarters. Among the information the government sought was the names of the leaders of the Drake University Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, its records dating back to January of 2002, and the names of everyone who attended the "Stop the Occupation!" conference. Four antiwar activists also received subpoenas in the investigation.
On Tuesday, after a national outcry, the U.S. Attorney's Office canceled the subpoenas. Still, says Bruce Nestor, a former president of the National Lawyers Guild who is serving as the Drake chapter's attorney, "We're concerned that some type of investigation is ongoing." From Salon.
posted by jeev |
3:55 PM |
You go, Gavin: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom put California right in the middle of the fight over same-sex marriage Tuesday, saying he wants the city to try to find a way to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples in defiance of state law.
Newsom's plan would make San Francisco the first city in the state to allow gays and lesbians to marry and would almost certainly lead to legal challenges. That in turn would force the California courts -- as state courts have in Hawaii, Vermont, New Jersey and Massachusetts -- to determine whether barring same-sex couples from marrying is discriminatory and unconstitutional. From the Chronicle.
posted by jeev |
1:41 PM |
Sunday, February 08, 2004
Dubya on Russert: I'm dealing with a world in which we have gotten struck by terrorists with airplanes, and we get intelligence saying that there is, you know, we want to harm America. And we're dealing with a world in which a man who believes this to be a coherent sentence is the President of the United States. Talk about your "nightmare scenerios."
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12:09 PM |
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