insanity
The world has gone completely fucking insane.
Exhibit 1. Metallica is apparently suing some Canadian band over the usage of the E and F chords. What the fuck?!? I can understand suing over a riff, but a generic chord progression like E, F? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I'd boycott their music, but I hadn't planned on buying anything from them anyway.
Update: I'm dumb. Not a real story. Something that I would believe that Metallica would do, though. (re: Napster)
Exhibit 2. North Korea is on the verge of producing more nuclear weapons (in case you didn't know, the general consensus is that they probably already have a couple of 'low-yield' nuclear weapons) and the Bush administration just keeps shuffling their feet and averting their eyes.
Exhibit 3. Enough said.
Update: I've copied the above mentioned AP news article into this post, in the interest of archiving. If the AP would like for me to remove this, please contact me.
The French government has banned the use of the word 'email' in all its ministries, documents, publications and websites.
In the latest step to stem an incursion of English words into the French language, the Culture Ministry says the term should be replaced with 'courriel'.
The ministry's General Commission on Terminology and Neology insists internet surfers in France already use the phrase courrier electronique (electronic mail) instead of email.
The commission ruled: "Evocative, with a very French sound, the word courriel is broadly used in the press and competes advantageously with the borrowed mail in English."
The commission has links to the Academie Francaise, the prestigious institution that has been one of the top opponents of allowing English terms to seep into French.
Some internet industry experts say the decision is artificial and doesn't reflect reality.
Marie-Christine Levet, president of French internet service provider Club Internet, said: "The word courriel is not at all actively used. Email has sunk in to our values."
She said Club Internet wasn't changing the words it uses, adding: "Protecting the language is normal, but email's so assimilated now that no one thinks of it as American. Courriel would just be a new word to launch."
© Associated Press
Story filed: 15:54 Friday 18th July 2003
dude, the #1 is a fake, btw. the url doesn't actually point to mtv.com and also cnn reported on it: http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/07/17/ctv.metallica/. i guess metallica isn't THAT ridiculous....yet.