a few examples:

Every now and then Bill does something good.

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State senators voted Monday to force schools to ask parents whether their children are in this country legally.

Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, said Arizona taxpayers are entitled to know how many children are being educated who have no legal right to be here. He said asking for documentation when a child is enrolled is no different from asking for proof of vaccinations or that a youngster actually lives in the school district.

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But Pearce did not dispute a contention by foes that simply asking about legal status might keep some parents from enrolling their children, even if the youngsters were born in this country. And he said that doesn’t bother him one bit.

“The laws are intended to make people fearful,” Pearce said.

So first they disadvantage these kids, then when the kids grow up, they can complain about how the minorities are so undereducated and “dumb”, which obliges them to take the worst jobs at the worst pay, and then everybody can complain how the “minorities don’t want to better themselves” and on and on and on in an endless circle. The circle of hate.

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Tony Blair made an electrifying return to UK domestic politics today, skewering the Conservative leadership for inconsistency and indecision while praising Gordon Brown for his “experience, judgement and boldness”.

Does he realize how popular he is?

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The idea is to fight the current Android fragmentation, where there are still phones being sold with OS 1.5, 1.6, and 2.0, and with no upgrades to the current 2.1 in sight, that future versions of the OS will have all major apps and components upgradeable via the Android Market. Chris Ziegler writes:

Put simply, Google’s been iterating the core far faster than most of its partners have been able to keep up.

Google has been iterating quickly, but the problem is that carriers aren’t interested in any updates at all for phones they’ve already sold. The carriers have learned nothing from the iPhone, or, maybe they just don’t care about Android as a platform.

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Today, the jury in the District Court of Utah trial between SCO Group and Novell issued a verdict.

Novell is very pleased with the jury’s decision confirming Novell’s ownership of the Unix copyrights, which SCO had asserted to own in its attack on Linux. Novell remains committed to promoting Linux, including by defending Linux on the intellectual property front.

This decision is good news for Novell, for Linux, and for the open source community.

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“This is a significant victory for Novell and, I think, a tremendous victory for the open-source community,” said Novell attorney Sterling Brennan. He added that while there are still a few issues to be decided in the case and SCO has a right to appeal, “This verdict largely brings an end to this.”