Some time in the last two years those charming wonderful pro-competitive people at Microsoft have removed Word's ability to save a file as Wordperfect. I rarely use Word, and if I need to read a Word file into WP I could always have WP do it for me, but I don't like to be herded like this. Silently degrading my software's capabilities is NOT NICE.
Fortunately, there's Graham Mayor's WordPerfect converter for Word which reinstates the old functionality.
Welcome to new UM law student blogger Pura Vida! Here's hoping Constitutional Law reveals more of its beautiful mysteries during the coming semester.
Inspired by one of Pura Vida's first posts, here's my favorite unexpected ConLaw hint: Read the entire constitution to yourself out loud. I'm serious. We read too fast, usually. There's a tendency for the eye to skip over stuff. Reading out loud makes us slow down. Besides, the language is so elegant….
(PS If any readers know of any UM law student bloggers not listed in the left column, please let me know in the comments or via email. Thanks!)
Bilmon reads the NY Daily news:
Whiskey Bar: The Out of Towners Defense attorneys call it Brooklyn's Abu Ghraib. On the ninth floor of the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, terrorism suspects swept off the streets after the Sept. 11 attacks were repeatedly stripped naked and frequently were physically abused, the Justice Department's inspector general has found.
The detainees – none of whom were ultimately charged with anything related to terrorism – alleged in sworn affidavits and in interviews with Justice Department officials that correction officers … shackled their hands and feet before smashing them repeatedly face-first into concrete walls — within sight of the Statue of Liberty …
I've heard stories like this which pre-date 9/11, but one has the strong anecdotal feeling that 9/11 and/or the Patriot Act has created a psychological climate among law enforcement which makes things much worse than previously.
Pictures of mock executions destroyed, report says. Via AP:
Pictures of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan posing with hooded and bound detainees during mock executions were destroyed after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq to avoid another public outrage, Army documents released Friday by the American Civil Liberties Union show.
The results of an Army probe of the photographs were among hundreds of pages of documents released after the ACLU obtained a federal court order in Manhattan to let it see documents about U.S. treatment of detainees around the world.
Of course, this is small potatoes compared to the White House/Rumsfeld decision to put the General who ordered the abuse in charge of so-called investigation into it….
This is what I call a great error message:
I even love the file's name, “ono-freakout.gif”.
Flablog suggests that Jeb!'s attempt to get the power to control voter lists (see yesterday's item) may be DOA in the legislature, and provides quotes and links to prove it.
That would be nice.
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