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I threw this together for myself, so it could use a lot of improvement, but it gets the basic job done.  Up until now Rikaichan ignored the ALT text for images.  Many many japanese sites provide fully detailed ALT text describing their image buttons, making it much easier to navigate the japanese web (especially E-banking and Commerce sites) if you can tell before clicking what a button is about.

PLEASE improve this!  Currently if the button contains a lot of text, I just brute-force translate it word-by-word.  A much better solution would be to hook in google-translate, or display a popup containing the original japanese so the user can roll over it and have rikaichan translate that text bit by bit. Download Rikaichan with ALT Image support.

These days I have heard a lot of decent concerned people called traitors simply for thinking about what is right and just in a time of fear-mongering and propagandized news.

It is a serious word, with a meaning that people too clearly forget.

AT&T joined with our government to illegally spy on us all.  I will not bore you by reminding us all what it means when the state and corporations unite against the public.  Suffice it to say that those senators that voted to immunize AT&T from prosecution are traitors to the founding principles of the United States.  Of course they would not have to make a vote on such a simple issue of principle were it not for George W. Bush leading us down a road to illegal spying, but that is the least of his crimes, and to talk it up belittles his far greater crimes against humanity.

Like, for instance, that while many other nations actually do have representative democracy, we prefer to let college students with no voting history pick our presidential candidates.