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Cablevision, which has three million subscribers in the New York metro area, has launched targeted, interactive advertising in half a million households and plans to double that number by year's end. TiVo's DVR users already see ads when they pause or fast-forward shows.
Doug and Bob head over to Bob's house for a few beers.
"Just a sec, " say's Bob. "Gotta take a leak, beer's in the fridge"
Doug sits down on the couch , picks up the remote flicks it on.
"And before our feature presentation , we have noticed that you watch a lot of gay porn so we would like to introduce you our latest offering , The All Boys Gay Church Choir Channel ! Featuring ..."
*click*
Bob comes out of the bathroom. "Where's the beer ? "
"Umm...I'm sorry Bob , the wife just called. Some kind of emergancy, I'll catch you later. " leaves in a hurry.
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Targetted ads, hah ! You thought illegal wire taps by the RCMP were bad ? You thought it was already bad with only 22 minutes of show and 38 minutes of commercials ? You aint seen nothing yet !
Let the Mind Control Begin ! This guy dared to click on a computer ad I want his house spammed to death with computer offers we need to convince him to BUY BUY BUY I don't care how over extended his credit card is thats not my problem ....
Monday, June 29, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Dirty In America
article = none , personal experience
I have a friend who married an american girl and moved to the USA , to Texas , actually. Chatted on the phone with him last night and he said some rather interesting things.
He works in the American Education system in a high school down there, and he reports that the american education system is a failure. People don't learn much down there at all. You cannot talk to them about anything "intellectual" like history (he's big on cowboy's and us/ mexican history).
That the americans don't even know much about their own country, let alone any other countries in the world, unless they're currently at war with them and they get mentioned in the papers every day.
He has a boy, and he follows that boy around , "sticks to him like glue" he describes it. But the other parents, mostly mexican (they are on the mexican border) don't watch their children. And every other day you read in the papers about some kid getting run over in his own drive way.
He describes the downtown core of El Paso as dirty , ugly , nothing but strip malls, and those strip malls have nothing but chinese run dollar stores selling stuff that breaks before you even take it out of the store (one presumes there's a few other stores and it's not 100% dollar stores).
They're constantly reading about drug gangs in mexico , which you can walk to in like 5 hours, and the city next to them on the other side of the us / mexico border is literally a war zone that makes iraq look tame.
Apparently , in "the next town over" , they read all the time about people getting kidnapped by mexican criminals and being held for ransom for a few thousand dollars.
His wife is a "rabid republican" which apparently means she hates "socialism" , which tends to mean free health care , free education , etc etc. One has to wonder about her views on santa clause *grins*
I'm gonna see if I can get him to be a "guest poster" and give the american point of view , or maybe the Canadian Lost In America point of view ...
I have a friend who married an american girl and moved to the USA , to Texas , actually. Chatted on the phone with him last night and he said some rather interesting things.
He works in the American Education system in a high school down there, and he reports that the american education system is a failure. People don't learn much down there at all. You cannot talk to them about anything "intellectual" like history (he's big on cowboy's and us/ mexican history).
That the americans don't even know much about their own country, let alone any other countries in the world, unless they're currently at war with them and they get mentioned in the papers every day.
He has a boy, and he follows that boy around , "sticks to him like glue" he describes it. But the other parents, mostly mexican (they are on the mexican border) don't watch their children. And every other day you read in the papers about some kid getting run over in his own drive way.
He describes the downtown core of El Paso as dirty , ugly , nothing but strip malls, and those strip malls have nothing but chinese run dollar stores selling stuff that breaks before you even take it out of the store (one presumes there's a few other stores and it's not 100% dollar stores).
They're constantly reading about drug gangs in mexico , which you can walk to in like 5 hours, and the city next to them on the other side of the us / mexico border is literally a war zone that makes iraq look tame.
Apparently , in "the next town over" , they read all the time about people getting kidnapped by mexican criminals and being held for ransom for a few thousand dollars.
His wife is a "rabid republican" which apparently means she hates "socialism" , which tends to mean free health care , free education , etc etc. One has to wonder about her views on santa clause *grins*
I'm gonna see if I can get him to be a "guest poster" and give the american point of view , or maybe the Canadian Lost In America point of view ...
Court orders $507.5 million damages in Exxon Valdez spill
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday ordered Exxon Mobil Corp to pay $507.5 million in punitive damages stemming from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska, plus 5.9 percent interest running from the 1996 trial judgment, the opinion said.
1989 ... 20 years ago ....
and the case didn't come to trial until 1996 which is 7 years later.
The oil spill from the Exxon Valdez supertanker in 1989 was the worst in the nation's history, blackening more than 1,200 miles of Alaska's coastline.
The clean-up alone cost around $2.5
and the fine is 20% of what it cost to clean up the mess.
Wow...if I was the guy in charge when this oil spill happened I would ... be retired by now. With a nice fat pension. And reading this in the paper and laughing and laughing and laughing ...
Justice delayed is Justice denied ? Especially 20 years later.
I vote ... no more super tankers in our waters. Not by anyone. You play stunts like this , you pay the penalty. One way or the other. Gonna stick us with the clean up tab ? We don't like that , maybe we shouldn't let you come around here anymore.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday ordered Exxon Mobil Corp to pay $507.5 million in punitive damages stemming from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska, plus 5.9 percent interest running from the 1996 trial judgment, the opinion said.
1989 ... 20 years ago ....
and the case didn't come to trial until 1996 which is 7 years later.
The oil spill from the Exxon Valdez supertanker in 1989 was the worst in the nation's history, blackening more than 1,200 miles of Alaska's coastline.
The clean-up alone cost around $2.5
and the fine is 20% of what it cost to clean up the mess.
Wow...if I was the guy in charge when this oil spill happened I would ... be retired by now. With a nice fat pension. And reading this in the paper and laughing and laughing and laughing ...
Justice delayed is Justice denied ? Especially 20 years later.
I vote ... no more super tankers in our waters. Not by anyone. You play stunts like this , you pay the penalty. One way or the other. Gonna stick us with the clean up tab ? We don't like that , maybe we shouldn't let you come around here anymore.
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
North Korea Gives US The Finger
US calls for jailed journalists to be released in North Korea
The United States government was pursuing "all possible channels" yesterday to secure the release of two American journalists sentenced to 12 years in North Korean labour camp after they were arrested on the China-North Korea border.
That would mean you're sitting on your behind doing nothing. Since there are NO possible channels for dealing with the good old NK dictatorship. The guy is building nukes and thumbing his nose at you over that , (yes, one guy , Dictator Kim) and you think he's gonna listen to you about some journalists ? He put them there on purpose to deliberately provoke you. Just to show you who rules that little roost.
All possible channels my (ahem) posterior. All you're doing is giving that dictator a good chuckle.
What can we do about this, You ask ? What would I do if I were in a position of authority ?
Not make myself look like an idiot by playing his little head game would be a good beginning. Waiting for just the right moment and lobbing a bomb at his little reactor comes to mind, I'm still convinced that thats exactly the plan and they're just waiting for the right moment myself ...
Ah well. Life goes on with it's sad little plays.
The United States government was pursuing "all possible channels" yesterday to secure the release of two American journalists sentenced to 12 years in North Korean labour camp after they were arrested on the China-North Korea border.
That would mean you're sitting on your behind doing nothing. Since there are NO possible channels for dealing with the good old NK dictatorship. The guy is building nukes and thumbing his nose at you over that , (yes, one guy , Dictator Kim) and you think he's gonna listen to you about some journalists ? He put them there on purpose to deliberately provoke you. Just to show you who rules that little roost.
All possible channels my (ahem) posterior. All you're doing is giving that dictator a good chuckle.
What can we do about this, You ask ? What would I do if I were in a position of authority ?
Not make myself look like an idiot by playing his little head game would be a good beginning. Waiting for just the right moment and lobbing a bomb at his little reactor comes to mind, I'm still convinced that thats exactly the plan and they're just waiting for the right moment myself ...
Ah well. Life goes on with it's sad little plays.
ChinaWare : Big Brother Yin is Watching You
China orders PC makers to install blocking software
Computer makers in China have been instructed to pre-install blocking software on every PC hard drive from next month, under a government push to control access to the internet.
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The software, designed to work with the Microsoft Windows operating system, also collects private user data.
I suppose it was inevitable that China would do something like this. Load up private citizens computers with their pet software and throw them in jail if they refuse. And then watch them. And then throw them in jail anyways for surfing blogs protesting against Tiananmen Square or anything else they don't like.
Lets all go out and buy ourselves a computer so we can get arrested and thrown in jail !
I predict a drop in computer sales in China , myself, but I could be wrong.
Oh , and before anyone else does it , i would like to hereby announce that I am naming a whole new class of malware, called ChinaWare , in honor of this. My definition of ChinaWare is any software that would normally be considered MalWare that a standing government of some kind , like China , has ordered you to install on your computer anyways for both the usual purposes of MalWare (collecting private info) and to further a state sponsored dicatatorship.
Bill Gates loves you , China. Since the ChinaWare only runs on Windows I guess your next move is to order everyone to run windows only ?
((edit : July 6 : It's called the Green Dam Software, and has caused the creation of a "Green Dam Girl" as a backlash to symbolize opposition to it...thus the link to this article when pressing on the green dam girl image on the top right of my site))
Computer makers in China have been instructed to pre-install blocking software on every PC hard drive from next month, under a government push to control access to the internet.
.
.
.
The software, designed to work with the Microsoft Windows operating system, also collects private user data.
I suppose it was inevitable that China would do something like this. Load up private citizens computers with their pet software and throw them in jail if they refuse. And then watch them. And then throw them in jail anyways for surfing blogs protesting against Tiananmen Square or anything else they don't like.
Lets all go out and buy ourselves a computer so we can get arrested and thrown in jail !
I predict a drop in computer sales in China , myself, but I could be wrong.
Oh , and before anyone else does it , i would like to hereby announce that I am naming a whole new class of malware, called ChinaWare , in honor of this. My definition of ChinaWare is any software that would normally be considered MalWare that a standing government of some kind , like China , has ordered you to install on your computer anyways for both the usual purposes of MalWare (collecting private info) and to further a state sponsored dicatatorship.
Bill Gates loves you , China. Since the ChinaWare only runs on Windows I guess your next move is to order everyone to run windows only ?
((edit : July 6 : It's called the Green Dam Software, and has caused the creation of a "Green Dam Girl" as a backlash to symbolize opposition to it...thus the link to this article when pressing on the green dam girl image on the top right of my site))
Friday, June 05, 2009
Obama gets reality check from complex Mideast
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More than anything else, some influential figures said Friday that they could not look past Obama's affirmation of the "unbreakable" bond between the U.S. and Israel, and they took that as a sign that nothing had changed.
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"We have witnessed that despite every nice word he said toward Arabs and Muslims or Islam, he is still committed to the unbreakable bond toward the Zionist entity," Fadlallah said.
((Translation : He wont help us kill all the jews, therefore he's a bad person. ))
Now I really gotta ask.
If I say such nasty things about Islam , I get called a racist pig. A trouble maker,a hate monger , a disseminater of hate literature, and worse.
But some big newspaper like the washington post, selectively quoting the words of a few radical terrorists...thats ok.
So how come they're allowed to break the rules and I can't ?
Oh yes, thank you Fadlallah for educating Obama on the futility of making nice nice with guys like you. Enough of you do it , with enough firmness, and you'll bring a third desert storm down upon yourself.
More than anything else, some influential figures said Friday that they could not look past Obama's affirmation of the "unbreakable" bond between the U.S. and Israel, and they took that as a sign that nothing had changed.
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"We have witnessed that despite every nice word he said toward Arabs and Muslims or Islam, he is still committed to the unbreakable bond toward the Zionist entity," Fadlallah said.
((Translation : He wont help us kill all the jews, therefore he's a bad person. ))
Now I really gotta ask.
If I say such nasty things about Islam , I get called a racist pig. A trouble maker,a hate monger , a disseminater of hate literature, and worse.
But some big newspaper like the washington post, selectively quoting the words of a few radical terrorists...thats ok.
So how come they're allowed to break the rules and I can't ?
Oh yes, thank you Fadlallah for educating Obama on the futility of making nice nice with guys like you. Enough of you do it , with enough firmness, and you'll bring a third desert storm down upon yourself.
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