Two killed in Gaza after rocket hits Israel's Beersheba
The Israeli military has killed two Palestinians in Gaza Strip, one in an air strike and another as he approached the border fence, officials said.
Air force jets struck four sites in Gaza after Palestinians fired a rocket into the Israeli city of Beersheba.
Palestinian officials said one militant was killed and four people wounded, including a five-year-old boy.
Also on Tuesday, Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian man who entered a designated no-go zone along the border.
Palestinian sources said medics had retrieved the body of an 18-year-old civilian with multiple gunshots to the head and upper body.
An Israeli military spokesman said troops opened fire after the man had approached the buffer zone where militants frequently plant explosive devices.
So why are these people fighting ?
The answer is simple. Unpleasant , but simple. I really don't know why no one puts this in print but I guess I will.
Before the 1950's , before the invention of birth control , the world had a serious population control problem. A problem they had been living with for literally centuries. And how did they solve this problem , you may ask ?
They held summer wars.
They went to war with their neibours, and they pared off the population that way. And so the english and french had a hundred year war. And great britain drafted people off the street into their navy...yep. They deliberately went to war and killed each others young population off.
As Napolean once said , after witnessing a particularly brave charge by british troops into the teeth of french cannons "It was a beautiful thing that I saw. But it was not war. "
The middle east , locked into a religion that forbids birth control, already has a solution in hand for paring off their population. A solution they have used for centuries , and that works well , and that they see no need of changing.
Summer wars.
There will be no peace in the middle east. Not until they accept the pill or some other form of birth control. There's too many people and not enough food , and the rest is mere details.
Who hates who ? Who betrayed who ? Who shot first ? Not important. Not part of the equation.
Too many people , not enough food. Thats the problem.
Monday, August 22, 2011
North Korea seizes South's Mount Kumgang resort assets
Article
North Korea says it is seizing assets at a tourist site jointly operated with South Korea.
It has given South Koreans 72 hours to leave the resort at Mount Kumgang, which lies just inside North Korea.
The resort used to be a symbol of co-operation between the two Koreas and a key source of hard currency for Pyongyang.
But joint operations were suspended in 2008 after a South Korean tourist was shot dead by a North Korean soldier
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North Korea has been threatening action over Mt Kumgang for months, warning Seoul to restart the lucrative tours or lose its assets.
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It blamed the move on the South Korean government, saying it had ignored efforts to settle the issue through negotiations.
Sometimes , when you read a news article, you have to wonder whats going on in the head of certain people. They seem to have a wildly different point of view on human rights , for example.
You have a tourist resort, and you shoot one of the tourists. Of course the rest are going to leave and spread the word. What did you expect ?
Apparently , the North Korean Government expected them to come back and ignore the shooting. Apparently , they expected the south to herd them like chattel , into dangerous situations , and they simply don't understand why that isn't possible in a democracy.
It would seem the North literally doesn't care about the lives of ordinary humans. It sounds so trite and trivial , like a bad fairy tale. Like a plot line in a TV show thats been so over used you find it boring at not credible anymore.
But apparently , in the real world , the dictators of the planet arn't bored or finished with that plot line yet. It's still a favorite among them.
North Korea says it is seizing assets at a tourist site jointly operated with South Korea.
It has given South Koreans 72 hours to leave the resort at Mount Kumgang, which lies just inside North Korea.
The resort used to be a symbol of co-operation between the two Koreas and a key source of hard currency for Pyongyang.
But joint operations were suspended in 2008 after a South Korean tourist was shot dead by a North Korean soldier
.
.
.
North Korea has been threatening action over Mt Kumgang for months, warning Seoul to restart the lucrative tours or lose its assets.
.
.
.
It blamed the move on the South Korean government, saying it had ignored efforts to settle the issue through negotiations.
Sometimes , when you read a news article, you have to wonder whats going on in the head of certain people. They seem to have a wildly different point of view on human rights , for example.
You have a tourist resort, and you shoot one of the tourists. Of course the rest are going to leave and spread the word. What did you expect ?
Apparently , the North Korean Government expected them to come back and ignore the shooting. Apparently , they expected the south to herd them like chattel , into dangerous situations , and they simply don't understand why that isn't possible in a democracy.
It would seem the North literally doesn't care about the lives of ordinary humans. It sounds so trite and trivial , like a bad fairy tale. Like a plot line in a TV show thats been so over used you find it boring at not credible anymore.
But apparently , in the real world , the dictators of the planet arn't bored or finished with that plot line yet. It's still a favorite among them.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
The Increadable Journey to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
So , I have this lap top (Gateway model NCL20 , 4gig ram , 2x 1.3 GHz cpu's, 285g hard drive)
And I watch movies on it (mp4 files) sometimes at work late at night when things are quiet. And those movies stutter, and I mean a lot. And it's really annoying.
So I think to myself. This lap top has Windows 7 on it. The latest operating system from microsoft. And look at all the special effects. It's got to be a beast on the computer. If I were to put Linux on it , say Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (LTS = Long Term Stable ... they promise to keep supporting it for 3 years ) I could at least turn off stuff and it wouldn't stutter as much.
Now , before I go trashing my lap top , I did a couple of things first. One was to make sure I could find the windows back up disks I made. I aint toasting the thing if I can't put it back.
the second was a rather impromptu case study. What could I run on Ubuntu that wouldn't run on Windows ? What could I run on Windows that wouldn't .
In this case, my high priority applicatinos were games. Yeah I know , why games ? the answer is I'm a computer Tech. I get computers running. And now that we have a couple of computers running what are you going to do with them ? Yep. Play games. Someone else would load up accounting , or office stuff, but me ... my job is finished when you press the off / on switch and the thing turns on , so games it is.
and what games was I running on my lap top ?
Not a dang thing. The thing's graphics card didn't support very much at all. I just played video's when I was bored and listenned to music, and I already knew Ubuntu would do that.
And what could I run on Ubuntu ? There was a ton of free software that would cost hundreds of dollars , or more, to buy for windows. video Editing (just got a new video cam ..price is less than 100$ ) music editing (ok... gonna have to brush up on the guitar playing and the keayboard again ) all sorts of stuff .
Advantage : Ubuntu. At least for my lap top. For my desk top, Advantage : Windows. I'd lose my games and I aint doing that.
So I download the iso (disk image) for ubuntu 11.04 , which is in beta , and stick it in the disk drive, and reboot, select the dvd to be the boot device .... and nothing. Black screen. Give it 10 minutes. Not a dang thing.
Take the disk out , reboot , and up comes windows.
Ok, no damage done yet. Check windows ... figures. The lap top uses a 64 bit operating system and I'd tried to install a 32 bit operating system. *sigh*
The next day ... with the 64 bit version of 11.04 ... try it again !
Nothing. black screen.
Ok, there's an option to install ubuntu as an application , try that.
Permission denied.
I restrained the urge to throttle my computer.
So I have this old copy of ubuntu 9 kicking around , and I try that. And it installs and works beautifully. Wow.
except that ubuntu 9 is not supported, so it won't patch , it won't install additional programs , and by the way it doesn't recongize the network card so you can't get online.
Wonderful.
So I slip the windows seven restore disk in and away we go.
Restore failed. Didn't recognize the way the disk formatted.
*sigh*. I had a copy of XP at home, I could install that , let it reformat the disk , and then kill the install before it even finished, but I hadn't quite given up on Ubuntu yet.
Ubuntu 9 worked. so that meant ubuntu 11 beta was REALLY beta, as in buggy as all heck and probably the source of all my problems. And looking on the ubuntu web page I see that the last stable version , the one with all the bugs worked out , is 10.04 LTS .
Down load the iso. download a special program that will install the iso on a memory stick (it's about 700 megabytes by the way, and it wipes any data on the memory stick ) and now I have a bootable memory stick.
Install that. Finally , the thing actually shows me more than a blank screen. I see it install , the network card works, it's a beautiful thing.
Now for the final part. The thing that started this journey.
I read on the ubuntu forums that the wind data stick I had would be automatically recognized and installed by 10.04 , even though it was normally a windows only device. Cool , I thought. (Huawei E181 Data Stick, proprietory to wind mobile)
Tried it out. Kicked it , tried a few things.
Finally. If you already are connected to the internet (through the regular network card) and stick the data stick in , It will search the internet automatically and find drivers , and the thing is up and running right away.
Except it has the wrong settings.
apn = broadband.windmobile.ca
pin = 0000
And leave any other fields blank.
And it works like a charm. And I'm online and everything.
And my movies still stutter.
Probably the dang cheap graphics card, the Intel one built into the motherboard. *sigh*. but I like Ubuntu , I like being immune to virii and stupid tool bars trying to auto install themselves , and every piece of mal ware in the world deciding your computer is their personal property. It's gotten so bad they now install stuff for firefox as well as internet explorer.
Well... my journey is done, and this old lap top is working once more.
Though no better than before.
Dang movies still stutter.
And I watch movies on it (mp4 files) sometimes at work late at night when things are quiet. And those movies stutter, and I mean a lot. And it's really annoying.
So I think to myself. This lap top has Windows 7 on it. The latest operating system from microsoft. And look at all the special effects. It's got to be a beast on the computer. If I were to put Linux on it , say Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (LTS = Long Term Stable ... they promise to keep supporting it for 3 years ) I could at least turn off stuff and it wouldn't stutter as much.
Now , before I go trashing my lap top , I did a couple of things first. One was to make sure I could find the windows back up disks I made. I aint toasting the thing if I can't put it back.
the second was a rather impromptu case study. What could I run on Ubuntu that wouldn't run on Windows ? What could I run on Windows that wouldn't .
In this case, my high priority applicatinos were games. Yeah I know , why games ? the answer is I'm a computer Tech. I get computers running. And now that we have a couple of computers running what are you going to do with them ? Yep. Play games. Someone else would load up accounting , or office stuff, but me ... my job is finished when you press the off / on switch and the thing turns on , so games it is.
and what games was I running on my lap top ?
Not a dang thing. The thing's graphics card didn't support very much at all. I just played video's when I was bored and listenned to music, and I already knew Ubuntu would do that.
And what could I run on Ubuntu ? There was a ton of free software that would cost hundreds of dollars , or more, to buy for windows. video Editing (just got a new video cam ..price is less than 100$ ) music editing (ok... gonna have to brush up on the guitar playing and the keayboard again ) all sorts of stuff .
Advantage : Ubuntu. At least for my lap top. For my desk top, Advantage : Windows. I'd lose my games and I aint doing that.
So I download the iso (disk image) for ubuntu 11.04 , which is in beta , and stick it in the disk drive, and reboot, select the dvd to be the boot device .... and nothing. Black screen. Give it 10 minutes. Not a dang thing.
Take the disk out , reboot , and up comes windows.
Ok, no damage done yet. Check windows ... figures. The lap top uses a 64 bit operating system and I'd tried to install a 32 bit operating system. *sigh*
The next day ... with the 64 bit version of 11.04 ... try it again !
Nothing. black screen.
Ok, there's an option to install ubuntu as an application , try that.
Permission denied.
I restrained the urge to throttle my computer.
So I have this old copy of ubuntu 9 kicking around , and I try that. And it installs and works beautifully. Wow.
except that ubuntu 9 is not supported, so it won't patch , it won't install additional programs , and by the way it doesn't recongize the network card so you can't get online.
Wonderful.
So I slip the windows seven restore disk in and away we go.
Restore failed. Didn't recognize the way the disk formatted.
*sigh*. I had a copy of XP at home, I could install that , let it reformat the disk , and then kill the install before it even finished, but I hadn't quite given up on Ubuntu yet.
Ubuntu 9 worked. so that meant ubuntu 11 beta was REALLY beta, as in buggy as all heck and probably the source of all my problems. And looking on the ubuntu web page I see that the last stable version , the one with all the bugs worked out , is 10.04 LTS .
Down load the iso. download a special program that will install the iso on a memory stick (it's about 700 megabytes by the way, and it wipes any data on the memory stick ) and now I have a bootable memory stick.
Install that. Finally , the thing actually shows me more than a blank screen. I see it install , the network card works, it's a beautiful thing.
Now for the final part. The thing that started this journey.
I read on the ubuntu forums that the wind data stick I had would be automatically recognized and installed by 10.04 , even though it was normally a windows only device. Cool , I thought. (Huawei E181 Data Stick, proprietory to wind mobile)
Tried it out. Kicked it , tried a few things.
Finally. If you already are connected to the internet (through the regular network card) and stick the data stick in , It will search the internet automatically and find drivers , and the thing is up and running right away.
Except it has the wrong settings.
apn = broadband.windmobile.ca
pin = 0000
And leave any other fields blank.
And it works like a charm. And I'm online and everything.
And my movies still stutter.
Probably the dang cheap graphics card, the Intel one built into the motherboard. *sigh*. but I like Ubuntu , I like being immune to virii and stupid tool bars trying to auto install themselves , and every piece of mal ware in the world deciding your computer is their personal property. It's gotten so bad they now install stuff for firefox as well as internet explorer.
Well... my journey is done, and this old lap top is working once more.
Though no better than before.
Dang movies still stutter.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
How Startrek should have ended
http://youtu.be/WbJ-y6BWfUc
I cracked up laughjing at the ending
And the starwars one. http://youtu.be/zzoeEdW-EDQ
I cracked up laughjing at the ending
And the starwars one. http://youtu.be/zzoeEdW-EDQ
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Riots in Democracy
England riots: Weekend opening for riot courts
Courts in London and Manchester have opened over the weekend as the number of people charged for riot-related offences reaches more than 1,000.
Riddle me this , if you can.
Why do people riot in a democracy ? They have the vote, they have the right to peaceful assembly, these rights are protected , why the rioting ? And I'm not talking My Team Lost The Hockey Finals lets go riot for 4 hrs and then sneak out when everyone's sobre. Booze fueled sports fans are not the kind of riot we're looking at here. We're looking at stuff going on for over a week now.
The answer is ... wait for it...
They don't live in a democracy.
Think about it. Why are british sports fans banned so frequently from their "football" games (soccer to the rest of us) when they go international ? Because they riot. Why do they riot ? Because they live in a system where a dead end minimum wage job is all they can hope for. They are Peasants to the royalty, and no matter what trappings of democracy the country picks up, peasants they remain.
Alan Moore in his movie the Mindscape of Alan Moore talked extensively about his background growing up in england and the sense of absolute hopelessness , how one principle sent a letter around to all the schools and next thing you know he couldn't get a job anywhere decent, and he spent years in horrible jobs before he became a comic book artist and writer. He'd actually been a good student , but the school he'd gone to had been inferior and when he transfere3d to a real school he sank like a stone, unprepared for the higher standards.
why would anyone put their kids in a school designed to cripple them educationally ?
And now I see newspaper articles calling the rioters thugs and saying they should all be locked up , they're evil , etc etc etc.
You're going to lock up a large portion of the electorate ? In a democracy ?
Yeah. Um...hate to tell you this , that doesn't happen in a real democracy. That only happens in banana republics that make pretentions of democracy while oppressing their "electorate" in the most brutal fashion possible.
I think Jolly Olde England is back sliding into a Kingdom , and abandonning the few democratic ways it's picked up in the past century or two.
Off with the heads of those ruddy peasants ! We've had just about enough out of this lot !
Courts in London and Manchester have opened over the weekend as the number of people charged for riot-related offences reaches more than 1,000.
Riddle me this , if you can.
Why do people riot in a democracy ? They have the vote, they have the right to peaceful assembly, these rights are protected , why the rioting ? And I'm not talking My Team Lost The Hockey Finals lets go riot for 4 hrs and then sneak out when everyone's sobre. Booze fueled sports fans are not the kind of riot we're looking at here. We're looking at stuff going on for over a week now.
The answer is ... wait for it...
They don't live in a democracy.
Think about it. Why are british sports fans banned so frequently from their "football" games (soccer to the rest of us) when they go international ? Because they riot. Why do they riot ? Because they live in a system where a dead end minimum wage job is all they can hope for. They are Peasants to the royalty, and no matter what trappings of democracy the country picks up, peasants they remain.
Alan Moore in his movie the Mindscape of Alan Moore talked extensively about his background growing up in england and the sense of absolute hopelessness , how one principle sent a letter around to all the schools and next thing you know he couldn't get a job anywhere decent, and he spent years in horrible jobs before he became a comic book artist and writer. He'd actually been a good student , but the school he'd gone to had been inferior and when he transfere3d to a real school he sank like a stone, unprepared for the higher standards.
why would anyone put their kids in a school designed to cripple them educationally ?
And now I see newspaper articles calling the rioters thugs and saying they should all be locked up , they're evil , etc etc etc.
You're going to lock up a large portion of the electorate ? In a democracy ?
Yeah. Um...hate to tell you this , that doesn't happen in a real democracy. That only happens in banana republics that make pretentions of democracy while oppressing their "electorate" in the most brutal fashion possible.
I think Jolly Olde England is back sliding into a Kingdom , and abandonning the few democratic ways it's picked up in the past century or two.
Off with the heads of those ruddy peasants ! We've had just about enough out of this lot !
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