Article
The Interior Ministry has ordered the arrests and interrogations of several high-ranking police officers over their handling of security in the area
I keep hearing this on the tv , but never seeing it written , until now. It seems many of the Iraqi police also belong to the local militia's that are fighting each other.
There are many police blockades , reported as "fake" blockades to kidnap and kill people, but I wonder now how many of the fake cops are in fact real cops ? The iraqi civilian prime minister seems to have allowed the wolves into the house and is doing nothing to stop it.
Rather like only now are they starting to complain about Iran and Syria backing various militia inside Iraq. Why ? Because they might have to do something about it if they talk too loudly about it. And they're always complaining they're short on resources. (I know our canadian military is demanding more money from parliment to cover deployment expenses)
there was even one journalist who reported that the cops set up a road block on the soldiers payday to fleece them on the way home.
*sigh* They gotta do something about the cops. If you can't trust the cops on the street of a country , you've pretty much had it. A program of snap inspections and corruption entrapment investigations is required here. Catch them in the act and publically punish them , that sort of thing.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Palestinian militant rockets kill Israeli woman
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JERUSALEM (CNN) -- In a deadly attack from northern Gaza, Palestinian militants hit the Israeli town of Sderot with four Qassam rockets Wednesday morning, killing one woman and wounding a man, Israeli police and medical sources said.
But thats ok. Killing innocent civilians is just fine as long as they're jewish civilians.
Two militant groups, the Islamic Jihad and the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for the attacks in a statement faxed to the Ramattan News Agency, based in Gaza City.
In fact , the terrorists boast of their activites.
But they really shouldn't.
It took you four rockets to kill two random people ? Has anyone ever told you your aim sucks ? I mean , really .... you lauched a similar attack a few days ago and hit no one , so it's more like costing you 4 rockets to kill one random civilian. Thats very pricy. Very inefficient.
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- In a deadly attack from northern Gaza, Palestinian militants hit the Israeli town of Sderot with four Qassam rockets Wednesday morning, killing one woman and wounding a man, Israeli police and medical sources said.
But thats ok. Killing innocent civilians is just fine as long as they're jewish civilians.
Two militant groups, the Islamic Jihad and the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for the attacks in a statement faxed to the Ramattan News Agency, based in Gaza City.
In fact , the terrorists boast of their activites.
But they really shouldn't.
It took you four rockets to kill two random people ? Has anyone ever told you your aim sucks ? I mean , really .... you lauched a similar attack a few days ago and hit no one , so it's more like costing you 4 rockets to kill one random civilian. Thats very pricy. Very inefficient.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
The Plumber Fails To Speak
Two weeks ago , I run around with all this stupid insurance paper work , get it to where it has to go , pay my doctor $10 bucks , the whole nine yards. All done.
wait for money.
Today the insurance company takes the greatest of pleasure in calling me up. It seems my Doctor , that self styled "Call me The Plumber" kind of guy , checked off that I was capable of returning to work.
Which , while I might argue might not be the case, certainly I would argue HE SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME !
Two weeks sitting on my butt waiting for insurance money and he knew it wasnt' coming , and he didn't tell me a dang thing.
And he charged me 10$ for that piece of paper on top of it all.
I WANT MY MONEY BACK !!!!!
Excuse me, I have to start putting stuff together , it seems I have to go to work this friday.
wait for money.
Today the insurance company takes the greatest of pleasure in calling me up. It seems my Doctor , that self styled "Call me The Plumber" kind of guy , checked off that I was capable of returning to work.
Which , while I might argue might not be the case, certainly I would argue HE SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME !
Two weeks sitting on my butt waiting for insurance money and he knew it wasnt' coming , and he didn't tell me a dang thing.
And he charged me 10$ for that piece of paper on top of it all.
I WANT MY MONEY BACK !!!!!
Excuse me, I have to start putting stuff together , it seems I have to go to work this friday.
Monday, November 13, 2006
Quebec bar owners take smoking ban to court
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A group representing bar owners will ask Quebec Superior Court on Monday to strike down the province's strict anti-smoking law.
The law, which took effect earlier this year, bans smoking in bars, restaurants and other public places.
Peter Sergakis says Quebec bars are hurting because of a provincial smoking ban.
Bar owners say the ban is driving customers away and hurting their bottom line.
Yes yes, our bottom line , our profit margin is all important here. We don't care if our customers and employees all catch lung cancer and die , thats not important. Only money is important. The health of everyone in the nearby vicinity can go take a flying leap off a ...
People like this remind me why business interests simply cannot be trusted with anything.
A group representing bar owners will ask Quebec Superior Court on Monday to strike down the province's strict anti-smoking law.
The law, which took effect earlier this year, bans smoking in bars, restaurants and other public places.
Peter Sergakis says Quebec bars are hurting because of a provincial smoking ban.
Bar owners say the ban is driving customers away and hurting their bottom line.
Yes yes, our bottom line , our profit margin is all important here. We don't care if our customers and employees all catch lung cancer and die , thats not important. Only money is important. The health of everyone in the nearby vicinity can go take a flying leap off a ...
People like this remind me why business interests simply cannot be trusted with anything.
Arab groups say Tories refuse to meet with them
Artical
I cannot explain to you how filled with apathy I am at that headline.
Some of Canada's largest Arab organizations say they are being frozen out by the Conservative government.
Although the Tories have run an active outreach campaign to several ethnic communities — including the Hindu, Sikh, and Chinese communities — Arab groups say the party appears to have made a decision to write off the Arab vote.
I suppose I'm supposed to care that a minority is getting the shaft ...
Both Prime Minister Stephen Harper — who earlier angered some Arabs over his support for Israel during the Israeli/Hezbollah conflict...
this doesn't help. The fact that the minority in question is activly working to promote racisim against another minority (Jews) only deepens my apathy.
What does a country with strong hate laws do , how does such a country deal , with a minority that actively promotes hate ?
Staying low , staying quiet , and avoiding them seems to be the current tactic. Certainly anyone saynig "Yeah we think you arabs are right , we really should kill all the jews" is going to get in trouble deep.
What do you do ?
I cannot explain to you how filled with apathy I am at that headline.
Some of Canada's largest Arab organizations say they are being frozen out by the Conservative government.
Although the Tories have run an active outreach campaign to several ethnic communities — including the Hindu, Sikh, and Chinese communities — Arab groups say the party appears to have made a decision to write off the Arab vote.
I suppose I'm supposed to care that a minority is getting the shaft ...
Both Prime Minister Stephen Harper — who earlier angered some Arabs over his support for Israel during the Israeli/Hezbollah conflict...
this doesn't help. The fact that the minority in question is activly working to promote racisim against another minority (Jews) only deepens my apathy.
What does a country with strong hate laws do , how does such a country deal , with a minority that actively promotes hate ?
Staying low , staying quiet , and avoiding them seems to be the current tactic. Certainly anyone saynig "Yeah we think you arabs are right , we really should kill all the jews" is going to get in trouble deep.
What do you do ?
Palestinians: Israelis kill 19 in Gaza
Article
"The cowardly act of Zionists (Israelis) requires a legitimate Palestinian action. "We have big trust in our military wings, which will reply on this aggression and resist occupation and retaliate for those victims."
The bloodshed occurred early Wednesday with Israeli tanks poised just outside the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. The tanks fired 10 artillery rounds into the town's center and killed 19 people, the medical sources said.
Among the dead was a 13-member family which included seven children, the sources said. The other six killed were also civilians, they said.
Hmmm... rather than post the rest of the article , let me finish it for CNN.
(My insert , not the articles) Of course , since all of the "sources" inside Palestine are under control of Hamas gunmen and other terrorists , it is likely that this story is a complete fabrication of a group of people in the middle of fighting a war against Israel. We just print this garbage, that we pretty much know to be false, because we hate our current president Bush , and anything to make him or his allies look bad , no matter how false, is fine by us. and we can always say "The palistinians lied, it wasn't us !" should it turn out to be false. Which we know it is already.
For CNN this is Two Faced Tony , happy to pass along enemy propaganda.
"The cowardly act of Zionists (Israelis) requires a legitimate Palestinian action. "We have big trust in our military wings, which will reply on this aggression and resist occupation and retaliate for those victims."
The bloodshed occurred early Wednesday with Israeli tanks poised just outside the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. The tanks fired 10 artillery rounds into the town's center and killed 19 people, the medical sources said.
Among the dead was a 13-member family which included seven children, the sources said. The other six killed were also civilians, they said.
Hmmm... rather than post the rest of the article , let me finish it for CNN.
(My insert , not the articles) Of course , since all of the "sources" inside Palestine are under control of Hamas gunmen and other terrorists , it is likely that this story is a complete fabrication of a group of people in the middle of fighting a war against Israel. We just print this garbage, that we pretty much know to be false, because we hate our current president Bush , and anything to make him or his allies look bad , no matter how false, is fine by us. and we can always say "The palistinians lied, it wasn't us !" should it turn out to be false. Which we know it is already.
For CNN this is Two Faced Tony , happy to pass along enemy propaganda.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
A model for Internet Security
I've been watching this whole hacker / spammer / denial of service attack thing for years, and I've been thinking, there's a solution for this , a fairly easy one.
The world should be broken up into zones, say one zone for each continent, maybe one zone for each country or for a small group of countries.
When a user signs onto the internet he signs onto his own zone only. He may choose to sign onto a single other zone at a time , say to chat with his uncle in the UK, free of charge of course.
Point being , if you're not in the zone , you cannot send / receive data from the zone.
This has no effect on email , of course , because most email goes through your isp's mail server, and your isp is going to be signed on to every zone in existance , of coure.
But most "zombie nets" , that is to say users who's computers have unknowningly been hijacked by a virus or trojen, are signed into only one zone. If they got a virus by email from yugoslovia , and they're in New York , guess what ? That trojen cannot receive command and control signils from most computer's in new york, because only a few new yorkers will sign into yugoslovia to chat with their relatives. Most are not from there, they're from a dozen other different countries and zones, and they'll be signed into those zones instead.
This works the otherway too. Your new york cannot launch a denial of service attack on Amazon.ca (the canadian site) because it's in a different country. A different zone. You have to span three zones to do that , and you only have two to work with (Yugoslovia for receiving orders from the hacker, new york where the penetrated computer lives, and canada where the target lives)
The basic theory of all of this is simply that the world is too large a ball to play with. You must break it down into pieces. Smaller pieces mean smaller bot nets. Smaller pieces means that off shore hacker STAYS off shore, only a very very limited number of people go to that zone and are therefore potentially susceptable to being hacked by him. And guess what ? 10 or 20 computers being remote controlled from yugoslovia isn't going to cut it. Thats not a bot net. You need 20 thousand if you're going to bring down one of the big boys, twenty thousand suckers with low or no security happy to leave their connection on all the time ,AND connected to yugoslovia. And even then , they can only attack new york or yugoslovia , no where else.
It's all a game of numbers. And you must think in numbers to win it. The inconvenience of a user having to go through a free sign in is nothing next to the extra security it provides.
The world should be broken up into zones, say one zone for each continent, maybe one zone for each country or for a small group of countries.
When a user signs onto the internet he signs onto his own zone only. He may choose to sign onto a single other zone at a time , say to chat with his uncle in the UK, free of charge of course.
Point being , if you're not in the zone , you cannot send / receive data from the zone.
This has no effect on email , of course , because most email goes through your isp's mail server, and your isp is going to be signed on to every zone in existance , of coure.
But most "zombie nets" , that is to say users who's computers have unknowningly been hijacked by a virus or trojen, are signed into only one zone. If they got a virus by email from yugoslovia , and they're in New York , guess what ? That trojen cannot receive command and control signils from most computer's in new york, because only a few new yorkers will sign into yugoslovia to chat with their relatives. Most are not from there, they're from a dozen other different countries and zones, and they'll be signed into those zones instead.
This works the otherway too. Your new york cannot launch a denial of service attack on Amazon.ca (the canadian site) because it's in a different country. A different zone. You have to span three zones to do that , and you only have two to work with (Yugoslovia for receiving orders from the hacker, new york where the penetrated computer lives, and canada where the target lives)
The basic theory of all of this is simply that the world is too large a ball to play with. You must break it down into pieces. Smaller pieces mean smaller bot nets. Smaller pieces means that off shore hacker STAYS off shore, only a very very limited number of people go to that zone and are therefore potentially susceptable to being hacked by him. And guess what ? 10 or 20 computers being remote controlled from yugoslovia isn't going to cut it. Thats not a bot net. You need 20 thousand if you're going to bring down one of the big boys, twenty thousand suckers with low or no security happy to leave their connection on all the time ,AND connected to yugoslovia. And even then , they can only attack new york or yugoslovia , no where else.
It's all a game of numbers. And you must think in numbers to win it. The inconvenience of a user having to go through a free sign in is nothing next to the extra security it provides.
My email
Trying to send an email to my aunt and uncle. Keep being told the address doesn't exist.
Try google's email. Works like a charm.
I cannot help but notice that my isp is rogers, and my aunt's is Sympatico. Rogers and Sympatico are rivals in my area , they're always trying to out do each other.
Hmmm... it would seem that I cannot send email to anywhere in the world , as advertised. Heck I'm not even trying to send email out of the country, those two are living canada.
Even worse, I didn't get an error message indicating the system was somehow down and would be back soon. I got one saying that email address didn't exist.
The internet is still full of deceptive business practices I see. It isn't ready for prime time. Funny enough , it is on prime time though.
Try google's email. Works like a charm.
I cannot help but notice that my isp is rogers, and my aunt's is Sympatico. Rogers and Sympatico are rivals in my area , they're always trying to out do each other.
Hmmm... it would seem that I cannot send email to anywhere in the world , as advertised. Heck I'm not even trying to send email out of the country, those two are living canada.
Even worse, I didn't get an error message indicating the system was somehow down and would be back soon. I got one saying that email address didn't exist.
The internet is still full of deceptive business practices I see. It isn't ready for prime time. Funny enough , it is on prime time though.
Iran says will reply swiftly to any Israeli attack
Iran and its Revolutionary Guards would respond swiftly if
Israel attacked the Islamic state over its disputed nuclear program, an official said on Sunday
And so we dance the grim fandango.
Iran is set on it's course, it's religious leaders cannot change their path, it is a matter of faith and they will not give it up. Their religion calls for the eradication of the Israeli state, one need only look up on the internet an english translation of the Koran and go to the chapter marked Children of Israel to see how trapped they are. (Yes, their holy book actually mentions the Israeli's BY NAME and requires they be wiped out)
Israel , who has been dealing with these religious air heads for more than fifty years now , knows this , and knows their only option is to bomb that plant out of existance after it gets too far along. The only difficulty is determining exactly when it's almost ready to produce nuclear materials, in this way you get the Iranians to invest the maximum amount of effort into it , and then wipe all that effort out in a single shot with a borrowed US war plane.
But Israel bombed
Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981 to prevent then-President
Saddam Hussein from assembling atomic weapons, and some analysts have speculated that Israel could consider similar action against Iran if it felt threatened.
Ah ah. Do they have a choice ?
Experts say knocking out Iran's nuclear facilities would be a far tougher prospect than it was in Iraq, partly because Iranian sites are spread out and heavily defended.
"If Israel takes such a stupid step and attacks, the answer of Iran and its Revolutionary Guard will be rapid, firm and destructive and it will be given in a few seconds," Hosseini told a news conference.
The Guards are an ideologically driven wing of Iran's military with a command structure separate from regular units.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said Israel should be "wiped off the map" but also that Iran is no threat. Iran refuses to recognize the Jewish state.
Ah ah. Honest , we're not making nukes ! But we will wipe you off the map in mere seconds if you attack us. How ? Well... nukes would do that job , wouldn't they ? I thought you said you didn't have any ?
Lol. Funny people.
Israel is widely believed to have the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal, though it has never said it possesses such weapons. Iran often complains about Western double standards in failing to confront Israel about its nuclear capability.
You're going to try and nuke someone who already has nukes ? LOL ... really funny people.
As I was saying.
Iran will build it's plant (or plants , looks like they're spreading out into a few heavily defended ones)
The Isreali's will bomb them out of existance (even if they have to borrow a few high tech just off the assembly line american war planes of some kind or another to do it.
Iran will now be stuck with a lot of hot air , a lot of angry words in their mouth , and not much they can do about it. Lauch a normal attack against a nuclear nation ? Send your conscript milita against highly trained soldiers who've been fighting more or less continuously against you guys for decades now and pretty much count as elite troopers at this point ?
Israel will hand you your butt, is what is going to happen. They just gotta do it before you actually produce any significant radioactive material. Don't need that stuff floating all over the continent now do we ?
The Islamics may not care about their own people, but it's odd how the westerner's like Israel and the US do. Almost sounds like time for a regime change, to me.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Weak Kneed American Democrats
The American Democrats seem to be causing bush all sorts of problems on Iraq, and thats just amusing.
Amusing because I'm up here in Canada , and I'm not the one about to shoot myself in the foot.
Amusing because the Democrats have for a long time demanded a pull out of troops from Iraq.
He's the situation.
Pull out troops from Iraq, and Iraq will collapse. And the terrorist swill CHASE you back to america , and try for another 9/11 . These people arnt' satisfied with half measures, they want to rule the world. You're in their way , you're target number one.
Don't pull out troops from Iraq, and now you have egg on your face. You spent all that time demanding it , electioneering on it , and now that you're in power, you gotta say "oops ...we didn't REALLY mean that"
I HOPE they have the guts to leave the troops in iraq , rather than some kind of futile withdraw , get hit by terrorists , go and conquer Iraq again dance, but these are politicians , and I really wouldn't want to bet on that.
Do you remember the philipino dance ?
It's the same deal. No one aquieces to kidnappers because when you get your kidnap victem back the kidnappers will just go get someone else and do it again.
Truck driver got kidnapped in Iraq.
Big outrage at home in Philippines.
Government caves in , pays ransom.
Truck driver released and goes home.
Next day kidnappers pick up another philipino.
(true event)
Love that dance. Apparently so do the democrats.
Amusing because I'm up here in Canada , and I'm not the one about to shoot myself in the foot.
Amusing because the Democrats have for a long time demanded a pull out of troops from Iraq.
He's the situation.
Pull out troops from Iraq, and Iraq will collapse. And the terrorist swill CHASE you back to america , and try for another 9/11 . These people arnt' satisfied with half measures, they want to rule the world. You're in their way , you're target number one.
Don't pull out troops from Iraq, and now you have egg on your face. You spent all that time demanding it , electioneering on it , and now that you're in power, you gotta say "oops ...we didn't REALLY mean that"
I HOPE they have the guts to leave the troops in iraq , rather than some kind of futile withdraw , get hit by terrorists , go and conquer Iraq again dance, but these are politicians , and I really wouldn't want to bet on that.
Do you remember the philipino dance ?
It's the same deal. No one aquieces to kidnappers because when you get your kidnap victem back the kidnappers will just go get someone else and do it again.
Truck driver got kidnapped in Iraq.
Big outrage at home in Philippines.
Government caves in , pays ransom.
Truck driver released and goes home.
Next day kidnappers pick up another philipino.
(true event)
Love that dance. Apparently so do the democrats.
Junk Mail
I am an old man , with grey hair , and I remember many things.
Do you remember Junk Mail ? It came every sunday in your mail box, and no matter how many signs you put up saying "No Junk Mail" "No Advertising" "No Flyers" etc , it just kept coming in. Most of it was from the local grocery stores or pizza shops or other places.
I remember working one summer for a distributer , we got paid 1 cent for every piece we delivered ( I was just a kid , it was summer holidays , it got me a soda pop and a chocolate bar at the end of the day).
Do you remember that you didn't care that it came from the local grocery store, it was still JUNK MAIL ?
Now we have the online version of it , called SPAM. Guess what ? I still don't care if it came from the grocery store, or the electronics store, or my own ISP, I'm not interested.
But of course these people have a different idea of what is , and isn't spam, and money to back up that idea. Whether it be through bribing ISP's to let their mail through the spam filters , or disembowling government anti-spam legislation, or even paying hackers to shut down a web site that actually provides a working anti-spam service (true story) , there's always a way.
I have to ask. When did it become ok for MY COMPUTER to spy on me ? When did it become ok for it to keep track of what sites I surf so they can determine what kind of advertising would most effectively work on me ? When did subverting MY PROPERTY , my own personal property , so someone else could make a buck , become an ok thing ?
When did the option to opt out vanish ? When did the argument "everyone else does it, so we have to do to stay competitive" become acceptable ?
When did it become ok for me to buy and pay for a video game (matrix online) and play it on my computer , and find out it's filled with real world advertisements ? Something I bought and paid for outright , computer , game , and monthly fee, and there's no opt-out button for the ads ?
When did stupid advertising tricks become more important than inventing a good product people actual want or need ?
And just like putting up those futile NO JUNKMAIL signs on your old mail box, the new signs (anti-spam software) are just as futile.
The more things change, the more they don't.
Do you remember Junk Mail ? It came every sunday in your mail box, and no matter how many signs you put up saying "No Junk Mail" "No Advertising" "No Flyers" etc , it just kept coming in. Most of it was from the local grocery stores or pizza shops or other places.
I remember working one summer for a distributer , we got paid 1 cent for every piece we delivered ( I was just a kid , it was summer holidays , it got me a soda pop and a chocolate bar at the end of the day).
Do you remember that you didn't care that it came from the local grocery store, it was still JUNK MAIL ?
Now we have the online version of it , called SPAM. Guess what ? I still don't care if it came from the grocery store, or the electronics store, or my own ISP, I'm not interested.
But of course these people have a different idea of what is , and isn't spam, and money to back up that idea. Whether it be through bribing ISP's to let their mail through the spam filters , or disembowling government anti-spam legislation, or even paying hackers to shut down a web site that actually provides a working anti-spam service (true story) , there's always a way.
I have to ask. When did it become ok for MY COMPUTER to spy on me ? When did it become ok for it to keep track of what sites I surf so they can determine what kind of advertising would most effectively work on me ? When did subverting MY PROPERTY , my own personal property , so someone else could make a buck , become an ok thing ?
When did the option to opt out vanish ? When did the argument "everyone else does it, so we have to do to stay competitive" become acceptable ?
When did it become ok for me to buy and pay for a video game (matrix online) and play it on my computer , and find out it's filled with real world advertisements ? Something I bought and paid for outright , computer , game , and monthly fee, and there's no opt-out button for the ads ?
When did stupid advertising tricks become more important than inventing a good product people actual want or need ?
And just like putting up those futile NO JUNKMAIL signs on your old mail box, the new signs (anti-spam software) are just as futile.
The more things change, the more they don't.
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Hamas leader calls off Israel cease-fire
Article
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip - Hamas' exiled leader on Wednesday called off a cease-fire with
Israel and militants threatened to attack Americans after 18 members of a family, including eight children, were killed in an Israeli artillery barrage on a densely populated Gaza neighborhood.
You had a cease fire with Israel ? Weren't you just shooting rockets at them yesterday ?
In Damascus,
Syria, Khaled Mashaal, the exiled leader of Hamas, said the group would no longer honor a February 2005 truce and called for renewed attacks on Israel. He urged other militant groups to join the struggle.
2005 ? A whole year ? OOps, it's november, a year and 8 months , thats quite a cease fire . Especially since I seem to recall you had A WHOLE WAR with Israel that lasted 30 days during this cease fire, kidnapped soldiers , and fired rockets galore at Israel during this ceasefire .
"The armed struggle is free to resume, and the resistance is dictated by local circumstances," he told a news conference.
The armed struggle never stopped. You raped that cease fire silly and got your knuckles rapped for it.
Hamas would be taking a gamble by resuming large-scale violence. The group won legislative elections this year and has been struggling to win international legitimacy. Already boycotted by the U.S., Europe and Israel, Hamas would risk further international isolation.
Oh gee, let me think. We won the election on the platform of "we hate americans , and jews, and want to kill them all. " and we wonder why the americans and jews are ticked at them ? What did you expect ? They'd fall all over themselves to give you money ?
In Gaza, Abbas said the killings jeopardized peace prospects. "We tell the Israelis, you are not seeking peace at all, but are destroying all chances for peace. You must therefore bear all the consequences of these crimes," he told Palestine TV.
Yeah yeah ! They should stand there and take it like a man when you fire rockets and kidnap people and try to kill them ! Fighting back is not at all forwarding chances for peace ! fighting back is a CRIME !
apparently , so is truth , as far as the Hamas are concearned.
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip - Hamas' exiled leader on Wednesday called off a cease-fire with
Israel and militants threatened to attack Americans after 18 members of a family, including eight children, were killed in an Israeli artillery barrage on a densely populated Gaza neighborhood.
You had a cease fire with Israel ? Weren't you just shooting rockets at them yesterday ?
In Damascus,
Syria, Khaled Mashaal, the exiled leader of Hamas, said the group would no longer honor a February 2005 truce and called for renewed attacks on Israel. He urged other militant groups to join the struggle.
2005 ? A whole year ? OOps, it's november, a year and 8 months , thats quite a cease fire . Especially since I seem to recall you had A WHOLE WAR with Israel that lasted 30 days during this cease fire, kidnapped soldiers , and fired rockets galore at Israel during this ceasefire .
"The armed struggle is free to resume, and the resistance is dictated by local circumstances," he told a news conference.
The armed struggle never stopped. You raped that cease fire silly and got your knuckles rapped for it.
Hamas would be taking a gamble by resuming large-scale violence. The group won legislative elections this year and has been struggling to win international legitimacy. Already boycotted by the U.S., Europe and Israel, Hamas would risk further international isolation.
Oh gee, let me think. We won the election on the platform of "we hate americans , and jews, and want to kill them all. " and we wonder why the americans and jews are ticked at them ? What did you expect ? They'd fall all over themselves to give you money ?
In Gaza, Abbas said the killings jeopardized peace prospects. "We tell the Israelis, you are not seeking peace at all, but are destroying all chances for peace. You must therefore bear all the consequences of these crimes," he told Palestine TV.
Yeah yeah ! They should stand there and take it like a man when you fire rockets and kidnap people and try to kill them ! Fighting back is not at all forwarding chances for peace ! fighting back is a CRIME !
apparently , so is truth , as far as the Hamas are concearned.
Monday, November 06, 2006
Windows for Banks
I was out and about today , and I happened to pass by a bank machine (actually , I was trying to get money out of said bank machine) when I noticed it was out of order.
It did not say "Out of Order." Nor "Offline" nor anyone of a dozen other useful messages.
It said , in a nice big window , a WINDOWS style window I might add "One or more services did not start ..." yadda yadda yadda , a standard windows operating system message.
How does it feel to know your money is being managed by the most penetrated, the most virus prone , operating system in the world ? One they've apparently been working on since 1995 (win95) and still havn't gotten it right yet (it's 2006 as of writing this article , 11 years later).
How secure is your bank password or pin number ? Check for odd transactions lately ? strange charges on your account ?
Just wondering , just wondering ?
It did not say "Out of Order." Nor "Offline" nor anyone of a dozen other useful messages.
It said , in a nice big window , a WINDOWS style window I might add "One or more services did not start ..." yadda yadda yadda , a standard windows operating system message.
How does it feel to know your money is being managed by the most penetrated, the most virus prone , operating system in the world ? One they've apparently been working on since 1995 (win95) and still havn't gotten it right yet (it's 2006 as of writing this article , 11 years later).
How secure is your bank password or pin number ? Check for odd transactions lately ? strange charges on your account ?
Just wondering , just wondering ?
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Bad Boy ISP's (internet service providers)
Article
The below pretty much says it all.
Examples of alleged discrimination by some ISPs:
February 2006 - Some customers of Cox Cable in the U.S. are unable to access Craig's List because of a so-called software bug in the Authentium personal firewall distributed by Cox Cable to improve customers' security. The group Save the Internet calls it an intentional act on the part of Cox Cable to protect classified ad services offered by its partners. The issue is resolved by correction of the software as well as a change in the network configuration used by Craig's List. The site's founder Craig Newmark acknowledges it was not an intentional act on Cox's part.
March 2006 - Alberta's Shaw Cable offers a "quality of service" upgrade for their own VoIP service. Vonage complains to the CRTC about Shaw's $10 surcharge on Vonage users, calling it a hidden Vonage tax.
April 2006 - Time Warner's AOL blocks all e-mails that mention www.dearaol.com, an advocacy campaign opposing the company's pay-to-send e-mail scheme. An AOL spokesman calls the issue an unintentional "glitch."
July 2006 - Canadian telephone giant Telus blocks access to voices-for-change.ca, a website supporting the company's labour union during a labour dispute, as well as over 600 other websites, for about 16 hours.
Source: Save the Internet (savetheinternet.com).
Hmmm...I'm ABC(for example) internet provider (ISP) and I'm putting up a new voip (internet phone) ... I think i'll make all the other voip's flowing through my network stop working ... ! yeah , thats a great idea !
The below pretty much says it all.
Examples of alleged discrimination by some ISPs:
February 2006 - Some customers of Cox Cable in the U.S. are unable to access Craig's List because of a so-called software bug in the Authentium personal firewall distributed by Cox Cable to improve customers' security. The group Save the Internet calls it an intentional act on the part of Cox Cable to protect classified ad services offered by its partners. The issue is resolved by correction of the software as well as a change in the network configuration used by Craig's List. The site's founder Craig Newmark acknowledges it was not an intentional act on Cox's part.
March 2006 - Alberta's Shaw Cable offers a "quality of service" upgrade for their own VoIP service. Vonage complains to the CRTC about Shaw's $10 surcharge on Vonage users, calling it a hidden Vonage tax.
April 2006 - Time Warner's AOL blocks all e-mails that mention www.dearaol.com, an advocacy campaign opposing the company's pay-to-send e-mail scheme. An AOL spokesman calls the issue an unintentional "glitch."
July 2006 - Canadian telephone giant Telus blocks access to voices-for-change.ca, a website supporting the company's labour union during a labour dispute, as well as over 600 other websites, for about 16 hours.
Source: Save the Internet (savetheinternet.com).
Hmmm...I'm ABC(for example) internet provider (ISP) and I'm putting up a new voip (internet phone) ... I think i'll make all the other voip's flowing through my network stop working ... ! yeah , thats a great idea !
Saddam, co-defendants sentenced to hang
Article
*sniff*
I'm gonna miss that guy. The beard, the attitude , the constant telling of the judges where you can go and what you can do with yourself when you get there, it all had a certain attractiveness to it.
Of course he has to die, he's a dictator who's murdered more of his own people than we will possibly know.
Of course it was a Kangaroo court. He WAS the law in old Iraq and there is no getting around that. He did as he pleased and yes , it was LEGAL. Not very nice, but legal.
And of course he's a threat to middle east stability. He invaded his own neibours after all (Kuwait comes to mind).
And of course there were no weapons of mass destruction. But did there really need to be ? Hasn't he done enough without them to deserve the noose ?
Still...they could have dragged it out a bit longer.
Gonna miss that old rascal.
*sniff*
I'm gonna miss that guy. The beard, the attitude , the constant telling of the judges where you can go and what you can do with yourself when you get there, it all had a certain attractiveness to it.
Of course he has to die, he's a dictator who's murdered more of his own people than we will possibly know.
Of course it was a Kangaroo court. He WAS the law in old Iraq and there is no getting around that. He did as he pleased and yes , it was LEGAL. Not very nice, but legal.
And of course he's a threat to middle east stability. He invaded his own neibours after all (Kuwait comes to mind).
And of course there were no weapons of mass destruction. But did there really need to be ? Hasn't he done enough without them to deserve the noose ?
Still...they could have dragged it out a bit longer.
Gonna miss that old rascal.
Election Booby Trap
So , I was thinking, if I was prime minister Harper , and I pretty much knew that I had six months in office before getting the boot, and I pretty much knew that the Liberals were coming back ... how could I booby trap things for them ?
At this point , the television blares something about our doomed Kyoto Accord, and I look at it , and I have an epiphany.
He did't actually break the Kyoto Accord did he ? He just got the opposition , INCLUDING the Liberals, saying how awful he was and how Canada really should abide by the accord.
Can't you just see it ? Six months from now , there's been an election, the Liberals are now in power, and now they're the ones Big Business is bribing money to to get out of it.
And Harpers conservatives sweetly come along with this big list of quotes , "You said this on this date about Kyoto , you said that on that date about Kyoto ... what do you mean you suddenly want to pull out ?"
If you wanted to try and lock the Liberals on course for Kyoto , and you know your minority government could never do much about it ... this would be a good attempt.
This would be a good booby trap to leave behind. Hang them with their own words.
At this point , the television blares something about our doomed Kyoto Accord, and I look at it , and I have an epiphany.
He did't actually break the Kyoto Accord did he ? He just got the opposition , INCLUDING the Liberals, saying how awful he was and how Canada really should abide by the accord.
Can't you just see it ? Six months from now , there's been an election, the Liberals are now in power, and now they're the ones Big Business is bribing money to to get out of it.
And Harpers conservatives sweetly come along with this big list of quotes , "You said this on this date about Kyoto , you said that on that date about Kyoto ... what do you mean you suddenly want to pull out ?"
If you wanted to try and lock the Liberals on course for Kyoto , and you know your minority government could never do much about it ... this would be a good attempt.
This would be a good booby trap to leave behind. Hang them with their own words.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
CSR Sun life Insurance
CSR = Customer Service Representative.
I met a friend from work the other day in my favorite coffee shop , we're both CSR's , but while I stayed in technical support fixing computers, he moved on. To Sun Life Insurance, which is who's paying out my short term disability. He's a CSR there too, answering the phone, talking to yahoo's like me.
I asked him about all the paper work and forms and stuff I have to fill out, and the answer was not really what i expected.
It's his job to keep us sick people running around. Go here, go there. Hoping we'll get depressed and give it up. Because if we don't fill out those forms , they don't have to pay us. It's all a game he said, and you'd be surprised how much they save just by insisting on one or two extra sheets of paper, one extra trip to the doctor to sign one more document...how many people just give it up as a bad job...
Made a special trip today to get my latest piece of paper signed from that company. That conversation echoing in my mind. Totally unfair, they know I'm not going to get better in just a few weeks. But at least now I know how this game is played.
I met a friend from work the other day in my favorite coffee shop , we're both CSR's , but while I stayed in technical support fixing computers, he moved on. To Sun Life Insurance, which is who's paying out my short term disability. He's a CSR there too, answering the phone, talking to yahoo's like me.
I asked him about all the paper work and forms and stuff I have to fill out, and the answer was not really what i expected.
It's his job to keep us sick people running around. Go here, go there. Hoping we'll get depressed and give it up. Because if we don't fill out those forms , they don't have to pay us. It's all a game he said, and you'd be surprised how much they save just by insisting on one or two extra sheets of paper, one extra trip to the doctor to sign one more document...how many people just give it up as a bad job...
Made a special trip today to get my latest piece of paper signed from that company. That conversation echoing in my mind. Totally unfair, they know I'm not going to get better in just a few weeks. But at least now I know how this game is played.
8 dog night
Ah the beauty of an unfettered parliment.
apparently the forien affairs minister leaned over to a friend and whispered that his ex girlfriend , now a member of the opposition and a minister of parliment , was something of a dog.
Apparently , 8 keen eared opposition ministers heard this whisper, though the near by microphones sitting at EVERYONE'S desks did not , and signed affidavids to that effect.
Which is increadably stupid.
Why ?
Do you honestly immagine 8 opposition ministers, 8 people known to hate our current government , are sitting there like vultures within two or feet of the minsiter , listening to his every whisper ?
The very fact that there are 8 such affidavids merely confirms that politicians will tell any lie, and sign any peice of paper. Come on , 8 people listening in would look like a football huddle ! Hard to miss !
It's an 8 dog night that day in parliment , when the Liberals don't hesitate to tell even the most ridiculous and unbelievable lies. And these people are likely to win the next election ?
Sheesh !
apparently the forien affairs minister leaned over to a friend and whispered that his ex girlfriend , now a member of the opposition and a minister of parliment , was something of a dog.
Apparently , 8 keen eared opposition ministers heard this whisper, though the near by microphones sitting at EVERYONE'S desks did not , and signed affidavids to that effect.
Which is increadably stupid.
Why ?
Do you honestly immagine 8 opposition ministers, 8 people known to hate our current government , are sitting there like vultures within two or feet of the minsiter , listening to his every whisper ?
The very fact that there are 8 such affidavids merely confirms that politicians will tell any lie, and sign any peice of paper. Come on , 8 people listening in would look like a football huddle ! Hard to miss !
It's an 8 dog night that day in parliment , when the Liberals don't hesitate to tell even the most ridiculous and unbelievable lies. And these people are likely to win the next election ?
Sheesh !
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Part of Anti-terrorism Act violates charter: judge
Article
Not really interestd in the main point that this artical is braying about , but it doesn mention further down two other points that should be frightening to most canadians.
Preventive arrest allows police to arrest someone they believe might commit a terrorist act.
Letmme get this straight. You can arrest people anywhere , any time, that havn't actually done anything ? ...ummmm.... hello totalitarian state ?
Investigative hearings allow judges to compel people to appear as material witnesses and prosecute them should they refuse.
...ummm yeah ! You can force them to testify and punish them if they do not. What do you mean by TESTIFY ? You mean , of course , to have them tell a particular story YOU made up , so as to throw someone else in the clink for good.
... hello dictatorship ! Goodbye freedoms !
Neither measure has yet been used.
someone will. I guarentee it. Someone always pushes their luck , it's human nature.
Not really interestd in the main point that this artical is braying about , but it doesn mention further down two other points that should be frightening to most canadians.
Preventive arrest allows police to arrest someone they believe might commit a terrorist act.
Letmme get this straight. You can arrest people anywhere , any time, that havn't actually done anything ? ...ummmm.... hello totalitarian state ?
Investigative hearings allow judges to compel people to appear as material witnesses and prosecute them should they refuse.
...ummm yeah ! You can force them to testify and punish them if they do not. What do you mean by TESTIFY ? You mean , of course , to have them tell a particular story YOU made up , so as to throw someone else in the clink for good.
... hello dictatorship ! Goodbye freedoms !
Neither measure has yet been used.
someone will. I guarentee it. Someone always pushes their luck , it's human nature.
The Newsies Speak
I get up and watch CNN every morning with my breakfast.
They're big on counting US casualties and claiming how
awful it is. We lost 80 people this month, gasp ! That's
horrible.
Right.
There are 150 000 american troops in Iraq. 80 a month is a fraction of one percent. Assuming 80 a month for 6 months, the average tour of duty for a soldier , it means your soldier has a %0.32 chance of dying. A third of one percent. This is not combat fatalities. This is traffic accident statistics.
If this is the best the muslim insurgants can inflict upon the US then THEY ARE LOSING ! Big time.
But CNN has a different story to tell. And I do mean story. Thanks to this illustrius bastian of journalistic integredy , it seems to all the west that in fact the americans are losing , not the muslim terrorist.
It is expected that the terrorists will front a propaganda war against us. It is not expected that our own newspapers will help them.
and why are they helping them ? Follow the money , which in this case isnt hard.
Bad news sells papers. Cut a deal with the terrorists , leave our reporters alone and we'll do right by you in the newspaper articles, and volia. American reporters get to wander the war scene almost unharmed (the terrorists are badly organized , there's always a few that don't get the word and kidnap an american anyways) as long as they continue to print anti-american stories, as long as they continue to show muslim mothers crying at what the cruel americans did ... and the guys holding guns to the reporters heads are never shown and the money keeps rolling in.
And a war the US is winning , is portrayed as one that they are losing , and now they some how have to explain WHY they are losing this war to their own people when in fact they are not.
It all sells print.
It's totally dishonest.
Thus speak The Newsies.
They're big on counting US casualties and claiming how
awful it is. We lost 80 people this month, gasp ! That's
horrible.
Right.
There are 150 000 american troops in Iraq. 80 a month is a fraction of one percent. Assuming 80 a month for 6 months, the average tour of duty for a soldier , it means your soldier has a %0.32 chance of dying. A third of one percent. This is not combat fatalities. This is traffic accident statistics.
If this is the best the muslim insurgants can inflict upon the US then THEY ARE LOSING ! Big time.
But CNN has a different story to tell. And I do mean story. Thanks to this illustrius bastian of journalistic integredy , it seems to all the west that in fact the americans are losing , not the muslim terrorist.
It is expected that the terrorists will front a propaganda war against us. It is not expected that our own newspapers will help them.
and why are they helping them ? Follow the money , which in this case isnt hard.
Bad news sells papers. Cut a deal with the terrorists , leave our reporters alone and we'll do right by you in the newspaper articles, and volia. American reporters get to wander the war scene almost unharmed (the terrorists are badly organized , there's always a few that don't get the word and kidnap an american anyways) as long as they continue to print anti-american stories, as long as they continue to show muslim mothers crying at what the cruel americans did ... and the guys holding guns to the reporters heads are never shown and the money keeps rolling in.
And a war the US is winning , is portrayed as one that they are losing , and now they some how have to explain WHY they are losing this war to their own people when in fact they are not.
It all sells print.
It's totally dishonest.
Thus speak The Newsies.
Conservatives on Green
The conservative party has a new plan for the biosphere, a Green Plan. Trouble is , it doesn't require anyone to do anything for at least ten years. This after they basically disposed of the Koyoto Accord which requires big business to start doing things ... now, as a matter of fact.
Trouble is , the Conservatives wont be in power in ten years, probably the Liberals will win the next election. and they're guarenteed to trash this plan ... and well...we're not part of Koyoto anymore so we don't have to obey that ....
Cute manouvering. And what do we , the average joe on the ground get out of this ?
Smog. Lots more smog. And no controls to stop it. And the blame shuffled back and forth like a hockey puck on a rink made from polluted water. And no hope in the future of any controls to stop it.
Trouble is , the Conservatives wont be in power in ten years, probably the Liberals will win the next election. and they're guarenteed to trash this plan ... and well...we're not part of Koyoto anymore so we don't have to obey that ....
Cute manouvering. And what do we , the average joe on the ground get out of this ?
Smog. Lots more smog. And no controls to stop it. And the blame shuffled back and forth like a hockey puck on a rink made from polluted water. And no hope in the future of any controls to stop it.
The Plumber Speaks
Hit the doctor today , a GI specialist who calls himself The Plumber.
No operation yet, he'll see me again in december. Lose some weight.
Sheesh .. this just drags on and on....
No operation yet, he'll see me again in december. Lose some weight.
Sheesh .. this just drags on and on....
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Online Gambling
USA just passed a law making it illegal for credit card companies to pay money to online gambling sites.
Online gambling sites are already illegal in the USA , and are mostly found in europe. 50% of their customers, however , are in the usa.
The online gambling sites are terribly terribly upset about this, saying that this is no way to solve the gambling addiction of people, you should regulate the issue. Of course they're currently sitting in europe thumbing their noses at any attempt by the US to regulate them in any way shape or form.
I work in tech support, internet connection for residential customers ( I won't say which company). I get calls all the time about internet gambling. The usual complaint ?
If you disconnect from the gambling server, you forfiet all funds. Odd, the "practice" server that only plays for pretend money almost never disco's. The "live" server that plays for actual US cash ? Disco's about every 30 seconds, and the player loses it all , and complains to us for lousy service. And we have to explain to them point blank that since it's only the live server going down and not the practice, they are being ripped off.
Lets not mince words.
Online gambling is illegal for a reason.
And that reason is because the operators are theives and pirates.
And the reason is because it is just SOOOOO easy to rip people off from the other side of the world and then listen to their local cops say "I'm sorry , but he's not here, he's in some other country ..."
You wanna gamble ? Show up in person at the casino. Those guys mess up , you can take them to court. Some guy on the other side of the world ? He'll just thumb his nose at you and move on to the next sucker.
Online gambling sites are already illegal in the USA , and are mostly found in europe. 50% of their customers, however , are in the usa.
The online gambling sites are terribly terribly upset about this, saying that this is no way to solve the gambling addiction of people, you should regulate the issue. Of course they're currently sitting in europe thumbing their noses at any attempt by the US to regulate them in any way shape or form.
I work in tech support, internet connection for residential customers ( I won't say which company). I get calls all the time about internet gambling. The usual complaint ?
If you disconnect from the gambling server, you forfiet all funds. Odd, the "practice" server that only plays for pretend money almost never disco's. The "live" server that plays for actual US cash ? Disco's about every 30 seconds, and the player loses it all , and complains to us for lousy service. And we have to explain to them point blank that since it's only the live server going down and not the practice, they are being ripped off.
Lets not mince words.
Online gambling is illegal for a reason.
And that reason is because the operators are theives and pirates.
And the reason is because it is just SOOOOO easy to rip people off from the other side of the world and then listen to their local cops say "I'm sorry , but he's not here, he's in some other country ..."
You wanna gamble ? Show up in person at the casino. Those guys mess up , you can take them to court. Some guy on the other side of the world ? He'll just thumb his nose at you and move on to the next sucker.
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Organ sales 'thriving' in China
Article
The sale of organs taken from executed prisoners appears to be thriving in China, an undercover investigation by the BBC has found.
Organs from death row inmates are sold to foreigners who need transplants.
this is so wrong , in just so many ways ... starting from why those prisoners were on Death Row in the first place (activists for a more democratic china) to the very concept of death row in a totalitarian state in the first place ...
(ring ring)
Excuse me.
Hello , Doctor ? Whats that you say ? I need a new liver in six months or I'm dead meat ? Thanks I'll get back to you on that.
Now where were we ? Oh yes.
It is a fine and generous example of chinese society to provide this much needed service of organ donation to the world at large at such a reasonable cost, really it is ! honest !
The sale of organs taken from executed prisoners appears to be thriving in China, an undercover investigation by the BBC has found.
Organs from death row inmates are sold to foreigners who need transplants.
this is so wrong , in just so many ways ... starting from why those prisoners were on Death Row in the first place (activists for a more democratic china) to the very concept of death row in a totalitarian state in the first place ...
(ring ring)
Excuse me.
Hello , Doctor ? Whats that you say ? I need a new liver in six months or I'm dead meat ? Thanks I'll get back to you on that.
Now where were we ? Oh yes.
It is a fine and generous example of chinese society to provide this much needed service of organ donation to the world at large at such a reasonable cost, really it is ! honest !
2002: Security Now Job One
Microsoft Corp. puts out fix for a security flaw in its Internet Explorer
...because computer users could come under attack just by visiting a Web site that had been manipulated to take advantage of the flaw. That, in turn, would give an attacker complete control of a user's computer,...
In other words, visit the wrong web site , poof ! Infected, emails stolen ,credit card numbers stolen , you now have half a dozen virii on your computer, and you didn't even get a warning or a little pop up window asking for your permission.
In 2002 Bill Gates stated that Security was Now Job One.
It's 2006. He's had 4 years. You're still at the point where you wander off the beaten path on your computer on the internet explorer and you could potentially lose your life savings , your bank account emptied of the rent, your personality stolen , your house sold from right underneath you, and more, just because you're 10 year old hit the wrong web site.
This is not acceptable.
Get off the internet explorer.
getfirefox.com
...because computer users could come under attack just by visiting a Web site that had been manipulated to take advantage of the flaw. That, in turn, would give an attacker complete control of a user's computer,...
In other words, visit the wrong web site , poof ! Infected, emails stolen ,credit card numbers stolen , you now have half a dozen virii on your computer, and you didn't even get a warning or a little pop up window asking for your permission.
In 2002 Bill Gates stated that Security was Now Job One.
It's 2006. He's had 4 years. You're still at the point where you wander off the beaten path on your computer on the internet explorer and you could potentially lose your life savings , your bank account emptied of the rent, your personality stolen , your house sold from right underneath you, and more, just because you're 10 year old hit the wrong web site.
This is not acceptable.
Get off the internet explorer.
getfirefox.com
Friday, September 22, 2006
OK , I'm confused ...
Article
Hezbollah won't disarm till Lebanon can defend itself, leader says
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah says the militant group won't disarm until the Lebanese government can defend the country.
Umm... I'm confused. Hezbollah is a muslim insurgant organization backed by other nations in the middle east with the purpose of overthrowing the lebanese democracy.
What was that again that just popped out of your mouth ?
Nasrallah addressed thousands of cheering supporters in Beirut Friday, his first public appearance since Israel attempted to dislodge the militants from southern Lebanon in July.
If Hezbollah disarms, the government led by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora is so weak that Israel will be able "to kill and detain and bomb whoever they want, and clearly we will not accept that."
Umm... the only people the Isralie's are trying to bomb are the Hezbollah, mostly because you're attacking them, firing rockets off at them, kidnapping their soldiers , etc etc ....
Hezbollah will talk about disarmament "when we build a strong and just state that is capable of protecting the nation and the citizens," Nasrallah said
You know , I was just watching a Television special yesterday about Islam. It kept constantly mentioning that Islam was a "Just" religion. You don't think their notion of a Just State is a non - democratic islamic one , do you ?
Lebanon protested against the Israeli attacks, but Hezbollah fought the incursion, winning what Nasrallah called "a great divine, historic and strategic victory" over Israel in 34 days of fighting in southern Lebanon this summer.
Ummm... Lebanon was never attacked. Only the Hezbollah were. and for a victorious army you got a lot of blown up buildings and pretty much little or no enemey casualties to point to. (40 israeli citizens killed by rockets fired at random into israel. )
Who wrote this confused pro-terrorist diatrabe anyways ?
Last Updated Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:55:39 EDT
CBC News
Figures.
Hezbollah won't disarm till Lebanon can defend itself, leader says
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah says the militant group won't disarm until the Lebanese government can defend the country.
Umm... I'm confused. Hezbollah is a muslim insurgant organization backed by other nations in the middle east with the purpose of overthrowing the lebanese democracy.
What was that again that just popped out of your mouth ?
Nasrallah addressed thousands of cheering supporters in Beirut Friday, his first public appearance since Israel attempted to dislodge the militants from southern Lebanon in July.
If Hezbollah disarms, the government led by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora is so weak that Israel will be able "to kill and detain and bomb whoever they want, and clearly we will not accept that."
Umm... the only people the Isralie's are trying to bomb are the Hezbollah, mostly because you're attacking them, firing rockets off at them, kidnapping their soldiers , etc etc ....
Hezbollah will talk about disarmament "when we build a strong and just state that is capable of protecting the nation and the citizens," Nasrallah said
You know , I was just watching a Television special yesterday about Islam. It kept constantly mentioning that Islam was a "Just" religion. You don't think their notion of a Just State is a non - democratic islamic one , do you ?
Lebanon protested against the Israeli attacks, but Hezbollah fought the incursion, winning what Nasrallah called "a great divine, historic and strategic victory" over Israel in 34 days of fighting in southern Lebanon this summer.
Ummm... Lebanon was never attacked. Only the Hezbollah were. and for a victorious army you got a lot of blown up buildings and pretty much little or no enemey casualties to point to. (40 israeli citizens killed by rockets fired at random into israel. )
Who wrote this confused pro-terrorist diatrabe anyways ?
Last Updated Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:55:39 EDT
CBC News
Figures.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Jordanian Suicide Stupidity
Article
Jordan sentences female would-be bomber
AMMAN, Jordan - A court sentenced an Iraqi woman to death Thursday for her role in an al-Qaida-led triple hotel bombing that killed 60 people in Jordan's worst terror attack ever.
IDIOTS !!!
You don't sentence someone to death for deciding not to kill someone ! And you certainly don't sentence a failed suicide bomber to death ! Are you trying to encourage them to go through with it ? Do you really want them thinking "I could try to ditch the bomb and run , but the government will execute me anyways ..."
That's just stupid.
You want these suicide bombers to cut and run and not go through with it. A lesser sentence and some kind of good treatment is clearly mandated in a situation like this , if only by common sense.
The law is supposed to protect the population , and that means convincing the suicide bombers not to go through with it , not telling them they might as well they're dead anyways !
"The harsh verdict today sends a clear message to all terror groups: Jordan's stability and security is a red line that can't be crossed," said Mahmoud al-Kharabsheh, a lawmaker who sits on the parliament's Legal Committee.
The hash verdict today sends a clear message to all terrorist bombers. Once the bomb is strapped on , you might as well do it , if the bomb doesn't get you the government will.
And is that a message you really want to send ?
Jordan sentences female would-be bomber
AMMAN, Jordan - A court sentenced an Iraqi woman to death Thursday for her role in an al-Qaida-led triple hotel bombing that killed 60 people in Jordan's worst terror attack ever.
IDIOTS !!!
You don't sentence someone to death for deciding not to kill someone ! And you certainly don't sentence a failed suicide bomber to death ! Are you trying to encourage them to go through with it ? Do you really want them thinking "I could try to ditch the bomb and run , but the government will execute me anyways ..."
That's just stupid.
You want these suicide bombers to cut and run and not go through with it. A lesser sentence and some kind of good treatment is clearly mandated in a situation like this , if only by common sense.
The law is supposed to protect the population , and that means convincing the suicide bombers not to go through with it , not telling them they might as well they're dead anyways !
"The harsh verdict today sends a clear message to all terror groups: Jordan's stability and security is a red line that can't be crossed," said Mahmoud al-Kharabsheh, a lawmaker who sits on the parliament's Legal Committee.
The hash verdict today sends a clear message to all terrorist bombers. Once the bomb is strapped on , you might as well do it , if the bomb doesn't get you the government will.
And is that a message you really want to send ?
Monday, September 18, 2006
The Matryr Pope
Article
Ok, so I'm an 80 year old man , rather religious, in charge of an entire religion, and I'm facing my own mortality. I'm pope now , and I'm gonna die pope , and it
isn't going to be a long reign because us 80 year old men, you know , we probably got a long list of illness's we're not telling anyone about already before we even became pope.
I put out a speach about how conversion by the sword is evil , and named Muhamad as guilty of it , even calling him evil.
The Muslim religion went wild.
And so there I am on TV. Wringing my hands, saying "I'm sorry , I'm sorry" while all these vile and evil clerics are making death threats at me , essentially proving my very point that they are evil.
I love it ! Yah gotta know , I did it on purpose !
The Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of Sunni Arab extremist groups that includes al Qaeda in Iraq, issued a statement on a Web forum vowing to continue its holy war against the West. The authenticity of the statement could not be independently verified.
The group said Muslims would be victorious and addressed the pope as "the worshipper of the cross" saying "you and the West are doomed as you can see from the defeat in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya and elsewhere. ... We will break up the cross, spill the liquor and impose head tax, then the only thing acceptable is a conversion (to Islam) or (killed by) the sword."
Ok , so my speach to open dialogue on the merits of pushing your religious views by violence has received an answer. You beleive it's perfectly ok. (And you want to kill me for suggesting such a thing is evil).
Oh yes, this is just bearing fruit like I don't believe. I dont' have to say a thing, these muslims are stupidly putting on the horns and picking up the pitch fork all by themselves ! I love it !
The secretary-general of the Turkish HUKUK-DER law association submitted a request to the Justice Ministry asking that the pope be arrested upon entering Turkey.
The appeal by Fikret Karabekmez, a former legislator for the banned pro-Islamic Welfare Party, called for Benedict to be tried under several Turkish laws, among them obstruction of freedom of belief, encouraging discrimination based on religion, and inciting religious hatred.
Ho ho ho ! we won't discuss how Islam breaks all of those laws (freedom of belief and inciting religious hatred top the list) .
Instead , let us consider what happens if I show up in Turkey , and you arrest me , and I LET YOU DO IT !
Now you have a pope in a muslim jail cell, surrounded by angry muslims who are known for dishonesty. One small word in the wrong place by me , and these evil fools who can't control their own temper will cut my head off like they do all those captured jews. And no one is going to believe any story they make up.
And the religious storm that will cause will be like nothing you have ever seen. You think the west hates you now ? Try uniting all the various squabbling christian sects by assassinating a pope , and then you'll learn what hatred is.
If you have to check out ... what a way to go !
Ok, so I'm an 80 year old man , rather religious, in charge of an entire religion, and I'm facing my own mortality. I'm pope now , and I'm gonna die pope , and it
isn't going to be a long reign because us 80 year old men, you know , we probably got a long list of illness's we're not telling anyone about already before we even became pope.
I put out a speach about how conversion by the sword is evil , and named Muhamad as guilty of it , even calling him evil.
The Muslim religion went wild.
And so there I am on TV. Wringing my hands, saying "I'm sorry , I'm sorry" while all these vile and evil clerics are making death threats at me , essentially proving my very point that they are evil.
I love it ! Yah gotta know , I did it on purpose !
The Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of Sunni Arab extremist groups that includes al Qaeda in Iraq, issued a statement on a Web forum vowing to continue its holy war against the West. The authenticity of the statement could not be independently verified.
The group said Muslims would be victorious and addressed the pope as "the worshipper of the cross" saying "you and the West are doomed as you can see from the defeat in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya and elsewhere. ... We will break up the cross, spill the liquor and impose head tax, then the only thing acceptable is a conversion (to Islam) or (killed by) the sword."
Ok , so my speach to open dialogue on the merits of pushing your religious views by violence has received an answer. You beleive it's perfectly ok. (And you want to kill me for suggesting such a thing is evil).
Oh yes, this is just bearing fruit like I don't believe. I dont' have to say a thing, these muslims are stupidly putting on the horns and picking up the pitch fork all by themselves ! I love it !
The secretary-general of the Turkish HUKUK-DER law association submitted a request to the Justice Ministry asking that the pope be arrested upon entering Turkey.
The appeal by Fikret Karabekmez, a former legislator for the banned pro-Islamic Welfare Party, called for Benedict to be tried under several Turkish laws, among them obstruction of freedom of belief, encouraging discrimination based on religion, and inciting religious hatred.
Ho ho ho ! we won't discuss how Islam breaks all of those laws (freedom of belief and inciting religious hatred top the list) .
Instead , let us consider what happens if I show up in Turkey , and you arrest me , and I LET YOU DO IT !
Now you have a pope in a muslim jail cell, surrounded by angry muslims who are known for dishonesty. One small word in the wrong place by me , and these evil fools who can't control their own temper will cut my head off like they do all those captured jews. And no one is going to believe any story they make up.
And the religious storm that will cause will be like nothing you have ever seen. You think the west hates you now ? Try uniting all the various squabbling christian sects by assassinating a pope , and then you'll learn what hatred is.
If you have to check out ... what a way to go !
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Prison Camps
Article
BAGHDAD, Iraq - In the few short years since the first shackled Afghan shuffled off to Guantanamo, the U.S. military has created a global network of overseas prisons, its islands of high security keeping 14,000 detainees beyond the reach of established law.
Captured on battlefields, pulled from beds at midnight, grabbed off streets as suspected insurgents, tens of thousands now have passed through U.S. detention.
But others say there's no need to hold these thousands outside of the rules for prisoners of war established by the Geneva Conventions.
U.N. Secretary-General
Kofi Annan declared last March that the extent of arbitrary detention here is "not consistent with provisions of international law governing internment on imperative reasons of security."
Ok. so , you caught this guy , on the battle field , with a rifle in his hand , shooting at you. Only instead of killing him on the spot you got him to surrender.
And you want to do ... what ? Send him back home so the enemy can put another rifle in his hand and he can shoot at you a second time ? Is that what you're thinking ?
Or ... more entertainingly....
You pick up this suspect out of his bed at night , and question him for a while , and then let him go. But of course , you have to let him know why you picked him up in the first place, thats the LAW isn't it ?
"Your next door neibour Abdul turned you in."
Two days later Abdul's body shows up with his head cut off.
Yeah .... right.
"If you, God forbid, are an innocent Afghan who gets sold down the river by some warlord rival, you can end up at Bagram and you have absolutely no way of clearing your name," said John Sifton of Human Rights Watch in New York. "You can't have a lawyer present evidence, or do anything organized to get yourself out of there."
Afghan Warlords don't send secret messages to the western forces that you're a bad boy. They Just shoot you. And your whole family. And your whole village if they're really pissed off. Having you picked up by the wimpy westerner's who wont even touch your women and will probably release you in a few months or years is just the wrong message to send to a warlords enemies. A bullet to your head is the way to go , from their view point.
so what do I think of these detention camps ?
yah got two choices when you pick up someone off the field of battle with a rifle in his hand. shoot him , or make him a prisoner of war until the war is over. Turning him lose is like shooting at the western soldiers yourself, and thats negilgence causing death on YOUR part. Peace activists who believe otherwise need to spend some quality time in our prison system.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - In the few short years since the first shackled Afghan shuffled off to Guantanamo, the U.S. military has created a global network of overseas prisons, its islands of high security keeping 14,000 detainees beyond the reach of established law.
Captured on battlefields, pulled from beds at midnight, grabbed off streets as suspected insurgents, tens of thousands now have passed through U.S. detention.
But others say there's no need to hold these thousands outside of the rules for prisoners of war established by the Geneva Conventions.
U.N. Secretary-General
Kofi Annan declared last March that the extent of arbitrary detention here is "not consistent with provisions of international law governing internment on imperative reasons of security."
Ok. so , you caught this guy , on the battle field , with a rifle in his hand , shooting at you. Only instead of killing him on the spot you got him to surrender.
And you want to do ... what ? Send him back home so the enemy can put another rifle in his hand and he can shoot at you a second time ? Is that what you're thinking ?
Or ... more entertainingly....
You pick up this suspect out of his bed at night , and question him for a while , and then let him go. But of course , you have to let him know why you picked him up in the first place, thats the LAW isn't it ?
"Your next door neibour Abdul turned you in."
Two days later Abdul's body shows up with his head cut off.
Yeah .... right.
"If you, God forbid, are an innocent Afghan who gets sold down the river by some warlord rival, you can end up at Bagram and you have absolutely no way of clearing your name," said John Sifton of Human Rights Watch in New York. "You can't have a lawyer present evidence, or do anything organized to get yourself out of there."
Afghan Warlords don't send secret messages to the western forces that you're a bad boy. They Just shoot you. And your whole family. And your whole village if they're really pissed off. Having you picked up by the wimpy westerner's who wont even touch your women and will probably release you in a few months or years is just the wrong message to send to a warlords enemies. A bullet to your head is the way to go , from their view point.
so what do I think of these detention camps ?
yah got two choices when you pick up someone off the field of battle with a rifle in his hand. shoot him , or make him a prisoner of war until the war is over. Turning him lose is like shooting at the western soldiers yourself, and thats negilgence causing death on YOUR part. Peace activists who believe otherwise need to spend some quality time in our prison system.
Saturday, September 16, 2006
I'm sorry , I didn't realize that you didn't you know you were evil.
Article
>>The worst crisis since Benedict was elected in April 2005 was sparked by a speech in Germany Tuesday that appeared to endorse a Christian view, contested by most Muslims, that early Muslims spread their religion by violence <<
Really ? Tell me again about all these Jihad's and 9/11 and all these Sunni's and Shiites assassinating each other in Iraq again ?
"Of course as we know the meaning of jihad can only be understood by Muslims," Budianto told the crowd. "Only Muslims can understand what jihad is. It is impossible that jihad can be linked with violence, we Muslims have no violent character."
So how many people did these no violent charactar muslims kill today ? It was 60 yesterday in bagdad. And not soldiers, but random civilians. Random Muslim civilians at that.
Muslim Brotherhood Chairman Mohammed Mahdi Akef also expressed anger over the pope's academic speech.
"The pope's statements come to add fuel to fire and trigger anger within the Muslim world and show that the West with its politicians and clerics are hostile to Islam."
The west is hostile to Islam ? but you're the one doing all the killing here ?
I'm sorry, didn't anyone tell you ? Killing is Evil. Lying is Evil. And the Clerics of Islam are doing both, and demanding of their worshippers to do both.
Hate to break this to you , but Islam is Evil.
>>The worst crisis since Benedict was elected in April 2005 was sparked by a speech in Germany Tuesday that appeared to endorse a Christian view, contested by most Muslims, that early Muslims spread their religion by violence <<
Really ? Tell me again about all these Jihad's and 9/11 and all these Sunni's and Shiites assassinating each other in Iraq again ?
"Of course as we know the meaning of jihad can only be understood by Muslims," Budianto told the crowd. "Only Muslims can understand what jihad is. It is impossible that jihad can be linked with violence, we Muslims have no violent character."
So how many people did these no violent charactar muslims kill today ? It was 60 yesterday in bagdad. And not soldiers, but random civilians. Random Muslim civilians at that.
Muslim Brotherhood Chairman Mohammed Mahdi Akef also expressed anger over the pope's academic speech.
"The pope's statements come to add fuel to fire and trigger anger within the Muslim world and show that the West with its politicians and clerics are hostile to Islam."
The west is hostile to Islam ? but you're the one doing all the killing here ?
I'm sorry, didn't anyone tell you ? Killing is Evil. Lying is Evil. And the Clerics of Islam are doing both, and demanding of their worshippers to do both.
Hate to break this to you , but Islam is Evil.
Friday, September 15, 2006
Pope 'meant no offence' to Islam
Article
The Vatican has denied that Pope Benedict XVI intended any offence to the Muslim religion, after a speech touching on the concept of holy war.
Speaking in Germany, the Pope quoted a 14th Century Christian emperor who said the Prophet Muhammad had brought the world only "evil and inhuman" things.
I didn't mean to insult you , I just wanted to point out that your religion is the epitomb of evil.
quote from speach
The emperor, after having expressed himself so forcefully, goes on to explain in detail the reasons why spreading the faith through violence is something unreasonable. Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul.
What you have is a long , reasoned debate that violence to forward religious ends is a bad thing (I agree), and repeatedly mentioning Muslims as doing precisely that.
Well....
Yup. Call a spade a spade. How many places around the world do muslims inflict violence upon non-muslims ? Lots.
The black cat complains it is colored black. This is the cats fault , not the observers.
The Vatican has denied that Pope Benedict XVI intended any offence to the Muslim religion, after a speech touching on the concept of holy war.
Speaking in Germany, the Pope quoted a 14th Century Christian emperor who said the Prophet Muhammad had brought the world only "evil and inhuman" things.
I didn't mean to insult you , I just wanted to point out that your religion is the epitomb of evil.
quote from speach
The emperor, after having expressed himself so forcefully, goes on to explain in detail the reasons why spreading the faith through violence is something unreasonable. Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul.
What you have is a long , reasoned debate that violence to forward religious ends is a bad thing (I agree), and repeatedly mentioning Muslims as doing precisely that.
Well....
Yup. Call a spade a spade. How many places around the world do muslims inflict violence upon non-muslims ? Lots.
The black cat complains it is colored black. This is the cats fault , not the observers.
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Ok , I stole this ... but I like it !
Stolen from :
Greetings to the Imprisoned Citizens of the United States. We are Unitarian Jihad. There is only God, unless there is more than one God. The vote of our God subcommittee is 10-8 in favor of one God, with two abstentions. Brother Flaming Sword of Moderation noted the possibility of there being no God at all, and his objection was noted with love by the secretary.
Greetings to the Imprisoned Citizens of the United States! Too long has your attention been waylaid by the bright baubles of extremist thought. Too long have fundamentalist yahoos of all religions (except Buddhism -- 14-5 vote, no abstentions, fundamentalism subcommittee) made your head hurt. Too long have you been buffeted by angry people who think that God talks to them. You have a right to your moderation! You have the power to be calm! We will use the IED of truth to explode the SUV of dogmatic expression!
People of the United States, why is everyone yelling at you??? Whatever happened to ... you know, everything? Why is the news dominated by nutballs saying that the Ten Commandments have to be tattooed inside the eyelids of every American, or that Allah has told them to kill Americans in order to rid the world of Satan, or that Yahweh has instructed them to go live wherever they feel like, or that Shiva thinks bombing mosques is a great idea? Sister Immaculate Dagger of Peace notes for the record that we mean no disrespect to Jews, Muslims, Christians or Hindus. Referred back to the committee of the whole for further discussion.
We are Unitarian Jihad. We are everywhere. We have not been born again, nor have we sworn a blood oath. We do not think that God cares what we read, what we eat or whom we sleep with. Brother Neutron Bomb of Serenity notes for the record that he does not have a moral code but is nevertheless a good person, and Unexalted Leader Garrote of Forgiveness stipulates that Brother Neutron Bomb of Serenity is a good person, and this is to be reflected in the minutes.
Beware! Unless you people shut up and begin acting like grown-ups with brains enough to understand the difference between political belief and personal faith, the Unitarian Jihad will begin a series of terrorist-like actions. We will take over television studios, kidnap so-called commentators and broadcast calm, well-reasoned discussions of the issues of the day. We will not try for "balance" by hiring fruitcakes; we will try for balance by hiring non-ideologues who have carefully thought through the issues.
We are Unitarian Jihad. We will appear in public places and require people to shake hands with each other. (Sister Hand Grenade of Love suggested that we institute a terror regime of mandatory hugging, but her motion was not formally introduced because of lack of a quorum.) We will require all lobbyists, spokesmen and campaign managers to dress like trout in public. Televangelists will be forced to take jobs as Xerox repair specialists. Demagogues of all stripes will be required to read Proust out loud in prisons.
We are Unitarian Jihad, and our motto is: "Sincerity is not enough." We have heard from enough sincere people to last a lifetime already. Just because you believe it's true doesn't make it true. Just because your motives are pure doesn't mean you are not doing harm. Get a dog, or comfort someone in a nursing home, or just feed the birds in the park. Play basketball. Lighten up. The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.
Brother Gatling Gun of Patience notes that he's pretty sure the world is out to get him because everyone laughs when he says he is a Unitarian. There were murmurs of assent around the room, and someone suggested that we buy some Congress members and really stick it to the Baptists. But this was deemed against Revolutionary Principles, and Brother Gatling Gun of Patience was remanded to the Sunday Flowers and Banners committee.
People of the United States! We are Unitarian Jihad! We can strike without warning. Pockets of reasonableness and harmony will appear as if from nowhere! Nice people will run the government again! There will be coffee and cookies in the Gandhi Room after the revolution.
Startling new underground group spreads lack of panic! Citizens declare themselves "relatively unafraid" of threats of undeclared rationality. People can still go to France, terrorist leader says.
Greetings to the Imprisoned Citizens of the United States. We are Unitarian Jihad. There is only God, unless there is more than one God. The vote of our God subcommittee is 10-8 in favor of one God, with two abstentions. Brother Flaming Sword of Moderation noted the possibility of there being no God at all, and his objection was noted with love by the secretary.
Greetings to the Imprisoned Citizens of the United States! Too long has your attention been waylaid by the bright baubles of extremist thought. Too long have fundamentalist yahoos of all religions (except Buddhism -- 14-5 vote, no abstentions, fundamentalism subcommittee) made your head hurt. Too long have you been buffeted by angry people who think that God talks to them. You have a right to your moderation! You have the power to be calm! We will use the IED of truth to explode the SUV of dogmatic expression!
People of the United States, why is everyone yelling at you??? Whatever happened to ... you know, everything? Why is the news dominated by nutballs saying that the Ten Commandments have to be tattooed inside the eyelids of every American, or that Allah has told them to kill Americans in order to rid the world of Satan, or that Yahweh has instructed them to go live wherever they feel like, or that Shiva thinks bombing mosques is a great idea? Sister Immaculate Dagger of Peace notes for the record that we mean no disrespect to Jews, Muslims, Christians or Hindus. Referred back to the committee of the whole for further discussion.
We are Unitarian Jihad. We are everywhere. We have not been born again, nor have we sworn a blood oath. We do not think that God cares what we read, what we eat or whom we sleep with. Brother Neutron Bomb of Serenity notes for the record that he does not have a moral code but is nevertheless a good person, and Unexalted Leader Garrote of Forgiveness stipulates that Brother Neutron Bomb of Serenity is a good person, and this is to be reflected in the minutes.
Beware! Unless you people shut up and begin acting like grown-ups with brains enough to understand the difference between political belief and personal faith, the Unitarian Jihad will begin a series of terrorist-like actions. We will take over television studios, kidnap so-called commentators and broadcast calm, well-reasoned discussions of the issues of the day. We will not try for "balance" by hiring fruitcakes; we will try for balance by hiring non-ideologues who have carefully thought through the issues.
We are Unitarian Jihad. We will appear in public places and require people to shake hands with each other. (Sister Hand Grenade of Love suggested that we institute a terror regime of mandatory hugging, but her motion was not formally introduced because of lack of a quorum.) We will require all lobbyists, spokesmen and campaign managers to dress like trout in public. Televangelists will be forced to take jobs as Xerox repair specialists. Demagogues of all stripes will be required to read Proust out loud in prisons.
We are Unitarian Jihad, and our motto is: "Sincerity is not enough." We have heard from enough sincere people to last a lifetime already. Just because you believe it's true doesn't make it true. Just because your motives are pure doesn't mean you are not doing harm. Get a dog, or comfort someone in a nursing home, or just feed the birds in the park. Play basketball. Lighten up. The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.
Brother Gatling Gun of Patience notes that he's pretty sure the world is out to get him because everyone laughs when he says he is a Unitarian. There were murmurs of assent around the room, and someone suggested that we buy some Congress members and really stick it to the Baptists. But this was deemed against Revolutionary Principles, and Brother Gatling Gun of Patience was remanded to the Sunday Flowers and Banners committee.
People of the United States! We are Unitarian Jihad! We can strike without warning. Pockets of reasonableness and harmony will appear as if from nowhere! Nice people will run the government again! There will be coffee and cookies in the Gandhi Room after the revolution.
Startling new underground group spreads lack of panic! Citizens declare themselves "relatively unafraid" of threats of undeclared rationality. People can still go to France, terrorist leader says.
Layton again calls for Afghan pullout, in wake of deaths
Article
"This is the wrong mission for Canada," Layton said.
...
"It's not balanced. It doesn’t represent the equilibrium between humanitarian aid, reconstruction and comprehensive peace process that Canadians would want to see."
I noticed self defence is not one of the points of equilibrium being balanced out here. Those guys are threatening canadians. And they are producing opium which gets turned into heroin and sold on canadian streets....
Layton, who made the same call for withdrawal on Aug. 31, also accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government of toeing the line set by U.S. President George W. Bush and his team in Washington, D.C.
"We need a made-in-Canada foreign policy, not one that's ideologically imported that follows along the pathway that has been set by the Bush administration," Layton said.
Yeah ! Just because when bush gets kicked in the balls and decides the solution is to pound on the ones responsible for kicking him , thats no excuse. We're supposed to smile when get kicked similarily and do things differently.
Not quite sure how , differently ...but different. Somehow. Canadian type different, not american type kick 'em right back. You know...different ....
Yeah , right.
"This is the wrong mission for Canada," Layton said.
...
"It's not balanced. It doesn’t represent the equilibrium between humanitarian aid, reconstruction and comprehensive peace process that Canadians would want to see."
I noticed self defence is not one of the points of equilibrium being balanced out here. Those guys are threatening canadians. And they are producing opium which gets turned into heroin and sold on canadian streets....
Layton, who made the same call for withdrawal on Aug. 31, also accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government of toeing the line set by U.S. President George W. Bush and his team in Washington, D.C.
"We need a made-in-Canada foreign policy, not one that's ideologically imported that follows along the pathway that has been set by the Bush administration," Layton said.
Yeah ! Just because when bush gets kicked in the balls and decides the solution is to pound on the ones responsible for kicking him , thats no excuse. We're supposed to smile when get kicked similarily and do things differently.
Not quite sure how , differently ...but different. Somehow. Canadian type different, not american type kick 'em right back. You know...different ....
Yeah , right.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Montreal's homeless to be fined for sleeping in squares
The funny people and their funny ways.
Montreal's homeless will have to find new places to sleep or face hefty fines, as the city's downtown borough of Ville Marie bans overnight stays in public squares.
The ban takes effect at 12:01 a.m. Friday, making it an offence to sleep in 15 downtown squares between midnight and 6 a.m.
The penalty is a fine of $141 for a first offence. If offenders can't pay the fine, they face jail time.
Ummm...I'm cold...it's -30 out here. I think I'll sleep down town where the cops can see me. Do I have $141 Cdn ? Ummm..no , I'm homeless.
Off to the NICE WARM jail for you !
ahhh...thats so much better.
Oh , and if I ever get a job, and they ask me why I was in jail for 3 months ? Vagrancy. I slept on the street where I wasn't supposed to and they arrested me ... unfortunately 3months is the maximum they keep you in jail so they booted me out of their nice warm jail with the free food after that.
yeah !
I can see how this law is going to work out REAL good.
Montreal's homeless will have to find new places to sleep or face hefty fines, as the city's downtown borough of Ville Marie bans overnight stays in public squares.
The ban takes effect at 12:01 a.m. Friday, making it an offence to sleep in 15 downtown squares between midnight and 6 a.m.
The penalty is a fine of $141 for a first offence. If offenders can't pay the fine, they face jail time.
Ummm...I'm cold...it's -30 out here. I think I'll sleep down town where the cops can see me. Do I have $141 Cdn ? Ummm..no , I'm homeless.
Off to the NICE WARM jail for you !
ahhh...thats so much better.
Oh , and if I ever get a job, and they ask me why I was in jail for 3 months ? Vagrancy. I slept on the street where I wasn't supposed to and they arrested me ... unfortunately 3months is the maximum they keep you in jail so they booted me out of their nice warm jail with the free food after that.
yeah !
I can see how this law is going to work out REAL good.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Disability Application
I'm applying for disability.
Sort of.
I'm working the system. You see, you have to employ certain tactics or they'll turn you down. You have to ...
sometimes I wonder.
When did the prime goal of my life stop being "getting that pretty girl into bed"
When did the prime goal of my life stop being "get an ok job, maybe not a decent job , but an ok job..."
When did the prime goal of my life stop being "wheres the beer, bub , and dont' stand in my way to the bathroom you only rent this stuff you dont' buy it"
When did it start , that the primary thought every morning when I woke up was "You have 10 second of physical activity before your lungs fail you , how will you spend it ?"
When did it start "I have to go to the can ...you have ten seconds...are you ready yet ? "
When did it start "Yes, I can make it across the street. If I walk really really slow. If I deliberately breath heavy because I won't actually feel like breathing heavy until 10 or twenty seconds later, but by then it's too late if it gets that far start looking for a convenient place to fall down on because you messsed it all up..."
I have to seriously wonder.
Am I really plotting how to work the system ?
Or is the system working me ?
Sort of.
I'm working the system. You see, you have to employ certain tactics or they'll turn you down. You have to ...
sometimes I wonder.
When did the prime goal of my life stop being "getting that pretty girl into bed"
When did the prime goal of my life stop being "get an ok job, maybe not a decent job , but an ok job..."
When did the prime goal of my life stop being "wheres the beer, bub , and dont' stand in my way to the bathroom you only rent this stuff you dont' buy it"
When did it start , that the primary thought every morning when I woke up was "You have 10 second of physical activity before your lungs fail you , how will you spend it ?"
When did it start "I have to go to the can ...you have ten seconds...are you ready yet ? "
When did it start "Yes, I can make it across the street. If I walk really really slow. If I deliberately breath heavy because I won't actually feel like breathing heavy until 10 or twenty seconds later, but by then it's too late if it gets that far start looking for a convenient place to fall down on because you messsed it all up..."
I have to seriously wonder.
Am I really plotting how to work the system ?
Or is the system working me ?
Monday, August 28, 2006
Vixen's Delight
I play world of warcraft, an online game where you
share the game world with as many as 2000 other players.
I was running up a new charactar, so I stopped in goldshire , a city , to look for a guild to help my new charactar.
Some girl, Sharalanda I think , was with a guild called Vixen's Delight , and she was talking to another female player, trying to recruit her for the guild.
Apparently the point of the Vixen's Delight is to fast talk male players into buying them a drink (an in game drink) , and negotiate for an hour of their time where on they will do anything. She didn't actually say Cybersex, she said Dancing Girl , but I'd seen these girls in action around and about the place.
would somone one please ! Tell me ! Why anyone would pay $20 / month , plus maintain their own computer, so that they can go out and PRETEND to be a prostitute, in exchagne for game money , money they can't even spend in the real world ????
Next thing you know , we will have virtual cops chasing these virtual prostitutes, because, really , this is a game meant for 10 year old little billy , and Little billy might have a high level charactar with more money than he knows what to do with and his parents are going to get quite upset if they walk by the computer and see him having cybersex with some stranger ....
sheesh !
The world we live in.
And the virtual one we play in !
share the game world with as many as 2000 other players.
I was running up a new charactar, so I stopped in goldshire , a city , to look for a guild to help my new charactar.
Some girl, Sharalanda I think , was with a guild called Vixen's Delight , and she was talking to another female player, trying to recruit her for the guild.
Apparently the point of the Vixen's Delight is to fast talk male players into buying them a drink (an in game drink) , and negotiate for an hour of their time where on they will do anything. She didn't actually say Cybersex, she said Dancing Girl , but I'd seen these girls in action around and about the place.
would somone one please ! Tell me ! Why anyone would pay $20 / month , plus maintain their own computer, so that they can go out and PRETEND to be a prostitute, in exchagne for game money , money they can't even spend in the real world ????
Next thing you know , we will have virtual cops chasing these virtual prostitutes, because, really , this is a game meant for 10 year old little billy , and Little billy might have a high level charactar with more money than he knows what to do with and his parents are going to get quite upset if they walk by the computer and see him having cybersex with some stranger ....
sheesh !
The world we live in.
And the virtual one we play in !
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
This week in The Middle East
Amnesty International is accusing Israel of war crimes. They state that Israel deliberately targetted civilians in it's 30 day war against the Hezbolla in lebanon.
Ok , but the Hezbolla were deliberately targetting Israel , tossing rockets into israeli civilian area's.
Why arn't they accusing the Hezbolla of war crimes ?
Some canadian ministers of parliment visited the scene in Lebanon , and the invite of Hezbolla , and agreed there had been some kind of war crime commited here. They did not visit israel or survey the damage commited by the Hezbolla on israel.
Lets be blunt here.
You're dealing with an organization that , morally , makes the Klu Klux Klan look like saints. They don't hesistate to lie, and they want Israeli's dead. Their holy book calls all Israeli's dogs and pigs, and their Hadiths demand that every Israeli be killed.
And they teach this to their own children since before the kids learn to walk.
Yet people continue to treat them as if they were decent upstanding citizens.
Do you treat members of the Klu Klux Klan as decent people ? do you invite them to your dinner table so you can talk about the best way to kill and humiliat blacks ?
You most certainly do not.
yet , some how , yes we do.
This is our fault. Their behavior is totally unacceptable, yet people insist on overlooking it and treating it as if it was.
don't blame them. Blame us.
Ok , but the Hezbolla were deliberately targetting Israel , tossing rockets into israeli civilian area's.
Why arn't they accusing the Hezbolla of war crimes ?
Some canadian ministers of parliment visited the scene in Lebanon , and the invite of Hezbolla , and agreed there had been some kind of war crime commited here. They did not visit israel or survey the damage commited by the Hezbolla on israel.
Lets be blunt here.
You're dealing with an organization that , morally , makes the Klu Klux Klan look like saints. They don't hesistate to lie, and they want Israeli's dead. Their holy book calls all Israeli's dogs and pigs, and their Hadiths demand that every Israeli be killed.
And they teach this to their own children since before the kids learn to walk.
Yet people continue to treat them as if they were decent upstanding citizens.
Do you treat members of the Klu Klux Klan as decent people ? do you invite them to your dinner table so you can talk about the best way to kill and humiliat blacks ?
You most certainly do not.
yet , some how , yes we do.
This is our fault. Their behavior is totally unacceptable, yet people insist on overlooking it and treating it as if it was.
don't blame them. Blame us.
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Apply for Disablity
Aug 4th , was my last day of work.
Work wants me to apply for disablity because my attenence sucks.
My attendence sucks, by the way , because I'm exhausted all the
time , and I really can't breath properly.
Apply for a doctor's appt on monday. OOps doc is on holiday , finally get ahold of him (his secretary actually) and get an apt for Aug 18
18th rolls around , My wife makes me almost late, I just arrive in time for the appointment. So there's no waiting in the waiting room I go right in and the docotr shows up right away.
No, thats not quite true.
What really happened is , I got off the elevator , on a wheel chair pushed by my wife , because it was a really long walk from the bus stop, checked in with the desk , and , gasping for breath as is my want if I've walked more than 25 meters, I was denied my usual 10 min of rest before seeing anyone.
The nurse who asked me the usual questions hustled out quick and almost dragged the doctor in so he could see me gasping away as if I'd just run a marethon. The doctor mentioned several times that if climing a flight or two of stairs did this to me I might not survive the operation so he was cancelling it (I never did get to tell him I never actually climbed any stairs to get into this condition) , and he sent me off to see a specialist.
And he kept the insurance forms. The ones I'm using to apply for short term disability ? HE KEPT THEM ! ARRRRg ! Rent is coming up soon and I ahvn't worked since the 4th of the month and now I have no source of income !
PHone around and find out there's some kind of Public Works or unemployment or whatever for a situation like this ,and so Now I'm gathering paperwork for an appointment with them on fri aug 25.
Call the doctor 20 times on monday , left 2 messages. No answer. Tues I get a clal for my appointment with the breathing specialist.
Sept 5.
Ahhh....this is taking forever !
I dread to think what happens if I get turned down. No savings , havn't worked in a month , credit card near maxed out ...
Work wants me to apply for disablity because my attenence sucks.
My attendence sucks, by the way , because I'm exhausted all the
time , and I really can't breath properly.
Apply for a doctor's appt on monday. OOps doc is on holiday , finally get ahold of him (his secretary actually) and get an apt for Aug 18
18th rolls around , My wife makes me almost late, I just arrive in time for the appointment. So there's no waiting in the waiting room I go right in and the docotr shows up right away.
No, thats not quite true.
What really happened is , I got off the elevator , on a wheel chair pushed by my wife , because it was a really long walk from the bus stop, checked in with the desk , and , gasping for breath as is my want if I've walked more than 25 meters, I was denied my usual 10 min of rest before seeing anyone.
The nurse who asked me the usual questions hustled out quick and almost dragged the doctor in so he could see me gasping away as if I'd just run a marethon. The doctor mentioned several times that if climing a flight or two of stairs did this to me I might not survive the operation so he was cancelling it (I never did get to tell him I never actually climbed any stairs to get into this condition) , and he sent me off to see a specialist.
And he kept the insurance forms. The ones I'm using to apply for short term disability ? HE KEPT THEM ! ARRRRg ! Rent is coming up soon and I ahvn't worked since the 4th of the month and now I have no source of income !
PHone around and find out there's some kind of Public Works or unemployment or whatever for a situation like this ,and so Now I'm gathering paperwork for an appointment with them on fri aug 25.
Call the doctor 20 times on monday , left 2 messages. No answer. Tues I get a clal for my appointment with the breathing specialist.
Sept 5.
Ahhh....this is taking forever !
I dread to think what happens if I get turned down. No savings , havn't worked in a month , credit card near maxed out ...
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Muslim World Demands Lebanon Ceasefire
Article
Muslim world demands Lebanon ceasefire, peace role
PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (Reuters) - Leaders from the Muslim world, spearheaded by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Thursday sought an immediate end to Israeli attacks on Lebanon and inclusion of Muslim forces in any future peacekeeping operation
>>But Israil isn't attacking Lebanon , they're attacking your fair haired Hezbolla (party of the muslim god) who's trying to over throw democratic Lebanon.
We must show preparedness to contribute forces for peacekeeping operations under the
United Nations banner," Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysia's prime minister and host of the conference, said in remarks prepared for delivery behind closed doors. "Malaysia is ready to do that."
>>You foisted those terrorists off on the Lebanon in the first place, now you want to step in and protect them. I really can't describe what a disaster this would be to Lebanon.
We don't want a clash of civilizations, but all over the Muslim world a very negative feeling is arising in the streets," Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri told reporters before the start of the meeting in Malaysia's administrative capital.
>> The Muslim world is a world of dictators. The only feelings they have are the ones you dictate to them via highly biased news articles (like this one), and the frequent shooting of newspaper reporters who don't toe the line. It's not MY fault you pointed YOUR sheep in the wrong direction and got them all killed. Its YOUR fault , not to be too picky about it.
Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel to be wiped off the map, arrived just before the opening session and declined any comment
>> aha. Cheif among the peace keepers is the main muslim warmonger himself.
On Wednesday, Iranian state television quoted Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say in matters of state, as vowing unyielding support for Lebanese resistance against Israel.
>> The only "lebanese resistance" in Lebanon are the terrorists you planted that are currently trying to overthrow the democracy of Lebanon. And currently getting their behinds kicked by Israel. The standing lebanese government actually has no control over that area since the Hezbolla kicked them out , and is basically telling Israel to "go for it" . I believe the result of their last "emergancy meeting" was to tell us that no one should attack their soilders (which are no where near the fighting) or they will defend themselves.
Who writes this drivel ?
--PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (Reuters)
Oh , the article is from a Muslim country.
Figures.
You want the muslims to stop hating us ? Bomb all the newspapers and radio stations out of existance.
Muslim world demands Lebanon ceasefire, peace role
PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (Reuters) - Leaders from the Muslim world, spearheaded by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Thursday sought an immediate end to Israeli attacks on Lebanon and inclusion of Muslim forces in any future peacekeeping operation
>>But Israil isn't attacking Lebanon , they're attacking your fair haired Hezbolla (party of the muslim god) who's trying to over throw democratic Lebanon.
We must show preparedness to contribute forces for peacekeeping operations under the
United Nations banner," Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysia's prime minister and host of the conference, said in remarks prepared for delivery behind closed doors. "Malaysia is ready to do that."
>>You foisted those terrorists off on the Lebanon in the first place, now you want to step in and protect them. I really can't describe what a disaster this would be to Lebanon.
We don't want a clash of civilizations, but all over the Muslim world a very negative feeling is arising in the streets," Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri told reporters before the start of the meeting in Malaysia's administrative capital.
>> The Muslim world is a world of dictators. The only feelings they have are the ones you dictate to them via highly biased news articles (like this one), and the frequent shooting of newspaper reporters who don't toe the line. It's not MY fault you pointed YOUR sheep in the wrong direction and got them all killed. Its YOUR fault , not to be too picky about it.
Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel to be wiped off the map, arrived just before the opening session and declined any comment
>> aha. Cheif among the peace keepers is the main muslim warmonger himself.
On Wednesday, Iranian state television quoted Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say in matters of state, as vowing unyielding support for Lebanese resistance against Israel.
>> The only "lebanese resistance" in Lebanon are the terrorists you planted that are currently trying to overthrow the democracy of Lebanon. And currently getting their behinds kicked by Israel. The standing lebanese government actually has no control over that area since the Hezbolla kicked them out , and is basically telling Israel to "go for it" . I believe the result of their last "emergancy meeting" was to tell us that no one should attack their soilders (which are no where near the fighting) or they will defend themselves.
Who writes this drivel ?
--PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (Reuters)
Oh , the article is from a Muslim country.
Figures.
You want the muslims to stop hating us ? Bomb all the newspapers and radio stations out of existance.
Good news for a change
My sisters's been getting into genology , and tracked down a cousing we're going to see this week.
Cousin had a Pulmonary Embolism , just like me.
In 2000. (6 years ago)
And she's emailing me from a government of canada email address. Which means from work. Which means she has a job. Which means she's well enough to have a job.
Oh these tiny things we cling to.
Cousin had a Pulmonary Embolism , just like me.
In 2000. (6 years ago)
And she's emailing me from a government of canada email address. Which means from work. Which means she has a job. Which means she's well enough to have a job.
Oh these tiny things we cling to.
Friday, July 28, 2006
Slow Summer Afternoon
A slow summer afternoon , nothing much to blog.
Israel invades Lebenon after those Hezbolla terrorists kidnap 2 soldiers. Lebenon basically lets it happen. Ho hum. The Arab nations demand Israeli stop it , but make no such demands about hezbolla stopping attacks on israeli. Pretty easy to see who's arab and who isn't just by one brand of nonsense they sprout.
Ottawa child pornographer gets caught. new twist. He got the little girls to photo themselves and email the pics back to him. Never actually entered their rooms or was alone with them. Hmmm... not sure how you would charge him with that , but he made threats so he's getting some jail time somewhere.
I can walk across the street , and then I have to rest. Thats as good as my health will ever get. Not too happy with that.
Everytime I look up Pulminary embolism on the internet , nothing but bad news. Turned up a new wonder drug that can detect when people with shortness of breath (the primary symptom of PE) will be in the 90% who die off in the first year or the 10% who make it a little longer. Hadn't known 90% die off in the first year. *depressed sigh ...count months since pe attack... now I'm really depressed !*
Talked to my nurse who visits twice a week. She said most of the people she ever treated with PE were 80 years old and she's been in the business 20 years. I'm 40ish so those stats don't really apply to me, I'm not your average pe sufferer.
*sigh*
I may suddenly and with out warning die sometime in the next two months (thats whats left of my year) but i still have to go to work now. This really sucks.
Israel invades Lebenon after those Hezbolla terrorists kidnap 2 soldiers. Lebenon basically lets it happen. Ho hum. The Arab nations demand Israeli stop it , but make no such demands about hezbolla stopping attacks on israeli. Pretty easy to see who's arab and who isn't just by one brand of nonsense they sprout.
Ottawa child pornographer gets caught. new twist. He got the little girls to photo themselves and email the pics back to him. Never actually entered their rooms or was alone with them. Hmmm... not sure how you would charge him with that , but he made threats so he's getting some jail time somewhere.
I can walk across the street , and then I have to rest. Thats as good as my health will ever get. Not too happy with that.
Everytime I look up Pulminary embolism on the internet , nothing but bad news. Turned up a new wonder drug that can detect when people with shortness of breath (the primary symptom of PE) will be in the 90% who die off in the first year or the 10% who make it a little longer. Hadn't known 90% die off in the first year. *depressed sigh ...count months since pe attack... now I'm really depressed !*
Talked to my nurse who visits twice a week. She said most of the people she ever treated with PE were 80 years old and she's been in the business 20 years. I'm 40ish so those stats don't really apply to me, I'm not your average pe sufferer.
*sigh*
I may suddenly and with out warning die sometime in the next two months (thats whats left of my year) but i still have to go to work now. This really sucks.
Friday, June 30, 2006
Coming soon -- mind-reading computers
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/06/26/mind.reading.pcs.reut/index.html
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A raised eyebrow, quizzical look or a nod of the head are just a few of the facial expressions computers could soon be using to read people's minds.
An "emotionally aware" computer being developed by British and American scientists will be able to read an individual's thoughts by analyzing a combination of facial movements that represent underlying feelings.
Not quite mind reading , but still , pretty good. Can you control a mouse with that ?
He and his collaborators believe the mind-reading computer's applications could range from improving people's driving skills to helping companies tailor advertising to people's moods.
Stop !!!
You're going to read my mind and determine how best to SPAM me ??? This verges on mind control you understand. Subliminal Advertising has been illegal for a long time, but it seems we're now going for a new, high tech version of this.
"Our research could enable Web sites to tailor advertising or products to your mood," Robinson told Reuters. "For example, a Webcam linked with our software could process your image, encode the correct emotional state and transmit information to a Web site."
You're going to read my mind , and then tell any random business man or advertiser what I'm feeling, people notorious for breaking rules, and laws, in the persuite of profit ? This is what you plan on doing with your brand spanking new mind reading device ?
Hey ! The guy on channel four is thirsty ! Break out the beer ads ! Channel Six is hungry, break out the McDonalds High Transfat heart attack special ads, those things pay us the most ! Channel 7 the soon to be illegal viagra ads, we gotta move that stuff out before they discover it causes heart attacks and ban it ...
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Oh yeah , bandwidth issue !
you're going to take bandwidth from me , that I pay MY ISP for , so that you can read my mind and determine how best to spam me to death. You're going to make ME pay for your spam , in other words, AND you're going to make ME pay for YOUR breach of privacy.
Because Breach of Privacy is exactly what this is. No one in their right mind is going to let you read their mind for the soul purpose of spamming them more efficiently. The only way this works is if you trick them into agreeing to it or simply don't tell them you're doing it. No one agree's to get junk mail now adays, and certainly no one will agree to PAY to get more efficiently targetted with junk mail.
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A raised eyebrow, quizzical look or a nod of the head are just a few of the facial expressions computers could soon be using to read people's minds.
An "emotionally aware" computer being developed by British and American scientists will be able to read an individual's thoughts by analyzing a combination of facial movements that represent underlying feelings.
Not quite mind reading , but still , pretty good. Can you control a mouse with that ?
He and his collaborators believe the mind-reading computer's applications could range from improving people's driving skills to helping companies tailor advertising to people's moods.
Stop !!!
You're going to read my mind and determine how best to SPAM me ??? This verges on mind control you understand. Subliminal Advertising has been illegal for a long time, but it seems we're now going for a new, high tech version of this.
"Our research could enable Web sites to tailor advertising or products to your mood," Robinson told Reuters. "For example, a Webcam linked with our software could process your image, encode the correct emotional state and transmit information to a Web site."
You're going to read my mind , and then tell any random business man or advertiser what I'm feeling, people notorious for breaking rules, and laws, in the persuite of profit ? This is what you plan on doing with your brand spanking new mind reading device ?
Hey ! The guy on channel four is thirsty ! Break out the beer ads ! Channel Six is hungry, break out the McDonalds High Transfat heart attack special ads, those things pay us the most ! Channel 7 the soon to be illegal viagra ads, we gotta move that stuff out before they discover it causes heart attacks and ban it ...
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Oh yeah , bandwidth issue !
you're going to take bandwidth from me , that I pay MY ISP for , so that you can read my mind and determine how best to spam me to death. You're going to make ME pay for your spam , in other words, AND you're going to make ME pay for YOUR breach of privacy.
Because Breach of Privacy is exactly what this is. No one in their right mind is going to let you read their mind for the soul purpose of spamming them more efficiently. The only way this works is if you trick them into agreeing to it or simply don't tell them you're doing it. No one agree's to get junk mail now adays, and certainly no one will agree to PAY to get more efficiently targetted with junk mail.
Guantanamo
Article
>>The court found that the trials — known as military commissions — for people
>>detained on suspicion of terrorist activity abroad do not conform to any act of Congress.
You know, I've always wondered about that. Those guys, these "enemey combatants" are out to tear down the US and destroy it. The us constitution is a document on how a group of people (known as us citizens) can live together. Since these people do not seek to partake of this agreement in the first place, indeed they seek to destroy it and all parties involved in it, why are they being treated as if they were members of the agreement in the first place ?
I mean , lets face it , the law of the land is for citizens of the land , not for forien soldiers intent on destroying / conquering the land and making up thier own completely different law of the land.
>>The court found that the trials — known as military commissions — for people
>>detained on suspicion of terrorist activity abroad do not conform to any act of Congress.
You know, I've always wondered about that. Those guys, these "enemey combatants" are out to tear down the US and destroy it. The us constitution is a document on how a group of people (known as us citizens) can live together. Since these people do not seek to partake of this agreement in the first place, indeed they seek to destroy it and all parties involved in it, why are they being treated as if they were members of the agreement in the first place ?
I mean , lets face it , the law of the land is for citizens of the land , not for forien soldiers intent on destroying / conquering the land and making up thier own completely different law of the land.
$750-million transit plan is on the rails
Article
>>Even a candidate who wants to unseat the mayor in this fall's municipal election now
>>admits that construction appears inevitable. Terry Kilrea had proposed delaying
>>council's final vote on the project, scheduled for July 12, until after the election.
Are you out of your mind ??? do you know what the commute is like from the outskirts of town to downtown ? And you wanna cancel the whole thing and start over ?
I'm definately voting against you next time !
>>Critics say they still don't know the project's true cost. They complain that it's going in
>>the wrong direction, because the city's real traffic problem exists on an east-west axis, >>not along the north-south route planned for the new rail line.
The true cost will be 2.4 times any honest estimate of course, I learned that in school.
It's only going in the wrong direction if you're heading down town. I'd be very happy to go to Billings Bridge instead of the Rideau Centre if there was a fast way there. I aint locked into a particular shopping center and neither, I suspect, is anyone else. Put a fast bus there from here and we'll go !
And the East-west axis is handled by the existing east-west transit way , which will eventually become light rail itself , though maybe not for 10 or 20 more years ...you already announced that many times.
There is a certain amount of push pull by business groups of course (faster transit to my area means more money for me ...time to get out the lobbiests) but cancelling the project is an outright act of corruption after all this money spent (those in charge of the Rideau Center would be very happy for that , I assume , since it means their customers are not siphoned off down the north/south axis of the city, you can bet they're spending money to try and cancel the project)
As for anyone drinking at the public trough , there is a very simple solution for that.
Jail.
>>Even a candidate who wants to unseat the mayor in this fall's municipal election now
>>admits that construction appears inevitable. Terry Kilrea had proposed delaying
>>council's final vote on the project, scheduled for July 12, until after the election.
Are you out of your mind ??? do you know what the commute is like from the outskirts of town to downtown ? And you wanna cancel the whole thing and start over ?
I'm definately voting against you next time !
>>Critics say they still don't know the project's true cost. They complain that it's going in
>>the wrong direction, because the city's real traffic problem exists on an east-west axis, >>not along the north-south route planned for the new rail line.
The true cost will be 2.4 times any honest estimate of course, I learned that in school.
It's only going in the wrong direction if you're heading down town. I'd be very happy to go to Billings Bridge instead of the Rideau Centre if there was a fast way there. I aint locked into a particular shopping center and neither, I suspect, is anyone else. Put a fast bus there from here and we'll go !
And the East-west axis is handled by the existing east-west transit way , which will eventually become light rail itself , though maybe not for 10 or 20 more years ...you already announced that many times.
There is a certain amount of push pull by business groups of course (faster transit to my area means more money for me ...time to get out the lobbiests) but cancelling the project is an outright act of corruption after all this money spent (those in charge of the Rideau Center would be very happy for that , I assume , since it means their customers are not siphoned off down the north/south axis of the city, you can bet they're spending money to try and cancel the project)
As for anyone drinking at the public trough , there is a very simple solution for that.
Jail.
Friday, June 16, 2006
Police make arrest in murder of street kid
He'll get off.
Article.
Ottawa police have laid charges in the stabbing death of a young street person earlier this week.
Ricky Roger Hankey, 35, was arrested Thursday and charged with second-degree murder.
The charge is related to the death of Steven Beriault, 21, who was stabbed early Wednesday in a fight in the pedestrian underpass at the corner of Rideau Street and Sussex Drive.
Why ?
Well, officer ! I was drunk , so I stopped by this underpass at 3am to take a piss, and then these 20 bums came out and started yelling at me ! It was self defence ! I swear ! There was a whole pack of them !
Article.
Ottawa police have laid charges in the stabbing death of a young street person earlier this week.
Ricky Roger Hankey, 35, was arrested Thursday and charged with second-degree murder.
The charge is related to the death of Steven Beriault, 21, who was stabbed early Wednesday in a fight in the pedestrian underpass at the corner of Rideau Street and Sussex Drive.
Why ?
Well, officer ! I was drunk , so I stopped by this underpass at 3am to take a piss, and then these 20 bums came out and started yelling at me ! It was self defence ! I swear ! There was a whole pack of them !
The Evilness of the Real Player
My brother wanted to d/l some songs to his PDA, but it needed some special software, a so Called real player.
Ok I download it from the internet , try it out. Wrong version. Need the special version that came with his pda.
Ok, uninstall, forget about it.
Every now and then on boot up, I get advertising. Buy this ! What a great deal !
It's not excessive ...but it's got the same kind of frame and color scheme as the real player. And there's no way to uninstall it. In other words, hostile software.
msconfig, find the culperate. Remove the check mark.
Nope, next reboot it gets put back ! Not allowed to uncheck that box !
Pencil and paper, write down the file name and location , hunt it down , erase it.
Nope ! Not allowed to erase it ! The file is in use !
Task manager, look through the processes, not the program names, the processes. Find one with the same name as the file. End task on it.
Then erase the file in quesiton.
she's gone.
Oh , and the windows fire wall sucks. Why ? Because I didn't get asked if I want this program to access the internet, it was given permission automatically to spam me.
now I gotta get a real fire wall on top of this nonsense.
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I checked the windows fire wall , the list of exceptions , programs that are permitted ? It's not on the list. but it was getting through anyways. Odd, internet explorer is not on the list either but it gets through ...
Can you say "You are no longer in control of the machine ? Bill Gates is running this ride so fasten your seat and have your credit card ready ?"
Definately need a new fire wall.
Ok I download it from the internet , try it out. Wrong version. Need the special version that came with his pda.
Ok, uninstall, forget about it.
Every now and then on boot up, I get advertising. Buy this ! What a great deal !
It's not excessive ...but it's got the same kind of frame and color scheme as the real player. And there's no way to uninstall it. In other words, hostile software.
msconfig, find the culperate. Remove the check mark.
Nope, next reboot it gets put back ! Not allowed to uncheck that box !
Pencil and paper, write down the file name and location , hunt it down , erase it.
Nope ! Not allowed to erase it ! The file is in use !
Task manager, look through the processes, not the program names, the processes. Find one with the same name as the file. End task on it.
Then erase the file in quesiton.
she's gone.
Oh , and the windows fire wall sucks. Why ? Because I didn't get asked if I want this program to access the internet, it was given permission automatically to spam me.
now I gotta get a real fire wall on top of this nonsense.
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I checked the windows fire wall , the list of exceptions , programs that are permitted ? It's not on the list. but it was getting through anyways. Odd, internet explorer is not on the list either but it gets through ...
Can you say "You are no longer in control of the machine ? Bill Gates is running this ride so fasten your seat and have your credit card ready ?"
Definately need a new fire wall.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
The Microsoft Treadmill
Article
Microsoft releases eight critical software patches to repair vulnerabilities
NEW YORK (AP) - Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) released eight critical updates Tuesday to patch security holes in its Windows operating system, Internet Explorer browser, Windows Media Player and Office productivity software.
The critical patches - so called because they address problems deemed to pose the highest threat in Microsoft's security warning system - all are designed to prevent an attacker from taking control of another person's computer without that user's permission.
Hmmm...Security is Job One. How long ago was it bill gates said that ? 5 years ?
5 Years , and the Internet Explorer is full of holes. No, I take that back. It isn't full of holes , it has precisely ONE hole and one hole only , active - x components. A hole he patly refuses to close, and viciously defends with copy rights and legal action against anyone who dares infring on it.
Meanwhile I'm sitting her using firefox , and before that Opera , and havn't had a virus or paraiste in almost 3 years (or more) , while he's constantly patching and patching the internet explorer, but refusing to shut it's one and only hole because it's making him money.
One has to wonder how much money businesses over the years have spent on upgrades and anti-virus programs , and then cleaning up virus's and trojens those programs didn't catch , because he sings a good song and puts out a lot of really cool bafflegab that sounds impressive.
Meanwhile guys like me on the ground who know better, who spend our careers making this stuff work , get constantly overruled or told to be quiet by ignorant managers who'd rather read advertising pamphlets than talk to the mechanics who make things go.
*sigh*
It's a self inflicted pain these people are inflicting upon themselvs. They deserve it. I keep telling myself that.
Microsoft releases eight critical software patches to repair vulnerabilities
NEW YORK (AP) - Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) released eight critical updates Tuesday to patch security holes in its Windows operating system, Internet Explorer browser, Windows Media Player and Office productivity software.
The critical patches - so called because they address problems deemed to pose the highest threat in Microsoft's security warning system - all are designed to prevent an attacker from taking control of another person's computer without that user's permission.
Hmmm...Security is Job One. How long ago was it bill gates said that ? 5 years ?
5 Years , and the Internet Explorer is full of holes. No, I take that back. It isn't full of holes , it has precisely ONE hole and one hole only , active - x components. A hole he patly refuses to close, and viciously defends with copy rights and legal action against anyone who dares infring on it.
Meanwhile I'm sitting her using firefox , and before that Opera , and havn't had a virus or paraiste in almost 3 years (or more) , while he's constantly patching and patching the internet explorer, but refusing to shut it's one and only hole because it's making him money.
One has to wonder how much money businesses over the years have spent on upgrades and anti-virus programs , and then cleaning up virus's and trojens those programs didn't catch , because he sings a good song and puts out a lot of really cool bafflegab that sounds impressive.
Meanwhile guys like me on the ground who know better, who spend our careers making this stuff work , get constantly overruled or told to be quiet by ignorant managers who'd rather read advertising pamphlets than talk to the mechanics who make things go.
*sigh*
It's a self inflicted pain these people are inflicting upon themselvs. They deserve it. I keep telling myself that.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Fragman Needle
I'm drunk ! I won't remember this !
yes I will !
Ok, I'm supposed to take a fragman needle every day, because I had a pulmonary embolism, (blood clot in the lungs ) and they dont' want a repeat.
Normally I take it in the belly. Off to the side. I jab it in , I yell a bit , it doesn't really hurt but hey , yelling kills the pain why take the chance yell anyways ?
Well, I'm drunk , not supposed to feel the pain. Supposed to rotate sites, dont' use the belly all the time it gets used up full of bruises etc ...
Jab it (in the leg, not the belly) in forget to yell...
does it hurt ? Hell yes it hurts, definately more than I usually feel it. take a deep breath and start yelling... can't yell that loud I'm drunk that makes me tired.
Press the injector in , lets get this over with quick...
Oh boy do I yell now , and no I'm not covering my pain , I'm yelling becauise I'm *IN* pain ! ow that sob hurts !
finish it out and toss it in the sharps container.
Ummm... ok.
Do needles when you're sobre not drunk. Sobre, you can start screaming before it goes in and you know exactly where it goes to hurt the least ... you're wife complains your screaming gives her a headache but you dont' actually feel any pain. Drunk ... ow ! Ow shit ! that hurt ! Fuck .... I aint screaming for the fun of it ! Ow ow ow !
By the way , in case you havn't guessed...
I hate fragman needles.
Actually ... maybe I hate all needles of any kind.
I really do.
yes I will !
Ok, I'm supposed to take a fragman needle every day, because I had a pulmonary embolism, (blood clot in the lungs ) and they dont' want a repeat.
Normally I take it in the belly. Off to the side. I jab it in , I yell a bit , it doesn't really hurt but hey , yelling kills the pain why take the chance yell anyways ?
Well, I'm drunk , not supposed to feel the pain. Supposed to rotate sites, dont' use the belly all the time it gets used up full of bruises etc ...
Jab it (in the leg, not the belly) in forget to yell...
does it hurt ? Hell yes it hurts, definately more than I usually feel it. take a deep breath and start yelling... can't yell that loud I'm drunk that makes me tired.
Press the injector in , lets get this over with quick...
Oh boy do I yell now , and no I'm not covering my pain , I'm yelling becauise I'm *IN* pain ! ow that sob hurts !
finish it out and toss it in the sharps container.
Ummm... ok.
Do needles when you're sobre not drunk. Sobre, you can start screaming before it goes in and you know exactly where it goes to hurt the least ... you're wife complains your screaming gives her a headache but you dont' actually feel any pain. Drunk ... ow ! Ow shit ! that hurt ! Fuck .... I aint screaming for the fun of it ! Ow ow ow !
By the way , in case you havn't guessed...
I hate fragman needles.
Actually ... maybe I hate all needles of any kind.
I really do.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Lioness in zoo kills man who invoked God
Article
KIEV (Reuters) - A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal's enclosure, a zoo official said on Monday.
"The man shouted 'God will save me, if he exists', lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions," the official said
You forget. God made the lions too, and watches over them as well, and sometimes throws them a free treat.
LOL !!!!
KIEV (Reuters) - A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal's enclosure, a zoo official said on Monday.
"The man shouted 'God will save me, if he exists', lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions," the official said
You forget. God made the lions too, and watches over them as well, and sometimes throws them a free treat.
LOL !!!!
Friday, May 19, 2006
CNN snubs Canada
Canada took it's first female casualty this week since world war II, something that you think would be worth at least a human interest story on CNN.
Article
Hmmm...searching , searching ... nope. Nothing there.
Well..ok... maybe not that intersting.
Canada captured a Taliban leader. You know how the americans go ape over that and splash it all over their newspapers ....
hmmm...searching ...searching....
nope ... not there.
Article
so does CNN have any articles about ANYTHING canada did , good or bad ?
Searching ..nope ..nothing this week. Not a single one.
Sheesh !
No wonder no one ever heard of us !
Article
Hmmm...searching , searching ... nope. Nothing there.
Well..ok... maybe not that intersting.
Canada captured a Taliban leader. You know how the americans go ape over that and splash it all over their newspapers ....
hmmm...searching ...searching....
nope ... not there.
Article
so does CNN have any articles about ANYTHING canada did , good or bad ?
Searching ..nope ..nothing this week. Not a single one.
Sheesh !
No wonder no one ever heard of us !
Super Bloat Ware
I trade my DVD player to my sister for her old lap top , with the understanding that I can borrow it whenever i wind up in the hostpital again. since I have ..lemme see, two dvd players on this computer, one on the other , one in the living room... four dvd players at home , this seems like a pretty good deal to me. Especially since , with a lap top in hand , I probably won't care about a dvd player in the hospital anyways.
The lap top is ... ancient.
4 meg ram , 120 meg hard drive. No pcmcia ports , no phone modem , no network ports ... some kind of custom port on the back , probably predates the existance of pcmcia ports so you're never going to find anything that fits it. It has a floppy disk drive, and thats about it.
How did she get win95 on it in the first place ? I'm impressed.
I put dos 5 on it, and win 3.1 . Yes...yes... I know, my age is showing. Especially when you realize I have original disks for all of that. You're impressed ? I'm impressed, those disks only come with a one year warrenty and thinking back I think I've been carting them around for 15 years. And they still work !
This fills about 8 megs on my 120 meg hard drive. This ...is much better. Now it has room to manouver. I catalog my other disks.
Word processer , 2 floppys (about 3 megs) , spread sheet , the old quattro pro , is the same. An old database , not an ms-access knock off but a real one , Omnis 5 , also 2 megs. I recall an old version of dbase fits on 1 disk but I don't have it.
I'm now thinking of my sisters brand new lap top, with the latest ms-office. It requires several thousand megabytes , in effect , gigabytes , to do the same thing this old lap top could already do 15 years ago.
yes, I mean full color , spell checkers, relational databases not those stupid little one table ones everyone gives away but full blown ones that could actually challenge oracle databases, the whole nine yards. 15 years ago. Color print out's too and everything.
So ... her brand spanking new lap top can do..what ? That this grand old lady of a lap top can't ?
Thinking ... thinking ...
It can play mp3's. Poorly. Through low quality speakers.
The technical name for this , by the way , is "Bloat Ware", whereby you are forced to upgrade software and hardware to remain compatable with everyone else ... but the new systems don't actually *DO* anything more for you than the old stuff did.
15 years ... my how far we HAVN'T come ... lol
The lap top is ... ancient.
4 meg ram , 120 meg hard drive. No pcmcia ports , no phone modem , no network ports ... some kind of custom port on the back , probably predates the existance of pcmcia ports so you're never going to find anything that fits it. It has a floppy disk drive, and thats about it.
How did she get win95 on it in the first place ? I'm impressed.
I put dos 5 on it, and win 3.1 . Yes...yes... I know, my age is showing. Especially when you realize I have original disks for all of that. You're impressed ? I'm impressed, those disks only come with a one year warrenty and thinking back I think I've been carting them around for 15 years. And they still work !
This fills about 8 megs on my 120 meg hard drive. This ...is much better. Now it has room to manouver. I catalog my other disks.
Word processer , 2 floppys (about 3 megs) , spread sheet , the old quattro pro , is the same. An old database , not an ms-access knock off but a real one , Omnis 5 , also 2 megs. I recall an old version of dbase fits on 1 disk but I don't have it.
I'm now thinking of my sisters brand new lap top, with the latest ms-office. It requires several thousand megabytes , in effect , gigabytes , to do the same thing this old lap top could already do 15 years ago.
yes, I mean full color , spell checkers, relational databases not those stupid little one table ones everyone gives away but full blown ones that could actually challenge oracle databases, the whole nine yards. 15 years ago. Color print out's too and everything.
So ... her brand spanking new lap top can do..what ? That this grand old lady of a lap top can't ?
Thinking ... thinking ...
It can play mp3's. Poorly. Through low quality speakers.
The technical name for this , by the way , is "Bloat Ware", whereby you are forced to upgrade software and hardware to remain compatable with everyone else ... but the new systems don't actually *DO* anything more for you than the old stuff did.
15 years ... my how far we HAVN'T come ... lol
7:30 am and Ma Bell
My schedule reads 7:30 am start time tommorow. That's wrong. I've been trying to get my TL (team leader) to change that and he's being saying "yes , of course ,no problem , just give me a few minutes ..." for two weeks now.
Phone up work. Or try to.
Work just moved, a few months back , you see. Just AFTER the new phone books came out, so everyone has the old numbers , which are disconnected. Try www.yellowpages.ca , no luck.
Phone up ma bell, 411 (information , doncha know).
Automated computer answers. Speak the name of the city. Ottawa. Speak the company name. (censored) . One moment please.
Talk to a real person. Explain where it's located. She types a bit and says "Ok, here's the number. " And passes me to a machine !
the machine speaks the wrong number , of course, since I know the number begins with a 6 , and it gives me one beginning with a 2. and now you're out of hand the quarter for calling information, have the wrong number in hand , no way to call back and explain it all without being in hock another quarter, and ma bell must be laughing her fat a$$ off at the whole situation.
I eventually find the company web site, big multinational corp somewhere way down in the states, get someone from public relations to look up the number. finally , a number beginning with a 6 . Phone them up ...
I'm still starting at 7:30 am tommorow.
And now I owe ma bell a quarter on top of it all, for her giving me the wrong number. Oh , I actually phoned that number, hoping against hope. Some computer or fax machine or something answered, screaming electronically in my ear. I just hung up on it.
Phone up work. Or try to.
Work just moved, a few months back , you see. Just AFTER the new phone books came out, so everyone has the old numbers , which are disconnected. Try www.yellowpages.ca , no luck.
Phone up ma bell, 411 (information , doncha know).
Automated computer answers. Speak the name of the city. Ottawa. Speak the company name. (censored) . One moment please.
Talk to a real person. Explain where it's located. She types a bit and says "Ok, here's the number. " And passes me to a machine !
the machine speaks the wrong number , of course, since I know the number begins with a 6 , and it gives me one beginning with a 2. and now you're out of hand the quarter for calling information, have the wrong number in hand , no way to call back and explain it all without being in hock another quarter, and ma bell must be laughing her fat a$$ off at the whole situation.
I eventually find the company web site, big multinational corp somewhere way down in the states, get someone from public relations to look up the number. finally , a number beginning with a 6 . Phone them up ...
I'm still starting at 7:30 am tommorow.
And now I owe ma bell a quarter on top of it all, for her giving me the wrong number. Oh , I actually phoned that number, hoping against hope. Some computer or fax machine or something answered, screaming electronically in my ear. I just hung up on it.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Gun Control Games
Liberals misinformed parliament about millions spent on gun registry: AG
Article
We want gun control. Everyone does. Except the gun lobby who wants to sell guns , of course. So what do we do ? We make a registry so the cops can easily find all fire arms.
And it gets gutted to the point where it's almost useless. As this article says, all information submitted was strictly volintary , no one double checked anything.
And , lets make sure it sinks. Hire two computer firms , not one , but two , to do the same job, just to waste money and deliberately rack up the price.
now the gun fanatics who want everyone shooting everyone as long as they get to sell you the guns can claim how expensive and stupid the idea was in the first place.
It's not expensive and stupid. It was deliberately sabataged in the first place.
Now the conservatives get to try it again , while the people who deliberately sabataged the effort ride their a$$'s about how useless it is to even try such a thing.
And the voters who really want this thing just get hammered with costs for something the gun fanatics will make every effort to gut and destroy a second time.
It would seem we don't really live in a democracy. The will of the electorate seems to come last here.
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Legal Summons
A knocking on my door, and a young boy , couldn't be more than 20 , showed up. Took my name down , had an official legal document for my wife.
Is she declaring bankruptcy again ? Man , I am so glad I refuse to co-sign ANYTHING with her.
Nope. She is being divorced.
Oh yeah , I remember this. After we'd been together five years, she abandonned me , ran down to the states and married some guy in order to get american citizen ship.
She'd come right back after he used her and tossed her away. I remember the idiot actually coming up here to visit after she'd returned to me ! In my own house ! I didn't treat him so hot. He thinks maybe to this day he might be a little pissed at me but thats nothing compared to how pissed I am at him for stealing my woman !
Anyways, she came back to me. And stayed married to him, still thinking she wanted that american citizen ship and this would eventually somehow get it for her.
Hmmm... she has thirty days to fight it from the day *I* signed for it, and she's out of the country visiting relatives right now. Wont' be back until twenty of those days are up.
Now ...
... where can I hide this thing so that she won't notice it for 10 days and it will be too late to fight it and she'll be stuck with me ? Hmmm... I think it just accidently fell down behind the fridge ...
Is she declaring bankruptcy again ? Man , I am so glad I refuse to co-sign ANYTHING with her.
Nope. She is being divorced.
Oh yeah , I remember this. After we'd been together five years, she abandonned me , ran down to the states and married some guy in order to get american citizen ship.
She'd come right back after he used her and tossed her away. I remember the idiot actually coming up here to visit after she'd returned to me ! In my own house ! I didn't treat him so hot. He thinks maybe to this day he might be a little pissed at me but thats nothing compared to how pissed I am at him for stealing my woman !
Anyways, she came back to me. And stayed married to him, still thinking she wanted that american citizen ship and this would eventually somehow get it for her.
Hmmm... she has thirty days to fight it from the day *I* signed for it, and she's out of the country visiting relatives right now. Wont' be back until twenty of those days are up.
Now ...
... where can I hide this thing so that she won't notice it for 10 days and it will be too late to fight it and she'll be stuck with me ? Hmmm... I think it just accidently fell down behind the fridge ...
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Aid block 'may ruin Palestinians'
Article
The Hamas-led Palestinian Authority...
A group that got elected by declaring it's hatred of all things jewish and having to do with the infidel west...
...will collapse in poverty and insecurity if it continues to be starved of foreign aid, the World Bank has warned.
So what do you want us jew loving westerner's to do about it ?
In a new report, it says failing to resume aid could "disable" the Authority and set back efforts to build a Palestinian state by "a dozen years".
Considering that the current state being built wants to shoot every westerner it can find and kill every jew in the world... I'm not seeing how this is a bad thing.
The Hamas-led Palestinian Authority...
A group that got elected by declaring it's hatred of all things jewish and having to do with the infidel west...
...will collapse in poverty and insecurity if it continues to be starved of foreign aid, the World Bank has warned.
So what do you want us jew loving westerner's to do about it ?
In a new report, it says failing to resume aid could "disable" the Authority and set back efforts to build a Palestinian state by "a dozen years".
Considering that the current state being built wants to shoot every westerner it can find and kill every jew in the world... I'm not seeing how this is a bad thing.
Sunday, May 07, 2006
Accept war deserters, 'Peace Mom' pleads
Article
American anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan wants the Canadian government to grant sanctuary to U.S. army deserters.
Yeah yeah ! We'll harbor American Desterters on one hand , and on the other continue to send troops off to die in Afghanastan and Iraq !
Not going to happen.
"I'm just here begging the people of Canada to force your government — because your government works for you, …because your government does not work for war profiteers — to allow our soldiers to have sanctuary up here," she said.
Ummm.... nope. Sorry...
and uttering the phrase 'war profiteers' doesn't make it so. You still have 3000 casualties from 9/11 as I recall.
Trust me, if 4 guys with carpet knives and a willingness to sacrifice their very lives are incapable of keeping a secret , an entire INDUSTRY of companies, consisting of thousands and thousands, isn't going to be able to keep any conspiracy a secret of any kind. You are deluded in those accusations.
It's estimated 40,000 to 60,000 U.S. draft dodgers fled to Canada during the Vietnam War.
Vietnam is 1950's, it's now 2006. Those desterters , if they were 19 at the time, are now 75 years old. Are you thinking of drafting them too ?
Some people just can't let bygones be bygones.
American anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan wants the Canadian government to grant sanctuary to U.S. army deserters.
Yeah yeah ! We'll harbor American Desterters on one hand , and on the other continue to send troops off to die in Afghanastan and Iraq !
Not going to happen.
"I'm just here begging the people of Canada to force your government — because your government works for you, …because your government does not work for war profiteers — to allow our soldiers to have sanctuary up here," she said.
Ummm.... nope. Sorry...
and uttering the phrase 'war profiteers' doesn't make it so. You still have 3000 casualties from 9/11 as I recall.
Trust me, if 4 guys with carpet knives and a willingness to sacrifice their very lives are incapable of keeping a secret , an entire INDUSTRY of companies, consisting of thousands and thousands, isn't going to be able to keep any conspiracy a secret of any kind. You are deluded in those accusations.
It's estimated 40,000 to 60,000 U.S. draft dodgers fled to Canada during the Vietnam War.
Vietnam is 1950's, it's now 2006. Those desterters , if they were 19 at the time, are now 75 years old. Are you thinking of drafting them too ?
Some people just can't let bygones be bygones.
Saturday, May 06, 2006
"Do you mind if I have a seat ?"
Me and my sister were sitting at the starbucks (a coffee bar) enjoying a nice friday afternoon ( I work weekends, get some week days , like friday off ... sister is currently unemployed) when a 60ish woman came to our table and asked "Do you mind if I have a seat ?"
I'd noticed her around, doing the same thing with a previous woman, but nothing had come of it , no shouting or anything , so we let her sit at our table. It didn't take her long to start in on her sad tale of woe.
Her husband abused her, she didn't know where to go or what to do, a very sad tale. We advised that there were a number of womans shelters for such things , but no , she'd lose all her pretty things if that happened.
She didn't have any brusies or obvious marks on her , but my sister asked anyways , "did he hit you ?"
Dodged the question , and related to us the tale of how her husband called the cops on her , well yes she had blacked out and had a temper tantrum but it was all his fault he made her so mad. It was replent with details about the evil cops sneaking up on her , twisting her hand behind her back "I was just sitting there , honest ! " and dragging her down into the back of the police car. She spent 4 days at the royal ottawa , she relayed to us. All because he had a vendetta and could give a good song and dance to the cops and get her in trouble.
The husband showed up a little later. He was leaving. But , she'd hidden his cheque and he needed that. She was more concerned with what he had packed in his boxes, worried he might have taken her things. She showed no fear, only anger. She did not ask or beg, she commanded, she told him , she was going home and wanted to look in those boxes to make sure he wasn't making off with anything he shouldn't have.
As they walked away , I couldn't help but notice she was taller than him.
So... she was being abused.
And the first thing that comes to her mind is that she got arrested and stuck in the royal ottawa (a mental institute) because he'd made her angry enough that she'd blacked out and thrown a major temper tantrum.
The moment he'd shown up at the coffee bar , she'd transformed from poor little me to pissed off mama bear, just by the sight of him , he hadn't even said anything yet.
I keep seeing news articles about this "abused wife" syndrome. It ends with the wife killing the husband , going to court , and getting off scott free.
He'd mentioned he was only leaving for a week, but if he was smart, he wouldn't come back.
I'd noticed her around, doing the same thing with a previous woman, but nothing had come of it , no shouting or anything , so we let her sit at our table. It didn't take her long to start in on her sad tale of woe.
Her husband abused her, she didn't know where to go or what to do, a very sad tale. We advised that there were a number of womans shelters for such things , but no , she'd lose all her pretty things if that happened.
She didn't have any brusies or obvious marks on her , but my sister asked anyways , "did he hit you ?"
Dodged the question , and related to us the tale of how her husband called the cops on her , well yes she had blacked out and had a temper tantrum but it was all his fault he made her so mad. It was replent with details about the evil cops sneaking up on her , twisting her hand behind her back "I was just sitting there , honest ! " and dragging her down into the back of the police car. She spent 4 days at the royal ottawa , she relayed to us. All because he had a vendetta and could give a good song and dance to the cops and get her in trouble.
The husband showed up a little later. He was leaving. But , she'd hidden his cheque and he needed that. She was more concerned with what he had packed in his boxes, worried he might have taken her things. She showed no fear, only anger. She did not ask or beg, she commanded, she told him , she was going home and wanted to look in those boxes to make sure he wasn't making off with anything he shouldn't have.
As they walked away , I couldn't help but notice she was taller than him.
So... she was being abused.
And the first thing that comes to her mind is that she got arrested and stuck in the royal ottawa (a mental institute) because he'd made her angry enough that she'd blacked out and thrown a major temper tantrum.
The moment he'd shown up at the coffee bar , she'd transformed from poor little me to pissed off mama bear, just by the sight of him , he hadn't even said anything yet.
I keep seeing news articles about this "abused wife" syndrome. It ends with the wife killing the husband , going to court , and getting off scott free.
He'd mentioned he was only leaving for a week, but if he was smart, he wouldn't come back.
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Online Games
Which Online Game is most fun ?
I have a selection of online games , mmog's they're called (massive multiplayer online games, or something like that). They all cost the same , 60$ to buy the game (when they first came out) and 15$ / month there after. I had reason to cycle through a number of them and I thought I'd write a review.
World of Warcraft
It's not bad. The rule system is unique and not based on anything else. Combat starts out relatively simple and grows progressively more and more complex as you level up. The first five levels are very rapid , you burn through them in an hour, and you can usually make level 8 or 10 on the first day , assuming several hours game time. Advancement slows considerably after that.
There are a lot of "solo" area's where you can just off monsters all by yourself , a fair number of fixed quests for you to run through , and instance dungeons. The dungeons will require you to party up you cannot really run them alone.
There is a certain difficulty factor that is unavoidable , that is to say if you stay in a low level area , you stop getting experiance. I think the rule is you still get xp if the creature is 5 levels below you , but not 6. And this goes up 1 every 10 levels (at 10th you can get xp of creatures 6 levels below you , at 20th , 7, etc) so you are forced to move on to higher level area's. Elite monsters in "instances" (dungeons that require a full party) generally insure that even a high level charactar that gets no xp from the dungeon will still have a very hard time in it...very hard and fruitless. Ah well.
The games crafting system is interesting and keeps some life into it. Fishing is a waste of time however, that was nerfed a long time ago, but you can make your own weapons and armor and such.
I would rate world of warcraft as a pretty good game, but I don't play it anymore because after a year you just get bored.
EverQuest
I have a new computer.
I must be the only person to have a copy of Everquest and have never played it because it would't run on my old computer. So I put it on this machine and gave it a shot.
Boring , and glitched.
first off, they want you to grind away killing rats and bats as a new charactar, in a combat system that doesn't actually inspire patience (press the auto attack button and wait... or if you're a spell caster there is some stradegy ... wait for the rat to attack , then hit the hot key for your spell and hope it doesn't fizzle.. it should go off before the rat attacks again. Blow the timing , and the rats next attack interrupts the spell).
This took about 1 minute to master and then it was just a boring grind. Gathered my 8 rats and 4 bats and 4 vermin nests I was supposed to kill, and returned to turn them in, speaking to the stated NPC.
She totally ignored me. Wouldn't let me turn in the quest.
And this is on a beginning quest that must have seen a million people go through it with their new charactars. Obviously this game is no longer being maintained.
After a few hours I decided the game was simply too boring, too much grinding , no way to turn in quests, most likely I would get stuck somewhere due to these glitches ... cancelled my subscription the very same day I had applied for it and uninstalled it.
Matrix Online
Charactar creation consisted of simply what does your charactar look like. As you progress , however , you load "abilities" into your memory that give you better and better combat abilities, or spell like abilities (viral attacks and what not .. the whole thing is very computer theme'd if you've ever seen the matrix movies) and of course there's the constant problem that while abilities are easy to come by (you can just buy them at various venders) memory space to load them is in short supply , so you're always fiddling with what you have loaded, what will fit.
Combat comes in two flavours, ranged , and hand to hand. Ranged you select a target , click on the gun or shot gun icon (depending on what weapon is in your hand) and you start firing until either you fall down or the enemy does. Not too complicated.
Hand to hand , is very complicated. You have a selection of attacks, like fast (more speed than damage) , power ( more damage than speed) throw , and block. You also have a special "head butt" abilitie that can only be used on a charactar that is stunned. Oh , your "fast" attack has a chance of stunning. So a beginner tactic is to use your fast attack until the opponent is stunned and then click on the head butt ability to inflict massive damage.
Later on this motief is repeated with special kicks and punches that only work when the enemey is off balance (a throw will leave him off balance) staggered, etc. This tends to make hand to hand combat fairly complicated.
Whats that you say , you'll just stick to ranged ? Sorry , works great at low levels by after a bit the enemy will charge you and force you into hand to hand.
Judging by the training video's in the introduction hall that all charactars go through ranged combat has it's own issues. Weapons don't have the same range, so if you can run fast and stay ahead of the enemey , you can pretty much get free shots off at him until he falls and defeat him without getting hit at all (I also noticed an ability with guns to slow an enemey down by 50% ...hmmm... )
There's a lot of "grinding" in the game (just killing over and over) but the combat system is complicated enough that that isn't as boring as you'd think.
There are also "missions" to be accomplished, and the missions advance some kind of story line that holds the whole game together. When your charactar gets pretty high level (I think level 50) there are "world events" for such high level's.
I see the threads of a crafting system for building your own equipment (you get to see ALL the abilities , even the ones you don't have , and definitions for what they do) though I havn't experimented with it yet. That's always nice.
Multi-class to a fair thee well.
Raise some cash , kill a few thugs, hit the venders. Buy up some "virus/ hacker" abilities, and suddenly your charactar switches from being a kung fu martial artiest to a virus zapping ranged "spell caster" type. Doesnt' work out too well ? You still have those kung fu abilities, just load them up again. Or try out healing for a while , or programming (you get to make a pet that fights alongside with you) and try that for a while. Tweaking exactly what abilities you will load, will you be all the way kung fu ? Or will you take just enough hacking to give yourself some self healing ? Is obviously going to be an art form unto itself.
I have a selection of online games , mmog's they're called (massive multiplayer online games, or something like that). They all cost the same , 60$ to buy the game (when they first came out) and 15$ / month there after. I had reason to cycle through a number of them and I thought I'd write a review.
World of Warcraft
It's not bad. The rule system is unique and not based on anything else. Combat starts out relatively simple and grows progressively more and more complex as you level up. The first five levels are very rapid , you burn through them in an hour, and you can usually make level 8 or 10 on the first day , assuming several hours game time. Advancement slows considerably after that.
There are a lot of "solo" area's where you can just off monsters all by yourself , a fair number of fixed quests for you to run through , and instance dungeons. The dungeons will require you to party up you cannot really run them alone.
There is a certain difficulty factor that is unavoidable , that is to say if you stay in a low level area , you stop getting experiance. I think the rule is you still get xp if the creature is 5 levels below you , but not 6. And this goes up 1 every 10 levels (at 10th you can get xp of creatures 6 levels below you , at 20th , 7, etc) so you are forced to move on to higher level area's. Elite monsters in "instances" (dungeons that require a full party) generally insure that even a high level charactar that gets no xp from the dungeon will still have a very hard time in it...very hard and fruitless. Ah well.
The games crafting system is interesting and keeps some life into it. Fishing is a waste of time however, that was nerfed a long time ago, but you can make your own weapons and armor and such.
I would rate world of warcraft as a pretty good game, but I don't play it anymore because after a year you just get bored.
EverQuest
I have a new computer.
I must be the only person to have a copy of Everquest and have never played it because it would't run on my old computer. So I put it on this machine and gave it a shot.
Boring , and glitched.
first off, they want you to grind away killing rats and bats as a new charactar, in a combat system that doesn't actually inspire patience (press the auto attack button and wait... or if you're a spell caster there is some stradegy ... wait for the rat to attack , then hit the hot key for your spell and hope it doesn't fizzle.. it should go off before the rat attacks again. Blow the timing , and the rats next attack interrupts the spell).
This took about 1 minute to master and then it was just a boring grind. Gathered my 8 rats and 4 bats and 4 vermin nests I was supposed to kill, and returned to turn them in, speaking to the stated NPC.
She totally ignored me. Wouldn't let me turn in the quest.
And this is on a beginning quest that must have seen a million people go through it with their new charactars. Obviously this game is no longer being maintained.
After a few hours I decided the game was simply too boring, too much grinding , no way to turn in quests, most likely I would get stuck somewhere due to these glitches ... cancelled my subscription the very same day I had applied for it and uninstalled it.
Matrix Online
Charactar creation consisted of simply what does your charactar look like. As you progress , however , you load "abilities" into your memory that give you better and better combat abilities, or spell like abilities (viral attacks and what not .. the whole thing is very computer theme'd if you've ever seen the matrix movies) and of course there's the constant problem that while abilities are easy to come by (you can just buy them at various venders) memory space to load them is in short supply , so you're always fiddling with what you have loaded, what will fit.
Combat comes in two flavours, ranged , and hand to hand. Ranged you select a target , click on the gun or shot gun icon (depending on what weapon is in your hand) and you start firing until either you fall down or the enemy does. Not too complicated.
Hand to hand , is very complicated. You have a selection of attacks, like fast (more speed than damage) , power ( more damage than speed) throw , and block. You also have a special "head butt" abilitie that can only be used on a charactar that is stunned. Oh , your "fast" attack has a chance of stunning. So a beginner tactic is to use your fast attack until the opponent is stunned and then click on the head butt ability to inflict massive damage.
Later on this motief is repeated with special kicks and punches that only work when the enemey is off balance (a throw will leave him off balance) staggered, etc. This tends to make hand to hand combat fairly complicated.
Whats that you say , you'll just stick to ranged ? Sorry , works great at low levels by after a bit the enemy will charge you and force you into hand to hand.
Judging by the training video's in the introduction hall that all charactars go through ranged combat has it's own issues. Weapons don't have the same range, so if you can run fast and stay ahead of the enemey , you can pretty much get free shots off at him until he falls and defeat him without getting hit at all (I also noticed an ability with guns to slow an enemey down by 50% ...hmmm... )
There's a lot of "grinding" in the game (just killing over and over) but the combat system is complicated enough that that isn't as boring as you'd think.
There are also "missions" to be accomplished, and the missions advance some kind of story line that holds the whole game together. When your charactar gets pretty high level (I think level 50) there are "world events" for such high level's.
I see the threads of a crafting system for building your own equipment (you get to see ALL the abilities , even the ones you don't have , and definitions for what they do) though I havn't experimented with it yet. That's always nice.
Multi-class to a fair thee well.
Raise some cash , kill a few thugs, hit the venders. Buy up some "virus/ hacker" abilities, and suddenly your charactar switches from being a kung fu martial artiest to a virus zapping ranged "spell caster" type. Doesnt' work out too well ? You still have those kung fu abilities, just load them up again. Or try out healing for a while , or programming (you get to make a pet that fights alongside with you) and try that for a while. Tweaking exactly what abilities you will load, will you be all the way kung fu ? Or will you take just enough hacking to give yourself some self healing ? Is obviously going to be an art form unto itself.
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