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- 18 February 2012
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13 February 2012
Sure, People Like Monster Films But They Think Monsters Are Imaginary
The ultimate evil, Monsanto, is out there spewing its filth on the good, green earth. Will it be possible to kill it? If so will the damage be irreparable? If corporations looked the way they act Monsanto would probably look like the Cloverfield monster.
In the news: A French court has found US biotech giant Monsanto guilty of the chemical poisoning of a French farmer, in a case that could lend weight to other health claims against pesticides.
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15 January 2012
I'm opposed to 99% of medication use as A) in my experience the downside is greater than the upside, B) big pharma is evil and I will not support it. I was shocked a bit last night when listening to Global chat in Glitch as many players listed their medications (antidepressants for the most part). There is a commercial out now for something or other that sounds like a Saturday Night Live skit - Take this! Side effects include [a list of horrifying maladies]. Drug companies have trained people, it seems, to accept those lists without thinking. They aren't interested in alleviating suffering, just selling products. Drugs are engineered to pass the effectiveness tests whether or not that test result is in a human's best interest i.e. osteoporosis drugs that only harden the bone's outer layer which create an unnatural rigidity in what should be a living and flexible body part.
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21 December 2011
The Daily What reports:
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: A rather worrisome bit of censoring took place today at the House of Representatives, which had a split-second pro-forma session this morning.
A Democratic effort to force an up-or-down vote on the Senate’s payroll tax cut extension plan was hastily halted by Speaker Pro Tempore Michael Fitzpatrick (R-PA), who swiftly adjourned the House without acknowledging Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer’s repeated cries of “Mr. Speaker.”
Despite being rudely shutdown by Fitzpatrick, Hoyer went on to have his say, excoriating Republicans for allowing the tax cut to expire despite the potential damage to the already struggling economy.
As Hoyer was yielding to another Democrat, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), ranking member on the House Budget Committee, the mic suddenly cut out, followed shortly by the footage.
C-SPAN later tweeted that it “has no control over the U.S. House TV cameras – the Speaker of the House does,” suggesting that someone in House Speaker John Boehner’s office ordered the live feed off the air.
Less than a year ago, C-SPAN’s asked Boehner for permission to install privately-operated cameras in the House. That request was denied.
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10 December 2011
Errr...
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — An Irvine couple who suspected their 15-year-old son of smoking turned to a man believed to be relied on in their church to violently discipline children, authorities said.
The parents asked Paul Kim, 39, to discipline their son after finding a lighter in his possession, dropping the boy off at Kim's Chino Hills home with permission for the beating, San Bernardino County sheriff's spokesperson Cindy Bachmann said Saturday.
Kim hit the child with a metal pole about a dozen times, causing severe bruising on his legs, according to Bachmann. The pole was about an inch in diameter, investigators said.
An adult at the boy's school saw the bruises and called Irvine police, who in turn informed San Bernardino County officials, she said.
I'm sure if that was the punishment for owning a lighter I, at fifteen, had I been singled out for punishment, would've been beaten to death.
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19 November 2011
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
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11 August 2011
Data Scraping
The New Yorker is a mixed bag these day with too many Vanity Fairesque pieces about celebrities I don't know and too many iPhone paintings on its cover, however when it's good it's good. Recent standouts were a quantum computing article, one about the development of the novel, and one about the rise of an Orwellian state. An American spy agency has in the past ten years developed the ability to monitor every email sent in the USA [and elsewhere but that's not the issue here], as well as store them all in case they need a light snack later. The data of their own fellow citizens! In former times they were unable to legally scrape their own citizens' data, however they can do anything they please now.
That doesn't even seem possible, yet through the magic of sifting and sorting by algorithm, with their unprecedentedly immense data storage facilities, and empowered by the post-Twin Towers attack paranoia as well as a 70 million dollar per year electricity bill, they somehow manage to do what is evil to terrorists (what, 25,000 of them, tops?) and evil also to the entire population of the United States (312 million + ~11 million illegal aliens). Nice.
And we complain about Facebook and Google.
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19 July 2011
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26 May 2011
I did hear Spin Magazine was attacking *our* Spin but didn't think much about it. But Hell, they ARE attacking him and trying to steal his Twitter handle. Bastiges! I hope I don't get attacked by the Welsh football club, the backpack company, or the plane. On the other hand they can buy it if they want (5 thousand quatloos seems fair).
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24 April 2011
WTF
Someone is wanting it to be only possible for foster children to buy used clothing.
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22 March 2011
NYT's article about the (lack of) distribution of wealth in the USA.Labels: Bad Persons Bureau
16 March 2011
Supposedly RedZone's creator has been banned and the product itself is in the process of being deleted, but I know nothing except gossip. I hope it's true as he's not a nice person, but, as they say, 'There's plenty more where that came from.'
The entire paranoia thing is ridiculously destructive by itself. The IP thievery (by various means) is what started the ball rolling but the paranoia has catapulted things to 11. Or over 9000. Your choice.
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03 March 2011
Inside Job, a well-done documentary about the global financial crisis.
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25 February 2011
This made me laugh.
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30 September 2010
My gmail account was hacked -
DON'T CLICK ANY LINKS SENT FROM MY ACCOUNT.
(The hackers sent out a *bad* link to my contact list.)
They deleted this blog, too, but Google Jebus restored it five minutes ago.
I had, a few months ago, a notice from Google that someone in China had tried hacking into my gmail account, but it failed that time.
Suggested as appropriate by Salazar:
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22 September 2010
Evil Reveals Itself
"Tens of thousands of Texas children will be directly affected by the 11th-hour decision of a number of major health insurance companies to stop selling child-only policies rather than comply with the new federal law that requires they cover youngsters with pre-existing conditions.
'What we're seeing is what we've thought all along: Health insurance companies are really only about the bottom line,' said Robert Sanborn, president of Children at Risk, a nonprofit children's advocacy organization based in Houston. 'They pretend to care about families and children, but when it comes down to it, they're happy to kick children to the side.'"
For all of you who say, "Well, we knew that," consider this: the world should not be this way, and by cynically accepting it as though it's a natural law you enable these corporations to treat human populations as an exploitable resource existing for their benefit only.
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15 February 2009
SJ flew back from D.C. on Friday, and rang me this morning* to make me guess who she sat next to and formed a friendship with over the six-hour flight. She gave me 15 guesses but I used about four, I think, and my guesses were not exactly serious.
Me: Uh... I have no clue. Al Sharpton?
SJ: No.
Me: ...Ted Kaczynski?
SJ: He's in prison.
Me: You didn't hear that he escaped?
SJ: *clue*
Me: Uh... Carl Rove's brother?
SJ: Close! An iconic president's brother.
Me: uh... *can't think of any presidents* uh... Truman's brother?
SJ: No! Nixon! Nixon's brother!
Me: ZOMG. (First things that pop into my head are the opera Nixon in China, and the Cod Wars.)
* It wasn't early by any stretch of the imagination, but I can't sleep lately so I stay up all night then crash.
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12 November 2008
George Bush in tears as he makes promise to Barack Obama
/me is in tears as she wants to see that evil crew of #@&#%$&s dragged out in chains.
The voting process needs to be fixed in a hurry. Millions of (Democratic) votes were thrown out because the Republicans have corrupted the system so thoroughly. It shouldn't be necessary for an incredible effort to be made just to overtake those evil efforts. As someone pointed out, it isn't even possible to get an international watch on the voting as the Americans chose not to use a popular vote system.
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