Right, then.
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loweko. Hopefully you got a nice new shiny Big Red Button and the license to use it.
Another possible tip for those thinking about trying to achieve enlightenment: Stop thinking about it. Otherwise, the feedback loop gets nasty.
We might also note several things of import happening in a relatively short amount of time. The one the government wants you to pay attention to is this: A new tape, with a voice purporting to be Osama bin Laden, has been found. With characteristic bravado, the Administration claimed al-Qaeda's leader was on the run. What this obscures and hides are the following: A grab for search engine data, to see whether or not search engines index porn (which one would suspect does happen by the robots) and how often it shows up. Well, depending on what you put in to the engine, you get different results. Duh. This is another one of those invasions of privacy under the guise of protecting the vulnerable... and Google is one of the few engines that told them to go fuck themselves. (There's University of Michigan graduates for you!) With that, many are still missing from the hurricane, the federal government won't reimburse the states that valiantly stepped in to cover the stupidity of the new Medicare program's errors, and the biggest middle finger of them all, soldiers are being ordered to leave behind their body armor. The stuff that the government basically made the soliders buy because they didn't have enough, they're now telling to leave behind, because it's not the government's standard-issue. Real nice, threatening a solider with not paying his life-insurance benefit if he doesn't have the preferred contractor, even if the private armor might be better technology. It's like they want people to get killed over there.
...that had better not turn out to be a true statement.
Classwork tomorrow and other assorted things like that. Need to either remember to upload to my personal site or create my personal site and drop the URL in a box by Tuesday.
And, my life has just complicated again. I really don't like it when it does these things.
loweko. Hopefully you got a nice new shiny Big Red Button and the license to use it. Another possible tip for those thinking about trying to achieve enlightenment: Stop thinking about it. Otherwise, the feedback loop gets nasty.
We might also note several things of import happening in a relatively short amount of time. The one the government wants you to pay attention to is this: A new tape, with a voice purporting to be Osama bin Laden, has been found. With characteristic bravado, the Administration claimed al-Qaeda's leader was on the run. What this obscures and hides are the following: A grab for search engine data, to see whether or not search engines index porn (which one would suspect does happen by the robots) and how often it shows up. Well, depending on what you put in to the engine, you get different results. Duh. This is another one of those invasions of privacy under the guise of protecting the vulnerable... and Google is one of the few engines that told them to go fuck themselves. (There's University of Michigan graduates for you!) With that, many are still missing from the hurricane, the federal government won't reimburse the states that valiantly stepped in to cover the stupidity of the new Medicare program's errors, and the biggest middle finger of them all, soldiers are being ordered to leave behind their body armor. The stuff that the government basically made the soliders buy because they didn't have enough, they're now telling to leave behind, because it's not the government's standard-issue. Real nice, threatening a solider with not paying his life-insurance benefit if he doesn't have the preferred contractor, even if the private armor might be better technology. It's like they want people to get killed over there.
...that had better not turn out to be a true statement.
Classwork tomorrow and other assorted things like that. Need to either remember to upload to my personal site or create my personal site and drop the URL in a box by Tuesday.
And, my life has just complicated again. I really don't like it when it does these things.
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Date: 2006-01-20 03:14 pm (UTC)