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Bleargh...
Aug. 13th, 2006 01:29 am...I'm tired. The eight-hour shifts take their toll on you. At least I had entertaining conversation and jokes to keep my spirits up for the lulls in between work. Managed to get into a parts-of-speech alliteration battle, which was fun.
Detailed information on the Sept. 11th attacks is now available, thanks to the National Security Archive's successful Freedom of Information Act request. Now there's some source analysis to do - maybe we can get a better picture of what really happened.
Mother prostitutes her daughter because of fear of losing her boyfriend. Mom offers her daughter, boyfriend takes her up on it, and the kid seems perfectly happy to go along with it. Were the kid of the age of consent, there would probably be a little less fuss about it. Especially since the kid would have been able to agree to it - I don't know whether the contract would have brought out a prostitution charge or not.
How one could create the United States of Israel - I think that the idea of the U.S. of I is a bit of a misnomer. It seems more like a checklist for creating an Imperial colony out of another nation - making a banana republic in the Mideast. Which isn't going to happen, really. As much as people might think of Israel as a U.S. puppet, they're not. Nor will they ever be. With the way things are going, I might almost conjecture the reverse, that the U.S. is dancing to Israel's tune. (See how well that sits with people who think we're the greatest country in the world because we can push everybody else around.)
Once again, we prove that the government does not have a sense of humor. Especially when there are terrists around. They'd probably take an article like "Routing Around the Problem", which provides examples of how one could theoretically get things on a plane (if one were that determined to do so), in a very serious manner. Which it is, I suppose, but I would expect them to over-react and start trying to pull off the "masks" of wrinkled peoples.
In the "Oh, yay" department, U.S. Passports will now contain smart chips, despite security issues. I'd really rather they ironed the bugs out and were sure, and could get that independently confirmed, before they include it. Encryption's nice, but unless these things somehow can use super-strong encryption all on their own, then it won't do much. And someone could theoretically steal the decryption key (or something like it) by hanging around those places where the smart chip would react.
Averaging Gradius - taking runs through one level and seeing how they all play out. By doing so, it actually reveals some interesting material about the game itself and the styles of the people playing it. Wonder how that would work with an FPS like Quake.
Making the power of propaganda/advertising work for you, or "magick for materialists". It uses the principle of the Big Lie to bring about a truth. Isn't that fun? Lying to yourself until you believe it, and then it becomes true.
Detailed information on the Sept. 11th attacks is now available, thanks to the National Security Archive's successful Freedom of Information Act request. Now there's some source analysis to do - maybe we can get a better picture of what really happened.
Mother prostitutes her daughter because of fear of losing her boyfriend. Mom offers her daughter, boyfriend takes her up on it, and the kid seems perfectly happy to go along with it. Were the kid of the age of consent, there would probably be a little less fuss about it. Especially since the kid would have been able to agree to it - I don't know whether the contract would have brought out a prostitution charge or not.
How one could create the United States of Israel - I think that the idea of the U.S. of I is a bit of a misnomer. It seems more like a checklist for creating an Imperial colony out of another nation - making a banana republic in the Mideast. Which isn't going to happen, really. As much as people might think of Israel as a U.S. puppet, they're not. Nor will they ever be. With the way things are going, I might almost conjecture the reverse, that the U.S. is dancing to Israel's tune. (See how well that sits with people who think we're the greatest country in the world because we can push everybody else around.)
Once again, we prove that the government does not have a sense of humor. Especially when there are terrists around. They'd probably take an article like "Routing Around the Problem", which provides examples of how one could theoretically get things on a plane (if one were that determined to do so), in a very serious manner. Which it is, I suppose, but I would expect them to over-react and start trying to pull off the "masks" of wrinkled peoples.
In the "Oh, yay" department, U.S. Passports will now contain smart chips, despite security issues. I'd really rather they ironed the bugs out and were sure, and could get that independently confirmed, before they include it. Encryption's nice, but unless these things somehow can use super-strong encryption all on their own, then it won't do much. And someone could theoretically steal the decryption key (or something like it) by hanging around those places where the smart chip would react.
Averaging Gradius - taking runs through one level and seeing how they all play out. By doing so, it actually reveals some interesting material about the game itself and the styles of the people playing it. Wonder how that would work with an FPS like Quake.
Making the power of propaganda/advertising work for you, or "magick for materialists". It uses the principle of the Big Lie to bring about a truth. Isn't that fun? Lying to yourself until you believe it, and then it becomes true.
