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silveradeptLuckily, I have exact change. And may be on my way to achieving Quantum Zen, if I haven’t already hit that point a couple times.
Occasionally, really fresh sushi may give you digestive troubles because of a parasite. If it’s been commercially frozen, however, the parasite is killed.
Clive Thompson, in his Wired gaming column today, claims to have learned the mindset behind suicide bombing, all thanks to Halo 3. In the game world, if you can’t snipe and circle strafe someone, the best way to kill them is to run straight at them and then plant a plasma grenade on them. You die, but they die, too. And then if you start putting more together, one grenade kills plenty. And there you go - now you can rationalize your death in that you get to kill plenty of other enemies. According to MI5, terror organizations are recruiting and training children to accomplish their ends.
Ted Rall is disappointed that a large amount of the candidates for President will not immediately renounce the Bush Administration, in thought, word, deed, and any sort of action that W has taken or his Congress passed. This comes on the heels of Mr. Bush having nearly 50% of the country say they "strongly disapprove" of his job, among other poll questions. The fantasy is that by wiping off the slate from 2001-2009, the country could return itself to at least a neutral state to begin building again, under a new president. Yet most of the candidates are more than willing to build on the legacy of their predecessor, all the way through authorizing the use of torture as a viable interrogation method. Although the current Congress seems pretty unwilling to do anything about reauthorizing No Child Left Behind, which might be an excellent start to reversing the damage of this administration. Mr. Bush also threatened to veto the farm bill discussed a few days ago, which may win him some points with those who want to trim out pork spending.
For those who want to have an iron-clad border between the United States and whatever undesirables they want to keep out, be ready to fund and train the Customs and Border Service agency, which had several faults found with it, according to the Government Accountability Office. They’re short-staffed, double-shifted, undertrained and guarding a very large and porous border.
Ron Paul's followers raised $4.3 million dollars for him in a single day yesterday, 5 November . Calling the technique a “moneybomb”, it appears to have been a way of the supporters showing their solidarity in addition to giving their money away. If Paul should fail to capture a major party nomination, would he run as an independent? (And if so, how will he affect the turnout?)
In life-giving or extending properties, curcumin, the flavor component in tumeric, commonly found in curries, may have effective cancer-fighting properties. Yay! Reserachers have also injected mice with a genetic component that makes them metabolize differently, live long, and run for long periods of time, but also makes them very agressive and hyperactive. So no injecting yourself with some sort of super-metabolizer and endurance booster.
Starting small with stupidity of our fellows, a lottery game was withdrawn after several players were confused about the goal - the idea was to find temperatures below the target. Most of the target temperatures were negative. But a significant number of people kept running into problems because they thought -6 was a lower number than -8. And thus thought they had won when they had not.
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odilla, keeping tabs on the AFA, points out the AFA will send 1,000 buttons to a school because a school administrator requested that Christmas be replaced with Holiday, but at the same time, 31 October is now simply a Harvest or Autumn Festival, rather than Halloween or Samhain. And Kossack dogemperor documents dirty, dirty tricks in progress by the Kentucky wing of the organization, including falsely claiming to be another organization in automated calls.
ABC news is running social experiments, much to Michelle Malkin's disgust. And the conservative comment crowd chimes in with many more suggestions for ABC to embark upon that would fit their view of being persecuted. I’m sure that both sides could find plenty of material to confirm their own opinions, and cherry-pick away to their heart’s content. After all, it’s only the stuff that nets a reaction that gets on the television.
Warming up the oven and starting the quiche-baking is David Limbaugh's hot air about the need for the GOP to reassert itself as the mediators of language. Rather than flinching away from labels like “supports torture”, they should proudly say “We’re at war. Torture saves lives, so of course I support it.” And that prisoner abuse cases are isolated actions by rogue soldiers, not systematic events authorized by the government, and that the Democrats are doing al-Qaeda’s work for them by believing that the United States regularly abuses prisoners in offshore facilities. Y’know, the kind of stuff that would probably make Bill Clinton’s “is” bow down and say “We’re not worthy.”
Adding salt, spice, and significant amounts of heat to our quiche is the Value Voters Summit, which includes reformed homosexuals, people who think homosexuality is something curable, evangelicals that still think Romney’s Mormonism is a real problem, Guliani’s multiple marriages and divorces (and pro-choice stand) are problematic, people who would abolish public schools, and candidates who think that there wouldn’t be immigration problems if we didn’t abort so many babies. The Slacktivist takes that and makes a point about how authoritarianism tends to subject religion and politics alike to its own impulses. (And how some tail-eating arguments arise from that as ways of not having to listen to objections to those impulses.)
Getting hot on the quiche with the story of a Jehovah's Witness mother perished from a sudden hemorrhage after giving birth to twins. Because the tenets of the religion refuse transfusions of blood, the twenty-two year-old woman died after giving birth. Yep, even the technology of our age cannot save someone who doesn’t want it.
Even more heat pours on, and the quiche cooks up to completion with The United States Government also argues that e-mail through work, your ISP, or just about any other service has no Constitutional guarantee of privacy. Because, apparently, by consenting to use the service or logging on to your employer’s network, you gave away any expectation of privacy in your communication. So the government can simply request your e-mail without a warrant or court order and get it. At least, that’s the conclusion the article draws. I prefer requests for data by government that can be considered private to have court orders attached to them, thank you. If this particular precedent holds, I wonder if library records would also be subject to immediate turning-over without a warrant, since many people use the Internet to do library work like placing requests or renewing books. For an example, in some ways, of how having no privacy at work can hurt you, delve into the story of the employee disciplined for sexually harassing her boss - by confessing her crush on him to a fellow co-worker over e-mail and voice mail. Suspended without actually saying anything to the person supposedly being harassed. Interesting, yes?
A screensaver utilizes images from more than 600 cameras that have network/Internet capability. If you wanted to look in on what the cameras are seeing while your computer sits idle, that is. Although it would probably be disturbing to see your own image in the screensaver at some point.
Our “Mad Mod” department presents the clockwork laptop modification, running a very familiar brand of Linux.
Our Googlewatchers, however, may be a bit distressed at Google's intent to provide a customizable mobile phone/internet platform. Possibly using the Google ad-driven model, it might become inexpensive to place the calls/surf the web from such a platform. Of course, that puts even more data into Google’s hands. What they might do with your telephone calls (search and index, tag, what?) is yet to be seen.
Leaving on a lighter note, though, 88 lines about 44 fangrils. Best experienced with the original song’s melody bouncing in your head. And now, to bed once more.
Occasionally, really fresh sushi may give you digestive troubles because of a parasite. If it’s been commercially frozen, however, the parasite is killed.
Clive Thompson, in his Wired gaming column today, claims to have learned the mindset behind suicide bombing, all thanks to Halo 3. In the game world, if you can’t snipe and circle strafe someone, the best way to kill them is to run straight at them and then plant a plasma grenade on them. You die, but they die, too. And then if you start putting more together, one grenade kills plenty. And there you go - now you can rationalize your death in that you get to kill plenty of other enemies. According to MI5, terror organizations are recruiting and training children to accomplish their ends.
Ted Rall is disappointed that a large amount of the candidates for President will not immediately renounce the Bush Administration, in thought, word, deed, and any sort of action that W has taken or his Congress passed. This comes on the heels of Mr. Bush having nearly 50% of the country say they "strongly disapprove" of his job, among other poll questions. The fantasy is that by wiping off the slate from 2001-2009, the country could return itself to at least a neutral state to begin building again, under a new president. Yet most of the candidates are more than willing to build on the legacy of their predecessor, all the way through authorizing the use of torture as a viable interrogation method. Although the current Congress seems pretty unwilling to do anything about reauthorizing No Child Left Behind, which might be an excellent start to reversing the damage of this administration. Mr. Bush also threatened to veto the farm bill discussed a few days ago, which may win him some points with those who want to trim out pork spending.
For those who want to have an iron-clad border between the United States and whatever undesirables they want to keep out, be ready to fund and train the Customs and Border Service agency, which had several faults found with it, according to the Government Accountability Office. They’re short-staffed, double-shifted, undertrained and guarding a very large and porous border.
Ron Paul's followers raised $4.3 million dollars for him in a single day yesterday, 5 November . Calling the technique a “moneybomb”, it appears to have been a way of the supporters showing their solidarity in addition to giving their money away. If Paul should fail to capture a major party nomination, would he run as an independent? (And if so, how will he affect the turnout?)
In life-giving or extending properties, curcumin, the flavor component in tumeric, commonly found in curries, may have effective cancer-fighting properties. Yay! Reserachers have also injected mice with a genetic component that makes them metabolize differently, live long, and run for long periods of time, but also makes them very agressive and hyperactive. So no injecting yourself with some sort of super-metabolizer and endurance booster.
Starting small with stupidity of our fellows, a lottery game was withdrawn after several players were confused about the goal - the idea was to find temperatures below the target. Most of the target temperatures were negative. But a significant number of people kept running into problems because they thought -6 was a lower number than -8. And thus thought they had won when they had not.
odilla, keeping tabs on the AFA, points out the AFA will send 1,000 buttons to a school because a school administrator requested that Christmas be replaced with Holiday, but at the same time, 31 October is now simply a Harvest or Autumn Festival, rather than Halloween or Samhain. And Kossack dogemperor documents dirty, dirty tricks in progress by the Kentucky wing of the organization, including falsely claiming to be another organization in automated calls.ABC news is running social experiments, much to Michelle Malkin's disgust. And the conservative comment crowd chimes in with many more suggestions for ABC to embark upon that would fit their view of being persecuted. I’m sure that both sides could find plenty of material to confirm their own opinions, and cherry-pick away to their heart’s content. After all, it’s only the stuff that nets a reaction that gets on the television.
Warming up the oven and starting the quiche-baking is David Limbaugh's hot air about the need for the GOP to reassert itself as the mediators of language. Rather than flinching away from labels like “supports torture”, they should proudly say “We’re at war. Torture saves lives, so of course I support it.” And that prisoner abuse cases are isolated actions by rogue soldiers, not systematic events authorized by the government, and that the Democrats are doing al-Qaeda’s work for them by believing that the United States regularly abuses prisoners in offshore facilities. Y’know, the kind of stuff that would probably make Bill Clinton’s “is” bow down and say “We’re not worthy.”
Adding salt, spice, and significant amounts of heat to our quiche is the Value Voters Summit, which includes reformed homosexuals, people who think homosexuality is something curable, evangelicals that still think Romney’s Mormonism is a real problem, Guliani’s multiple marriages and divorces (and pro-choice stand) are problematic, people who would abolish public schools, and candidates who think that there wouldn’t be immigration problems if we didn’t abort so many babies. The Slacktivist takes that and makes a point about how authoritarianism tends to subject religion and politics alike to its own impulses. (And how some tail-eating arguments arise from that as ways of not having to listen to objections to those impulses.)
Getting hot on the quiche with the story of a Jehovah's Witness mother perished from a sudden hemorrhage after giving birth to twins. Because the tenets of the religion refuse transfusions of blood, the twenty-two year-old woman died after giving birth. Yep, even the technology of our age cannot save someone who doesn’t want it.
Even more heat pours on, and the quiche cooks up to completion with The United States Government also argues that e-mail through work, your ISP, or just about any other service has no Constitutional guarantee of privacy. Because, apparently, by consenting to use the service or logging on to your employer’s network, you gave away any expectation of privacy in your communication. So the government can simply request your e-mail without a warrant or court order and get it. At least, that’s the conclusion the article draws. I prefer requests for data by government that can be considered private to have court orders attached to them, thank you. If this particular precedent holds, I wonder if library records would also be subject to immediate turning-over without a warrant, since many people use the Internet to do library work like placing requests or renewing books. For an example, in some ways, of how having no privacy at work can hurt you, delve into the story of the employee disciplined for sexually harassing her boss - by confessing her crush on him to a fellow co-worker over e-mail and voice mail. Suspended without actually saying anything to the person supposedly being harassed. Interesting, yes?
A screensaver utilizes images from more than 600 cameras that have network/Internet capability. If you wanted to look in on what the cameras are seeing while your computer sits idle, that is. Although it would probably be disturbing to see your own image in the screensaver at some point.
Our “Mad Mod” department presents the clockwork laptop modification, running a very familiar brand of Linux.
Our Googlewatchers, however, may be a bit distressed at Google's intent to provide a customizable mobile phone/internet platform. Possibly using the Google ad-driven model, it might become inexpensive to place the calls/surf the web from such a platform. Of course, that puts even more data into Google’s hands. What they might do with your telephone calls (search and index, tag, what?) is yet to be seen.
Leaving on a lighter note, though, 88 lines about 44 fangrils. Best experienced with the original song’s melody bouncing in your head. And now, to bed once more.
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Date: 2007-11-07 01:25 pm (UTC)I wish verizon would join with google. then I could access my gmail in a "normal" manner from my phone instead of through web 2.0.
and I loved the 88 lines. I read it earlier yesterday, and the real song got stuck in my head permanently.
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Date: 2007-11-07 01:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-07 03:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-07 04:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-07 04:18 pm (UTC)I heard somewhere, unsourced and unverifiable, that controls for things like unmanned drones and remote-controlled weapons systems are shifting in design to resemble video game controllers even more. That way, the drone reacts in the way the player-soldier expects it to in a potential panic situation.
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Date: 2007-11-07 09:29 pm (UTC)It's not that it's even a video game scenario involving war or promoting violence in any way; consider a constructed "game" where you compete in challenges and you're given points and use those to buy prizes. Now there's a small minority group of people who have a hundred plus points no matter how they do on the challenges, so many points that rest of the players will never receive the best prizes. Individual members of the "poor" majority can work very hard and gain a few points (insufficient to buy much at all) or they can sabotage both their game and that of the rich person (the suicide case), temporarily stalling the rich side's advancement and totally ruining their own chances. It's not inconceivable that one would choose the latter option, hence the suicide bomber mentality. Looking from the outside, it seems weird, after all, it's a lose-lose situation but the skew of the game and the fierceness of competition (such as when playing Halo or when fighting war) often makes such decisions viable and even favorable.
Dead JW Mum Uproar
Date: 2007-11-07 02:10 pm (UTC)The following website summarizes over 315 U.S. court cases and lawsuits affecting children of Jehovah's Witness Parents, including 100+ cases where the JW Parents refused to consent to life-saving blood transfusions for their dying children:
DIVORCE, BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS, AND OTHER LEGAL ISSUES AFFECTING CHILDREN OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
http://jwdivorces.bravehost.com
The following website summarizes over 285 lawsuits filed by Jehovah's Witnesses against their Employers, and/or incidents involving problem JW Employees:
EMPLOYMENT ISSUES UNIQUE TO JEHOVAH'S WITNESS EMPLOYEES
http://jwemployees.bravehost.com
Re: Dead JW Mum Uproar
Date: 2007-11-07 10:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-07 07:02 pm (UTC)when i was first learning about email, 18 years ago (has it really been that long?), i was informed that nothing in email should be expected to be private, because of the fact that a plain-text message has to travel through several different servers before being delivered to its recipient, and anywhere along the line, anybody who wished could access it for any reason. that's why things like PGP were introduced shortly after i got involved with internet.
it really doesn't take a lot of technological know-how to log messages coming through your MTA, and any server might have their logs subpoenaed by the government at any time... and even if they're not, there's no reason to believe that some anonymous geek isn't sitting in a dark server room somewhere reading through MTA logs for "fun".
people who expect their emails to be private property are deluding themselves.
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