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Archive for August, 2009

Murder, Child Abduction, Arson, other crimes have Lower Fines than File Sharing

Monday, August 31st, 2009

When will politicians even discuss or debate any antitrust or anti-racketeering violations by this industry? So many violations are obvious, and there’s that “way they do business” (including lobbying for the right to hack and possibly doing it anyway) Stats the MAFIAA doesn’t want you to know about: 1. Child abduction: the fine is only [...]

Desert Storm: Stoned CNN Anchors Having Fun on the Set of “Saudi Arabian Hotel”

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

From YouTube via Pat Buchanan: Charles Jaco was the CNN reporter famous for covering the 1990 Persian Gulf War. The first part of this video shows the stage set he was on, and he was clowning around with fellow CNN staff. The Saudi Arabian “hotel” in the background were fake palm trees and a blue [...]

Key Fed policies cause bank failures in video games

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

From Lew Rockwell: This online video game, consisting of hundreds of thousands of players who control every aspect of the game universe, just suffered an enormous economic calamity due to player-controlled bankers engaging in Fractional Reserve Banking. When players got wind of the fraudulent practice, it prompted a bank run. Minus central banking, Fractional Reserve [...]

To use the appropriate language: Fuck that shit.

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

You would think that content ratings are designed to protect children and business environments. But did you know that environmentalism, "tolerance", the homosexual agenda, and other left-wing totalitarian garbage are factors in these rating systems? Yes, and some get pretty specific about it. SafeSurf, which includes separate categories for homo- and heterosexuals, under the "Intolerance" [...]

Last night’s maintenance / site now complies with standards for the disabled

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

If you tried to access my posts last night but instead came to a messed-up page, or saw excess updates (Facebook and Technorati appear to be fine, hope everyone else is) it was due to me playing with the site’s theme to conform to various standards. In addition to cleaning up the non-compliant XHTML and [...]

View Source

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Wikipedia, famous for its strange bulk deletes, political and religious bias, vocabulary it tells people not to use outside of the site, and twisted concept of democratic decision making, is now apparently blocking all controversial articles from public editing. By “controversial” I mean articles with subject matter that appeals to high schoolers, like “emo” “goth” [...]

After 20 years it better not die!

Monday, August 24th, 2009

All of a sudden I turn my head and left side of my ham radio transceiver’s LCD display has just gone dim! The frequency and mode are still visible, and everything else seems to work fine (though I haven’t tested transmit since my semi-homemade Morse key broke last week). But the radio being from the [...]

HelloFromEarth.net (continued)

Friday, August 21st, 2009

I had stupidly forgotten to copy and paste my HelloFromEarth.net alien broadcast message and so I had to wait until approval to search for it and put it on my blog. Well here it is: I hope this will be a fine addition to your collection of Earth transmissions. If you aren’t collecting, do-we’ve got [...]

Funniest Privacy Policy Ever

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

You acknowledge that your Hello from Earth Message may be read on our website by people from planet Earth, but may also be intercepted in space or be received by the target planet to which it is beamed, Gliese 581d, or other planets in the Gliese 581 star system. If you want to send a [...]

Flash has its own cookies separate from your browser’s, here’s how to remove them

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Apparently Flash stores cookies itself in addition to normal Web browser cookies. Unlike Web browser cookies, Flash cookies require you to go to Adobe’s Web site and manage your settings there. I went there and found cookies for almost every site I’ve ever been to since my I first set up this computer over 6 [...]