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Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007
America now joins Russia, the U.K., and China as one of the world’s endemic surveillance societies. Still think Orwellian comparisons are hyperbole?

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Whomever thinks this is a good idea can take their cameras to a different country because I happen to like my privacy. As cool as it is I’m sure Google Earth doesn’t help the cause either.

Well, there goes the neighborhood…

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Bullshit.

USA, England, China and Russia, 4 of the most powerful governments in the world.

Worst of all, how can you people sit by and let this happen? Buy a gun if you don’t already have one, and start planning!

this is what happens when our country’s youth is constantly lured and enticed into self-absorbed entertainment-driven interests and hobbies. imagine for a moment if all the time spent on sitcoms, comedy movies, cartoons, video games, mtv, cable shows, reality shows, music, videos, etc. were instead invested in understanding local politics, laws, taxation, international trade, etc., and how government works in general. sure it’s not “fun!” per se, but then again i’m willing to bet that if this was the case, that we wouldn’t be faced with this mess.

kill your television. remember, remember, the 5th of november. culture jamming. ad busters. read. think. act; pick one.

Privacy International’s rankings of privacy protection around the world.

The 2007 International Privacy Ranking

yeah, not looking good for privacy is it? will have to decide soon whether to move to a country that doesn’t won’t imprison me for refusing state violation of my biometric details

2007 International Privacy Ranking

oppressive

i’m looking forward to the countertrend move against this

Greece at #2? Obviously they never heard about the Greek Watergate

As Seen on TV: The 10 Most Laughably Misleading Ads | Cracked.com
So you’re an inventor, and you’ve just created a product that actually sucks quite a bit more than the ones people are already using. How do you sell it?

DISCLAIMER: All characters, names and places used in CRACKED fiction and semifiction (whether online, in print or any other media) are fictitious and are used herein for the purposes of comment, criticism, parody, pointing out political and/or social injustice or any…
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More like Titty Bear. I mean c’mon look where that thing was in every shot.

#3:

“For our money, the cameo by cocksucker husband, who irritably taps his watch when his wife drops the pasta, is the clear winner. The expected “Where’s my dinner bitch?” comment is never uttered, but it is practically swirling around on screen in capitalized letters like tiny angry-man sugar plums.”

woow! http://www.awesomevideo.mactanque.com

This Montreal animation makes a good mockery of bullshit ads (a little heads up, it’s in French):
http://www.tetesaclaques.tv/video.php?vid=30
For an english translation of the video, go to the very bottom of this site:
http://ahbendisdonc.blogspot.com/2007/11/quebecker …

Now the CIA can use Handyboarding on those darn terrorists. A Handypeel massage, if you will.

Dear God. My mother bought herself the miracle blade III for Christmas…
Our household is doomed.
DOOMED!

Fucking hilarious commentary

Ultimate Leopard Tweaking Guide at Appletell
No matter how good Apple Mac OS X Leopard is, there will always be features that people dislike, and want to change. And while Apple may think they have the perfect recipe for a perfect OS, many power-users will want to tweak OS X to their liking. Appletell has compiled a list of several ways to tweak your Leopard.

AppleInsider says sources indicate that Apple will soon be one of the biggest supporter’s of Intel’s new “Menlow” platform for Mobile internet Devices. Apple specifically has been interested in the…
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I have had Leopard for about a month now, and I’m not really impressed with the new updates.
Stacks is a good idea, the new look of the dock is iffy, and spaces is alright.

Even with the new features, I, personally, do not see a reason to upgrade to 10.5 yet.
I miss apps & settings that I had in Tiger that are now 100% incompatible from now on due to Apple tweaking what seems like the entire system, or at least from a UI perspective.

For the time being, I’ll stick to Tiger.

I’ll either upgrade when I absolutely have to, or when my G4 mini is unsupported, I’ll move to Linux.

This isn’t proper tweaking, it’s just interface theming.

Give me the fucking “tweak” I want — the .2 update!!!!

Does anyone know how to remove the “more” option from the bottom of the right-click context menu in finder? I want everything in the right-click menu to be in the same place, but cannot figure out how to get rid of “more”.

Unified menus on a Mac SUCK! Especially when you get a larger monitor. Running two apps side by side is ridiculous. I wish someone would ties menus to each app - I would go back to a Mac then. For now, forget it! Sticking with windows.

Check out DochChanger, it’s the easiest way to change the color and styple of the dock: http://www.whimsplucky.com/DockChanger.zip

Sometimes Apple doesnt always make it easy to tweak your Mac, so Appletell has compiled a list of several ways to tweak your Leopard.

check this out at some point

ultimate-leopard-tweaking-guide/

Need to tweak the way Leopard looks? Here’s a few hints (when it recovers from the Digg effect!)

No matter how good Apple Mac OS X Leopard is, there will always be features that people dislike, and want to change. And while Apple may think they have the perfect recipe for a perfect OS, many power-users will want to tweak OS X to their liking. They wa

20+ Wallpapers For Linux Lovers
More than 20 wallpapers for linux lovers (and windows haters, might I add). Enjoy.
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a list of old wallpapers make the front page ! even the mirror is slow …!

http://duggmirror.com

Site down.

Thanks a lot digg . . . another one for the count

Penguins FTW

Anyone know who the female is on the 3rd one (the Blue KDE one)?

The great fall of China - Los Angeles Times
Largely ignored by the media, the latest story to come out of Washington changes the world. The story’s unlikely source was the staid World Bank, which published updated statistics on the economic output of 146 countries. China’s economy, said the bank, is smaller than it thought. About 40% smaller.

You are here: LAT Home > Op-Ed: Sunday Current
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This article keeps talking about the Chinese military not being strong enough. So what? Isn’t overfunding the military exactly what caused the USSR to lose against the US? If anything, the Chinese military being weaker (read: cheaper), and putting that money into infrastructure improvements etc. is what is going to put them on top, rather than blowing it on $3 billion a copy bombers.
It’s not like the US would have the balls to invade China, even with the current military power levels.

someone said china is digging its own grave. i don’t know if that’s true, but here in america that means we’re not only digging our own grave but we’ve convinced ourselves we’re searching for hidden treasure. either that or to hide from our mistakes. =

doesn’t change a thing. people in china aren’t suddenly 40% poorer. they are living as well as they were before this “revised” figure came out.

Makes sense to me. They re-evaluated the way they are calculating how powerful China’s economy is, and found that they overestimated it. For people not to be bothered with actually reading the article, compare the average quality of life of an American to that of a Chinese and you pretty much have the same conclusion that the economists came to. China may be growing, but it’s still a far cry from being a great place to live, or any kind of superpower.

The author appear to completely miss that fact that it’s in China’s interest to have lower GDP figures so that it can remain a 3rd world nation in order to 1)get more aids from 1st world nations 2)have a great excuse for continuing its currency manipulation so it could remain competitive 3)have a great excuse NOT to implement the changes which will help out the average citizens mentioned by the author. Here is a quote from Economist.com on this matter:
“CHINA’S rapid economic rise is undeniable. But according to the World Bank China’s GDP (at purchasing-power parity) is 40% less than was previously thought, thanks to new calculation methods for international comparisons that include China for the first time. This will help China’s efforts to portray itself as a poor country so America will give it more leeway over exchange rates and trade.”
http://biz.yahoo.com/economist/071220/10318927.htm …

Hopefully this will bring some manufacturing work back to the states. I’m really tired of getting laid off.

China’s economy is 40% smaller than previously estimated.

Chinese economy overestimated by 40%

China’s economy, said the bank, is smaller than it thought….About 40% smaller.

Unfortunately, comparing hundreds and even thousands of prices in almost 150 economies all over the world is a difficult thing to do. Concerned that its purchasing-power-parity numbers were out of whack, the World Bank went back to the drawing board and,

China, it turns out, isn’t a $10-trillion economy on the brink of catching up with the United States. It is a $6-trillion economy, less than half our size.

China is 40% poorer than we thought. Africa is 25% poorer. While this means that US dominance is less likely to be challenged in the near future, we face a world of greater challenges.

That chart doesn’t show the “Yuan owning the Dollar”. It shows the Chinese government reducing artificial restrictions on their foreign exchange rates. This is not the free market lowering the value of the dollar.

how convenient

“Made in China” equals crappy quality and low wages. That’s about the worth of that country, not to mention communism. Oh you forgot about that part huh?

It’s the white man’s burden. We export civilization to the darkies, and they export cheaply manufactured and shoddy trinkets.

Not as much as you think. By 2050, they’re facing the largest-ever demographic decline of the working class in a country in peacetime.

Arthur Herman’s “To Rule the Waves; How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World” is to my mind a far more convincing analysis of why it’s an English-speaking world. Herman doesn’t look for any lofty intellectual or moral superstructure that somehow created an inevitable Anglo ascendancy, and instead points to simple meat and potato facts like Napoleon and the need for Britain, an island nation, to develop overwhelming naval power in the face of the threat that he represented. Britain didn’t have a choice, he argues, but to become the world’s greatest naval power. This it did, and if the world is now largely English-speaking, it’s less to do with any sort of supposed American hegemony, and has more to do with the American inheritance of the Royal Navy’s influence.

OMGLists.com - When we list, the world listens- The Ultimate Pop Culture List Site!
Most of you have been there (and those of you too young to drink will soon find out for yourselves): you’ve had too much to drink and suddenly, drunk-logic takes hold of your mind. This is when you see start to see things in a different light and things that normally wouldn’t make sense when you’re sober suddenly seem like a totally good idea…

If you are already have a login with GamePro.com, Gamerhelp.com, Games.net or GameProFamily.com, then use that login!
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I have no idea what that was about but I got me some Calvin Klein underwear at 25% off with FREE SHIPPING! AMAZING! Wait…there was a blog on there? Top Seven list?
Underwear….

Sadly “Driving Really Fast” should be on there.

Dugg for Puck = Moon Over My Hammy

Ze beer goggles…zey…zey work !
* hic *

This just in: Digg is now those “cute” emails that your relatives send you that they find so hilarious!!!! (Send money to Nigeria.)

PBR = dugg.

OMGLists.com - When we list, the world listens

8 - Getting pegged by that hot girl from accounting.

what! PBR sucks. I don’t know if you’re in the hipster crew…. but PBR is not a good beer. People may enjoy it as a beverage, but as far as beer goes, it sucks.

i will agree with you completely.

Fuck them for saying PBR is “crappy.”

Give it here

Don’t get me wrong, I have tried every import and microbrew I can get my hands on–But no sense in being a snob. Beer is still beer! And if you were to need a beer to sum up the American Lager style, it would be PBR. Classic yellow color and taste. Sure tastes better than any Bud or anything like that.

Ho-ho-horrible: album sales plunge 20 percent this Christmas
Music sales tanked this Christmas, dropping 20 percent lower than last year’s level. Labels are looking to boost their digital sales numbers to compensate for the CD’s decline, even if that means dropping DRM.

Nokia’s media maven has invited Apple to sell its iTunes Store content on Nokia’s Ovi web portal. We’ll be sitting by the window watching the pigs fly when that happens.
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99.9% of Recorded Music has no monetary value. There’s a surplus supply of music online and will be into the future. The crime of “Digital Piracy” has no real underlying moral connection, despite what the RIAA says, it is not the same as stealing. Nobody feels bad after listening to a song they downloaded. The RIAA wants us to think of starving artists playing on street corners for change, not guys like “Bow Wow” driving around in Bentleys.

Its funny because there were several cd’s that i wanted to get as gifts. I traveled to every cd store in my town and no one had them. I ended up having to get downloaded them from amazon. Maybe the cd sales would be up if the stores carried all but the top 10 current chart toppers.

All I listen to on my Sirius radio are the liberal talk stations, 80’s music and 90’s Alternative.
I don’t listen to any of the new music stations and I really don’t feel like I’m missing anything.

Half the people in this thread say that all mainstream music sucks. The other half say the artists deserve more of a cut. It seems that the music sucking is causing the lack of sales. Except it isn’t. It’s the convenience of piracy. I just pointed to the elephant in the living room. So what the fuck are you going to do about that?

The last CD I bought was “Pet Sounds” (1965) by the Beach Boys. I have not heard a good album since 1991 (”Nevermind” by Nirvana). As many of you said, no albums are worth buying today.

If the band is good, ill buy the cd, cant beet having the physical item, but what gets on my tits are these X factor type singers etc, the market is flooded with them and like with any other market that gets flooded, the quality goes down as everyone wants a piece and tries to find way of making money quik while cutting corners. - you just have to look at the manufacturing market, with everything now going to china and co.

And I am not the only one apparently

Dec 07 and music sales are down because *album* sales are down

more bad news for traditional media.

It’s only going to get worse, especially if the record companies get away with saying that if you rip your own legally bought CDs, you’re still stealing.

Die motherfucker! Die!

It wuz cos ov teh piratz

I was telling my kid about albumns and how big they were and how you got so much room for an artistic cover. On her own, she then said that cds were smaller and it was too bad.

How about: ‘National burn a downloaded album for a friend day?’

Why would I pay $12 for the whole CD when all I want is the chicken noodle soup song?

Josh Ritter? really?

Keira Knightley Finds Being Nude ‘Liberating’
So that explains why she’s nude in everything she does!!
Last year she went nude for Vanity Fairs Hollywood Issue, she is topless on the cover of Januarys Interview magazine and she posed for a recent Chanel ad with only a strategically placed hat, just to name a few. Pics of all three.

Keira Knightley loves?being nude, so what, right?? There’s nothing to her, so there’s really nothing for her to be ashamed of.? If you’re comfortable enough in your own skin, then go for it, I guess!? She looks HOT in that top pic, she is workinR…
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Underbite and ribs… no thanks

HURRY FREAK OUT LIKE IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE

msg me when she does full frontal.

She has no tits. Looks like a little boy

Yeah, “being nude is liberating”. That’s why she’s securing her goodies more so than Fort Knox. Either get naked and show it, or don’t get naked at all. You don’t get credit for being naked “under your clothes”.

I’ve seen hot girls all night and this is just being out and about in Bangkok and seeing regular, beautiful, local talent (not in “those” bars). Then I see a picture of Keira Knightley looking like an 80’s model holding a handbag. Sorry, unimpressive. I’m not some prisoner who just got out of jail. I demand higher quality!

Archaeologists discover remains of 2500-year-old advanced civilization in Russia - Yahoo! India News
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 2500-year-old advanced civilization at the bottom of Lake Issyk Kul in the Kyrgyz mountains in Russia…The expedition resulted in sensational finds, including the discovery of major settlements, presently buried underwater. …ex 2,500 year-old ritual bronze cauldron …and MORE
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“Archaeologists found traces of many religions here-Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.”

They found 2,500 year old Christian traces… ?

can anyone find some cool pictures about this?

“Other findings included…self-sharpening daggers”

Now THAT’S fucking advanced!

Here’s an interesting article on Wikipedia about the origin of the lake covering this civilization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issyk_Kul#The_Legend_ …

quick question…
Why did they build the city underwater ? Did they run out of land ?

No lasers? Jeeps? Sex Toys? THEY’RE NOT ADVAAANCED!!! They didn’t even have cannabalized human remains like we do today! PFFFTTTT!!!

It’d be nice if Russia still had an advanced civilization.

Adobe, Omniture in hot water for snooping on CS3 users
A suspiciously-crafted URL disguised as a local IP address has caused an outcry over how Adobe’s usage statistics are being gathered.

Nokia’s media maven has invited Apple to sell its iTunes Store content on Nokia’s Ovi web portal. We’ll be sitting by the window watching the pigs fly when that happens.
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The O in 2O7. Very creative indeed!!!!

http://blogbard.com/blodio/blogmainpage?type=blogb …

thank god for pirates.

you are all crying because adobe wants some usage statistics?
fuck off.
fuck digg

DIGG IS NOT LIVEJOURNAL, IT IS NOT A PLACE TO WHINE.
well it is now i guess.

read your terms of use

es genial y esto mas!!
http://www.spymac.com/details/?2325319

When you installed the software you agreed to a bunch of things written in a language no human can understand. I am pretty sure they have the right to ring at your door and reclaim your liver, not to mention spy on you shamelessly.

ok. seriously. if you think you can come close to accomplishing things in GIMP that you can in photoshop..you ARE a gimp.
be outraged if you wish, but dont let it turn you into a babbling idiot.

Adobe application is spying on users. And it’s hiding it by going to an address “192.168.112.2O7.net” (that last zero is really an oh). That is NOT kosher! Bad Adobe!

blogMT

Ars Technica

How CS3 lets Adobe snoop on you.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos t/20071231-adobe-omniture-in-hot-wa ter-for-snooping-on-cs3-users.html

There’s a lesson to be learned from this latest marketing and privacy snafu, and Adobe and Omniture had better be taking notes. Omniture is clearly at fault?and still owes consumers an explanation?for trying to sneak this URL into clients’ products, a

The domain is definitely lame (though not Adobe’s doing), but it’s really much ado about nothing. The stats track online content delivered inside their products. It’s safe to assume anytime you fetch content from a company that it is recorded. They weren’t monitoring usage where content (like news) wasn’t fetched.

Opting out only works if the Adobe program you’re running with load without calling home first.

To opt out manually, use a software firewall that controls programs’ access to the internet (ZoneAlarm will do it for free).

503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
There are 250,000 centenarians (people 100 years and older) currently living in the world. In rare instances, people live to 110 years and beyond, inspiring a new demographic label: supercentenarian. The goal of this artist’s project is to photograph people who have lived in three centuries.

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That photographer has an admirable goal. It’s kind of like the movement to have WWII vets tell of their war stories before they die. (1,000 WWII vets die each day).

It’s fun to keep refreshing and see which ones actually load.

“Asked why he has lived to 110, the guy (#61) said, “I don’t fool around with women, beer, wine or whiskey.” So what’s the point of living that long?”

Exactly, hedonism FTW!

http://www.markstoryphotography.com.nyud.net/tns.p …

Now, only if the server would be more durable

I’d hit it…

Striking black & white portraits by Mark Story of old men and women.

Black Box Voting - Welcome to www.BlackBoxVoting.org, Citizen center for elections oversight
Political operatives have urged citizens NOT to ask too many questions and NOT to take photos or video of precinct caucus results, warning them that only “conspiracy theorists” would want to independently confirm the announced results.
Not taking photos or video could be a fatal mistake. If you are in Iowa make sure EVERYTHING gets recorded!!!
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Of course they don’t want people filming the caucuses. These things aren’t like the general election. People are NOT voting in booths in privacy. I think there is a gross misunderstanding on how caucuses operate. Here’s an excerpt explaining the democrat ones:

“Participants indicate their support for a particular candidate by standing in a designated area of the caucus site (forming a “preference group”). An area may also be designated for undecided participants. ”

Would you really want someone filming who you are supporting at all times? If these videos landed on the internet, anyone in the community (be it a boss, family member, friend) could see how you voted. Ever heard of voter intimidation?

This isn’t a conspiracy. It’s about privacy. Buried.

What could possibly be wrong with a small group of people having a huge influence over the future of who the rest of the country gets to vote for.

I’m sorry but if you think for a second that these caucuses are perfect, you’re dead wrong. EVERYTHING should be transparent. With the importance that is placed on something like this, it should be in everyone’s interest to expose any corruption and video tape the hell out of these things.

It’s going to be interesting to see what happens when you Ronbots show up at the polls with video cameras. In my state you would be greeted by a police officer who would tell you to either put the camera back in the car or you won’t be allowed to enter the polling place. Here’s hoping that lots of Ronbots show up with their cameras and their pissy attitudes. They can spend election day trying to arrange bail.

If you live in Iowa… Bring a camcorder and plenty of tape. Primaries are particularly vulnerable to tampering. If they have nothing to hide, why resist the cameras?

It is time to get rid of Iowa/NH’s first in the nation caucus/primary. (sorry for going off topic)

best voting site around!!

Best Freeware Games of '07 - 30 Categories! - (UPDATE 12/26)
A great list of the best free games to come out during 2007.
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Best Freeware Games of ‘07

game

07??????????????????

portal flash version

Best Freeware Games of ‘07 - 30 Categories! - (UPDATE 12/26)

Los mejores juegos freeware del 2007.

Anyone know where to get Sunset over Imdahl? They link to a site with a broken download.

Last Scenario is “down” too, behind a SomethingAwful thread you have to pay to access.

I didn’t realize until now that the Zero Punctuation guy was the guy behind 5 Days a Stranger / 7 Days a Skeptic.

I can’t see the appeal of Knytt/Knytt Stories…

From http://www.telltalegames.com/samandmax/lincolnmustdie

This is a damn good list, and I couldn’t agree more about nifflas. I could kiss that man.

:: TheSouthern.com - New and Improved ::
. The problem is that HDMI cables have become a popular way to scam customers. If you know about this scam, you will be able to save yourself a lot of money.

Andrew wrote on Dec 31, 2007 9:57 AM:” First of all, I agree overall with your post. I don’t recommend that people buy an expensive HDMI cable, as the less expensive models will likely work just fine. However, as an electronics expert and one that has studied th…
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DMI it is all in one slim cable. It couldn’t be easier to connect things like cable boxes to a new HDTV.

Why spend $100 to send a low-power digital signal?

HDMI cable scam

This reminds me of the ancient days of single-sided vs. double-sided floppy disks. Both styles were sold, the latter being, naturally, twice as expensive as the former. But here’s the thing most experienced computer people knew: both disks were manufactured by the same process. A single-sided disk could be turned into a double-sided disk by simply using a hole punch to adding a second write-enable notch.

This also applies to rated CPU clock speeds. All speeds of a particular CPU may come from the same silicon disk, they are individually stress-tested and rated for speed based on their performance. Hence, overclocking.

You are right, my mistake. I was thinking about random low frequency bit loss, not sustained data loss. But keep in mind, low amplitude noise is the main reason why you (sometimes) want fancy cables in analog setups.

Well it depends, whether you want to spend your time on figuring out which of the 10 or so of cables behind your TV set is broken

Digital cables aren’t really “on or off” when it comes to problems - this is due to the way digital error correction works. If one bit is corrupted due to noise, nothing will be corrupted in the final video signal because redundancy can correct it; if two bits are corrupted close to each other, you can have a corrupted packet of data that can cause all sorts of problems.

You want a good comparison? Take a Guilty Gear game on any modern console and play it with analog and digital output. The sprite-based graphics become absurdly crisp, and the lack of a delay in going front digital to analog and back again can help you not get your ass kicked.

Totally Teapot, I Swear!
This image is designed according to the Holographic Principle, a theory yet unproven which states that there is a maximum amount of information content held by regions adjacent to any surface. Beware, other people looking at the above image may not claim to see 3 x 1065 bits — they might claim to see a teapot.
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It looks like a card folded, with a teapot shape in the top half..

my eyes are bleeding

I like the animated shark one better

i see dead people … and a tea pot.
p.s. re: color blindness, i opened the file in photoshop in rgb mode. i examined the file thrice, disabling a color channel each time: protanopia (no red), deuteranopia (no green), and tritanopia (no blue). i was able to see the tea pot every time. yay me.

Careful — staring at this pic for around 2 minutes caused me to black out. I awoke a week later lying naked in a deckchair on a ferry crossing the Straits of Malacca. I smelled of bleu cheese and stale wine.

All I see is a shitload of fruity pebbles.

this is quite a strange 3D image - the area around the teapot appears to be extruded forward - I wonder how they acheived that effect..

There Is A Scent Of Revolution In The Air : unAmerican Revolution
Keith Olbermann Buries Rudy Giuliani With Truth

Mr. Giuliani stated that “The Democrats do not understand the full nature and scope of the terrorist war against us”. Do the Republicans understand it more because they had a hand in the planning and execution of the events that brought it about? ItR…
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“This is terrorism itself dressed as counter-terrorism. It is not warning, but bullying.”
-We need T-shirts and bumper stickers with that on it.

I’m usually very much an Olbermann fan… there’s no question he’s exceptionally articulate and he is usually saying exactly what I think… but I think this time he was a bit over the top. To be clear, he *still* made some good points, but I think he went a bit too far this time around. Guiliani pretty much has no business near the white house as far as I’m concerned, but Keith did a bit of spin-doctoring with Rudy’s words here, or at least exaggerated what Rudy was trying to say. In any case, I’m starting to get the feeling Keith likes seeing himself on Youtube and the like and purposely tries to make his points exciting enough to get him there. That doesn’t invalidate what he’s saying, and I *do* think he believes what he’s saying, but I also think there’s a bit of a theatric element starting to show up more and more with him, and he’s got to be careful with that lest he begin to wear thin and not get the attention his words deserve.

Keith Olbermann is a fucking tool.

Olbermann has never claimed to be impartial. He does and has slammed DEMS. I may not always agree but he is RIGHT on this one and remember he is and has been for a while a New York guy. Most of them hated Giuliani on 9/10/01.

hatred is an understatement here

Olbermann wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him on the ass.

pwned

Calling It: The Xbox 360 Won 2007
The Xbox 360 won 2007. The console might not have sold the most units or captured the attention of the mass media, but as a platform, it’s provided the most complete experience of the year while executing titles with the most successful track record.

Great Year for the 360 and I couldnt agree more about it having the best year.Although the list of games mentioned are far from my favorites for the year on the 360. Titles like Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata(US releases), Lost Odyssey, Shikigami no Shiro 3, etc….) ha…
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Honestly… I agree. I dont own a 360, but several of my friends do, and all they do now is play CoD, Madden, TF2, etc…

I personally prefer the PC for my gaming though… it easily has the best multiplayer experience, the best graphics, and the least bullshit. Besides, I only play FPS games anyway now days, so I need a mouse and a keyboard.

PS3 haters are in denile. clearly the ps3 was a huge disappointment and unless they buy into some game developers thats not going to change anytime soon. For me having all three next gen systems xbox360 is the one to play games on. PS3 is a great hd player and the wii is great for the kids. Nuff said.

WiiS3 for me, but I will probably get a 360 this yr as well. No need for all the hate, they each have their pros and cons

Looks like a Microsoft sponsored writeup!!!

http://blogbard.com/blodio/blogmainpage?type=blogb …

Too bad xbox live no longer works. I actually have time off from work and classes to play, and it doesn’t work. I’m going back to PC gaming, so next Christmas I can actually relax and enjoy what I have purcahsed with my hard-earned cash.

So his argument is that it didn’t sell the most, you can play games available elsewhere, and you can play online with foulmouthed 12 year olds and backwoods yokles who just discovered the internet [read: XBL] And the 360…WON? 0_o

All joking aside, the 360 had some great times this year, then again 2007 was a killer year for videogames to begin with. I’ve actually been pretty impressed with what Microsoft has done with the XBox line. I’ll definitely be picking one up soon to rock Alan Wake [because Lord knows I won’t go near Vista], Fable 2, and BG&E 2 (when it eventually comes out).

Looking at America - New York Times
In the years since 9/11, we have seen American soldiers abuse, sexually humiliate, torment and murder prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq. A few have been punished, but their leaders have never been called to account. We have seen mercenaries gun down Iraqi civilians w…
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Great editorial, but totally wrong conclusion:

NYT is a like an abused woman: oh he hits me bad but he still loves me deep down.

Once you got to the container part I lost you. What’s the container?

I dunno. That sounds to me pretty much EXACTLY like my country.

In my opinion the current leadership has seen too many Clint Eastwood movies thinking that we can retaliate an eye for an eye, not realizing that we had set an example for the west for so long. Not only do we see this type of leadership in the US government but also in US business. When the whole toy recall was happening in china, china went ahead and set an example by executing their own leader that had accepted brides by the bigger toy corporations. Were where the US corporate bone heads that actually gave the brides? These guys weren’t even mentioned in US papers!

Newspapers are on their last legs. The end is near.

Error
The UN, supposedly the great defender of human rights, has passed a resolution making it illegal for anyone, anywhere, to criticize Islam, let alone Islamic human rights abuses!
We need to get out of the UN NOW!!!

Error
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*counts number of people that actually read article*
On the first page… oh, about 10. There’s a reason people read actual media sources: they filter out the BS like this.

fuck the RIAA!

Buried/Inaccurate for the hysterical fearmongering in the title and description.

9. Urges States to take resolute action to prohibit the dissemination through political institutions and organizations of racist and xenophobic ideas and material aimed at any religion or its followers that constitute incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence;
10. Also urges States to provide, within their respective legal and constitutional systems, adequate protection against acts of hatred, discrimination, intimidation and coercion resulting from defamation of religions, to take all possible measures to promote tolerance and respect for all religions and their value systems, and to complement legal systems with intellectual and moral strategies to combat religious hatred and intolerance;
11. Urges all States to ensure that all public officials, including members of law enforcement bodies, the military, civil servants and educators, in the course of their official duties, respect different religions and beliefs and do not discriminate on the grounds of religion or belief, and that necessary and appropriate education or training is provided;
12. Underscores the need to combat defamation of religions by strategizing and harmonizing actions at local, national, regional and international levels through education and awareness-raising;
13. Urges States to ensure equal access to education for all, in law and in practice, including access to free primary education for all children, both girls and boys, and access for adults to lifelong learning and education based on respect for human rights, diversity and tolerance without discrimination of any kind, and to refrain from any legal or other measures leading to impose racial segregation in access to schooling;
14. Calls upon the international community to initiate a global dialogue to promote a culture of tolerance and peace based on respect for human rights and religious diversity and urges States, non-governmental organizations, religious bodies and the print and electronic media to support and promote such a dialogue;

Yes, let’s continue insulting Islam in the name of this fictitious article

Again the Christian Right Wing is once again in Panic Mode. This was a Resolution Banning the Defamation of all Religions, not just Islam. I hate organized religion.

For fucks sake. Some of you are complete morons.
ZOMG FUX0R THE UN! ..
read the damned article, how about the nice text on the top that says, “Damian Thompson [the author] is editor-in-chief of the Catholic Herald. The Church Times once described him as a “blood-crazed ferret”.

Now, what “resolution” was this exactly? I don’t know. He’s quick to mention that it was passed quietly but he won’t provide ANY proof of it’s contents or identification.
So now you mindless drones bitching about liberals and democrats when neither have ANY relation to this issue can get off your fucking thrones.

All religion (including Islam) is for suckers.

Year in Review: The 70 Best Lifehacks of 2007 - Lifehack.org
Lots of tips and tricks on many important matters like writing, health, blog etc.
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List of best lifehacks from 2007

@ Lifehack.org - year end Top 10 round-up!

2007 was a great year for personal productivity at lifehack.org! Weve added more than a dozen new writers, who have brought new perspectives, new topics, and most importantly new hacks and tips to our virtual pages.

Excellent list of life hacks: must get round to some of these once I overcome my chronic procrastination!

Year in Review: The 70 Best Lifehacks of 2007 - Lifehack.org

When Other Blondes Think You're Stupid...
…it’s time to give up cheerleading.
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HAHA. the guy to the right must be her accomplice, no?

lol, the others are like, WTF?

traitor!

I love the look on the other girls’ faces. They’re like WTF are you cheering about? Classic (actually it already IS a classic)

OMG, I can’t believe she did that!!!

I think we’ve found the spy in USC.

Please explain. I’m assuming that this is the kind of thing that’s obvious to Americans.

Yeah, I think the key to instantly recognizing the joke isn’t understanding of football, but rather the knowledge that USC Trojans wear red and gold.

Dont downvote this guy. Not everyone watches college football (or even sports at all), and the picture is quite vague unless you look very closely.

Makes no difference, as everyone knows what he means.

I was taught that men are ‘blond’ and women ‘blonde’, but I can’t find much to back this up on the web:

Well it is the University of Spoiled Children . . . .

How YouTube scales MySQL for its large databases
In mid 2006, YouTube served approximately 100 million videos in a single day. To maintain a website of that scale, one would imagine YouTube has hundreds of DBAs. But in fact, there are just three people that make it all work.

Like most research labs, we rely on MySQL whenever we need a database. And like most (I’m guessing, here), it’s common to overhear something like the following in our lab — “We really need to replace MySQL with Oracle or DB2 in X so it can han…
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In mid 2006, YouTube served approximately 100 million videos in a single day. To maintain a website of that scale, one would imagine YouTube has hundreds of DBAs. But in fact, there are just three people that make it all work.

“According to him, the three important reasons for YouTubes scalability are Python, Memcache and MySQL replication, the last having the most impact.”

scale

How YouTube scales MySQL for its large databases By Tim Finin on Friday, December 28th, 2007 at 10:04 am. Like most research labs, we rely on MySQL whenever we need a database. And like most (Im guessing, here), its common to overhear something like

Blogspam.

As much as a I LOVE PostgreSQL over MySQL, the criticism I received was, “If the database crashes, who are we going to call? MySQL is a company. PostgreSQL isn’t.”

Try postgres + slony, you’ll save a lot of hair. But keep in mind that normal replication doesn’t scale as well as what they call ‘log shipping’ in the slony world.

If you read the documentation for slony it says it’s not suitable for use over WANs and it’s not multi master.

Slony does look excellent - we’re not looking to scale massively so it should handle things very comfortably. To be honest we could easily reduce the load by around 80% on our current server simply by adding a proper cache to a few legacy (before my time) applications. However at this point it all becomes political (which also reduces my hopes of us using Postgres).

Where are the slides?!

The rudest SC or PERSON I have ever met... - Customers Suck!
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movie theatres often bring out the worst in people.

I’m sure they weren’t banned, which puts it into the fake category. Also, “argh I’m a lawyer I’ll sue you over this?” hahah. Right. This cripple has seen too many movies.

I can do that. I have to be the story teller in a conversation when the other witnesses remember incorrectly. I remember every word excatly how it was said. But I can’t remember what they looked like.

If there were other seat pairs “a few rows up” for the “cripple” and grandfather to move to, there must have been pairs of people sitting beside those seats that lawyer-lady could have asked to move instead, no? Or am I reading something wrong?

Remember though that this is movie theatre time. 23 minutes after the movie starts means 23 minutes after the first commercial begins. 23 minutes after the movie begins (in movie theatre time) could mean just as the feature attraction is starting.

nyud.net is a general-purpose ‘instant mirror’ (aka coral cache). You just tack on ‘.nyud.net’ to the end of the domain part of the address before submitting to slashdot, reddit, etc., if you’re afraid the server can’t handle the traffic. You add a port if the server runs on a different port only, and in this case I have no idea why they did that, though it appears to work - http://www.customerssuck.com.nyud.net/board/showthread.php?t=660 works just fine, too. My only guess is that maybe logged-in users get the 8080, and the submitter was logged in when they copied the URL.

BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Scores dead in Kenya poll clashes
“At least 43 people have been killed in the western Kenyan town of Kisumu after violence blamed on the disputed presidential election. Witnesses say the police fired live bullets after protesters threw stones, claiming fraud in last week’s poll.”

bbc.co.uk Navigation
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Well come see police state, only in Kenya. Come to Kenya, we got police state! Forget Norway!

Omg http://www.awesomevideo.mactanque.com

120 dead black people in Africa. Not to sound insensitive, but thats a fantastic day in relative terms.

I think the title is misleading - I don’t know if they have good enough computers there to play Crysis properly

Kenyan people should just use what their known for and run to freedom in the USA

i know its mean, but i thought the game Crysis was being brough to Kenya the second i read the title. See what America has done to our heads. the government probably paid the makers of the game to name it that so we would be distracted when we heard the world Crises. ok i think im going insane. bye. viva greenland!

LiveLeak.com - Giant UFO
Looks good quality but too cgi looking to be real and must have taken along time to do.

! WARNING !
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Wtf are you people talking about, that’s swamp gas screwing with the camera, trust me.

There are too many of these vids coming out lately. Seems like a viral campaign. It would be cool if it was real.

the honking sound is from Titanic

Were those little houses just the houses from a game of Monopoly?

Jaime mausan did this!!! Nothing to say more….

This one looks real to me but it could just be a big kite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KervfF5aDhk

jazarah.net
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HUMILIATION!

Another take on it.

A classically interesting passage from late in Jesus’ life. It speaks wholeheartedly of the difficulty in accepting the message of Christ, as the context of the preceding verses are of Israel’s rejection of the word.

Cry me a little tear. If we need information, we’re not going to get it by saying please.

when you speak of “we” - who exactly is “we”? is “we” the national club of armchair generals?

What’s political about this?

Naughty News Blooper
Got to love this news anchors answer to this guys question.
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He was pretty quick to jump to his little innuendo when it wasn’t THAT bad of a slip-up. You can tell he’s the type that wanks about his co-anchor at night.

how old are we

Need to be very careful what you say!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

Kind of creepy the way the anchor baits her and then pounces on it uproariously: “OMG! U LIKES SPANKINGS!?! HA HA HA HA!”

Reminds me of the kind of tricks we played on eachother in junior high.

What’s bizarre… she acts like she said she got fucked in the ass on live TV.

“OMG I’M SORRY. I’M SO EMBARRASSED”

She really didn’t say anything remotely shocking or “naughty”. Fucking prudes.

Not really that funny…

EPIC Nintendo Memorabilia Collection [PICS]
The most epic collection of Nintendo memorabilia you will ever see.
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Ow, my ePenis…

If I were this guy looking back on my life and only seeing a wall full of brightly-colored branded crap I think i’d kill myself. Maybe im a little pessimistic, but this guy obviously put alot of time and money into this collection of stupid useless shit. What’s he have to show for it? posting pictures on internet forums where, for some reason I’m not aware of, geeks approve of it and anyone who’s ever been laid laugh at him.

i just keep looking at the pictures. i cannot see what you could gain from all of that junk.

Does it belong to the “NINTENDO SIXTY FOOOOOUUUURRRR” kid ?

i get this feeling that this guy tryed shrooms and then played mario bros. for the 1st time.

Lead paint mayhem. Supposing that most of these toys are from China.

QDB: Quote #833499
nerds new years
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nerds new years

Computer programmer humor

“maybe try coding something in c”

Redditors have shitty girlfriends?

I have no problem with a woman going out and doing whatever the hell she wants.

or Common Lisp

or ANSI Common Lisp

Probably a college girlfriend in a distant town. At least, I hope.

Speak for yourself.

YouTube - Ron Paul Fox Covers Fox Censorship New Hampshire Forum Jan 6
Story by Fox affiliate station KPTM in Omaha, NE.
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You’d think the election was next week with all the Ron Paul spam here on Digg. Tone it down a notch people you have another 10 goddamn months to go! If I see a comment blindly supporting Ron Paul before September I’m kicking a puppy. If I see a Ron Paul Digg page before then I’m clubbing a baby seal. I’m just as fed up with our leadership as anyone, but nothing they can do is even remotely as bad as having Ron Paul shoved down my throat by overzealous Diggers.

Wow, e-mailing the wrong guys actually did some good.

Who in the hell put Fox News in control?
We can put Fox News out of business if we want to…why don`t we?
Lets start seeing signs everywhere Fox goes.Signs that tell the truth about “Fox News” and their communist ways.
Let`s get in their faces everywhere Fox goes.Let`s mention names.Lets show pictures of the Fox staff that are willing to give up their own children,just to keep their jobs.
Let show them telling Lie after Lie to the America people.
Lets get the nooses ready,just in case.These people are Anti America and should be dealt with.A.S.A.P.
Let`s put them our of business…Today!! The have no real power.Noting we can`t take from them and shove it up their asses…on TV

i can’t wait for fox’s decision to ban dr paul from the debates to blow up in their faces.
hopefully dr paul supporters can make enough noise to either get him a spot at the debate or to get the general public watching the debates to find out what all the ruckus is about and look into paul on their own.

So the story here is that Ron Paul supporters don’t understand the difference between Fox News and a Fox affiliate that is not owned by Fox News?

Gothamist: Roughed-Up Reveler Sues Club Over 3 Bottle Shakedown
An NYU graduate was beaten up by a NYC nightclub’s bouncers after he refused to pay an extra $700 (he already spent $350 on ONE bottle) because of the three-bottle minimum.

Anyone who’s been around NYC for while knows how shady the nightclub industry actually is. The whole things is funded by the mob and drug money. That’s why clubs close and re-open as something else every two years. I’m not certain why anyone would drop thousands of d…
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Most bouncers and club owners have an inflated sense of self worth. Doing something like this is hardly surprising. Plus, the whole concept of bottle service is stupid.

pre-game is your friend. $350 a bottle sounds average in NYC night clubs and no you don’t get a little extra in the back room. I never knew they have 3 bottle minimum though…

Hell, if I was at a nightclub and they tried to force me to pay for extra bottles I’d go ahead and do it. Then as soon as I was outside the club I’d call up my credit card company and request a chargeback of the full amount for fraud.

Sometimes people just suck.

Hope the guy gets something out of it. Beating him up over that is bullshit…

Any reasonable person from New York knows that you don’t go to anything in Times Square, it’s considerably more expensive than anywhere else in an already outrageously expensive city.

This is why clubs are massively overrated. I’d sooner go to a church for fun.

Inside Apple Stores, a Certain Aura Enchants the Faithful
It was 2 oclock in the morning but in the subterranean retailing mecca in Midtown Manhattan, otherwise known as the Apple store, it might as well have been midafternoon.
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apple was cool now its just another over advertised mediocre brand like nike and bose.

Apple is just awesome. Other companies only focus on making money, while Apple focuses on making great products and satisfying customers and yet they outperform competitors.

What kind of aura? Retribution? Trueshot? Devotion?

What the hell is wrong with you dorks? There is nothing special about Apple. It is a corporation. It uses stupid marketing gimmicks to sucker in retards.

Oh, and my ipod shuffle is skipping after a whole one year of uses where I might have used it for an hour at a time four times a week.

They’re half the size of Microsoft and growing at a ridiculous rate… within the last year, I’ve completely become a Mac Fanboy and I have no problems admitting it…

I am an apple fanboy!
http://www.spymac.com/details/?2325319

::sigh::

The Associated Press: Bush Gives Pocket Veto to Defense Bill
“Bush announced he would scuttle the bill with a ‘pocket veto’ . . . But that can happen only when Congress is not in session . . . And the Senate maintains it is in session because it has held brief . . . meetings every two or three days with only one senator present. The White House’s view is that Congress has adjourned.”

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Every little news article about President Bush gives the whacko faction another opportunity to call him names and wish for his demise. Most of these posters probably have never read the Constitution but insist on calling the President a law breaker at every opportunity.

so he wants to not veto it, but let it some how be ghost veto’d by setting fourth his objections and blah blah blah… he’s trying to double speak the frickin’ clerk!

what a dipshit.

if you voted for this guy, and now realize it was a mistake (how could you not realize this)
please put a firecracker in your own ass tonight at midnight.
you deserve it.

What a pussy, if “Mr Decision Maker” want to veto the Defense Bill just come out and say it.

The Constitution is outdated.It was written by slave-owning Christian terrorists! They were obviously terrible people because of this, and we can’t take anything they said as good because they are evil.

If the dems have any guts they’ll let the veto stand. Let him be the one who cut off federral funding. And then not pass another dollar for Iraq until a pullout is announced. Declare victory if he must, but get out of that civil war.
But I don’t expect that will happen, based on the way they’ve chickened out every time so far.

The point of teh law was to keeep both the executive and legislative branch in the loop with laws.
It was to prevent teh legislator from just hiding from the president when he wanted to veto(and remember everything traveled by horse back then, even communications)
and to prevent the president sitting on a popular bill decalring he is still studiing it.
It was not meant to give the president a back door way arround congress.
and it has already been settled by the supreme court in 2 big cases but mainly
wright vs us http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?f …
where they state that congress IS in session as long as they leave a recordible way to get vetos from the president.
Basically in modern society the president shouldnt be able to ever pocket veto as congress is never more than 10 days away.

but if you read the last line of this ap article, it appears that bush is actually using a real live veto. sans pen. In order for it to be a non pocket veto all he has to do is present his objections to the clerk of the court and then congress still has a chance to override.

Year in Review: The Ten Best Movie Posters of ‘07! | FilmSchoolRejects.com - Giving Hollywood The Business - Movie News, Reviews and Opinions
As we begin our look back at 2007 at the movies, we start where most people usually start their movie experience ? with the posters. Here we take a look back at the best of 07, one teaser at a time.

Not too many people saw this small release that played well at Sundance, but it certainly has an interesting premise: A girl’s vagina grows some teeth and starts terrorizing her lovers (and for that matter, her va-jay-jay doctor.) The poster doesn’t tell …
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A picture of Seth Rogan makes for a good movie poster?

go watch ‘enchanted’, one of the few disney movies to be good.

Children of Men

http://www.impawards.com/2006/children_of_men.html

Right At Your Door’s poster is friggin awesome. makes me want to go out and see the movie. To me, its the most effective of the bunch.

The Dark Knight poster is already the frontrunner for 2008.

OK, I’m just being nitpicky I know, but I watched planet terror a couple of days ago, I swear its her right leg in the film…

50 Things Men Wish Women Knew
#8: No question need ever be asked through a closed bathroom door if I’m inside. I love you less with each syllable you utter.
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I’m sorry, but I don’t have ONE guy friend who gives a rat’s shit about sports. And yes, I’m straight.

Almost every article I’ve ever seen from “Men’s Health” reads like it was written by some group of high-fiving, chest-thumping, macho meatheads. I’m not some wussy sensitive guy suffering from feminist beat-down or anything remotely like that. However, I do cringe every time they claim to speak for all of us “regular guys”.

“12. Leave the eyebrows alone. Plucked ain’t pretty.”
And bushy, shapeless unibrows are? Yikes.

*yawn* nuff said

I don’t know what men think…
http://www.spymac.com/details?2325216
http://www.spymac.com/details?2323655

What is it with the male centric mentality on Digg? I think Digg readers would benefit much more from 50 things Women wished Men knew instead of this self serving bullshit.

hah! funny. and true.

Britain Drops 'War on Terror' Label
The words “war on terror” will no longer be used by the British government to describe attacks on the public, the country’s chief prosecutor said Dec. 27.
Sir Ken Macdonald said terrorist fanatics were not soldiers fighting a war but simply members of an aimless “death cult.”

“The people who were murdered on July 7 were not the victims of war. The men who killed them were not soldiers,” Macdonald said. “They were fantasists, narcissists, murderers and criminals and need to be responded to in that way.”
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It makes me laugh, you know. All you people that moan and complain about you’re governments. NOT ONE OF YOU HAS THE BALLS TO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!

YOU ARE ALL A F*@%ING JOKE…..

I was coming in here after seeing the title, to say “great! Now if only the US would drop their misleading name for this convenient strategy of expansion.”

Then, I realized that the British Government didn’t have a sudden burst of truth and reason. No, rather it has become even more contradictory and misleading, saying “We resist the language of warfare, and I think the government has moved on this. It no longer uses this sort of language.”

I hate to break it to you (actually, no I don’t), but we ARE involved in warfare, thus the language of war is relevant and necessary in the pursuit of truth. Unless, you want to take it a step further, and call it what it is, an *occupation*.

“The people who were murdered on July 7 were not the victims of war. The men who killed them were not soldiers,” Macdonald said. “They were fantasists, narcissists, murderers and criminals and need to be responded to in that way.”

While I am certainly saddened about the loss of life, just as I was here on September 11th (2001), to say that the people committing these crimes are nothing but members of a death cult, narcissists, and fantasists, is sadly laughable. By ignoring the reasons for the attack on the US that spurred our acts of war aggression in the first place, and then also ignoring the very valid reasons for the retaliation of the Islamic and middle eastern people after our horrible war and subsequent occupation, does a disservice to the people who have died on every side, not to mention a huge disservice to truth and humanity around the world. Do you really think that people are so stupid, so ignorant, that they will immediately accept this as truth? That they will unabashedly look at these words, and agree that there