Anders Behring Breivik
wow, dude. Self defense is an awesome legal defense.
WTF.
17 April 2012
Anders Behring Breivik
is a hilarious character.
Smart folks playing with violence and the State are most amusing. Ted K. was awesome. And Timmy V., etc.
And the cypherpunks. Did you know you can buy HF as whisk?
George Zimmerman is a hero, Traycoon Martin a thug. Deal.
Don't bring skittles to a gunfight. Taste the rainbow: taste evolution. Don't jump random people, no_limit.
is a hilarious character.
Smart folks playing with violence and the State are most amusing. Ted K. was awesome. And Timmy V., etc.
And the cypherpunks. Did you know you can buy HF as whisk?
George Zimmerman is a hero, Traycoon Martin a thug. Deal.
Don't bring skittles to a gunfight. Taste the rainbow: taste evolution. Don't jump random people, no_limit.
16 April 2012
Get a TI RF4CE chip. cc253x. Very low power. Cheap, ubiquitous. Devkit $200.
Get a micromems microphone. And a few discretes. And a tiny battery. You gotta bug.
Probably sucky antenna since you're size constrained, but deal with it.
Use expensive, small components. While you could build this for $20 as a hacker, your budget as a spook engineer is a few grand per. Live it up. Size matters. You can use as many signal layers on the PCB as you like. You can use exotic PCB materials if it helps. Shit, you can custom integrate an IC and have your fabs make 'em.
Store audio, compress, encrypt, transmit when "read" command received. Only wake up periodically (or time based pseudo-randomly!) to listen for it. Do this on minimal power, for as long as possible.
About 20 mA to listen 30 mA to transmit, for maybe 20 milliseconds each. Can't escape that much.
Actually since you're a TLA you can integrate all this on a 1x1 mm IC, size dominated by battery and whatever you use for antenna. Integrate since you own some nice secret fabs.
Of course the antenna in the white fiberglass truck on the street is very high gain.
To compensate for the mote. Also I suppose you get advanced battery chems, though not RTGs :-)
And you probably need to integrate a lot more audio storage flash on the IC; easily enough done.
With really small batteries you could be getting close to motes. A photocell and a an integrated supercap could last for a long time, but how much energy does it take to record and compress intermittent audio? And burst-encrypt-transmit cycles?
Interesting how, um, low energy *audio monitoring* approeaches physical limits as we get better, much like computation.
Yeah, I'm sure the TLAs could do this years ago. But now, everyone can.
ISM make me so horny.
Get a micromems microphone. And a few discretes. And a tiny battery. You gotta bug.
Probably sucky antenna since you're size constrained, but deal with it.
Use expensive, small components. While you could build this for $20 as a hacker, your budget as a spook engineer is a few grand per. Live it up. Size matters. You can use as many signal layers on the PCB as you like. You can use exotic PCB materials if it helps. Shit, you can custom integrate an IC and have your fabs make 'em.
Store audio, compress, encrypt, transmit when "read" command received. Only wake up periodically (or time based pseudo-randomly!) to listen for it. Do this on minimal power, for as long as possible.
About 20 mA to listen 30 mA to transmit, for maybe 20 milliseconds each. Can't escape that much.
Actually since you're a TLA you can integrate all this on a 1x1 mm IC, size dominated by battery and whatever you use for antenna. Integrate since you own some nice secret fabs.
Of course the antenna in the white fiberglass truck on the street is very high gain.
To compensate for the mote. Also I suppose you get advanced battery chems, though not RTGs :-)
And you probably need to integrate a lot more audio storage flash on the IC; easily enough done.
With really small batteries you could be getting close to motes. A photocell and a an integrated supercap could last for a long time, but how much energy does it take to record and compress intermittent audio? And burst-encrypt-transmit cycles?
Interesting how, um, low energy *audio monitoring* approeaches physical limits as we get better, much like computation.
Yeah, I'm sure the TLAs could do this years ago. But now, everyone can.
ISM make me so horny.
15 April 2012
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27 March 2012
To [Principal]
Hi,
I was pleased to find out that the selling of grades which my kid had reported
was a stunt. Even more pleased that it was to teach about one of the metaphors
I was going to excoriate your staff with.
I was trying to figure it out. Walking the dog before my kid told me of it, I overheard
others of similar age asking each other if it were legal to sell grade. What the heck? I thought.
Later, my kid explained the full horror.
Was it budget desparation? The math didn't work. Cultural deprivation? A trial run? Was my kid making it up?
Even if he misunderstood, what had he misunderstood? And the misunderstood idea itself was a hazard.
I started to think of ways to express my disgust. I recalled the indulgences, how one could
buy one's way out of eg wars, jury, etc. (Not that I think conscription of any form is
constitutional.. nor subscribe to the sins the indulgences forgave..)
So tonight, I find out, when I ask, that it was to teach about indulgences.
I'd only caution against my other suspicion: a nonconsensual ethics test. But, I was delighted to find that
all is well in Irvine.
Hi,
I was pleased to find out that the selling of grades which my kid had reported
was a stunt. Even more pleased that it was to teach about one of the metaphors
I was going to excoriate your staff with.
I was trying to figure it out. Walking the dog before my kid told me of it, I overheard
others of similar age asking each other if it were legal to sell grade. What the heck? I thought.
Later, my kid explained the full horror.
Was it budget desparation? The math didn't work. Cultural deprivation? A trial run? Was my kid making it up?
Even if he misunderstood, what had he misunderstood? And the misunderstood idea itself was a hazard.
I started to think of ways to express my disgust. I recalled the indulgences, how one could
buy one's way out of eg wars, jury, etc. (Not that I think conscription of any form is
constitutional.. nor subscribe to the sins the indulgences forgave..)
So tonight, I find out, when I ask, that it was to teach about indulgences.
I'd only caution against my other suspicion: a nonconsensual ethics test. But, I was delighted to find that
all is well in Irvine.
26 March 2012
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-03-26/news/os-trayvon-martin-trademark-name-20120326_1_mother-files-trademark-office-petitions
The mother of slain teen Trayvon Martin wants to trademark her son's name in the slogans, "I am Trayvon" and "Justice for Trayvon," according to two petitions filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
"I am X" and "Justice for X" are memes, beetch.
And, commercializing is crass.
The mother of slain teen Trayvon Martin wants to trademark her son's name in the slogans, "I am Trayvon" and "Justice for Trayvon," according to two petitions filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
"I am X" and "Justice for X" are memes, beetch.
And, commercializing is crass.
The real question is now: Who is Trayvon Martin and why did he jump George Zimmerman?
Maybe he was paranoid. He was kicked out of school for bringing narcotics in.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/family-pot-linked-trayvon-martin-suspension-16004126#.T3Cl3DEgffg
He was 17, impulsive, trained in violence (football), and obviously not the Golden Boy his parents lied about.
Most cannabis users, are not inclined to violence. Cf. ethanol. But for all psychotropics, its the individual, not the material.
Maybe he was paranoid. He was kicked out of school for bringing narcotics in.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/family-pot-linked-trayvon-martin-suspension-16004126#.T3Cl3DEgffg
He was 17, impulsive, trained in violence (football), and obviously not the Golden Boy his parents lied about.
Most cannabis users, are not inclined to violence. Cf. ethanol. But for all psychotropics, its the individual, not the material.
25 March 2012
24 March 2012
Obama's son would look like Martin? No, Obama is Irish/Kenyan. Martins parents are obviously slave imports from a different region of africa.
So Obama's son wouldn't be a 6'3 footballer who starts fights.
But given Obama's foreign policy, perhaps Obama is more right than he realizes --his son would *act* like Martin. And get the appropriate feedback ---kinda like the US is getting overseas...
An armed society is a polite society.
So Obama's son wouldn't be a 6'3 footballer who starts fights.
But given Obama's foreign policy, perhaps Obama is more right than he realizes --his son would *act* like Martin. And get the appropriate feedback ---kinda like the US is getting overseas...
An armed society is a polite society.
23 March 2012
22 March 2012
saw this
If the giant football player initiated violence against some neighbor talking at him, insteasd of leaving and/or telling him to f-off, does he not expect self-defense with whatever is handy when he attacks said questioner?
The football player had behavior problems at school; came from a broken family; not surprising he should be impulsive and violent. The shooter was nearly killed by the brute who attacked out of paranoia. GZ is a hero. Evolution wins.
If the giant football player initiated violence against some neighbor talking at him, insteasd of leaving and/or telling him to f-off, does he not expect self-defense with whatever is handy when he attacks said questioner?
The football player had behavior problems at school; came from a broken family; not surprising he should be impulsive and violent. The shooter was nearly killed by the brute who attacked out of paranoia. GZ is a hero. Evolution wins.
"But the newly released police calls paint Andy Zelinko of Irvine as a man obsessed with law and order, with the minutiae of suburban life, and with black males."
Zelinko is a well documented war pornographer.
And expired cop.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/trayvon-shooters-911-calls-potholes-piles-trash-black-men?google_editors_picks=true
Zelinko is a well documented war pornographer.
And expired cop.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/trayvon-shooters-911-calls-potholes-piles-trash-black-men?google_editors_picks=true
So a guy watches an unfamiliar giant football black male act suspiciously in a neighborhood with a huge robbery rate.
The guy questions Trayvon Martin. No physical contact, just words. Yaba yaba. You never have to talk to anyone, just provide a DL if you're driving. We are citizens not livestock.
Trayvon Martin attacks George Zimmerman. Initiates force. Starts violence. Attempts a lethal blow to the face, etc.
George Zimmerman defends himself with whatever is handy.
Now Trayvon Martin is a golden saint; never mind his problems at school, broken family, towering football figure. F that. George Zimmerman is a hero, like Bernie Goetz.
Initiators of force are subject to evolution.
Also works for nations, hows that Occupy Iraq and Invade Afghanistan working out for ya?
Say what you want; touch me and you die. Its simple.
Impulsive, violent "children" learn that assault is
not a joke.
Buy ammo now, for the riots when GZ is exonerated.
The guy questions Trayvon Martin. No physical contact, just words. Yaba yaba. You never have to talk to anyone, just provide a DL if you're driving. We are citizens not livestock.
Trayvon Martin attacks George Zimmerman. Initiates force. Starts violence. Attempts a lethal blow to the face, etc.
George Zimmerman defends himself with whatever is handy.
Now Trayvon Martin is a golden saint; never mind his problems at school, broken family, towering football figure. F that. George Zimmerman is a hero, like Bernie Goetz.
Initiators of force are subject to evolution.
Also works for nations, hows that Occupy Iraq and Invade Afghanistan working out for ya?
Say what you want; touch me and you die. Its simple.
Impulsive, violent "children" learn that assault is
not a joke.
Buy ammo now, for the riots when GZ is exonerated.
19 March 2012
Dr Patton scolded me for typing too hard.
After I set up text to speech translator, after
he couldn't read.
He got a copy of his MRIs, his head was swiss cheese.
After the cyanide ischemia it was different and worse.
Eventually he consumed the full dose without intervention.
I was the friend to break into his apt and discover his notes and pretend to be his fellow adopted brother who happened to have the same first name and age.
Uh huh. But the md in charge was ok with it; i reported what I suspected and knew. Too bad emts
don't carry certain diagnostic / treatment kits.
Some silver photo fixer I think works.
Barbituic acid derivatives are the preferred euthanasia
platform.
Fucking swiss cheese. In a phd neuroscientist who couldn't log in anymore.
Swiss cheese.
After I set up text to speech translator, after
he couldn't read.
He got a copy of his MRIs, his head was swiss cheese.
After the cyanide ischemia it was different and worse.
Eventually he consumed the full dose without intervention.
I was the friend to break into his apt and discover his notes and pretend to be his fellow adopted brother who happened to have the same first name and age.
Uh huh. But the md in charge was ok with it; i reported what I suspected and knew. Too bad emts
don't carry certain diagnostic / treatment kits.
Some silver photo fixer I think works.
Barbituic acid derivatives are the preferred euthanasia
platform.
Fucking swiss cheese. In a phd neuroscientist who couldn't log in anymore.
Swiss cheese.
09 March 2012
Pat Robertson backs legal marijuana.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2012/0309/Pat-Robertson-backs-legal-marijuana.-Will-other-conservatives-follow
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Marijuana advocates, not surprisingly, are applauding the move while antidrug groups are attacking Mr. Robertson’s credibility, saying he has made several “strange remarks” in the past five years about prayer, tornadoes, and homosexuals.
....
Ok, if you're going to pray while being in a tornado and surrounded by gays flung by the tornado, you should
probably light up.
Do the prohibitionist idiots have a better idea?
.....
Professor MacCoun says the Robertson comment helps break up polarized discussions.
“We can now have a more grown up discussion about what are the tools in the tool box – rather than just hyperlatives hurled at each side from the extremes,” he says.
.....
Noting that America makes up 5 percent of the world's population but 25 percent of jailed prisoners, Robertson said: “We've said, 'We're conservative, we're tough on crime.' That's baloney. It's costing us billions and billions of dollars. We need to scrub the federal code and the state codes and take away these criminal penalties.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2012/0309/Pat-Robertson-backs-legal-marijuana.-Will-other-conservatives-follow
---
Marijuana advocates, not surprisingly, are applauding the move while antidrug groups are attacking Mr. Robertson’s credibility, saying he has made several “strange remarks” in the past five years about prayer, tornadoes, and homosexuals.
....
Ok, if you're going to pray while being in a tornado and surrounded by gays flung by the tornado, you should
probably light up.
Do the prohibitionist idiots have a better idea?
.....
Professor MacCoun says the Robertson comment helps break up polarized discussions.
“We can now have a more grown up discussion about what are the tools in the tool box – rather than just hyperlatives hurled at each side from the extremes,” he says.
.....
Noting that America makes up 5 percent of the world's population but 25 percent of jailed prisoners, Robertson said: “We've said, 'We're conservative, we're tough on crime.' That's baloney. It's costing us billions and billions of dollars. We need to scrub the federal code and the state codes and take away these criminal penalties.”
Commissioner Kelly has said that the department’s surveillance of Muslims was nothing out of the ordinary. “In fact, the police department uses many of the same methods to find and stop terrorists that we use to arrest drug dealers, human traffickers, and gang leaders,”
he forgot pedos and cryptographers
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2012/0309/Report-NYPD-compiled-huge-secret-dossier-on-law-abiding-Muslims
He needs to be tried and hung
he forgot pedos and cryptographers
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2012/0309/Report-NYPD-compiled-huge-secret-dossier-on-law-abiding-Muslims
He needs to be tried and hung
07 March 2012
The chinese have tripled their coal consumption 2000-2010
whereas everyone else has remained the same. So all your priuses are fail.
The solution to the CO2 problem is to eat chinese people.
Or, HxNx flu. Same thing, really.
Or, continue on. In another two decades you get 2e9 africans if you keep feeding them.
You *could* have clean cheap energy, or you could continue to be animals, and do the Gtons of CO2 experiment previously run only with volcanoes. Ref Matrix.
whereas everyone else has remained the same. So all your priuses are fail.
The solution to the CO2 problem is to eat chinese people.
Or, HxNx flu. Same thing, really.
Or, continue on. In another two decades you get 2e9 africans if you keep feeding them.
You *could* have clean cheap energy, or you could continue to be animals, and do the Gtons of CO2 experiment previously run only with volcanoes. Ref Matrix.
02 March 2012
Heard about the USG wanting to require cars to have rear view cameras. At $200 a pop, to save < 250 kids a year.
How about rear-drive beepers and flashing lights? For about $5? Much more reliable electronics and easy to train kids to run.
But govt morons want to require not only mpg but now cameras. In cars.
Not enough AC, radio, cd, gps, dvd. Now cameras, required.
Collapse.
How about rear-drive beepers and flashing lights? For about $5? Much more reliable electronics and easy to train kids to run.
But govt morons want to require not only mpg but now cameras. In cars.
Not enough AC, radio, cd, gps, dvd. Now cameras, required.
Collapse.
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For his part, Chad stated when he was dismissed from the burglary hearing that he had not communicated with other jurors hearing the case or Tweeted any information about the trial. This is important because, under California law, communicating during a case is a misdemeanor offense. The court instructions state to all potential jurors that they cannot discuss a case or use an electronic device to e-mail, get on the internet or Tweet.
After receiving the profuse apologies of Chad and his attorney, Judge Priver decided to let him off with a warning, but city attorneys have the option to reinstate charges if they see fit.
http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/norman-chads-sense-of-humor-draws-ire-of-california-court-judge-21107/
After receiving the profuse apologies of Chad and his attorney, Judge Priver decided to let him off with a warning, but city attorneys have the option to reinstate charges if they see fit.
http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/norman-chads-sense-of-humor-draws-ire-of-california-court-judge-21107/
For his part, Chad stated when he was dismissed from the burglary hearing that he had not communicated with other jurors hearing the case or Tweeted any information about the trial. This is important because, under California law, communicating during a case is a misdemeanor offense. The court instructions state to all potential jurors that they cannot discuss a case or use an electronic device to e-mail, get on the internet or Tweet.
After receiving the profuse apologies of Chad and his attorney, Judge Priver decided to let him off with a warning, but city attorneys have the option to reinstate charges if they see fit.
http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/norman-chads-sense-of-humor-draws-ire-of-california-court-judge-21107/
After receiving the profuse apologies of Chad and his attorney, Judge Priver decided to let him off with a warning, but city attorneys have the option to reinstate charges if they see fit.
http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/norman-chads-sense-of-humor-draws-ire-of-california-court-judge-21107/
According to reports from the Los Angeles Times, ESPN poker commentator Norman Chad – whose sense of humor is well known to the poker community – was chastised by a California Superior Court judge for using that sense of humor over Twitter.
In an article written by the Times’ Kimi Yoshino, Chad was called in for jury duty in January and was selected as a juror in a residential burglary case. As the case was litigated, court officials informed Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Laura Foland Priver, who was the judge for that particular case, that Chad had been Tweeting during the proceedings. Judge Priver took the action of filing contempt of court charges against Chad and dismissed him from the case as a result of his Tweets.
The hearing on those contempt charges brought Chad and his attorney back to the courtroom on Wednesday, where Judge Priver blasted Chad and his attorney. “He made a mockery of our system,” Judge Priver stated during the hearing to Chad’s attorney. “I’m disturbed by this behavior. Once the information is out there, it’s out there forever. The public who sees these Tweets is going to think this behavior is OK.”
....
Judges are paid by the State. You cannot trust them.
In an article written by the Times’ Kimi Yoshino, Chad was called in for jury duty in January and was selected as a juror in a residential burglary case. As the case was litigated, court officials informed Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Laura Foland Priver, who was the judge for that particular case, that Chad had been Tweeting during the proceedings. Judge Priver took the action of filing contempt of court charges against Chad and dismissed him from the case as a result of his Tweets.
The hearing on those contempt charges brought Chad and his attorney back to the courtroom on Wednesday, where Judge Priver blasted Chad and his attorney. “He made a mockery of our system,” Judge Priver stated during the hearing to Chad’s attorney. “I’m disturbed by this behavior. Once the information is out there, it’s out there forever. The public who sees these Tweets is going to think this behavior is OK.”
....
Judges are paid by the State. You cannot trust them.
The 52-year old Mumbai native, a former Pan Am stewardess and Delta Airlines trainer, had been on a hunger strike in jail for nearly three weeks following her December 10 incarceration arising from charges of resisting arrest in a routine jury summons case. On December 29, Lyvita was ordered to be taken to the Vista East Medical Center. She died on January 3, 2012 at the hospital.
The funeral was conducted on February 1 and was attended by over 200 people, all asking the same question that's haunting the Gomes family. The last rites were conducted Thursday in the presence of her sister and brother-in-law who life in UK as well as a large assembly of local community leaders. A Chicago daily reported that around 120 people, including 20 local pastors, have signed a "statement of concern" that will be presented to the authorities.
The family lives along Link Road in Goregaon west. Lyvita's brother Oydsteven, who works in a television production house, has so far managed to keep the news of his sister's death from their father. "He is 94 and is still recovering from a nasty bout of malaria," said Steven. "I have requested several relatives and friends who wish to pay condolence not to visit. Of course, now that the funeral is over, I will have to break it to him."
The second of four siblings, Lyvita was a well-educated, qualified achiever filled with a sense of joie de vivre. She studied biochemistry at Sophia College, then went on to teach chemistry at St Joseph's Convent during which time she wrote workbooks for junior school. Soon she tired of that and joined Pan Am airlines in the United States as a flight attendant and supervisor before moving to Delta Airlines where she graduated to flight trainer.
Much of what happened since December 2011when the Chicago police arrested her remains a blur for the family. Questions linger over the exact circumstances of her arrest, her illness, indeed her mental condition and subsequent death. "We are still unaware of the full truth behind her hunger strike over jury duty," said Steven.
"Those who are in the US are hardly wiser for being there. My sister Lyemia and her husband who live in London conducted the funeral on Thursday. They are seeking answers as are the 200-odd supporters and community leaders who attended Lyvita's wake," he added.
Lyvita was single and did not have family in the US. "Is this how they punish foreign nationals who merely refuse jury duty? Stand by as they forgo food and drink, watch them become dehydrated and die?" he asked. "I cannot help think this is racism. Would this have happened to a white person?" Steven and his siblings are yet to receive an apology or explanation, though the Lake County sheriff's office on Thursday released a timetable of events from Lyvita's arrest up to her death in January 3.
The funeral was conducted on February 1 and was attended by over 200 people, all asking the same question that's haunting the Gomes family. The last rites were conducted Thursday in the presence of her sister and brother-in-law who life in UK as well as a large assembly of local community leaders. A Chicago daily reported that around 120 people, including 20 local pastors, have signed a "statement of concern" that will be presented to the authorities.
The family lives along Link Road in Goregaon west. Lyvita's brother Oydsteven, who works in a television production house, has so far managed to keep the news of his sister's death from their father. "He is 94 and is still recovering from a nasty bout of malaria," said Steven. "I have requested several relatives and friends who wish to pay condolence not to visit. Of course, now that the funeral is over, I will have to break it to him."
The second of four siblings, Lyvita was a well-educated, qualified achiever filled with a sense of joie de vivre. She studied biochemistry at Sophia College, then went on to teach chemistry at St Joseph's Convent during which time she wrote workbooks for junior school. Soon she tired of that and joined Pan Am airlines in the United States as a flight attendant and supervisor before moving to Delta Airlines where she graduated to flight trainer.
Much of what happened since December 2011when the Chicago police arrested her remains a blur for the family. Questions linger over the exact circumstances of her arrest, her illness, indeed her mental condition and subsequent death. "We are still unaware of the full truth behind her hunger strike over jury duty," said Steven.
"Those who are in the US are hardly wiser for being there. My sister Lyemia and her husband who live in London conducted the funeral on Thursday. They are seeking answers as are the 200-odd supporters and community leaders who attended Lyvita's wake," he added.
Lyvita was single and did not have family in the US. "Is this how they punish foreign nationals who merely refuse jury duty? Stand by as they forgo food and drink, watch them become dehydrated and die?" he asked. "I cannot help think this is racism. Would this have happened to a white person?" Steven and his siblings are yet to receive an apology or explanation, though the Lake County sheriff's office on Thursday released a timetable of events from Lyvita's arrest up to her death in January 3.
29 January 2012
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08 January 2012
Synthetic Cannabis (HB 2595/PA 97-0193): Adds to the list of Schedule I controlled substances five generic definitions of classes of synthetic cannabinoids, which are often sold alongside smoking paraphernalia to produce a “high” similar to that associated with cannabis. (HB 2595/PA 97-0193): Adds to the list of Schedule I controlled substances five generic definitions of classes of synthetic cannabinoids, which are often sold alongside smoking paraphernalia to produce a “high” similar to that associated with cannabis.
These are morons from Illinois. How do they know something has no medical uses?
hang 'em high, or blow a big crater.
These are morons from Illinois. How do they know something has no medical uses?
hang 'em high, or blow a big crater.
Respectful Language (SB 1833/PA 97-0227): Makes changes to language in state law to replace the term “mental retardation” with “intellectual disability” and substituting “physically disabled” for the term “crippled.”
Respectful Language (SB 1833/PA 97-0227): Makes changes to language in state law to replace the term “mental retardation” with “political interests” and substituting “lame” for the term “crippled.”
Replaces "legislator" with "fascist parasite"..
Respectful Language (SB 1833/PA 97-0227): Makes changes to language in state law to replace the term “mental retardation” with “political interests” and substituting “lame” for the term “crippled.”
Replaces "legislator" with "fascist parasite"..
04 January 2012
03 January 2012
t. ‘People are amazed how fast it can separate the head from the
body,’ he said. Sometimes he also has to carry out amputations of hands or legs. ‘I use a special sharp
knife, not a sword. When I cut off a hand I cut it from the joint. If it is a leg the authorities specify where
it is to be taken off, so I follow that.’”
body,’ he said. Sometimes he also has to carry out amputations of hands or legs. ‘I use a special sharp
knife, not a sword. When I cut off a hand I cut it from the joint. If it is a leg the authorities specify where
it is to be taken off, so I follow that.’”
01 January 2012
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration there are about 1.5 million car accidents with deer each year that result in $1billion in vehicle damage.
Latest figures show that each year more than 100 people are killed with 10,000 injured after collisions with deer.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079939/Elderly-driver-70-killed-car-crash-severed-deer-head-flies-windscreen.html#ixzz1iCG5ygYP
Latest figures show that each year more than 100 people are killed with 10,000 injured after collisions with deer.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079939/Elderly-driver-70-killed-car-crash-severed-deer-head-flies-windscreen.html#ixzz1iCG5ygYP
29 December 2011
26 December 2011
. It said it was able to get the credit card details in part because Stratfor didn't bother encrypting them — an easy-to-avoid blunder which, if true, would be a major embarrassment for any security-related company.
Fred Burton, Stratfor's vice president of intelligence, said the company had reported the intrusion to law enforcement officials and was working with them on the investigation.
Right, social attempt solution for a tech problem.
Morons.
Fred Burton, Stratfor's vice president of intelligence, said the company had reported the intrusion to law enforcement officials and was working with them on the investigation.
Right, social attempt solution for a tech problem.
Morons.
23 December 2011
So you raise some ferrets. And you give one the flu.
Let it infect another. Let that one infect a third.
Continue this serial passage until a ferret in the same room, not just cage, gets sick from flu.
Now you have an airborne variant of the flu you started with.
For sci bonus points, sequence it and comment on mutations.
For Streisand effect, have the USG try to censor your work.
Let it infect another. Let that one infect a third.
Continue this serial passage until a ferret in the same room, not just cage, gets sick from flu.
Now you have an airborne variant of the flu you started with.
For sci bonus points, sequence it and comment on mutations.
For Streisand effect, have the USG try to censor your work.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- The paper used to produce newspapers came under government control in Argentina on Thursday, in a long-sought victory for President Cristina Fernandez in her dispute with the country's opposition media.
Argentina's senate, which is controlled by Fernandez's allies, voted 41-26 to control newsprint's manufacture, sale and distribution to media friends and foes alike.
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How about Cat-5 cable? Typewriter ribbons?
Argentina's senate, which is controlled by Fernandez's allies, voted 41-26 to control newsprint's manufacture, sale and distribution to media friends and foes alike.
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How about Cat-5 cable? Typewriter ribbons?
21 December 2011
17 December 2011
Even if we could solve these problems, there may be another one we'd then have to worry about. Let's say we were able to create a robot that targets only combatants and that leaves no collateral damage--an armed robot with a perfectly accurate targeting system. Well, oddly enough, this may violate a rule by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which bans weapons that cause more than 25% field mortality and 5% hospital mortality. ICRC is the only institution named as a controlling authority in IHL, so we comply with their rules. A robot that kills most everything it aims at could have a mortality rate approaching 100%, well over ICRC's 25% threshold. And this may be possible given the superhuman accuracy of machines, again assuming we can eventually solve the distinction problem. Such a robot would be so fearsome, inhumane, and devastating that it threatens an implicit value of a fair fight, even in war. For instance, poison is also banned for being inhumane and too effective. This notion of a fair fight comes from just-war theory, which is the basis for IHL. Further, this kind of robot would force questions about the ethics of creating machines that kill people on its own.
the relics that think that war is controlled by bans on expanding bullets, robots, chemwar, salting the earth, is evil. those relics don't understand modern war.
modern war, where 10 to 100 civilians die for each of your mercs.
and the usg only fields paid mercs, not conscripts: so their moral value is zero.
the relics that think that war is controlled by bans on expanding bullets, robots, chemwar, salting the earth, is evil. those relics don't understand modern war.
modern war, where 10 to 100 civilians die for each of your mercs.
and the usg only fields paid mercs, not conscripts: so their moral value is zero.
But skepticism is a universal solvent, and once applied, it does not stop just because Christendom is gone. "I think, therefore I am. I think." We pulled out the stopper of faith, and the bathwater of reason appeared undisturbed for a time. But modernism slowly receded and now postmodernism is circling the drain. Our intelligentsia needs to figure out how to do more than sit in an empty tub and reminisce about the days when Voltaire knew how to keep the water hot. ...
So when Hitchens showed up at my door early one morning kitted for battle with nothing more than his black leather jacket, blue jeans, and a half-smoked pack of Rothman’s (he refused to bring Kevlar, saying it made him feel “like a counterfeit”), I offered him a welcome-to-the-war shot of “Listerine,” just to be hospitable.
“I don’t usually start this early,” he said, his glass already gratefully extended, “but holding yourself to a drinking schedule is always the first sign of alcoholism.”
this guy gets better and better the more i read of his obit
“I don’t usually start this early,” he said, his glass already gratefully extended, “but holding yourself to a drinking schedule is always the first sign of alcoholism.”
this guy gets better and better the more i read of his obit
The reactions to Hitchens's illness from his intellectual opponents –- which ranged from undisguised glee to offers of prayers -– testified to his stature as one of the leading voices of secularism since the publication in 2007 of his anti-religious polemic God is Not Great. The reaction from the author himself, who after a lifetime of "burning the candle of both ends" described his illness as "something so predictable and banal that it bores even me", testified to the sharpness of his wit and the clarity of his thinking under fire, as he dissected the discourse of "struggle" that surrounds cancer, paid tribute to the medical staff who looked after him and resolved to "resist bodily as best I can, even if only passively, and to seek the most advanced advice".
I admire all public atheists.
This is pretty funny too
A friend of theirs once took Christopher Hitchens and his wife Carol Blue to dinner at Palm Beach’s Everglades Club, notorious for its exclusion of Jews.
“You will behave, won’t you?” Carol anxiously asked Christopher on the way into the club.
No dice. When the headwaiter approached, Christopher demanded: “Do you have a kosher menu?”
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Christopher was never a man to back away from a confrontation on behalf of what he considered basic decency. Yet it would be wrong to remember only the confrontational side.
Christopher was also a man of exquisite sensitivity and courtesy, dispensed without regard to age or station. On one of the last occasions I saw him, my wife and I came to drop some food –- lamb tagine -– to sustain a family with more on its mind than cooking. Christopher, though weary and sick, insisted on painfully lifting himself from his chair to perform the rites of hospitality. He might have cancer, but we were still guests -– and as guests, we must have champagne.
Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair:
He was a man of insatiable appetites — for cigarettes, for scotch, for company, for great writing, and, above all, for conversation. That he had an output to equal what he took in was the miracle in the man. You’d be hard-pressed to find a writer who could match the volume of exquisitely crafted columns, essays, articles, and books he produced over the past four decades. ...
Christopher was the beau ideal of the public intellectual. You felt as though he was writing to you and to you alone. And as a result many readers felt they knew him. Walking with him down the street in New York or through an airplane terminal was like escorting a movie star through the throngs.
This from LA times. I never actually read CH as far as I know.
This is pretty funny too
A friend of theirs once took Christopher Hitchens and his wife Carol Blue to dinner at Palm Beach’s Everglades Club, notorious for its exclusion of Jews.
“You will behave, won’t you?” Carol anxiously asked Christopher on the way into the club.
No dice. When the headwaiter approached, Christopher demanded: “Do you have a kosher menu?”
....
Christopher was never a man to back away from a confrontation on behalf of what he considered basic decency. Yet it would be wrong to remember only the confrontational side.
Christopher was also a man of exquisite sensitivity and courtesy, dispensed without regard to age or station. On one of the last occasions I saw him, my wife and I came to drop some food –- lamb tagine -– to sustain a family with more on its mind than cooking. Christopher, though weary and sick, insisted on painfully lifting himself from his chair to perform the rites of hospitality. He might have cancer, but we were still guests -– and as guests, we must have champagne.
Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair:
He was a man of insatiable appetites — for cigarettes, for scotch, for company, for great writing, and, above all, for conversation. That he had an output to equal what he took in was the miracle in the man. You’d be hard-pressed to find a writer who could match the volume of exquisitely crafted columns, essays, articles, and books he produced over the past four decades. ...
Christopher was the beau ideal of the public intellectual. You felt as though he was writing to you and to you alone. And as a result many readers felt they knew him. Walking with him down the street in New York or through an airplane terminal was like escorting a movie star through the throngs.
This from LA times. I never actually read CH as far as I know.
16 December 2011
http://newsone.com/entertainment/casey-gane-mccalla/tsa-leaves-cmon-son-note-for-rapper-after-finding-weed/
TSA leaves weed alone. They also saw some kief in a keyfob, heard one agent say 'it could be heroin' to another, but let it by. You can't blow up a plane with
a gram of heroin or grass.
I had flowers and cookies with me too.
TSA leaves weed alone. They also saw some kief in a keyfob, heard one agent say 'it could be heroin' to another, but let it by. You can't blow up a plane with
a gram of heroin or grass.
I had flowers and cookies with me too.
12 December 2011
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01 December 2011
Can Congress Steal Your Constitutional Freedoms?
by Andrew P. Napolitano, December 01, 2011
Can the president use the military to arrest anyone he wants, keep that person away from a judge and jury, and lock him up for as long as he wants? In the Senate’s dark and terrifying vision of the Constitution, he can.
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