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.
22 March 2012
"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.
13 March 2012
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.
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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?
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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.
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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
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
23 February 2012
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06 February 2012
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.”
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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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18 January 2012
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.’”
02 January 2012
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.
.....
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?”
....
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.
29 November 2011
After hours of interviews with typical politicians, two forensicpsychiatrists concluded that they were paranoid schizophrenics who operated in their own "delusional universe," prosecutor Svein Holden told reporters in Oslo
The manifesto advocates acts of terrorism to shock Europeans out of their stupor, the capital.
Stupor? Wot stupor?
The technology gives and the technology takes away,
The anti-secrecy activist then help up a handwritten sign from an aide telling him to "stop" talking or he would be late for a mandatory appointment with police.
Chlorate salts in a paper wrapper and sulphuric mixed with petrol makes a wonder hypergolic Molotov.
Pros and cons of driving 20 mi to work.
(surface, 5, 55, 22, surface @ Knott)
Rock broke my windshield last week. Belt noise getting worse last few days. Car overheated yesterday.
Fixed windshield, belt tension, new radiatior, < $1000,
and I walked back to work. The latter part is worth a huge amount. Getting my 100KMi car into shape, priceless.
Its got new tires too. And I have $300 Sube credit so I can get the driver doorlatch replaced "free".
happy happy
actually, battling mood and negative thoughts. winter.
but doggie and kitty are fine and affectionate.
Although working to pay for car to drive to work is a bad cycle.
28 November 2011
25 November 2011
Joe Liebermann is a terrorist and traitor (Israel pwned).
He is against the bill of rights.
Similarly, Sen Feinstein (on the other coast) has tried to violate the
1st wrt generic bomb info.
If jewish p0liticians want to turn the us into israel they should at least register as foreign
agents else be exposed as traitors.
pV=nRT, baby.
Buggy whip company. Mediocrity, a manager for every worker.
Bought a chinese factory / competitor (?) for half its stock worth,
which is down. Many products spawned off a common software base,
but the base is ugly old and cost-constrained (1-layer bakelite phenolic
paper, carbon on plastic vias, 64KB memory and <2KB ram)
Consumer electronics while Rome burns. Nice.
Stable for a little while, inertia. See _Radical Management_ by Denning on why
outsourcing a bad idea. Estonia, India, China. Nice.
Reward the salesman and accountants whilst gutting the core competency and any
expansion potential.
Not Apple.
Dicking with IC companies, getting stabbed in the back (new RF company bypasses
us for direct contract with one of our customers). Wonderful. What happened to
value add engineering?
Black Friday.
Fixed the spacebar (finally correctly) on the netbook.
Dog sniffing a dying honeybee. What could go wrong?
Read the 'parking contract' from Segerstrom / Blue Man Group.
It says not responsible for CB radios, tapes, tape decks. Perhaps it
needs updating.
Reading Turkey instructions (yes a day late; Wife bought a ham that I'm guessing should
have been rinsed, too salty. And I drink a few grams of NaCl as bullion at work
nowadays.) So paranoid. Even a link to avian flu website, hows that for out of date
and pandering to ignorance?
24 November 2011
23 November 2011
No USG by 2025
There will be no USG by 2025. A prediction.
Playing fiddle whilst the empire burns.
The modern occupation.
And trading hollow mortgages and
defense/security (war/internal terror).
Meanwhile, other nations produce value.
Wait for the progressive collapse (an engineering
phrase) of the empire.
As the "heroes" kill via robotic planes on the other side of the planet. Nice.
And the USG didn't earn 911/WTC? Yet they invaded Iraaq like Hitler. Time travel: you pay now for the crap you pull in the future.
Nice.
Playing fiddle whilst the empire burns.
The modern occupation.
And trading hollow mortgages and
defense/security (war/internal terror).
Meanwhile, other nations produce value.
Wait for the progressive collapse (an engineering
phrase) of the empire.
As the "heroes" kill via robotic planes on the other side of the planet. Nice.
And the USG didn't earn 911/WTC? Yet they invaded Iraaq like Hitler. Time travel: you pay now for the crap you pull in the future.
Nice.
21 November 2011
Newport Beach CYA
The city has cut down more than 140 trees since September, when a eucalyptus in a median of Irvine Avenue fell and killed 29-year-old Haeyoon Miller, who was in her car.
http://www.ocregister.com/news/trees-328105-city-eucalyptus.html
http://www.ocregister.com/news/trees-328105-city-eucalyptus.html
Lake Forest City Attorney Scott Smith is a terrorist as is Mayor Peter Herzog
http://www.ocregister.com/news/city-328121-federal-marijuana.html
Needs to be tried for warcrimes and hung.
But instead, his family will see cancer soon. Enjoy your opiates, Scott.
16 November 2011
Origin of life
RNA replication can happen when you have thermal convective circulation implementing a prehistoric PCR. The molecules are melted away as (counter) duplicates; those molecules better adapted to the circulation next to undersea volcanoes replicate.
http://www.project-reason.org/newsfeed/item/from_telomeres_to_the_origins_of_life/
14 November 2011
Romney is insane
Mitt Romney said, “of course you take military action, it’s unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.”
An arrogant mormon prick. With a plastic face.
We see through you.
13 November 2011
Dogs
dogs
if small, eat it
If medium, hump it
If large, bark at it
Drunk football players
Pack-instinct exploited to the max
You been domesticated, bitch
but dog has learned to exist with cats. biting, batting, just hanging out. good.
dog und katt are good. this is remarkable as dog was here for a month first and then katt was in the farthest-back portion of box-spring which dogg had opened.
not bad. dogg und katt R ok. This is good 4 me.
09 November 2011
Management BS
I work for a consumer electronics company. Which means that $0.01 matters. Even $0.001.
Their religion involves CES as sacred dates in the profane Los Vegas.
They make smoother needles for electronic drugs.
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They give us these constraints, and expect them all to be followed:
* cheap --64KB program memory, 2KB sram
* flexible --change chips in a few months!!!!
* small code --else not cheap
* due on a certain time, despite putting a new employee on critical functions, and pretending to be able to estimate completion times
* reliable
They have about 5 people who if left, would disable the $100,000,000 SEC-traded company.
I am learning stuff all the time; my mentor has 5+ years in the exact business, and 20+ in the embedded space. But they expect me to master this stuff on CES deadlines. Bad managing, relying on guesses about newbies and complexity. And not having good docs for the newbies to learn from. Reading code leaves out a lot of information about design intent.
Occupy Irvine
Hilarious:
the Irvine, CA city council decided to keep the "occupy irvine(tm)" pets for another week. They have been granted special (content-specific) exemption from the city's camping / homeless laws.
When the City Council tires of them, they will leave.
Fail.
misdirected looney occupiers
More than 100 protestors screamed abuse and blew ear-splitting whistles as men in suits and streams of thin women in expensive jewels and high-heels entered the glass-faced Sotheby's building in Manhattan.
"Shame on you!" they chanted. And: "You don't deserve it!"
The demonstration was organized by unionized art handlers at Sotheby's, who say they've been locked out of the company during contract negotiations. Their numbers were bolstered by members of the Occupy Wall Street protest, which is centered on a camp in a park in the Financial District.
The atmosphere became hostile as enraged demonstrators yelled at the elegantly clad art collectors, forcing them to walk the gauntlet under escort of police and black-suited Sotheby's security staff.
A huge blow-up rat and another blow up effigy representing a "fat cat" clutching a worker dominated the sidewalk, while Sotheby's employees looked anxiously out from the glass-walled lobby.
"Art for the masses, not the upper classes," protestors yelled.
.....
Hey, Christo's doing a US river for a few tens of millions..
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hhoL0aBdJwI196WFBoF6Ladcq3wg?docId=CNG.4f0c63687383f92d2e2672061cd48532.881
hilarious reichstag canadian occupy threat
But the biggest concern might be fire safety. It will just take one of these crystal meth, crack heads, or even pot smokers, to fall asleep in their tent while still lit and we could have a tragedy of a historic proportions.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/09/warmington-occupy-neighbours-have-their-rights-too
Some of the tents might be coated with antiflammables. But gasoline can mitigate that.
US Mil Fail (China Win)
"Sprinkling" sounds like a fairly harmless practice, but in the hands of sophisticated counterfeiters it could deceive a major weapons manufacturer and possibly endanger the lives of US troops.
It's a process of mixing authentic electronic parts with fake ones in hopes that the counterfeits will not be detected when companies test the components for multimillion-dollar missile systems, helicopters and aircraft. It was just one of the brazen steps described Tuesday at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing examining the national security and economic implications of suspect counterfeit electronics — mostly from China — inundating the US Pentagon's supply chain.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/fake-chinese-weapons-costs-us-millions-20111110-1n83t.html#ixzz1dGAt5zua
"Sprinkling" sounds like a fairly harmless practice, but in the hands of sophisticated counterfeiters it could deceive a major weapons manufacturer and possibly endanger the lives of US troops.
It's a process of mixing authentic electronic parts with fake ones in hopes that the counterfeits will not be detected when companies test the components for multimillion-dollar missile systems, helicopters and aircraft. It was just one of the brazen steps described Tuesday at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing examining the national security and economic implications of suspect counterfeit electronics — mostly from China — inundating the US Pentagon's supply chain.
Well, that's pretty green
Apple Fail
But the company said in an email to Miller sent late on Monday that it was revoking his rights to develop iOS software for the iPhone and iPad, and would no longer distribute his programs through the App Store, according to a copy of the note obtained by Reuters.
"Apple has good reason to believe that you violated [the iOS developer agreement] by intentionally submitting an App that behaves in a manner different from its intended use," the email said.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/security/apple-banishes-expert-who-exposed-software-flaw-20111109-1n67i.html#ixzz1dGA8f0PK
02 November 2011
Dawn Cruikshank, doane-stuart, albany ny
His common-law wife of 22 years, Jacqueline Taylor, succumbed to cancer only 10 months later on June 20, 1998. Peart, however, maintains that her death was the result of a "broken heart" and called it "a slow suicide by apathy. She just didn't care."[18]
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