Poulsen, of all people, knows not to trust Lamo. It’s absurd to think he’d compromise his career to cover for him. It fucking sucks that Manning didn’t know that too.
Fascinating, Captain.
31 December 2010
Poulsen knows as well as anyone what Lamo’s deal is. That picture of Lamo, Poulsen and Mitnick hanging out was taken the first time they met Lamo. It was Lamo’s idea, he was meeting two heroes. These people aren’t BFF’s. Poulsen reports on Lamo and it annoys the shit out of everyone because they know Lamo is a charlatan attention whore and writing about him only makes it worse. But Poulsen’s bottom line is clear: he’s a reporter. If he thinks something is newsworthy he’s going to write it. His only loyalty is to the story.
First thing you gotta understand is that just about everyone hates Lamo. Seriously. Fuck that dude. Sure some random kid on IRC (or, say, a vulnerable Private First Class) who just knows what they read in Lamo’s Wikipedia article are going to hero worship him, his friends and his drug fueled downward spiral into the depths of mental illness over the last 15 years. But he was always an asshole, even before he completely lost it.
There is no conspiracy, there is only gayness.
The hacker scene is incredibly insular and interconnected. There are hundreds of people who know these guys personally. We all know Lamo and Poulsen. We are all aware that Lamo is a twitchy little fuck, not to be trusted. We also know that he is queer. And Manning is trans. This is why they were talking to each other. Vagaries of the TVTG world aside, the two have something in common: our society calls them weirdo’s. They obviously connected because of this.
So, we are here to fill in the blanks for you folks out there that think Poulsen is hiding something. Indeed, he is hiding something; he is hiding gayness. Sadly, in our ass-backwards fucked-up little country, gayness is considered a social faux pas. Poulsen is simply respecting the privacy of two people.
Gayness is really cool. We like gayness. But it’s not exactly something Wired should be reporting on. And by withholding the rest of the logs, they are not reporting on it. Rather professional of them, don’t you think?
Manning’s life has been fucked up already. We don’t need to read his dirty, very personal chat logs.
If Mr. Greenwald wants to do some actual research, he is welcome to stop into any hacker IRC channel and ask about the involved parties. We all know them, we all understand exactly what happened here. Obviously, we’re more informed than Mr. Greenwald and his Twitter groupies.
Here is the moral of this story: don’t talk to Adrian Lamo. Even if you think you are connecting with him on a personal level, he will still find a way to stick an unwanted dick in your ass.
We will now digress into the hilarious details. We really don’t give a shit if you believe us, we know these people and anyone else who knows them will tell you what we’re saying is credible.
The hacker scene is incredibly insular and interconnected. There are hundreds of people who know these guys personally. We all know Lamo and Poulsen. We are all aware that Lamo is a twitchy little fuck, not to be trusted. We also know that he is queer. And Manning is trans. This is why they were talking to each other. Vagaries of the TVTG world aside, the two have something in common: our society calls them weirdo’s. They obviously connected because of this.
So, we are here to fill in the blanks for you folks out there that think Poulsen is hiding something. Indeed, he is hiding something; he is hiding gayness. Sadly, in our ass-backwards fucked-up little country, gayness is considered a social faux pas. Poulsen is simply respecting the privacy of two people.
Gayness is really cool. We like gayness. But it’s not exactly something Wired should be reporting on. And by withholding the rest of the logs, they are not reporting on it. Rather professional of them, don’t you think?
Manning’s life has been fucked up already. We don’t need to read his dirty, very personal chat logs.
If Mr. Greenwald wants to do some actual research, he is welcome to stop into any hacker IRC channel and ask about the involved parties. We all know them, we all understand exactly what happened here. Obviously, we’re more informed than Mr. Greenwald and his Twitter groupies.
Here is the moral of this story: don’t talk to Adrian Lamo. Even if you think you are connecting with him on a personal level, he will still find a way to stick an unwanted dick in your ass.
We will now digress into the hilarious details. We really don’t give a shit if you believe us, we know these people and anyone else who knows them will tell you what we’re saying is credible.
http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2067--written-on-the-body-the-progressive-torture-of-bradley-manning.html
The militarist, corporatist, liberty-stripping evil that our earnest lovers of humanity fear will come to pass if those evil Republicans come to power is already here, it is happening before their very eyes. "Oh, that Glenn Beck, how terrible he is!" Yes, he is terrible, but I tell you this: Glenn Beck hasn't tortured anyone. Glenn Beck hasn't killed hundreds of defenseless innocent civilians, men, women and children murdered without any warning by robot drones in an undeclared war on an allied nation. Glenn Beck hasn't "surged" an endless, pointless, murderous, money-making war of domination against a broken land and its terrorized people. Glenn Beck is not going to court to defend torturers. Glenn Beck is not proclaiming he has the arbitrary, unchallengeable power to assassinate anyone on earth whenever he feels like it.
But the Peace Laureate has done all these things. He is doing all these things, and more.
"So you end up with a cable in the database that contains embarrassing stuff about [German Prime Minister Angela] Merkel. Is that the kind of stuff that a war fighter really needs to see?"
War fighter = "soldier" = US mercenary or US Empire Centurian
Fighting "for" US values, shouldn't she know about foreign leaders whose "troops" she's fighting with?
26 December 2010
CHICAGO (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who has largely avoided the public eye of late, said in a rare interview Saturday that he is a public servant, not a perfect one, and didn't rule out a future run at higher office.
Jackson, who has been dogged by links to the corruption case against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and questions about his own relationship with a female "social acquaintance," told The Associated Press that he continually struggles with his "personal shortcomings."
That includes mending his family relationships over the "immensely personal matter" of the female acquaintance and assessing his political ambitions, which once included Chicago mayor or U.S. senator.
"Every one of us has erred in their personal lives and while I don't claim to be a perfect servant, I'm a public servant," Jackson told the AP. "Often times we carry with us the burdens of our personal shortcomings even as we struggle to articulate and clarify a message that helps other people. That what I dedicated my life to."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_JESSE_JACKSON_JR?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
Don blame me massa, I'se just a loose niggah!
22 December 2010
"Oh, it's just another idiot trying to make a name for himself. But it's a -- it's a serious business. I mean if we are to have a civil society, you cannot have senior people making calls on national TV to go around the judiciary and illegally murder people. That is incitement to commit murder. That is an offense. Does the United States obey the rule of law? Because Europeans are starting to wonder whether it is still obeying the rule of law. And it needs to be very careful. Is it going to descend into an anarchy where those great Bill of Rights traditions about due process are just thrown to the wind whenever some shock jock politician thinks that they can use it to make a name for themselves? Or do we take things according to laws expressly made by the people and their representatives? That is the way things should be done. And when people call for illegal, deliberate assassination and kidnapping of others, they should be held to account. They should be charged for incitement to commit murder."
21 December 2010
http://www.wtop.com/?sid=2208581&nid=25
WASHINGTON - Metro Police started randomly inspecting bags at the Braddock Road and College Park Metro stations Tuesday.
These people are not citizens, they are livestock, and need to be culled.
My roof doesn't have gutters in most places. So it drips more in certain places than others. Temporary winter streams at the base of the watersheds of my SoCal tiled house. (Which
explains the lack of gutters; I've lived where its cold and you have gutters, winter tires, basements where you store your stuff instead of garages which keep your cars' blocks from cracking..)
Anyway if you put a thin plate --trash can lid or inverted bucket-- under a drip from the major "waterfall" you can hear it better. Because you have a bigger watershed, the roof, concentrating it, and a nice sounding board for the waterfall.
With drips, concentrated by a roof, you gain sensitivity but would be swamped by bigger outbursts. A waterfall would be hard to measure.
A computer program could do pulse (droplet) counting. How would it compare (sensitivity, response time, etc) to a traditional graduated cylinder and funnel opening? Extension cable, microphone covered by bucket, computer, pulse counter software.
Actually you could just skip the latter two and just record the sound for later analysis.
That way one teacher could help a bunch of kids ---all they need is the mic, cable, bucket. Or they could bag their iGizmo, set it on record, and put it under the bucket and on a brick.
The "splats per minute collected over an area of A square meters (in flat projection, not tiles :-)" would be a good local measure of precipitation intensity.
You can add nuances like dry tiles at first. There is some delay between rain changes and the effects at the bucket-sensor.
18 December 2010
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