September 2008 Archives

(i feel this blog will get me some negative karma points, but meh i gave up long ago)

i'm sure someone will say i'm oversimplifying, but hey, i'm not a polysci anything. i'm just one of the tired, the poor, the huddled gimpstick masses paying 894584 bajillion to cover a bunch of assfuck risktaker bankers asses. i dont want to tell you what i want to shove into corporate banktastik amerikas someplace. i run a respectable blog and i wont have any of that sepitic anal pustulation on here.

but back to the point. why does our government scare me? ronald reagan. an actor. in my non-expert opinion, he probably did so well because he was so used to acting in front of the camera. i was a bit young, all i really remember about him is his wife and her "just say no" and the whole war on drugs thing. that was 1985? 20+ years later hows that going? "reganomics"? i dont understand it, but all i know is the republicans doing their reganomics voodoo drives us as a nation into debt. a debt that the chinese seem all too happy to cover. it'll be a fun day when they decide to collect on those.

george h.w. bush. again i'm no expert but seemed to be reruns of regan. more bullshit.

clinton, did some shady real estate stuff i guess, got some action in the oval office. ("bill clinton is a pimp") i remember voting in the 92 election. i didnt take it very seriously, i was intending to write in for "bill and opus" but then decided to vote for lyndon larouche. i was mulling over voting nazi or communist. just as a big fuck you to the system. but i was advised what a horrible idea that would be since the govt supposedly keeps dossiers on anyone that even registers that way. i was young, it was my first power trip at the polls, i had no idea what to make of it. i dont even remember what the ballot was. paper in an envelope of some sort. pokey-chad-hangey nonsense or pencil? i dont remember none of that voodoo diebold chicanery back then (now 'premiere election rigging solutions')....

so i voted it didnt seem to matter, to me it seemed jackasses were running the country and i had the choice of jackass A or jackass B. one seems slightly less craptastic than the other.

after that i decided fuck-a-vote. i faithfully maintained my registration, and didnt vote. that was my vote by not voting. shit sandwich or shit salad. i didnt pick the menu someone else did, i just showed up and got shoveled whatever.

2004. stakes were high, ohio was this huge swing state. i figured i'd come out of my non-voting thing and vote against any levy's and bush. well turns our my vote didnt mean shit because the machines were so buggy (read: fixed) that bush won the election. it swung his way. once evidence came out that something funny definately was going on with the machines gore was trying to avoid looking like a sore loser and dropped it. the machines dont seem to be fixed from what i gather, just the shittastik company renamed itself to um i dont know. make it all better?

2008. i really dont want to vote. obama seems to be all about "change" but i really dont think we'll get "change". i've been told that keeping my registration up to date and not voting is "stupid" and "wont solve anything" but will me voting actually solve anything? that is if my vote actually gets tallied?

yes i'm jaded. yes i think the system for voting has failed me (and you too!)

the whole system is ass. the electoral college system doesn't make any sense. it is a throwback to before we had phones, email, and the internets. a chunk of the population was represented by an electorate and they went to DC and voted on behalf of everyone. but guess what? noone seems to know who's voting for who. and you know what? they aren't bound to vote one way or the other. they can vote for anyone eligible. hurrr? read up on it. it's sickening.

what will i do this november? who knows. maybe i'll finally vote communist, you know i love them russian girls. maybe i'll just go and stand there in the booth till they kick me out. maybe i'll draw on it with crayon. i really dont know. i dont feel my vote is worth shit, but it's my vote to waste.

hmmmm i went from why the govt scares me to my apathy. i'm not sure if there is a connection there or not?

http://slackeruprising.com/

http://slackeruprising.com/download/
click that you live in the US, there are download links just under the video, including torrents. i have the torrent coming down now.

MICHAEL MOORE'S NEW FILM
TO BE OFFERED FREE ON INTERNET
"AS A GIFT TO FANS"
FIRST MAJOR FEATURE-LENGTH FILM
TO BE RELEASED FOR FREE ON INTERNET

TRAVERSE CITY , MI (Sept. 4 , 2008) -- After 20 years of making groundbreaking films and setting box office records -- from "Roger & Me" to "Bowling for Columbine" to "Sicko" - Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore has decided to thank his many fans by giving them a download of his newest film , "Slacker Uprising , " for free. This will be the first major feature-length film by a noted director to debut for free via the internet.

"Slacker Uprising" traces Michael Moore's 62-city tour of the swing states during the 2004 Presidential election and records the thrilling -- and frightening -- response he received across the country.

Moore, who has made three of the five top-grossing documentaries of all time (including "Fahrenheit 9/11"), said he is doing this giveaway for personal reasons. "I realized that in a few months it will be the 20th anniversary of my first film, 'Roger & Me', " he said."I've been very blessed and fortunate to have so many people come to my movies over these two decades, I decided why not bypass the studios and the exhibitors and make one that the fans can have for free, as a show of my profound appreciation of their support."

wow if this gets put into production, holy shit! a bizarre mashup of tetsuo's bike from akira and the light cycles from tron. batmans motorcycle might have rockets and such, but it don't have the raw stylings of this toy. todd said sliding off the back could be an issue, i think some good old fashion velcro in the crotchy area of the riding pants would be ducky.

again, i feel the need to point out that we're in the future of all these movies and shows and we're still not really seeing any of the futuristic stuff like these bikes and flying cars in real life.

this was an email forwarded to me at work. fuck yeah. how about for once bailing out US? as in the US that paid in all that money? why should we bail out failing banks that were mismanaged and made dumb mistakes? if i make a dumb investment do i get bailed out? hell no. maybe if i did i would invest more? lol.

anyhow here's the original forward:::

I thought this was a brilliant idea!

I'm against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.
Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend.

To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bona fide U.S. Citizens 18+.

Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up..

So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00.

My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend.

Of course, it would NOT be tax free.
So let's assume a tax rate of 30%.
Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes.
That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam.
But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket.

A husband and wife has $595,000.00.
What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family?
Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved.
Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads
Put away money for college - it'll be there
Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs.
Buy a new car - create jobs
Invest in the market - capital drives growth
Pay for your parent's medical insurance - health care improves
Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean - or else

Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And, of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces.

If we're going to re-distribute wealth let's really do it...instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( "vote buy" ) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President.

If we're going to do an $85 billion bailout, let's bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+!

As for AIG - liquidate it.
Sell off its parts.
Let American General go back to being American General.
Sell off the real estate.
Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.

Here's my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn't.
Sure it's a crazy idea that can "never work."
But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party!
How do you spell Economic Boom?

I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion We Deserve It Dividend more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington DC .
And remember, The Krieg plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.

Ahhh...I feel so much better getting that off my chest.

PS: Feel free to pass this along to your pals as it's either good for a laugh (or a tear) or a very sobering thought on how to best use $85 Billion!!

so facebook has ads, i understand they need to pay the bills. i mean what are some dating ads when faced with other unsavoury methods to get advertising dollars. though its at the point where the ONLY ads i see are dozens of dating ads and variations. almost to the exclusion of any other ad. but wait! facebook has the little "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" thing to rate the ads! sweet, i'll rate em thumbs down and mark them "repetitive".

no change. i'm still seeing the same effin ads. i've started rating them "offensive" and "pornographic". some thought though, maybe they should have more pornographic adverts?

so i guess one of those things that screams i'm bored, i have too much time on my hands, and maybe this is why i'm not dating.... i've been screencapping the ads. yep. so far 66 distinct ads. sometimes THE SAME AD TWICE, ONCE RIGHT ABOVE ITSELF. is facebook telling me to double my pleasure double my fun? these are the ones i've gotten, i know there's shittons more that i was too lazy to get.

i've posted a gallery of them over at facebook. you can only see the first 60 of them since i can only have 60 pics in an album. does it warrant 2 albums of dating ads? meh. i'm not sure if you'll need to be logged in to facebook to see em?

hmmm probably the easiest solution to this whole problem would be to change my relationship status away from single, but then how would girls know i'm still available? lol. maybe i should just get a date?

i blogged about the itunes "genius" feature a week or 2 ago, it gave less than stellar results. i couldn't until today get it to work at home, i got errors basically implying their servers were on fire.

it took like 15 minutes for apple to siphon off my library information. i wonder what they plan on doing with all that data? i didn't read the EULA because i like my eyes just the way they are. not that i'm worried about people knowing what music i listen to, i already have a last.fm account, but i'm starting to trust apple less and less these days. demographics? charts? pirate location? possibilities are endless, and that info across all itunes users being aggregated is definitely worth coin to someone.

anyhow, back to the experiment. i gave it a beach boys tune. it gave me a bunch of oldies, some totally non-oldies. a bunch of non surf type stuff.... avril lavigne? frankie goes to hollywood? evanescence? at least no metal this time. i'm guessing they aren't cross referencing stuff they don't have in the itunes store, as there's alot of stuff that should have hit for the beach boys, even by simply using the "surf" genre. i have some surf by some bands not on major labels that it totally overlooked.

maybe i'm missing the point? maybe it's not to find similar music, rather "if you like X, you might like Y"??

i get one of those 8am calls from the family that can't possibly be good. its my brother saying priscilla died in the middle of the night.

priscilla could be a little bit of a troublemaker, she loved to chew through cords, especially my brothers madly overpriced sony cell phone charger. i think they put catnip in those cords. she also had this knack for getting her tail in your face when she was trying to get petted, and dug her claws into your legs. annoying yes, but she was a good cat otherwise.

when my brother was talking to me about it i could hear booger MEEEEEEEEOOOWWWINNNG like mad in the background, she must have knew something was up because she did that when miss tigger died too. i miss not having booger around, i cant wait to get into a place where it's cool to have her around.

shitty way to start off the morning really....

i just got a spam that appears to be from the john mccain / sarah palin campaign. it's encouraging me to register for a mail-in ballot because its such a close election. do they really need to do this? don't they still have diebold. errrr wait, they had to change their name. i mean the premier election rigging box company still in their pocket?

it did come in to one of my honeypot addresses, so they bought the email of some scummy company. i wonder if it really was their campaign paying for this, or just some shitbag sympathizer?

anyone else seeing this kind of stuff?

so this morning probably 5am the phone rang, then again in a little bit. heard the caller ID reading of 4-1-1-0-0-0-000000 and thought what the fuck and rolled back over. again it rings, i decide to get up and see if i overslept or something. nope, its 6am, i'm good, back to sleep. roomie said it rang 4 times. seriously people....

after i get up i find out its some emergency broadcast thing to advise parents their school is closed. WTF, me and the roomie dont have kids, shouldnt this sort of shit be illegal? i know if i called random numbers from 5-7am i'd sure as shit get the cops called on me. isn't that what the TELEVISION and RADIO MORNING NEWS ARE FOR? for concerned parents to listen to? hell i'd figure it out IF THE BUS DIDN'T COME.

"this is your brain. this is your brain on hope. any questions?"

can you tell these 2 monkeys apart?

triumph the comic dog didn't poop on..... the republican national convention???

(swiped from shiva)

zombies, bats, and jesus. a little early for halloween but meh, it goes well with my new LJ icon, and LJ halloween theme from last year that i'm still using.

this is like a bad argument back and forth with the yes no business. apparently the arrested development movie is rumoured to be a no again.

if this is true shit they can do the movie w/o george michael. i mean COME ON! they could have him off to south africa ala that 70s show, in jail for marrying his cousin?

(cue the final countdown song)

for those who just cant get into that ugly brown default theme for ubuntu, here's a killer option! the ubuntu satanic edition v666.4!!!!

"Dark and light Gnome themes with a blood-soaked feel."

i sweaaaarrrr all electronics hate me. last night i saw a few flashes of lightning out yonder window breaking. at the same time my email program popped up a box complaining it cant reach the web server. i figure its the cable modem dropping sync or something. nope. i can get to other web sites, as well as other servers in the same room at mine. crapshitfuck, i know where this usually goes.

not shit i can do til the morning. i get in and fire up the monitor on it and lo and behold its complaining about a NMI and mentions its probably "bad memory" uggg... after some dicking around i realize its just being all around jerky and also that the ethernet port is toast.

sigh. well at least i have very current backups--yay for email backup scripts!--and a pile of other servers to part together something. too bad i didnt have a matching dell to rip a motherboard out of. but if this bitch blows up, i got i think 5 more nearly identical ones to pull from.

so the whole day at work was rebuilding that box since it handles some light web, email, and dns duties at work..... *sigh*

....and all this after having a 250 gig hard drive acting up this weekend with seek errors. it's a western digital of course. it was free, but shit, i know better than to ever use a western digital.

t-minus 20 days til my hero hank moody returns to television!

standing in line it seemed like a good idea for $5.50, after downing the whole "big box" my stomach isn't all too happy with me. of interest the back of the box has lifing instructions, suggesting to lift with the legs and not the back. anyhow this lunch weighed in at 2-3 lbs probably. i think i'll be skipping the next few meals!

(swiped from lucylle)

ah here's the latest virus scumware action going on. last 2 weeks it was a bullshit flash updater, this week its a fake windows media updater.