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Thursday, December 13, 2007 3:19 PM

Warning... VERY Politically Incorrect

This is one of the infinite reasons that I hate religious people (obviously a bit of an over-exaggeration):

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hr110-847

WHY THE FUCK DO WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE ANY FUCKING RELIGIONS AT ALL!!!!!!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHh

1) Don't our legistlators have more important things to do than to encroach on my religious freedom?   Here, let me name a few:
    - American currency is in the shitter
    - Iraq
    - Afghanistan
    - Border Security.
    - preventing Britney Spears from polluting the gene pool anymore

2) How much money is it costing the taxpayers so that these assholes can diddle themselves while talking about how much better their fairy tales are than everyone else's?  ("Jesus could beat up Muhammed".. "Oh yeah, Vishnu could kick all their asses!".. Let's just have an imaginary Royal Rumble with Jesus, Muhammed, Buddha, Jehovah, God, The Flying Spaghetti Monster, Zues, Odin, Santa, and The Tooth Fairy and Mothra while we're at it... settle it all right now)

3) Poverty
4) Crime
5) Electoral Abuse
6) Corporations Controlling the country

God, I am so angry right now, I could kill a cute baby seal with my bare hands and eat its liver.

PLEASE PEOPLE.  Go Vote For Ron Paul!!!  Put Some Sanity back in the government!!

posted by Tom (Comments Off)
Sunday, July 08, 2007 9:55 AM

Helpless

http://www.alternet.org/rights/55993

This stuff makes me ashamed of my country.  That we could ever let this happen is astonishing.  That it still continues is repulsive.  An innocent guy getting tortured for 5 years by the US.  We used to demonize other countries for doing these kinds of things.  I have a feeling the taxpayers will be paying for this in lawsuit settlements once people figure out how to do it in a court. 

I never thought I would say this, but: I think that John Kerry (*shudder*) would have made a better President.  Well, at least I don't think he would have done this.
posted by Tom (Comments Off)
Tuesday, March 21, 2006 9:24 AM

Miscellaneous


That's all for now. :)
posted by Tom (Comments Off)
Thursday, March 16, 2006 7:31 AM

Identity? What Identity?

I'm glad to see that Chase (JP Morgan Chase, actually) is doing so much to protect us from dumpster divers...

Asshats!
posted by Tom with 8 Comments
Friday, November 18, 2005 8:20 AM

The audacity of Sony

The audacity of Sony in handling this "root kit" disaster of theirs leaves me nearly apoplectic...

Bruce Schneier writes a great article at Wired about the whole situation and points out some really great reasons to get really pissed off:  If you don't know of Bruce, he is a great resource for computer users' rights and is always fighting for the "right thing" when it comes to software.  Everything he writes is very cogent and on the mark; it really makes you think.

Anyway, here's a very small background on this issue:
  • In 2004, Sony decides that they want to watch what they do with the CDs that you BOUGHT from them on your computer.
  • Sony adds secret software to their CDs so that when you put them in your machine, it installs without your knowledge.  This software watches what you do with Sony's CDs and sends that information back to Sony!
  • In order to avoid detection, Sony installs what is called a "root kit" that allows them to hide the existence of this software.
  • This software can't be removed without crashing Windows.
  • Sony executives just act like a bunch of elitist pricks saying things like "Most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
  • Sony issues a "fix" that removes the cloaking of the software, but doesn't remove the software itself!
  • It turns out that some included software in there might actually be violating other people's Copyright, which is exactly what they were supposedly trying to prevent!
  • People have now written viruses that take advantage of Sony's installed software to hide themselves from the rest of the machine (including anti-virus software as far as I know).
  • Sony has yet to actually issue a removal tool that actually removes.
  • The number of machines with this root kit installed on it number over 1/2 million and some of those are in the DoD... not good.
  • Your anti-virus software does NOT remove this....
Read the article for other details and reasons to get mad.

This makes me so mad that we bought a Sony TV the other day for my mother-in-law.  I will not buy Sony products anymore.  How about you?

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posted by Tom (Comments Off)
Monday, October 17, 2005 8:41 AM

So... one US Government scientist says to the other...

Hey... I don't feel so good...
posted by Tom (Comments Off)
Wednesday, September 07, 2005 7:52 AM

Doc, are you drunk or just sleep deprived?

Contrary to what my doctor friend said, it seems that young doctors in medical school are so tired, they might as well be drunk for as well as they perform....

Yikes!

posted by Tom (Comments Off)