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May. 7th, 2005
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May. 7th, 2005 09:21 amsorry, who's the sad fuck here?
some of the biggest and best hacker/crackers of all time (DrinkorDie crew) or the prosecution that likens them, to Jack Sparrow, "night-time tappers of keyboards"
"You might feel that their lives are rather sad, living as they do for very large parts of their days and nights in a virtual world, in front of a computer monitor, cocooned from existence."
Demagogue prosecution, anyone?
Burn the geeks! Burn the geeks!
Never mind their actual crimes - these people don't shower much, watch CSI and have no girlfriends - YOU MUST CONVICT!
*pours bottle of gin over floppy disk* - this one's for the DoD crew! *sniff*
some of the biggest and best hacker/crackers of all time (DrinkorDie crew) or the prosecution that likens them, to Jack Sparrow, "night-time tappers of keyboards"
"You might feel that their lives are rather sad, living as they do for very large parts of their days and nights in a virtual world, in front of a computer monitor, cocooned from existence."
Demagogue prosecution, anyone?
Burn the geeks! Burn the geeks!
Never mind their actual crimes - these people don't shower much, watch CSI and have no girlfriends - YOU MUST CONVICT!
*pours bottle of gin over floppy disk* - this one's for the DoD crew! *sniff*
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Topeka, Kansas - While those having not suffered it try to cause evolution to be taught as less-than-fact, in preference of faith-based religious-right platitudes, the Intelligent Design lot, predictably, go one step further by not even reading the majority proposal and admitting as much.
Really. Intelligent Design is the Wicca of the evolution debate. Wishy-washy feel-good nonesense from those that neither have the courage of their convictions nor sufficient ignorance for true faith.
Religious Americans - hey! religious anyone: It's ok, we know you represent an argument against evolution. You just hand back your guns, microwaves and TVs, we'll take the devil's nasty tools out of your - how I put this? "uncomplicated" - hands, and you can live your lives out in the dark, with candles, witch-hunts, slavery and bitter, vile hatred until every last one of you dies from a disease "god" sends to "test" you. We'll keep our heresy, our penicillin and our atom bombs until you learn to walk on your hind legs.
Fucking religious cattle, I despise you.
malcubed]Topeka, Kansas - While those having not suffered it try to cause evolution to be taught as less-than-fact, in preference of faith-based religious-right platitudes, the Intelligent Design lot, predictably, go one step further by not even reading the majority proposal and admitting as much.
Really. Intelligent Design is the Wicca of the evolution debate. Wishy-washy feel-good nonesense from those that neither have the courage of their convictions nor sufficient ignorance for true faith.
Religious Americans - hey! religious anyone: It's ok, we know you represent an argument against evolution. You just hand back your guns, microwaves and TVs, we'll take the devil's nasty tools out of your - how I put this? "uncomplicated" - hands, and you can live your lives out in the dark, with candles, witch-hunts, slavery and bitter, vile hatred until every last one of you dies from a disease "god" sends to "test" you. We'll keep our heresy, our penicillin and our atom bombs until you learn to walk on your hind legs.
Fucking religious cattle, I despise you.
one small step for man
May. 7th, 2005 09:46 amUS - Broadcast Flag: Fucked.
What with this and the Cali anti-RFID ruling, I'm starting to think the good ol' US of A might not have forgotten how to be free after all ;)
What with this and the Cali anti-RFID ruling, I'm starting to think the good ol' US of A might not have forgotten how to be free after all ;)
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May. 7th, 2005 12:45 pmInternal Dialogue:
"Ouch. My face hurts. Why does my face hurt?"
"You had the hiccups last night."
"I did? OK - so why does my face hurt?"
"They wouldn't stop."
"I still don't get you."
"You tried the having-a-drink thing and the calmly-holding-your-breath thing, and it didn't work."
"Right. So why does my face hurt?"
"You then tried the punching-yourself-in-the-face-really-hard-each-time-you-hiccup thing."
"Oh, jesus."
"And that didn't work either, but you only stopped when it hurt too much to hit yourself again."
"Gotcha. Great. I rule."
"Ouch. My face hurts. Why does my face hurt?"
"You had the hiccups last night."
"I did? OK - so why does my face hurt?"
"They wouldn't stop."
"I still don't get you."
"You tried the having-a-drink thing and the calmly-holding-your-breath thing, and it didn't work."
"Right. So why does my face hurt?"
"You then tried the punching-yourself-in-the-face-really-hard-each-time-you-hiccup thing."
"Oh, jesus."
"And that didn't work either, but you only stopped when it hurt too much to hit yourself again."
"Gotcha. Great. I rule."
the joy of software
May. 7th, 2005 08:55 pmohhhh, ho ho ho!
WM / RM Recorder - for recording real media streams.
Does exactly what it says on the tin. More usefully, not only does it record a RM stream to an RM file on your hard drive, but it downloads it at much greater than realtime, so I got a whole 30 minute radio show in a minute.
And, with the addition of DBPoweramp, my convertor of choice, with its DirectShow plugin (and a tiny text file edit as described at the bottom of that page), I can also transcode from RM -> Mp3.
This is going to make recording H2G2 much much easier (avoiding all that tedious mucking about with sound cards) and also make my recorded comedy archive explode!
I'm so raping BBC comedy now :D
And, having installed RealPlayer on my Treo, I don't even have to transcode radio shows to get a half-hour of funny into just over 7mb. That's about 35 hours of radio on a 512mb card. :D
WM / RM Recorder - for recording real media streams.
Does exactly what it says on the tin. More usefully, not only does it record a RM stream to an RM file on your hard drive, but it downloads it at much greater than realtime, so I got a whole 30 minute radio show in a minute.
And, with the addition of DBPoweramp, my convertor of choice, with its DirectShow plugin (and a tiny text file edit as described at the bottom of that page), I can also transcode from RM -> Mp3.
This is going to make recording H2G2 much much easier (avoiding all that tedious mucking about with sound cards) and also make my recorded comedy archive explode!
I'm so raping BBC comedy now :D
And, having installed RealPlayer on my Treo, I don't even have to transcode radio shows to get a half-hour of funny into just over 7mb. That's about 35 hours of radio on a 512mb card. :D