home to such things as the "Kill everyone project", "the Gematriculator", " the Global Stupidity Advisory System", and lots of other strang things, this is one of the more entertainingly strange sites I've seen in a while...

--Abaddon

The Sect of Homokaasu

[This is a gallery of different images of human social networks.]

look at the highschool friendship image, see the few nodes (kids) with no connections...man, how much is that the suck...

--Abaddon

Gallery of network images

] The 970FX purportedly dissipates only ~25W at 2GHz,
] leaving plenty of room for speed ramping, and the real
] possibility for G5 PowerBooks. If silicon-on-insulator
] (SOI) technology proves effective at limiting current
] leakage at 90nm, IBM should not see the aggressive
] upswing in power consumption that Intel has.

I want I want I want...

--Abaddon

Ars Technica: G5 Power PC 970FX to hit 2.5GHz

] Shit Bitch Bears are the most authentic and effective way
] to express deep feelings of lust, love and like to that
] special someone.

Awww...isn't Mike great.....this is what Mike is getting me for Valentines day.:)

ShitBitchBear::Home

] Politics is dirty business, and rarely so much as in the
] area of patronage: appointments to sought-after federal
] jobs in general, and to the federal bench in particular.
] So it should be little surprise that, with so much at
] stake, one political party would want to use the
] insecurity inherent in computerized databases to its
] political advantage.
]
]
] What is surprising, however, is that, caught with their
] hand in the cookie jar, Senate Republicans employed the
] tactic of blaming the victim: they said, in essence, It's
] your fault that we got and used your information. If
] successful, this tactic does not bode well for the
] government's ability to prosecute computer crimes, and to
] protect critical infrastructures.

SecurityFocus HOME Columnists: The first fallout from Cybergate

] But it was in the second part of the interview that
] things, to my mind, unraveled. Bush offered no compelling
] rationale for reelecting him. He offered excuses on the
] economy; and, on the critical matter of the country's
] fiscal health, he seemed scarily out of touch.
] ...
] if this is the level of coherence, grasp of reality,
] and honesty that is really at work in his understanding
] of domestic fiscal policy, then we are in even worse
] trouble than we thought.

[ A strikingly similar analysis of Bush's Meet the Press interview to my own. The key difference is that this is Andrew Sullivan, a traditional Bush apologist, if not supporter. The republican base is foundering on the issue of the economy. This is our opening, unless by some magical chance, the US creates 10 million jobs and the debt mysteriously vanishes in the next 6 months. -k]

*sarcasm* no way dude, its magic, stop thinking so hard and trust him...no seriously... */sarcasm*

--Abaddon

The New Republic Online: Attention Deficit

] Once upon a time, there was a SPC Schwarz stationed with
] the Army in the Balkans. SPC Schwarz was either very
] clever or very bored; but probably both, since he managed
] to attempt or be warned about 213 things he wasn't
] allowed to do. He collected those things into a
] hillarious list and posted them to the web. The site
] hadn't been updated in a couple of years and has since
] gone away; but the list is classic, so I saved it.

My Personal Favorites:

-I am not authorized to sell mineral rights.
-Not allowed to add 'In accordance with the prophesy' to the end of answers I give to a question an officer asks me.
-Despite the confusing similarity in the names, the "Safety Dance" and the "Safety Briefing" are never to be combined.

very funny

213 things you can't do in the Army

] Could the recognition of our imperfect understanding
] serve to establish the open society as a desirable form
] of social organization? I believe it could, although
] there are formidable difficulties in the way. We must
] promote a belief in our own fallibility to the status
] that we normally confer on a belief in ultimate truth.

Wow, this might be the most important thing I've read since MemeStreams started.

First off, despite the title, this is not an anti-capitalist screed. George Soros is an investment banker and the 38th richest man in the country. In fact, this article isn't really about capitalism. This article is about everything. The title is so poor that I almost changed it.

What Soros is saying about Capitalism is that there are people who accept the concept of free trade in a ideological way, in an absolutist way, and that is a problem. The problem with religious states, which requires the separation of church and state, is that when laws are the product of man, they are open to debate, but when laws are the product of God, to question is heresy. If you have a society in which the law cannot be questioned, you have a totalitarian society. It is only a matter of time.

The thing that Soros is saying here is that any absolutist ideology can be abused in this manner. It doesn't matter if your ideology is based on the Bible, or the writings of Marx, or the writings of Adam Smith. If you have a nation of people who believe that their principals are beyond question, ultimately you have a totalitarianism. It is only a matter of time before the inconsistencies your absolutism forces you to ignore cause fissures which break your society down.

Reading this essay caused me to think back across many of the discussions that I've had on this site over the past two years. My instinct that Fukuyama's belief in an ultimate solution was flawed. Being able to see great tragedies of history reflected in the idea of pre-emptive military action and being unable to demonstrate that its not "ok" if you're doing it for Democracy. In our worries about the state of the IT industry. In my various discussions about politics with people from various perspectives.

I've had a really hard time deciding where I fit in the political spectrum. I know what the tests tell me, but somehow I'm never comfortable with the answers. When I talk to conservatives they think I'm a liberal. When I talk to liberals they thing I'm a conservative (or at the least that I've been duped by them). One thing I've come away from years and years of these conversations with is the idea that people usually intertwine their identity and their perspective. They are a certain thing. They believe that thing is right. So they think a certain way. The way they think defines what group they see themselves in, which defines who they are, and we repeat. After years they get quite locked into a c... [ Read More (0.2k in body) ]

The Capitalist Threat - George Soros

] This Thursday, January 15 the Secretary of State's Voting
] Systems Panel will meet in Sacramento to discuss the
] status of Diebold and its voting systems in California.
]
] {snip}
]
] Back in October 2003, Diebold sought state certification
] of its newest voting machine, the Accuvote-TSx, a lighter
] version of its current model, the Accuvote-TS, used in
] Alameda and Plumas counties. But just before
] certification was taken up by the Secretary of State's
] Voting System Panel (VSP), the Secretary of State's
] office learned that Diebold had installed an uncertified
] version of its software into Alameda's voting system
] prior to California's historic, October 7 recall
] election.
]
] {snip}
]
] Because Diebold's actions in Alameda were a violation of
] state law, the Secretary of State ordered an audit of all
] 17 California counties using Diebold voting equipment,
] which includes touchscreen as well as paper-based optical
] scan systems. Preliminary results of that audit were
] released at the December 15, 2003 VSP meeting.
]
] The audit found that Diebold had installed uncertified
] versions of software or firmware in all 17 counties it
] services in California. In five counties, the audit
] showed that the versions of software Diebold reported to
] auditors that the counties were using were not the same
] versions as the auditors found in use in those counties.
] In three counties, including Los Angeles, which used
] Diebold touchscreens for early absentee voting, the
] software used was not only uncertified by the state but
] was not approved by the federal government, either.

I can't say that I'm suprised...

--Abaddon

Diebold Illegally installs uncertified E-Voting software

Guys, thats most evil. Its pure evil. Evil Evil Evil...

"If you know my name
don't speak it out
it holds a power..."
- Einstuerzende Neubauten : Chrysantemum

evil