inignoct wrote:
] ] "As long as the warmonger Bush and the Nazi Americans
] ] live, who are worse than Hitler's fascists, world peace
] ] will be impossible to achieve," a North Korean schoolgirl
] ] says to Bartelsman.
] ]
] ] "The Americans enjoy war...it's part of their nature,"
] ] says a boy.
]
] [ So sad. Hate is learned... teaching a child hate is among
] the worst sins one can commit. What a travesty. -k]

I saw this British news crew that got to go into North Korea on PBS a year back (Frontline? maybe). Anyway, they were given 2 "guides" [cough]governmentagents[cough], who showed them around the country and answered their questions. Its was wild how literially brainwashed these people were.

The guides explained some monument that showed "The GreaT Leader repelling the evil imperialist Americans and Japanese tried to conquer NK in WWII." It was so funny to listen to the British try to explain that no, the Germans and Japanese started the war against Europe Russia and the US. The guide simply could not believe it, insisting the US started WWII.

In the rural areas, the guide were preplexed by the British questions about all the famine that has been reported and replied "no, there are no famines here." The British tried to explain, "Yes, the UN is giving you grain, millions are dying from lack of food," and even showed the guide newspapers from several different countries talking about the UN food relief effort. Again the guide looked at him like he said 2+2=5.

Here is an entire country that has been lied to about the events of the world for the past 60+ years. It is extremely sad to think of all the wasted potential.

CBS News | If Anne Frank Only Knew ... | February 27, 2004Â 18:05:26

I am completely shocked by how incredible this film is.

Unlike most films, this movie doesn't have a resolution of conflict. It is 100+ minute snapshot of how 4 people are consumed by their flaws, and are utterly destroyed by them.

While feeling very sad, I also felt very uplifted by the film. Not in a "at least I'm not ..." kind of way. It is almost as if being able to spot the troubles and warning signs as 4 people self destruct, I can somehow prevent myself from falling prey to my own flaws. The film teaches several lessons, but the on I took from it was this: We can be so blindly focused on our dreams, we overlook whats preventing them from ever happening, and whats slowly killing our relationships and even our very bodies. It can prove difficult to pull up sometimes, and take a breather. Its a skill everyone needs, but very few people can do it.

I have much to learn.

Requiem for a Dream

] The dispute over who controls key portions of the
] Internet's address system erupted into open conflict
] today when VeriSign Inc., the world's largest addressing
] company, sued the Internet's most visible regulatory
] body, charging that it has been unfairly prevented from
] developing new services for Internet users.

Yeah, services that corrupt the DNS trees worldwide by making www.verisignblowslikeatwodollarwhore.com resolve.

Verisign Sues ICANN to reinstate Sitefinder!

] The company's long-term plans are more ambitious.
] Worm-killing functionality called "behavior blocking" is
] slated for next year, and will work, Gates promised, by
] spotting anomalous behavior by the operating system or
] applications. Using last year's Blaster worm as an
] example, Gates said the technology would notice that
] Windows' RPC service had begun downloading malicious
] code, and would intervene to prevent it. "The system will
] truly know what actions are allowed by applications and
] operating systems," said Gates.

Instead of trying fancy-pants AI to detect the 1 time out of a million you are downloading malicious code, why don't you fix your security model? You can start by removing the HTML rendering engine from the kernel.

The Register - Microsoft XP SP2 security attempts

radical_edward wrote:
] "After following more than 10,000 people for 17 years,
] investigators found that vegetarians were 15 percent less
] likely to develop colorectal cancer than meat-eaters."
]
] More people should face the reality: Eating a vegetarian diet
] is simply good for you.

... [sigh]. I always am worried about dietary studies. For Example, they rarely take into account other factors then eating, such as the persons lifestyle, exercise, stress levels, etc.

As you are anti-Atkins (as I am), I show you a prime example. Last week NBC's Dateline was all about the Atkin's diet. Several Atkins people were pointing out that in the 1950's and 1960's, would ate lots of red meat for dinner, and eggs, bacon and sausage for breakfast, and we were fine. then, they said, because the US government created and promoted the food pyramid and so we became very fat in the 1970 and 1980s, and that continues until today.

This completely overlooks the number of blue-collar vs white-collar jobs, the activity levels of these folks, rising economic needs that forced both parents to work and thus the increase in processed foods that were bought, the growth of fast food, the insane amount of calories in food today (I doubt they had 1000+ calorie hamburgers @ BK in the 1950s), the increased sized of portions of todays food, the increase in disposable income of child to buy food, the increase in marketing to kids and sales of food products by kids, etc.

[deep breath]

In short the entire argument these folks were pushing was based on figures that you couldn't compare. While this may not apply in this study on vegetarians, I always kind of never take these things as seriously as I should.

RE: More Evidence Vegetarian Diet May Cut Cancer Risk

] He's trying to rewrite history, like those people that try to
] make the case that the Holocaust never happened, because they
] don't want to believe that it happened. But it *did* happen,
] and it really was horrible.

As I said, I read this site with a grain of salt. A yes it is horrible thing that happened. Do I believe the conspriancy nonsense? No, of course not, its utterly retarded. Do I think a ray gun took down the towers? no. Do I find the information about steel and fire temperatures interesting, certainly.

It is a well written and documented website. I like the layout, it has alot of information (or disinformation if you like), a lot of sources (who may or may not be morons), and everything is nicely cross-referenced. They present there case fairly well, and I can admire that.

My meme was not an endosement of the facts or what you view as a misrepresentation of information on the site. Compared to other conspircy/ufo/craziness sites out there (ie http://www.crystalinks.com/ ) this was of nice quality, and I enjoyed reading it.

RE: 9-11 Research

] "Our government should respect every person and protect
] the institution of marriage," he said. "There is not a
] contradiction between these responsibilities."

This is just retarded. I mean, all other arguements about equal rights or anything else aside, the government has no responsibility to pass laws to protect a religious sacrament, let alone change the very fabric of our country's legal system by making it an ammendment.

Granted this religious sacrament has legal meaning (inheritance, etc), but this, as Bush says, is not about denying gays those rights. It comes down to protecting the religious significance of the word "marriage," and the government has no business fucking with that

CNN.com - Bush calls for same-sex marriage-ban amendment - Feb. 24, 2004

Jeremy wrote:
] For the last three years, bad news about the music industry
] has been as steady as a synthesized drumbeat. But a turnaround
] that began quietly last fall has become unmistakable with the
] success of Norah Jones's new album, "Feels Like Home."
]
] Recording executives realize that it will take more than a
] Norah Jones album to bring stability back to the industry.
] That is why, in the months ahead, executives will be closely
] watching the public's reaction to albums from Janet Jackson,

[snarfs coke] If I had to choose between being exposed to her music or exposed to her chest, I'd try to stop breathing and die.

] Avril Lavigne

OH! SK80R GRRL J00 SO 31337!!!!!!111 OMG ROTFLMAO !!!!!11

] and the Beastie Boys

... [weeps silently over how far they've slipped]

CD Sales Rise, but Industry Is Still Wary

] "You let your hair down, and it's that girl's club,
] slumber party feel," said Teri Jaworksi, who works out at
] the S Factor, an all-women studio in Los Angeles.

The Cheetah in Atlanta offers pole dancing lessons. Apparently they are quite popular with a waiting list of over 2 months. While some are what you would expect (brides to be wanting to surpise their husbands, strippers from a lower quality clubs wanting to be better, etc) more and more are just randon ladies wanting some fun.

Pole dancing shows up in health clubs

So I was talking with Decius the other day about the NYT. If you folks haven't noticed you can access NYT articles through google news without needing an account. Google simply adds a parameter "partner=google" to the end of the NYT URL. I figured Decius and I could could write a script that checks for recommended memes for NYT stories and insert this at the end, not allow for people without accounts to read stories.

However this is not what NYT checks for. If you go to a NYT article through a standard google search, the "partner=google" is not added to the URL, but you can still access the story So how does NYTs do this? With the "referer" field on a standard HTTP GET request.

So tonight I had an idea. WGET! it has a nice litte option "--referer=". Sure enough, you can grab NYT stories using WGET.

Thus to read for example the Theory-vs-reality story, using:

wget http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/23/opinion/23HERB.html&OQ=pagewantedQ3DprintQ26positionQ3D

will save the login screen but

wget --referer=http://www.google.com http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/23/opinion/23HERB.html&OQ=pagewantedQ3DprintQ26positionQ3D

will grab the page. Yes yes yes, I know, as Decius told me: "Just get a freaky account dude."