FOX presents mostly fictional anti-hacker news story
Topic: Media
10:10 am EDT, Jul 27, 2007
It looks like FOX is pretty pissed about getting their stuff hacked, and so they've gotten some of their affiliates to cook up a complete line of crap so they can run a "HACKARS R BAD, K?" news piece. It's rather sad.
For those of you who don't recognize what board they're talking about, where everyone is "required" to be anonymous, it's 4chan. If you don't recognize it, Google it. The reason almost all the users on 4chan post anonymously is definitely *not* what this news report claims it is... and the lies don't stop there.
Phil Shuman is a tool. It's one thing to be clueless, but this, coupled with the previous articles he's ran, borders on irresponsible.
Max Blumenthal: the Unauthorized College Republican Tour
Topic: Politics and Law
12:25 pm EDT, Jul 26, 2007
Well, free speech apparently doesn't matter to the College Republican Convention, but that's not the best part.
Max Blumenthal interviews a bunch of college republicans asking them wonderful questions about whether or not and why they support the War In Iraq...
...and then followed up their gung-ho war-happy answers with "So, why aren't you serving in Iraq?"
...and the quote by Tom Delay about abortion affecting immigration, saying "If we had the 40,000 children that have been killed over the last years, we wouldn't need the immigrants to do these jobs."
Wow. That's just special it's so sick. Tom DeLay is such a tool, and every single person there is a twit for not calling him out right then and there on that one.
Yes, during the presidential candidates debates, one of the questions submitted by a YouTube user had the infamous goatse in it for one whole frame.
As an added bonus, here's a slightly NSFW image (don't worry, the actual goatse in it is about 10 pixels high, so very low gross-factor) of the actual event.
The Big Picture | Murdoch & the WSJ Editorial Page
Topic: Miscellaneous
11:41 am EDT, Jul 22, 2007
Most sane investors know not to take anything at face value from the rabid idealogues who live in the WSJ Op-Ed section. But regardless of how you feel about the page, you gotta laugh at this comic:
Broader Privilege Claimed In Firings - washingtonpost.com
Topic: Politics and Law
7:18 pm EDT, Jul 21, 2007
"A U.S. attorney would not be permitted to bring contempt charges or convene a grand jury in an executive privilege case," said a senior official, who said his remarks reflect a consensus within the administration. "And a U.S. attorney wouldn't be permitted to argue against the reasoned legal opinion that the Justice Department provided. No one should expect that to happen."
Ummmm, yeah... This has gone from bad to worse. I'm not seeing any resolution to this other than impeachment and removal from office. Nixon at least tried to hide his attempts at the cover-up, these guys are doing it in broad daylight.
Who would have guessed that Dobby and Hermione would hook up? I guess it makes a strange sort of sense, with her equal rights for house elves activities and whatnot.
Microsoft tries evading new GPL grasp | Tech News on ZDNet
Topic: Technology
7:08 am EDT, Jul 8, 2007
"If you arrange to provide patent protection to some of the people who get the software from you, that protection is automatically extended to everyone who receives the software, no matter how they get it," Smith said in a statement. "This means that the patent protection Microsoft has extended to Novell's customers would be extended to everyone who uses any software Novell distributes under GPLv3."
By Lee Iacocca ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Had Enough?
Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, "Stay the course."
Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic. I'll give you a sound bite: Throw the bums out!
You might think I'm getting senile, that I've gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore. The President of the United States is given a free pass to ignore the Constitution, tap our phones, and lead us to war on a pack of lies. Congress responds to record deficits by passing a huge tax cut for the wealthy (thanks, but I don't need it). The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we're fiddling in Iraq, the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving pom-poms instead of asking hard questions. That's not the promise of America my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I've had enough. How about you?
I'll go a step further. You can't call yourself a patriot if you're not outraged. This is a fight I'm ready and willing to have.
My friends tell me to calm down. They say, "Lee, you're eighty-two years old. Leave the rage to the young people." I'd love to-as soon as I can pry them away from their iPods for five seconds and get them to pay attention. I'm going to speak up because it's my patriotic duty. I think people will listen to me. They say I have a reputation as a straight shooter. So I'll tell you how I see it, and it's not pretty, but at least it's real. I'm hoping to strike a nerve in those young folks who say they don't vote because they don't trust politicians to represent their interests. Hey,America, wake up. These guys work for us.
Who Are These Guys, Anyway?
Why are we in this mess? How did we end up with this crowd in Washington? Well, we voted for them-or at least some of us did. But I'll tell you what we didn't do. We didn't agree to suspend the Constitution. We didn't agree to stop asking questions or demanding answers. Some of us are sick and tired of people who call free speech treason. Where I come from that's a dictatorship, not a democracy.
And don't tell me it's all the fault of right-wing Republicans or liberal Democrats. That's an intellectually lazy argument, and it's part of the reason we're in this stew. We're not just a nation... [ Read More (1.9k in body) ]
