] Field 13.02.2004
]
] 1301 fluorescent light tubes powered by the electro
] magnetic field emitted from the overhead powerlines.

This is illegal as hell, but it does make for pretty pictures.

Richard Box- Archive

They are cute. They are happy. And they bleed. Best Flash Ever.

Happy Tree Friends

] "We are on the cusp of perfection of extreme evil -- an
] evil whose possibility spreads well beyond weapons of
] mass destruction," Joy warned recently in Wired magazine.

Bill Joy makes the Weekly World News!

Yahoo! Top Stories - Super-Robots Will Wipe Out Mankind!

This is a command line UNIX utility that orders pizza. I'm not kidding.

Pizza Party - Command Line Pizza ordering program

] The monetary bill is more than $100 billion, and the cost
] is still rising. The cost in American lives is more than
] 600, and the number is still rising. The cost in world
] opinion is considerable. There's a question that needs to
] be addressed: "Was this the best way to spend all of
] that? As security consumers, did we get the most security
] we could have for that $100 billion, those lives, and
] those other things?"

k's comments remined me of this essay...

We are all security customers | Perspectives | CNET News.com

dmv wrote:
] ] Then Rush Limbaugh put it all in perspective, after a
] ] caller remarked that the "stack [of] naked men" was "like
] ] a college fraternity prank."
] ]
] ] RUSH: Exactly. Exactly my point! This is no
] ] different than what happens at the skull and bones
] ] initiation and we're going to ruin people's lives over it
] ] and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then
] ] we are going to really hammer them because they had a
] ] good time. You know, these people are being fired at
] ] every day. I'm talking about people having a good time,
] ] these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You of
] ] heard of need to blow some steam off?

My god... The lesson of WWII is that when powerful people become poor and afraid they are willing to submit their freedom for a kind of control and they exert their energies into violent hate. Read "Escape from Freedom" by Erich Fromm...

Thats really been my fear in all this. That we'll succumb to this. All the ingredients are here. The fevered, unquestioning nationalism, the symbolism which takes the place of values, the fear, the self assured jingoism. We slap an American Flag on our SUV and talk about how we can dominate any military in the world...

People watch fox news because it reinforces all of these emotions. Fox tells you that you are right and good and you've made the right choices and everyone else is wrong, no matter what. And the opposition has become just as unthinking. Hate Hate Hate, all around. Its a perfect environment for a tyrant. Ripe for the picking. We're sitting ducks. All that is required is the right person to arrive on the scene.

And now we're rationalizing an atrocity. Limbaugh has been a major public figure for over a decade. Millions look to him for leadership. And he is rationalizing an atrocity.

If you can rationalize this, you can rationalize death camps. You can rationalize anything. Your values. Your honor. Your worth. You've replaced it with a sticker. And you're doomed.

This might be the point where it actually does make sense to consider getting out of this place. If that person arrives. The one who sees the opportunity here and exploits it. The one who talks of america for americans and the world for america.

If he arrives, he'll take it all, and the world will burn.

RE: Wonkette

] It probably started with one person, who by curiosity or
] accident, swiped a driver's license through the gas pump
] charge card reader at the Meijer store on Carpenter Road.

I thought you were supposed to run credit card numbers with the bank in real time?

This would have made a good g-phile...

] Mr. Bush is right to champion free trade and global
] prosperity, since an economically integrated world will
] be a more stable one. And he is right to hope that China
] in particular stays on the free-market path. But if
] China, with its 1.2 billion people, does keep up its
] brisk economic growth, won't the day come when it can
] match America's defense budget without breaking a sweat?
] How can America then afford to keep its military so
] potent as to "dissuade potential adversaries from
] pursuing a military build-up in hopes of surpassing, or
] equaling, the power of the United States"?

this is Robert Wright from Sept. 2002... another quote :

"Yet the Bush administration, with its limited regard for both international law and world opinion, is making America not just sheriff, but judge, jury and executioner. This strategy could lead to a number of outcomes, but national security isn't among the more likely."

Contradictions of a Superpower

Computer geeks in sweden march for free bandwidth and abolition of intellectual property.

Computer Anarchist Marchers

I thought I'd memed this guy in the past, but in any case he is a fucking bad ass. Every whacked out questionably legal high tech doomsday weapon that you and your buddies have always talked about making but no one ever bothered to actually start working on THIS guy has made. And its all right here.

The Mad Russian