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[ I already have one on *my* car! -k]

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Dick Armey, circa Oct. 2003:

Now, there was no reason to tell the world about the ambassador's wife. It was just a short-sighted, self-centered, simple-minded cowardly act of revenge, and who's paying the cost? The Bush White House... If they ever find [the leakers], they ought to just -- they ought to just kick them out of the White House and prosecute them, because...the greater the pretension, the greater the hypocrisy. [CNN, 10/19/03]

Dick Armey now:

We've got Karl Rove, who is under this constant attack of political malarkey, who has probably the most documented case of his evidence of anyone in the the whole story. So quite frankly, I think the American people are seeing it for what it is right now. More than anything else it's a political farce not a matter of national security interests. [Fox News, 7/14/05]

[ I know it's from lib-left DKos, but still. Jebus. -k]

Daily Kos: Republican

acidus wrote :
The only argument people can make is the game was misleadingly labeled, causing them to purchase something more extreme then they thought. The argument is so flawed. What are these people who are pissed about being "deceived" so mad about? That they are cool giving their kids a game where they can decapiate people with a sword, shoot cops, take drugs, and bang hookers, but no no no, being able to see 2 animated characters have sexing is just too much! That is as hypocritical as it is horrible parenting.

This is utterly a waste of my governments time.

[ 100% agreement from here. I think this is the Left's weakest plank. Besides making us all look like whiny prudes, I don't even think it's good politics. I recognize this country is in the midst of an anti-enlightenment phase, but honestly, why should we do our opponents' work for them?

Much has been made of the way in which this country gives extreme violence a pass, but gets all twisted by panties or, god forbid, a bare breast on primetime. It's ridiculous.

Social programs, good.
Clean environment, good.
Equal rights, good.
Censorship, bad.

-k]

CNN.com - Clinton seeks video game sex scene probe

Now this is a truly new application of a keyboard, which I am sure will be rather hellishly expensive, but will probably not have any problem finding people to buy it judging from how much some fools are willing to pay for the reduced-size "Happy Hacker" keyboard--particularly since they willingly pay even more for the version where no one bothered to silkscreen labels onto the keys.

I give it a whole three months of this thing on the market before someone codes up a Drempels-style hack to make the keys change color and so on while the keyboard is being used. The possibilities are damn near endless.

Pimp.

[ Agreed. I've wanted this for some time... truly programmable keyboards that i can turn into whatever I want. -k]

This man deserves a patent with a large sack of money pinned to it.

Is it irony when my Powerbook goes into sleep mode due to low battery condition, 1 second before completing a shutdown command?

It was already at the point of having terminated all the processes, the finder was gone, just an empty Hokusai desktop... sleep. I swapped the battery and woke it up. I glanced at my Hokusai for ONE SECOND before the machine powered off.

I don't believe that there wasn't a single second's worth of juice left in that battery.

This was the moment Nasa's Deep Impact projectile blasted into Comet Tempel 1, more than 130 million km from Earth. The picture was taken by the probe's mothership.

BBC News | Comet impact in pictures

Comets are time capsules that hold clues about the formation and evolution of the solar system. They are composed of ice, gas and dust, primitive debris from the solar system's distant and coldest regions that formed 4.5 billion years ago. Deep Impact, a NASA Discovery Mission, is the first space mission to probe beneath the surface of a comet and reveal the secrets of its interior.

[ Shoot a smart, 800 lb bullet into a comet and see what gets blasted out... pretty cool... -k]

NASA - Deep Impact Mission to a Comet

Why the current obsession with the acoustic/electronic rivalry, with the analog/digital interface? Why are so many people trying to make natural sources behave like machines and machines like humans?

[ Kind of interesting, if only a quick grazing...

I'm reminded of a record played by my compatriot R which was recorded by a friend who was bored at work. Working at Kinko's, he got the idea to record the sounds made by those big, 12 foot long, multistage ueber copy machines, doing all the various things they do, and release it. It was compelling in a similar way to what this guy is saying, though not, to be truthful, a masterpiece. The track names were cool too... think along the lines of "500 copy run of double sided cardstock, collated, not stapled".

Anyway, I heard the Symphony for DotMatrix some years ago, and the Bad Plus and Brad Mehldau both perform outstanding Jazz trio/quintet versions of Aphex Twin (Film, by Bad Plus) and Radiohead (not electronic, but not really analog either...). -k]

Globetechnology: I sing the music electric

Vile wrote: If you have any further questions, I am happy to answer them. Thanks for the interest! I know much about many topics. I always like to enlighten. So, opheria, now you know...and you know what they say about knowing? It's half the battle!

I have bestowed this award upon you for your ability to craft targeted and strategic posts to piss off the largest amount of people possible. I also award you for your own sexual insecurities that allow you to imply that homosexuals are not "actual human beings." Kudos to you! Oh, and please do not neglect to visit the url below to receive this prestigious award. Thank you for your time...and attention.

And because of your unique disregard for human life and everything that pertains, we will stray from the normal policy of not feeding the trolls. Eat up.

World's Greatest Poster Award - given to Vile

I just wanted to say that I passed my second qualification exam (oral exam) on Tuesday, and am now officially a PhD candidate. Yay!

[ Holla! Seriously, congrats. I'm surprised to see such coherency though... if i was you, i'd have been drunk from tuesday afternoon until, i dunno, at least the fourth of july. -k]

w00t!