There's something wrong with someone that weighs that much. Its not just behavior, and its not just genetics, not just environment, and surely its not just psychology, but a fine dance of causative factors.

No one would want to be like that, live like that. I would like to know if this man ever asked for medical help with his weight.

There are medical ways to deal with weight - medical, surgical, pharmaceutical and behavioral.

Morbid obesity IS a disease.

What is it that one person can 'shove twinkies in their face' all day long and not gain much weight, and someone else can eat one a few times a week and gain a pound?

I'm all for an insistence on personal responsibility, but not when there is meanness and lack of compassion behind it.

] "Until recently, I wasn't able to see any light at the
] end of the tunnel," he said Monday from his hospital bed.
]
] Deuel, who has battled weight problems all his life and
] blames his condition in part on genetics

Really? Genetics huh? Because I blame you.

I hate these people who blame their behavior on Genetics."oh Genetics is against me! Its not my fault!" Fuck you, It is your fault. What about the people who lose their legs in car accidents? Every other day I'm hearing about these peoples' strength and courage to learn to live a new life in a wheel chair or push themselves through hours of physical therapy so they can use artifically legs. They have lost half their damn body, and overcome it. Yet you sit around shoving twinkies down your throat bitching that its all genetic. Its not genetic, its laziness.

Its the same thing at a theatre I'm involved with. Everyone there are emotional wrecks. They get drunk and bitch about how much their lives suck. But it's not the fact that they are lazy, don't work hard, fuck around, drink heavily and skip class. No its because they have bi-polar disorder. They are manic depressive. Statistically, its inpossible for all those people to have all the disorders they claim. Most (if not all) are lying to get attention and to excuse their complete failures in love and life.

Fuck these people that blame genetics or some mental disorder for how sorry their lives are. Fuck them because they cheapen the struggle of people who really have to combat these problems on a daily basis.

Half-ton man: It was genetics

An Arizona sheriff violated the rights of prisoners by using Webcams to broadcast them being booked and held in cells in a kind of "reality show" for the Internet, a federal appeals court has ruled.

I remember this site going around the Internet a long time ago and it pissed me off then...and it pisses me off now that it ever happened.

Lock 'em up and throw away the Webcam

Lesson: Don't collect money for terrorist activity over a website....even if you use encryption.

Webmaster held on terrorist charges

I'm an OLD woman and I guess some folks might call me a hacker. I can rollerblade.

I like the art and hope to go, but its overlapping a bit with another conference that I am speaking at. Hopefully I will get an early talk date and can slip out early to make Phreaknic.

This year's Phreaknic T-shirt art is pretty cool. Check it out.

PhreakNIC Pictures :: PN8 :: hack_or_die_final

] "What up cuz? It's tha Snoopy D-O-double Gizzle in da hizzle.
] Enter yo trickass URL below and I'll traaanslate it from tha
] shizzle to da shiznit, know what I'm sayin?"

This is sooo awesome.

Very cool.

.: Snoop Dogg - Tha Shizzolator :.

Sometimes the majority is wrong but that doesn't make something right. Segregation, for instance.

I think the constitution is very clear. If you leave religion out of this, and embrace REASON, its very clear. Let people marry each other if they want to. It would make people happy, help the economy, and provide more security for people. I wonder how some of the opponents to gay marriage would feel if THEY were denied visitation to their dying mates?

I don't care what WORD is used, marriage, civil unions, whatever - but in order to protect folks that happen to be gay, something needs to be done. They suffer injustice every day because their primary relationships are in no way acknowledged by the government...cutting off their access to government and legal protections.

Its NOT right.

Mike the Usurper wrote:
] So, what happens now is anyone's guess. The only two options
] are strike the rule, or abolish government recognized
] marriage. Marriage is a mostly religious institution anyway,
] so maybe what the step is, government can only recognize civil
] unions, and leave marriage to the church. (The IRS would go
] nuts trying to fit that on a 1040, but no one likes the IRS
] anyway) I don't think that solution makes anyone very happy
] because it means changes for all kinds of people. Insurance
] companies would be forced to retool all their rules because
] just like the government, companies can't discriminate on
] religious grounds (which marriage would now be) and states
] would not be able to do both marriages and civil unions
] because that falls into the category of "separate but equal"
] which was struck down under Brown v Board of Education.

Mike: Nicely written and well-researched, thanks!

RE: Marriage is over

I was just the co-host of Binary Revolution Radio, a weekly hacking show done out of FL, hosted by StankDawg (www.binrev.com).

Its a cool show where we talked about lots of topics, including Stripe Snoop.

The show notes should be posted here (http://www.binrev.com/radio/archive.html) soon.

Acidus on Binrev radio [MP3]

Unprepared or ill-prepared schools can find themselves facing network problems, service disruptions, and in the worse case FBI agents driving onto the campus with subpoenas to haul off PCs, servers, and computer log data.

University IT MUST deal with the Patriot Act

I have profound respect for the ALA in light of recent political events. I'm glad they are around and have their eyes open for the rest of us. I did not know about this. -K.

The American Library Association (ALA) today welcomed the Department of Justice's decision to rescind its request that the Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents instruct depository libraries to destroy all copies of five Department of Justice publications addressing forfeiture. The Justice Department claimed that the documents are "training materials and other materials that the Department of Justice staff did not feel were appropriate for external use." ALA disagreed with this categorization of the public documents, two of which are texts of federal statutes, and with the instruction to destroy them. ALA trusts that there will be no repetition of such unjustified instructions to destroy government information.

This is a fairly questionable decision.

ALA welcomes Department of Justice decision to rescind destruction request

Jeez, how unkewl. How stupid.

If you really wanted to let out a call for hactivism for such an event, why not do it quietly, covertly...with stealth? Why EVEN TRY to involve others for that matter, when there are thousands of backdoored open systems out there?

No, instead make a public spectacle of yourself at a convention filled with feds. Be loud and obnoxious about it. Talk about criminal activity publically, in an open amplified forum.

Yeah, that's the way to do things. lol Jeez.
Maybe it was just a test. Maybe someone wanted to collect stats on how many hardcore republicans were at defcon. A testing of the waters, if you will.

So silly.

] But CrimeThinc continued to ask attendees to deface the
] Republican National Committee Web sites, to launch denial
] of service attacks against their servers, to harass
] delegates in the street, to prevent buses carrying
] delegates from running, and so on. "By any means
] necessary," he said.

This is not hacking, this isn't protesting, this is anarchy, and these jackasses deserve the brutality they get.
...
These are those people you just wish would get the hell off your side.

[ Hear hear. I'm all for activism, but this childish crap only diminishes the validity of the progressive left in this country. I disagree with the Republicans about as much as it's possible to, and as such i'm not about to give them reasons to discredit my standpoint.

I like the quote from the Defcon guy who had to handle the situation :
"We got the call for trouble in the room. The gentleman, I was told, was preaching sedition. I knew that we had to take some steps quickly preventing that. Defcon is definitely for free speech, definitely for legal civil disobedience. But not anarchy, not psychopathic destruction of property." -k]

CrimeThinc @ Defcon: Cause chaos at the RNC