You screwed around as a teen, now why can’t your kids?
Couldn’t help but notice the ‘hype’ surrounding the article entitled ‘You Grew Up Playing Shoot’em-Up Games. Why Can’t Your Kids?…. Although the title of that article may sound grown-up and wise, personally, I think it’s a bullshit wise-crack because I seriously doubt it has anything to do at all with computer games at all.
You [...]
I hate cripple-ware!
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have now got an Apple MacBook Pro to work on, which obviously has its pros and cons. Sure, the machine supports X11 to a certain extent but I don’t want to basically run 2 different window managers that look and act a bit differently. I have been [...]
LMAO! Minister must explain how a guy, with Joker-style make-up job, got a passport an ID-card
My girlfriend just called me about this hilarious bit about a guy that had gotten a passport with his picture made while he looked like The Joker from the Batman series.
Apparently, after stating that ‘this was his way of life’, the municipal office didn’t see no problem with it, and issued a passport an ID-card.
This [...]
The ‘joys’ of computerisation…
Things can go wrong — about 800.000 times.
Forgive my sarcasm, but wasn’t making this type of stuff illegal supposed to cure all of this? *very deep sigh*
The ‘industry’ really should stop lobbying to criminalise crackers and direct their ammo at the ones that are really responsible: the companies that allow for these type of fraud [...]
Cute…
Cute.. I quote:
Players and creators of video games could face imprisonment for acts of virtual violence under draft legislation being drawn up by two of Germany’s state governments.
It could’ve been an article on The Onion but sadly — it ain’t no joke. ‘Der’ Man wants to illegalise in-game violence thinking that it will prevent kids [...]
I guess the truth really, really is inconvenient…
I have just caught this article here and it sickens me how, the ‘free world that the terrorist envy‘, is all run by money. I just hope some of the parents are wise enough to teach their kids, though… I mean, yeah, they’re American, but that doesn’t mean that they’re all morons, even a retard [...]
Oooooh a student got abused and tazed by police — so now what?
I just caught this sick shit through The Register…. Guy gets tazed by cops because he couldn’t show an ID card.
“Stand up or you will get tazed again?”
What the frigging fuck? Of course, everybody says it’s a bad thing. Sure, I’m not saying that it isn’t….
But, I don’t know what upsets me more here. The [...]
The dark nature of capitalism…
 by in Belegana, Random Rantings |
I couldn’t resist to use the same title for this post as the one I recently read on connecting*the*dots — because, hey, the following is also the dark nature of capitalism…
This morning, there was some news on TV (can’t help it — my girlfriend always turns the damn thing on in the morning), that earlier [...]
It’s 2006 and this world still stinks…
Last night I had a hard time getting asleep and couldn’t resist thinking about the sorry sick state our world is in, the way that it is getting spinned out of control caused mainly by the corruption-prone mechanics of politics and economics.
About how megalomanic people are put in powerful positions and how they, slowly and [...]
OM-MF-G
Just discovered this here (by following a link, by the way, in one of the comments below this other amazing story):
He noticed an alphanumeric code printed on the key [of the Diebold voting machine], and remarked that he had a key at home with the same code on it. The next day he brought in [...]
Quote Of The Week #22
For this 22nd Quote Of The Week, we’ll focus on Emiliano Zapata, who once said (or rather, wrote, in a letter to Pancho Villa):
Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny.
Quote Of The Week, QOTW
Give up your PIN-code to some criminal holding you at gun-point?
| by in Belegana, Freedom & Repression, Health, Ideas & Concepts, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy, The Netherlands, Visions |
Well, go to jail already! In the Netherlands, the police will label anybody that hands over their PIN-code, as a ’suspect of a criminal act’. Of course, there are things to be said against, and pro…. But, of course, I’m more leaning towards against: I didn’t fucking ask for a fucking banking-card that is protected [...]
Jihad Watch — WTF?
Don’t know how I got there, but I discover this site that I wished I didn’t.
Apparently, the site in question sees itself as some authority on Islam — because they say they’ll educate the West about them (they obviously misspelt ‘propaganda’ there).
Anyways, it is clear that they haven’t read this article (which really makes a [...]
So — they’re out for ‘our freedoms’, eh?
| by in Belegana, Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, The Netherlands, Visions |
WHAT FUCKING FREEDOMS (Dutch) ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
I look around and see the quality of life terribly deteriorating: schools don’t have any decent budgets because of the ongoing mock-up wars. I can’t even walk the fucking street at night without getting fucking stared at.
So who’s the fucking terrorist? No ‘terrorist’ has bombed my neighbourhood. [...]
Religion breeds intolerance…
Most people refuse to understand that religion has been created solely for population control and mind manipulation.
If you read stuff like this:
I will not help Dan Brown get rich off a story that makes a mockery of some of my most sacred beliefs,” Ballew said this week as she prepared to attend one of the [...]
This wasn’t my choice and definitely not theirs….
Every weekday morning, like many other slaves in this day and age, I fill up a big mug with some fine coffee and get into my car to drive to work.
It’s Spring-time, a new beginning, the start of a lot of new life: all types of birds are returning from their stay in warmer locations. [...]
That fire in Brooklyn
| by in Belegana, Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression |
So it’s reported there’s this fire raging in Brooklyn, New York.
OK — remember 9/11? You probably do.
Remember the lame theory about buildings collapsing because of the heat of a fire? You can’t have missed that excuse.
So I wonder: will this building be the 4th in the complete engineering history to collapse like the WTC towers [...]
Animal-rights activists extremists terrorists
| by in Animals & Nature, Belegana, Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings |
The Register has a story on ‘drug-industry backed’ online animal-testing petition, to..
[..] encourage the public to show their support for animal testing. The Coalition for Medical Progress hopes to mobilise what it calls “the silent majorityâ€.
Ah, I can see where this is heading: they are obviously trying to find support to be able to easily [...]
Burqa-wearing women shouldn’t get any social ’security’
Here in the Netherlands, we have this system that gives some ’social’ security to people without a job. Recently, a debate has started that questions whether women, that wear a burqa, that cannot get a job because of the burqa, shouldn’t get any money.
Wow. I made the point in earlier posts, that this anti-burqa thing [...]
We don’t deal with terrorists!
Our foreign affairs minister, Ben Bot, turns down a report on Islam saying that he will not deal with organisations that support terror.
Mkay, did he look at Afghanistan and Iraq yet? I mean WTF? Isn’t an extradition treaty with the US, a deal with a terrorist organisation as well?
The Netherlands, War On Truth
OMFG more fear-mongering…
German newspaper Heise reports that Google Earth could be used by terrorists during some dumb-ass corrupt soccer-championship (hey there’s tooo much money going ’round in that business to be ruled by chance) to launch rockets on the stadium.
OMFG what about traditional maps you blind motherfucker? How about the Yellow Pages? Or the fucking Phone Book [...]
Hypocrites…
OK — this was an old story about the US being pissed at Iraqi rebels for dragging the body of a dead US soldier, and then putting the stuff on the Internet.
Excuse me, but it’s a war out there. What did you expect? That everybody happily passes to power to the new US dictators? Surely [...]
The president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain ahead of Americas security shows that he can no longer be trusted
Wow this would’ve been a good one for the last Quote Of The Week, I just read about this on Sean Coon’s blog:
“The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put interests of his political party ahead of Americas security shows that he can no longer be trusted [...]
Don’t forget!
| by in Belegana, Humour, Random Rantings |
Tomorrow is Burn The US-Flag Day!
(Artwork blatantly stolen from Sean Coon)
Got flag? Got gasoline? Have fun!
Burn The US-Flag Day, Protest, Activism
Ice-caps melting faster than forecast
| by in Animals & Nature, Belegana, Health, Interesting Links |
According to an article in The Star, two studies yesterday warned, that
Global warming of only a couple of degrees Celsius projected by the end of this century is enough to trigger widespread melting of the massive Greenland ice cap and the partial collapse of Antarctica’s ice sheets.
[..]
The findings are a stunning about-face from previous expert [...]
Surprise: Bush Lied… *again*
Once again, more controversy over Bush, namely his reasons to go to war in Iraq:
Asked by veteran reporter Helen Thomas, “Every reason given [ for the war in Iraq ], publicly at least, has turned out not to be true. My question is, why did you really want to go to war?”
Mr Bush replied: “And [...]
Nice way to start the spring..
| by in Animals & Nature, Belegana, Health, Interesting Links, Sad Stuff |
If there’s one thing us humans can do, collectively, it must be fucking up this planet. The Register also reported it yesterday, and in case you missed it, the UN released a report on how recent human activity has messed-up the planet we live and depend on. To quote The Register:
As much as 80 per [...]
‘Kil’ Wilders trying to follow in Pim Fortuyn’s footsteps
One can’t say it in these days-and-age but if everybody shuts the fuck up nothings gonna change. Geert ‘Kil‘ Wilders wants to remove the first amendment, the one that states that everybody has to be treated equally and prohibits discriminatory remarks.
He wants it replaced by something that says that the Netherlands has a dominant ‘jewish-christian [...]
“You are a donkey, Mr. Bush!”
Heh quite funny news from Reuters today:
“You are a donkey, Mr. Bush,” said Chavez, speaking in English on his weekly Sunday broadcast.
“You’re an alcoholic Mr. Danger, or rather, you’re a drunkard,” Chavez said, referring to Bush by a nickname he frequently uses to describe the U.S. president.
A White House report released last week on pre-emptive [...]
Bush Knew About Iraq
Yeh yeh, this doesn’t come as a surprise to many, but now it is ‘official’: Bush knew about Iraq. Specifically, the fact that Saddam Hussain did not have any weapons of mass destruction. Contrary to what the government publicly spread, the facts seem to be telling another story:
Two highly classified intelligence reports delivered directly to [...]
Halliburton Detention Centers
I just read this article on ZMag.org, entitled “Halliburton Detention Centers”:
Vice President Dick Cheney’s personal cash cow is the lucky beneficiary of yet another government contract. The Halliburton story of banana republic corruption is well known to anyone not living under a rock. Because their crimes have gone unpunished, news of Halliburton chicanery barely raises [...]
Geert Wilders is a dangerous, provoking, politician…
Hear ye’, hear ye’…
Geert Wilders: Another Dutch corrupt fuck ass-hole politician.
If a Muslim burns a European flag or American flag, the country he lives in is as good as invaded and an interim-government installed before you can spell ‘jihad‘.
Bush lied about Katrina
We all know that Bush is a lying son-of-a-bush, but it’s always nice to see these kinds of things confirmed. According to the Washington Post, it now seems that the White House got an early warning on Katrina:
The documents shed new light on the extent on the administration’s foreknowledge about Katrina’s potential for unleashing epic [...]
Stanley “Tookie” Williams executed
Mr. Arnold “Terminator” Schwarzenegger declined clemency for Stanley Williams. As USATODAY reports;
Williams, co-founder of the notorious Crips gang, had been on death row nearly a quarter century for the 1979 shotgun murders of four people in Los Angeles. He maintained his innocence and never expressed remorse, a key factor that Schwarzenegger said influenced his decision.
Probably, [...]
