That’s Microsoft, allright…
 by in Belegana, Conspiracies, Interesting Links, Internet & Technology, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings |
Sickening stuff: How to Get Your Platform Accepted as a Standard – Microsoft Style
Next time somebody believes your usage of the dollar sign when typing “MS” is childish, re-direct those people to that article….
‘Nuff said…
Sean, have you read this?
| by in Belegana, Random Rantings, Sad Stuff |
Soylent Green is coming.
Ouch, McKinnon extradition emminent…
Who the fuck were they trying to kid anyway — trying to prevent the USA from getting their scapegoat: Gary McKinnon is to be extradited to US.
If he is prevented from committing suicide, and if he’s technically any good, he is most probably going to end up working for the US army.
Either way, good [...]
Hey! Teacher! Leave those kids alone!
So a couple of weeks ago I heard the news that, on my old “high-school”, a teacher was put on non-active because he was having a sex-chat with a 12 year old girl on the internet while his laptop-screen contents were beamed onto a big screen in front of the entire classroom. (Dutch article here.)
Interestingly, [...]
No pictures inside…
| by in Random Rantings, The Netherlands |
Life is what happens to you when you are too busy making other plans… Or rather, when you are sleeping…
Friday morning wasn’t the nicest of mornings: I woke up at 7AM as usual, went downstairs to open my laptop and make myself a nice cuppa. The laptop is usually right there on the table… but… [...]
‘Amusing’ Blogger translation bug
So I was trying out some API connection, for which I had set up an account on Blogger. Now, the profile over there is displayed in Dutch .. And it translates the sign ‘Cancer’ to the disease ‘cancer’ in Dutch:
The correct translation is of course, ‘Kreeft‘.
That’s the problem with homonyms, words written the same, [...]
Why is Skype hogging my CPU?
I noticed Skype is utilising the CPU varying between 7 and 15 %. That’s insane, for a chat app ffs!
My proposal to reduce unnecessary power consumption: Ban animating internet ads
With the recent focus on what human power consumption does to the environment (you know with initiative like a black Google page to save on energy consumption by computer screens), I suddenly realised something that would greatly reduce even more useless power consumption.
It hit me when my girlfriends’ laptop was starting to have issues because [...]
I never expected me to say this, but …
What the fuck is up with todays youth?
I was sitting in the train minding my own business, when at a certain station this older guy tried to unfold his foldable bicycle. Tried — because it didn’t work initially. All in all it was relatively amusing because you could hear the guy curse the bike..
Another [...]
On the banning of “sadist” media…
| by in Random Rantings |
Life is incoherent. Well not life — rather politics. Here’s what I mean….
You might have read the news that some Adult Only video game isn’t going to be released on any videoconsole because of its seemingly gory content (indeed, ManHunt 2)….
But the ‘funny’ thing is…. the moment they find that 4 year old Madeleine-kid [...]
Yippee — we only humiliated them…
| by in Random Rantings |
(Forgive my sarcasm today, I dunno what it is.)
I just read that Dutch military didn’t torture — it only ‘just’ humiliated. And that is supposed to be a relief as well, WTF?! What is the frigging difference?
Woohoo! We got a dead soldier now too!
| by in Random Rantings, The Netherlands |
So the body of the one Dutch soldier that got hit by ‘collateral damage’ from the freedom fighters in Afghanistan, arrived back in the Netherlands yesterday.
That is great, because things were winding down over here — people stopped caring about those fucking wars.
Now again, the media can tell the people on how bad the [...]
Marten Fortuyn is only out for money…
So…. the brother of the politician that got shot dead in 2002, is going to sue the state, or at least two guys that were in government at the time. According to this news-article (Dutch), Mr. Fortuyn states that it is now time because he has had the time to get over it.
Well… get over [...]
So I was trying to Google a telephone number…
| by in Computers & Hardware, Freedom & Repression, Internet & Technology, Music Industry & DRM, Random Rantings |
…when suddenly Google suggested the following search term:
09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0
Now what the fuck is that?
Philips patents ‘fabric display’
| by in Ideas & Concepts, Random Rantings |
I just read on Tweakers that Philips applied for a patent to a ‘fabric display’.
Couple of years ago, while watching the Snooker championships on TV, noticing the advertisements on the players’ clothes, I had this nasty vision that at one point, ‘internet-connected sponsorships-tags‘ could just change on the fly… (The patent doesn’t mention any network [...]
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 got a voting-pass but I’ve lost the passion to vote
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Ideas & Concepts, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings |
So, following last years November elections, the upcoming government has been formed and we’re up for another term with Yawn-Peter Balkenende as our prime-minister.
It’s not surprising to see that these criminals get away with an un-just war. No investigation into the Iraqcle (Iraq + Debacle) — it’s a fucking joke how easy they can get [...]
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 [...]
Terrorists celebrate Christmas & New Years’ Eve
| by in Random Rantings |
So, last weekend, with the image of the Saddam Hussein getting hanged fresh in the memory of many, the ever-so-useless act of celebrating the new year started.
We can’t let our children play ‘Killzone’ or games in which they have to kill people — but it’s alllllllright, (no it’s almost obligatory), to show an anti-american dead [...]
Saddam Hussein probably hanged this Saturday
Although denied by some officials, the rumours started to spread that Saddam Hussein might be hanged this Saturday.
Civilisation eh.
Developed eh.
Free world eh.
And if you don’t like it, we’ll hang ya.
Hang the imperialists!
Flaming one company and praising the other — while both companies are trying to accomplish the same goals — really makes you look like an idiot.
| by in Computers & Hardware, Conspiracies, Internet & Technology, Music Industry & DRM, Random Rantings |
So, a lot of negative stuff about the PS3 I read this morning. Lately there was some rumours about stacks of PS3s at numerous stores, like as if nobody wants them. Today another story on Slashdot about PS3s freezing up — reportedly.
Anyways, I wouldn’t have given this any more attention if I didn’t catch somebody [...]
Terrorism-suspect being extradited to the US
Wow — some Dutch terrorism suspect is being extradited to the US.
That isn’t at all ‘news’ or anything, but I find it most interesting here (in my opinion anyways) that he will be the first guy tried for terrorism in the US since the 9/11 attacks.
Impotent government — they couldn’t even catch one on [...]
Un-effing-believable…
| by in Random Rantings |
I just caught this disgusting video on eBaums’ World.
Nice — these are the guys, ‘the brave western soldiers’, that are supposed to bring and sustain peace? No wonder these guys get shot at all the time — how the hell would you react if some invading force did that to your kids? Or taunted them [...]
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 [...]
The fallacy of male birth-control
| by in Health, Random Rantings, Visions |
You might have noticed that I don’t want to have kids (the reasons as to why are beyond the scope of this little blurb though — but I’m sure you’ll believe me when I say that, to sum it all up, it’s really best for the kid). To accomplish this my girlfriend uses some method [...]
Just don’t let me see you shoot no dogs…
| by in Random Rantings, Sad Stuff |
It’s bad enough to kill a man — but shooting the dog too is a wee bit excessive, don’t ya think?
Damn cops…
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 [...]
“Minority report” slowly becoming a reality…
I just read this article about psychologists [that] are putting together a list of the 100 most dangerous murderers and rapists before they have committed any such crimes.
That’s pretty scary — especially if mix that news with a little bit of this and a little bit of that…
Hot-linking not allowed..
| by in General, Random Rantings |
As I noticed a lot of the bandwidth of this website is going to ‘waste’ because some people like to use images stored on this server in their signatures or posts on other forums, I tinkered around a bit with PHP and Apache’s Rewrite Engine and cooked up a configuration that ought to reduce this [...]
Am I the only one… ?
| by in Random Rantings, Visions |
Am I the only one here that sees the potential for abuse here by creative, corrupt, cops aspiring to be movie-directors?
On the anti-smoking lobby and so-called ‘experts’
| by in Health, Interesting Links, Random Rantings |
I’m an person avidly against the anti-smoking lobby. It’s unfair.
I’ve always defended the position of the smoker, and have always doubted research into this field because, hell, cancer could just as well come from another source, not specifically second-hand smoke (it could be farts, or fuck, this is one of my latest gems: cancer could [...]
White-supremacist butt-fuckers messing wit’ MLK…
I just love this initiative to Googlebomb a white-supremacist website (found it while connecting*the*dots).
The content of the site really is sickening and vile. Of course, such a site should be taken down, but denial of service attacks are childish. And, everybody has a right to express themselves, even a white supremacist.
But… this isn’t expression… [...]
And in a couple of years, Linux users are terrorists, undermining our freedoms…
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Music Industry & DRM, Random Rantings, Visions |
So, Microsoft has made the bold claim that their intellectual property is in it.
Oh my fucking god. This is serious because there are plenty of stupid people in this world to believe that crap. Fuck, the critical majority, in each and every issue, is dumber than a horses ass and knows just enough to [...]
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 [...]
Heh
In case you missed it, I just read on The Register about the Sun reporting on 2 guys showing up at the UN’s London headquarters to demand recognition for their religion…
I’m waiting for the frigging pope to start yapping about looking and acting like a Jedi is a threat to integration…
Lucht (Air)
| by in Arts & Poetry, Random Rantings |
Some lines of poetry were playing through my head trying to get to sleep last night, and I was surprised that I remembered them this morning after. So obviously, I quickly logged-on to scribble them down before I’d forget.
Update: Last night (16th today), it happened again — so I changed a few lines and also [...]
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 [...]
Death to corporate mafia!
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Internet & Technology, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings |
When I read shit like this it makes my fucking heart bleed.
PROPRIETARY software emperor Microsoft has struck a deal with the Linux reseller Novell to make it easier for customers to use both Linux and Microsoft’s Windows software.
The deal will make the Vole a SuSE Linux seller and will mean the pair will share technology. [...]
Recording an end-user’s movements on a website — copyright infringement?
This post on Slashdot got me thinking of something that I’ve been thinking about a couple of years ago.
Who says that websites aren’t already recording your movements?
I mean — earlier in this century I was thinking that, when you are a big corporation, and you have some ‘comments, complaints & suggestions‘ section on [...]
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 [...]
If they can’t even protect their ‘most valuable good’…
Reading about that ATM hack again today I was thinking this:
If they can’t even protect their ‘most valuable good’, how can we expect voting machines to tell the truth?
Jehova’s Witnesses at my door…
Ah — the joys of working at home… Not only are you able to do practical things like, be home to let some ordered goods arrive or go to the bank opened at times a normal person is working, but you also get to meet all those nice people trying to sell you crap.
For instance, [...]
A new coffeeshop has opened in town I grew up in…
If you remembered, I once posted about my favourite coffeeshop being shut-down in the city I used to grow up in. The municipality shut it down because it was too near a school; and the owners didn’t have a, well, completely ‘clean’ sheet. (Hell, to me its a few home-dealers going legit, which is a [...]
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 [...]
Supermarkets on the spamming-tip
| by in Random Rantings, The Netherlands |
The Albert Heijn, some big groceries store-chain in the Netherlands, is going to start to spam its customers utilising Bluetooth technology. It is a test, and currently only active in one establishment.
According to this article (Dutch, of course), only people that have Bluetooth enabled when entering the shop will be targetted, and only after they [...]
Plane returns to Schiphol…..
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, The Netherlands |
….and none of the arrested people have been taken into custody because of ‘terrorism’.
Now that comes as a surprise… </sarcasm>
FUD, War On Truth, Terror, Fear, Netherlands
Defining ‘to google’…
| by in Humour, Random Rantings |
to google (/ˈguËgÉ™l/): To constantly nag about ones trademark being used in the wrong context.
Example usage
“If Bayer googled then we wouldn’t use the word ‘Aspirin’ for generic pain-killers.”.
Definitions, Humour
In a true ‘Free World’…
…one would not, and should not, be prevented to take your own life. Apparently — ‘the law‘ decides that you may not do that.
Of course they don’t want you to do that because the State will loose money: the national income will be lower in the future if a few people would take their own [...]
Homeland Security Scare System
Reading all the stuff about the recent ‘foiled’ terrorist attack, I GIMP’d together this thingy. I present to you, the Homeland Security Scare System:
It should be obvious when what level should apply.
Humour, Homeland Security, War On Truth, Propaganda, Fear
Aircraft bomb plot thwarted in Britain..
NY Times reports that a bomb plot has been thwarted, a plot which would create “mass murder on an unimaginable scale”.
Now that’s a hilarious thing to say. How the hell does the press decide what I can’t imagine? I see all the destruction, read stories about the millions of millions of deaths by the hands [...]
It’s official: Vulgar lyrics linked to early sex by teenagers
Wow, these guys really deserve a Nobel-prize or something.</sarcasm>
Sheesh — did they really have to research this? When will they realise it’s the nakedness on TV too?
Dumb shit like MTV showing a too-young-a-girl crawling over the floor singing “I’m a slave — for you”, people think that doesn’t influence a childs’ mind?
In Holland we got [...]
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 [...]
The irony: Windows broken before shipped…
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Humour, Interesting Links, Music Industry & DRM, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy |
So, while a Microsoft spokesman was trying to relay its wet-dream to listeners (i.e. was intellectually masturbating) on the security in Window Vista, a Polish female researcher was demonstrating how the ’security’ can be bypassed, thus resulting in exactly the same unsafe situation as with earlier Windows variants.
Real funny, that.
Safe computing is impossible if the [...]
Oh no the sky is falling: Terrorism-suspect arrested in the Netherlands
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, The Netherlands |
So the media finds it again necessary to turn up the heat (i.e. scare-monger some more) here in the Netherlands. During some routine check the police arrested a guy that was on an international all-point-bulletin type of thing. The person was suspected of slaying 15 people and, of course, of taking part in a terrorist [...]
Shifting away responsibility and blame…
So, de Van Der Sloot case is in the news again.
It really makes me sick how parents rather point the finger at someone else, whereas they are just as responsible for this situation in the first place.
Sure it is a sad story that somebody made the girl disappear, and of course, it is irrelevant that [...]
BlackHat conference demoes US citizen-only targetting smart-bomb, triggered by RFID chip on their passport
| by in Freedom & Repression, Interesting Links, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy |
Just read that, at the BlackHat conference in Las Vegas, some folks demoed a bomb that will explode if an American passport is in its vicinity — a scenario not that hard to imagine.
Basically, RFID passports do not guarantee the safety and security they were invented for in the first place.
Now, I am not [...]
They said the technology wouldn’t be abused in such a way — but …. it is.
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy |
Okay so I read this stuff here (Dutch) which tells about how surveillance camera’s (put there to increase public safety) are now being abused to give parking-tickets.
Of course they say ‘these wrongly parked cars are hindering the ambulances‘. Although that may be true, that sure is hell isn’t the real reason they’re doing this. It’s [...]
Israel instates 48-hour cease-fire
Did they reach their f**king quota of dead Lebanese children? We have a word for that, it’s called genocide.
And now there’s a cease-fire? What do they f**king expect now — a f**king Nobel-prize for Peace?
Nobody seems to really respect life this day and age. Terribly sad, really…
Terrorism, Israel, Lebanon, Injustice
This’ll send a mixed signal…
Ironically, some well-known anti-smoking guru called Allen Carr died of was diagnosed with cancer this weekend.
It’s like yelling `Saddam Hussein is an evil man and he harbours terrorists and he has weapons of mass destruction and we need to rid the world of that evil!‘, to find out that he, well, actually didn’t, and [...]
Finally, Metallica realises most of their CDs is crap
| by in Music, Music Industry & DRM, Random Rantings |
Remember that these guys were anti P2P? Metallica just signed a deal with Napster and iTunes to make single song downloads available. They already had the complete albums available online but it seems those guys finally realised nobody was buying their overpriced CDs as most of the songs are crap.
And they’re doing it with a [...]
Knowing Microsoft, their iPod-killer will probably be released “too zune”… :P
…and I couldn’t withhold this User Friendly cartoon:
Humour, Zune, iPod
Judge says teen doesn’t have to undergo chemo treatment (for now…)
In an interesting case in the US, AP reports about a judge concluding that a certain 16 year old kid (wanting alternative treatment) should not be forced to undergo chemo-treatment.
It sure as hell would be pretty insane if one cannot decide what’s to happen to ones own body. Isn’t that a persons’ own choice, just [...]
Blow-up doll for insecure female drivers
So some company is marketing a blow-up doll for women who are insecure about driving at night, alone. Apparently, the presence of what appears to other people as a real person, gives them enough security to drive around town.
Now, I wonder — do women over-estimate the blow-up dolls’ size, too?
However sexist the whole concept [...]
Revealing how marihuana affects the brain
| by in Health, Interesting Links, Random Rantings, Visions |
OK so I was just reading this article right here telling about how scientists have developed a way to image cannabinoid receptors in the brain.
All fine and dandy — I see no problem there.
Until 1959, cannabis was available in pharmacies as medicine, under the name Extractum Cannabis Indicae. After that, cheaper, synthetic drugs appeared [...]
On voice recognition to access bank-account information…
Bright idea, voice recognition (Dutch article) to access bank account information.
A user can authenticate themselves to the bank, using their voice as their passport. Anyone that remember the film Sneakers will remember that, basically, you could record and playback somebody’s bank-account number after you’ve snooped from them. “My voice is my passport”…
That said, [...]
Some of the sickest shit I’ve ever seen…
I just noticed this image right here. That’s some pretty sick stuff…
‘Humanity’ never ceases to amaze me.
Israel, Middle East, Hatred, War On Truth
Our ‘boys’ on their way to Uruzghan, Afghanistan
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, The Netherlands |
Yeh — so I read that our military has gone on a new mission to Afghanistan.
It’s going to be a ‘tough mission’, they say, but they’re going to do everything that’s necessary and possible’.
These words are nothing more than, well, just mere words. It sounds cool, just like the ‘Support Our Troops’-slogan — but it [...]
French anti-DRM ruling threatens innovation as they see it
So I read this (Dutch) article about critics of the recent anti-DRM ruling in France. They try to convince everybody that such a ruling ‘threatens innovation‘. (Of course, the ‘critics’ are the companies that invested in this stuff.)
In the long run, they say, the public will get back ‘less innovation’ because of rulings like [...]
On smell-technology…
It’s amusing to see how ‘new’, almost magical technologies get embraced with so-much naivety. Slashdot has this little blurb about an article in the New Scientist on ’smell-technology’;
“Simply point the gadget at a freshly baked cookie, for example, and it will analyse its odour and reproduce it for you using a host of non-toxic chemicals. [...]
On the Dutch government collapse in global media…
According to the Guardian:
[..] the Dutch government collapsed last night in a row over its treatment of a Somali-born politician who came to symbolise the country’s troubled relations with its Muslim population.
Excuse me? What kind of crock is that?
Another fine case of misinformation in the (global) media. Symbolise? She fueled the fucking feud and started [...]
The perfect crime (or: how to get rid of your kids)
So, one girl was raped and both were strangled. Apparently, the bodies were found 500 meters away from where the girls went missing.
It is, of course, a perfect scenario to get rid of your kids (anyone leaving their kids outside of a cafe at 02:30 AM at night, in my humble opinion, is very *very* [...]
Political ‘crisis’ as government resigns in the Netherlands
So, last night our government ‘fell’ because of the whole Hirshi-Ali business. Well actually it fell because most politicians, as they always do, are more busy with themselves, than the actual country they’re trying to run.
In that respect, I had expected a crisis rather sooner than later.
If enough people still care enough and vote [...]
On the last Potter story…
| by in General, Random Rantings |
So I just read this Dutch news about the last Potter story (still in progress) featuring the deaths of 2, yet unknown, characters.
She explains in the article (and this is the whole reason why I took the time to write this little blurb), that, although she initially didn’t want to let some die, she now [...]
Rice: Nuclear deal with India made under special circumstances
So, sell-out and betray-the-people Rice states that the ‘nuclear deal with India made under special circumstances‘.
Aha — that must be the same ’special’ circumstances under which, back in the day — when the export of 128bit encryption was still prohibited — the US allowed India to buy this ‘illegal’ encryption technology (if I remember correctly, [...]
Yay — we lost!
Soccer sucks, we lost and the team will return today. Double — no — tripple yay!
Sadly though, this doesn’t mean we’re finally ridden of that irritating soccer championshit bullshit on every goddamn television channel where not a single station is airing interesting movies or programmes at all, fearing nobody would watch it anyways.
Maybe that’ll change. [...]
On Bluecasting…
I read this article about a Dutch shop that sends messages to Bluetooth enabled devices. Apparently — this is not spam. Because, by its definition, spamming is only spam if you are abusing some ’service’. As Bluetooth is not a communication-service, i.e. one doesn’t have to subscribe or pay to use it, you can spam [...]
MySpace sued after assault on minor, but what is this really about?
I just read that parents sued MySpace for $ 14 milion in damages after their child got assaulted in real life after having her profile publicly posted on a social networking site.
The lawyer stated that:
MySpace is more concerned about making money than protecting children online.
Of course, parents can’t hardly be blamed for neglecting their kids [...]
Sure, telephone numbers, etcetera, will all be replaced by a single email-address
| by in Computers & Hardware, Ideas & Concepts, Internet & Technology, Random Rantings, Software, The Netherlands |
Some Dutch researcher suggests that, in the long run, (mobile) telephone numbers will disappear and will be replaced by one email-address.
Although we can put people on the moon and make money of prolonging the problems of sickness, the spam problem most probably still won’t be solved. Not even touching the privacy-related issues there arise if [...]
Nipples!! I wanna see nipples and cunts!!
| by in Random Rantings |
OK so when everybody is done, happily smoking their after-sex sigarette, after giving eachother hand-jobs while viewing the constant one-sided barrage of al-Zarqawi dead man pornography, lets go back to the regular programme of nipples and cunts, please.
Pedophiles are really bad, any sex-offence is, but there ain’t nothing wrong with necrophilia, jerking off [...]
Sick American fucks jerking off at the image of a dead man…
So, they killed him, and these sick sadist fucks are showing his picture all over the fucking media. Yeah — as if that releasing all those snuff-pictures will really do any good.
It makes me angry, and I bet it makes the more radical people angry.
Yeah so thank you US military for, once again, making [...]
Windows Server more reliable than Linux?
LOL this (Dutch) is what you get if journalists simply repeat other peoples words and don’t do their own research. The article compares UNIX and Windows servers, and somewhere it says that ‘the reason for the longer downtime on Linux servers is caused by the lack of proper documentation.
Lack of proper documentation?
Ever compared Windows API [...]
The Art Of Hypocrisy
Well, if it was an art — the US would definitely be an artiste.
So they executed al-Zarqawi. They assasinated him. The murdered him. Oh, and of course, the people around him that got killed, well, we don’t focus on that at all. Collateral damage, eh.
No, we all should just praise the fucking Gangsta US [...]
Wilders criticising Queen Beatrix
Yeah, Geert ‘Kil’ Wilders is at it again.
This time he’s criticising our Queen Beatrix, accusing her of throwing Dutch morals out of the window, because she didn’t shake some Imam’s hand because that religion tells those people not to shake hands with women.
Well, excuse me, Fucko Wilders, but the last time I looked Dutch [...]
Freaks of Nature (or: why cellphone-based triggering devices are only used in the movies)
Freaks of Nature, and I’m not talking about a band name. I’m talking about what happened to me last week.
You know, with the summer coming, we bought this handy wireless doorbell so that we can hear it ringing when we are, say, drinking with friends in the garden. Our ‘default’ doorbell doesn’t ring that [...]
The viral danger of ‘hope’..
| by in Ideas & Concepts, Random Rantings, Visions |
Hope is a very interesting concept. (And I am not talking about Hackers On Planet Earth)
It is a feeling, or concept that we can find in various religions. In fact, you don’t even have to be religious to have ever had feelings of ‘hope’.
But what is hope anyway? Is it really what it’s cranked [...]
Congress finds ‘proof’ for Jihad against the US.
Well, ‘proof’….
Some guy created a video where, instead of attacking Muslims or whatever, you could see American soldiers getting shot. OMFG — people are really getting uptight nowadays.
If that is proof for a jihad, then there’s plenty proof for a big large psy-op where the majority of the people has been tricked into believing [...]
New ‘cybercrime’ laws in effect…
| by in Freedom & Repression, Internet & Technology, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy, The Netherlands |
Well, in the Netherlands anyway.
Today, parliament decided to accept 2 new laws in order to make it easier to repress, suppress and oppress.
See, this new law has some things in it that could effectively send anyone to Gbay, or at least some jail.
Now it is made illegal to intrude a computer system.
No matter [...]
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. [...]
Bin Laden declares that Moussaoui is not linked to 9/11
Hey, but we only believe terrorists when they say they have done something that we still have to find a scapegoat for.
But when they say they haven’t done something or it went down differently than some ‘official’ story — they are obviously lying!
What’s wrong with that picture?
Bin Laden, War On Truth, War On Terror, [...]
Ayaan: the ‘plot’ continues…
| by in Freedom & Repression, General, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy, The Netherlands |
Now it’s mentioned on the news that she believes that the Dutch government should protect her, even when she’s in the US.
She says that the governments responsibility doesn’t end at the border. Well, last time I checked the Dutch law I read that is only applicable on Dutch territory.
Yeah yeah, so she wants us [...]
More on Ayaan…
…so I hear on the radio that the US criticises the way that us Dutch people are handling Ayaan’s situation, throwing her out like that.
Apparently, some diplomat from the Dutch embassy over there told the US press that, she isn’t being thrown out as the media implies.
Of course, I see the stage getting set — [...]
The Berlin Wall & the Mexican Border Fence
Yeah the parallel is stunning.
You wonder — is it to keep people out… or in?
Immigrants, Fences, Walls, Prisons
Media attack on Charlie Sheen
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Interesting Links, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings |
Hmm interestingly the web attempted to close in on Charlie Sheen, but luckily it failed:
WTC survivor and truth activist William Rodriguez was contacted by the Anderson Cooper show and asked if he would go on record as saying the new Pentagon footage dispelled all 9/11 questions. They also requested that he attack Charlie Sheen’s public [...]
The US, a dangerous country?
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Ideas & Concepts, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings |
A colleague of mine made the remark that the US is a dangerous country. That seems true at first, but I couldn’t resist making a parallel with the old saying `Who is more a fool, the fool, or the fool that follows the fool?‘.
So, who is more dangerous?
A big bad arrogant country, or all [...]
Don’t believe the American lies!
Well, this comes as a surprise (sarcasm): The Washington Times reports that:
Venezuela has allowed its intelligence service to become a clone of Cuba’s while it shelters groups with ties to Middle East terrorists and allows weapons from its official stockpiles to reach Colombian guerrillas, a senior U.S. official said yesterday.
Of course, that’s a lie. A [...]
Pentagon video released — yeh so what’s new?
So I was making my coffee this morning while my girlfriend was watching the morning news on TV. Suddenly I heard the anchor say “The video surveillance tape of the attack on the Pentagon has been released.“.
I was immediately, like, wow, will the tapes of the gas-station, and hotel, and all the other surveillance-cams [...]
It’s official: Ayaan Hirsi (Magan/Hoegin/Ali/WhatEverTheFuckHerNameIs) sucks the US presidents’ dick!
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Interesting Links, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, The Netherlands |
Just reading right here that the two-timing, lying, double-crossing bitch we call Ayaan Hirsi Ali (but is actually called Ayaan Hirsi Magan) will work for the American Enterprise Institute.
Of course, I am not surprised; she’s been sucking up to the US world-wide globalisation policies for ages now; that has always been pretty damn clear to [...]
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 [...]
What if…
OK, so what if …
What if, in the not-so-distant future, housing keeps gettting more and more expensive..
What if the worlds’ population keeps on increasing — with the slowly increasing ‘power’ of medicine and obstruction to things like abortion..
What if the world gets more and more crowded resulting in more and more problems with housing..
What if [...]
Hirshi Ali: Lying, cheating and double-crossing bitch-ass ho’
The biggest sell-out bitch in Dutch politics is in the news, once again. At least on the radio — haven’t read it in (online) print yet.
Not this time because she has some right-winged, rascist, imperialist idea about todays’ society, not at all like that. Actually her whole history here is a lie.
She lied to the [...]
Just when I was thinking `One must be a real idiot to believe the WTC went down because of two mere planes”
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, General, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy |
….I peruse the Full-Disclosure mailing-list to read that some of the guys there think Loose Change is complete bullshit.
That obviously proves there’s too many idiots in the IT security business too.
We’ve been blinded with ‘expert opinions’ on the whole WTC collapse but hell, you have to be a real moron to think that it wasn’t [...]
So what’s in that letter from the Iranian president?
One wonders.
One can only speculate.
One obviously cannot believe what the Rice or Bush say about it.
One remembers the fact that, long before the US started killing and maiming people in Gulf War I, Saddam Hussain did suggest a diplomatic solution (you might not remember because your government was actively repressing that information).
Anyway, what is in [...]
Oh no!
According to Reuters,
A Senate panel approved a measure on Thursday that would change the Constitution to let Congress ban burning of the American flag, setting up an election-year debate over a perennial hot-button issue.
Now ain’t that a bitch.
They don’t talk about pissing or shitting on the damn cloth though…
US, Repression, Flag Burning, Freedom [...]
Dutch Texting Championship WTF?! — HOW TO CHEAT
OK I just read this hilarious insane of an initiative to make lots of money.
Telfort, one of the many local mobile communications companies in the Netherlands, together with Radio 538 radio station, are organising this stupid championship.
Wow.
See, the whole idea here is that, somebody on the radio, reads out loud a Dutch sentence, and [...]
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. [...]
On (Dutch) Liberation Day…
| by in General, Random Rantings, The Netherlands |
So this friday, the 5th of May, it’s ‘Liberation Day‘ in the Netherlands, a day on which we remember the fact that we have been ‘liberated’ after WW II.
The day before, the 4th, we remember all the fallen victims by a two-minute silence. Well, most people do, anyways — I don’t.
Not out of disrespect, [...]
Kill Bills Browser
| by in Humour, Interesting Links, Random Rantings, Software |
A colleague pointed out this site and this one, in order to convince more and more people to switch from the bug-ridden and vendor-lock-in-causing Internet Explorer browser.
If you know me in real life, you must have heard me say that I have always thought ‘Mozilla‘ to be the ‘Explora Killa‘.
Any self-respecting technician, which ought not [...]
Bush’s approval rate down to 33%
I’m reading here and there that, according to this FOX article, Bush’s ‘approval rate’ is down to 33%.
Now we can all sit around smiling and jerk off at this news but, last time I checked, he’s still in office…
Bush, Rant
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 [...]
On home integrity and free (as in beer) security products…
| by in General, Random Rantings, The Netherlands |
So, I just arrived at home. I start early so I’m home relatively early than most people. I booted the laptop and while perusing some web-sites some guy rang my doorbell. I open the door and the guy introduces himself.
He explains he works for a company that wants to promote their home-security system. And, the [...]
It’s almost Easter…
It’s Easter, and as with any other Easter, religious material starts invading your premises through the slit of your letterbox. Of course, I have thrown a few away already after quickly glancing over it to see what these self-chosen conservative segregationists say in an attempt to reel-in other fools.
Well, ‘fool’ may be a bit harsh. [...]
New UK anti-terror law: Orwell will turn over in his grave
Just reading an article about new Anti-Terrorism Laws going into effect today in the UK.
(You know, because of the July 7th bombing that had nothing to do with Al Qaida.)
It makes trespass on nuclear sites a terrorist offence and allows organisations involved in all such activities to be banned.
Yay, they have just criminalised protests [...]
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 [...]
In the end, the truth will finally come out…
Hopefully, it won’t it be too late, though… (tr. Bush ignored report about Iraq)
Bitch-ass motherfucking ass sucking dick licking fuck-ass lame excuse for a fucked up president, that son-of-a-Bush.
USA, Bush, Bliar, War On Terror, War On Truth
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 [...]
On Moussaoui: smells like a scapegoat to me…
I just read this article here and, honestly, it pisses me off completely.
This is not a trial, this is a fucking facade man.
Why all the emotional theatrical stuff with crying children, replaying the planes flying into the towers and more of that emotional crap.
It’s the goddamn US government responsible for the whole fucking disaster, that [...]
Memo leaked calling to ignore and/or discredit points of view in opposition to the Bush Administration’s foreign policy objectives
I received some spam this morning which I usually just ignore. Today’s spam had some subject that caught my eye though: first, it was correctly spelled. Second, it was saying “Bush Administration Media Collusion Memos Surface”.
WTF? The spam did have a link to the story (FOX) included:
In a disturbing turn of events for an administration [...]
IRLB WTF?
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Internet & Technology, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy |
On this page on Ebaumsworld I read the next insane thing the US will attempt to do in order to take away even more of our freedoms:
Washington D.C. – (March 28, 2006) – The Internet Regulations and Legislation Bureau, better known as the IRLB, is the newest United States governmental agency. The IRLB is [...]
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
Freedom: the net slowly closes in…
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy, The Netherlands |
In the Netherlands, there’s this new law that ‘the man‘ wants introduced. Of course, it’s one of those repressive laws that get introduced because of this so-called “War On Terror” — which, logically, cannot ever end.
Do we all want to be lead to the slaughters into the war that nobody can win?
Yeah, the [...]
MPAA & RIAA get even sicker…
Just when you think the Motion Picture and Music Industry Asses of America can’t get any sicker — they do just that…
Oh — we don’t mind if DRM fucks up your computer or does real acts of terrorism. As long as our ‘intellectual property’ is safe.
Bastards make me puke — they really are the new [...]
‘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 [...]
Fucking Facade Trial…
Saddam Hussain was ranting away, basically saying Europe should fight US oppression (and ain’t that the truth). The US-payed judge however, decided at that point to continue behind closed doors.
You know what that means: that means Saddam was saying shit the man doesn’t want you to hear.
It is fucking censorship whilst trying to convince [...]
Several vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office software
| by in Computers & Hardware, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy, Software |
More specifically, the piece of shit they dare call ‘Excel’. Yes, it excells in fucking up documents. But I slightly digress.
Let’s look at the timeline that this vulnerability was reported:
Yesterday, ZDI reported:
2006.01.24 – Vulnerability reported to vendor
2006.02.21 – Digital Vaccine released to TippingPoint customers
2006.03.13 – Vulnerability information provided to ZDI security partners
2006.03.14 – Coordinated public release of advisory
Ah, so Microsoft knew about this [...]
Isaac Hayes wants to quit South Park
According to an article on Billboard.com, Isaac Hayes wants to quit South Park. Obviously, because they have ridiculed (and quite right to do so), the Scientology ‘belief’.
Interestingly, this is what one of the creators of South Park, Mark Stone had to say about this:
In an interview with the Associated Press, “South Park” co-creator Matt Stone [...]
When Israel attacks Palestinians with some vendetta-shit, the US helps them, but when Saddam does the same he should hang.
Damn, Israel killed more Palenstinians than the ‘mere’ 148 folk Saddam’s standing on trial for.
Hell, Bush is responsible for a few thousand dead Americans and apart from in my own fantasies, I haven’t see him hanging from a string yet.
This world is fucking sick. Period.
New World Order, Terrorism
What if click-fraud… is a fraud?
| by in Conspiracies, Random Rantings |
I read quite some stuff on click fraud quite a while ago. Today I seen that word pop up again in a few media.
What if click fraud itself is a fraud? An advertisement company can make serious money of it by simple faking clicks themselves.
They point to finger to the website operator and the [...]
My favourite coffee-shop closed by the local government
| by in Random Rantings, The Netherlands |
Apparently, ‘the man’ closed the only coffee-shop worth buying weed from in the city that I used to go out in when I was younger. I still did frequent the shop itself because weed that I can get from shops here is inferior.
What the fuck? Where do I (and hundreds of other folk) have to [...]
Florida Voting Machine Logs Reveal Anomalies
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Interesting Links, Media, Religion & Politics, On The Road..., Security & Privacy |
I knew it, the rest of the world knew it, and now it seems the 95 percent naive American fucks that decide the US’s future are slowly waking up to the truth as well.
According to this posting on Slashdot,
“Having ’successfully sued former Palm Beach County (FL) Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore to get the [...]
Yay, the Olympics are coming to an end!
| by in Random Rantings |
Finally — all the crap about the Olympics clogging up all the media will slowly disappear after this weekend.
Never understood the whole point about it anyways. I only see massive amounts of money being spent on lobbying (i.e. bribes) for what country to host it, the actual building of the complex and the rest that [...]
On democracy…
This analogy hit me last night when me and the girlfriend were watching television and I had the remote-control in my hand:
Democracy is the TV, the society watches and politicians are the guy with the remote-control.
There’s a 120 channels on, yet politicians only allow you to choose one of the two or three channels [...]
Impeach him now before it’s too late and we’ll never get rid of this dictator son-of-a-Bush!
Interesting article on prisonplanet.com: Is Bush The Lifetime President?:
Those confident in the fact that President Bush will leave office in January 2009 after his second term ends would be wary to check out images posted on the Huffington Post website.
During a National Guard ceremony gala on Thursday night, Bush was presented with a life-size [...]
*sigh* parents …
| by in Random Rantings |
Hmm OK, Missing teen Natalie Holloway’s parents sue man questioned in case
Jordan Van Der Sloot and his father were served with the lawsuit in New York Thursday. The lawsuit, filed by Natalee Holloway’s parents, allege Jordan Van Der Sloot assaulted Holloway and his father, Paulus Van Der Sloot, enabled his son’s “violent and anti-social [...]
Prostitutes want GTA banned
| by in Consoles & Games, Humour, Random Rantings |
Speaking of bans, Slashdot also reports on prostitutes wanting the game GTA banned:
In the games, players can solicit “services” from prostitutes by driving their cars slowly near them. No sexual acts are in clear visible view, but during the “transaction,” the player regains health and loses money. Though the player cannot actively rape prostitutes in [...]
Graffiti game banned in Australia
Slashdot reports on a certain graffiti game being banned in Australia.
So, it’s OK for a US game producer to make a game in which you slay whole cultures of people. That basically sends out the signal `It is OK to kill to gain something‘.
Something harmless (and expressive) like graffiti is not at all sending out [...]
UK: Smoking banned in public places
Today a lot of talk about the UK ban on smoking in public places.
The anti-smoking lobby will be happy — and a lot of those nagging mofo’s as well. And only a matter of time because those health-zealots find something wrong with some other product that they’re too big a pussy to handle to want [...]
New watermarking technology for music
I was just reading this article here about a new watermarking technology from the Fraunhofer Institute (the guys that made piracy, errrr, music compression possible).
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute have successfully tested a software system, based on the group’s own digital watermarking technology, for tracking pirated audio files in P2P [...]
Low-fat diet doesn’t decrease chances of cancer or heart-diseases
| by in Health, Interesting Links, Random Rantings |
It is official — low fat diets do not decrease the chances of one getting cancer or any heart-related diseases.
In other news: Smoking itself doesn’t cause cancer, only the constant nagging about it does.
Smoking, Cancer, Fat, Diet
Hahaha — MS Anti-Spyware removes Norton
| by in Humour, Random Rantings, Software |
Just read this blurb about Microsoft’s latest experimental piece-of-shit anti-spyware software accidentally removing Norton’s Anti-Virus software.
I won’t even rant here and I’ll just let that news do all the speaking for itself..
Microsoft coders are idiots, Norton, Spyware, AntiVirus
Saddam (and the rest of the world): Down With Bush!
CBS News reports on Saddam shouting “Down with Bush” as he was forced into the court:
Saddam Hussein was forced to attend the latest session of his trial Monday, looking haggard and wearing a robe rather than his usual crisp suit as he shouted, “Down with Bush.”
His top co-defendant struggled with guards bringing him into the [...]
Terror plot foiled! Yeah sure..
It’s nice if you have control of the situation and nobody can actually check the fucking facts… Of course, I am referring to the speech by Bush in which he stated a terrorist attack was foiled. Of course, he couldn’t resist to make an error, but we’ll keep the cheap shots out of this post.
In [...]
On Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Yeah another post on that damn cartoon-debacle.
You probably read about some MPs view on it that dares call herself Dutch.
In case you didn’t know her — she’s our local Condoleeza Rice (in other words, she’s our local enforcer of the racist American imperialist policy). Yeh the US gov’t loves her poking around in Europe.
She’s rather [...]
Another fine example of short-sightedness…
Over the recent months, ’secret’ government information has been leaked through various channels: officials leaving PCs on the pavement for garbage-disposal and leaving information, plain-text, in rented cars on USB sticks.
OK — let it sink in for a while…
What do you think they are doing to prevent this?
Insulted by a ‘mere’ pencil?
The Dutch Volkskrant runs an article in which somebody, again, says something along the lines that it is silly that ‘these people’ are ‘insulted by a mere pencil’. Again, pointing blame at them in stead of the real culprits.
Riiiiiiiiight. Just…
Why Google’s desktop search software will always be better than Microsofts’
| by in Random Rantings, Software |
The answer is simple: Microsoft is too busy with hiding information from an end-user.
If you want to change certain files or settings you got to buy the appropriate, licenced, tool. (Think of this, from their point of view, as a feeble attempt to secure through obscurity but from ours it can only be regarded [...]
Microsoft’s AV software will be expensive
Just read an article which states Microsoft’s new AV ’service’ will cost about 50 dollars per year.
Knowing Microsoft’s track-record regarding ’security software’ and their carefully constructed End-User Licence Agreements, I find it highly probable that it ain’t worth a fucking dime.
Yeh yeh — I know they’ll say they’ll use that money to make more [...]
Are we really that civilised?
I just read this post showing the following ‘cartoon’:
Translated
Top Right: “This is Anti-Semitic!â€
Top Left: “And this is Racism!â€
Bottom: “And this is Freedom of Speech!!â€
Nice find, Sean. It’s spot on…
Freedom of Speech, Cartoons, Propaganda, Politics, Media
Health: Who’s responsible if you choose for alternative medicine?
| by in Health, On The Road..., The Netherlands |
In The Netherlands we had this row a couple of years ago when some ‘famous’ Dutch TV-person got diagnosed with breast-cancer and she went to a ‘medium’ (i.e. a psychic healer) to cure her, in stead of letting a real doctor lead the cure-process.
Anyways, this medium had a leading role and advised the doctors that [...]
Publication of cartoons orchestrated?
In Dutch media I found this article which title suggests that the muslim-society was behind this hate-campaign all along. It even hints at the fact they were behind its publication, too.
The article itself, however, never states or actually proves that point. It only speaks of certain groups using the same cartoons as propaganda material.
You would [...]
Burn the US-flag day!
Celibrate Burn the US Flag Day — oh — and your silly god doesn’t even fucking exist.
War in Iraq was already decided on in 2003…
The Guardian reports that:
Tony Blair told President George Bush that he was “solidly” behind US plans to invade Iraq before he sought advice about the invasion’s legality and despite the absence of a second UN resolution, according to a new account of the build-up to the war published today. A memo of a two-hour [...]
On Danish cartoons and propaganda
| by in Random Rantings |
Driving home today I was thinking about those recently published ‘cartoons’ that have been published in a few European newspapers and online as well…
Luckily Wikipedia’s propaganda article was able to give me a fine example of the point I am trying to make here, so I will use that image as an introduction:
Perhaps you [...]
Wow — 3,5 grams of coke equals 5,5 years in US prison
| by in Random Rantings |
According to the article on on the Guardian Unlimited, Boy George appeared in court today regarding the cocaine charges. Apparently, 3,5 grams of cocaine can lock you up for 5,5 years:
The 44-year-old was arrested in October last year after police responding to a burglary call at his apartment in Manhattan allegedly found 13 plastic bags [...]
On Google News and plain old newspapers
Some talk on the Internet today on various newspapers starting a lobbying campaign to stop Google News aggregating their news-content:
A group representing global newspaper publishers has launched a lobbying campaign to challenge search engines like Google that aggregate news content. The move comes as the newspaper industry’s traditional business model is under pressure with [...]
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‘.
Another Nigerian 419-scam…
| by in General, Random Rantings |
Interesting spam — mainly the way the return-addresses are put in it. Seems like some fucko wrongly hitting the Paste-key a few times:
For your support and partnership, please reply me to negotiate your fees or the percentage you wish to be paid when the funds arrives your bank account. You must however note that [...]
RFID passports ‘cracked’…
| by in Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy, The Netherlands |
Fear the Dutch — according to The Register, face and fingerprints swiped in Dutch biometric passport crack:
Dutch TV programme Nieuwslicht (Newslight) is claiming that the security of the Dutch biometric passport has already been cracked. As the programme reports here, the passport was read remotely and then the security cracked using flaws built into the [...]
Myths about the 1986 Challenger disaster
Interesting article on MSNBC explaining the myths about the Challenger shuttle disaster:
[...] here’s the way the mission may be remembered:
1. Few people actually saw the Challenger tragedy unfold live on television.
2. The shuttle did not explode in the common definition of that word.
3. The flight, and the astronauts’ lives, did not end at that point, [...]
Damn those patents!
What the f….. — this patent-business is insane. The Registers reports on a smileys-patent.
It isn’t about protecting ones intellectual property anymore. Nowadays companies just look around, think of something that is used everywhere, and will attempt to patent it.
With the amount of corrupt fucks in the whole system it seems possible too. Stranger patents have [...]
Now Israel rules out talks with Hamas as well…
Well, following up on this thing, it really comes as absolutely no surprise that now, Israel rules out talks with Hamas as well.
See the game being played and how the Palestinians are treated? As long as the US and Israel don’t like its’ new government they’re on this childish tip until people vote for a [...]
Lame browser detection scripts…
So — I change my Useragent to get rid of those irritating lame browser detection scripts that warn me that the site might note work not using Internet Exploder, like my banking site. Anyways, I placed `MSIE 6.0 Sucks’ or something in there, right after the `Firefox 1.5.x’ identifier.
Now this happens visiting lkml.org:
WTF?! Now that [...]
On sex, love and the Pope…
Yeh an eerie combination I know.
Anyways, the pope says that Loveless sex deceives. I don’t know, but I find sexless love much more deceiving!
And why’s this guy an authority on love and sex? He only loves his sexless god and is basically talking about stuff he doesn’t have any experience with.
Or does he? Maybe he [...]
US don’t want to deal with Hamas
Of course the US pushes to keep Hamas out — that’s exactly what Israel told them to do:
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal published on Thursday, US President George Bush said he would not deal with Hamas unless it abandoned its tough stance on Israel. “A political party, in order to be [...]
On the CIA rendition report…
A crap-load of talk these days about the CIA rendition report, but basically nobody’s saying shit. The main way it seems to be handled in global media is, well, negative. It seems that some want everybody to think that it’s wrong.
WikiNews, however, seems to pick it up quite opposite main stream (US) media:
The report [...]
The future looks bleak…
This Movie-Making game reported about on Wired News seems to be the next step surely deteriorating society as we know it.
The article roughly explains how this new game works:
The options available in The Movies are staggering, and are, thankfully, introduced incrementally. You start out by recruiting actors, building a couple of basic sets, and making [...]
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 [...]
Uranium run on 25th January 2006
| by in Health, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Sad Stuff, Space & Beyond, The Netherlands |
On Indymedia there’s an article explaining how, on the 25th of January this month, a train will be shipping Uranium Hexafluaride (UF6) from Germany to The Netherlands, and from there to Russia:
German and Dutch nuclear opponents plan to disrupt a consignment of depleted uranium hexafluoride they say is due to run Wednesday, 25 [...]
Microsoft fines delayed even further
Well, it is safe to conclude that Nelie Smit Kroes is one spineless useless little politician. According to The Register, the European Commission grants MS fine to be delayed even more:
A spokesman for Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes told IDG: “Microsoft has requested an extension.” The spokesman would not say how long the delay is for. [...]
Iraqis and Afghans optimistic about economic future
Some brilliantly intelligent person at BBC News wrote an article about a poll finding Iraqis and Afghans surprisingly optimistic:
Iraqis and Afghans are the among most optimistic people in the world when it comes to their economic future, a new survey for the BBC suggests.
And this is news? We go on in and blow everything to [...]
`Europe knew about CIA flights’, report says.
BBC news reports that Europe ‘knew about’ CIA flights, quoting:
“It is highly unlikely that European governments, or at least their intelligence services, were unaware,” the report said.
Yeah — just as unlikely as it is that president Bush, as well as the American intelligence agencies, did not have prior knowledge of 911.
Sadly, lots of people cannot [...]
A nasty vision of the future…
CNN reports on Bush telling abortion foes, ‘We will prevail’:
“You believe, as I do, that every human life has value, that the strong have a duty to protect the weak, and that the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence apply to everyone, not just to those considered healthy or wanted or convenient,” Bush told [...]
Dutch MPs to decide on Burqa ban
What happens if a bunch of idiots get scared out there pants and play right into the hand of the perpetrators of this so-called War on Terror?
Well, this: BBC NEWS reports that Dutch MPs to decide on burqa ban
The Dutch government will announce over the next few weeks whether it will make it a [...]
Internet Exploder 7 reeks on the Internet
One is surprised this kind of stuff leaks?
Navy denies killing Gonzo
According to the Times, UK navy denies killing Thames whale
NAVY sonar and military explosions have been blamed for disorientating the bottlenose whale that died on Saturday after two days in the Thames.
All in all the used depth-charges and explosions might have caused the whale to get confused and swim up the river Thames.
To continue [...]
Bush tied to corruption scandal
Reuters reports that George W. Bush has been photographed with the corrupt Jack Abramoff who has pleaded guilty to fraud charges. Of course, Bush denies knowing they guy, suggesting that he shook so many hands he didn’t realize who the people were he was actually shaking hands with.
The Bush-family already had fishy ties with the [...]
MS Windows intensional backdoors: how the hell can you be sure?
A lot of talk last week on Windows vulnerabilities actually being intentional, mainly because Steve Gibson started the whole issue by stating that the recent WMF-vulnerability is possibly an intentional backdoor (link to Slashdot-thread), implemented by Microsoft, exactly for the sake of exploiting it to get on peoples’ machines.
Well, true or not, one has to [...]
More Wikipedia vandalism…
The Register once again loves to report on more Wikipedia vandalism
There’s this excellent concept — serving anyone who wants it with facts, for free.
Now people start vandalising it. Most probably they are being stimulated to do this because they are naive and stupid and short-term thinkers (if they think at all).
You see, and most people [...]
Disney acquiring Pixar? Oh no! Please don’t!
According to an article in the Boston Globe, Disney is looking at acquiring Pixar.
Honestly, I hope they don’t.
There is a lot of difference between the two companies — Pixar actually has an identity, an ‘image‘ — and in my humble opinion a buy-out by Disney will totally mess it up.
Disney just sucks. Their [...]
US rejects truce offer from guy posing as Osama
Now, one wonders if it’s at all real (it probably isn’t), but a new tape with Osama’s voice has been fabricated, err, ‘found‘.
In it, he offers the US a truce. Of course, the US has rejected this offer.
Hell, they didn’t set this whole war up to end it this soon. A truce would [...]
Tom Cruise kills South Park episode
| by in Humour, Interesting Links, Random Rantings |
As reported on The Register, Tom Cruise threatens to sue anyone that re-airs the South Park episode that makes fun of Tom Cruise and John Travolta’s silly sect called Scientology (link to Xenu.net, an excellent resource that exposes those Scientology-freaks for what they really are).
The series disclaimer is clear about stuff. Not anyone should watch [...]
Creating our own terror…
A long time ago, when people still tried to get away with stealing from shops by simply covertly committing the act — hoping nobody sees it.
At some point, here in the Netherlands, people started getting beat up for stealing a can of coke or a loaf of bread. When this started happening, I said to [...]
Netscape Webmail SNAFU?
Why is the account reset and zapped?
Poisoning the Masses
Aspartame and fluoride are bad.
Pimp My Child….
I just read this article about a woman standing trial for allegedly pimping young girls.
Now the thing I love about this article is that it is using the old-school definition of the verb to pimp, in stead of the meaning that the entertainment industry and media (read: MTV) would like to put to it.
Pimping
Taiwan wants cheap Microsoft software….
Well, actually, Taiwan’s parliament has voted to end the dependence on Microsoft softwareand wants to cut governments’ purchases by 25%.
But we have seen this happen before so we know what could possibly happen. Countries that say they want to get rid of Microsoft software, or use only Open Source software, only to later retract that [...]
Some European governments had been complicit in illegal CIA activities.
Well, it doesn’t really come as a surprise, now does it, but according to Reuters…
A Swiss investigator said on Friday European governments had been complicit in illegal CIA activities in the “war on terror”, after reports that the Americans ran secret prisons in Europe.
Swiss senator Dick Marty, investigating the allegations for the 46-nation rights group [...]
Microsoft’s FAT patent upheld
Well, that’s expected when a big company has talks with the patent-office without any representation for the other parties. It shows the sick state of the patent-system — only the big bad, close to criminal, companies will actually benefit from it. A private person will not have the resources.
But anyways, this could enable Microsoft to [...]
Broadcom: No linux support.
A colleague pointed me to this page on Broadcom support on the Linux platform.
My laptop has that chipset and currently it’s only supported through NDISWRAPPER.
Like TI (see section 4.1), Broadcom quickly gained a reputation as being very unfriendly to Linux. It was known that Broadcom internally had a fully functional Linux driver, but it was [...]
US, Bush, War On Terror, et cetera
“Hope you understand the times brother, ’cause it’s major….”
Schwarzenegger is a criminal bastard.
Related to Schwarzenegger’s motorcycle-accident recently which he received 15 stiches in his lip for, I just read this:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been riding his motorcycle without the proper license for years but was operating within the law Sunday when he was in a crash.
Funny enough, he had a motorcycle-accident before — where he didn’t keep [...]
There’s something in the air…
An increase in military movements leads me to think that something’s gonna happen….
US threatens countries wanting to pull out of Afghanistan
Any ‘truth’ that is forced upon people, is most probably a lie.
Insane music-industry…
From this interesting article on Groklaw, on the dangerous potential consumer lock-in that DRM will undoubtly cause (definately worth a read if you wonder where that silly stuff is heading), I hit this BBC article stating the following amazing fact:
Musical instrument shops must pay an annual royalty to cover shoppers who perform a recognisable riff [...]
Einstein Has Left the Building (he was overhyped anyways)
Some story in the New York Times about Einstein, and that there probably won’t be another physicist that would ‘attain the same level of fame’ as he did.
Honestly, I find this Einstein-dude has been seriously over-hyped anyways. If he were still alive, I think he would think the exact same thing and find this relativity [...]
Bunch of thicko’s!
I was reading the news, and I noticed this blurb right here: “Adverts ‘encourage teens to drink’”.
How thick are these idiots?
First they f*cking create capitalism.
Next, they start f*cking brain-washing people with all kinds of propaganda on TV, telling lies and showing adverts in an attempt to sell more of their f*cking crap.
And now [...]
On Domestic Spying…
I was reading Chomsky the other day and today I read this:
A federal judge has resigned from a special court in protest over President George W. Bush’s secret authorization of a countrywide warrantless domestic spying program, the Washington Post reported yesterday.
The action by US District Judge James Robertson stemmed from deep concern that the surveillance [...]
Obvious 21th century propaganda…
Yesterday and today it’s pretty all over IT sites — the CAN-SPAM Act works.
Well, it really doesn’t — they just want you to believe that it works, so you re-gain any trust because you think the government actually achieved something. Believe me, they really haven’t. Check your mailbox on a US based email-service — I [...]
I’ll probably risk my ass getting tortured and shit, but …
…that Unabomber Manifesto isn’t that bad at all…. The guy does make some interesting points.
Before reading this, I was under the impression that the guy was crazy, had radical ideas and wanted to kill everyone. But his manifesto seems like a spot-on analysis of the current state of mankind. Paragraphs like this:
Leftism is totalitarian force. [...]
Drug Survey of Students Finds Picture Very Mixed
As reported in the New York Times some new drug survey found that there’s a historic low in the number of students that smoke!
Yay!
Oh but wait — they’re abusing other drugs now….
The anti-tabacco zealots should be pleased that their children won’t get cancer, but instead, high on sedatives and barbiturates, jump off of tall [...]
Fuck New Years Resolutions!
| by in Random Rantings |
Why is it always that we have to make New Years Resolutions when the new year begins? It’s like, blaming all the people for the insane shit that goes on all around the world.
It’s pretty naive to think the world really would get any fucking better if everybody kept to their New Years Resolutions.
Man, most [...]
What’s this ‘Divide-and-Conquer’ thing with Wikipedia?
The commercial encyclopedae shall be very amused with what’s currently happening. Now the founders are fighting amongst themselves.
That can’t be a good thing and I wonder where this will lead us….. Probably to another paid-for reference that nobody will use because cheaper, or even free, alternatives are available. I just hope that in a [...]
Scharzenegger really is an American now….
Reading his arrogant actions lately, I think he’s been assimilated by the American Way Of Life (or rather the American MindFuck).
“I’m a big ass American gouvernor and you may not use my name anymore.”
Hell, I bet the son-of-a-bitch was merry as a faggot when his name was initially slammed on that stadium!
Oh well, just a [...]
So… Tomorrow it’s Yule.
…and there’s probably a sad minority of souls that actually are aware of what this is all about. (And no: it is not about ‘Baby Jesus’ or any of that religious crap or about some fat bearded guy fuelling materialism.)
It’s really saddening to see how the Roman Empire and its Christian religion assimilated all pagan [...]
Those son-of-a-bitch Wikipedia vandals!
Of course, the let’s flame ‘m again because our future may be threatened by the wiki concept Register picked this story up pretty quickly, another bunch of vandals fucked up Wikipedia content.
It’s to be expected that a lot of commercial companies really don’t like Wikipedia. If you read what the former editor of Encyclopedia Britannica [...]
Stanley Williams: Bloods offered their guns in exchange for his life.
According to this article on Indymedia, the Bloods-gang apparently offered their guns in exchange for Stanley Williams’ life.
Like with most news, this never was mentioned in main stream media, just like this was ignored by The Terminator.
Stanley Williams, Crips & Bloods, Gangs, Peace
EU accepts retention laws
And I can see this technology being used to remove ‘repressive’ elements from society.
Chimpanzees Beat out Children in Reasoning Test
| by in Animals & Nature, Random Rantings |
….but maybe *that* is exactly what put humans on top of the food-chain.
Train to Schiphol airport halted because of a passenger with a suspicious suitcase and a police officers mis-judgment.
This morning, the Dutch authorities stopped a train on its way to Schiphol airport because one police officer thought someone walking around with a suitcase was suspicious.
The train was stopped for over 2 hours, with all the passengers still in it — to find out that the guy was totally innocent.
I wonder how these things [...]
Mexican Vulcano-rabbit: another species existence threatened
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, Random Rantings, Sad Stuff |
According to this article here is seems that the so-called Mexican Vulcano Rabbit is another species being threatened to disappear from the face of the earth because mankinds’ messing up their habitat.
Truly sad stuff to see nature raped and pillaged all around us.
Animals, Nature, Rabbits
F*ck Xmas!
| by in Humour, Random Rantings |
I hate this period of the year.
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, [...]
On “self-destructing” text messages…
What a load of crap that is!
Wikipedia prankster confesses
Another Wikipedia prankster confesses to altering articles on Wikipedia:
A man in Nashville, Tenn., has admitted that, in trying to shock a colleague with a joke, he put false information into a Wikipedia entry about John Seigenthaler Sr., a former editor of The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville.
Admitted; this is to be expected on a publicly editable [...]
Sparrow killer gets 200 EUR fine
The person that shot a sparrow a few weeks back because it was interfering with an attempt to break the falling domino record attempt, today got a 200 EUR fine for not playing it by the book.
The sparrow is a protected species so, officially, to kill it, the company should’ve asked permission from local authorities. [...]
Firefox 1.5 DOS PoC released
But is it really the first PoC that can mess with your browser?
Flying rat brains
| by in Animals & Nature, Random Rantings |
You possibly already read it on Slashdot, but apparently scientists have created rodent neural cell cultures that, at the moment, are capable of flying an F-22 in a simulator.
Oh well, with monkeys for president, why don’t fight wars with rats…
Animals, Rats, Nature, Science
Adam Curry is an ignorant bastard
Adam Curry’s actions prompted Wikipedia to stop anonymous posting and editing.