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Jul. 12th, 2009 @ 08:10 am On the road again
Off to see [info]shendoah today. Contemplating appropriate sacrifice to traffic gods.
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Flying Coffee
Jul. 12th, 2009 @ 06:27 am The joys of junk science
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(CNN) -- Twenty milligrams; that's the average amount of carbon emissions generated from the time it took you to read the first two words of this article.

Now, depending on how quickly you read, around 80, perhaps even 100 milligrams of C02 have been released. And in the several minutes it will take you to get to the end of this story, the number of milligrams of greenhouse gas emitted could be several thousand, if not more.

As millions more go online each year some researchers say the need to create a green Internet ecosystem is not only imperative but also urgent.


That's what I love about the Global Warming Climate Change hysteria. It's always urgent. There is always a crisis that needs to be dealt with OMG NOW! BEFORE WE ALL DIE!! Mind you, the environmental movement has never really been about cleaning the environment. Sure, maybe at the level of the elementary school kid there are some good intentions. But it's more about control. At the core of things like this is the idea of "If we control everything, utopia will be ushered in."

But I have a solution and in the interests of reaching out to the other side, I would like to offer it. I know a way where you can achieve true carbon neutrality and you can do your part to help heal Mother Earth. It's 100% natural and not easily available but you can start your research here. Good luck and happy emissions reductions!
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Nigel
Jul. 10th, 2009 @ 11:37 am Taxes Have Consequences
To: The City of Los Angeles
From: Me
Re: This article.

Thank you for once more justifying my decision to get the hell out the state of California. In an ideal world, the Powers That Be would look at these kind of articles and think "we need to be more frugal and structure our taxes to encourage productive citizens to stay." Sadly, you are still caught up in the delusion that people will not relocate, businesses will always stick around and if they leave, you just penalize the rest of the folks who pay into the system.

I would be thankful that people can relocate. If folks had no choice and were stuck with an oppressive and idiotic system like this, Bad Things would probably happen.
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Stupid people
Jul. 10th, 2009 @ 10:04 am Felt the need to share this
“Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of."-Judge Ruth Ginsberg

"Take care when you speak of the surplus population, for it may be, in the grand scheme of things, that you are more expendable than one such as this."-Charles Dickens
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Flying Coffee
Jul. 10th, 2009 @ 08:07 am Once again, my species is embarrassing.
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Voters' rights groups filed a lawsuit Thursday charging that Indiana fails to provide public assistance applicants the chance to register to vote, violating federal law.

The suit accuses the state of violating the law by routinely failing to "distribute voter registration applications" and provide help "in completing those applications" to those applying for Medicaid, food stamps or other assistance.


Now mind you, Indiana is one of those states that was sued because they had the audacity to demand that voters show ID to prove that they could legally vote in that state. The lawsuit was brought by a woman who was committing voter fraud by being registered in multiple states.

Perhaps these voter rights groups might look at the possible reasons voter registration is down. Perhaps the people on assistance are already registered? I know people like ACORN think differently on the matter, but you can't register the same person more than once.

And it seems to me that if people know how to file for assistance, they are not helpless little victims and are probably able to register to vote. But I guess to "voter's rights groups" that is expecting too much.
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Do I look like I care?
Jul. 9th, 2009 @ 05:47 pm And now for some amusement
God Bless Ted Nugent.

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Winslow
Jul. 9th, 2009 @ 05:09 pm Yep. Still alive
The Printer From Hell was returned yesterday and with it goes my well wishes that it may someday pursue a career as a boat anchor. But I will admit it was amusing when I told one of my manager types that it had been returned and his response was "In one piece AND working?"

I love my job.

Shortly after that, I received a call from someone in our headquarters building asking me to fix two of their machines. Unfortunately, it's not a building I handle but it's pretty entertaining to see that my name is becoming rather well-known.

Meanwhile, I am still studying for the next Cisco test and it's slow going. May have to see about sitting in on a class in my area and try to get some help (The company I went through allows me to audit a class).
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Nigel
Jul. 8th, 2009 @ 04:59 pm So long as I am ranting.
Ah, the hypocrisies of unions.

So basically, Card Check is something WE MUST HAVE RIGHT NOW! in order to FIGHT FOR THE RIGHTS OF WORKERS! unless said workers stray off the reservation and want to join another union.

And since this is a health care union, this is something that directly affects my family.

My solution? Gallows, SEIU members, some assembly required. Repeat until the SEIU is ready to accept the warm fuzzies of being in a truly competitive system. Of course, dissolving several unions and pulling the fangs of the ones that remain has just as much appeal in terms of being an ideal solution.
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Linus Rant
Jul. 8th, 2009 @ 04:47 pm And today's "Missing The Point Award" goes to...
If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes.

I’m laughing because I don’t know how long this bill is going to be, but it’s going to be a very long bill.

— House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D.-Md.), at his regular weekly news conference on the health-care reform bill


Congresscritter Hoyer,

If you are saying that you would get very few votes of support for something if you people didn't do the job you were elected to do, then that is a sign that the bill is a Bad Idea.

Gotta love that promise of transparency and accountability. Kind of reminds me of my dating life except for the fact I don't get anything tangible for my money.
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Stupid people
Jul. 7th, 2009 @ 05:06 pm Why can't we get judges with this level of common sense?
A fanatic who once paraded his baby in an 'I love al-Quaeda' hat was today jailed for firebombing the home of the publisher of a novel about Mohammed.

Today Mrs Justice Anne Rafferty told the extremist and his two accomplices as she sentenced them each to four-and-a-half years. "If you chose to live in this country, you live by its rules. There is no such thing as 'a la carte citizenship' and, in your case, there is no such thing as a la carte obedience to the law."


There are some hope for the Brits yet.
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Nigel
Jul. 7th, 2009 @ 05:01 pm I hate Congresscritters
With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate’s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing certain aspects of a new deal on an executive levels and a “provisional basis” until the Senate ratifies the treaty.

*ahem*

The Constitution is that pesky little document that tells you how you are supposed to conduct business. Suspend or ignore it at your peril.
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Excuse me?
Jul. 7th, 2009 @ 12:28 pm Notice a thread on my tech related rants?
Dear Xerox,

I would like to invite your Hardware Design Department to an isolated stretch of woods near my home where there will be no witnesses.

No Love
Me
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Growf?
Jul. 6th, 2009 @ 05:56 pm Now for some good news
COFFEE! It saves your brain!

The Florida research, carried out on mice, also suggested caffeine hampered the production of the protein plaques which are the hallmark of the disease

If it's anything like the coffee I drink, it's because the protein plaque dies screaming in agony as it dissolves.
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Flying Coffee
Jul. 6th, 2009 @ 05:41 pm Just a quick message
To: The People of Poland
From: Me
Re: Bison Grass Vodka

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I love you guys. Seriously. Who is this "Russia" and why do they claim they make the best vodka?
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Kamineko
Jul. 3rd, 2009 @ 10:24 am Happy Fourth of July
This says it all.


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Rifleman
Jul. 2nd, 2009 @ 09:34 pm I approve of this bit of snark


Oh, and Lydia dear? Fuck off and die. Your grandfather was a piece of shit and you are equally worthless. Start talking about Ethical Treatment of People and start working to redeem your family name for the atrocities that murdering thug committed.
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Nigel
Jul. 2nd, 2009 @ 07:12 pm Update on a news story
Remember this?

There is good news.

And really, I love the woman's response. "I'm not anti-Marine and I"m not anti-military."

Right. And some of your best friends are black and you hang out with gay people. You can't possibly be a bigot. You switch your threatening tone against the man to one of "Oh, this was just a misunderstanding."

But at least the matter is solved. The sad part is that the man should never have had to deal with this and it would have gone badly for him if it had never made the news.
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Rifleman
Jul. 2nd, 2009 @ 11:22 am Since I am evil enough to appreciate it
To: Helen Thomas, aka White House Press Corps Gargoyle

Congratulations on successfully pimpslapping the White House Press Secretary. The part where you got him to squeak more hysterically than a pre-teen girl meeting all three Jonas brothers at the same time? Artwork!

But seriously, Ms. Thomas, I fail to understand what you are so shocked about how the press is being controlled and manipulated. After all, You Voted For This! You voted for the man knowing that he was a career politician who played the media like a fiddle. Or, more accurately, you would have known this if you had done some basic research.

Still, nice to see that you are starting to challenge the BS. I don't have any hope that you're going to stop the love fest of the current president, but that clip was pretty cool to listen to.
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Nigel
Jul. 1st, 2009 @ 07:10 pm It has to be said
Dear Xerox,

The horse you rode in on? Him too.

Love and Kisses,

me
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Nigel
Jul. 1st, 2009 @ 04:42 pm There are some scientific acheivements that should not be celebrated
The year is 2020 and the gasoline tax is history. In its place you get a monthly tax bill based on each mile you drove — tracked by a Global Positioning System device in your car and uploaded to a billing center.

What once was science fiction is being field-tested by the University of Iowa to iron out the wrinkles should a by-the-mile road tax ever be enacted.


Should something this idiotic be passed by our Congress (And frankly, I have no doubts that they will), I suggest that the University of Iowa, as well as the people there who designed this, be lost in a tragic fire.

Sadly, the brain children that came up with this idea don't seem to realize that ways will be found to disable such things and we will do them.
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Ein