Pondie

I’m going tonight to get this book but I thought I would share the find. Take a few minutes and read the site and watch the media links. Some very intresting shit.

LINK

The FUCK List:

Gene Simmons
most of the Bush administration
coke snorting/ass pounding religious-right hypocritical self-righteous pricks (you know who you are)
people on welfare who shouldn’t be
commercials (ie erectile dysfunction, creditors, voting scams)
evil corporations (again, you know who you are)
bad drivers who do exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time
people who abuse others for a quick buck in general

I may be missing a few, so give me a few days. Feel free to add more

Odd’s addition…

“Fuck L Ron Hubbard and
Fuck all his clones.
Fuck all those gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes.”

“Fuck retro anything.
Fuck your tattoos.
Fuck all you junkies and
Fuck your short memory.”

“Fuck smiley glad-hands
With hidden agendas.
Fuck these dysfunctional,
Insecure actresses.”

 Hope that gets a song stuck in your head

This entire last 6 years has made it harder for me to sleep at night. I always picture the worst possible outcome and there are many of them for our country. There will be a breaking point. It may be economic disaster, fuel shortage or what have you, but it will devastate our country as we know it. Part of me tries to think positive, there are many intelligent and honest people protecting our laws and freedoms. But the fear I have is that we loose our reigns on the world and another country finds a fine time to strike. A single mistake by a person in power is all it takes. Several years of mistakes and underhanded politics have taken a toll that will most likely never be erased. And now our ‘leaders’ have just what they want – a country full of fearful American’s, completely reliant on what they are being fed and too ignorant to realize it. I am afraid it is too late for us.

Many people say that life as an American changed on that day (9/11), but I don’t think we have seen much change at all in our day to day lives. There are the obvious exceptions for those who had a direct personal loss, but as a country, we never really saw the true meaning behind the attack. These people aren’t jealous of our freedom, they are disgusted with how we abuse it.

Now it is just a matter of time before we find out whether the American people will persevere the massive debt we have accumulated and the social disaster we have caused all over the globe. Our problem as a race may simply be that we do not see past the tiny spec of time we have to exist. This feeling of being ‘just one man’ and ‘what can I do’ grows inside of me every day. If only more of us could feel the same compassion for humanity’s future that we feel for our wealth.

So let’s keep living it up and enjoying our freedoms and our friends. Let’s just not forget the price we will pay for extravagance and arrogance.

read this article about what happens to whistleblowers namely in Iraq

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Ya, I always knew he was a bad person, but now he is bringing a bad name to the closet homosexical community.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/eyepiece/story/143801.html 

If you don’t know Stephen, he buys a lot of expensive toys and is good to his friends when he is done with them

link to his ad page with list of notable items.

Okay, so this may be a little nerdy, but some products/corporations seem to get out of control with power. I like to keep up on the latest happenings in the computer world and one of the latest security software releases (Norton 360) has been around long enough to stir up some reviews.

About ten years ago, Norton would have been one of only a few anti-virus choices, and rightfully so. It actually protected your PC with little intrusion into your daily life. For the last few years, however, myself and many tech nerd friends have found that removing this horrible piece of crapware from a system would speed it up dramatically. In fact, removing Norton/Symantec from many PCs actually fixed strange issues the users were having. I was hopeful when a few reliable sources mentioned that the new 360 drained far fewer system resources and was less intrusive.

Here is what I found so far…

Lets start with CNET, we have all heard of them. They give the product an excellent 8 out of 10, Editor’s Choice. Fortunately, they like to practice a little democracy and allow users to give their own reviews. What do the users say? They average a 4.2 out of 10 rating. That is with 161 reviews people! Now, I do realize that many consumers are rather lost when it comes to specific details about a product’s function and CNET may have the upper hand in experience. However, a read through this review had me thinking.

Now on to PC Magazine. In the latest “Security Suite Smackdown III” we find another excellent, 4.5 out of 5 review. However, we are again stricken with some nasty users reviews. Most are 1 out of 5. You can see for yourself.

I wasn’t planning on a long rant, but this just has me thinking. How is the corporate world able to push this crap on poor, uneducated users so easily? Wouldn’t one think that a great piece of software would overcome the power of these giants? It really seems to me that this kind of approach has slowed the progress of mankind in a global way. How could so many people (and even techies, mind you) be horrified with this software when the “unbiased” reviewers we trust are completely amazed by it’s performance? I guess money talks…damnit.

World of Whorecraft

http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=490401043&channel=196565916

You really gotta read this one. Then, when you are bored, read the rest.