I read the Mail nearly every day. Online. I read it as a document to modern culture and a barometer. I used to watch the Jerry Springer show for the same reasons, but I grew out of that and feel I probably will throw this particular toy out of the pram soon, too.
Today there were photos of a woman who had her breast removed through Cancer.
I have never seen such images in my life. The thumbnail was unannounced and unsolicited.
I clicked on the link and was genuinely shocked, not at the content, but the fact that this rag would publish something like this.
Here it is:
Cancer survivor's inspirational mastectomy photos BANNED by Facebook for being 'pornographic'
It is quite simply unnecessary or in other words gratuitous. I have seen several stories where totally out of the blue they have posted autopsy level real photographs of people with their arms and legs blown off lying in pools of blood. There have been massive complaints against this unsolicited and unwarranted assault against peoples minds.
I can imagine what a limb looks like when it is shorn off by a blast. I can imagine what a body looks like when it is shorn of a breast. But I'm funny. I don't like looking at these things and I don't like going through doors that can never be closed.
Let's not stop there.
Also had to admire the child pornography. Pre-teen girls in prostitute make up wearing prostitute clothes. Pulling prostitute poses for the camera. I'm not the first to say it - they rally against paedophilia, yet promote it on a mass scale. No wonder the Mail get so many daily readers (ahem)....
The purveyors of the Mail - editors, owners, journalists, are far worse than their readership. At least some of the readers complain about this pushing of the worst kind of pornography. They are worse than rank hypocrites - they are perpetrators of the worst kind of filth. Tits and arse?
Oh no, sir, we do not ever show that. People, still alive, with several limbs severed, crying out for help with horrific and shocked looks on their faces. Oh yes sir, sells papers.
Someone gave these fuckers a nod and said 'ok, psyops chocks away - let's desensitize the populus'.
That's why I read the Mail Online everyday. You're welcome!
Everyone has said everything of worth really, only read half the thread but it all seems to be covered. The Reginistas know what time it is, make no mistake mister.
Basically another tracking device.
Good drivers will see no benefit from being good little boys.
Bad naughty drivers will be hard-slapped come next Insurance day.
Really naughty drivers that do 'jobs' will revert back to Sweeney type Ford Granadas, gov.
Me, I will still dice with death getting a loaf of freeking bread. No pavement - walls 14 foot high - try jumping over them Mr.High-Jumper when trouble comes your way.
Oh it is safe enough when no traffic on the road, but to be caught in a game of semi-chicken between the driver behind you and the driver oncoming - I feel like a virtual 3d prop in Carmageddon.
I have already told my Mother that I think this might be how I die. I need to get my act together a bit more and find out what the actual death statistics are for this particular stretch.
Little kiddies - hundreds of them use it every day as they come back from school. (Or maybe just tens of them - I don't stand on the corner counting them)..
Those little car driving fuckers will speed past me walking at thirty miles an hour no problems if it means getting in on the one in front. I mean literally inches - a foot - 12 inches if you didn't know. This is at THIRTY MILES A FUCKING HOUR. If they ever catch me and don't kill me, I will get up and beat the living fucking daylights out of them where they stand: saying: 'ooh are you alright - I didn't see you'.
Had a member of the family killed in a RTA nearly a century ago. Repercussions still felt today.
It wasn't the drivers fault in that particular case.
One disabled driver clipped me by about three inches. When I say clipped, I don't mean he hit me, but I felt his wind. I followed him up the road and nearly caught him. I would have dragged that son of a bitch out of his car and dealt with the consequences later - but he just drove off.....
This road is deadly. Car drivers are fucking pricks if you ask me. I know you are not all the same - some of you even slow right down, give me a 3-4 foot birth on a (quite wide as it goes) road. Why skim me when you can avoid me by 7-8 feet? Most times there is just one car coming along. I am either going to be killed or will commit murder on this road. But I bet it won't be me - it will be a schoolchild. Then they might do something.
And don't start me off on the boy racers. You know what? They are ok - because they are going fast and give a wide berth. I would rather they miss me by 6 foot at 70Mph, than some numpty hitting me at 20Mph coz they want to get to the shop and they don't want to slow down because I am in their way. How inconvenient.
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My brown paper bag is wet with all these exhalations. I just wanted to show it is not all about speed. If I am killed on that road, or god forbid a junior school child, it will be at 20-30-mph.
...to the obstinacy and arrogance of these so called 'Mulit-Corporations' - yes Microshaft - I am looking at you too. But really you are just a useful idiot. A very well paid useful idiot though.
Develop a system like they dreamed about in science fiction days of yore - a Big Bugger of a Network where everything is connected to everything else. Wait a minute........
Then develop a distribution system (bit torrent on steroids). Give unequivocal access to this as a matter of course. Let the Martini effect take hold: Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere, some bod can download wtf he likes. Charge a 'micro-payment'.
Now. I am not saying that the powers that be will still be so fat off the riches of the land, riding their big fat wobbly gravy boats down it's streams... But.....
They will get more than they are getting at the moment. And they sure as fuck are going to get more than they will at this rate.
People stop going to Cinema in protest (I know I do/don't)? No problem!
Just charge the suckers that do go double. In fact, double the profit on the popcorn too - they really will not know what hit them in their little wallets.
I work in this industry. I am hoping to make it big in this industry. I would like to get paid. I like to eat. Everything else is a bonus to the warm milk of kindness that is a payment for the appreciation of your efforts. But these idiots in power are truly making a right horses arse out of it all for everybody else when the technology is there, the will is there from people to pay a fair price for what they use. Not everyone I know. There always has been and always will be freetards. I don't mind them. They are a bit sad. But jeez Louise, there must be a way to circumvent these morons stealing, without the artists getting paid. I say - Let them steal, let the rest of us pay, let us live in a harmonious society. Their taking a 'copy' does not rob me of my 'copy'. It's on a couple of my hds THANK YOU very much.
And if anyone wants to vote me down, then please re-read the last couple of sentences. Coz you know, those vote downs cut me to the quick of my soul.
The worst was seeing an ex-girlfriend in an extreme S&M flick made by her award winning for FILM boyfriend. I got over it eventually, but the shock was hard when not expecting it.
It's all shit. You don't need it. Any man that pays for it is a wanker. eh eh...
There is no substitute for closeness and intimacy between two human beings, be they of the same sex or different sex - don't matter.
Excellent interview Lewis. A bit brief. A bit candid.
If you had been on the Benny Hill show there would have been a hook incoming from stage right that would have caused you to grimace in a trying-not-to-look-embarrassed fashion, legs a waddling in a shuffle style, until you were not so subtly disposed of.
How to make Evan gibber in under 3 minutes or whatever it was.
Not sure if that is a world record but I laughed out loud. I really did.
It said on the bbc the other day, that as people are circumventing this block with other methods, the government is considering greater control over those methods used, i.e. proxy web server and VPN.
First they came for my torrent site, etc. etc.
I do wish them luck. God knows they would if they only could.
I do a bit of gui design - you probably use one on one of your softsynths or possibly even daw.
I like Ableton - it works for Ableton - the idea is to pack as much info into the real estate as you can.
Having gradations and 3d stuff takes up space. So you can get more in the space. I think that is the plan.
I also like Cubase too. It works for Cubase. If you are thinking of jumping to Studio One - don't hesitate it is an absolutely superb program, not least the uncomplicated but not drab GUI. You probably know that it was programmed by the couple of guys that originally did the first Cubase. Many things are carried over in the design - it is extremely fast to work with. It is one of the half dozen or so daws I own. I love it to pieces though use it less than my others as It is my latest flame and I am more familiar with the others in depth.
As to IDEs. I think customisation is the most important factor. I used to set my UltraEdit with a black background and really go to town with the all the colours of the rainbow assigned to key words.
It even used to get stares from ladies on the tube - they could not take their pretty little eyes off it - highly recommended if you're a sad lonely ol' git like me ;-)
One thing I have learned in GUI design is that people perceive light-level extremely differently. The white light of a background burns my eyes. It actually causes more eye damage than a dark background - you wouldn't stare at the sun would you ;-) However, with IDEs as in DAWs, most people use a white background because that is what they are given (cue Jam song). I knew of no other 'coder' at uni that used a black background - and certainly none that highlighted their key words to their own logic.
There must be others that use a black or at least dare I say it - grey - background to code. No wonder coders tend to wear glasses - shades is what they really need.
And don't start me off on the fact that you can NOT change the white background in explorer in win7 - sheer f***ing madness. You can do it with hacks but it is complex. You have to use the classic theme which defeats the whole gui enhancements in win7.........
But I will give them kudos for their live recovery cd.
A visitor to someone in the family decided to surf for prawns and infected the machine with the Metropolitan Police virus. Quite nasty in a way as the little chap disables safe mode via a registry tweak - this has to be manually sorted out later.
I had an older image on the machine and managed to do a file backup via Linux, but I knew it would be extra hassle again to re-install a couple of months stuff. So I had a crack at doing a 'disinfection' rather than a full re-install via image as I would normally do in 90 percent of cases.
The disabling of safe mode was a right little bugger, and I used about 5 other major av vendors rescue cds (kaspersky, bitdefender etc etc..) - anyway they all failed to catch the offending .exe.
AVG you done me proud. Slow, but thorough scan - dos interface - but deleted said file and the machine re-booted no problem. It took me about 20-30 hours of work over two days to restore the machine to it's former pristine state, but that is with re-imaging and security updates too.
I agree with AVG being bloat, but I have to say thanks to them for providing this rescue cd free of charge. Highly recommended.
Btw, Do Not Track don't do a plug-in for Opera, then again I have Ghostery, AdBlock, NotScript and my hosts file changed via Hosts Expert (MVPS), so I'm not sure how much I really need it.
Actually, that's quite a niftly little hard to crack password, scoring 100% on the password meter.
And 'How secure is my password' says: It would take a desktop PC About 374 trillion years to hack your password. I wonder if they could crack it in the same amount of time.
Actually, I would just say:
Name: Doilookl Ike Acunt (but you can call me Ike)
Pwd: 123UHaveGot2BFuckin'Kiddin'Me?123
F***, that's an even better password - About 121 quattuordecillion years to 'crack' according to the 'How secure is my password' site. Not even I know how long that is, but it sounds like a bleedin' long time.
Sorry for the bad language, but passwords, for some reason, bring out the latent copropraxic tendencies in me. ****.
I would not have a clue what it would feel like to have bits of me cut off for medical purposes and then have it 're-constructed'. This is not my field and I know nothing about it.
But I will say this: I am a coward - I bet I would not handle it very well - and it wouldn't even be me in the firing line - it would be the one I loved. And what use would I be to her? I am not a strong man. I am certainly not as strong as a woman.
I'm just some prick on a message board blahing on, that hopes bad luck don't come his way. For those it has: Do what you have to do.. I really won't judge you in real life. This is just theory and conjecture, in my book..
I think you got the wrong end of the tit (sorry, stick) with what I said.
Can you go back and read it again, just to check that you really meant to say what you said.
If so, then we can joust. Ad Hominem against me, I could (not) care less. But I sense a deeper inference to your insult, against women in general, if I understand correctly. And that will not stand my good man.
Then when I ask her: WHY? - She can watch my jaw drop in submission at her reply.
All respect to women that take that path. May it be the end of their worries.
To do it to be the biggest Alpha bitch on the block is (as I said before) obscene.
Now, I'm open to suggestion here. Help a brother out, sister. Please explain why you do what you do. S'il vous plaît.
And I'm not a prude. I'm a raging fucking pervert if you must know, but it's not really any of your business. It's their right to mutilate their bodies. It's my right to look down on them and want to have nothing to do with them (sexually, love-wise, etc..)..
Then again, last time I looked, my opinion counted for sweet FA, when I counted the number of atoms in the universe, compared to those in my body. Feel free to be enraged, or just ignore.
In a really nasty, horrible, self-obsessed and mutilated kind of way.
I love women. I really do. Through my life most of my 'bestest' friends have been women. I also don't hate my mother. But if I ever met a woman who had her flesh ripped out and plastic injected there, for let's face it - beyond vanity purposes (I am not talking about re-constructive cosmetic surgery here - that is just fine in my book and I have no problem with that at all), then I just would not be able to take her seriously as a human being any more. I would ask her why she has done what she has done, and I doubt that more than one reply out of a hundred could convince me it is a 'good thing'.
I love women - I love their imperfections. I also respect their right to do what the hell they like with their own bodies. But I just don't get it.
I will just say that I am now going to boycott ALL content produced by the majors. This really is bordering on Fascism with the merger of the state and government with corporations. (Cheers for that Il Duce)
Economic warfare. I have NO money left. I go without to buy my software I use. It's only because I am a little bit autistic that I can achieve it - a normal, 'sane' person wouldn't be able to 'hack' my lifestyle. I talk to the developers, I beta test for them, I do free content packs that get thousands of downloads - equivalent to and better than some 'paid' content. I pirated everything at one time, when I was young and was checking things out. Now, there is no way I would have the brass balls to walk into a studio or have someone walk into mine and be seen to be using cracked software.
That is on the one hand. On the other, I am a writer and producer. I don't get paid for what I do, but all it will take is a dip in the social fashion continuum and, like my long lost cousin in Nigeria that contacted my via email the other day (hi ;-)) - I will be VERY RICH MAAN!
You must read this seminal essay by Adam of The Sisters Of Mercy:
Why you've got no chance of making a living out of music -
http://www.the-sisters-of-mercy.com/gen/rrr4.htm
Short, sweet, to the point and enlightening.
The artists very rarely see the benefits of their sales. It generally takes multi-million figures, before it really substantively trickles down to the average bass player or drummer. Then again - they probably did not write the songs - the singer or lead guitarist probably did. When there is a hit and the singer (whose ego is already out of control) moves into that mansion on the hill and the bass player is still left scraping for the next cigarette, animosity can and usually does ensue.
That is why, most of the most successful bands like, say for example: R.E.M. and U2, have a policy of 'ALL ROYALTIES TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN ALL BAND MEMBERS REGARDLESS OF WHO WROTE THE SONGS'. This also has a rather pleasing creative knock-on effect of taking the pressure off the main songwriter (thus easing potential 'writers block') and encouraging the aforementioned drum and bass players to get stuck in and 'write a good 'un'.
Yes, I'm looking at YOU - Mr. Roger Taylor - who is in love with his car, and you Mr. Deacon who might have been 'Under Pressure', until the royalties rolled in. Actually, my point was: that I believe ALL members of Queen were payed equally, regardless of who wrote what. It pays creative dividends as well as keeping the band together.
How many bands split after their first 'hit' album?
That is why, when I work with an artist, I tell them, Ok, I wrote this song, I produced it. But you know what? If it is a hit, I will split my share with you equally. There are some exceptions to this, but you get the picture. I am still waiting for my chickens to come home to roost and I honestly doubt they ever will, but that is my ethos, nonetheless.
As for the majors: they are going down and they are going away. There are far bigger issues here - like the police becoming the henchman of the money men. The police have now officially become the 'Thug Caste' of this once great country.
Serious Organised Crime - Go Fuck yourself! You are a shame on this country and a shame on the Police 'Force' in general. (I am thinking about the recent act of terrorism via the RnB website debacle). You have frightened and terrorised people so much that they are in a state of -Pre-War, ready to do battle with all the adrenaline pumping through their veins, that an Archer might have felt at Agincourt.
So, no, I don't need no stinking royalties, eating is nice, and living in a peaceful country not run by proto-Fascists, would be even 'nicer'.
Wished I could afford it. More expensive RAM, more expensive Mobo.
But yeah, for a few dollars more I would definitely have got it.
And OCd that little bugger to the hilt as well..
I got my i5 up to 3.8GHz stable, but was starting to push it. The power draw and heat was *becoming* exponentially expensive. Still doable, but nah. After 3.8GHz, I would imagine you would need water cooling. Apart from that, my Gigabyte Mobo (which is a real beauty btw), doesn't like being pushed too hard for too long, so they say. Me, I stuck at a nice steady 3.42GHz with it running at stock temps and passing 100 LinPacks.
I also ran about 8 or 9 other torture treatments, but after 12 hours of different passes at different settings in Prime95, I thought, why abuse the little bugger? I run a totally stripped down and customised via nLite install of WinXpSP3 on it, and it is pure joy and bliss when I spark her up.
("Her", because you know, how things can go wrong very quickly with women if you don't pay 'attention'?)
I wish I had the money to buy another system and do it all again, even though things move on.
Maybe in a year or two....
That's why I say: Kudos to that man for building his 'Hydra'. The knowledge and satisfaction gained is tantamount to being a nitrous-oxide fuelled hot-rodder. Hence my reference to 'Racing In The Streets', by Springsteen. Have you seen how many 'good' over-clocking forums there are? How many are addicted to this 'hobby'? How many are not happy until they release the magic smoke?
All I can say is: For those about to (Over) Clock, we salute you!
I can get just over 50GFlops out of my i5 750 2.66 OCd. Stable and cool. According to LinPack.
Amazing little chip - so much more bang for the buck than the i7 - but then you probably already knew that. All in one seriously stable, seriously 'Nuclear' looking package.
I don't need more speed and I do Audio/3D. Well, I lie, I do need more speed, but even the Hydra wouldn't help me out here - I need a server farm.
Well, not if they have anything to do with it anyway.
I blagged a job via an agency doing debt collection.
.
Spent all morning on the phone saying:
"That would be lovely, just super, if you could pop that in the post, it would just be GREAT".
I was escorted out of the building by SECURITY at half past twelve. Told never to darken their doorstep again. Even the agency I got the job with would not return my phone calls.
I mean, wtf did they want? A leg-breaker? Look sunshine, I've heard this shit before and I know where your daughter goes to school - pretty little girl - so pay the fuck up by Wednesday or I'm gonna burn yar fucking house darn - Cunt!
Crikey, I could never take that tone with someone I had never met!
Definitely a communication problem between management on that one.
I remember getting my Sinclair ZX81 and a few decades later having to break it to my own brain that I am actually a bit of a thick twat that couldn't program himself out of a wet cardboard box. So Kudos to those that can! And who knows this may just open some door some where for somebody. It certainly won't do no harm!
I'm gonna get one coz it's got an audio jack. Try and run some VST shit on it. We'll see.
See all those I.P. addies screwing your CPU and your 'leccy bill?
That's google that is!
Wonder what they are doing?
Can I stop them Mummy?
"You CAN stop them Son, but you will have to give a large chunk of your time and attention to do so! - Are you prepared to fight the good fight my son?"...
Fuck it Mummy, I think I'll just browse some pr()n in private tab mode.
They CAN'T get me then can they Mummy?
"You would be surprised what those EVIL Bastards can do Son!"
Google will break all the laws they want, with carte blanche provided by government.
To quote the great Laurel And Hardy - 'Just like two peas in a pod'.
They act with impunity, because they have immunity.
If you or I did that, we'd get a quick twat spank,
Thought so at the time. Proved right it would seem. More to come. They are afraid. Very afraid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d__8ryEui6U
Maybe it's a bit unfair to London Underground, when we should be blaming the black 'copter brigade, but you know - 'collaborators' don't get preferential treatment.
Look. Let's stop fucking about. Tattoo us, microchip us, hook our veins up to the 'matrix', turn us into soylent green, Please can we just get this over with. You know you want to. We know you're going to. Put us out of our misery will you?
I'm looking forward to the full release of Linux Mint 12 KDE. It looks great and I have just given up on Kubuntu after spending a long time to get audio/plugins working. It works for some people but I failed on that particular distro. I'll have a look at it next time it comes around.
I got it to work and I learned a lot, but for some reason my install on the SD card got wiped and the two backups (ToDO and Paragon) failed to work. No probs...
So yeah - Lisa with KDE. Can't wait. I downloaded the Debian version of Mint and I'm going to give that a go in the meantime - it's a rolling release based on Debian Testing as you probably all know a whole lot better than me. I might be out of my depth with it, but people say once you get it up and running it is much quicker and more efficient than other versions.
There is always Cinnamon as well, but I think I've got enough to 'chew' on for the moment.
This was an interesting time to jump into the wacky waters of Linux. On one hand I am in awe of what has been achieved and on the other I am in shock at all the hard work that has been effectively destroyed, all in the name of change for changes sake, and if it ain't broke, fix it till it is.
Anyway, I got a nice little persistent install of Katya which is supported till the end of the year, by which time I hopefully will be rocking with either the KDE or Debian version (or both).
They are even saying they will do a KDE desktop for the LMDE as well as a Fluxbox one too.
All this on a 4GB SD card that is permanently in my laptop so I can fire it up anytime I like. Awesome.
I thought I'd be polite and introduce myself - didn't knock on the door but tried the 'hello my name is...' gambit with them. They couldn't get back in that fucking door to their 'own' space quick enough. Yes I do check my armpits very regularly and this isn't even London where I lived for twenty years. They all talk to each other but blank me. I'm not female and not in a relationship and don't have kids so I suppose I am a bit 'fishy' to them. Oh well.
Then again I like my own space. There is one woman a nurse - I pass her on the road when I walk to the shops - I always say hello to her as I met her and talked to her a couple of times in the pub when I moved into this area (I don't go to the pubs anymore, because there is no one in them for a start, and if there is they don't want to talk to old billy nomates me in the corner), but she never says hello to me. I make a point of saying hello to her though just for the hell of it. She has a red face, and I believe as Springsteen put it: 'the eyes of one who hates for just being born'.
I don't ask anything from anyone, I am not pushy or brash. I am fairly open and a good conversationalist in as much as I really am interested in people and what they have to say.
All to no avail. I go for weeks on end not talking to another human being in real life. If it wasn't for my family......
Yes it was poignant that time stopping off in East Coker on my way home. The Wasteland - I don't know if this was what Elliot had in mind, but.... let's just say that there's nowt so queer as folk. Thank god for the internet. It might be a bit of a slum at times, but it helps to keep me sane.
Mr. Dedoimedo turned me onto it. But it doesn't have a proxy/cache option as far as I can tell.
When I need that, I use 'ixquick' - it also has 'images' and 'videos' search. All searches are encrypted by ssl and the advanced search is very easy to use for beginners and more advanced alike (handy when you forget that google operator such as 'inurl:').
They call it the "world's most private search engine". I'll believe 'em until they let me down.
Read their privacy policy and make up your own mind. In fact I am tending to use it more than DuckDuckGo these days - I think it might have a slight edge over it - I don't know.
Anyway, no reason to be using google anymore for the vast majority of search, especially as I have mentioned just now, they have a highlighting function that works just dandy. Someone at the Reg turned me onto that one. Ta.
Carrier IQ solutions combine device-resident software and server-side business analytics applications to provide actionable intelligence on end-user customer experience, performance and service quality. The embedded device agents are currently shipped on more than 75 million devices across numerous device manufacturers and models. The solutions can be deployed across multiple wireless technologies such as CDMA2000, GSM, UMTS/WCDMA, WiFi, and device types such as feature phones, smart phones, PDAs, data cards.
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http://www.carrieriq.com/company/careers.htm
They are also looking for someone with:
"Experience with PPP/serial logging and sniffing tools like Wireshark"
Only just started with Linux this year and Mint 10 Julia was my distro of choice.
Superb. The only thing it doesn't do is automatically detect my wireless. Just tried out Katya and it does detect it, so as I'm just getting back into it I will probably stick with that. It still runs hot as I have an ATI card, but no hotter (still about 10 degrees hotter than win7 though).
I have just tried out these distros and the temperature is consistent:
Wary Puppy
Lucid Puppy
Slacko Puppy
Fatdog 64
Parted Magic
I've only just got my head around Gnome 2, so the last thing I want to do is confuse myself further. I have read also that Gnome 3 uses a lot more CPU compared to Gnome 2.
10% opposed to 1% is quite a lot when you have average hardware and it is running hot already, like me.
I've just downloaded the .iso's for Dream Studio and AV Linux. I don't imagine they will run any cooler though.
Gnome 2 is a fantastic experience and what made me fall in love with Linux. It is my fave desktop out of those I have tried so far. Not liking the look of Gnome 3 at all and that extra CPU hit makes me want to avoid it like the plague.
What it lacks in grammatical correctness, I hope it makes up for in small-minded bigotry.
Any day now, we shall find out that Larry's parents came from the Ol' country.
(I'm half Irish btw, I'm a Welsh man that can't swim)
Let's all sing now, to the tune of 'Riders On The Storm': Larry's dad was black, Larry's dad was black, He's never coming back, Humped whores outside the back, And emptied his ball sack.
That on reflection is too cruel. It shows the mark of a bitter man. And Larry may be many things, but he is not bitter. Then again, would you be with his fucking cash?
Nurse is coming soon - she fucking better be - I'm nearly all out!
In LISP, the constant T means `true', among other things. Some Lisp hackers use `T' and `NIL' instead of `Yes' and `No' almost reflexively. This sometimes causes misunderstandings. When a waiter or flight attendant asks whether a hacker wants coffee, he may absently respond `T', meaning that he wants coffee; but of course he will be brought a cup of tea instead.
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Gave me a chuckle.
What a great achievement to have made in your life. Not just a great personal achievement, but an accomplishment that has contributed so much to so many. A truly great man.
Very few in my opinion hold this great mantle. Dennis Ritchie was one of the chosen. One of the few to be sure. (c) Andrew Eldritch. When I was homeless and had to gather my things in a bag, I made sure I had K&R in there. I still couldn't understand a bloody word of it, but it was smaller than Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years. J/K. Except about the K&R.
When I die, I doubt I will get a head stone. Though if I did, I know it will not say: Here lies a great man. I am okay with that. It also will not say: Here lies a bad man. And I am even better with that one. It just heartens me to know, that I lived for a time on planet Earth amongst the scum-suckers and don't-know-any-betters, and that people like this existed - a beacon to humanity, something to strive for.
And it might be wrong of me and a great failing, but I would be disappointed if he was not a good person as well. I have high standards for my heroes.
The reverse engineers amongst you might have deduced I was a trifle miffed.
Back to normal.
As you were.
I'm going to see my g/f later. I'm going to 'ignore' her over the chesterfield. 'Ignore' her black and blue. I'm gonna 'ignore' her till she can't take no more. "Darling, do you fancy getting a little euFUmistic with me?". "They're all at it."
ahem.
'Ignore' human rights. Yeah. There's only two things I hate more than a bad man. The lesser of those two is a bad man who is a hypocrite. The greater is a bad man who is not just a hypocrite but a liar to boot as well. Guess which one I think the google exec is?
I'm calming down a bit and will probably be okay by evening. When nurse comes.
I am in a massive battle at the moment with a couple of companies.
All to do with another 'evil' company. Yeah google are evil - get over it.
Become angry - don't sublimate it - you are being rogered over. Do something about it.
That company is called Gravatar.
Did you know that if you 'knock up' a Wordpress page for shits and giggles, then any information you give is held on their servers and not deletable? That is right - held for ever and ever.
Also they can 'share' (sell) your personal information. I refer to this page:
http://automattic.com/privacy/
I quote:
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We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
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Well, that is alright then innit?
I did a 'test' page for a mutual friend for another mutual friend of ours who had recently died a terrible, slow and painful death through cancer.
How shocked was I, when several months later, the photos of said mutual dead friend popped up on a forum where I had registered to get support for some very expensive audio software I had just bought. I mailed them and they assured me that no no no they don't do dat...
But they lied. I can prove they lied. They could just not deal with me going ballistic.
(if you are getting bored or find this post irrelevant - then you know what to do - those that find it pertinent, read on)
But what has really shocked me is that Gravatar/Wordpress have sold my private/personal information to one of the top Malware (little clue there for you - I will publish their name soon enough, but want to get the battle over with first) fighters in the industry. I registered on their forum to get some help with their software which, again, I had just bought. Cue photo of dead friend and the pain of his slow death coming back to haunt me, just when I was starting to get over it. (I know I have been a fool and it is my own fault and I take full responsibility for my actions)
I can think of why this is such a personal security breach on so many levels that I just do not have the time to write them all down.
So, the moral of this story is:
If you have any dealings with this company, they will hold your information 'for ever' and sell it to who ever the f they like, for their 'development of their products'. You will NOT be able to delete it EVER. In law, they could sell it to who they want and there is not a damn thing you can do about it.
So go ahead, use Wordpress, use any of these services:
Polldaddy
VaultPress
Gravatar
et al.
All 26 of them.
http://automattic.com/
I will finish on a quote from their page:
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“We are much better at writing code than haiku.”
— Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic
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Yes Matt, you are right.
But what you neglected to say was this:
"We are much better at 'internet-rape' than writing code".
And believe me, I know all about rape, so don't go there.
I use these words unreservedly. And I don't use them lightly.
Yes, I am a little bit upset at having my naivety thrown back in my face like this.
And google et al are cut from the same cloth. They deleted my account when I would not photocopy my passport or driving licence to send to them in the post. When I messed about with my account (I should have had it backed up and take full responsiblity again, so don't bother with the comments please - I've already thought of it). The only thing important in that account was a couple of emails from aforementioned dead friend (I did back those up though - thank you very much). But they didn't know that.
Oh, I got the photos deleted eventually, but f me, what a palaver - took me hours to go through their bullshit. But my details are with them for ever even though they might not be publicly accessible. And I had to delete the whole account - no provision for just deleting photos that I could find.
Evil bastards.
It is only an 'electronic' war for now. But I for one, am hoping it becomes a proper trenches and bayonets affair. Can you see which side of the lines I am on boys?
Not many things I would die for. Not Afghanistan, not Iraq, not Libya, not Iran.
But I would gladly give of my mortal coil....
Enough. I've made my point.
I'll be surprised if you post this Reg, ol' chap, but if you do, you will go even higher up in my estimation. Then again, if you don't...
Which side are you on boys?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC5o5mVpYPM
This stuff is going on, it won't go away and real people - good people - are being hurt by it.
Corporations ignore human rights. Do they? No, they smack them round for a bit first, then stick the boot in, just before they cut the corpse to pieces and then piss on it. They finish their fun off with a good shit. Then send the photo home to mummy.
Stay classy google/gravatar.
Just don't tell anyone you meet randomly in a bar that you work for those companies.
Young Smelly Steve: "Oh go away and don't contact me again till you get a proper turtle-neck, just like 'Larry' has - love him or hate him - he has a good line in turtle-ware, unlike YOU!"
BHHC: (Gibbering from the put-down [Lips quivering {Parentheses all but run out now}] and feeling none too confident) - "I'm sorry Steve, I'll see what I can do".
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But he tickled a few peoples funny bones some where. I think we can all learn from that.
Besides, no one deserves to die like that. And I know most of you are not wishing malice on him.
It's a bit like - Don't blame the government for what they do - blame the people for accepting it as normal and allowing it to happen.
Young Smelly Steve: "Well, I code for many reasons, but I suppose the main reason I code is so I don't become a FUCKING WAFFLE WAITRESS!".
(C) Bill Hicks.
Apparently Steve wasn't much of a coder, or an engineer or... In fact nobody really knows what he did. Maybe a visionary? Yes, a visionary. That is it.
Certainly not going down in price, or up in choice of selection, but seems pretty stable so far. I'm sure they will milk it for all it is worth, but you can only milk the cow so far in these dire economic times. Mmmm... Eggs/Milk/Hard Drive... let me see... Crap analogy...
I hear you all those that make comparisons from the egg and the basket, but just want to say -
I hope you can get through this ok Thailand. My thoughts don't mean much, but they are with you. I hope you come out of this ok. I wish you well...
I'm typing this on my trusty old brick. It's an acer travelmate 240 that is 7 years old.
It gets hot as a frying pan in summer so is kept on a cooler. I replaced the 40GB hd with an 80GB one. Also put in an extra gig of ram. I've run 3D programs on it and rendered the bugger half to death, or so I have tried to do anyway, but to no avail - it's the Kirk Douglas of laptops. It did blow up on me once when I put in 2GB of ram - had to take the battery out to stop the little b***h screaming.
I've run audio sequencers on it too no problem - bit slow obviously. These days I keep it as my 'dirty' machine just for surfing and testing - don't expect it to last another day!
Laptops are a lottery. A common question asked in the audio world is: What Laptop can I get for some fairly serious audio work. A lot of people say 'I've had a Dell'..blah blah blah and others say 'Don't touch Dell whatever you do'. Same goes for Acer and HP. Apart from the fact that 90 percent of modern laptops aren't any good for serious audio work, but that is another matter.
" I have the greatest admiration for your propaganda. Propaganda in the West is carried out by experts who have had the best training in the world -- in the field of advertizing -- and have mastered the techniques with exceptional proficiency ... Yours are subtle and persuasive; ours are crude and obvious ... I think that the fundamental difference between our worlds, with respect to propaganda, is quite simple. You tend to believe yours ... and we tend to disbelieve ours. "
So said some 'Soviet correspondent'.
As for playing the victim being the first resort of the scoundrel - it reminds me of another country who have made that little trick into an art form.
Perception is a strange beast. I perceive the BBC to be ultra-right wing fascist, but when I go on the army and military forums they say the BBC are ultra-left wing commies. Odd.
This is why I don't work in Left/Right paradigms any more - it is SO 20th century.
That whole abstract has broken down and is practically useless and is the sign of a 'lazy' thinker to me.
I don't literally mean the BBC are 'ultra-right wing fascist' btw - I am going to extremes to prove a point. I don't know how I would class Press TV - crude and obvious maybe. I really do fail to see how the hell anyone could see the BBC as left-wing commies though. Very strange.
I'm still trying to figure it all out. It will come to me one day I suppose.
I was going to make a purely Ad Hominem comment about how Larry should change that bloody suit he ALWAYS wears when he is not wearing his Mustos and Henri Lloyds.
Because it makes us think that he thinks he is some kind of Bond villain.
I lightly skimmed the comments to get the gist of feedback, and it would seem that I am not the only one who thinks he is suffering from 'some kind of' Megalomania.
You think he'd change once in a while wouldn't you? Dirty bastard.
Wonder what he wears to bed. Actually, no, scrub that thought.
Scrub it hard. With bleach.
(Childcatcher - if you're interested - coz he's always wearing the same bloody thing every time I see him, and he's a dirty bastard too.)
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Don't forget the dismembered body parts
I read the Mail nearly every day. Online. I read it as a document to modern culture and a barometer. I used to watch the Jerry Springer show for the same reasons, but I grew out of that and feel I probably will throw this particular toy out of the pram soon, too.
Today there were photos of a woman who had her breast removed through Cancer.
I have never seen such images in my life. The thumbnail was unannounced and unsolicited.
I clicked on the link and was genuinely shocked, not at the content, but the fact that this rag would publish something like this.
Here it is:
Cancer survivor's inspirational mastectomy photos BANNED by Facebook for being 'pornographic'
It is quite simply unnecessary or in other words gratuitous. I have seen several stories where totally out of the blue they have posted autopsy level real photographs of people with their arms and legs blown off lying in pools of blood. There have been massive complaints against this unsolicited and unwarranted assault against peoples minds.
I can imagine what a limb looks like when it is shorn off by a blast. I can imagine what a body looks like when it is shorn of a breast. But I'm funny. I don't like looking at these things and I don't like going through doors that can never be closed.
Let's not stop there.
Also had to admire the child pornography. Pre-teen girls in prostitute make up wearing prostitute clothes. Pulling prostitute poses for the camera. I'm not the first to say it - they rally against paedophilia, yet promote it on a mass scale. No wonder the Mail get so many daily readers (ahem)....
The purveyors of the Mail - editors, owners, journalists, are far worse than their readership. At least some of the readers complain about this pushing of the worst kind of pornography. They are worse than rank hypocrites - they are perpetrators of the worst kind of filth. Tits and arse?
Oh no, sir, we do not ever show that. People, still alive, with several limbs severed, crying out for help with horrific and shocked looks on their faces. Oh yes sir, sells papers.
Someone gave these fuckers a nod and said 'ok, psyops chocks away - let's desensitize the populus'.
That's why I read the Mail Online everyday. You're welcome!
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Big Bro', Cunniving C***s and Dirty Dealers...
That was cunniving chaps btw ;-)
Everyone has said everything of worth really, only read half the thread but it all seems to be covered. The Reginistas know what time it is, make no mistake mister.
Basically another tracking device.
Good drivers will see no benefit from being good little boys.
Bad naughty drivers will be hard-slapped come next Insurance day.
Really naughty drivers that do 'jobs' will revert back to Sweeney type Ford Granadas, gov.
Me, I will still dice with death getting a loaf of freeking bread. No pavement - walls 14 foot high - try jumping over them Mr.High-Jumper when trouble comes your way.
Oh it is safe enough when no traffic on the road, but to be caught in a game of semi-chicken between the driver behind you and the driver oncoming - I feel like a virtual 3d prop in Carmageddon.
I have already told my Mother that I think this might be how I die. I need to get my act together a bit more and find out what the actual death statistics are for this particular stretch.
Little kiddies - hundreds of them use it every day as they come back from school. (Or maybe just tens of them - I don't stand on the corner counting them)..
Those little car driving fuckers will speed past me walking at thirty miles an hour no problems if it means getting in on the one in front. I mean literally inches - a foot - 12 inches if you didn't know. This is at THIRTY MILES A FUCKING HOUR. If they ever catch me and don't kill me, I will get up and beat the living fucking daylights out of them where they stand: saying: 'ooh are you alright - I didn't see you'.
Had a member of the family killed in a RTA nearly a century ago. Repercussions still felt today.
It wasn't the drivers fault in that particular case.
One disabled driver clipped me by about three inches. When I say clipped, I don't mean he hit me, but I felt his wind. I followed him up the road and nearly caught him. I would have dragged that son of a bitch out of his car and dealt with the consequences later - but he just drove off.....
This road is deadly. Car drivers are fucking pricks if you ask me. I know you are not all the same - some of you even slow right down, give me a 3-4 foot birth on a (quite wide as it goes) road. Why skim me when you can avoid me by 7-8 feet? Most times there is just one car coming along. I am either going to be killed or will commit murder on this road. But I bet it won't be me - it will be a schoolchild. Then they might do something.
And don't start me off on the boy racers. You know what? They are ok - because they are going fast and give a wide berth. I would rather they miss me by 6 foot at 70Mph, than some numpty hitting me at 20Mph coz they want to get to the shop and they don't want to slow down because I am in their way. How inconvenient.
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My brown paper bag is wet with all these exhalations. I just wanted to show it is not all about speed. If I am killed on that road, or god forbid a junior school child, it will be at 20-30-mph.
Well within the speed limit, your honour.
Re: Satire is Dead
And so, unfortunately is Bernard Manning.
Now there would have been a missed opportunity...
"Mah Wahfs sso ffatt".
Classic. He shall be dearly missed.
I wonder what Bernard would have made of the computer age?
This stuff is lame - Dell employing Bernard would have been the real deal.
Nobody takes any chances anymore, do they?
There is a well of resistance growing
...to the obstinacy and arrogance of these so called 'Mulit-Corporations' - yes Microshaft - I am looking at you too. But really you are just a useful idiot. A very well paid useful idiot though.
Develop a system like they dreamed about in science fiction days of yore - a Big Bugger of a Network where everything is connected to everything else. Wait a minute........
Then develop a distribution system (bit torrent on steroids). Give unequivocal access to this as a matter of course. Let the Martini effect take hold: Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere, some bod can download wtf he likes. Charge a 'micro-payment'.
Now. I am not saying that the powers that be will still be so fat off the riches of the land, riding their big fat wobbly gravy boats down it's streams... But.....
They will get more than they are getting at the moment. And they sure as fuck are going to get more than they will at this rate.
People stop going to Cinema in protest (I know I do/don't)? No problem!
Just charge the suckers that do go double. In fact, double the profit on the popcorn too - they really will not know what hit them in their little wallets.
I work in this industry. I am hoping to make it big in this industry. I would like to get paid. I like to eat. Everything else is a bonus to the warm milk of kindness that is a payment for the appreciation of your efforts. But these idiots in power are truly making a right horses arse out of it all for everybody else when the technology is there, the will is there from people to pay a fair price for what they use. Not everyone I know. There always has been and always will be freetards. I don't mind them. They are a bit sad. But jeez Louise, there must be a way to circumvent these morons stealing, without the artists getting paid. I say - Let them steal, let the rest of us pay, let us live in a harmonious society. Their taking a 'copy' does not rob me of my 'copy'. It's on a couple of my hds THANK YOU very much.
And if anyone wants to vote me down, then please re-read the last couple of sentences. Coz you know, those vote downs cut me to the quick of my soul.
Before I protest too much, I shut up!
Happy day to you all.
I have recently come to a conclusion
I only got connected to the internet a year or two ago.
Since then, I have made it my job to check out every dirty little slut that wants to display herself publicly for all and sunder.
I thought: this is an infinite well.
I thought: how deep does this shit run?
I realised about a week or two ago - I have viewed ALL THE FREE PORN ON THE WEB.
Sorry, sticky CAPS lock - occupational hazard. ;-)
The worst was seeing an ex-girlfriend in an extreme S&M flick made by her award winning for FILM boyfriend. I got over it eventually, but the shock was hard when not expecting it.
It's all shit. You don't need it. Any man that pays for it is a wanker. eh eh...
There is no substitute for closeness and intimacy between two human beings, be they of the same sex or different sex - don't matter.
I'll shut up now.
The Venus Star
I told my Mum about this recently.
And she said oh yeah - the Venus Star.
I said: It's not a Star. It's a planet.
She said: Oh, I know, we just used to call it the Venus Star coz it was so bright.
I shut up. Another reason not to argue with my sweet old Mum.
Lewis got the hook
Excellent interview Lewis. A bit brief. A bit candid.
If you had been on the Benny Hill show there would have been a hook incoming from stage right that would have caused you to grimace in a trying-not-to-look-embarrassed fashion, legs a waddling in a shuffle style, until you were not so subtly disposed of.
How to make Evan gibber in under 3 minutes or whatever it was.
Not sure if that is a world record but I laughed out loud. I really did.
oldredlion and fLaMePrOoF
I do remember the Saudi Corruption scandal that never (or almost never) was.
And Blair - corruption and the worse kind of criminality at the highest levels.
Neatly tucked under the carpet - nothing to see here - move on.
And the TSR-2. Ah yes, the TSR-2.
Look what happened to that.
Then again, take a good look what happened to Concorde...
'nuff said. nudge nudge wink wink........
Ha Ha!
I don't own a tube TV!
(Or any other come to think of it)
Haven't you heard?
It said on the bbc the other day, that as people are circumventing this block with other methods, the government is considering greater control over those methods used, i.e. proxy web server and VPN.
First they came for my torrent site, etc. etc.
I do wish them luck. God knows they would if they only could.
Turtle &ShelLuser
Steinberg Remix anyone?
http://www.mio.co.za/article/steinberg-remix-review-2003-06-07
What is that all about then? eh eh.
I do a bit of gui design - you probably use one on one of your softsynths or possibly even daw.
I like Ableton - it works for Ableton - the idea is to pack as much info into the real estate as you can.
Having gradations and 3d stuff takes up space. So you can get more in the space. I think that is the plan.
I also like Cubase too. It works for Cubase. If you are thinking of jumping to Studio One - don't hesitate it is an absolutely superb program, not least the uncomplicated but not drab GUI. You probably know that it was programmed by the couple of guys that originally did the first Cubase. Many things are carried over in the design - it is extremely fast to work with. It is one of the half dozen or so daws I own. I love it to pieces though use it less than my others as It is my latest flame and I am more familiar with the others in depth.
As to IDEs. I think customisation is the most important factor. I used to set my UltraEdit with a black background and really go to town with the all the colours of the rainbow assigned to key words.
It even used to get stares from ladies on the tube - they could not take their pretty little eyes off it - highly recommended if you're a sad lonely ol' git like me ;-)
One thing I have learned in GUI design is that people perceive light-level extremely differently. The white light of a background burns my eyes. It actually causes more eye damage than a dark background - you wouldn't stare at the sun would you ;-) However, with IDEs as in DAWs, most people use a white background because that is what they are given (cue Jam song). I knew of no other 'coder' at uni that used a black background - and certainly none that highlighted their key words to their own logic.
There must be others that use a black or at least dare I say it - grey - background to code. No wonder coders tend to wear glasses - shades is what they really need.
And don't start me off on the fact that you can NOT change the white background in explorer in win7 - sheer f***ing madness. You can do it with hacks but it is complex. You have to use the classic theme which defeats the whole gui enhancements in win7.........
Not a massive fan of AVG either
But I will give them kudos for their live recovery cd.
A visitor to someone in the family decided to surf for prawns and infected the machine with the Metropolitan Police virus. Quite nasty in a way as the little chap disables safe mode via a registry tweak - this has to be manually sorted out later.
I had an older image on the machine and managed to do a file backup via Linux, but I knew it would be extra hassle again to re-install a couple of months stuff. So I had a crack at doing a 'disinfection' rather than a full re-install via image as I would normally do in 90 percent of cases.
The disabling of safe mode was a right little bugger, and I used about 5 other major av vendors rescue cds (kaspersky, bitdefender etc etc..) - anyway they all failed to catch the offending .exe.
AVG you done me proud. Slow, but thorough scan - dos interface - but deleted said file and the machine re-booted no problem. It took me about 20-30 hours of work over two days to restore the machine to it's former pristine state, but that is with re-imaging and security updates too.
I agree with AVG being bloat, but I have to say thanks to them for providing this rescue cd free of charge. Highly recommended.
Btw, Do Not Track don't do a plug-in for Opera, then again I have Ghostery, AdBlock, NotScript and my hosts file changed via Hosts Expert (MVPS), so I'm not sure how much I really need it.
you know what will be newsworthy?
Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse - your post made me shudder and a cold chill when down my spine.
Has this got anything to do with...
Rattus Norvegicus?
Serious question.
Never mind. Great album, nonetheless.
No problem!
Here are my papers:
Name:Youar Eacunt
Pwd: 123EffOffUCunt123
Actually, that's quite a niftly little hard to crack password, scoring 100% on the password meter.
And 'How secure is my password' says: It would take a desktop PC About 374 trillion years to hack your password. I wonder if they could crack it in the same amount of time.
Actually, I would just say:
Name: Doilookl Ike Acunt (but you can call me Ike)
Pwd: 123UHaveGot2BFuckin'Kiddin'Me?123
F***, that's an even better password - About 121 quattuordecillion years to 'crack' according to the 'How secure is my password' site. Not even I know how long that is, but it sounds like a bleedin' long time.
Sorry for the bad language, but passwords, for some reason, bring out the latent copropraxic tendencies in me. ****.
Job interviewers also. ****.
So she felt better about herself..
That's good.
The personal is just that.
It is personal.
I would not have a clue what it would feel like to have bits of me cut off for medical purposes and then have it 're-constructed'. This is not my field and I know nothing about it.
But I will say this: I am a coward - I bet I would not handle it very well - and it wouldn't even be me in the firing line - it would be the one I loved. And what use would I be to her? I am not a strong man. I am certainly not as strong as a woman.
I'm just some prick on a message board blahing on, that hopes bad luck don't come his way. For those it has: Do what you have to do.. I really won't judge you in real life. This is just theory and conjecture, in my book..
NozeDive
I think you got the wrong end of the tit (sorry, stick) with what I said.
Can you go back and read it again, just to check that you really meant to say what you said.
If so, then we can joust. Ad Hominem against me, I could (not) care less. But I sense a deeper inference to your insult, against women in general, if I understand correctly. And that will not stand my good man.
Please clarify your position.
That is probably the least of her worries
Good luck to her.
Hell go for broke and get the other one done too!
Then when I ask her: WHY? - She can watch my jaw drop in submission at her reply.
All respect to women that take that path. May it be the end of their worries.
To do it to be the biggest Alpha bitch on the block is (as I said before) obscene.
Now, I'm open to suggestion here. Help a brother out, sister. Please explain why you do what you do. S'il vous plaît.
And I'm not a prude. I'm a raging fucking pervert if you must know, but it's not really any of your business. It's their right to mutilate their bodies. It's my right to look down on them and want to have nothing to do with them (sexually, love-wise, etc..)..
Then again, last time I looked, my opinion counted for sweet FA, when I counted the number of atoms in the universe, compared to those in my body. Feel free to be enraged, or just ignore.
It's Friday. And tomorrow is Caturday.
It's obscene
And I don't mean in a good way.
In a really nasty, horrible, self-obsessed and mutilated kind of way.
I love women. I really do. Through my life most of my 'bestest' friends have been women. I also don't hate my mother. But if I ever met a woman who had her flesh ripped out and plastic injected there, for let's face it - beyond vanity purposes (I am not talking about re-constructive cosmetic surgery here - that is just fine in my book and I have no problem with that at all), then I just would not be able to take her seriously as a human being any more. I would ask her why she has done what she has done, and I doubt that more than one reply out of a hundred could convince me it is a 'good thing'.
I love women - I love their imperfections. I also respect their right to do what the hell they like with their own bodies. But I just don't get it.
Maybe I am a man that loves too much.
I have a major interest in this:
I will just say that I am now going to boycott ALL content produced by the majors. This really is bordering on Fascism with the merger of the state and government with corporations. (Cheers for that Il Duce)
Economic warfare. I have NO money left. I go without to buy my software I use. It's only because I am a little bit autistic that I can achieve it - a normal, 'sane' person wouldn't be able to 'hack' my lifestyle. I talk to the developers, I beta test for them, I do free content packs that get thousands of downloads - equivalent to and better than some 'paid' content. I pirated everything at one time, when I was young and was checking things out. Now, there is no way I would have the brass balls to walk into a studio or have someone walk into mine and be seen to be using cracked software.
That is on the one hand. On the other, I am a writer and producer. I don't get paid for what I do, but all it will take is a dip in the social fashion continuum and, like my long lost cousin in Nigeria that contacted my via email the other day (hi ;-)) - I will be VERY RICH MAAN!
You must read this seminal essay by Adam of The Sisters Of Mercy:
Why you've got no chance of making a living out of music -
http://www.the-sisters-of-mercy.com/gen/rrr4.htm
Short, sweet, to the point and enlightening.
The artists very rarely see the benefits of their sales. It generally takes multi-million figures, before it really substantively trickles down to the average bass player or drummer. Then again - they probably did not write the songs - the singer or lead guitarist probably did. When there is a hit and the singer (whose ego is already out of control) moves into that mansion on the hill and the bass player is still left scraping for the next cigarette, animosity can and usually does ensue.
That is why, most of the most successful bands like, say for example: R.E.M. and U2, have a policy of 'ALL ROYALTIES TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN ALL BAND MEMBERS REGARDLESS OF WHO WROTE THE SONGS'. This also has a rather pleasing creative knock-on effect of taking the pressure off the main songwriter (thus easing potential 'writers block') and encouraging the aforementioned drum and bass players to get stuck in and 'write a good 'un'.
Yes, I'm looking at YOU - Mr. Roger Taylor - who is in love with his car, and you Mr. Deacon who might have been 'Under Pressure', until the royalties rolled in. Actually, my point was: that I believe ALL members of Queen were payed equally, regardless of who wrote what. It pays creative dividends as well as keeping the band together.
How many bands split after their first 'hit' album?
That is why, when I work with an artist, I tell them, Ok, I wrote this song, I produced it. But you know what? If it is a hit, I will split my share with you equally. There are some exceptions to this, but you get the picture. I am still waiting for my chickens to come home to roost and I honestly doubt they ever will, but that is my ethos, nonetheless.
As for the majors: they are going down and they are going away. There are far bigger issues here - like the police becoming the henchman of the money men. The police have now officially become the 'Thug Caste' of this once great country.
Serious Organised Crime - Go Fuck yourself! You are a shame on this country and a shame on the Police 'Force' in general. (I am thinking about the recent act of terrorism via the RnB website debacle). You have frightened and terrorised people so much that they are in a state of -Pre-War, ready to do battle with all the adrenaline pumping through their veins, that an Archer might have felt at Agincourt.
So, no, I don't need no stinking royalties, eating is nice, and living in a peaceful country not run by proto-Fascists, would be even 'nicer'.
To quote the great Black Uhuru:
Push push, ahaa
Mind you push that over man.
Don't worry, it's been solved...
And I quote:
"Try the Mossad."
from whatreallyhappened.com.
There is a link there to this post.
Yes, the Mossad.
It was them, it was.
Mmm............
Not bad mouthing the i7...
Wished I could afford it. More expensive RAM, more expensive Mobo.
But yeah, for a few dollars more I would definitely have got it.
And OCd that little bugger to the hilt as well..
I got my i5 up to 3.8GHz stable, but was starting to push it. The power draw and heat was *becoming* exponentially expensive. Still doable, but nah. After 3.8GHz, I would imagine you would need water cooling. Apart from that, my Gigabyte Mobo (which is a real beauty btw), doesn't like being pushed too hard for too long, so they say. Me, I stuck at a nice steady 3.42GHz with it running at stock temps and passing 100 LinPacks.
I also ran about 8 or 9 other torture treatments, but after 12 hours of different passes at different settings in Prime95, I thought, why abuse the little bugger? I run a totally stripped down and customised via nLite install of WinXpSP3 on it, and it is pure joy and bliss when I spark her up.
("Her", because you know, how things can go wrong very quickly with women if you don't pay 'attention'?)
I wish I had the money to buy another system and do it all again, even though things move on.
Maybe in a year or two....
That's why I say: Kudos to that man for building his 'Hydra'. The knowledge and satisfaction gained is tantamount to being a nitrous-oxide fuelled hot-rodder. Hence my reference to 'Racing In The Streets', by Springsteen. Have you seen how many 'good' over-clocking forums there are? How many are addicted to this 'hobby'? How many are not happy until they release the magic smoke?
All I can say is: For those about to (Over) Clock, we salute you!
Some guys come home from work...
..and wash up, then go racing in the streets...
Excellent stuff!
I can get just over 50GFlops out of my i5 750 2.66 OCd. Stable and cool. According to LinPack.
Amazing little chip - so much more bang for the buck than the i7 - but then you probably already knew that. All in one seriously stable, seriously 'Nuclear' looking package.
I don't need more speed and I do Audio/3D. Well, I lie, I do need more speed, but even the Hydra wouldn't help me out here - I need a server farm.
Happy for now, anyway.
I worked for Micro£oft once - never again!
Well, not if they have anything to do with it anyway.
I blagged a job via an agency doing debt collection.
.
Spent all morning on the phone saying:
"That would be lovely, just super, if you could pop that in the post, it would just be GREAT".
I was escorted out of the building by SECURITY at half past twelve. Told never to darken their doorstep again. Even the agency I got the job with would not return my phone calls.
I mean, wtf did they want? A leg-breaker? Look sunshine, I've heard this shit before and I know where your daughter goes to school - pretty little girl - so pay the fuck up by Wednesday or I'm gonna burn yar fucking house darn - Cunt!
Crikey, I could never take that tone with someone I had never met!
Definitely a communication problem between management on that one.
I say I got off lightly.
Ah smells of nostalgia...
I remember getting my Sinclair ZX81 and a few decades later having to break it to my own brain that I am actually a bit of a thick twat that couldn't program himself out of a wet cardboard box. So Kudos to those that can! And who knows this may just open some door some where for somebody. It certainly won't do no harm!
I'm gonna get one coz it's got an audio jack. Try and run some VST shit on it. We'll see.
Congrats to them anyway!
Fire up yer Firewall
Mine is Comodo, ymmv considerably.
See all those I.P. addies screwing your CPU and your 'leccy bill?
That's google that is!
Wonder what they are doing?
Can I stop them Mummy?
"You CAN stop them Son, but you will have to give a large chunk of your time and attention to do so! - Are you prepared to fight the good fight my son?"...
Fuck it Mummy, I think I'll just browse some pr()n in private tab mode.
They CAN'T get me then can they Mummy?
"You would be surprised what those EVIL Bastards can do Son!"
Google will break all the laws they want, with carte blanche provided by government.
To quote the great Laurel And Hardy - 'Just like two peas in a pod'.
They act with impunity, because they have immunity.
If you or I did that, we'd get a quick twat spank,
Then it wouldn't be so funny.
There is poetry deep in my words somewhere....
Ahem. Yes. Quite. I like it. Remind me to use it more in conversation...
You not only have a great line in abusive put-downs, but a point, as well, I believe.
Read this:
http://falkvinge.net/2011/09/05/cable-reveals-extent-of-lapdoggery-from-swedish-govt-on-copyright-monopoly/
Fact not Fiction.
Shocking? Yes.
Unexpected? No.
Something is not right somewhere.
And I say that as a Hip-Hop Producer.
Albeit not a young one.
DDG is good
but so is ixquick -
https://www.ixquick.com/uk/aboutixquick/
great results, private and a good proxy/cache.
So that's what it was all about then...
Thought so at the time. Proved right it would seem. More to come. They are afraid. Very afraid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d__8ryEui6U
Maybe it's a bit unfair to London Underground, when we should be blaming the black 'copter brigade, but you know - 'collaborators' don't get preferential treatment.
Look. Let's stop fucking about. Tattoo us, microchip us, hook our veins up to the 'matrix', turn us into soylent green, Please can we just get this over with. You know you want to. We know you're going to. Put us out of our misery will you?
Flavours of Mint
I'm looking forward to the full release of Linux Mint 12 KDE. It looks great and I have just given up on Kubuntu after spending a long time to get audio/plugins working. It works for some people but I failed on that particular distro. I'll have a look at it next time it comes around.
I got it to work and I learned a lot, but for some reason my install on the SD card got wiped and the two backups (ToDO and Paragon) failed to work. No probs...
So yeah - Lisa with KDE. Can't wait. I downloaded the Debian version of Mint and I'm going to give that a go in the meantime - it's a rolling release based on Debian Testing as you probably all know a whole lot better than me. I might be out of my depth with it, but people say once you get it up and running it is much quicker and more efficient than other versions.
There is always Cinnamon as well, but I think I've got enough to 'chew' on for the moment.
This was an interesting time to jump into the wacky waters of Linux. On one hand I am in awe of what has been achieved and on the other I am in shock at all the hard work that has been effectively destroyed, all in the name of change for changes sake, and if it ain't broke, fix it till it is.
Anyway, I got a nice little persistent install of Katya which is supported till the end of the year, by which time I hopefully will be rocking with either the KDE or Debian version (or both).
They are even saying they will do a KDE desktop for the LMDE as well as a Fluxbox one too.
All this on a 4GB SD card that is permanently in my laptop so I can fire it up anytime I like. Awesome.
Know what you mean about the neighbours
I thought I'd be polite and introduce myself - didn't knock on the door but tried the 'hello my name is...' gambit with them. They couldn't get back in that fucking door to their 'own' space quick enough. Yes I do check my armpits very regularly and this isn't even London where I lived for twenty years. They all talk to each other but blank me. I'm not female and not in a relationship and don't have kids so I suppose I am a bit 'fishy' to them. Oh well.
Then again I like my own space. There is one woman a nurse - I pass her on the road when I walk to the shops - I always say hello to her as I met her and talked to her a couple of times in the pub when I moved into this area (I don't go to the pubs anymore, because there is no one in them for a start, and if there is they don't want to talk to old billy nomates me in the corner), but she never says hello to me. I make a point of saying hello to her though just for the hell of it. She has a red face, and I believe as Springsteen put it: 'the eyes of one who hates for just being born'.
I don't ask anything from anyone, I am not pushy or brash. I am fairly open and a good conversationalist in as much as I really am interested in people and what they have to say.
All to no avail. I go for weeks on end not talking to another human being in real life. If it wasn't for my family......
Yes it was poignant that time stopping off in East Coker on my way home. The Wasteland - I don't know if this was what Elliot had in mind, but.... let's just say that there's nowt so queer as folk. Thank god for the internet. It might be a bit of a slum at times, but it helps to keep me sane.
DuckDuckGo is good..
Mr. Dedoimedo turned me onto it. But it doesn't have a proxy/cache option as far as I can tell.
When I need that, I use 'ixquick' - it also has 'images' and 'videos' search. All searches are encrypted by ssl and the advanced search is very easy to use for beginners and more advanced alike (handy when you forget that google operator such as 'inurl:').
They call it the "world's most private search engine". I'll believe 'em until they let me down.
Read their privacy policy and make up your own mind. In fact I am tending to use it more than DuckDuckGo these days - I think it might have a slight edge over it - I don't know.
Anyway, no reason to be using google anymore for the vast majority of search, especially as I have mentioned just now, they have a highlighting function that works just dandy. Someone at the Reg turned me onto that one. Ta.
I was sexually harassed at work once
By about 30 women at once.
It was fun for half an hour.
Then my hairnet came off and I went to work in another dry-soup manufacturing establishment.
I'm not sure if all women are capable of behaving like ravenous pack animals when assembled en-masse, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Don't think it scarred me too much. Although there are certain brands of Norwegian sounding dried soup that I have difficulty swallowing.
To be honest, none of it shattered me as much as that bloody hair-net - I was well shot of it.
Well played girls ;p
Aighee fur whuhagn...
wuold laiike to whish AAAALLLL thu pulease occiffers ehn ther wourldd Ah verrryyy ahmherry crispmas AHND ANDD ah veryy ahappyy Nhew ahYer.
Hic!
Noo! UIh hav Noht bin dhurunking cuntsterbull.
Hic. Guhd consternoon!
Ah poleese orrifficers!
Hic....
</ahvery drunk version of Frank Hovis, radies und genlermen>
So...
...I see you've been down the Effin pub again Father?
ARSE!
They're all at it, Jamie
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http://www.carrieriq.com/company/careers.htm
They are also looking for someone with:
"Experience with PPP/serial logging and sniffing tools like Wireshark"
Sounds innocent enough.........
They're insane.
Stark raving Dr. Strangelove glove waving insane.
Sticking with Linux Mint 11 Katya
Only just started with Linux this year and Mint 10 Julia was my distro of choice.
Superb. The only thing it doesn't do is automatically detect my wireless. Just tried out Katya and it does detect it, so as I'm just getting back into it I will probably stick with that. It still runs hot as I have an ATI card, but no hotter (still about 10 degrees hotter than win7 though).
I have just tried out these distros and the temperature is consistent:
Wary Puppy
Lucid Puppy
Slacko Puppy
Fatdog 64
Parted Magic
I've only just got my head around Gnome 2, so the last thing I want to do is confuse myself further. I have read also that Gnome 3 uses a lot more CPU compared to Gnome 2.
http://www.renewablepcs.com/about-linux/kde-gnome-or-xfce
10% opposed to 1% is quite a lot when you have average hardware and it is running hot already, like me.
I've just downloaded the .iso's for Dream Studio and AV Linux. I don't imagine they will run any cooler though.
Gnome 2 is a fantastic experience and what made me fall in love with Linux. It is my fave desktop out of those I have tried so far. Not liking the look of Gnome 3 at all and that extra CPU hit makes me want to avoid it like the plague.
I find it an odd coincidence
that there are roughly the same amount of galaxies in the universe as there are neurons in our brains (well, some of our brains).
<Theory> Some reckon there could be double that number (galaxies). </Theory>
A bit like the Sun happening to be 400 times the Moon's diameter but 400 times further away.
Thus causing both to appear the same size from Earth. And giving us that wonderful phenomenon of the corona at a total solar eclipse.
Science may indeed be pointing us in the right direction. If only we have ears to listen and eyes to see.
Oohh, let me play too?
Oi Railly Ait Conts Loik Em
What it lacks in grammatical correctness, I hope it makes up for in small-minded bigotry.
Any day now, we shall find out that Larry's parents came from the Ol' country.
(I'm half Irish btw, I'm a Welsh man that can't swim)
Let's all sing now, to the tune of 'Riders On The Storm': Larry's dad was black, Larry's dad was black, He's never coming back, Humped whores outside the back, And emptied his ball sack.
That on reflection is too cruel. It shows the mark of a bitter man. And Larry may be many things, but he is not bitter. Then again, would you be with his fucking cash?
Nurse is coming soon - she fucking better be - I'm nearly all out!
T
I like this quote from the jargon file:
===========================
In LISP, the constant T means `true', among other things. Some Lisp hackers use `T' and `NIL' instead of `Yes' and `No' almost reflexively. This sometimes causes misunderstandings. When a waiter or flight attendant asks whether a hacker wants coffee, he may absently respond `T', meaning that he wants coffee; but of course he will be brought a cup of tea instead.
==============================
Gave me a chuckle.
What a great achievement to have made in your life. Not just a great personal achievement, but an accomplishment that has contributed so much to so many. A truly great man.
Very few in my opinion hold this great mantle. Dennis Ritchie was one of the chosen. One of the few to be sure. (c) Andrew Eldritch. When I was homeless and had to gather my things in a bag, I made sure I had K&R in there. I still couldn't understand a bloody word of it, but it was smaller than Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years. J/K. Except about the K&R.
When I die, I doubt I will get a head stone. Though if I did, I know it will not say: Here lies a great man. I am okay with that. It also will not say: Here lies a bad man. And I am even better with that one. It just heartens me to know, that I lived for a time on planet Earth amongst the scum-suckers and don't-know-any-betters, and that people like this existed - a beacon to humanity, something to strive for.
And it might be wrong of me and a great failing, but I would be disappointed if he was not a good person as well. I have high standards for my heroes.
Now, T anyone?
Sorry for my little rant...
The reverse engineers amongst you might have deduced I was a trifle miffed.
Back to normal.
As you were.
I'm going to see my g/f later. I'm going to 'ignore' her over the chesterfield. 'Ignore' her black and blue. I'm gonna 'ignore' her till she can't take no more. "Darling, do you fancy getting a little euFUmistic with me?". "They're all at it."
ahem.
'Ignore' human rights. Yeah. There's only two things I hate more than a bad man. The lesser of those two is a bad man who is a hypocrite. The greater is a bad man who is not just a hypocrite but a liar to boot as well. Guess which one I think the google exec is?
I'm calming down a bit and will probably be okay by evening. When nurse comes.
Pope has ''religious tendencies"...
bears... etc....
I am in a massive battle at the moment with a couple of companies.
All to do with another 'evil' company. Yeah google are evil - get over it.
Become angry - don't sublimate it - you are being rogered over. Do something about it.
That company is called Gravatar.
Did you know that if you 'knock up' a Wordpress page for shits and giggles, then any information you give is held on their servers and not deletable? That is right - held for ever and ever.
Also they can 'share' (sell) your personal information. I refer to this page:
http://automattic.com/privacy/
I quote:
====================
We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
=======================
Well, that is alright then innit?
I did a 'test' page for a mutual friend for another mutual friend of ours who had recently died a terrible, slow and painful death through cancer.
How shocked was I, when several months later, the photos of said mutual dead friend popped up on a forum where I had registered to get support for some very expensive audio software I had just bought. I mailed them and they assured me that no no no they don't do dat...
But they lied. I can prove they lied. They could just not deal with me going ballistic.
(if you are getting bored or find this post irrelevant - then you know what to do - those that find it pertinent, read on)
But what has really shocked me is that Gravatar/Wordpress have sold my private/personal information to one of the top Malware (little clue there for you - I will publish their name soon enough, but want to get the battle over with first) fighters in the industry. I registered on their forum to get some help with their software which, again, I had just bought. Cue photo of dead friend and the pain of his slow death coming back to haunt me, just when I was starting to get over it. (I know I have been a fool and it is my own fault and I take full responsibility for my actions)
I can think of why this is such a personal security breach on so many levels that I just do not have the time to write them all down.
So, the moral of this story is:
If you have any dealings with this company, they will hold your information 'for ever' and sell it to who ever the f they like, for their 'development of their products'. You will NOT be able to delete it EVER. In law, they could sell it to who they want and there is not a damn thing you can do about it.
So go ahead, use Wordpress, use any of these services:
Polldaddy
VaultPress
Gravatar
et al.
All 26 of them.
http://automattic.com/
I will finish on a quote from their page:
==================
“We are much better at writing code than haiku.”
— Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic
=====================
Yes Matt, you are right.
But what you neglected to say was this:
"We are much better at 'internet-rape' than writing code".
And believe me, I know all about rape, so don't go there.
I use these words unreservedly. And I don't use them lightly.
Yes, I am a little bit upset at having my naivety thrown back in my face like this.
And google et al are cut from the same cloth. They deleted my account when I would not photocopy my passport or driving licence to send to them in the post. When I messed about with my account (I should have had it backed up and take full responsiblity again, so don't bother with the comments please - I've already thought of it). The only thing important in that account was a couple of emails from aforementioned dead friend (I did back those up though - thank you very much). But they didn't know that.
Oh, I got the photos deleted eventually, but f me, what a palaver - took me hours to go through their bullshit. But my details are with them for ever even though they might not be publicly accessible. And I had to delete the whole account - no provision for just deleting photos that I could find.
Evil bastards.
It is only an 'electronic' war for now. But I for one, am hoping it becomes a proper trenches and bayonets affair. Can you see which side of the lines I am on boys?
Not many things I would die for. Not Afghanistan, not Iraq, not Libya, not Iran.
But I would gladly give of my mortal coil....
Enough. I've made my point.
I'll be surprised if you post this Reg, ol' chap, but if you do, you will go even higher up in my estimation. Then again, if you don't...
Which side are you on boys?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC5o5mVpYPM
This stuff is going on, it won't go away and real people - good people - are being hurt by it.
Corporations ignore human rights. Do they? No, they smack them round for a bit first, then stick the boot in, just before they cut the corpse to pieces and then piss on it. They finish their fun off with a good shit. Then send the photo home to mummy.
Stay classy google/gravatar.
Just don't tell anyone you meet randomly in a bar that you work for those companies.
Lest you 'bump' into me.
Oh lord how I prey for the day (sic).
Today a young man on acid realized..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D0BeLz5blM
Steve might not have been my best friend.
But {
BHHC: "Hi Steve, I'm a failed programmer too".
Young Smelly Steve: "Oh go away and don't contact me again till you get a proper turtle-neck, just like 'Larry' has - love him or hate him - he has a good line in turtle-ware, unlike YOU!"
BHHC: (Gibbering from the put-down [Lips quivering {Parentheses all but run out now}] and feeling none too confident) - "I'm sorry Steve, I'll see what I can do".
}
But he tickled a few peoples funny bones some where. I think we can all learn from that.
Besides, no one deserves to die like that. And I know most of you are not wishing malice on him.
It's a bit like - Don't blame the government for what they do - blame the people for accepting it as normal and allowing it to happen.
Miniature golf anyone?
Cruel to waitresses
Well, looks like we got ourselves a coder.
Waffle Waitress: "What you coding for?".
Young Smelly Steve: "Well, I code for many reasons, but I suppose the main reason I code is so I don't become a FUCKING WAFFLE WAITRESS!".
(C) Bill Hicks.
Apparently Steve wasn't much of a coder, or an engineer or... In fact nobody really knows what he did. Maybe a visionary? Yes, a visionary. That is it.
Certainly not a waffle waitress.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvs2g5Nj0NI
It never gets old.
Things seem pretty normal so far..
Just checked my usual sources for hard drives.
Certainly not going down in price, or up in choice of selection, but seems pretty stable so far. I'm sure they will milk it for all it is worth, but you can only milk the cow so far in these dire economic times. Mmmm... Eggs/Milk/Hard Drive... let me see... Crap analogy...
I hear you all those that make comparisons from the egg and the basket, but just want to say -
I hope you can get through this ok Thailand. My thoughts don't mean much, but they are with you. I hope you come out of this ok. I wish you well...
Trusty old brick
I'm typing this on my trusty old brick. It's an acer travelmate 240 that is 7 years old.
It gets hot as a frying pan in summer so is kept on a cooler. I replaced the 40GB hd with an 80GB one. Also put in an extra gig of ram. I've run 3D programs on it and rendered the bugger half to death, or so I have tried to do anyway, but to no avail - it's the Kirk Douglas of laptops. It did blow up on me once when I put in 2GB of ram - had to take the battery out to stop the little b***h screaming.
I've run audio sequencers on it too no problem - bit slow obviously. These days I keep it as my 'dirty' machine just for surfing and testing - don't expect it to last another day!
Laptops are a lottery. A common question asked in the audio world is: What Laptop can I get for some fairly serious audio work. A lot of people say 'I've had a Dell'..blah blah blah and others say 'Don't touch Dell whatever you do'. Same goes for Acer and HP. Apart from the fact that 90 percent of modern laptops aren't any good for serious audio work, but that is another matter.
You pays yer money and yer takes yer chances...
Perceptions are funny
" I have the greatest admiration for your propaganda. Propaganda in the West is carried out by experts who have had the best training in the world -- in the field of advertizing -- and have mastered the techniques with exceptional proficiency ... Yours are subtle and persuasive; ours are crude and obvious ... I think that the fundamental difference between our worlds, with respect to propaganda, is quite simple. You tend to believe yours ... and we tend to disbelieve ours. "
So said some 'Soviet correspondent'.
As for playing the victim being the first resort of the scoundrel - it reminds me of another country who have made that little trick into an art form.
Perception is a strange beast. I perceive the BBC to be ultra-right wing fascist, but when I go on the army and military forums they say the BBC are ultra-left wing commies. Odd.
This is why I don't work in Left/Right paradigms any more - it is SO 20th century.
That whole abstract has broken down and is practically useless and is the sign of a 'lazy' thinker to me.
I don't literally mean the BBC are 'ultra-right wing fascist' btw - I am going to extremes to prove a point. I don't know how I would class Press TV - crude and obvious maybe. I really do fail to see how the hell anyone could see the BBC as left-wing commies though. Very strange.
I'm still trying to figure it all out. It will come to me one day I suppose.
How is 'Llano' pronounced?
Is it like Llanelli ?
Or is it like Alan Partridge pronouncing 007?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flDuFzFxPJA
Purely Ad Hominem
I was going to make a purely Ad Hominem comment about how Larry should change that bloody suit he ALWAYS wears when he is not wearing his Mustos and Henri Lloyds.
Because it makes us think that he thinks he is some kind of Bond villain.
I lightly skimmed the comments to get the gist of feedback, and it would seem that I am not the only one who thinks he is suffering from 'some kind of' Megalomania.
You think he'd change once in a while wouldn't you? Dirty bastard.
Wonder what he wears to bed. Actually, no, scrub that thought.
Scrub it hard. With bleach.
(Childcatcher - if you're interested - coz he's always wearing the same bloody thing every time I see him, and he's a dirty bastard too.)
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