I am 87.5% British, just like
Mr Bean
Shy to the point of ridicule, you've probably never been out of the UK.

Take the Brit Quiz at
darrenlondon.tripod.com/britquiz1.htm
Quiz written by Daz

http://www.mrpicassohead.com/

Plan to form new Mussolini party The granddaughter of former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini says she is setting up a new party, after leaving the right-wing National Alliance. Alessandra Mussolini quit the party - a partner in the government - after comments made this week by National Alliance leader Gianfranco Fini. During a trip to Israel, Mr Fini called Mussolini's rule "disgraceful". Ms Mussolini on Thursday said the party had become "incompatible with, and prejudicial to, my family name". [...] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3250334.stm http://www.alessandramussolini.it/

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SIGNS/bicentennial/hydrants.html

People who use local wireless networks in their homes and offices could unknowinglybe helping child pornographers, hackers and other criminals break the law, computer experts warn. And by not properly securing those networks, users risk being accused of crimes they haven't committed. [...] Toronto Star

Adbusters's Utter Nonsense Another half hearted, or more accurately, 1/10,000^th hearted atempt to galvanize the infinitely imploded mass to take weak action to "send a message" to "them". What this admusters nonsense actually dose (and it IS a dose of inertial poison) is completely diffuse the very real power of a boycott, by making the target a generalized one instead of a specfific one. A million (a wildly egzagerated number...yes egz...) people all hitting thier own target that they believe to be signifigant, in this case, buying nothing locally on one day is a total waste of time, its obvious that no one should buy the ONE MOST PESTILENT THING that is the root cause of our problems, every day of th eyear. Every mounting of an attack of this type, that defelects from the main pestilent irritant is a criminal waste of energy, a tactial diversion, a red herring, and a victory, or a the very least, a balm for the enemy, who, in seeing these innefective, weak-minded and childish attacks, rests easy that there is no threat on the horizon of any kind at all.

Wal-Mart Hypermarket and Hypercommodity... "People go there to find and to select objects-responses to all the questions they may asske themselves; or rather, they themselvs come in response to the functional and directed question that the objects constitute." "Thier number, their stampede their fascination, their itch to see everything is objectively a deadly and catastropiic behaviour for the whole undertaking. Not only does thier weight put the building in danger, but therir adhesion , their curiositiy annihilates the very contents of this culture of animation"

"A wavelike sequence of involuntary muscular contraction and relaxation that passes along a tubelike structure, such as the intestine, impelling the contents onwards." Crap!

Even better: Smaller, Thinner, more pixels: 3.34 million pixels total And when you need to charge it:

The research poured some particularly cold water on 3G, with many respondents sceptical about the new services it promises to offer. Video calling received a lukewarm welcome, with some young people finding it an awkward experience compared to voice calls or text messaging. "My brother-in-law has 3 already, so I was video calling him, and it is funny we get on really well normally, but those calls felt a bit awkward," said one respondent. [...] http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/34258.html 3G is pure hype. The licences were overpriced. The services are useless vanity tools. Video calling doesnt improve calling, it introduces a secondary, unneeded layer of complexity to a phone call. To top it off, the current gen handsets are total crap. None of these phones, for example, have a high quality camera in them. There is no reason why you could not have a camera like this one: The specs are: Ultra sleek credit card size design - perfect for the tightest pocket or smallest handbag. 2.0M pixel resolution. 8Mb built in flash memory with SD/MMC expansion slot. 1.6in LCD screen. 2 x digital zoom. USB PC link. TV link. Auto flash, exposure and white balance. Self timer. Movie mode. Includes 2 x AAA batteries, carry pouch, software CD ROM, USB and video cable. Obviously, its a piece of piss to combine this camera with a GSM phone to make something that is a good phone AND a good camera. It would also come out smaller than some of the handsets being sold by the likes of 3. Another case: Nintendo. If they combined a GSM phone with the gameboy advance platform, they would have an instant hit. Imagine all of the productivity apps that would be written for it; in a clam shell form factor, it would totally blow away the pathetic game/phone attempts being trotted out by Nokia. And of course, there would be many stunning new and legacy games for it. Sony Ericsson are the only ones close to getting it right. The P800 is simply the beast (yes, BEAST) phone ever; its a pity that the camera on the P900 is not much of an improvement...perhaps on the P1000!

'Me? I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought'

An invitation to the palace to accept an New Year honour... you must be joking. Benjamin Zephaniah won't be going. Here he explains why Thursday November 27, 2003 The Guardian I woke up on the morning of November 13 wondering how the government could be overthrown and what could replace it, and then I noticed a letter from the prime minister's office. It said: "The prime minister has asked me to inform you, in strict confidence, that he has in mind, on the occasion of the forthcoming list of New Year's honours to submit your name to the Queen with a recommendation that Her Majesty may be graciously pleased to approve that you be appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire." Me? I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought. I get angry when I hear that word "empire"; it reminds me of slavery, it reminds of thousands of years of brutality, it reminds me of how my foremothers were raped and my forefathers brutalised. It is because of this concept of empire that my British education led me to believe that the history of black people started with slavery and that we were born slaves, and should therefore be grateful that we were given freedom by our caring white masters. It is because of this idea of empire that black people like myself don't even know our true names or our true historical culture. I am not one of those who are obsessed with their roots, and I'm certainly not suffering from a crisis of identity; my obsession is about the future and the political rights of all people. Benjamin Zephaniah OBE - no way Mr Blair, no way Mrs Queen. I am profoundly anti-empire. [...] No more publishing in the UK for you then..... http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,12887,1094009,00.html

Blogging from the command line: http://www.blosxom.com/

I've been getting some emails from angry Mac zealots. Many of them start out similar to this: Sorry to say this but, unlike with DeCSS where you were allowing Linux users to view DVDs, this time you've gone too far. None of them explain how this is different and why GNU/Linux users should not be allowed to play legally bought music. Instead they go on to rave about how great iTMS is and that the imposed DRM is a good compromise. If they hadn't been completely clueless about copyright law, they'd know that Fair Use is the compromise. Some of them claim that this will lead to the RIAA imposing stricter DRM. Did they suddenly realize that it's the RIAA, and not Apple, which determines the rules for the iTMS DRM? When they complain about Microsoft's DRM used by other music stores, why do they think that it's Microsoft, and not the RIAA, which determines the DRM rules? They have failed to understand that by buying into DRM they have given the seller complete control over the product after it's been sold. The RIAA can at any time change the DRM rules, and considering their history it's likely that they will when the majority of consumers have embraced DRM and non-DRM products have been phased out. Some DVDs today include commercials which can't be skipped using "sanctioned" players. If the RIAA forces Apple to include commercials, what excuses will the Mac zealots come up with? "It's a good compromise"? Here's how one of the emails, from a guy in the UK who's working on his Ph.D, ends: You may think you're doing the right thing "liberating music for one and all" but you really aren't. Thanks for fucking it up for all of us, asshole. I hope Apple, the RIAA and the BPI come down hard on your ass now that the EUCD and DMCA are in place. Funny stuff. I just hope I have enough room in /dev/null. [...] http://nanocrew.net/blog/apple/zealots.html

Homeland Defiance®

The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to the First Level of Hell - Limbo!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	High
Level 2 (Lustful)	Very Low
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Low
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Very Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very Low
Level 7 (Violent)	Low
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Low

Take the Dante's Inferno Test My Mother and I will NOT be sharing space in hell.

the user name and password are NOT admin/admin :]

You may not be aware that OUT THERE, in happy family homes, in the offices of corporate executives, in toy stores through out the globe, is an army of robotic dogs. These semi-autonomous robotic creatures, though currently programmed to perform inane or entertaining tasks: begging for plastic bones; barking to the tune of national anthems; walking in circles; are actually fully motile and AWAITING FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS. ### Natalie Jeremijenko is up to some intereting projects regarding human-computer interaction.

No Electricity: http://wfmu.org/playlists/AP

Remember those Armando master tapes that were on Ebay? they sold for $2.027,00. (the French of course, using a DECIMAL where the COMMA should be to denote thousands) These are the guys who sold them: http://www.mrpeabodyrecords.com/main.htm

http://www.mrmule.com/mtype/mrmule/

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	High
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Very Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	Very High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	High
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	High
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Moderate
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very Low
Level 7 (Violent)	Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Low

Take the Dante's Divine Comedy Inferno Test "You have come to a place mute of all light, where the wind bellows as the sea does in a tempest. This is the realm where the lustful spend eternity. Here, sinners are blown around endlessly by the unforgiving winds of unquenchable desire as punishment for their transgressions. The infernal hurricane that never rests hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine, whirling them round, and smiting, it molests them. You have betrayed reason at the behest of your appetite for pleasure, and so here you are doomed to remain. Cleopatra and Helen of Troy are two that share in your fate." All because I like food!

Record label in Amsterdam has assembled 14 electro-fied covers of classic tracks by the British metal band. Vocoders, drum machines, and analog synths galore, plus influences as diverse as industrial, synthpop, and Miami bass. Loving tribute? Unholy abomination? Entertaining genre cross-pollination? You decide -- the entire album is available as streaming audio from this Dutch radio station.

Microsoft reacted scornfully to the decision, the Hebrew-only Daily Mail reports, accusing the Israelis of being tight-fisted. Oh dear, thats not very nice! They have probably been given the order from MOSSAD to remove all back doored software from government operations for security reasons. Thats the reason why the Germans have accelerated the move to OSS. There are SO MANY bad jokes seeded in this story!

Brain with no damage: American accent. Brain WITH damage, British Cockney accent. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

"Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology Newsletter wonders what it would be like to fight tenderly for beauty and truth and love -- without despising those who spread ugliness and lies and division."

nomarriage.com Wow. I can't believe I just read some of that hatred. What a jerk.

"sportfuck" http://www.nomarriage.com/

http://www.machoman.com/

Real Bush 'At Odds with Media Caricature' By Chris Moncrieff, PA News US President George Bush is ?totally at odds? with his media image, Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Menzies Campbell said today. Mr Campbell, an opponent of the war with Iraq, spoke out on the ePolitix website about his discussions with the President during the state visit. He said that they discussed directly issues such as Iraq, the Middle East, Guantanamo Bay, Kyoto and trade sanctions. ?He is personally extremely engaging. He has a well-developed sense of humour, is self-deprecating and when he engages in a discussion with you he is warm and concentrates directly on you. ?He looks you straight in the eye and tells you exactly what he thinks.? [...] S!, its all OK then! Can you imagine how STUPID this man is, "you are not at all like they say you are on the TV". Saints preserve us! http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2205133

how big are your feet a_t?

"Hi there, captain davros is on the road in the USA and can't post here, but wanted to let you all know his email is jamessdavies AT lineone DOT net and he needs advice on what trainers to buy" Clearly, I am everyone's secretary now. ;)

Sweeping new emergency laws to counter UK terror.

By Andy McSmith, Political Editor 23 November 2003 Sweeping measures to deal with terrorist attacks and other emergencies are to be announced this week, giving the Government power to over-ride civil liberties in times of crisis, and evacuate threatened areas, restrict people's movements and confiscate property. [...] Once an emergency has been proclaimed by the Queen, the Government can order the destruction of property, order people to evacuate an area or ban them from travelling, and "prohibit assemblies of specified kinds" and "other specified activities". If these rules had been in force during the Iraq war, critics say, they could have been used to to ban street demonstrations, making anyone who travelled to protest guilty of a criminal offence. After a major terrorist attack, forums made up of local councils, the emergency services and utility companies would be put in charge of trying to get shattered communities back together. [...] http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=466424 None of these things of course, will ever PREVENT an outrage from being committed. This is said over and over again, by everyone. No one is listening. "I told you TWICE that I dont want dressing on my salad!" I dont care what you want. Eat it. "what did you say to me? not only am I never coming here again, I am telling all my friends not to come here either. Take this salad back to the kitchen and remove this item from my bill. I am finished". Clear?

War critics astonished as US hawk admits invasion was illegal

Oliver Burkeman and Julian Borger in Washington Thursday November 20, 2003 The Guardian International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with astonishment yesterday after the influential Pentagon hawk Richard Perle conceded that the invasion of Iraq had been illegal. In a startling break with the official White House and Downing Street lines, Mr Perle told an audience in London: "I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing." President George Bush has consistently argued that the war was legal either because of existing UN security council resolutions on Iraq - also the British government's publicly stated view - or as an act of self-defence permitted by international law. [...] http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1089158,00.html It should be obvious to anyone that the "anti war campaigners" are completely out of touch with reality. They play their part in this scenario perfectly, with thier scripted and dull as dishwater responses; outrage always follow this sort of annouuncement, again and again. It is clear that all the rules have changed; they have been thrown out of the window. General Tommy Franks says that the US Consitution will not survive a WMD attack, threfore, in order to delete the constitution, all the Richard Perles of this world need to do is engineer one, and in the future he will proclaim without any guilt, "The US Constitution was in the way of our goal of bringing in the American Millenium. We had to release the lindane over New York to get the job done". The liberals, alternative media, civil rights campaigners $good_guys will squeal like pigs with fake outrage, and the sheeple will quietly accept it all yet again. Or maybe not. No rights destroying law can be enforced without the co-operation of the public. The constitution will survive if the population of the USA refuse to obey the military government BEFORE the attack takes place. If you dont want salad dressing, and keep getting it served to you, Dont Eat There®. If you keep going back to the same place, get the same bad service, then you only have yourself to blame. I am not even talking about removing the built in tip from your bill. I mean: Dont Eat There® big enough?

Hi Anthony, JB sez: Buy a 4-port Linksys. All the Netgear routers have dramatically dropped in quality since the 311 model. Dlinks are fine, but the Linksys is better. If you buy a Linksys (Cisco bought them recently), do not ever update the firmware, because it screws with the port availablility. If you ever want to open a port for hosting any services at home, things like 21 and 443 will cease to work on firmware upgrades. Trust me on that. Also, the Linksys and Dlink routers notoriously show port 113 ident as "closed" not stealth, which is the only detraction quality from these low-end, home-based routers. DO NOT UPGRADE THE FIRMWARE NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY HAS IMPROVED. Once you get it up, email me and I will send you a full scan report. On using an extra box as a firewall, don't waste your time. The Linksys are priced so cheap and use the extra box to host services so we can trade files. ;)

Nooooooooooooooooooooo! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3264467.stm http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_838312.html?menu=

"Paris Hilton Sex Tape" T-shirts are available in online boutiques, while a search for "Paris Hilton Sex Tape" on the file-sharing site KaZaA leads to clips of everything from large naked women doing provocative dances to a monkey drinking its own urine. [...] !!!

http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/victorian/page1.htm

?It means the potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world ? it may be in the United States of America ? that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event. Which in fact, then begins to unravel the fabric of our Constitution. Two steps, very, very important.? [...] http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/11/20/185048.shtml

Jon Lech Johansen, better known as DVD Jon for his authorship of the DeCSS decryption software, has turned his attention to Apple's locked music format. While he hasn't decrypted the DRM which Apple uses, he has produced a simple Windows command line utility which will install a DLL which dumps the output of a QuickTime stream to a file. The short C program is called "QuickTime for Windows AAC memory dumper". (To compile the program requires MinGW and MSYS from here.) An application called MyTunes already performs much the same function, but Johansen's is open source. He therefore unveils the analog hole, and the entry wound the bullet made. And the exit hole. So let the fun and games commence: until OS vendors bring in portions of the 'trusted' architecture which Intel is building, such illuminating capers (such Great Deeds) are possible. The analog hole isn't widely known, but it's there, and it's wide open. [...] http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34141.html

"ER20 Professional High Fidelity Earplugs give you 20dB of flat attenuation across the listening range, with no noticeable loss of top end clarity. You can still hear what your favorite band is playing without damaging your hearing. The ER-20s are DIFFERENT to conventional ear 'plugs'. They reduce sound levels evenly (using a tuned resonator and acoustic resistor) to preserve the overall balance provides 20dB of attenuation" I have worn earplugs at loud concerts religiously since 1979. These however: are what I REALLY want to try out: "ER-6 Isolator Earphones(Reference #16) ER-6 Isolator is the newest model in the ER-6 line of MicroPro earphones. This model has the following changes: High accuracy--matches the ear's natural response Sound isolation (15-20 dB), superior to that of noise-canceling earphones Compact; fits in your pocket No batteries needed Can be plugged into any audio source; Ideal for CD, DVD, MP3, laptop computers" oooooooh!!! Very small batteryless Noise Cancelling earphones! http://www.sound247.com/html_files/sound247_index.html

The computer industry traditionally opposed the copyright cartel, but Apple was the first snitch to cut a deal with the pigopolists. Was this wise, we wondered? [...] http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34125.html

Anthony, look at this, you KNOW what I am talking about; its awesome! This is a great tutorial on how CSS works, one of the best yet.

Hang 'Em High Five Four Three Two One For The Money Two For The Road Kill 'Em All The President's Men In Black Sabbath Bloody Sabb-Athlete's Foot in Mouth Organ Donor Card carrying memeber of the communist party time to wake up and smell the coffee. I guess not!

US hawk admits Iraq war 'illegal'

by Shaheen Chughtai Friday 21 November 2003 1:28 PM GMT US official: Invasion of Iraq was not 'consistent with UN rules' A Pentagon official widely regarded as the key ideological driving force behind President George Bush's foreign policy has admitted the US-led invasion of Iraq is illegal. Richard Perle, a senior adviser to the US defence secretary, said the US had broken international law, blaming French reluctance to attack Iraq for leaving Washington with "no practical mechanism consistent with the rules of the UN for dealing with Saddam Hussein". [...] He can say this because he knows that whatever they do, whatever they say, it doesnt matter anymore. No single "scandal" no outrage (committed by them) will ever be enough to topple power. Only the mass can destroy power. They know this. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6B65F4C9-3C3C-49B6-96CD-B111ADA2315B.htm

proles The Proletariat no longer exists; only the networked mass exsists. This networked mass is far more powerful than the proletariat were. And that is a wonderful thing.

the 'war' went on, and on. "... the whole population, which no longer supports the state or rises up against it, must be convinced that she at least has one enemy in common with it, against which the state protects her on the condition that it is in turn no longer disputed by anyone. The population which is in general hostile to terrorism, should therefore admit that she needs the state at least for this, that she must give the state the most far-reaching powers, so that it can forcefully take up the difficult task of protecting the community against a dark, mysterious, perfid, ruthless, in one word ghost-like enemy. Against a terrorism presented as the absolute evil, the evil in itself and for itself, all other evils move to second rank; they must even be forgotten." From "On Terrorism and the State" by Gianfranco Sanguinetti Another one everyone should read.

Make Love Not War On Terror Couple Kill Colonel Sanders All The President's Men In Black Sabbath couldnt resist...

Bad Pool Caller

Gracious me, look at the price of that device!: http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=iCColor+Bundle&btnG=Froogle+Search

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~allpen/beef/decals.mov

http://www.tsi.enst.fr/~brettel/TESTS/Gamma/Gamma.html http://www.bullockdigital.com/calibration.htm http://www.photoscientia.co.uk/Gamma.htm

miserable twat I think you're quite cool/intelligent when you think you are being miserable..... Hmmmmmmmmmmmm! With a capital "H"!

or ?

http://www.moblogging.org Most Movable Type sites spit this out by default I believe.

Does anyone here use compliant XHTML with CSS (no-tables) design? And if so, can we see some of the work? I recall this being discussed some time ago, but I've finally come around to being interested in it...

Organisers claim more than 150,000 have joined the march in central London, although police put the figure closer to 70,000. [...] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3223780.stm Even the reports of demonstrations are recycled. What do you think of the photo they (The BBC) used?

hmmmmmmmmmm

hans koch - performance "computermusic I -sprengzeichnung-", "spongeworks", "a piece with 6 chromaticaly tunable hairdryers" http://www.performance.art.pl/en/8castle.html

Get a daylight silulation bulb, they really work! YES, SILUATION.

Are you vegetarian?
What does that have to do with anything? And, no. I am not.

If you aren?t feeling too good, it might be because you aren?t eating right. Its got everything to do with you!

Boycotts are fantastically effective.
Prove it to me. And not just Apartheid.
I guess money talks.

Like I say before, you cant have a fire without oxygen, ergo a boycott MUST work.

Actually, it shouldn't take any work at all, rather like staying at home instead of going out and demonstrating.
Why not?

I mean work as in Watts.

actually, War takes the cooperation of a large number of people to work, and I am not talking in any way about soldiers.
Politicians and bureaucrats.

No. They are nothing, literally. The cooperation comes from the compliant public who keep funding war.

Money fuels the fire of war, therefore Stopping the money, will mean stopping the war. Cut off the oxygen of war and the fire goes out, untill you replace the oxygen.
But we're only cutting off one line of income here. What about private investments in war. Haiburton, et al. Maybe there will be less war. But there will still be war.

If I hear the word 'Haliburton' one more time....There is not a single company on earth that can finance war on the scale of the Iraq debacle. The only way war can be waged is with the money of the public. This is a fact.

And both will kill you!
Crossing the road can kill you. Changing a lightbulb can kill you. Going to a nightclub and getting blown up by terrorists can kill you.

That?s why, when you cross the road, you do it carefully. When you change a lightbulb, you don?t do it standing naked in a bath full of salt water. Getting blown up by ?terrorists? can be avoided by not blowing up where they live, so that they want to kill you. That is pure logic.

Economic warfare is what AC20 is all about.

"Will it permanently stop $problem".

If I stop buying records and seeing bands from the US will it stop war?

No.

OK, lets go through it again. America is so huge, and its population so insular and compliant that if they do not understand from some quarter that they have to get their government under control, they will never take action to do it. Their news is appalingly biased and censored. If everyone boycotts them their culture and their goods, they will inevitably ask ?why are you doing this? and then, they will get the reply, and make a choice to clean house. Or not. This worked with South Africa. They cleaned up house. By trading with them, playing with them and not saying ?you guys are bang out of orda? they have no reason to look at what they are doing in the context of the world, and nothing will change.

If your proposed action doesnt pass this test, then your plan MUST be abandoned.

Carry on buying records.

And no message is sent to them. Bad.

This may be true, but what is also true and more important on the local level, is the fact that an unlimited supply of cash is available to wage war anywhere, almost instantly (bar the complex planning) this is the local problem everywhere in the world; governments have access to unlimited stocks of contributed cash, with which they may wage war.

Contributed from taxes? The war chest right? Let's stop paying taxes and stop buying products with VAT -- um, everything bar some food and 'essentials'. Even tampons have VAT on them.

Stop paying taxes and I get arrested. Everyone else is too scared.

Once again, read this:

http://www.nwtrcc.org/

recently updated website.

As for being frightened, which are we more frightened of, an Orwell Britain where people are scared of ?dirty bombs? raining plutonium over our bollocks and ovaries, or are we more frightened of taking a stand on this matter of principle and putting a stop to war once and for all? The fear that everyone feels for what would happen if one became a war tax resistor is addressed in that website.

Stop paying VAT, I end up smelly.

We all saw you with that beard in time lapse?are you SURE you dont already stink?! :]

Just imagine the 2 million people who went on that march before the war, all withholding their tax until war is completely renounced. That A LOT of money, and for every one of those demonstrators, you can be sure there were three more who would have come but didn?t.

Whatever solution is finally used, one thing is now certain; demonstrations are useless.

you listening?
I am reading. I am trying to understand your point. I understand your point. I wish someone else did.

There is nothing wrong with American goods per se
Of course not. There's nothing wrong with America. It's the state that is wrong. The governing bodies.

Just "Think Locally" about what happens to your money.
I think people are more inclined to act if something is local and therefore directly affects them. I think this is an important aspect to AC20.

However, this is an abstract concept. Once money has left my pocket (me being Joe Bloggs) then it is no longer local. If I receive my goods/services I am happy. I forget about the money I just gave you (service provider).

When you pay your council tax, it remains local. When you shop locally your money remains local, especially if its part of the AC20 economy.

Precisely. Do you want war, or not. This is the root question.
Obviously not.

If you go into a supermarket, and you are forced to buy something that you dont want, every time you go there you would simply not go there correct?
Yes. But when has this ever happened? Sounds a bit like school or church though.

Astonishing isn't it? Real life is like school, or church? Sorry, I cant help but quote this:

"You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. The truth that you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch."

I can easliy imagine this, just as I can imagine a match-flame on a tea saucer being quenched by putting glass over it. Lack of imagination is the greatest, most crippling disease facing us today.
I can imagine that so strongly it is real in my head. Because I *know* what will happen already. The unknown is scary.

A world without war is an unknown that we should leap into, without looking.

You have absolute power over yourself, your life and what you do with it.
I will never wage a violent and bloody war.

You have helped wage it, albeit unwittingly.

You can choose to reject what is put in front of you, and the consequences of that choice will propagate outward from you. If many people do this, the waves mount up and wash away what is wrong.
People do this through parliament, but as we all know party politicians don't change what really happens on the grand scale.

Parliament is a means of control, not a tool to excersie the will of the people. It is a Punch and Judy show to make you think that you have influence; to make you think that there is a collective will. Its clear now, to everyone, that there is no collective will, only power (in actuality, the illusion of power). The only way to control our collective destiny is to withdraw our real power so that it doesnt feed the illusory power of democratically elected governments. That means abstaining from voting, and not paying. Period. Why do you think its illegal to not vote in Australia? Someone there has cottoned on to the idea that if people do not vote, the illusory power of the democratic government looses force. In Australia since EVERYONE votes, the government has absolute illusory power, since everyone has participated.

What happens on a grander scale, globally, between corporations and the people who control these changes is out of our spectrum of control, because they do direct influence us, and we do not directly influence them.

The same way we can move the clouds out the sky. But they still rain on us.

Corporations are nothing without the population. We are the ultimate control of everything, and that method of control comes right out of y(our) pocket(s).

Support for national ID cards falls sharply

By Nigel Morris, Home Affairs Correspondent 19 November 2003 Public support for national identity cards has dropped sharply in the past two years, despite the enthusiastic support of David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, for their introduction. Opponents of ID cards, who include several cabinet ministers, will seize on the findings released today in a survey by Mori as proof that there is little popular support for the move. In a survey coinciding with the Government's recent announcement that it was pressing ahead with the plans, 19 per cent of people chose ID cards when they were asked to name the best ways to cut crime. When they were asked the same question two years ago, 29 per cent selected ID cards. The poll was carried out for the Rethinking Crime and Punishment think-tank. [...] http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=465067

Someone just emailed me this pure dynamite text: Hi. I saw this this morning - it might be old news and haven't got the book so I can't verify it, but considering Bush's visit to London and his speech later today I thought that it might be of interest. In his memoirs, "A World Transformed," written five years ago, George H.W. Bush, Senior, wrote the following to explain why he didn't go after Saddam Hussein at the end of the Gulf War: "Trying to eliminate Saddam...would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible.... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq.... there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."

To Do in NYC

(hopefully we can meet up and spend some time together, but it is Thanksgiving weekend here in the US, and I may be away with family... we'll work out the details)

La Monte Young's Dream House

One of the most impressive sound environments I've ever been immersed in. It is not to be missed by anyone truly interested in sound. As Young describes it: The Base 9:7:4 Symmetry in Prime Time When Centered above and below The Lowest Term Primes in The Range 288 to 224 with The Addition of 279 and 261 in Which The Half of The Symmetric Division Mapped above and Including 288 Consists of The Powers of 2 Multiplied by The Primes within The Ranges of 144 to 128, 72 to 64 and 36 to 32 Which Are Symmetrical to Those Primes in Lowest Terms in The Half of The Symmetric Division Mapped below and Including 224 within The Ranges 126 to 112, 63 to 56 and 31.5 to 28 with The Addition of 119, a periodic composite sound waveform environment created from sine wave components generated digitally in real time on a custom-designed Rayna interval synthesizer.

The Staten Island Ferry

A free ferry that will take you out from downtown past the Statue of Libertry and Ellis Island with great views of downtown, stops on Staten Island and then returns. It runs all night, and is particulalry magical around 3 AM.

Roosevelt Island Tram

A two dollar tram ride that affords spectacular views of the city. Night time is, again, incredible

The Brooklyn Bridge

The walk over is a must. I try to run over and back from my apartment a couple of times a month. The view and the structure still get me

The New York Earth Room

Walter de Maria's Earth Room is a strange site: a loft filled with earth. 250 cubic yards of earth (197 cubic meters) 3,600 square feet of floor space (335 square meters) 22 inch depth of material (56 centimeters) Total weight of sculpture: 280,000 lbs. (127,300 kilos). Worth the visit if you are in SoHo.

The Magnolia Bakery

The best cupcake I've ever had.

I'll post more as they come to me...

I feel like giving up, on everything, today. Nothing feels right. I'm confused and angry but I'm not sure what about. Are you vegetarian? Do boycotts work? Will/would 20AC work if it was widely adopted? Boycotts are fantastically effective. My problem with 20AC is that people are basically lazy. 20AC requires a lot of hard work and inconvenience with a very unstable and minimal output. Actually, it shouldnt take any work at all, rather like staying at home instead of going out and demonstrating. Basically 20AC requires the cooperation of a large number of people for it to work. actually, War takes the cooperation of a large number of people to work, and I am not talking in any way about soldiers. However, people are unwilling to risk this without someone else there doing it already. A catch 22 situation. Help him! Even if 20AC was to catch on, would the results yield anything? To me it seems like hypothesis. A well rounded and well thought out hypothesis, but an unproven one all the same. These things are for certain; if we carry on the way we do now, nothing will happen. If we try something new, it might not work, but at least that branch can be permanently excluded from our box of tools. Its just like any scientific experiment; develop a theory based on information, and then test it. Money fuels the fire of war, therefore Stopping the money, will mean stopping the war. Cut off the oxygen of war and the fire goes out, untill you replace the oxygen. It HAS to work Demonstrations on the other hand, are easy. And they yield instant results, fairly useless results in the long term, but nice short term sparks of self indulgence. This is not a result obviously, but a continuation of a dangerous illusion. This is why people march en masse at every given opportunity. This is also why people eat McDonalds. And both will kill you! People will see 20AC as anti Americanism. Far from it. That's like saying the war on Iraq was against the Iraqi people. The media likes to blur state into population. To demonise a nationality. And it will do this inversely against any boycott against the dollar. Economic warfare is what AC20 is all about. Since no one is in charge, they can adapt it to whatever situation it needs to work in. The most important principle is that in every case, the root cause of any problem is directly addressed and fixed. And if you remember, one of the first tests of AC20 is "Will it permanently stop $problem". If your proposed action doesnt pass this test, then your plan MUST be abandoned. The British economy seems so tied to the dollar, and to American products that it seems nigh on impossible to separate these things from our lives. This may be true, but what is also true and more important on the local level, is the fact that an unlimited supply of cash is available to wage war anywhere, almost instantly (bar the complex planning) this is the local problem everywhere in the world; governments have access to unlimited stocks of contributed cash, with which they may wage war. Are you listening? Almost everything in my life is American in some way, from computer hardware and software to music, electronic entertainment, clothes, foodstuffs, pens, pencils, inks. There is nothigng wrong with American goods per se, what is wrong is that by giving them your cash, they give that cash directly to wage war. Lest say that you cannot live without American goods. Thats OK. Just "Think Locally" about what happens to your money. There need to be some clear guides as to what brands are ok to buy, good places to shop, etc, etc. And it's not just the dollar which is funding war, but the pound as well. And the euro, although not directly involved in Iraq, but the EU is hardly a pacifist state/union. Precisely. Do you want war, or not. This is the root question. If you go into a supermarket, and you are forced to buy something that you dont want, every time you go there you would simply not go there correct? Anyway, imagine 20AC caught on, people all over the UK and many in the US and Canada invested in the Euro, suddenly the balance tips, the American economy plummets, the US and Britain pull out of all foreign conflicts (yeah right) and the European war machine is kick started into action. I can easliy imagine this, just as I can imagine a match-flame on a tea saucer being quenched by putting glass over it. Lack of imagination is the greatest, most crippling disease facing us today. It's like the theory of relativity, there will always be war. And subterfuge. And espionage and tourture and all these horrid things we live with, because we feel we have no choice. You FEEL that you have no choice, but in fact this is an illusion. You have absolute power over yourself, your life and what you do with it. You can choose to reject what is put in front of you, and the consequences of that choice will propagate outward from you. If many people do this, the waves mount up and wash away what is wrong. We can shut our eyes and forget about it, but they won't go away. Thats true!

I remain natural at the ball...

All I got was a nice e-mail saying it wasn't their responsibility, as the marches were organized by other groups (inc. CND, for example) and that they were simply coordinators of the march itself. ??????!?!!!!!!! So, it seems that the suspicion that the Stop War people are working for the other side are not entirely unfounded. What the HELL kind of answer is that? Stop War, by co-ordinating these marches are acting like /dev/null coralling the energy of these good willed people into a pointless excersise. "Not their responsibility". Astonishing. This means that essentially, Stop War is apolitical; they will organize any march for any reason. I wonder if the National Front asked them to organize a march, if they would do so. Since no one sems to be taking responsibility for the purpose and point of a Stop War coordinated march, what is the difference between an NF march and a CND march? Outrageous!

What ever happened to AC20? Nothing. It's not going to achieve anything tangible and solid, but if one person in America sees it, and votes against Bush because of it, then isn't that worth my leaving the house? The problem is not Bush, but the whole idea that people are financing a warmongering government. No matter who is in the White House as long as the war economy persists, we will have war after war. Im afraid that this does make it worthless to leave your house, for this cause at least. Akin, your idea of emptying the streets of London was a good one, so why didn't you propose this to people who could have made it happen? You are going on a demonstration, despite everything that happened this year, knowing that it will do nothing, and that if someone in the US is influenced not to vote for Bush, that that to will do nothing. This is why I will not approach these people and tell them what to do; not only do they not listen, but they, unlike you, have no imagination, and no incentive to stop, think and use oblique strategies to permanently solve this problem. After all, if they did manage to solve the problem they would be out of a job. Or perhaps not. They seem to be continuing their purpose by suffixing the thing that they dont like after the word "Stop" so, we can make it easy for them (with bad syntax): open @listofbadstuff; while @listofbadstuff { print "Stop $listofbadstuff"\n; } die; #where listofbadstuff is the textfile with all the things you (rightly) hate about anything. There. A job for life for the stop war crew in 5 lines of bad perl. Honestly, these people can do what they want; I have nothing to do with them, but if they REALLY want to solve a problem, they have to stop doing what they have been donig for 30+ years. I have said all of this before, and the results (utter failure) of the last demonstration completely proved my point, sadly.

Thursday 20th November Assemble 2pm at Malet Street, Central London (nearest tubes: Goodge Street, Russell Square and Euston/Euston Sq). March to Trafalgar Square where a statue of George Bush will be pulled down. This event will continue until 7pm to allow for people coming from work. bwahahahhaahhaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahhahhah! http://www.stopwar.org.uk/

Dav, when you are in NYC, if you have time, I would walk over the Brooklyn Bridge. Take the train over, and walk back into the city. It's quite fantastic. And the Circle Line boat tour out to the Statue of Liberty is pretty cool too. We see her, over and over again, but it is something else to be in a tiny boat at her feet. Shame the sentiment is being destroyed. I went there with the image of my grandparents and mom immigrating in the 50s, coming to Ellis Island, so I was seeing it through different eyes. Also, try to find the Alice in Wonderland statue in Central Park. It's one of my favorite places in the city. Very romantic. It is near the Guggenheim and the Met, and you cannot go to New York without going to the Guggenheim. Walking up to the building is such a trip!

Mary, are you an aunt? Yes I am. 2 darling nephews. I have a great-aunt of 70-odd years old who uses expressions like that. Excuse me??????? It is so disarming and honest. Language shows personal beauty when it's so honest. Nice recovery, Alun. Today, you will be spared.

"Eisenhammer"

http://www.interwebnet.org/ Nowhere does it say what precisely this will change.

Can this man's judgement be trusted? Perhaps this is an example of the famed "irony" that a_t was speaking of!

Fascinating; Anthony is the 6th most played Jukebox sampe at Bookmat.....now its the 7th...realtime!!

Anthony Manning - A Manning Compendium Unbearable Anthony Manning has produced some of the most important ambient electronic pieces of the last 10 years - his material for Irdial is nothing short of legendary and the simply timeless "Chromium Nebulae" album ranks amongst our favourite classic British electronic albums ever. For the first time his complete works are getting a cd issue. Manning first came into the limelight during the mid 90's, producing a series of pieces that set him apart from the rest of the british electronica scene spearheaded by the likes of Richard D James. This limited edition of 500 copies in snazy plastic is a timely collection that will be a brilliant addition to Manning collectors out there and a textbook introduction of his work to newcomers. Tracklisting includes tracks from Concision, Elastic Variations, Liquid Quartz, Islets in Pink Polyproylene, Chromium Nebulae and more. Beautiful music. http://djmartian.blogspot.com/

Global Eye -- The Inhuman Stain

By Chris Floyd There is a horrible scandal eating away the heart of the American body politic. Among the many corrupted currents loosed upon the nation by the Bush Regime, this scandal is perhaps the worst, for it abets all the others and breeds new pestilence, new perversions at every turn. Last week, Maher Arar of Canada detailed his ordeal at the hands of Attorney General John Ashcroft's security "organs." Returning from a family holiday in Tunis, the Syrian-born Arar -- 16 years a Canadian citizen -- was seized at a New York airport. Jailed and interrogated without charges, on unspecified allegations of unspecified connections to unspecified terrorist groups, he was then deported, without a hearing, to Syria. When he told the Homeland Chekists he would be tortured there -- his family was marked down as dissidents by Syria's Baathist regime -- the Chekists replied that their organ "was not the body that deals with the Geneva Conventions regarding torture." They shackled him and flew him to the America-friendly regime in Jordan; from there he was bundled across the border to Damascus, The Washington Post reports. But this is not the scandal we were speaking of. [...] http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/11/14/120.html In the shadow of the Silent Majorities....astonishing.

Fire in the hole!

Everything begins with choice.

"The Exploits of Moominpappa" ??? Please tell us what that is! For those of you without TV, The Moomins is a VERY strange animated childrens series.

inevitability "MP3.com, a keystone of the digital music revolution, will be suspending operations and deleting all hosted content including music, images, links and artist pages as of December 2nd" [...] Single point of failure. Easily snuffed out. Kazzaa is the distributed MP3.com Soulseek is the thinking (listening) mans Kazzaa. This demolotion will drive everyone to the next service. Like a beehive that gets whacked down by a little boy with a stick, the bees swarm, maybe kill him for good measure, and then make another hive. This is our world, this is our time.

Dav and I have stuff in common: Roget's on the shelf. Cassettes on the books on the shelfs. MAD books. If you have a Radiometer Dav, then thats it separated at birth!

Mary, that car is awesome. Is it yours? I have always had a thing for those huge energy wasting pigs of cars. Goodness, no! It was parked on the side of the road and I captured it. Did you know, it is a Ranchero and I bet it is still sitting there. Calvin & Hobbes! Hurrah!

Chris, where is this? It is beautiful.

Blogdial is on fire today. An article on irony: Something in Blue A section of my office bookshelf: The Brief English Handbook, Collins Paperback French, Collins Paperback Thesaurus, Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Dictionary of Modern Thought, A Golden Nature Guide to the Stars, Hiking Rocky Mountain National Park, Osho Zen Tarot Cards, Lego Obi-Wan and 2 Destroyer Droids, Yahtzee dice, orange plastic Slinky.

Please forgive me of my sins. If you are going to ask for something serious like this, DO IT RIGHT:

How To Go To Confession

1. The Priest will often begin with the Sign of the Cross or a greeting and blessing. 2. The Penitent begins by saying ?Bless me Father for I have sinned, it has been ____ (number of days, weeks, months, etc.) since my last confession. These are my sins?. 3. Confess all mortal sins committed since your last confession by kind and number (this is important). Hold NOTHING back. You may also confess any venial sins. 4. At the end of your confession say these or similar words: ?For these and all the sins of my life I am sorry.? By this you tell the priest that you are finished. Otherwise, he might think you are still thinking or even trying to summon the courage to tell him "the big one". 5. The Priest may ask questions for clarification or give you some counsel on a point from your confession. Answer briefly. 6. The Priest will give you a penance. Listen to it carefully and remember it. You can refuse a penance if it is too vague or impossible to do in a reasonable time. 7. The Penitent makes an act of contrition in these or similar words: O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all of my sins because of Thy just punishments. But most of all because they offend Thee my God, who art all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to sin no more, and to avoid the near occasions of sin. Amen. Memorize a good act of contrition. 8. The Priest will give you absolution in Latin or in your common language. (The words necessary in English for forgiveness are ?I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit?). Do not leave until the priest has given you absolution. He will not refuse you absolution unless it is clear that you are not sorry for your sins or you have no intention of amending your life. Trust a yank to not get it. This time a_t you have GONE TOO FAR. It is clear that you DO NOT want absolution, and that in fact you are an AGENT and ADHERENT of SATAN. With your own words you are CONDEMNED: "Moi, je suis un Troll." A troll, as we all know, is a demonic creature. For this, the ULTIMATE INSULT, and your CONFESSION of being a TROLL you will absolutely, and utterly, BURN IN HELLLLLL!!!!!

Weeeee missed you!

ringtone

To commemorate the first state visit of a US President since 1918, the US/UK T-shirt. You ALL know what this shi(r)t really means!

we have the Darkness precisely because of Whitesnake, Kiss, and, unfortunately, Little Angels. Not so; we have The Darkness because these little shitfuckers are talentless pieces of FLESH, without a single idea between thier shared siingle braincell. Earless, talentless unlearned and useless trollops, l00zers, repearters... METAL SIMULATORS They are the worst kind of criminal, because they KNOW that they commit sin, and yet they roll in it like pigs in swill. KILL THEM ALL, kill them all NOW and save the wasted aluminum that goes into their CDS. Let the world be free of sin, and SINNERS like The Darkness, the Deep Purple immitators and the evil puke regurgitators. Let them all die, and BURN IN HELL so that we can go into public places and not be assaulted by their impudent noise.

this shit destroys. Uh oh, tense problems That shit destroyed.

Both of you will BURN IN HELL.

monkey... Just imagine, eveyone in London STAYS INDOORS for the entire time of the visit. No one is in the streets. Everywhere deserted. No crowds. No protesters. Only flying pidgeons, and the pidgeons that support colonization and war in attendance. Now THAT would b a spectacle.

I got a hold of Bob Dylan's "Nashville Skyline".... and it got a hold of me.

- Identity fraud seems to include credit card fraud mostly when the card holder is not present IDcards would never prevent this. This is absolutely correct - did you copy this from somewhere, or is it your own observation, because if it is, BRAVO! - could private companies ask for your ID and then if you don't tick that tiny data protection box on page 5 of the contract then begin to accumulate and sell data directly linked to your ID? Yes, and yes. - how easy would it be to bribe an official at GCHQ or NHS or Inland Revenue - or infiltrate - and steal data that way? This has already been done, with many types of personal and private data, most recently, with the telephone logs of a famous footballer. Private investigators with good connections do this all the time, for very little money.

Blunkett in threat to quit on ID cards

David Cracknell, Political Editor DAVID BLUNKETT was poised to resign from the cabinet if he had not got his way over identity cards, it has emerged. The home secretary told Tony Blair that he believed so strongly that ID cards were necessary to combat terrorism that he would not back down. Blunkett went to see the prime minister 10 days ago immediately after clashing with Gordon Brown over the scheme at a cabinet sub-committee. Blair, who had already stated publicly that he was ?in principle? in favour of ID cards, backed Blunkett, one of his closest allies. Shortly before the cabinet met the next morning, John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, convened a meeting between Blunkett and other ID card supporters, including John Reid, the health secretary, and Peter Hain, the Commons leader. Blair then told the cabinet that a draft bill on ID cards would be included in the Queen?s speech and Blunkett would be allowed to make a Commons statement on the issue. Blunkett?s dramatic warning came after the cabinet?s domestic affairs sub-committee met on Guy Fawkes night. It had been expected that a compromise would be reached, but Brown and his allies refused even to accept the idea of a draft bill in the Queen?s speech. Blunkett made a coded reference to how strongly he felt in a radio interview when he compared a failure to press ahead with the plans to Labour?s inability to act on Barbara Castle?s In Place of Strife proposals for union reform in the late 1960s. Castle, who died last year, had herself threatened to resign. ?It?s about addressing issues that you don?t have to address now, but if you don?t, will come back to bite you in years to come. That?s the measure of our prime minister, addressing things that it would be very easy not to deal with now,? he said. Although a majority of Labour MPs favour ID cards in a new BBC survey, 55 of the 101 questioned also want more research to be carried out. Under the plans, all new passports and driving licences will include details such as eye recognition and fingerprints from 2007. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-896116,00.html So. An ignorant blind man throws a tantrum, and eveyone in the UK has to be humiliated and degraded by law. The only reason this is being put in the Queens speech is because of this tantrum. Pathetic.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/11/16/ozone.talks.reut/index.html

4. This second point is worth dwelling on given its incomprehensible magnitude. I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. World-class, A-1, top of the heap, triple whopper with cheese, supersized stupid. So stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. One-of-a-kind, global, universal, intergalactic stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularly, extraordinarily, incredibly, bewilderingly stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your life is a monument to stupidity. I am breathless that anyone or anything in our universe can really be this stupid. You are a primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of stupidity that we know. A behemoth, a leviathan, a colossus of stupidity. http://www.scamorama.com/threebucks.html

Neutron Bomb Economy

I want to believe The New York Times. I want to believe The Wall Street Journal. I want to believe all the news coming down about how we've gone from a in-the-crapper, oh, excuse me, I mean, how we've gone from a toilet economy last Thursday to a gung-ho, can't-be-held-back, go-go growth economy on Friday. But when I read all these great happy-days-are-here-again earnings announcements -- I can't help but think of the line in Repo Man about the neutron bomb -- it destroys people but leaves buidlings standing. This is a the neutron bomb economy -- easy to look profitable when your building is still standing but you've nuked your entire workforce. Soon we'll be forced to hail the new worker-less enterprise, it's sure to be the Next Big Thing. posted by Halley Suitt at 11/2/2003 05:08:34 AM | link

Holy shiat! Look at the number of reports of Triangles (equilateral and otherwise) with red lights in the center.

The part of that story that I was about to blog about is the "dirty nuclear bomb threat". The only ditry bomb that is going to go off in the UK is one supplied and detonated by the CIA. OBL and his men couldnt organize a barbecue on the surface of the sun. Some will say "No! they would never deliberately contaminate the UK in such a horrible way!" Just look at the poisionous ships arriving in the UK, without a single problem. An explosion of this type would represent the perfect outrage; the contaminated area would be inacsessible for decades, a constant reminder of the "terrorost threat", recycling the fear of the original act ad-nauseum. Anyone complaining about the removal of your rights will simply have to have spoken to them the name of the contaminated area as a catchall-shutup, just as the Americans constantly conjure up their own painful reminder with the numbers 9-11. The British are well trained in this fear recycling; every public outrage is conjured, abracadabra style with the name of the place where it happened; Soham, Dunblane, The Moors Murders, Zebrugge, Kings Cross, Lockerbie...you know them all, and the facts about them in detail. They were all disected, computer animated, re-enacted - bled dry of every drop of fear serum, which was then injected straight into the brains of the masses through that massivly distributed syringe called Television. Be ready for an outrage; any outrage, and then reject it utterly as a reason for a reaction of any kind.

\/\/ said that, "we are not leaving until we get Saddam" So, if they never find him, and he is given a private burial, that means that they will NEVER leave Iraq. Has anyone in london seen the military helicopters flying around the capital today? The security preparations have begun. Now, is there anyone STUPID enough to demonstrate against \/\/? Lets find out! The collaborators good people at Stop War are up to their old '70s style disco politics, fruitlessly protesting against the security arrangements, which only have to be there because they are protesting. They are providing a very good service, to the security psychhosis, like the "terrorists" who actually take real risks.

This summary is not available. Please click here to view the post.

http://slink.com.com/slink?214894

A dreadful site with its heart in the right place: http://www.no2idcards.com/

But putting Europe to one side, countries such as Japan feel no need to use ID cards, while Australia and New Zealand both came close to introducing them in the 1980s and 1990s, but the politicians backed off after strong public protests. In Australia, a country where you are COMPELLED to vote, they refused ID cards. Not even the genuine fear of terrorism after the horrors of the 11 September attacks have convinced politicians in the US that they need to curb their devotion to privacy and personal freedom to bring in what Republicans and Democrats alike would see as an unacceptable infringement on the rights of the individual. [...] Everyone in the world is being compelled to get fingerprinted and retina scanned so that they can enter the USA, and this is being done in advance, by requiring that all passports have biometrics. Its not just for Visas anymore. Where different countries have opted to carry a card it can often be put down to one of the following reasons: Firstly an ID card is often seen as a useful document to the authorities in countries where war, state repression, or military rule is taking place. In that case they take the role of an internal passport. [...] Hmmmm sound familiar? An internal passport so that you can leacve your house and travel. At Camden Station a few weeks ago, I saw 30 police with dogs checking everyone leaving the underground. I asked the station manager what was going on. He said, "Its a routine check". WTF? They cannot "check" you without a REASON. NO REASON, NO SEARCH. ID cards will make all of this "routine checking" (fishing expiditions) a daily nationwide occurance. But even in nations where cards have been issued by enthusiastic politicians strict limits have still been put in place. For example in Germany the principle of "information self-determination" saw the federal constitutional court rule that although ID cards are in use, the public would not be given unique identity numbers that could be accessed by all government departments. Given The German Experience® they WOULD be frightened of Government, even an elected one. However even in Germany research has found that the police are more likely to stop people from ethnic minority groups to check their ID cards than the rest of the population. [...] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2078604.stm

What Is Cygwin? # Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality. # A collection of tools, which provide Linux look and feel. The Cygwin DLL works with all non-beta, non "release candidate", ix86 versions of Windows since Windows 95, with the exception of Windows C http://www.cygwin.com/

pshaw

no more suckpage!

My kingdom for a horse! http://www.huminity.com/

Alun, that was the first record I ever bought. Joan Jett. I am sure I still know every lyric by heart. In very fine print: "US AND FOREIGN PATENTS APPLY". Bitter pill.

This is, of course, one of the greatest single things in London. I have always loved it. It is pure Irdial.

"Replace your music...again" I told you didnt I??!! Slashdot

Blunkett's attitude to civil liberties seems to be limited to the old saw: if you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to worry about. There are two major problems with this, of course. First, it assumes that people with the power to use your ID are infallible and incorruptible -- an assumption that the law has never made in the past. There are reasons why policemen need search warrants to enter your house without your permission, and nobody suggests that these are no longer necessary because only criminals need fear the police. Second, it assumes that no government will ever misuse its powers to define what's wrong and what's right. That may be true of our current happy band of pilgrims, but I would submit that history is full of governments who abuse their positions. When Blunkett can guarantee that all people are perfect and the impossibility of future governmental abuse, then no, there'll be no civil liberty issues. [...] http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020505,39117847-2,00.htm

To the best of my knowledge, MyTunes can not be detected on a network. This should not be an issue however, because by using MyTunes you agree to not use it in any manner which may be considered illegal.[...] http://www.drunkenaardvark.com/

Tuesday, November 11, 2003 Random thoughts and sightings today. A new(ish) site for Irdial, a cutting edge record company / all about the autobahn, via me-fi / one third of things recently had 'An Evening Out', over at tmn / Add a Lada to your life, part of the collection of Lada brochure scans at Simon�s Skip (amongst other interesting things, such as this page dedicated to the old Granada Cinema in Hove). [...] http://www.thingsmagazine.net/

Furthermore, it is not the place of the state to give you your identity, or to manage your identity. Your identity belongs to you; it is your property. It is up to you to manage (or mismanage) it as you see fit. The function of the state is not to control or administer identity. As soon as it does, it instantly controls you down to what you can and cannot eat, where you can and cannot travel and where and when you can spend your money. THAT IS WRONG.

re �3 billion: This does not include the fact that a majority of people (non-minimum wage, non-retired) would be CHARGED �40 each for the pleasure. Its a pure insult. I had an Identitetskort in Sweden. It is not compulsory, but there are times when you cannot do things without it. Same as compulsory then. thats the big lie, they say its not compulsory, but you cannot evel live without it. when buying booze at systembolaget as an age check (Systemet, the System: government-run off licences. Nice) You cannot drink without it! In other words, you cannot drink without permission of the state! when buying goods with a credit card at many, but not all, occassions - there is space on receipt slips for your personnummer to be written in when doing pretty much anything at the bank You cannot buy or sell anything without it. Appalling. when buying e.g. a cinema season ticket In France, you cannot buy a SIM card without showing a Carte 'd Identite (sp) I dont, and will never carry one, so I BORROWED someones to get the job done. Pathetic. And eveyone, everyshopkeeper is made into a COP, with these damnable cards. whenever some shithead shop assistant/minor afficial fancies a quick powertrip And they WILL use this power. Believe it. I was never stopped by police and asked for my ID card Hmmm I wonder if you would have that experience if you were from....Algeria say? What do you think? Ask any aparthied era south african about the pass laws.....ID cards are what power that kind of systematic abuse. ...however, you would be somewhat mistrusted in Sweden without an ID card. And that of course, is the business of the Swedes. It is not my business, and nor do I judge them for having an ID card system in place. I simply will not ever live there. Period. But a true ID card? Compulsory in order to get basic services? In the name of pseudo-security? I've not heard a single valid reason for, and a hundred well thought-out reasons against, and I will not comply. All day I have been talking about this, and its unanimous, no one I have spoken to is going to willingly get a retina scan or be fingerprinted. This bullshit is dead in the water.

You need to read these: http://www.stand.org.uk/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33919.html

I'm far too angry at the moment to write anything coherent about ID cards The introductoin of ID cards will not stop crime, will not deter crime, but will create a nation wide identiy theft eco system as people rely on them completely for identity. We can see this starting to happen with the congestion charge; people are cloning licence plates to avoid the charges, and "legitmate" drivers are getting the charges. Of course, to clear your licence and prove that it wasnt you who drove into london on that day is a total fucking nightmare. Imagine that somone uses your id card; gets it swiped during the commision of a crime. FOREVER your name will have a crime attached to it, even if it says "recinded" or "redacted" next to the accusation. That is totally immoral and wrong. The same goes for a national DNA database. Criminals, like rapists, only get 2 years in prison. Are you telling me that a DNA database will stop these crimes, and furthermore, that when the criminals ARE intercepted, that after they go to gaol for two years, that this is worth all of the free people being tagged like cattle? I think not. The fact of the matter is, Shlumberger or some other company is going to make a fortune out of this. ID cards do not solve any problems, instead, they CREATE problems where there are none. They should be rejected absolutely. Accepting ID cards, which they are planning to issue with passports means that you are giving control of the entire planet and your ability to move about on it over to the government. If you refuse to have your fingers printed and your eyes scanned, you will be denied the right to travel. This is a total violation of your rights as a human being. A blind man could see...uh oh, THATS THE PROBLEM. A facist with no sight is going to tag everyone in the UK as a punishment for his personal pain over being born blind. This is unnaceptable, on every level. It cannot be excused, tidyed up or made to make sense without the most convoluted double talk. I cannot believe that the people of the UK will put up with it. If they do, if they allow themselvs to be numbered, fingerprinted and retina scanned like pigs, then they deserver everything that comes with it, and that means total control over every aspect of their lives. How the cabinet was turned around on this we may never know; what is for sure, is that the world is changing in a profound way, for the worse. I wont take part in it, and I spit on anyone that does, because they are not worthy of human life. That a single government can be elected and then completely dismantle this country is the greatest flaw of the UK. Previous governments, run by gentlemen (for the most part, evil notwithstanding) would never have contemplated selling the UK to other countries, or fingerprinting and retina scanning the entire country at the behest of the USA. That is how the UK remained more or less a reasonable place. Now, the gentlemen are all dead, and a bunch of immoral, Godless, souless animals are running the show, hell bent on dismantleing everything, and selling the pieces to the highest bidder, including the very flesh and bones of the British people, and make no mistake, that is precisely what this ID card deal is about. The company that gets the contract to do this abatoir work is being paid to measure the flesh of the British public, and then to store these measurements. It is a cattle operation. A slaughterhouse. Pure unadulterated evil, perpetrated by evil men who lie with the same ease that fish swim. Can anyone actually believe anyting that is said about these ID cards? This is the same government that lied about Iraq and everything else. Just how stupid and brain dead have the British become that they would sit by and let themselvs be abused in this way? It is beyond imagination; you couldnt make this story up and be taken seriously 30 years ago. Apalling, infuriating and disgusting in equal measures.

ID cards are on the way

� Scheme marks Blunkett victory � Compulsion for non-nationals in four years Alan Travis and Patrick Wintour Wednesday November 12, 2003 The Guardian Millions of people in Britain will start receiving their compulsory national identity cards in only four years time under the detailed plans unveiled by the home secretary, David Blunkett, yesterday. Under legislation to be published in January, the five million people who apply each year for a passport or driving licence will automatically be issued with an identity card and their personal details stored on a new national identity computer database. Mr Blunkett made clear yesterday that they will also have to undergo hi-tech electronic eye and fingerprint scans to ensure that the new combined ID card/passport or driving licence cannot be forged. [...] No one that I have spoken to will accept this; no one that I know will allow themselvs to be fingerprinted like a criminal when they have committed no crime. David Blunkett, that blind man, will burn in hell.

The Matrix Revolutions

This is the most appalling example of Hollywood contamination, comitee writing and butcherey ever to hit the screen. The Matrix Revolutions was clearly re-written, in a most brutal and disheartening way. Every essence, every thrust of the "original" has been exanguinated, eviscerated, erased, expunged an annihilated. Another victory for the Lowest Common Denominator. This trilogy could have stood tall amongst the greatest of cinematic science fiction expressions. Instead, it is another sad reminder that the LCD and the perceived tolerances of the masses is the ultimate meat grinder that all films go through before they appear on the big screen. The question now has to be asked of the Wachowski Brothers; "Where is the original screenplay?" I demand that the original, unedited, unspoiled screenplay for "The Matrix Revolutions" be released to the public immediately. Or I want my money back!

"Most of the money goes to the music companies," admitted Jobs. "We would like to break even/make a little bit of money but it's not a money maker," he said, candidly. Read it at the reg and weep.

Capt, email me. We should definately get a pint and try to catch some live music. jcarr @ licr.org.

Ohhhh!

did not have any matter What we call matter may be an interpretation. Energy and matter may be different aspects of the same thing, so if anyone was there in the early universe, they may have seen what they considered to be matter but what we think of as energy, spread out infinetely in all directions. The subconcious idea that the universe is spherical and finite, expanding into a space due the explosion of the big bang may be wrong. It implies that there is a space, larger than the universe into which you can enter as an observer, and into which our universe can continue to expand. More irrational and probalbly (?) true is the idea that the universe, from its "point" of creation appeared to any observer inside it that it was infiinite, from the moment of the universes creation; in other words, what we see as the infinite universe looks the same as the universe did billions of years ago; going on and on forever in every direction, with all objects appearing to be moving away from you in whatever direction you look (this part, everything appering to look like its moving away from us, I might be wrong about...must check). In even more words, the universe was never ever "small". It has from inception been iinfinite in its internal dimensions. Taking this into account, the early universe would have appeard (to us) like an infinite place of energy, and moving rapidly into the future, would have appeard to cool everywhere simultaneously, matter condensing out of the energy everywhere, simultaneously, and then condensing into the shapes we see today. If this is not the case, then the universe would have had a measurable dimension observable by anyone inside of it, that suddenly dissapeared at some time after its creation; it would have to have "profoundly" changed nature at some stage. Its all very, very interesting!