Any ideas? This sounds like X is misconfigured. You could try to manually tweak your xfree86.config but thats a pain in the ass. Since you havnt got it set up, you should try another distro, like Red Hat. Its not as "friendly" as Mandrake, but I have found the installer is much more solid. Whatever you do, during the install, try and set X to run in the most basic mode possible, least amount of colors and lowest resolution. That might solve the problem.

"sometimes i don't know who's worse, us or them. you don't see them fucking each other over for a percentage" Charging interest is forbidden in sharia law. Thats why you dont see that. :]

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[...]With his back against the wall, belatedly aware of the depth of his difficulty, and surrounded by the empty shell casings of a defeated polemic, Blair played his last card in Glasgow at the weekend. Action was a moral imperative, he declared. If Saddam remains in power, he warned emotively, there will be "consequences paid in blood". The moral case for intervention was overwhelming. Those who opposed it, he implied, were themselves acting immorally. In many respects, this is an outrageous statement. It reeks of condescension. In his wisdom, it seems, the prime minister is suggesting that millions of weekend marchers and all those in the European, Arab and Muslim spheres who disagree have failed to think through the ethical ramifications of their stand. But since Blair can be sure to repeat his moral message in the two or three weeks that remain before Bush is expected to press the button, it must be answered. How moral is it, to take one aspect, to wreck an inspections process unanimously agreed by the UN? Blair and Jack Straw endlessly stress the exact terms of resolution 1441. But this document sets no time limit on inspections. It makes no mention of the regime change that Blair now advocates. Nor does 1441's text authorise the conquest, indefinite occupation and forcible remaking of Iraq under US military auspices. Exactly how moral is it, as is now the US-British plan in the next fortnight, to gerrymander UN backing for war by buying votes with US financial largesse? Blair's new concept of the "unreasonable veto" and the quaint idea of claiming a "moral mandate" from a simple majority UN vote has no base in international law. Nor, for that matter, does the concept of an offensive war, as opposed to collective, defensive action. The US and Britain have no moral right to try to reinterpret and thus subvert the UN charter in this way. The onus is surely on Blair, not his opponents, to explain the morality of rejecting Blix's provisional conclusion that his inspections are beginning to work. It is not "moral" to turn to the "last resort" of violence when Iraq has conceded many of the UN's demands and when South Africa, for example, is offering its good offices and experience in assuring nuclear disarmament. The onus is surely also on Blair to show the Vatican and, say, Britain's Anglican and Muslim leaders, why and on what grounds his moral authority exceeds theirs. [...] The Guardian

Wilbert Smith Speech. http://www.disclosureproject.org/WilbertSmithSpeech1958.mp3

I just heard on Fox news that the military deployment in preparation to attack iraq is costing One Trillion Dollars a month. That cant be right, they must have meant Billion!

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Tony Blair refused to blink last night in the face of the biggest anti-war demonstrations ever held in Britain and worldwide. Ministers and officials insisted the protests - which saw more than 1 million people march in London on Saturday - would not delay military preparations for war next month. One well-placed source said: "It changes nothing at all. The quicker it is done, the better. To back down now would be the worst result possible. We would have no credibility if Saddam Hussein was still in place." My emphasis. From The Guardian.

The march was astounding. The speeches were also superb, except Mr. Jackson, who, with his mindless feel-good doubletalk just made me sick. The atmosphere was very powerful and optimistic, and as the reports of the numbers went up and up, a swell of an almost palpable relief/excitement was in the air, because "surely it would be impossible for such a gathering to be ignored", something would have to happen to address such a show of displeasure. What was interesting, infuriating and really not very surprising was the way that the speeches were misreported. There was, for sure, a concerted effort to dampen down the information that came from that stage. Every news channel failed to correctly and fully report the speeches. Ken Livingston�s congestion charge heckler interruption was repeated again and again, and Jackson�s empty repetitive rhetoric was overly highlighted. The first president of Algeria's speech (in French) included a cry of "Vive la France" in response and recognition of the noble opposition that France is putting up. The trade unions speeches were genuine and well said, none of these were transmitted in the news reports the night of the march and the next day. As was to be expected, Fox news behaved as if nothing at all had happened on the day; an extraordinarily poor reaction. CNN repeated sound bites from more speakers, but they were the shortest of excerpts. ITN, BBC, and all the UK channels repeated both Blair�s speech in response to the march and then Gordon Brown's totally insincere speech, ad nauseum. It felt like the news channels were repeating these speeches to counteract the energy of the mach. Euro News was more balanced. What was also superb was the general understanding and plain speaking about the Israel/Palestinian problem. No one held back in roundly condemning Israel, and the hypocrisy of the UN and its uneven enforcement of its resolutions. The exception was once again Jackson, who made sure that he offended no one. Only CNN showed a small amount of this aspect; the BBC came out with the incredible line of "This march was very political" well duh!!! The best speech of all was from the organizer of the march and rally, who declared that on the day that war starts, a general strike will be called. If I remember correctly the union of communications workers representative wants to go back to its members to vote for a strike if war starts. The placards and punters were awesome; "Bush is another word for Cunt" was my favourite, a man with a Mohican held a pretzel aloft to my left. Children were everywhere, the old the young; every kind of person, from everywhere. This was pure untapped power in the form of human rivers. The last march that I went on was the big anti apartheid march years ago. This one felt completely focused, coherent, and energized. Apartheid was utterly destroyed by years of sanctions and boycotts. The promised bloodbath of revenge that was predicted thankfully never materialized, and whilst SA today has its serious problems, they can now build on an intact infrastructure in peace. It is clear that economic punishment is the way to convince people to "live right". It is clear that the only way to stop the war machine is to choke off the supply of money that keeps it fed. Tony Benn said that the people in the arms trade should be made to account for what they are doing, that the trade should be outlawed. This may or may not happen, but what is for sure, the thinking behind these words strikes directly at the problem. As exhilarating and reaffirming as this march was, unless there is some kind of subsequent direct action on a long term basis, this war, if it happens, will not be the last one. And that is a Bad Thing® Tony Benn said that this was the beginning of something big, and for all of us to keep up the momentum. He is right about many things; lets hope that this is the case. What is for sure, you will not hear about this on the TV. You will have to read your email, keep in contact with your friends and be ready to act when the call is given. And DAMN it was cold; my feet turned into stiff blocks. What were your impressions?!

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Hello loves, I am hoping that the cause of the server being down is from the immense amount of activity you all are up to, as opposed to the possiblity that someone has busted into our home and taken it while we are on our ski vacation. Thus I will not be in any march on Saturday, we have been planning this trip for a while, and I really needed to get away. What would the action be? I don't know. I posted this the other day, and then took it down, but here it is again. I think the answer lies in some country's (ies') willingness to adopt a non-violent approach to conflict resolution, making it the model for their society, and upholding that model through any global situation, without question. I think people respond to gentleness, and I am not seeing any of this in the current situation. Conflict Avoidance and Resolution The Gallery is committed to the development of programs that reduce or eliminate acts of violence towards gallery employees. The table below outlines some of the actions you should employ and some that you most certainly should not do. De-escalation Do's Maintain eye contact. Listen attentively. Listen for the emotion that caused the anger. Adopt a defensive listening posture. Allow the person to save face. Take a "time out" if you are frustrated. Make slow gestures with palms open. Nod or confirm statements. De-escalation Don'ts Mirror anger subconsciously. Feel you must win an argument. Cross your arms. Yell or raise your voice. Move of walk behind the person. Block exits. Interrupt. Challenge. Accuse. Threaten. Touch the person.

that's what i was hinting at ... we are as one... check this out: Electric Family member Ben Rymer at the ICA, with his Fat Truckers

The organism that we are mere cells of won't allow us to not do anything about it. Actually, I think that the way we operate in large groups (societies) is more analogous to the way cellular automata work. We each have a small amount of things we can do, physically and economically, and a small number of adjacent cells (other people) that we can interoperate with. This is enough to generate extremely complex emergent behaviour. If you have ever played with a cellular automata kit, you will know that the smallest of adjustments to any of the paramaters of the unit behaviour can cause a system to become unstable, to grow uncontrollably change its state of equilbrium or wither and die. This is what I am talking about when I say that there are distributed ways to stop war and other undesirable government policy. A small action, on a cellular level, can stop just about anything, as long as the conditions and individual behavoiour is set correctly. I will leave it to you to look on google for some cellular automata software. Look up "the game of life", "glider guns" and you should also look up the "zhabotinsky reaction"...for the beauty!

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I have a dream - MLK Some musings about dreams Captain Sensible Ummm, the musical "South Pacific"? No, but it saves human lives. Stay on topic, we are talking about stopping this particular war, right now. Intellectualizing is the new demonstrating. Dreaming is the new intellectualizing. "Sleep is the new self awareness." day dream weaver sleep walker(s) crisps narcoleptic tac toe arms race relations make peace dividend wage slave riot jarrow march madness bad day dream three dog nightmare crack pipe dream wake up call center open wide awake fat cat nap sleepy headcase sleeper car crash slumber party pooper blanket policy failure ugly beauty sleep slumberland invasion bed time out silence is golden slumbers eyes wide shut eye get the sack time war is oversleep nuclear power nap night night night demo.comatose sedated ideas crash land of nod So, shall I take that as a 'No' then? No, you should not. The poll tax riot was unplanned. you think? Will you be annoyed if something similar occurs and you miss being there? I will be annoyed if a war starts.

It's a beautiful, frosty, golden morning here in London...streaming 128k from http://www.wfmu.org after having had my breakfast, Pink Floyd "Us and Them". Can you imagine?

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First notes for 639-year composition

The first notes in the longest and slowest piece of music in history, designed to go on for 639 years, were played at 1800 local time (1700 GMT) on a German church organ on Wednesday, February 5, 2003. The three notes, which will last for a year-and-a-half, are just the start of the piece, called "As Slow As Possible". Composed by late avant-garde composer John Cage, the performance has already been going for 17 months - although all that has been heard so far is the sound of the organ's bellows being inflated. The music will be played in Halberstadt, a small town renowned for its ancient organs in central Germany. It was originally a 20-minute piece for piano, but a group of musicians and philosophers decided to take the title literally and work out how long the longest possible piece of music could last. They settled on 639 years because the Halberstadt organ was 639 years old in the year 2000. "We started discussing: what is as slow as possible for the organ?", Swedish composer and organist Hans-Ola Ericsson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. "We, a group of theologians, musicologists, philosophers, composers and organists, met during a couple of years solely to discuss this question. It was rather wonderful to have one topic to discuss at length. We came up with the answer that the piece could last for the duration of the organ - that is the lifetime of an organ." Cage composed the original piece before his death in 1992, and Mr. Ericsson said Cage would have liked what they had done with it. "It's a sound that we give to the future to take care of, and hopefully the aesthetics and the ideas of John Cage will manage to survive." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2728595.stm The real question is, will this John Cage piece be out of copyright when they finish playing it?

The lives of humans beings are not "nothing", and I have never met anyone who would not give up a days wages to save a human life. Please ask everyone you've met to donate today's salary to Oxfam. Oxfam doenst stop wars. No analogies. I think your analogy is wrong. You think what your analogy is supposed to be analagous to is wrong. OK. Not while people are going to be needlessly slaughtered, and tensions pointlessly inflamed, no, its not "OK". On Saturday night I will have done something which I believe may have an influence on British politics. May I recomend the following groups / songs / lyrics: The Everly Brothers, "Dream; dream dream dream, dream; dream dream dream." Or Bread, "Dreams, they're for those who sleep, life is for us to keep" Or Lennon, ... no doesnt work! To generalise: | $group, "$group_lyric_which_ncludes_the_word_dream

"please close it up pal, im calling another plumber". The plumber is STILL a shit analogy. Plumbers, cisterns, loos.."shit analogy" hmmm maybe! However. 1. It implies a choice of plumber. 2. It implies you have some control over him. 3. If I am the boss, marching throught the plumbers house shouting at him that I don't like his work is justified. 3 depends on 1 and 2. put down the crack pipe before you post! In reverse order: re: 3, You are not "the boss marching through the plumbers house" that is crystal clear. You are a homeowner that has a leak who has called a plumber. Homeowner = citizen Duh! re: 2, If you pay a plumber you have the absolute right to control what he does in your house. Come on! re: 1, in a Democracy, the right to govern emanates from the people. Under (or more rightly, IN) such a system, you have the right to "choose the plumber". The analogy works. Can you deal? Lets have a different analogy. Go for it. You live in 'democracy'. No we dont, we live in a Democratic Monarchy. Your elected representatives decide to start a war. Because They Can® which is precisely what I am talking about. They use every opportunity to push pro-war propaganda. A majority of people still oppose the war. There is no impending vote to kick them out. hence, the system is hopelessly broken. Your options as a group to make known your opposition are 1. Demonstrate en masse. 2. Moan. 3. Call a plumber. Dont be silly. Options such as a General Strike will not occur. because the sheeple are all habituated to this absurd marching lark, which is propagandized as a "democratic right" but which actually does nothing at all. Why do you think that the plan to stop the march was reversed? Because it would have left no avenue for the pent up sheeple steam to escape, and there might have been some real, effective ACTION planned and taken. Greenpeace/CND/Stopthewar would never get support for that; it means people giving up money. I don't know many people who would give up a days wages for 'nothing', let alone a week or more. The lives of humans beings are not "nothing", and I have never met anyone who would not give up a days wages to save a human life. If people dont care enough just to stay home then they should not be spending money to go on a useless feel good march that will achieve nothing. Better that they wrote a letter and sent a fiver to an organization instead of literally throwing away thier time in a fruitless exersise like herded sheep, barriers coralling them & all. Anyway, are you saying you won't be there? We live in London. It'll be amazing to see so many people on the streets. Will you come but not demonstrate? Will you sit at home and watch on TV news, smugly gloating at those 500,000 people doing 'nothing'? Nice try you toll lamah! You've got to provide a better challenge than what is essentially "will you bow down with the other sheep?". "It will be amazing to see so many people in the streets"; yes, yet another Spectacle to dazzle your eyes and make you feel a false sense of power. How can you come but not demonstrate? being there IS the demonstration there is nothing more to it, no direct action, no result, save millions wasted and Hyde Park's grass nibbled to the mud by 500,000 + bleating sheep!

I'm losing patience with my neighbours, Mr Bush -- Terry Jones (yes, of Monty Python).

President George Herbert Walker Bush.

Bush is a former CIA Director and was reportedly a member of the secretive UFO research group, Majestic. He was one of the few Presidents privy to the supremely classified information which the Top Secret group had on hand. In a television interview, Bob Lazar, a proclaimed UFO engineer in Area 51's S-4 at Groom Lake in Nevada said Bush was very knowledgeable of the studies of flying saucers at S-4.

Bush was the head of the CIA when President Jimmy Carter was denied further information on UFO activity. Although Carter was the President, Bush found that he did not have sufficient clearance to access such information.

In 1976, a Senate committee headed by Frank Church proposed revealing size of the country's black budget -- intelligence spending that, in contradiction to the Constitution, is kept secret even from the Hill. According to journalist Tim Weiner, George H.W. Bush argued that the revelation would be a disaster and would compromise the agency beyond repair. By a one vote margin the matter is referred to the Senate. It never reaches the floor.

Stop the War marches are not supposed to (literally) stop the war (there is no war, yet), they are supposed to influence those in control of the war to stop/prevent/limit the war. If they dont work, they should not be done. Period. It is a waste of money, and Ive already done the calculation. Over 5 Million pounds is going to be spent on Saturdays march. Thats insane. Blair is, quite visibly, shitting in his pants about how things could turn out (globally and personally. He could lose his job). or maybe not.... The govt is doing all it can to persuade people to support war ergo it wants/needs that support (to some extent). Non Sequitur. HMG doesnt need your consent or support for anything. Remember "If it isnt hurting, it isnt working"? Its like that. There is nothing you can do if UK Limited wants to go to war. Parliament doesnt even have the right to vote on wether it should happen or not, thanks to the usurped Royal Perogative. The anti-war protests are trying to persuade people not to support war/govt. How can this be bad or pointless? Because it will not directly make war impossible. Because its been tried before and failed miserably. To return to bad analogies, if you can see the plumber is about to fuck up your pipes you would be stupid not to shout STOP! before he actually fucks them up. You dont shout "STOP", you quietly say: "please close it up pal, im calling another plumber". You are PAYING the plumber to fix your problem. While he is being paye by you, YOU ARE THE BOSS, not THE PLUMBER. That is another perfect analogy, and is absolutely central to the war and foreign policy problems all western countries face. I say again. When water is flooding your house, you choke off the pipe that is feeding the flood. If you sit there and shout at the water, it wont go away. If 500,000 people trample through your house and shout at the pipe, the water will still gush and your stuff will be waterlogged and ruined. Go to the basement, and turn the stopcock, until you call a competent plumber to fix the leak. Do you finally get me?! Thankfully, the message about this is leaking (!) out slowly. The eureka lights will go on shortly; watch out, its going to be VERY bright.

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"Go! Iraq! Go!" is pronounced authentic by the US 'experts' within milliseconds. And did you know that in this very same tape, OBL says (very loose quoting) that, "...they (the govt of Iraq) are Socialists and Infidels...but it is better to fight against the usa than fight amongst oursevs" There is NO LINK between these two groups, that is clear to anyone who listened to the whole tape.

False analogy? Let me be more clear for you. People who go on demonstrations to stop war are behaving like monkeys who sit in the rain instead of taking shelter under nearby trees. If you keep doing something that doesnt work, and suffer because of it, you are EXACTLY like a monkey who stays in the rain getting soaking wet instead of taking shelter and being dry, comfortable and happy. You keep going to demonstrations to stop war, but they dont work. War still happens again and again, yet you still go. You keep voting, knowing that who you are voting for is sub optimal, and you never get the government that you really want. This is not an analogy, but a comparison (and an accurate one) of the behaviour of chimps (close to humans so the SCIENTISTS tell us :] ) and people who will not stop taking actions that do not work to solve problems. What is worse about this is that these demonstrations dont stop YOUR government hurting OTHER people. If these demonstrations didnt stop bombs dropping on your own head, its your problem, sadly this chimp behaviour is KILLING people in OTHER COUNTRIES.

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Here is a puzzle for you. There is a shell script called "poop" (without the quotes) that runs a command on a linux box somewhere. You can run this script by saying "./poop" (without the quotes), and it does what it is meant to do. When you try and execute this script with a cron job, cron returns: /bin/sh: /home/users/vhtstuff/yoursite/scripts/poop : No such file or directory When you execute that script, you do so in /home/users/vhtstuff/yoursite/scripts/ where it runs fine. That means that the directory exists, and the executable file exists. Now wtf is up with that?

Using a photograph from Michael Jackson's youth, computer experts produced an artificially "aged" image showing what he might have looked like at the age of 44. ABCNEWS.com

Britain boosts war chest

Britain has almost doubled the amount of money it has set aside to fight a war in Iraq. British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown told parliament �1.75bn ($2.83bn) was available this year to cover military costs, up from the �1bn he set aside in November. "Nothing should prevent us from equipping and supporting our armed forces," Mr Brown said. He also acknowledged the economic instability caused by the talk of war. "This is a time of great risk economically and geo-politically," he said. The extra funding was announced as the Bank of England scaled back its growth forecasts after warning of the impact a possible war was having on Britain's economic outlook. War costs The UN's chief weapons inspectors are due to deliver their latest report to the Security Council on Friday on Iraqi cooperation. Britain has committed about 42,000 military personnel to a war. The cost to Britain of a war has been put at between �3.2bn to �3.5bn by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), about the same amount as the last Gulf War. In 2002, the UK defence budget was �24bn. The US estimates its costs will be about $33bn, or 40% of the Gulf War in 1991. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2753369.stm The magic tree gets picked again; will someone, somewhere wake up and ask where this magic tree is, and why its leaves cant be picked for the teachers, nurses, hospitals, doctors, $proper_usage ?

home hoping that the plumber arrives? Did you know that chimps, when it rains in the forest, do not have the sense to take shelter under a tree? They sit in the rain, getting soaked, waiting for it to stop. That is interesting!

hi irdial, thanks for email - put a smile on my face in an otherwise fairly dour day... some topical triplets george bush baby boy george bush tony blair witch full stop war second chamber pot united kingdom come once great britain and a thought for the day... "no, no said the queen, sentence first, verdict later" (that is from memory, so probably not exactly right" see you for backseat plumbing on saturday maybe... peace

I'm gripped with fascination and beauty... My roommate picked up a mint copy of Neil Young's After the Goldrush on vinyl for One Dollar (!) at a charity shop last week and i just CAN NOT get enough of it. The songwriting is incredible with this creepy sense of urgency but it manages to glimmer with hope in a world gone mad with war. The song "When You Dance I Can Love" makes me do both of those things, especially with Nils Lofgren's piano playing (only 17 yrs old at the time!).

Astonishingly chep hosting..."whats wrong with this picture" will someone please tell me???!??

O'Rielly lambasts Glick, in a now famous exchange.

"do as I say, not as I do" Which one of us has not heard this? And disobeyed it...

The third A212 V2 Mirror is now up at: http://irdial.hyperreal.org/ Thanks to alex_t and Mike at Hyperreal for making it happen!

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This is such a great use of flash as a navigation system: http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/ If only this kind of thing existed when I was learning about the Valley of the Kings. What a teaching tool! Using it with the students in the classroom, and then assigning them each a tomb to fully explore and report back on...

One for the OSX'ers http://www.konfabulator.com/

Waddatheyno! Did you know that 60% of electricity is lost in transmission lines? There should be a total replacement of all powerlines (which should be buried) with high temperature superconducting cable. Then, incandescent light bulbs should be outlawed. There is a new type of light bulb that uses a new type of "filament" which has a level of light output identical to incandescent bulbs, but with 60% less power consumption. These two things alone would drastically improve the power usage in the UK. It would take BILLIONS of investment to make it happen. Perhaps they could get the money for this from the same magic pot / tree / rainbow where they get the warbuck$ from!

Water boiled in old-style electric kettles may cause or contribute to the development of skin allergies, say experts. There is concern that nickel leaching off kettle elements is contaminating the water boiled in them, and irritating the skin of people who drink or use it. [...] Pyrex!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2735507.stm

What's New in Mozilla 1.3b

* Image auto sizing allows a user to toggle between full-sized images and images sized to fit the browser window. To give it a try, load a large image into the browser window or size the window to be much smaller. Now clicking on the image will alternate between auto-sized and full-sized.The feature can be disabled (or enabled) from the Appearance panel in Preferences. * Mozilla Mail's junk-mail classification is mostly complete. Users can now automatically move junk mail to a spam folder. * Users can now "dynamically" switch profiles. To give it a try, from the tools menu select "Switch Profile..." * Find as you type, formerly known as type ahead find, has a new preferences panel (Advanced: Keyboard Navigation). * When installed, Chatzilla now has a normal Mozilla preferences panel. * about:config, the listing of most of Mozilla's preference settings is now editable. Power users can now tweak just about every pref available without opening prefs.js in a text editor. Warning: tweaking some of these prefs may break Mozilla completely. Use at your own risk. * This release of Mozilla marks the kickoff of a research project to apply machine learning to improve the browser's autocomplete feature. The project's first phase needs as many Mozilla users as possible to participate in collecting data. All you need to do is turn on a pref, use this build for daily browsing for a couple of weeks, zip up a data file on your local drive, and submit it online. Please read http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ml/autocomplete/ for more details.

The philosophy behind US policy

The Instrumentals here are rather good...

This is how the next war is going to be paid for:

I was hanging out at SHARE last night, which is sort of a drum circle for people with Powerbooks and a penchant for strange electronic music. There are jam sessions where evryone is running through the PA at once, and featured sets where one person is showing off some new MAX patches or some MP3 dj-ing or some software that was written to make fun squelches blips and bleeps. There is also a video scene at share, where people show off all kinds of wild visual stuff on the dozen or so monitors in the space. I was hanging with a guy that was running a program called Dervish that his friend wrote in the MAX/Jitter environment, and was amazed at the images he was creating and the ease at which he was manipulating them. The program is freely distributed, and I recommend it to anyone that likes to fuck up video. (The two screenshots on the page don't do it justice AT ALL!)

clipped out of mail > got a webcam running (useless vanity/ego booster) and a deskcam too... http://****.****.***/desktop.jpg really boring actually... > >Anyway, I hope you're OK. I guess you won't be coming >to the march on Saturday, although I think you should, >> Maybe I will! > > > > Well, I think you should, but obviously you're a free man. Or maybe not? "Whats a question of degree?" from a famous song > Anyway, it would be a good chance for the ******* crew to meet up. **** ***** is coming too. Maybe some other *** ******. I am going to try and persuade my parents to come. And my brother. And all my friends who seem to be quite apathetic... If everyone who goes gets one other person to come then that's doubled the numbers already. did you see the dimbleby (dim bumblebee i call them) programme last night? according to the cabinet minister who was on the show, no matter how many people march, the govt has made its decision. double numbers or no, this party is going to happen. > >> have you read about the new face recognition system for the "Ring of Steel?" > > > > Yes. Very scary. And I thought Ken was an Alright Geezer. they have hijacked it, and made it a dual purpose system. these systems, like bad law, can be dismantled. ITs the only good thing about them.

feel free. a t-shirt coming soon...

Holger CZUKAY - ON THE WAY TO THE PEAK OF NORMAL, 1981 "fragrance"

Security role for traffic cameras London's new charging zone helps to form 'ring of steel' guarding capital against al-Qaeda bombers Mark Townsend and Paul Harris Sunday February 9, 2003 The Observer Security cameras will be able to zoom in on the faces of drivers entering London's congestion charge zone as part of a sophisticated 'ring of steel' around the capital. The scheme, aimed at protecting the city from a terrorist attack, was developed with the intelligence services and allows hundreds of cameras to register individual faces. Images will be cross referenced to intelligence and police databases of suspects. The Observer has discovered that MI5, Special Branch and the Metropolitan Police began secretly developing the system in the wake of the 11 September attacks. In effect, the controversial charging scheme will create one of the most daunting defence systems protecting a major world city when it goes live a week tomorrow. It is understood the system also utilises facial recognition software which automatically identifies suspects or known criminals who enter the eight-square-mile zone. Their precise movements will be tracked by camera from the point of entry... The Observer can also reveal that Livingstone has already investigated the possibility of extending the charge zone to London's north and south circular ring road. An increase in the zone size is backed by the Government's transport adviser David Begg, chairman of the Commission for Integrated Transport. However, the zone will only be extended if the scheme is successful and Livingstone is re-elected. The Observer

I kill you!

but who cares whether they exist or not? We care because you dont. We care because you do. You care because we do. I care because you cant. We care so you dont have to. Who cares? We care! I care, you care we all care. When in doubt, care.

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Why do the $band exist? You went first. Its my turn now. I hope you enjoy it! ******************** Why do The Hives exist?

In 1999, Walid Raad established The Atlas Group as an imaginary foundation to research and document the contemporary history of Lebanon. The foundation's primary project over the past few years is titled The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs. With this project, the foundation's aim is to locate, preserve, study and assist in the production of audio, visual, literary and other artifacts that shed light on some of the unexamined dimensions of the Lebanese civil wars of 1975 to 1991. In this endeavor, The Atlas Group has found/produced several documents including notebooks, films, videotapes and photographs. The Atlas Group documents are organized and preserved in The Atlas Group Archive, and are made available for exhibition in community centers, festivals, galleries, museums, theaters, and schools. Interested scholars, community organizers, editors, curators and others should contact Walid Raad. The Atlas Group also disseminates information about itself, its archive and works via a presentation titled The Loudest Muttering Is Over: Case Studies from The Atlas Group Archive. here is a sample record: From the Fadl Fakhouri Archive. Work Titles: Miraculous Beginnings No, Illness Is Neither Here Nor There By: Dr. Fadl Fakhouri From 1975 until 1991, Dr. Fadl Fakhouri was in the habit of carrying two 8mm film cameras �wherever he went. With one camera he exposed a frame of film every time he thought the civil wars had come to an end. With the other camera he exposed a frame of film every time he came across the sign of a doctor or dentist's office. Dr. Fakhouri titled the two rolls of film, Miraculous Beginnings and No, Illness Is Neither Here Nor There. http://www.theatlasgroup.org

From NTK:

"THE NEW STATESMAN NEW MEDIA AWARDS 2003," their official website explains, "in association with SchlumbergerSema, is focusing on how new media technology is used to make a difference in public life". For a little clarification of what they have in mind here, you might recall the name of the sponsor, SchlumbergerSema, from our "So, who is in favour of ID cards?" musings last month, when they were enthusiastically backing a one-day conference on the subject of "what the next steps should be towards the possible implementation of an Entitlement Card". Schlumberger also "sponsored" this week's remarkable finding that "Four out of five UK citizens are in favour of the introduction of entitlement cards, including the use of biometrics", according to a survey which they paid for. SchlumbergerSema make the Icitizen(TM) smart ID card (to be issued to 11 million Belgian citizens over the next 5 years), while their sister company, Schlumberger Oilfield Services, supply "Technology services and solutions for the petroleum industry". It's not quite "The UK Vegetarian Awards, brought to you in association with McDonalds". But it's pretty close. http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/nma/nma2003home.htm - themes of "innovation, efficiency and accessability" [sic] http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2129590,00.html - 50% of sci-fi fans favour "iris recognition" www.cssa.co.uk/press/bulletins/weekly_bulletin/bully_10_12_02.asp#events - scroll down to "Entitlement Cards Conference" http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=52622&threshold=-1&cid=5214053 - /.ers post the usual unsubstantiated conspiracy theories Voice on the last link sound familiar?!?! :]

YES! Conlon Nancarrow is absolutely amazing! It is the first "computer" or "MIDI" or "programming" music, made without a computer at all. But with handmade player piano rolls!!! The music sounds so strangely fresh today. Well worth searching out.

Blacker is the new Black

UK Govt. Iraq dossier was the wholesale plagarized work of a student!

http://www.maxg.org/~max/bushwhacked2.mp3

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Woman sues state of Florida because they wont issue her an ID with her veil!

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Thanks for the UFO stuff. Do you believe in the newly declared need for secrecy referred to in a recent post? Or would openness put some perspective into peoples lives and shake up selfish interests, including nationalism and organized religion? I don't know but I'd hope for the latter. There are people, religious people, who do not believe that man has flown into space. These are the sorts of people who will never take any new perspective into their lives. They are also the people who use any new tool they can find to kill and enforce thier upside-down circus laws. If the truth about UFOs is let out (dont show them the blues) nothing will change. What will happen, is that military scientists everywhere will start trying to get a hold of this technology. They will peel thier eyes to the sky, and probably shoot some down, and then try and reverse engineer what they find. Basically, the reverse engineering effort will accelerate rapidly, which cant be a good thing. Did you know (I didnt before reading the MJ12 docs) that fiber optic cable was described, in detail, in 1947? I quote, from the MJ12 docs: "'Flight instruments and controls are activated by optical wave guide fibers, similar to glass rods except they are flexible and have a plastic cladding wrap. All functions may be operated by touch sensitive or texture sensing stimuli. Instruments are covered by plastic plate that seem to be color coded.' The patent for fiber optics was filed in 1957; imagine what other very simple devices and methods, constructable from materials that we already know how to control with finesse, can be made once we understand what the original salvaged objects are for...the mind boggles. There is another more subtle reason why that perhaps, this should be kept secret: the Ego of man. The Ego of man is a fragile thing. To be suddenly have it ddemonstrated that there are other technological species running circles around us in every way - socially, technically, biologically - would constitue a devastating blow to the collective Ego. The will of man to do the hard work of science would be sapped; why bother spending 20 years in the lab, when we can leap forward simply by becoming the students of these other species? Man made progress, and accumulation of science would surely be destroyed, certainly untill our integration with the advanced science was complete. Proof that this would happen is in the way that the reverse engineering efforts have gone on. Trillions of dollars has been spent on this (I should say, it must be in the trillions of dollars), when that money could have been spent on man sourced innovation. Who could resist such a temptation? No one, especially if it was believed that the USSR might also have downed craft. Did you know that the USSR mounted a huge man powered surveillance operation, specifically to spot UFOs? Evey member of the Army was told keep a look out, and report any anomalous aircraft. If they had shot one down, and were trying to reverse engineer it, it would have been of vital importance to be first to crack the propulsion and other systems. ...just in case...

It is only when there is public revolt, (Poll Tax Riots) that governments sit up and pay attention. Why trust one demonstration and not another? It isnt a question of "trusging one demonstration and not another". Only a fool goes into the street to get his head bashed in when there is a more powerful way to get what you want. If 500,000 people are really going to march on Saturday, we can guess that there are at least 2,000,000 people who would like to march but cant for one reason or another. Imagine if all these people stayed at home for three working days. And I mean LITERALLY did not leave thier homes. Imagine if more than that number stayed at home. The impact would be enormous. Empty streets are the most frightening thing business people (governments) can imagine. Do you believe the demonstration was responsible for removal of the Poll Tax, or that it provoked debate on the subject and demonstrated its hideous unfairness and unpopularity with the masses, which those in power finally took note of...? The demonstration was not responsible, for sure. The shocking violence certainly drove the point home. Using the "demonstrations work" logic, hunting can not now be banned, since the demonstration against it was the biggest single demonstration in the history of the UK. One thing is for certain; in the case of demonstrations against war, not a single one has ever stopped war. It is demonstrably (!) pointless. The economic disruption of the emptying of every street in the UK would frighten the bejeezuz out of HMG. They would not DARE go to war after such a dangerous display of discontent.

This man is Totally NUTZ!

Did anyone watch the security council meeting yesterday? They are going to have to do MUCH better than that to convince anyone with a single working brain cell that they are justified in going to "war". Both the Iraqi ambassador and subsequently the Iraqi information minister, comprehensively DEMOLISHED Powell. What a joke! Only shame can be heaped on Spain, whose addition to the statements was.....shameful. In other news Korea will strike first. If you had the pleasure of watching Holidays in the Axis of Evil, you will understand perfectly why this sort of talk is no surprise at all. After having watched people solemnly placing flowers at the feet of the golden statue of TGL (The Great Leader), you would have a perfect picture of the mentality....awesome!

A seperate matter: What evidence convinced you that UFOs exist? In particular, the excellent military radar visual cases that I have read, the strong photographic evidence that I have seen and the hundreds of witness statements that I have read. Anyone who has seen the evidence will be convinced that some UFOs are the space craft of non humans. Once one has looked at the evidence, and one thinks that UFOs are NOT what we think they are ("we" being the proponents of the ETH), it is up to that person to say what they are, if they think that they are not ET controlled craft. That link is to click on!

How do you know it's useless? Only by the measure of the (lack of) effectiveness of the other marches. What is 'of use'? Anything that will stop the war. Anything that will not directly stop the war is useless. Other than generating personal feelings of righteousness in participants.... I have no problem with that. Im just saying that if these protesters want to stop the war, they could do something more effective. Marching will, at least, allow 500,000 people to democratically vent their opposition to events being planned in their name. "Democracy" is very good at letting people vent while the bad stuff goes on ad-infinitum. Anyone who is thinking clearly knows that these demonstrations are simply pacifying the public, so that they dont do something really effective to stop their governments doing things they dont want them to do. Further, it will disseminate the anti-war message to anyone who sees the march on TV Always with a spin. And this will stop nothing. And there are better, more efficient ways to get the clear, un spun message to the millions, as I gave examples of. and, hopefully, spark a bit more of a debate on how the government is bypassing parliament and the people. Debate is meaningless. The result is the same again and again. It is clear that these debates are used only to pacify , and are not actually listened to. It is only when there is public revolt, (Poll Tax Riots) that governments sit up and pay attention. At most it might influence people, and maybe some MPs, to support the movement. but what does "supporting the movement" actually do? What actions are to be taken? If there is no action to that, other than march in the street and write letters, then I am afriaid its "bombs away" again. It could influence others to demonstrate, a demonstration to make more people demonstrate? persuade some kid to take up non-violent protest as a political tool and go on to become the Ghandi of his/her generation.... Im not up on my Ghandi history, but didnt he organize mass strikes? And was that not the reason they won? You never know. What else could you persuade 500,000 people to do that would be more productive? But we DO know! marching does nothing. Better that 5 million people went on strike for a week instead of 500,000 marching through a park on a SATURDAY.

As far as that hoogerbrugge site is concerned, do check out the newest stuff, too: http://www.hoogerbrugge.com

Wild, Akin. Last week I picked up a Tr�d, Gr�s och Stenar record from 1971 called Djungelns Lag. I saw it in my local record store and bought in on a whim. The sounds gently took my skull for a ride, if I may. All the liner photographs are from shows that they played in parks, swedish heads grooving in the grass. They're still around. http://www.tgs.nu/ Yesterday at work I had a fine time listening to the sounds of the latest Pita record. You could do the same here: http://www.mego.at/mego049.html. But you may want to control how the page looks here first.

Thanks to a good friend, who we will call "K", I got to watch a documentary called "The secret", which is about UFOs. What was strking about this documentary, which was made very recently, is the attitude of the investigators towards secrecy which has changed markedly from their previous stance of "the public has an absolute right to know everything about UFOs". Now the message is UFO secrecy is not only necessary, but is for the good of everyone. This is undoubtedly a side effect of 911. They have realized that "out of control" people armed with UFO technology could potentially kill everyone on the earth, with consumate ease. For example; any garage hobbyist can, today, build a powerful rail gun, with simple parts at very small expense. It wouldnt take much to build the equivalent of a Phalanx system based on a rail gun that shoots top loaded ball bearings. Extrapolate this to a technology that is now unknown but what would subsequently become simple technology, provided in a trickle down fashion by the route reverse engineering. In the hands of maniacs (and you KNOW who I am talking about) such a set of basic principles and tools could be utterly devastating. As a documentary, its construction was pretty standard fare for this subject. The most surprising part was the sea change in attitude of these seasoned investigators, who frankly acted like they had suddenly woken up and were wary of the future. Astounding and saddening that a single act could change everyone everywhere, so profoundly. Life on an eggshell; you are living it.

People like ta feel dey iz Doing Something. I can dig' dis here perfectly, but its an illusion, uh "feel good" action, dat don' affect anythin' at all. The "Stop da City" brigade gots partially realized dis here, which iz why dey often destroy da property o' da companies dat dey hate. Feeling pimp-tight about uh leaking sink wont fix da leak. Something has ta be done, in uh distributed way, dat will fix da problem. Marching will not do dis here, therefore, it iz sensible not ta march, an' instead, do somethin' else. To me, it iz crystal clear dat dis here iz da case; participating in an action dat we's know ta be useless iz wrong, especially when we's know dat da consequence iz dat peeps iz going ta be ganked an' da remainder subjugated. with muh beeotch Biznotch!

People like to feel they are Doing Something. I can understand this perfectly, but its an illusion, a "feel good" action, that doesnt affect anything at all. The "Stop the City" brigade have partially realized this, which is why they often destroy the property of the companies that they hate. Feeling good about a leaking sink wont fix the leak. Something has to be done, in a distributed way, that will fix the problem. Marching will not do this, therefore, it is sensible not to march, and instead, do something else. To me, it is crystal clear that this is the case; participating in an action that we know to be useless is wrong, especially when we know that the consequence is that people are going to be killed and the remainder subjugated.

Trad Gras Och Stenar "Last Time" Mors Mors 1/2 Special Skivor & Trams CD recorded live 1972 2002 I just heard this; it RULED ME.

THESE Records Mailing List Update February 4th 2003 ________________________________________________________________________ second mailout of the new year. NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS THESE Records SALE NOT a selection of clearance items (though to people in the so-called 'property ladder' that's exactly what it is). the Freehold on These Records premesis at 112 Brook Drive is up for sale by Auction. after being tenants of South London's Labour controlled Lambeth Council for over fifteeen years we have been given under a months notice that the building is up for sale on february the 18th (with us mentioned as tenants in the auction catalogue). the sign outside our door say "business not affected", which in real terms means the new owner will then be our new landlord. our legal position with regards to being able to stay in Brook Drive is not looking rosy to say the least. because of a 'mixed usage' loophole (while These Records business occupies the ground floor, the upper floors are registered as 'domestic' as a member of staff lives there) we were last year denied any rights through the 'right to buy' scheme (despite being council tenants for such a long period) as you don't qualify if you run a business from the premesis. the most likely future for 112, in keeping with the current trend of property development in London will be that a purchaser will buy the Freehold in order to: 1. kick us out 2. re-decorate the building very quickly, most likely turning it into several flats 3. sell the 'new' properties at the highest price possible while the vastly inflated property market still holds out. 4. count the money 5. repeat steps 1-4 somewhere else These Records is in no financial position to buy the property. the starting price which has been announced is �150,000. if anyone out there has any recourse to help, please get in touch, ideally if someone has the resources to purchase the property and wishes to become our landlord (which requires an ability to secure a mortgage) please let us know SOON (serious interest only please, as we have very little time left to do something about this). in the meantime, perhaps obviously we would say PLEASE buy something from the list, as we REALLY REALLY need the money right now. even if we can secure another premisis to move to, it will be a costly and disruptive business to re-locate. e-mail us at these@theserecords.com with any constructive ideas. watch this space...

if 500,000 demonstrators each spent the 25 pounds that it would take to participate in this demonstration, and used it somehow to organize the dissemination of information world wide (Twelve Million, Five Hundred Thousand POUNDS) Would that not be a better use of time and effort?? The news always underreports these protests, people get arrested, and waste a whole day doing precisely nothing. Lets say that they spend that 12,500,000 on buying airplane tickets to Baghdad. interestingly, its not possible to book a flight to Saddam International Airport (SDA):

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Expedia.com is unable to sell tickets to one or more of the destinations you have chosen. Please select a different destination. We apologize for the inconvenience. Whatever. ba.com: The following error has occurred with the submission: British Airways does not currently fly to Baghdad Also, whatever Lets say it costs 2000 for a return ticket (return?? heh) Thats Six Thousand, Two Hundred and fifty people that can be sent over as human(itarian) shields. For example. OR you could buy One Hundred and Twenty Five double page spreads in newspapers of the calibre of The New York Times. Any way that you want to slice it, marching in the streets is pointless. People need to think obliquely, and channel the enormous power of numbers that a well populated protest group can muster for a sensible, high impact world changing strategy. P.S. i wonder if by doing searches for flights to Iraq if you "ring a bell" somewhere....and for that matter, how did Wedgewood Benn get a flight to Saddam International Airport

"In RIAA vs. Verizon, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that anyone suspected of downloading so-called "infringing" files on the Internet -- usually an MP3 of a song -- could be sued. No evidence is required. An accuser fills out a form for a court clerk and the machinery is set in motion." wtf?? LA Times

I am the sonnet, never quickly thrilled; Not prone to overstated gushing praise Nor yet to seething rants and anger, filled With overstretched opinions to rephrase; But on the other hand, not fond of fools, And thus, not fond of people, on the whole; And holding to the sound and useful rules, Not those that seek unjustified control. I'm balanced, measured, sensible (at least, I think I am, and usually I'm right); And when more ostentatious types have ceased, I'm still around, and doing, still, alright. In short, I'm calm and rational and stable - Or, well, I am, as much as I am able. What Poetry Form Are You?

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Read this and gasp as you watch DalNet die...

Wow!

80k hosts in 30 mins!

http://www.zinf.org/

I wonder what MP3 and OGG players people use on this list. I currently use WinAmp, but would love a change. (The newest version is slow and displays file information horribly, although i do like the fade function. It makes me reach for version 2.75 all the more often. Though it doesn't play OGGs). Any suggestions?

Someone clever said re ID cards: "But we need a way to identify people, and if you think that driver's licenses and social security numbers aren't already doing this, you're just closing your eyes to it. I always love this argument, regardless of what it's applied to. "They're already halfway up your ass, why not just push in all the way?" If our freedom was simply degenerating and we could never become more free than we are right now, those of us that weren't slaves or indentured servants would be regularly appearing in front of government panels to assert that we are not and never have been communist sympathizers."

As a historical aside, the last UK ID cards were abandoned in 1953. At the time the Lord High Chief Justice stated that "it is obvious that the police now, as a matter of routine, demand the production of national registration identity cards whenever they stop or interrogate a motorist for any cause....This Act was passed for security purposes and not for the purposes for which, apparently it is now sought to be used...."

"Under Microsoft's new program, governments may visit Microsoft's campus, see the millions of lines of source code that make up Windows, run analysis tools on the source code and build versions of Windows for themselves from the raw materials. Under the program, governments will be able to see source code for Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and CE." news.com There are some problems with this. First of all, there arent enought people looking at the windoze source to properly assess the security issues. All the governments in the world who have signed up for this will not, even if they combined forces, have enough skilled programmers to audit the source of all the three current versions of windoze. Secondly, the errors that they might be able to find would give these governments an advantage over the millions of windoze users world wide. It could potentially give clandestine remote access to any windoze user by using undisclosed vulnerabilities discovered in the source. Those two might be mutually exclusive, but if either of them is true, its a bad thing. What no one seems to be asking is, why spend resources sending one dude to look at buggy windoze code when you can use free software that is audited by many thousands of developers for nothing? It doesnt make any centz!

A horrible story about Spanish ID Cards

Like I said Congestion Charge is for snooping