Wednesday, May 14, 2003
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
...upside down circus. And you would not expect Bill Holland to say : "Myleene is one of the most talentless but hot b|4tch3s I've ever seen. Her mission is to destroy the barriers between pop and classical music and further erode our culture so that we may profit."
What HAS the world come to? This is the statement, not the question, what are we going to DO about it is the question.
Monday, May 12, 2003
�A Technological Power of Inferior Culture and Values�
Mohammed Alkhereiji, Arab News Staff JEDDAH, 12 May 2003 � Dr. Daniel Amit, a prominent Israeli professor at the University di Roma, refused a request in March to review a study by the American Physical Society. In explaining his refusal, he wrote: �I will not at this point correspond with any American institution. Some of us have lived through 1939.� What followed was an exchange between Dr. Amit and the editor in chief of the American Physical Society, which dealt with everything from the second Gulf War to the merits of scientific research for the good of mankind. �What we are watching today, I believe, is a culmination of 10 to 15 years of mounting barbarism of the American culture the world over,� he wrote. �It is crowned by the achievements of science and technology as a major weapon of mass destruction.� �We are witnessing a manhunt and wanton killing of a type and scale not seen since the raids on American-Indian populations by a superior technological power of inferior culture and values. We see no corrective force to restore the insanity, the self-righteousness and the lack of respect for human life � civilian and military � of another race,� he added, in reference to the US-led war on Iraq. In the end both parties agreed to disagree, and the exchange was posted online. Arab News interviewed Dr. Amit by e-mail about his exchange with the American Physical Society. ARAB NEWS: Why did you refuse to review a paper for the American Physical Society? DR. AMIT: The reason I took this step is that, with the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, all hope against hope that this pure aggression could be avoided were dashed. I felt that the basic values of enlightened culture were destroyed in a most blatant way, in a world where such values are increasingly needed. One of the central problems of modern global society is that the culture that publicizes itself as the example of democracy, enlightenment, modernity, culture, and freedom, is the one that puts global survival in danger. It does that by robbing the environment, and the war indicates that it can put such destruction into open military practice, with no internal (American) corrective forces. Q: Please elaborate on your refusal to correspond with any American institutions. A: I felt, and since then have felt ever more, that the myth must be shattered and that it can be uncovered by symbolic acts, because culture and civilization are about symbols. We must confront the dominant idea that American culture is the source of all good and wisdom, in all fields of culture. I chose the field of science for this particular personal revolt because the American domination in this field is especially apparent and effective (both materially and spiritually); because the war has exposed, in a double way, the horror in which science participates on both sides of the aggression: First, to expose and destroy Iraqi weapons (inspections), and then to develop technology which renders an entire people a hunting ground for raving technological cowboys (in the style they hunted the Native American Indians); because my colleagues in the scientific universe must open their eyes to the implications of their �pure� activity, which produces such weapons, allows the development of biological weapons, bigger and more devastating bombs (and this is done in universities).[...] Arab news
Over the five days of the exercise, Federal, State, local, and Canadian participants will be engaged in unclassified and classified round-the-clock exercise play.
If you know what I mean ...
How can it be burning when its nothing but twisted huld of rusting metal? Yes Yes, I know that if you were to pour aluminum powder on the rust dust and set it off with some magnesium poweder you MIGHT get a reaction, but its raining / damp / sopping wet down there...and how come no one has taken over these amazing sites and turned them into something spectacular? Brighton rules as a cool place.....kind of dreamy...
A lurker asked me if this will include buttons / badges to include on webpages? I'm sure it will...
I am trying to register the domain right now but got returned this error:
DNS query result
---- Basic checks
---- Servers and domain names check
---- Checking server addresses
Checking IP 212.69.192.10 for NS0.SERVE.CO.UK...ok.
Checking IP 212.69.192.11 for NS0.SERVE.NET.UK...ok.
Error: NS0.SERVE.CO.UK not authoritative for domain 20AC.EU.ORG.
Error: NS0.SERVE.NET.UK not authoritative for domain 20AC.EU.ORG.
2 error(s), stopping.
For me, all of these stories are highly suspect. There is a constant flow of "news" about these "abuses", including today, the story about a crackdown on the internet in Iran.
I simply dont buy this bullshit.
What happens in China is the business of China. You dont like them? Dont buy anything made in China. Simple.
All these stories are spewed out to soften up the sheeple for potential attacks against these states. I say, dont buy into it, literally or otherwise.
http://www.projectislamichope.org/
Look at their website....we must also comment that he PAID THE BUX TO SEE THE MOVIE. Now all of his follwers are going to go out and see this movie and give their money to hollywood...very smart.
I wonder why "T/G" doesnt post links to the relevant sites in a story when they exist....hmmmmm
THE MICHIGAN PENAL CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 328 of 1931 750.540c Prohibited conduct with regard to telecommunications access device; violation as felony; penalty; amateur radio service; forfeiture; order; definitions. Sec. 540c. (1) A person shall not assemble, develop, manufacture, possess, deliver, offer to deliver, or advertise an unlawful telecommunications access device or assemble, develop, manufacture, possess, deliver, offer to deliver, or advertise a telecommunications device intending to use those devices or to allow the devices to be used to do any of the following or knowing or having reason to know that the devices are intended to be used to do any of the following: (a) Obtain or attempt to obtain a telecommunications service with the intent to avoid or aid or abet or cause another person to avoid any lawful charge for the telecommunications service in violation of section 219a. (b) Conceal the existence or place of origin or destination of any telecommunications service. (c) To receive, disrupt, decrypt, transmit, retransmit, acquire, intercept, or facilitate the receipt, disruption, decryption, transmission, retransmission, acquisition, or interception of any telecommunications service without the express authority or actual consent of the telecommunications service provider. (2) A person shall not modify, alter, program, or reprogram a telecommunications access device for the purposes described in subsection (1). (3) A person shall not deliver, offer to deliver, or advertise plans, written instructions, or materials for the manufacture, assembly, or development of an unlawful telecommunications access device or for the manufacture, assembly, or development of a telecommunications access device that the person intends to be used or knows or has reason to know will be used or is likely to be used to violate subsection (1). As used in this subsection, �materials� includes any hardware, cables, tools, data, computer software, or other information or equipment used or intended for use in the manufacture, assembly, or development of an unlawful telecommunications access device or a telecommunications access device. (4) A person who violates subsection (1), (2), or (3) is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 4 years or a fine of not more than $2,000.00, or both. All fines shall be imposed for each unlawful telecommunications access device or telecommunications access device involved in the offense. Each unlawful telecommunications access device or telecommunications access device is considered a separate violation. (5) This section does not prohibit or restrict the possession of radio receivers or transceivers by licensees of the federal communications commission in the amateur radio service that are intended primarily or exclusively for use in the amateur radio service. (6) Any unlawful telecommunications access device involved in violation of this section is subject to forfeiture in the same manner as provided in sections 4701 to 4709 of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.4701 to 600.4709, and the court may order either of the following: (a) The unlawful telecommunications access device be destroyed or retained as provided under section 540d. [...] www.michiganlegislature.org
Al-Qaeda said to be using stegged porn
By Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 12/05/2003 at 10:24 GMT From time to time a rumour that international terrorists are trading Net porn embedded with secret blueprints for some dastardly deed resurfaces. It has returned this week, in a New York Post article claiming that Italian members of al-Qaeda have been caught with stegged terror .jpg's. "Chilling details of al-Qaeda's secret communications system - and the possibility of widespread knowledge that the devastating attacks on New York and Washington were in the works - were unveiled in a courtroom in Milan, where a group of Islamic militants are on trial for supporting al-Qaeda's terrorist activities," the Post explains. "Photographs of President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat were also being passed around on the Internet by members of the group, along with hundreds of pornographic photos." We'll forget for the moment that the likelihood of Islamic fundamentalists hiding messages in porn is roughly the same as their likelihood of hiding them in pig carcasses. The Register
Any anger about this, sneering, finger pointing....useless. 20AC is the only answer to this whole problem. No more talking, no more debate. We simply refuse to play anymore.
The Guardian
Sunday, May 11, 2003
Another stupid Internet Explorer trick... This webpage actually opens your CD-ROM drive without prompting, using VBScript to access the Windows Media Player API. If you hate Internet Explorer, feel free to include the below sample code on every page of your own site.
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Set oWMP = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7" )
Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection
if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next ' cdrom
End If
-->
</SCRIPT>
Frustrated, U.S. Arms Team to Leave Iraq Task Force Unable To Find Any Weapons
By Barton Gellman Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, May 11, 2003; Page A01 BAGHDAD -- The group directing all known U.S. search efforts for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is winding down operations without finding proof that President Saddam Hussein kept clandestine stocks of outlawed arms, according to participants. The 75th Exploitation Task Force, as the group is formally known, has been described from the start as the principal component of the U.S. plan to discover and display forbidden Iraqi weapons. The group's departure, expected next month, marks a milestone in frustration for a major declared objective of the war. Leaders of Task Force 75's diverse staff -- biologists, chemists, arms treaty enforcers, nuclear operators, computer and document experts, and special forces troops -- arrived with high hopes of early success. They said they expected to find what Secretary of State Colin L. Powell described at the U.N. Security Council on Feb. 5 -- hundreds of tons of biological and chemical agents, missiles and rockets to deliver the agents, and evidence of an ongoing program to build a nuclear bomb. Scores of fruitless missions broke that confidence, many task force members said in interviews. Army Col. Richard McPhee, who will close down the task force next month, said he took seriously U.S. intelligence warnings on the eve of war that Hussein had given "release authority" to subordinates in command of chemical weapons. "We didn't have all these people in [protective] suits" for nothing, he said. But if Iraq thought of using such weapons, "there had to have been something to use. And we haven't found it. . . . Books will be written on that in the intelligence community for a long time." Army Col. Robert Smith, who leads the site assessment teams from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, said task force leaders no longer "think we're going to find chemical rounds sitting next to a gun." He added, "That's what we came here for, but we're past that." Motivated and accomplished in their fields, task force members found themselves lacking vital tools. They consistently found targets identified by Washington to be inaccurate, looted and burned, or both. Leaders and members of five of the task force's eight teams, and some senior officers guiding them, said the weapons hunters were going through the motions now to "check the blocks" on a prewar list. U.S. Central Command began the war with a list of 19 top weapons sites. Only two remain to be searched. Another list enumerated 68 top "non-WMD sites," without known links to special weapons but judged to have the potential to offer clues. Of those, the tally at midweek showed 45 surveyed without success. Task Force 75's experience, and its impending dissolution after seven weeks in action, square poorly with assertions in Washington that the search has barely begun. In his declaration of victory aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, President Bush said, "We've begun the search for hidden chemical and biological weapons, and already know of hundreds of sites that will be investigated." Stephen A. Cambone, undersecretary of defense for intelligence, told reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday that U.S. forces had surveyed only 70 of the roughly 600 potential weapons facilities on the "integrated master site list" prepared by U.S. intelligence agencies before the war. But here on the front lines of the search, the focus is on a smaller number of high-priority sites, and the results are uniformly disappointing, participants said. "Why are we doing any planned targets?" Army Chief Warrant Officer Richard L. Gonzales, leader of Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha, said in disgust to a colleague during last Sunday's nightly report of weapons sites and survey results. "Answer me that. We know they're empty."[...] Washington Post My emphasis.
"I copied songs to two other Macs; each time, I had to authorize playback only once, by typing my user name and password and letting iTunes go online to check my account. (Reformatting the hard drive of one Mac, then copying my music back over, didn't count against that total.) I transferred songs to two iPods -- one of them registered to another person -- and burned an album to CD, then saved the tracks as MP3 files on a Windows computer.
Apple's copying restrictions may still cramp your style, though. A playlist can be burned to CD only 10 times before it must be changed, you can't put your music on more than three Macs, there's no way to give a song outright to somebody, and you can't broadcast your purchased music to non-authorized Macs on a home network using the wonderful sharing feature Apple has built into iTunes 4.
If you use non-Apple hardware and software to listen to music files, your horizons shrink further. It's not because of Apple's use of AAC instead of the standard MP3 format; the few digital-music and CD/DVD players that read AAC files still can't work with Apple's downloads. The reason is the digital locks on the files.
They make playback on Windows or Linux computers impossible, although Apple says it will open its music store to Windows by year-end. They also mean the only device that can play a CD or DVD of Apple's AAC files is a Mac OS X computer, and the only compatible portable player is Apple's iPod."
Washington Post
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