Author: RagManX

England to drop the war on terror

In a rare moment of clarity, a major world government has decided to drop the whole “War on Terror” pomp and treat terrorism for what it really is.

The words “war on terror” will no longer be used by the British government to describe attacks on the public, the country’s chief prosecutor said Dec. 27.

Sir Ken Macdonald said terrorist fanatics were not soldiers fighting a war but simply members of an aimless “death cult.”

How bizarre – recognizing that loosely aligned brainwashing cults are not equivalent to well-trained military groups? Poppy-cock, I say!!!

Yes, there are real threats from terrorists. But it’s no more a real war than the idiotic “War on Drugs” we’ve been suffering through in America for the past 25 years. (via boingboing)

[tags]War on terror, England, Terrorism, cult[/tags]

Lasik

Off for laser eye surgery.  I doubt I’ll be online again today, but hopefully tomorrow I’ll be able to make some site updates again.

Also – I’m damn close to my bandwidth limit.  Seems one of my pictures of Christina Ricci made the front page of the Google image search for her, so I’m getting flooded with hits checking out how frikkin’ hot she is in leather.  The downside of this is I may hit my bandwidth cap and be cut off for a day or two here at the end of the month.  I’ve recompressed to image to cut the size by nearly 85%, which helps, but I’m still getting about 10 times normal bandwidth consumption, and I only over-bought bandwidth by about 8 times what I was getting over the summer.  So things will be tight, and I may get shut down for a day or two.

The ultimate in LCD durability

I can’t help you with the spoken portion of this video, but I assure you that visually all your questions about the durabilty of Asus’ new sapphire-crystal protected LCD are well covered in the crossbow testing portion of the video.

I don’t know what it costs, but given how pricey watches are with sapphire crystal protection, I’m betting a big screen covered with the same is really expensive.  On the other hand, that’s a damn fine looking bit of protection. Probably because sapphire crystal is pretty frikkin’ hard. Sadly, the monitor is not widescreen, the only really noticeable flaw for the display. (via /.)

Mad song skills – video palindrome?

This is a beautiful combination of singing and acting, built up to make a video that runs forward and then in again fully in reverse – yes, a palindromic video I suppose.  I figured out the song about 50-55 seconds in, but needed to wait another 30 seconds to get verification, as I wasn’t quite as certain as I wanted to be.

Kudos to this fellow for taking the time to learn that song backwards and putting all the action together with it to make it come out like that.

Will Smith and Hitler

If you web surf as much as I do, you’ve probably already seen this – various web sites are saying that Will Smith said Hitler was a good man. And naturally, many people are upset that anyone would claim Hitler was a good man. I guess people are really s000per upset that (*gasp*) a shhhh black man would say this about Hitler.

Here, I’ll help clue you in now that you’ve had a moment to feign indignation: Will Smith didn’t say Hitler was a good man. Let’s look inside and see…

Remarkably, Will believes everyone is basically good.

“Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘let me do the most evil thing I can do today’,” said Will. “I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was ‘good’. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming.

Oh shit!  Will Smith just said Hitler used fucked-up logic to convince himself what he was doing was “good” in some way!  Expect the world to get in an uproar about something Smith didn’t actually say!!!

So next time, please try to get people to actually read what was said.  Sensationalism doesn’t do anything except cause stupidity (yes, even the times I use sensationalistic headlines, it’s really just a seed for stupidity).  Thus endeth our lesson in reading comprehension.

In ur postal-slot

All I can figure from this story is this couple has a standard mail-delivery slot in their door, and little Georgi waited there day after day to get a little cat-scratch-postman action going on.

When Sarah and Ben Goddard’s mail delivery dried up to a trickle, the couple smelt a rat.

But Goddards would have been better pointing the finger of suspicion at their pet cat Georgi, after it emerged a succession of attacks by the vicious moggy left the postman too scared to deliver the mail.

. . .

“When I asked if he [the post-man] had anything for us he said he wasn’t delivering to us any more because he had been scratched.

Mystery solved. Except the post-man was worried about being attacked by a dog. Here’s the kicker to me, though. The problem started months ago. After questioning the carrier about their lack of mail just recently:

The next day, the letter from local delivery office manager Steve Brown arrived with backdated mail.

It warned Mrs Goddard and her 27-year-old husband, a land surveyor: “Animal attacks are a major cause of injury to Royal Mail staff.

“I am writing to you to inform you that if your cat is not kept under control then we will be suspending the delivery of mail to your address.”

Nothing like prompt notification of a problem, is there? Although I suppose the above quote could mean that their notification letter was dated sometime in the past, meaning the couple never received it because it was to be delivered via the post-man who wasn’t delivering mail to them. Hmmmmm.  Those wacky Brits!

Oh, yeah – one other thing: I’d hit it. (via Fark)