Random noise, incoherent thoughts, whatever.
Gears of War is an ultra-violent 3rd person shooting game on the XBox 360 by Epic Games.
Bears of War is a hilarious parody of the violence in Gears of War. It mashes the Pooh Bear with Gears of War in an absolutely brilliant way.
Great work Mr. Herring!
-TPP
Three months later, protesters waving flags and holding signs that said “Illegal immigrants have no rights” stood outside Columbia University.
What these racist bigots don’t realize is that then the US Constitution says “people” it means all people, not just citizens. So, yes, even illegal immigrants, those dirty criminals, who steal “our” women and jobs and probably all terrorists anyway, do, in fact, have rights.
-TPP
The Guardian is reporting on new plans by the US Government to extend the US-Visit program’s fingerprinting requirements for foreign visitors to the US.
The US is planning on taking 10-digit, instead of today’s two-digit, fingerprints from all foreign visitors, storing the fingerprints in the FBI fingerprint database, and allowing sharing the fingerprint information with foreign law enforcement agencies effectively bypassing any due process rights you might’ve otherwise had in case you do end up in legal trouble.
All this, of course, to catch the terrorists. Terrorists, who wouldn’t forge their identity, including fingerprints. Yes, that’s entirely possible, and according to studies, even easy.
Let’s see who is the first innocent bystander, who gets falsely identified as a terrorist.
Does anyone know if it’s possible to have plastic surgery to get 10 middle fingers? Anyone?
-TPP
An ABC affiliate radio station KSFO in San Francisco Bay area has been a home of some pretty despicable right wing lunacy for quite some time.
A blogger called Spocko called them out on it by contacting the radio station’s advertisers with examples of the station’s radio jockeys’ hate speech in the form of audio clips pulled off the air. VISA pulled their advertisement based on Spocko’s letter to them.
That’s when the fun started. ABC/Disney corporate lawyers sent a cease and desist letter to Spocko asking him to stop using their copyrighted material or face criminal charges. Apparently the ABC/Disney lawyers have failed to read the Fair Use portions of the copyright law.
What Spocko was doing is basically exactly the same as what The Daily Show does on a daily basis. The difference is, of course, that The Daily Show is backed by a powerful media company (CBS/Viacom), and Spocko is not.
Spocko had to cave in, because he doesn’t have the resources to fight a multi-billion corporation. He shut down his blog, and is now spreading the word on ABC/Disney’s abuse of the legal system on the blogosphere.
It’s pretty interesting that ABC/Disney is ok with the hate speech of its affiliates, but the moment that hate speech translates to losing ad revenue, they start shooting down the messengers. Let’s all go hug Mickey Mouse, yay!
Read the blog post about the issue at Daily Kos and spread the word.
Here’re some examples of KSFO hate speech.
-TPP
President Bush has apparently attached a signing statement into a new Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. The signing statement allows Bush to open postal mail without a warrant even though the law was written to enhance the constitutional protections of postal mail. It appears Bush has signed the law with a statement that directly contradicts the law itself.
This is nothing new to our Emperor, of course. During the five first years in office George W. Bush had written 807 signing statements. That’s more than all previous presidents combined. And up from 140 during the 8 years Bill Clinton was the president.
-TPP
RIAA sues allofmp3.com for copyright infraction in New York. They are going for the maximum penalty afforded by the law…$150K per infraction. That comes to $1.65 trillion USD.
How they can sue a Moscow based company in New York escapes me, but I’m sure the RIAA lawyers found a loophole to exploit.
The $1.65 trillion USD claim just illustrates very poignantly how ridiculous the laws governing copyright violations are.
-TPP
If you’re linking to my blog at Blogger (madfinn.blogspot.com), please update your link to madfinn.paananen.fi.
I’ve completed the migration of all content from Blogger to WordPress hosted on my family’s new domain. There will be no more content posted to Blogger from January 2007 onward.
-TPP
How does a company go from producing a music magazine for churches to publishing a “greatest hits” compilation album to making area rugs and hardwood floors to manufacturing automotive GPS devices to manufacturing a portable video gaming system?
Read all about Gizmondo’s business history and you’ll find out.
With all the red flags in Gizmondo’s history it’s amazing investors kept on giving them money. Apparently the investors didn’t believe in due diligence.
-TPP
