Watching “The Daily Show” tonight with guest Senator John McCain, Jon Stewart commented that the US has not won the war. McCain’s response was “well then tell me who won the war? Do you think it was Al-Qaeda?” His point being that, look, they haven’t bombed us again. But, in my thinking about the situation, Al-Qaeda have indeed won their war. In fact they have won it rather completely. They achieved their primary goal of completey changing the way the citizens of the US live, and they have achieved their secondary goal of miring our country in a conflict away from our soil. But back to their first goal. No on can deny life has changed drastically for the worse since the millennium. Our own government has used fear instilled in the lower intelligence masses to get us to give up our freedoms in exchange for a little secure feeling. Warentless wiretapping, broad powers for military and executive branch, secretive executive orders, and dozens of other evils hidden inside the so called “Patriot act” have completely pervaded our society. It’s heartbreaking, I don’t even have a punchline for this sad end to a 231 year stretch.
Tag: Politics
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Terror 1, Freedom 0
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Pornogrinternet
The internet is truly a major part of life these days. Even denizens of third world countries lacking in water, food, and life expectancy have readily available access to the internet. But what is the internet? Certainly it is not a big truck, as the astute Senator Stevens states. It is in fact, more like a series of tubes. Considering 99.5% of the internet is pornography, you have a vast network of tubes, some facing outwards, some facing inwards. This interconnection of tubes is what creates the pornogrinternet. You dont just dump stuff on the pornogrinternet. You have to pass it between tubes. In general it is the traditional one tube entering one other tube at a time of client/server downloading. Now we have such technologies as Bit Torrent, where many tubes stick into one tube and pump information in and out rapidly. Then there are more open p2p rings like Kazaa, where your tube indiscriminately enters other tubes and often picks up deadly viruses. You can even raw-dog an FTP connection, where your tube enters another tube without any protection. There are some very desirable tubes out there too that can land you in big trouble. Everyone remembers the hot Russian AllOfMp3. Everyone wanted to get inside that tube, but it could land you in jail. All in all there are a lot of tubes on the internet, and its your decision on how you use it.
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Grand Theft Autopsy
In Miami this week 4 police officers were shot when pulling over an African-American man who immigrated from Africa to America apparently without properly claiming all the free benefits and money he was entitled to. When the officers approached the man attempting to transfer these forgotten benefits, he opened fire on them, killing one and injuring 3 others. This is a total suprise in the Miami community. Everyone knows that Miami has little to no reported crime, and such a happening was outrageous. Especially against police officers. This reporter could not find a single incedent of police officers opening fire on citizens. In over 1 report read about police in Miami, the only reported incedent were scenes from the movie Bad Boys 2. The world is coming to a head, when innocent police officers are gunned down while “protecting and serving” the little people. Video games and movies are to blame. Teaching society that since it is alright for police to go on rampages and blow up half a city and murder hundreds, it MUST be alright for criminals to go on rampages also. For how else could our street guardians be allowed to do thier civic duty of killing us?