I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Hee
Ho
hah
That was fun!
Baaaa!!!
Yay!
Okay. Who is our resident goat fucker?
I suppose it *is* morning. Day before Easter, which seems really early this year. I never realized it's somehow tied to the full moon. Amazing.
"Unfortunately this video is not currently available in your country or region. We apologize for the inconvenience."
I might turn on Alex Witless in a bit, but I don't think I can bear Pat Buchanan's thoughts on the Rev. Wright another time.
Who is our resident goat fucker?
Me!! Pick me!!!
This is my favorite movie, pretty much ever. It's amazing.
Moe, Canuckistan blocks hulu? Can you see other things?
Aqua-Goat
Aqua-Goat
does whatever
an Aqua-Goat does
Damn, I've got to go to work... I loves me some Peter Cook, though.
Christ almighty.
I suppose it *is* morning. Day before Easter, which seems really early this year. I never realized it's somehow tied to the full moon.
I thought it was supposed to be at the same time as passover, since that whole last supper thing was a seder, yeah? How did the goyim screw up the date so badly?
Baaaa!!!
Aqua-Goat | 03.22.08 - 8:11 a
Haven't heard this yet, have ya...? 
Wiki:
The current system for determining the date of Easter is often seen as presenting two significant problems:
Its date varies from year to year (by the Western system of calculation, it can fall on any of 35 different dates of the Gregorian calendar). While many Christians do not consider this to be a problem, it can cause frequent difficulties of co-ordination with civil calendars, for example academic terms. Many countries have public holidays around Easter weekend.
The Eastern and Western Christian churches use different methods of determining its date, and hence in most years Easter is celebrated on a different date in the two major branches of the Church.
jonathan karl just said there wasn't much info in the passport file anyway -- just your dob and social security number. it doesn't tell where you've travelled.
oy. i hope he gets to experience identity theft sometime real soon.
Looks like I can't see anything via hulu, which I've never heard of before.
Can he swim
in a pond?
no he can't
he's a goat
I'm going outside to look at the fading moon and the beginning of dawn.
Well, the leaping nuns did it for me. Great movie.
A woman yesterday said that if you have lived abroad, as both Huggy Bear and Obama have, a great deal more may be stored in one's Passport File.
Oh my god.
U.S. productivity just took a plunge.
Canuckistan blocks hulu?
hulu is only available where they can sell the shit they are shilling, which is pretty much the US right now...they will probably localize it eventually since the ad revenue is paying for everything
Moe,
It's tv and movies, free, streaming online, The link is to the 1968 Dudley Moore-Peter Cook film Bedazzled.
how much did we plunge?
Oh my god.
U.S. productivity just took a plunge.
Culture O' Truth | Homepage | 03.22.08 - 8:17 am
Well, yeah, it's snowing outside. Oh, wait, you mean overall because of the useless and bullshit policies of our MBA president and his corporate cronies.
I've never seen Bedazzled, and I've seen a lot of movies.
Who among us does not love Dudley Moore?
A woman yesterday said that if you have lived abroad, as both Huggy Bear and Obama have, a great deal more may be stored in one's Passport File.
plantsman
We had a inappropriately heated discussion about it yesterday. I still don't see what could possibly be in this "file" beyond an application. Maybe I'm wrong, but help me out here.
Of course, even the application should be closedly guarded.
You don't want to know just how stoned I was the first time I saw Bedazzled or how hard I laughed. Oddly, I tried to watch it again a few years ago, stone cold sober, and didn't find it all that funny. Maybe I'll try again.
No, I meant when Americans get load of Hulu, no work will get done and the Empire will finally collapse.
Oh my god.
U.S. productivity just took a plunge.
b/c of Bedazzled?
well, thanx Molly. Wouldn't it cost money to block it to other countries?
I still don't see what could possibly be in this "file" beyond an application. Maybe I'm wrong, but help me out here.
Of course, even the application should be closedly guarded.
Moe Szyslak, cold | Homepage | 03.22.08 - 8:19 am
More than enough for identity theft, fucking up your credit rating, or giving somebody with a grudge way too much information about your life.
Okay that's way too distracting.
You'll love it, CoT. Raquel Welch has a cameo.
You don't want to know just how stoned I was
Yes. Yes, I do.
If one is living abroad certain information may be available for American Embassies to use. This woman - Hillary Mann Leveret - I think it was, said.
no work will get done and the Empire will finally collapse.
most borg's can filter on URL, so while eschaton's bandwidth use is miniscule, hulu will top the charts and be dissed immediately from corporate borgs.
mogwai, above, says it's blocked because of advertising.
More than enough for identity theft, fucking up your credit rating, or giving somebody with a grudge way too much information about your life.
filkertom
Yes, the identity issues are large. But I don't see how any of that could be used for political purposes.
We had a inappropriately heated discussion about it yesterday.
Arguments like that convince me that some people just like to argue. Heatedly.
SS# , Mother's maiden name; it's a good start.
If one is living abroad certain information may be available for American Embassies to use.
So the American consulate across the harbour knows *what* about me? I just don't get it.
Arguments like that convince me that some people just like to argue. Heatedly.
No they don't!
But I don't see how any of that could be used for political purposes.
Maybe they wanted to see if he renounced his citizenship. Nah, nobody could be THAT stupid.
So the goy question for the morning is: how do you bring food to a grieving family that keeps kosher? What's this stuff about a "dairy tray"? If you just leave the meat out altogether are you safe?
Hillary Mann Leverett on a different topic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F...h?v=F1s-
_8mnaUQ
mogwai, above, says it's blocked because of advertising.
hulu blocks it's content from being shown on overseas IP addresses...american borg's will block user access to hulu once it gets popular
how do you bring food to a grieving family that keeps kosher?
Stop by the kosher deli.
Go to a Kosher deli.
Seriously.
Yes. Yes, I do.
Moe Szyslak
Heh.
We stopped chemicals in 1976 when we moved to Italy. No habeas corpus there and we didn't want to be booted out. When I was getting chemo I tried some again for the nausea but found it made me incredibly paranoid. I was afraid my kids would catch me. 
More than enough for identity theft, fucking up your credit rating, or giving somebody with a grudge way too much information about your life.
filkertom
Yes, the identity issues are large. But I don't see how any of that could be used for political purposes.
Moe Szyslak, cold | Homepage | 03.22.08 - 8:22 am
SS# , Mother's maiden name; it's a good start.
plantsman, | Homepage | 03.22.08 - 8:22 am
[nods] Once they have that, they can access a lot of private records. If you've got skeletons, or things that might look like skeletons in the correct light, you could be hosed pretty quickly.
so spitzer was an honest crook? he didn't use state money for his whoring, well la te freakin' da!
Morning folks. Hope you are not 'enjoying' a bad back pain morning.
Where is this morning's discussion?
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Seems to me any info on a passport application can be gleaned from other places far more easily.
Chimpy could reach 4000 US military dead in Iraq by Easter sunday
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20080...E834ACMcjSs0NUE
Kosher deli, huh? Thanks! And Google says there's one right down the road. That makes things much easier!
It's like that Mormon guy arrested for putting a contract out on his wife, paying for it with stolen prescription drugs (he was a pharmacist) because his "morals were higher than hers."
See, working as a reporter in the states, I stumbled upon people's identity info--ssn and such-- all the time. Mistakenly left in court files, in county property records, all over the place. Of course it would be illegal for me to use it, and I wouldn't in any case. But, passport files? That'd be the last place I'd start looking for *dirt*, as opposed to personal info.
Yes, the identity issues are large. But I don't see how any of that could be used for political purposes.
Moe Szyslak, cold
frankly, i do suspect it was just minimum wage clerical snoops. this would be a useful opportunity for the democrats to beat the republicans up over their endless privatization schemes. so this stanley place just received a $500+ million contract for state department services. how many other hundreds of millions in these kinds of services are being privatized as the state department has downsized.
Chimpy could reach 4000 US military dead in Iraq by Easter sunday
Sacrificial lambs are an Easter tradition.
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You look at what you have access to. It's no more complicated than that.
Sacrificial hams are an Easter tradition
Fried your tacos.
are we going to get sued by the MPAA for watching hulu?
The real issue here, I think, is that these employees have access to the personal info of millions of people, but alarm bells are only rung when they access the elite's info.
$146 million contract, actually.
Baaa!
(translated: Fenton rules!)
The real issue here, I think, is that these employees have access to the personal info of millions of people, but alarm bells are only rung when they access the elite's info.
It's their *job* to look at the personal info of millions of people.
Right, no "Alarms" go off if they snoop on our stuff.
No, Hulu is legal.
U.S. productivity just took a plunge.
Culture O' Truth
link?
Hope you are not 'enjoying' a bad back pain morning
Only because I haven't shoveled yet...
1st tjx now hannaford, does the peoples republic of taxachusetts not care of it's people's credit cards?
grocery stores are teh worst at securing data: they operate on teh absolute cheap and have the lamest and cheapest solutions, FYI...i try to only use cash or check at teh grocery stores
Sacrificial Easter Tacos!
Okay, I've gotta get a few things done this morning. I'll catch you lovely bats later -- hugs all around.
Next week in Philadelphia!
U.S. productivity just took a plunge.
Culture O' Truth
link?
Sarah Deer
Sorry, I was making was a Hulu joke.
my frustration and anger grows over the hundreds of billions of dollars that the government is forcing us to pay to banks we aren't even allowed to know the names of in secret auctions.
If the shoe were on the other foot, would the banks bail us out???
And what are we getting for our money? NOTHING. It is no less than highway robbery!!!
U.S. productivity just took a plunge.
Culture O' Truth
link?
He was referring to the Hutu web site.
$146 million contract, actually.
News ReleaseStanley Awarded $570 Million Contract to Continue Support of Passport Program
Over 15-Year History of Providing Passport Services Continues
ARLINGTON, Va., March 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stanley, Inc. (NYSE: SXE), a leading provider of systems integration and professional services to the U.S. federal government, today announced that it was awarded a five-year, $570 million contract to continue support of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs/Passport Services Directorate. Services include production, operational and business process support training, procurement, administration and evaluation of critical supplies, and facilities management support at the four Passport Centers and 14 Passport Agencies nationwide along with the Headquarters' support offices.
But, passport files? That'd be the last place I'd start looking for *dirt*, as opposed to personal info.
This was a teeny part of a huge NSA sweep throughout the world to gather data on political opponents. The reason we found out about the state dept. breaches is due to the incompetence of people like Condi Rice.
frankly, i do suspect it was just minimum wage clerical snoops. this would be a useful opportunity for the democrats to beat the republicans up over their endless privatization schemes. so this stanley place just received a $500+ million contract for state department services. how many other hundreds of millions in these kinds of services are being privatized as the state department has downsized.
Point is this: you privatize a public institution for private profit, why not the working drones make some private profit with privatized government information?
Really, the file clerks were being more consistent than their Overlords. Once the door is open to mine America's property for your own moneymaking schemes, it's open. the Overlords of Privatization are left passing sumptuary laws of a sort, to say that profiteering off the public is limited to only the highborn, "right sort" of people. No logical limit to it otherwise.
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how many other hundreds of millions in these kinds of services are being privatized as the state department has downsized.
nona
bunches and lots, and it's wrong, wrong, wrong. It's all part of the plan to take our country away from us - because we will no longer have any connection to it at all.
Next week in Philadelphia!
filkertom | Homepage | 03.22.08 - 8:32 am | #
Too Jewish!!!!
The real lesson here is that Condi Rice is still the poster child for incompetence.
Yawn, morning perps.
"The denizen of the technological state of the future will have
everything his heart ever desired, except, of course, his freedom."
-John Wilkinson
from the "Translator's notes" to
THE TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY by
Jacques Ellul (1964)
It's their *job* to look at the personal info of millions of people.
Halfdan
For what purpose? Obviously, when someone applies for a passport, there needs to be a process to okay it or reject it, but for what reason should anyone have access to that after the file has been processed? It should be locked up, and only accessible via a court order.
Okay -- getting ready to head into Gomorrah on the Hudson.
Talk to all you fine folks much later this evening....
"Hi, Senator Obama -- It's Condi. You know, I'd be really sorry if I had been snooping in your Passport File, but it wasn't me so I'm not. Who could have imagined such a thing?"
He was referring to the Hutu web site.
Halfdan
If Rwanda see it there's a link.
my frustration and anger grows over the hundreds of billions of dollars that the government is forcing us to pay to banks we aren't even allowed to know the names of in secret auctions.
Once you realize that political representation is limited to Campaign Contributors, and the citizenship of the individual is a vestigial thing, it makes much more sense.
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Freedom is best left to the free market.
No, Hulu is legal.
Culture O' Truth
do you know who's behind it? spent some time there yesterday watching the bob newhart show. god, the 70s clothing...
the hundreds of billions of dollars that the government is forcing us to pay to banks we aren't even allowed to know the names of in secret auctions.
economics matters are way to fucking complicated for joe-idiot...that is the brilliance in those ponzi schemes: teh sheeple will not demand ANYTHING, because they are too fucking stupid to know what to demand
Try the veal, I hear it's Mauritius.
I don't know, but the networks are backing it.
He was referring to the Hutu web site.
Halfdan
oops. sorry.
MOSCOW — Blonds famously have more fun, but a jealous world has long joked about their intellectual limitations. Now blonds in Russia are fighting the bimbo image by forming their own political party.
Organizers insist that the Party of Blonds will establish itself as Russia’s newest political force by recruiting 50,000 members within weeks. The blond ambition, they say, is to challenge Dmitri Medvedev for the presidency of Russia at the next election in 2012.
"The Party of Blonds is for blonds, those who love blonds and those who are blond inside," general-secretary Marina Voloshinova told The Times. Confusingly, she is a brunette.
"I dyed my hair blond once but it was so awful that I decided never to do it again. I just have to stay blond inside," she said. "Blond is not just a hair colour, it’s in your brain and your heart. Blonds accept life in a more lively way, they really have more fun."
Peeps!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com...04282667/
2.html
Freedom is best left to the free market.
where the current going rate for 'freedom' is two $20,000/plate fundraisers, minimum..........
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do you know who's behind it?
i think nbc and fox right now: so no, it ain't anything super spectacular, it's another corporate owned entity using teh web to beam commercials to us
Who really gives .02 about Obama's passport file? What about mine and yours - what about all of the private data that the Government sells to private Corps on a regular basis? What about the refusal of the U.S. Congress, Dems and Repubs alike to legislate criminal penalties for corps that infringe on my privacy? Unless the press is not giving us the full story, Obama dropped the ball on this one - it's not about him, it's about all of us.
anyone have access to that after the file has been processed? It should be locked up, and only accessible via a court order.
Moe Szyslak, cold
the explanation for the hillary clinton breach doesn't even make sense. a trainee just entered her name and -- viola! -- her fucking passport file is up on screen? hell, i need more logins just to access my work email.
If Rwanda see it there's a link.
Now you're stepping on some delicate tutsis.
NBC is behind it. There's an about section of that site. NBC is smart, unlike CBS Viacom.
the explanation for the hillary clinton breach doesn't even make sense. a trainee just entered her name and -- viola! -- her fucking passport file is up on screen? hell, i need more logins just to access my work email.
Actually that one makes the most sense. They were in class, learning how to retrieve records and were told to enter a random name to pull up a record and see how it was done.
The passport thing is this: someone in the office has been selling the info wholesale. Probably to corporate data-miners looking for targeted advertising. You think Carnival cruise lines might pay for a list of people who have passports and so are inclined to foriegn travel?
We only find out about it when they sell a specific about someone in the media, it gets into the media, and people start asking "Hey, where did this come from?"
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Actually that one makes the most sense. They were in class, learning how to retrieve records and were told to enter a random name to pull up a record and see how it was done.
MikeJ
But why should *anyone* be able to access those records? What is this company supposed to do-- I mean it's legitimate purpose?
People need to read Armed Madhouse.
mikej -- but you shouldn't be able to access someone's file with just a name. not this kind of file. and it was described as 'breached'.
it's, its, whatever.
yeah but makes no sense that all you have to do is enter someone's name.
Criminy that's really lame security
But why should *anyone* be able to access those records? What is this company supposed to do-- I mean it's legitimate purpose?
According to the press, it's data entry. Data entry requires access to data.
Criminy that's really lame security
That's GOP, lowest-bidder guvmint.
But why should *anyone* be able to access those records? What is this company supposed to do-- I mean it's legitimate purpose?
Updating info, retrieval for law enforcement, verifying renewal applications. Dozens of things.
I could see that there's a law enforcement reason to have these files around. But there needs to be a court order to access them. Otherwise, *no one* should have access to them.
But why should *anyone* be able to access those records? What is this company supposed to do-- I mean it's legitimate purpose?
Purpose is to enrich an old college buddy, so that he will kick cash into the campaign chest.
The excuse, on the other hand, is to provide all that better, more efficient paperwork handling of the Freeee Market over the stogy old gubmint.
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He's turning Canadarian before our very monitors!
The real lesson here is that Condi Rice is still the poster child for incompetence.
Wonder how she felt about Cheney going out to do her job right after she came back from her trip? Must have offended her Klingon sense of honor, what?
We should thank them.
These clerks are protecting America from The Horde.
It's like Hadrian's wall, but less useful.
According to the press, it's data entry. Data entry requires access to data.
Halfdan
What does that even mean? I applied for a passport once, and now they need to enter data about, er, what?
What does that even mean? I applied for a passport once, and now they need to enter data about, er, what?
Passports expire.
What does that even mean? I applied for a passport once, and now they need to enter data about, er, what?
Having a passport is fine.
USING a passport indicates a dangerous anti-Americanism. So, if you use your passport, they need to be able to put flags on your file and put you on watch lists.
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Lynndie England blaming the media for ruining her rep by distributing the Abu Ghraib photos is a bit much, no?
I think maybe the Obama breach was about the Aha! that wasn't to be found. Some idjit -- you know how idjits think -- thought, Hey, keen, I'll just go into this Obama's file and see that he was in Afghanistan training to be ae a Manchurian Candidate when he said he was organizing on the South Side of Chicago. See, idjits believe their own crap.
Cheney has the cold blooded looked of a Romulan, but carries himself like Founder
<i>you shouldn't be able to access someone's file with just a name. not this kind of file. and it was described as 'breached'.</i>
Information Privacy is not a concern in the US...europe has FAR stricter controls on personal information...ohh sure all the assholes TALK a game, but in reality information privacy barely exists and the mere access to certain systems in government work allows one access to loads of PRIVATE information
in my world private info should only be disclosable to more than one person, IOW, it requires 2 people to enter their passwords before PRIVATE info can be seen, this would limit those even trying.
Good day, beautiful people!
Once again, Weekend Wank Blogging.
I meant Cardassian.
Anyway, he's evil
Cheney has the cold blooded looked of a Romulan, but carries himself like Flounder.
Passports expire.
Halfdan
Yep. Ten years. (They're five up here.) I had to renew. Maybe, perhaps, my old passport application was somehow relevant when I renewed it a few years ago. But I still don't see why just any employee should have access to it.
more peeps, via wapo (with a clever larry craig reenactment):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp...ml?
hpid=artslot
Another great day in strategery:
After five years in Iraq, Bush hails 'strategic victory'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/...mar/19/
usa.iraq
Lynndie England blaming the media for ruining her rep by distributing the Abu Ghraib photos is a bit much, no?
Republicn Rule #1:
Doing the crime is not a crime. REVEALING the crime is the crime.
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ACCOUNTABILITY, BITCHES!
Japan navy boss fired over lapses
Japan's defence minister has sacked his navy chief and punished dozens of officials after a series of scandals.
Shigeru Ishiba acted after an official report criticised the navy over a collision between a destroyer and a fishing vessel. Other embarrassing incidents included the leaking of data about a radar system and a fire on board a navy ship.
Mr Ishiba dismissed Admiral Eiji Yoshikawa - the country's top admiral - as well as fining and disciplining more than 80 other defence officials.
Looooooooove Meeeeeeeeeeeee!
Also at WaPo:
So, Mr. Cheney ...
» MICKEY EDWARDS | Why I'm done defending the man I've known for decades.
Don't the Japanese have some elaborate ceremony to drive a sword in their hearts to punish themselves for lost honour or some such? Or is that just in the movies?
Direct Link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...8032102482.html
My guess is that the secret service security on the color of Dick Cheney's shit is a few orders or magnitude greater than any security protecting passport information. Some republic, eh?
Moe, that's seppuku.
Moe, that's seppuku.
Marcellina
I'm sorry. I'll clean it up.
ACCOUNTABILITY, BITCHES!
What is this concept of "Accountability" you speak of?
/Rethug
Wank looks sort of austere and empty. Everyone must stay inside, well, wanking.
I admire your dedication to the Eschatonian cause, Marcellina.
Your next assignment, should you decide to accept it, is to visit the village of Fucking, Austria.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuc...king%
2C_Austria
Seppuku is a thing of Japanese history, not of the present day. We could still fight duels at dawn for honor, but it would be regarded as insane today, whereas it as de rigeur a century or more ago.
At least now, both are in the movies.
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Wiki:
Seppuku (切腹, Seppuku? "stomach-cutting") is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. Seppuku is performed by males; the female equivalent is called Jigai. Part of the samurai honor code, seppuku has been used both voluntarily by samurai to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies, and as a form of capital punishment for samurai who have committed serious offenses. Seppuku is performed by plunging a sword into the abdomen and making a left to right cut.
I just think people underestimate the amount of access other people routinely have to their personal information. I know in my job I could easily gather hundreds of SSNs in just a few minutes and no one would ever know the difference. I don't, but I could easily do it if I wanted to. The names of people's spouses, their children, and other extremely personal and private information.
Wank looks sort of austere and empty.
All I could think of when seeing the city limits sign was the old joke: "I saw a sign that said wet floor. So I did."
Safeway and Kroger track every purchase I make at their stores thru my "Club" and "Rewards" cards. Their snazzy coupon printers spit out coupons for things I might buy. I could not care less.
Gromit, someday I'll get to Fucking. It's way off the beaten path for me, but you never know.
Joan Rivers said that was Liz Taylor!
We could still fight duels at dawn for honor, but it would be regarded as insane today
"austin powers will go into an elaborate and complicated death machine and we will not watch as he dies" - Dr. Evil
"you assume he dies?" - Scott
"yes" - Dr Evil
"i have a gun up in my room, 2 shots they're dead" - Scott
"you. just. don't. get. it. scott." - Dr Evil
Safeway and Kroger track every purchase I make at their stores thru my "Club" and "Rewards" cards.
You only use one? I have three or four of the keychain fob "loyalty cards", all obtained with no real data. Pick one randomly when checking out.
I am just so glad that Nancy took impeachment off the table because destroying evidence is certainly one of those things that could be grounds for impeachment - as IF we needed any more.
Threw away the hard drives! Look, these are not personal computers they are fucking mainframes and servers. You do not "Throw away" the hard drives.
God, these people are evil personified.
more peeps, via wapo (with a clever larry craig reenactment):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp...ml? hpid=artslot
HA, Love the skyscraper one!
I know in my job I could easily gather hundreds of SSNs in just a few minutes and no one would ever know the difference.
I remember the shocked look on the face of our VP of finance (the owner's daughter) when I told her there wasn't a file in the company that I couldn't access if I wanted to.
When I worked in government I had access to all sorts of confidential information. The worst was double checking a deposition transcript that was supposed to have had the name of a child molestee redacted. I wasn't checking too carefully because the file came from the F.B.I. and I figured they had done a good job. Guess what, they stopped redacting after the fifth page. If I had released that depo to the press the child would have been molested again.
In the meantime, anyone who wants to steal the Wank sign photo and photoshop it is more than welcome.
I dropped by a pizza place the other day to pick up a slice while I was running errands. The clerk rang in my slice, asked me for my phone number. "You're kidding, right?" I asked. "No, we have to ask each customer, and we put it in the computer," she said. "Tell your boss I'm never coming back, just for that reason," I told her.
I can't keep all that in my head anymore. I just use one.
Gromit, someday I'll get to Fucking. It's way off the beaten path for me, but you never know.
So many puns and jests possible, that i am going to scrupulously leave this alone.
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Gromit, someday I'll get to Fucking.
Now there's a comment that's a keeper.
Off to make breakfast. Cream of Wheat in 10 minutes, if anyone's hungry.
I especially like the No-wanking sign.
The baby's sleeping late this morning, and that's a good thing.
Oh, and one of the files I have access to? A former US Senator with presidential aspirations! Good times.
Obama's web communications guy is named David
Plouffe. That name cracks me up.
"We could still fight duels at dawn for honor, but it would be regarded as insane today, whereas it as de rigeur a century or more ago."
Like Republicans.
Cynicus,
Ah yes, the pizza places. On one hand, I don't ever have to spell out my street and hope they mix it up with a similar-sounding one, as often happens. They want my phone number when I order for delivery.
What could they do with my phone number and my pizza order history?
Like Republicans.
Zell Miller was a Democrat at the time, IIRC.
Ask if you want the pizza you most often order?
A former US Senator with presidential aspirations!
Redundancy.
Every Senator dreams of being Emperor, no matter how unlikely the chances.
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I don't blame them for getting phone numbers for delivery-- it decreases the amount of fake orders, and the guy can call, if he can't find your house. But, a phone number just for stopping in and buying a slice? That's ridiculous.
Radio Shack does it too, as I recall.
What could they do with my phone number and my pizza order history?
Everyone knows only terrorists order pizza with anchovies...
John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hairdo should fuggettaboutit.
DEEP THOUGHTS BY COT
I bet it would be really embarrassing to commmitt seppuku and do
it wrong by cutting right to left. Then you would stop and do it
all over again, and that would take a lot of the drama out of it,
I would think.
Of course I doubt there's anything in there that would be of interest to anyone.
Damn. You meant *my* left?
Radio Shack does it too, as I recall.
Moe Szyslak,
555-1212 works for me.
What kind of "Directory Assistance" do you think comes with the "Magic Jack" for $19.95/year?
I bet it would be really embarrassing to commmitt seppuku and do
it wrong by cutting right to left. Then you would stop and do it
all over again, and that would take a lot of the drama out of it,
I would think.
Seppuku included having a second who would cut your head off before you showed pain or cried out, to preserve your honor. Fairly short order in the history of seppuku, the second would take your head the second you stuck the blade in, so that you could not be held responsible for any slip-ups.
you wanted a good swordsman for your second, by the way.
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give them the white house phone.
Or you could ask for their home number in exchange.
I'm not gonna even get into this discussion of privacy cause everyone laughed at me when I said I did not want the government to know anything about where my car is at any given time. . . (And yeah, I think OnStar is creepy as hell)
John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hairdo should fuggettaboutit.
plantsman,
or simply have at one another in a public place so we could all watch. Or not.
And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control
BTW, David Sedaris mentions the loopy scheduling of easter in Jesus Shaves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o...h?
v=oYi0zTRC2r0
I'm not gonna even get into this discussion of privacy cause everyone laughed at me when I said I did not want the government to know anything about where my car is at any given time. . .
i didn't laugh, i agreed.
Hell, i don't want my wife knowing where my truck is all the time, necessarily.
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The Daily Show (Global Edition, seen on weekends only) had the Dana Perino appearance last night. She was like a schoolgirl. I don't understand how she has the job she has.
I don't understand how she has the job she has.
They're down to the bottom of the bottom of the barrel.
Cynicus,
And those cell phones that all these people are so proud of with all their wonderful features. . . (Y'all do know they government is both listening and tracking your movement with those, right?)
What could they do with my phone number and my pizza order history?
Marcellina
In Europe, not much.
Here in Freedom Land, your purchase history is sold to companies like ChoicePoint, who put it into a database with all the other purchases you've made that they buy.
Using what they know about you (phone number, credit / debit card details), they can look at practically everything you've bought for years.
we just did Easter Eggs for the first time with the boy. I am all verklempt and have alot of dye on my fingers.
I'm not gonna even get into this discussion of privacy cause everyone laughed at me when I said I did not want the government to know anything about where my car is at any given time. . . (And yeah, I think OnStar is creepy as hell)
DWD
Jeez, DWD, you're so cynical!
So am I. Agree completely.
DWD-- I'm with you. You know what creeps me out? Those drive-through toll things. They've been subpeonaed for court trials before, a wife proving her husband was driving somewhere to treat on her, or something. Cops use them all the time to track people's movements.
My local bridge is doing away with tokens, and wants everyone to get the pass things. I'll be damned if I will-- I'll stop and pay cash, get a receipt every time.
Like Republicans.
Zell Miller was a Democrat at the time, IIRC.
Halfdan
Still is.
She was like a schoolgirl, that's why she has the job she has. Republicans are kinky that way. You should see her in her little Catholic School Uniform!
Marcellina, euro-stalker
Fixed that for you.
BTW, David Sedaris mentions the loopy scheduling of easter in Jesus Shaves:
Teh standard calendar is a solar one. The Jewish calendar, from which the dates of Passover are calculated, is a lunar one. Easter is positioned according to when Passover happens. Lunar and solar calendars don't match up well.
Hence, Easter wanders all over the calendar from year to year. Over 30 possibles, iirc.
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"I don't understand how she has the job she has.
Marcellina, euro-stalker"
You are a very recent immigrant into this country right? Possibly from some location devoid of internet, telephones, newspapers and word of mouth?
Perino appearance last night. She was like a schoolgirl. I don't understand how she has the job she has.
you kidding? that is the ultimate yes-man (woman) job...so they want an empty-headed moron who is given almost no information, they take the job because somehow that gets you a huge job in teh private sector, teh royal courtiers get to rule teh private sector
The Daily Show (Global Edition, seen on weekends only) had the Dana Perino appearance last night. She was like a schoolgirl. I don't understand how she has the job she has.
Marcellina
Her nickname's "Nancy Hoover."
Easter is positioned according to when Passover happens.
Uh, no. Passover's in a month.
Wait til a company like Google tries to buy a company like Doubleclick.
They what? uh-oh...
And those cell phones that all these people are so proud of with all their wonderful features. . . (Y'all do know they government is both listening and tracking your movement with those, right?)
Gubmint, hell. Cell phone transmissions are considered public. If you've got a scanner that will pick up the call, you may listen as you wish. No one needs warrants to listen. (Or at least that's how it used to be when cells were new. If some billionaire Republican has been spied upon, there may be new rules)
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from the L.A. Times via Shakespeare's Sister
As for overseas travel, the papers show that Clinton did spend some time conferring with foreign leaders on strategic issues. But the records suggest she spent a lot more time fulfilling the traditional role of the first lady: meeting the leaders' wives and focusing on women's and children's issues.
Women's & children's issues are just another focus group I guess.
You are a very recent immigrant into this country right? Possibly from some location devoid of internet, telephones, newspapers and word of mouth?
TV stations over here have better things to air than White House pressers. And I don't go looking for that stuff on the internet, because I can't get flat-rate yet and those vids will cost me extra at the end of the month.
I've read what she's said, but I'd never heard her voice.
If you've got a scanner that will pick up the call, you may listen as you wish.
If you go around broadcasting, don't be surprised if people listen in.
Hence, Easter wanders all over the calendar from year to year. Over 30 possibles, iirc.
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Cynicus
darn it, I wish I could remember where I read this - it was just in the lst couple of days!!! - but something about Easter being after the full moon closest to (take your pick: Ash Wed, Maundy Thurs, Good Fri - or maybe something else entirely - but I swear it was tied somehow to the full moon...)
"Aloisius Lilius (d. 1576) devised the system that would become the basis of the Gregorian Calendar, as well as the tables that would be used to determine the date of Easter. Christoph Clavius modified the tables slightly, and was one of the prime defenders of the Gregorian calendar. The tables used to determine the date of Easter (in the West) since AD 1583 are these modified tables of Clavius. All algorithms for calculating the date of Easter since then are based on these tables.
Easter is the Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon. The Paschal Full Moon may occur from March 21 through April 18, inclusive. Thus the date of Easter is from March 22 through April 25, inclusive. The date of the Paschal full moon is determined from tables, and it may differ from the date of the the actual full moon by up to two days. This definition, along with tables, etc. may be found in "The Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Ephemeris and American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac". This definition that uses tables instead of actual observations of the full moon is useful and necessary since the the full moon may occur on different (local, not UT) dates depending where you are in the world. If the date of Easter was based on local observations, then it would be possible for different parts of the world to celebrate Easter on different dates in the same year. "
Intelligent design, indeed.
Wait til a company like Google tries to buy a company like Doubleclick.
I have Doubleclick's URL blocked on my browser. Stops a lot of ads from loading on web pages.
If you don't have anything to hide, BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH
Easter is always the Sunday after Good Friday. Take that to the bank.
I read up when we discussed it earlier. Full moon after vernal equinox. Although the eastern orthodox apparently still follow passover.
Sarah Deere -
You're right. It's the first Sunday after the first full moon - Spring Equinox. We haven't had an Easter this early since 1913, and we won't again until 2160. It's the second earliest possible day on which East could fall.
Zell Miller was a Democrat at the time, IIRC.
Halfdan
Still is.
Old Abe Lincoln: "How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg."
New Abe Lincoln: "How many Democrats do you have if you call Zell Miller a Democrat?....."
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Gubmint, hell. Cell phone transmissions are considered public. If you've got a scanner that will pick up the call, you may listen as you wish. No one needs warrants to listen. (Or at least that's how it used to be when cells were new.)
Cynicus
Wrong. Listening in on cell-phone conversations in the US is considered wire-tapping, and quite a few people have been prosecuted for doing so.
Same in Europe.
Hence, Easter wanders all over the calendar from year to year. Over 30 possibles, iirc
You'd think Jeebus would know when he died and pass that on to his fanboys...
If you go around broadcasting, don't be surprised if people listen in.
e.g., the Prince Charles tampon remark.
I for one am glad to get Easter out of the way and concentrate on other things in April (like enjoying spring weather.)
For me, Easter means extra work, and extra dough, but no restful holiday.
I for one am glad to get Easter out of the way and concentrate on other things in April (like enjoying spring weather.)
It's snowing here.
Wrong. Listening in on cell-phone conversations in the US is considered wire-tapping, and quite a few people have been prosecuted for doing so.
Same in Europe.
jac
Not if you are in the government. The government (well, at least Republicans) can do any fucking thing they please and no one will ever tell them they cannot.
And you can take that to the bank.
(Everyone did read JMM's note that the White House cannot turn over its hard drives for data recovery because they, "Threw them away" didn't you?)
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com
Obama called anyone a racist who challenged his 2 years on the national scene as not being enough experience for commander in chief
Don't get me wrong: I know it's illegal in the US to monitor certain parts of the electromagnetic spectrum (the color yellow is being considered for addition to this list). Just don't be surprised if somebody somewhere decides that he will monitor any frequency he has the ability to detect.
Wrong. Listening in on cell-phone conversations in the US is considered wire-tapping, and quite a few people have been prosecuted for doing so.
Ah. So, some of the 1/2 of 1% HAVE been listened upon.
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If you go around broadcasting, don't be surprised if people listen in.
e.g., the Prince Charles tampon remark.
leibniz♘☮
I was actually working in Telecoms in UK when that happened. The general consensus at the time was "WTF? Charles is STILL using an analog cell phone?"
It's extremely difficult to listen in on digital cellular network because calls use "spread spectrum" frequency hopping.
Marcellina, Pebbles was by yesterday telling tales about you cyber-stalking her. It was prescious.
My local bridge is doing away with tokens, and wants everyone to get the pass things. I'll be damned if I will-- I'll stop and pay cash, get a receipt every time.
Moe Szyslak, cold
the first time i saw an ezpass monthly statement, i completely freaked out. this was a few years ago when this constant surveillance wasn't yet part of the landscape. there have been cases where nypd has been able to track/arrest people based in part on the mta card in their possession, cause it registers the use.
and the thing is, there's no getting rid of it. it's a generational thing and with kids having grown up with daily bag/locker searches, people were gradually being groomed to accept it. and now look where we are...
It's snowing here.
Got 15" here yesterday afternoon. I've got nowhere I have to be today so I haven't bothered shoveling yet.
The Cartoon troll is back. Heard enuf of its racist crap yesterday.
plantsman, what???
I took that nym cos jac called me that last night, but I didn't know there was background to it.
What's up her ass now, for chrissakes?
plantsman,Is first again. This is the only highlights of his life. How sad!
(Everyone did read JMM's note that the White House cannot turn over its hard drives for data recovery because they, "Threw them away" didn't you?)
Many times the Repugants stare you in the eye and dare you to call them liars.
Too bad for the spinally-challenged Democrats, that never step up and do so.
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Ah. So, some of the 1/2 of 1% HAVE been listened upon.
Cynicus
Heh.
Actually, there was that incident in Florida where someone was following a Republican's car listening to his conference call that included Newt Gingrich
But it's been illegal since the beginning, because the Communications Act of 1934 covers cellular traffic. It was technically easy to listen to analog traffic (just as it was easy to listen to analog cordless phones in the 49mHz range), but the last US analog cell phone network was shut down just a few weeks ago.
plantsman,Is first again. Weeee!
the White House cannot turn over its hard drives for data recovery because they, "Threw them away" didn't you?
Isn't there a law about archiving records?
Feral - we ended up with about 6" I'd say.
Still more than enough to piss me off.
Oh, she was invoking EU laws, and talking about how insane you were, and I am, and NTodd is, just the usual bullshit.
Killfile is your friend.
Bugs, I wake up at an odd hour. I don't give a fuck what you type.
Oh well then, at least I'm in good company.
I like Safari. No killfile, tho.
Too bad for the spinally-challenged Democrats, that never step up and do so.
Democrats will learn how to stand up to the administration and demand a say in how things work.
Jan 20.
Trolls so early?
I thought they would be out cold after a night of cheeto induced bed spins.
"Isn't there a law about archiving records?"
--Gimlet
Only for Democrats.
Isn't there a law about archiving records?
Gimlet
Law? Hah!
/Cheney
I took that nym cos jac called me that last night, but I didn't know there was background to it.
What's up her ass now, for chrissakes?
Marcellina, euro-stalker
She went off on a rant about you stalking her. Look at yesterday's threads - mid-afternoon, I think.
That's why I called you "Euro-stalker," silly!
Still more than enough to piss me off
Likewise. If we get another 1 1/2" it will be the snowiest winter on record here.
Planstman, have you tried greasekit?
(Everyone did read JMM's note that the White House cannot turn over its hard drives for data recovery because they, "Threw them away" didn't you?)
is this the one under the judge's order to produce? oh man, i hope so. because he doesnt seem inclined to just issue a sternly worded letter.
Isn't there a law about archiving records?
Gimlet
Yes. This is a lie though. As I mentioned above, these are not drives from PCs. These are either mainframes or servers. You do NOT throw the drives away. It just is not done. You might expand the capacity but you would not throw them away.
i don't have killfile. i have kids. From them i have learned to tune out extraneous childish noise.
Works pretty well, and costs nothing. (Except the earned gray hairs)
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Some of those MO rivers stlll yet to crest. Those poor folks.
thanks, jac, Vicki. I just thought it was interesting for such a patriarchal religion to calculate one of its big holy days by the phase of the moon, such a feminine way of marking time.
i don't have killfile. i have kids. From them i have learned to tune out extraneous childish noise.
Yes indeed. I don't need a program to filter out morons.
I have and use Firefox on occasion, have installed Grease Monkey, but don't understand its operation as yet.
Look at yesterday's threads - mid-afternoon, I think.
Nah, I'd rather not bother. I made a promise to myself not to feed the trolls for Lent, and I may just keep on refraining to for longer. Too much wasted energy.
Something to keep in mind if you got up earlier and haven't had breakfast yet.
http://icanhascheezburger.files....eps-in-
food.jpg
Plantsman, I read some of your blog. I didn't realize your plight. I'm sorry.
Greasemonkey (and greasekit, the same thing for safari) do nothing by themselves. They allow you to run scripts that affect the way a web page is rendered - like taking the trolls out of a thread. userscripts.org has a bunch useful scripts for various sites.
They allow you to run scripts that affect the way a web page is rendered - like taking the trolls out of a thread
I used these during my mIrc daze.
thanks, jac, Vicki. I just thought it was interesting for such a patriarchal religion to calculate one of its big holy days by the phase of the moon, such a feminine way of marking time.
Some of the most interesting things to come out of 'Holy Land' archaeology in the last years is just how much the Hebrew religion was 'of a piece' with other Caananite religions - right down to YHVH haveing a consort Goddess called "Asherah" and the like. The textual accounts of what the religion was like are looking ever more like later reboots of what the religious institutions WANTED it to be like.
And this is coming from Israeli archaeologists, btw.
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Damn you Molly Ivors. Watching the pilot for the Pretender now on Hulu.
I have killfile but I haven't used it in a while. It became easier to tune out unpleasant rants when I knew I had to power to edit them away.
Does anyone else feel that this has been an especially grievous week for politics and America or am I alone again. Whether it was the Republicans crowing their bullshit about the war or the racism of the media or the silence of the Clintons
Just sucked.
Watching the pilot for the Pretender
i actually liked that one.
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dead owls!!!!!!!!
DWD, Bill spoke. HuffPo has it. I wish he hadn't.
Just sucked.
DWD | Homepage | 03.22.08 - 9:42 am | #
This is the week that a prominent American politician made an honest speech about race relations and even Mike Wallace and Mike Huckabee couldn't eat anymore of the crap that Fox was handing out in response.
Not bad.
The textual accounts of what the religion was like are looking ever more like later reboots of what the religious institutions WANTED it to be like.
you betcha!
a whole day?: "Unfortunately this video is not currently available in your country or region. We apologize for the inconvenience" not so much . . .
Obama's big speech was mostly well-received and it should have been. Many think it showed great talent by Obama, who is reported to have written it himself (imagine some others out there writing something like that ...) It was inspiring enough to move Gov. Bill Richardson to endorse him. The original Wright sermon was deceitfully hyped and smeared by Rightist propagandists. The sermon was delivered way back on 9/16/2001. There's a good rundown on the whole business by Anderson Cooper at http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/...hts-911-sermon/
Indeed, Wright was quoting Edward Peck, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and deputy director of President Reagan’s terrorism task force. Peck was speaking on FOX News. Wright did not say that what happened was justified. The meaning of "chickens coming home to roost" means that poking at something can have blowback, not that the blowback was ethically valid:
“I heard Ambassador Peck on an interview yesterday did anybody else see or hear him? He was on FOX News, this is a white man, and he was upsetting the FOX News commentators to no end, he pointed out, a white man, an ambassador, he pointed out that what Malcolm X said when he was silenced by Elijah Mohammad was in fact true, he said Americas chickens, are coming home to roost.”
...
“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff that we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.
“Violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred. And terrorism begets terrorism. A white ambassador said that y’all, not a black militant. Not a reverend who preaches about racism. An ambassador whose eyes are wide open and who is trying to get us to wake up and move away from this dangerous precipice upon which we are now poised."
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