Sunday, October 31, 2004
Kerry Leads in Lobby Money (washingtonpost.com): "In the presidential race, Kerry has accepted contributions from the same 'special interests' he accuses Bush of being too cozy with: HMOs, drug companies and energy firms. He has raised nearly $27,000 from oil and gas companies, tops of the remaining Democratic candidates; $34,000 from health maintenance organizations, second to Dean; and $18,500 from pharmaceutical companies, third behind Dean and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.). Even after subtracting money Kerry has raised for his presidential campaign, he ranks in the top four Senate beneficiaries of lobbyist cash, the CRP found."
Symantec's pledge to Microsoft: "We've long been of the belief that Intel is far better than writing software than Microsoft - but it's always laid off doing much more than just writing excellent real time operating systems."
I think that was meant to be:
"We've long been of the belief that Intel is far better AT writing software than Microsoft - but it's always laid off doing much more than just writing excellent real time operating systems."
But we get the point. And agree.
The Observer | Comment | Hitler was evil. Our bombs were not: "'I am sorry that my bombs killed many and made many homeless,' he concluded, 'but I am not ashamed. If a malignant growth must be cut out, without benefit of anaesthetic, then surrounding tissues are bound to be hurt. Had Nazi Germany won the war, the world would now be in an even worse mess. If the only merit was that the gas chambers were abolished, it is sufficient.'
And that is why we most definitely do not need to apologise for Dresden. Not unless we want Goebbels to have the last laugh.
? Tony Rennell is the co-author with John Nichol of Tail-End Charlies - The Last Battles of the Bomber War, to be published next Thursday."
BigBlueBall Forums - Hotmail upgrade in process...: "I don't rely on Hotmail for anything, but I did notice they upgraded my account a while ago -- not to 250 MB but a paltry 25 MB. Granted, it's better than 2 MB, but with Gmail account so readily available, who gives a rip?"
Sounds like they must be doing the upgrades using people typing in the new storage size BY HAND. Can't they invent a nice point and click GUI interface for their admins?
Hotmail Suffers Storage Gaffe
I can't imagine PAYING this group for anything. (Especially when I can get more for free elsewhere)
MSFN - The Hotmail 250MB 2MB saga continues and continues and continues. Look like some MS workers get a bit testy here.
Saturday, October 30, 2004
No IllusionsIn a sense it's unfair to blame any political party for attracting the unhinged. Lots of wingnuts on the right claim to have visions, too. Their letters, however, do not appear in National Review Online. Salon, however, seems to celebrate its readers' dysfunction. I'm sorry, but liberals exhibiting signs of mental illness isn't proof that Bush is the antichrist. One Chicago Boyz commenter expresses a similar sentiment: I am voting Bush because I can no longer tolerate stupidity."
HA HA!
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Forbes.com: Ballmer: Microsoft CEO Says Linux More Vulnerable, Costly Than You Think
Well, but then Steve Ballmer is probably a bigger blowhard than we think too.
NAH!
NAH!
Yahoo! News - The tiresome second best: "It's a lot easier to prescribe another dose of free-market medicine than to deal with the intricacies of the second best. Which brings us back to vaccines and airlines. Clearly, neither market is working well now. But the right policy choices will take hard thinking. How many competitors do we want in each field? How much will we pay for broad availability and a high degree of safety? Who should foot the bill? Unfortunately, the demonstrated ability of Washington policymakers to deal with this tough sort of question is all too often, well, second best, at best."
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
FactCheck.org - Media Fund Twists the Truth More Than Michael Moore
I didn't think that was possible. From the article:
"This anti-Bush radio ad is among the worst distortions we've seen in what has become a very ugly campaign. It states as fact some of the most sensational falsehoods that Michael Moore merely insinuated in his anti-Bush movie Farenheit 9/11 .
The ad was released Oct. 25 by The Media Fund, an independent Democratic group run by former Clinton deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes. It falsely claims that members of the bin Laden family were allowed to fly out of the US "when most other air traffic was grounded," though in fact commercial air traffic had resumed a week earlier.
The ad also falsely claims that the bin Laden family members were not "detained," when in fact 22 of them were questioned by the FBI before being allowed to leave -- and their plane was searched as well.
And by the way, the man who gave approval for the flight wasn't Bush or even any of his close aides, it was former White House anti-terrorism chief Richard Clarke, now one of Bush's strongest critics."
Yahoo! News - Iran Refuses Nuclear Suspension Again "Britain, France and Germany have offered Iran incentives ? a trade deal and peaceful nuclear technology, including a light-water research reactor ? in return for assurances that Iran will stop enrichment, which can produce fuel for both nuclear energy and atomic weaponry."
The Circle Jerk continues.
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Yahoo! News - Kerry: Bush Won't Own Up to Bad Decisions
I wonder what this obsession is that John Kerry has about mistakes of GWB? In fact listening to Kerrys droning rhetoric on thing that is clearly absent is an confession of error on his part. He was right to go to Vietnam, but it was a wrong war. He either ratted on his compatriots there or was guilty of his own atrocities.
He seems, if nothing else, and expert at pointing out the wrongdoings of others in the past and even when those wrongdoings involved him he feels above any blame.
Will the Democrats produce yet another Presidential study for the psychiatrist's couch?
DRUDGE REPORT 2004?: "But tonight, NBCNEWS reported: The 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were already missing back in April 10, 2003 -- when U.S. troops arrived at the installation south of Baghdad!"
DUH
Saturday, October 23, 2004
Early voting brings cries of bullying: "Howard Sherman complained about his voting experience at North Shore Branch Library in Miami-Dade County. He found a crowd of Kerry supporters blocking the door.
'They were positioned directly in front of the entrance to the library in such a manner that it would be impossible to avoid them while entering the polling place,' he reported.
Sherman said he tried to slip through the thinnest part of the crowd, but a woman in a Kerry T-shirt grabbed his arm and asked if he was voting for Kerry.
'I seem to recall from civics class that this sort of electioneering is illegal,' Sherman complained to the Republicans.
Republican Lawrence Gottfried, who became a poll watcher in Delray Beach after what he thought was inappropriate behavior at the polls, said the things he saw upset him.
Gottfried said that while working at the Delray poll, actor Danny DeVito and his wife, actress Rhea Perlman, showed up. Gottfried is a fan, but he didn't ask for an autograph.
'I said, `Look Mr. DeVito, I'm a big fan of yours and Rhea's, but you are blocking the entrance. You're campaigning, you've got a Kerry-Edwards button on, and it's not appropriate.'"
Friday, October 22, 2004
MSNBC - India draws 'medical tourists'
Now if we can outsource all lawyers to India we will have a good start.
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Bloomberg.com: U.S.: "Taylor says Microsoft in the past focused too much on existing customers."
Gee... it can get worse?
Yahoo! News - Kerry team slams reports VP Cheney had a flu shot
"PITTSBURGH, United States (AFP) - Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign slammed Vice President Dick Cheney, a heart patient, over reports he had a flu shot, despite a shortage of the vaccine."
Kerry and supporters again prove themselves totally, indelibly, unthinking fuckwits.
New York Daily News - Home - Sweet on O'Reilly - pal
Hell Hath No Fury... Sound EXACTLY like your typical sexual harassment to me.
Monday, October 18, 2004
Sunday, October 17, 2004
MSNBC - Will Oscar Listen?" 'Fahrenheit 9/11' and 'The Passion' were the most electrifying movies of the year. Will Hollywood honor one?or snub the other?to make a point?"
Probably so. And you'd have to have recently emerged from a coma to not know which way it would go.
If I Were President?Addressing the Democratic Deficit
"Now, finally, the Bush administration is rightly working with allies in the region?acting multilaterally?to pressure Pyongyang. It?s gotten off the merry-go-round; the question is why one would ever want to be so driven by unilateralist dogma to get on in the first place."
This is Kerry's "Foreign Policy" before he had a chance to change his mind 15 times.
Friday, October 15, 2004
The Globe and Mail: "The check sheets would be the governments' first response to the accord. Under the $41-billion, 10-year agreement, the federal and provincial governments made a commitment to take steps leading to 'meaningful reductions' in waiting times by March 31, 2007, in areas such as cancer, heart, diagnostic imaging, joint replacements and sight restoration. Benchmarks for medically acceptable waiting times are to be in place by Dec. 31, 2005."
Walter E. Williams: Free health care: " Let's start out by not quibbling with America's socialists' false claim that health-care service is a human right that people should have regardless of whether they can pay for it or not and that it should be free. Before we buy into this socialist agenda, we might check out just what happens when health-care services are 'free.' Let's look at our neighbor to the north -- Canada."
Dynamist Blog: Domestic President: "The contrast between Bush's dynamic analysis of the health care system and the static assumptions of John Kerry's plan was particularly striking. (Then, of course, Bush blew it by bragging about the prescription drug benefit.)"
Thursday, October 14, 2004
The New York Times > Technology News > Circuits
Maybe mainstream publications like NYT are starting to take up the slack for the more and more lame coverage from former tech giant CNet. Assuming they don't start making things up about new gadgets that is.
CPD: 2004 Debate Transcript: Kerry practically admits that he married for money: "KERRY: Well, I guess the president and you and I are three examples of lucky people who married up.
And some would say maybe me more so than others."
ABC News: Noted Now: The Latest Breaking Political News WHAT KERRY SAID: "And I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was, she's being who she was born as."
KERRY CAMPAIGN: Senior Kerry aide acknowledges "it was not his best moment," but calls charges that it was inappropriate "ridiculous? The woman is in her thirties. She's public about her sexuality. It was brought up in the last debate. So, what the hell?"
What the hell indeed.
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Tennessee Democrats Compare Republicans To Special Olympics Children
Democrats pander to assholes too!
My Way News: "Pentagon officials highlighted the success of networked forces during the Iraq war, including the case of a U.S. radar plane detecting Iraqi troops during a blinding sandstorm and ordering in bombers using satellite-guided bombs.
But the report found that ground forces had serious problems getting access to vital intelligence and surveillance data. In three cases, U.S. vehicles were attacked when they stopped to receive data on enemy positions, it said."
Gives the term "Blue Screen of Death" new meaning eh Bill?
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Sen. Dayton Temporarily Closing Office
Wouldn't it be nice if ALL of congress decided to avoid DC. Congress would be safer, DC would be safer, and congressmen would get to know thier constituents again.
Monday, October 11, 2004
Sunday, October 10, 2004
Friday, October 08, 2004
KIROTV.com - News - Predictions For Mount St. Helens ChangeAnyone notice that they update the "Prediction" almost every day? Maybe a different word is in order.
Thursday, October 07, 2004
Saddam paid off French leaders - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - October 07, 2004: " The Iraqi Intelligence Service paid off French nationals by dispensing vouchers that allowed the holders to make hundreds of thousands of dollars in commissions by selling them to oil buyers.
The payoffs help explain why the French government, along with Russia and China, opposed U.S. efforts in the United Nations in the months leading up to the March 2003 invasion, U.S. officials said. "
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Yahoo! News - Kerry Disagrees With Wife on Bin Laden: "Kerry told reporters he disagreed with his wife's assessment that the possible U.S. capture of al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) before the Nov. 2 election could be politically motivated"
I suppose he neglected to mention that his wife is a total airhead. Good move John. You will need that money if you lose the election.
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Yahoo! News - Indonesia President Megawati Admits Defeat: "Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had been waiting for Megawati to concede before claiming victory, respecting the decorum of Indonesia's fledgling democracy, despite his landslide victory in the Sept. 20 polls."
Said Bambang: "I'm not only a MEMBER of the Funny Name Club, I'm now it's PRESIDENT as well". Bambang, and VP choice Tweety Bird Yahoombi will formerly take office next Tuesday.
A Giant Leap for Burt Rutan: "Burt Rutan isn't one to mince words. Just minutes after the world's first privately funded spacecraft touched down at the Mojave (Calif.) Airport on Oct. 4, Rutan, who created the machine, had this to say to the aerospace Establishment: 'The Boeings (BA ) and Lockheeds (LMT ) of the world probably thought we were a bunch of home builders. I think they're looking at each other right now and thinking, 'We're screwed!'"
Monday, October 04, 2004
7Online.com: Middle School Teacher In Trouble Over Presidential Photo?: "Shiba Pillai-Diaz, Teacher: 'There was no political intent, nor was there any political content in that photograph nor on the bulletin board.'
School officials would not talk on camera but insist nobody here has been fired. To that, Ms. Pillai-Diaz asks what does it mean then when your boss asks you to hand over the keys and kicks you out of the building? She also says she is not sure if she'll be returning to school tomorrow."
CNN.com - Nuke program parts unearthed in Baghdad back yard - Jun. 26, 2003: "David Kay, who led three U.N. arms inspection missions in Iraq in 1991-92 and now heads the CIA's search for unconventional weapons, started work two days ago in Baghdad. CNN spoke to him about the case over a secure teleconferencing line.
'It begins to tell us how huge our job is,' Kay said. 'Remember, his material was buried in a barrel behind his house in a rose garden."
Saturday, October 02, 2004
ABCNEWS.com : Shuttle's Spring 2005 Launch Date Delayed
I would bet that these are not going to fly again.
The "Rathergate" Incident: Remembering Why Separation of Press and State Is Vital - TechKnowledge Newsletter
hmmmmmm, not sure about this.
New Zealand News - World - Deadly side-effect in vitamin boosters
Once again Woody Allen is proven right.
CTV.ca | U.S. raid in Iraqi town of Samarra kills dozens: "Samarra is considered one of the top three rebel strongholds in Iraq, along with Fallujah and the Baghdad slum known as Sadr City.
Officials have previously said they would recapture cities taken over by insurgents before nationwide elections take place at the end of January. However, it's unclear if the raid in Samarra is part of that campaign."
'Outlaw' city of Samarra raided by U.S., Iraqi troops
Senior U.S. commanders had privately predicted that such operations would come in November or December because of chronic delays in training and equipping new Iraqi troops who would follow U.S. troops and assert civil order. But Dawoud offered Samarra as evidence of the government's determination to move sooner.
"If this week we are not able to do three or four operations in the same time, probably next week or the week after or after a certain time you may see that we are going to engage many terrorist locations at the same time," Dawoud said at a news conference. "This is an indication that our forces are growing fast, well trained and in a very responsible way."
Nevada ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE MINUTES (Re: Amazon taxes)
"[Mr. Misener, continued.] Here in the state of Nevada, we have one of our largest fulfillment centers in Fernley. It has 850,000 square feet of fulfillment space. Not far away is another one in Stead, which has roughly 400,000 square feet. These facilities employ 850 people year-round and another 1,000 or so during our peak season, which is the fourth quarter of the year. We are very proud of the facilities here as we are of our facilities elsewhere around the country. We have similar facilities in Kentucky, Kansas, North Dakota, and Delaware. We have closed facilities in Seattle and Georgia, largely because of their local business economic climates. We take this very seriously. We?re very much aware of business climates, including tax policies, of the states in which we?re resident and those affect our decisions, but not on a global scale. I won?t tell you that if an inimical tax were passed here in Nevada we would shutter our facility in Fernley. That?s not the case, certainly not within any reasonable period of time. However, as we grow and expand our facilities we have choices that face us almost weekly, and certainly monthly, about how we allocate our resources around the country. Those choices are affected dramatically by local legislative policies."
Seattle Weekly: News: Citizen Microsoft by Jeff Reifman: "Many of Microsoft's competitors are finding ways to benefit from the success of so-called open-source software. Open source is software no one person or company owns outright. It is essentially free, developed cooperatively over the Internet by programmers who openly share their improvements. They make money by helping businesses use the software. So instead of profiting by making an operating system or core applications, many businesses today, including IBM, Novell, and HP, profit by helping companies use open-source software they have enhanced. The Linux operating system is the most noteworthy example of open source.
Microsoft has not embraced this emerging business model and has, in fact, waged an aggressive disinformation campaign against it. In a recent visit to Asia, Gates said, 'If you don't want to create jobs or intellectual property, then there is a tendency to develop open source,' according to Asia Computer Weekly. Gates knows that competitors are taking in billions of dollars in open-source-related revenue."
Friday, October 01, 2004
U.S. Cybersecurity Chief Abruptly Resigns
"A department spokeswoman, Tasia Scolinos, praised Yoran as a valuable contributor. 'Cybersecurity will continue to be a priority of the Department of Homeland Security, and we plan to move quickly to fill the position with someone who has demonstrated leadership in this important field,' she said."
Another Microsoft lackey perhaps?
Bill Gates says U.S. need not fear overseas tech
Right... All our problems are right here in Redmond.
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