Posted by Stealth on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @ 12:58pm
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I wonder if we would get more users or maybe new users if we made this a bit more old school and went back to the bbs idea.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Calling-Bulletin-Board-Systems-BBS/?ALLSTEPS

Posted by Krux on Saturday March 10, 2012 @ 06:31pm
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This came up on NPR today. Seems some shows are more liked by liberal vs conservative voters. So given what a person watches, you can guess their political stance. I took the online quiz and it said I was conservative, followed up by liberal then moderate.

http://datanews.wnyc.org/match_game/game-vote-by-remote

Posted by kodrik on Thursday November 17, 2011 @ 08:59pm
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It's pure provocation and it's real purpose is not peace and love, but these are cool

http://thehiberniatimes.com/2011/11/16/vatican-finds-benetton-pope-image-offensive/12699

Posted by rub on Thursday May 19, 2011 @ 01:08pm
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So friends from China and Russia are telling me some interesting things about Dominique Strauss-Kahn. I've always appreciated your world view on things since you don't limit your mind to what American media says and you see the world from a different perspective.

They are saying Strauss-Kahn was obviously set up by the US. This is a guy with plenty of money and power and he can have Presidents of countries throw women at him. Why bother with some 30 year old maid. The US took him down so he won't run against and defeat Sarcozy in the next election since it was looking like Strauss-Kahn would defeat Sarcozy. Our price to do this was having Sarcozy turn on Ghadafi and lead the charge against Libya so we don't have to do it and only further appear as war-mongering.

I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to Arab-French relations (besides the Rai music I still listen too). However, my gf was a diplomatic translator for the United Nations, has French citizenship, and speaks fluent French. She is Chinese but lived in France for several years. She told me this tin foil hat scheme makes sense. I remember when Sarcozy lead the charge against Libya she even was very confused about it. She said her impression was such that Sarcozy and Ghadafi were pretty tight.

Posted by Stealth on Monday November 15, 2010 @ 11:53am
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A friend from the NL sent me this link - http://www.seniorlivingmag.com/articles/america-hes-your-president-for-goodness-sake

It's interesting in that it brings up a good point. How far we have gone from being 'American' to being something else. I mean, I know we have the right to do it, it doesn't mean that we should..

Idiocracy is on it's way folks.

Posted by kodrik on Saturday September 18, 2010 @ 01:35pm
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In integrist islamist countries:

* There are no prostitutes
* There is no alcohol
* There is no internet
* There are no movies
* You can't eat pork
* You can't do sports
* You can't shave
* You can't listen to good music
* You can't see women's bodies
* You wife is picked by someone else
* Your clothes are actually drapes

And then, we tell them that if they kill themselves while killing others, they will have in heaven everything they dreamed to have on earth

Honestly, if you lived there and believed that shit wouldn't you want to put a bomb up your ass as soon as possible?

Posted by Krux on Friday October 30, 2009 @ 10:11am
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Arnold Schwarzenegger gives California Legislature a hidden finger
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/28/schwarzenegger-gives-california-legislature-a-hidden-finger/

Posted by Stealth on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @ 02:20pm
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ClearFoundation announced today that ClearOS 5.1 will be available September 30, 2009 at www.clearfoundation.com, the newly unveiled Web site for ClearFoundation. ClearOS is a next-generation Linux server operating distribution for the small organizations and distributed environments. The ClearOS Linux distribution has an installed-base of over 120,000 systems that serve approximately 1.2 Million users. It is available in over 20 languages and is utilized in more than 122 countries around the globe.

Historically known as ClarkConnect, ClearOS has been made open and free by ClearFoundation, including software such as MultiWAN which allows multiple, balanced Internet connections. Other limitations and commercial restrictions on the ClearOS platform have also been removed for this version, and all subsequent versions. The ClearOS Operating System tightly integrates dozens of leading open source applications in a single management interface. The distribution is free to download and use and redistribution is encouraged. - Complete Article

I know Volt used Clark back in the day, he showed it to me, I know I dug it for a long while. We use it here on base for our Community Room.. This is pretty cool news.

http://www.clearfoundation.com/

Posted by Krux on Monday July 20, 2009 @ 12:08am
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Well this is a new one on me. Seems the latest is calls from Jamaica (area code 876) claiming you have won the lottery and have to wire money to claim your prize. Lots of old people are falling prey to this scam, and losing their life savings as a result. Anyway where Morgan is staying in New Jersey, the house is owned by this guy who doesn't actually live there, and so they're getting multiple calls asking for him. Some of the calls are even late at night. She gets a call, says that they guy doesn't live here and to stop calling. She also refuses to tell the guy who she is when asked. The Jamaican scammer eventually gets pissed and says he's going to keep calling all day, and calls every few minutes for hours.

Doesn't seem like an effective strategy on the scammers part.

Posted by Krux on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @ 03:12pm
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This was an interesting read:

Letter from the United States Senate to Secretary Steven Chu on Yucca Mountain

http://krux.org/misc/senate_letter_to_chu.pdf

Posted by Stealth on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @ 08:57am
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U.S. bill seeks to rescue faltering newspapers

Why does the government feel the need to save everything? People don't read newspapers, they get their news on-line, so why save the newspapers? I just don't understand the idea behind saving failed business models and bad business practices (and yes, this extends to the Auto, Airplane and farming industries). We can't subsidize everything.

While right now it doesn't have any sponsors, I hope it doesn't go anywhere.. it's just a bad idea.

Posted by Krux on Friday January 23, 2009 @ 01:40pm
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Sen. Robert Ford pushes to outlaw profanity