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Age : 46
Zodiaque: Vierge

Ville : Lakewood
Région : WASHINGTON
Pays: US
Date d’inscription :: 26/09/2004

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vendredi, septembre 11, 2009 

Humeur actuelle :  batailleur
Well, it's that time again - the anniversary of the oddly-appropriate date of the largest successful terrorist attack on US soil to date. (One wonders if the hijackers might have delayed their actions, had they realized that the date, written out in the US fashion, was also the standard emergency telephone number in the US...)

The talking heads on the morning news are nattering (in between the weather and coverage of a breast-cancer fundraiser - I gather they're against breast cancer, but one never knows these days) about the progress of the War on Terror. Aside from the uter inanity of declaring war against a concept, I personally have to agree with David Brin on the topic - the War was fought and won on September 11, 2001. His example was the response of the people aboard United Flight 93 in the skies above Pennsylvania, but I hold that the actions of the people of New York and DC were in the same spirit.

The operatives of al-Qaeda were expecting the sort of reactions they might get if they had threatened, say, an Afghan village, writ larger because of the size of their target. What they found was the same thing Imperial Japan found on December 7, 1941 - how free people react when you try to frighten us. We get angry. And then we respond.

Since 9/11, there have been a large number of mop-up operations, mostly occasioned by the fact that Bush's handlers, smelling an opportunity to enrich themselves further (and hoping we would respond the way the terrorists hoped - becoming so cowed that we could be ruled), did everything they could to keep the fear alive. They actually succeeded, for a short time. Sadly for them, Americans don't have the habit of fear, and don't seem to be learning it well... However, I hold that despite the best efforts of al-Qaeda and the neocon wing of the Republican party, the War on Terror was fought entirely on that fateful day, eight years ago. And we won. We were not terrorized, nor terrified - just annoyed.

Remember, after all, that today the US still stands as the last superpower, despite the recent worldwide economic troubles, while the once-mighty Taliban, former rulers of supposedly-impregnable Afghanistan, are reduced to hiding in a handful of tiny hamlets in eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan, and the architect of al-Qaeda hides in a cave somewhere (assuming he really is still alive, and not just represented by a series of recordings made before his death - dialysis machines tend not to work well with the lifestyle of the fugitive, after all).


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mercredi, avril 01, 2009 

Humeur actuelle :  heureux
Still waiting to fix the computer, but I found a good deal on a slightly used iPod Touch. It's now a node on the wireless network, so I can type this out on my new toy! Guess it's appropriate enough, given that when we played the BSG board game last, I turned out to be the Cylon...

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mercredi, janvier 28, 2009 

Humeur actuelle :  amusé


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lundi, janvier 12, 2009 

Humeur actuelle :  geek
Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.

The new element, dubbed Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron , 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by the fundamental force of morons, which are gluon-like particles transformed by vast quantities of lepton-like tax particles taken from peons .

Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected by the retarding effect it has on any surrounding kinetic action. A single atom of Governmentium can slow a reaction (that would normally take less than a nanosecond) to years or even decades.

Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In so doing,Governmentium's mass actually increases,since each reorganization causes neutrons to become moron-neutron isodopes . This characteristic of moron isodope promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium forms spontaneously whenever morons reach a critical concentration, defined as critical morass.

When catalyzed with large enough injections of fiscal tax elements taken forcibly from peons, Governmentium corrupts into Administratium(symbol=Ad), an element with even more energy absorption and chaos creation ability than Governmentium, since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.

(The leading hypothesis is that these two elements form the black holes found at the center of each galaxy)
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samedi, novembre 15, 2008 

Humeur actuelle :  amusé
I think I've realized why the "Joe the Plumber" story got such currency with the McCain campaign, especially with Sarah Palin.

"Joe" lied about his qualifications (he's not even a licensed plumber!), exaggerated his situation (even if he did buy his company, which he's not planning on doing, its annual income is less than $100,000), distorted his opponent's tax policies, tried to claim that Obama "evaded" his questions - and didn't even give a correct answer on his name! ("Joe" is his middle name - I just blanked on his real first name, but it's not one of the embarrassing ones.)

In short, Joe the Plumber is the Republican base! 

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vendredi, novembre 14, 2008 
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jeudi, novembre 06, 2008 

Humeur actuelle :  plein d’espoir
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samedi, septembre 27, 2008 

Humeur actuelle :sarcastic (why isn’t that on the list?)
Congress Restarts Bailout Talks

Thank heavens McCain was ready to suspend his presidential campaign and rush back to DC! Why, there was a very real danger that Congress would agree to a solution, and possibly even act on it!!

Fortunately, John was able to avert success in the last moments, reminding the Republican faithful that any compromise with the evil Democrats would mean that the Terrorists Would Win. No, it must be the True Republican Way, complete with tax cuts (why cut taxes over this? How dare you ask questions of the Anointed Republican Candidate, you heretical apostate?!?), or no way at all!

Meanwhile, the traitorous Obama was advocating actually thinking about things, and proposing the nonsensical idea that maybe the President should be capable of multitasking...


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mercredi, septembre 03, 2008 
Okay, so I've been seduced into playing World of Warcraft. One thing I've noticed has to do with the official backstory for the world of Azeroth, and the attitudes of players.

The story goes that ten thousand years ago, the dominant race of Azeroth, the night elves, accidentally attracted the attention of the demonic Burning Legion with their profligate use of magic. The Legion promptly sent in their shock troops, the orcs, who had been enslaved on another world. The orcs lost little time in shaking off the shackles of their masters, however, and allied with the humans, night elves, gnomes, and dwarves to fight off the Legion.

The war was brought to a conclusion when a human hero, Artos Something-or-other (I'm not going to go look it up now), tried to fight the Lich King by using the blade Frostmourne. Rather than giving him the power to fight the Lich King, however, it caused him to become the Lich King. That distracted the Legion enough for the portal to their home, Outland, to be sealed, and their forces defeated in detail. Then there came a new war against the forces of the Lich King...

By the end of that one, the humans were in ascendancy, and recalling the offenses committed by the orcs during the first stages of the Legion invasion. They began abrogating their alliance with the orcs, finally confining them to the northern reaches of the continent of Kalimdor. Humans, night elves, dwarves, and gnomes remained as the Alliance; the orcs allied with the primitive tauren and trolls, and the blood elves (remnant of the elves who had first fallen to the Legion, then defeated their masters), to form the Horde. Since the histories were being written from the Alliance point of view, the Horde were painted as ravening, evil monsters, as great a danger to the world as the Legion itself.

The problem is, the game books give only one backstory - the POV of the Alliance. As a consequence, many Horde players come up with the idea that they must be EEE-VILLL and destructive. They ignore the fact that when the original alliance was finally broken, it was by a human invasion of Kalimdor, and that they were also defended by humans (led by the daughter of the admiral of the invading Alliance fleet, no less!). No, the book says they're evil, so evil they must be.

Properly, the Horde players should be given a different view of history - most probably, that the Alliance, feeling itself safe from the Legion, ignored the warnings of the orcs and sank into decadence and weakness. The Horde's job, then, is to try to provoke the Alliance into a state of readiness, so that when the Legion inevitably returns, the Horde won't be alone in trying to defend their homes from the demons. The Horde players should not see themselves as evil, but rather as misunderstood, and as the proper protectors of Azeroth from the Legion and the forces of the Lich King. Their attacks on Alliance forces should be understood, by the Horde at least, to be attempts to make the Alliance abandon their self-defeating complacence and stand ready.

Or am I just overthinking this whole thing? :)

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dimanche, août 17, 2008 
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