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Ha! Thank you US District Court of DC for overturning that horrible ruling in California. Now the RIAA can no longer subpeona ISP’s for people’s names. The RIAA said it was a shame because they can no longer offer people settlements beforehand and will have to sue people, which they were really hoping to avoid. The way it’ll work now is if your ISP sucks and hates you, they’ll give your name and address to the RIAA and they’ll sue your butt off. A: Few to No ISP’s would have such horrible customer service that they would willingly give your information to a private entity, heck, most of them get pissed about giving it the gov’t. B: If the RIAA gets ahold of your name, there is nothing preventing them from offering you a settlement just as before. C: Let’s see them try to get $140,000, their threatened maximum amount for a single song, for “I’m too sexy for my shirt” in court. Or “Sister Christian”. Or “Can’t touch this”. I want front row seats and a bag of popcorn for that trial. Continue Reading »

theres this big asriclrt in time about fuels cells and how they are gonna be the next big thing and replace both power plants and batteries, sizes big amd smeall. The proble is no one is patying attentiojn trehew the little fact that fuel cells require hydrogen which is currently made by burning methane. and recharge on electricity, which we need power from our current power plants form, which are mostly fossil fuel plants. And yeah, the efifcnenty of fuel cells is much greater than combustion, but to make the hydroenge its a much lerss efience t procesds as a whole., Morons don’t get it, that its all gonna be bad when we’re all using fuel cells and brunig nteh entire planet to make the hdyreonge to fuel them. Its a classic case of ignoring the forecst for a shrub.

So Bush is pressuring China to stop keeping the yen artificially low and has imposed tariffs on some polyester materials manufactured in China. Yes, China is gunning for us in all ways, including industrial production. Yes, there is a huge import/export deficit. But theres a couple problems here. First of all, someone’s gotta pay for the increased prices of those polyesters. That means instead of the companies that make them here taking a hit, consumers have to pay extra for lots products that are manufactured in China.

Tariffs are crap, I’m sorry. They are in no way a solution for job loss. If ya ask me, there needs to be some federal law about how much the CEO of a public company makes versus how much other employees make. Yeah, there should be some special rule exempting people who own their own companies, but that’s mostly small business. My problem is big business, where 70% of the workforce of a company (made-up numbers are fun) earn 40K a year while the CEO earns 30 million. Continue Reading »

So I had yet another crappy wrap today. And I was thinking about wraps in general. And I realized that I have never had a wrap that I enjoyed more than a sandwich. Ever since the mid-90’s, the wrap has become this hip thing that every eatery has to have, the alternative/replacement to the sandwich. The idea is you take the ingredients for a sandwich and wrap them up in a flatbread of some kind.

Problem is, the bread they use is always really dry and powdery. In addition, wrapping technique varies, and in most places is so haphazard that half the meat and cheese and vegetables are bundled inside 2-3 layers of this crap bread with the rest of it sticking out the back. And for the poor bastards who get this with some kind of dressing or sauce, it’s all dripping out the back and all over your shirt/plate. It’s disgusting, especially for someone who’s so OC about food he eats ribs with a fork and knife just so his hands dont get messy. Tell me honestly one incidence where the sandwich doesn’t kick the wrap’s ass. I swear I’m gonna find the evil little mutant who started this revolution, who’s probly the owner/operator of some midwest sandwich shop and I’m gonna torture him until he stops making wraps. And then I’m coming after everyone else.

John Kerry has officially resorted to cursing in order to win the democratic nomination. He said in an interview with Rolling Stone that when he voted for the Iraq War, he didn’t expect Bush to “fuck it up as bad as he did”. Rolling Stone of course put some dashes in there. And everyone is reacting like this is news. Frankly, I’d like more cursing from our presidential candidates. C’mon, they’re people too. What’s this “polite and civilized” bullshit? I wanna see Sharpton and Gephardt beat the shit out of each other while making cracks about each other’s mothers and the degree to which either’s mother is overweight.

I’m feeling creative. So let’s all play a fun little game. It’s about conspiracy theories. I’m sure many of you know about the Illuminati and the NWO and all that…so here’s how it’ll go. I’ll say something crazy, and you refute and/or say something crazier, and we keep the crazy train rolling until we eventually arrive at the “truth”. Continue Reading »

When I was on the debate team a few years back, one of our biggest arguments was Post-Colonialism. It was great. We had some really talented and intelligent coaches and members of the team, and they would come up with these positions, which included PoCo, as we called it, and these were winning positions. When confronted with it, most opponents cried.

Problem was, it was total bullshit. I felt bad arguing it, and I was just glad that nothing about debate was real. Then again, it gets argued in the real world, in Congress and in the UN and in Western administrations.

The argument is essentially that we, the Western world, fucked up royally, and, through interference with the developing world, created all sorts of problems. Henceforth, we should not do anything ever again and just leave them alone and give them what they want when they ask for it.

Truth be told, it was England, France, Spain, and those damn Dutch who screwed up. Continue Reading »

Ian Paisley refuses to share power with Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland. Who is he? I dunno. Some kinda elected guy. In today’s episode, watch hulk reduce two complicated issues to simple bullet points. I wanted to say something about our horribly inflated budget, but everyone dozes when I start ranting about taxes and government waste, so feck it, enjoy watching elected officials piss away your money.

Anyway. Some unofficial Israeli and Palestinain negotiaters met in Geneva this past week to make a peace agreement while Jimmy Carter proved old people really can be flexible by bending over to kiss his own ass. I guess we’re gonna forget that this man was the most incompetent president we ever elected just because he built some houses. Ok, I’ll let it go. Continue Reading »