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The nature and technology of blogging has changed so much, that a simple blog is now more of a BBS or Forum than a blog. Originally, blogging was done in Notepad or Nano, even VI. We edited our sites manually.
This blog is something that I have outgrown, and after a lengthy struggle with blogging software spanning five years, I've decided to move on to a new system. This blog will remain until it is backed up and incorporated into the new system. All my older blogs are also backed up, some have been incorporated here on /blog already, and some have not. All of my prior work will now appear in /bbs.
http://ungoth.com/bbs
When /blog is killed, /blog will redirect to /bbs.
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I have to nominate creative commons for a site that is so horrific, that I'm surprised if anyone can use it at all.
It rivals CNN for jerky, unresponsive, and unpredictable behavior, yet it has less than a tenth of the java installed.
I tried to utilize several features, for I have reasons for being on the site, and yet I met with web-failure at every turn. None of their systems work!
Apparently, CC's website is tooled to work only with IE. It falls down so hard on other browsers that I'm amazed by the fact that the site is still up. They haven't caught on that people don't use IE anymore.
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Man, nothing is harder than trying to get a desperate but good friend hired at a job where I myself feel both underpaid and unappreciated. Still, she needs a job. We all do. This is a pay to play republic, if you have no money you have no rights.
All Hail Discordia. I never fully agreed with anarchists before I suffered what must have been my twentieth layoff in as many years. My programming career when from zero to 100 to zero in about that time. Now I have to learn not just new languages, but new processors, *every* year just to keep up with the outsourced programmers working in other countries.
I quit at 30 languages. I've had it. If I ever code again it's going to be in Cobol, and anyone who doesn't like it will be given a DOS cheatsheet that requires six-key control codes. This flavor of the year crap has to end. C++ still kicks ass over any other compiled language, and most noncompiled languages like java, which is slower than molasses in the arctic.
I need to double my current salary just so I can afford one class a year. That's pretty damn pathetic. What the hell happened to America? Oh yeah, all the idiots voted for that retarded alcoholic as President. That's what happened.
~D
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Safari Inn, Burbank, ask at front desk. Don't want to post the room number. This is where I'm posting from.
Best Western Stoval [sp] near Disneyland. Room not assigned yet, Sunday and Monday nights.
PS, to people who think linux is hard, or doesn't work:
I've removed Vista from a new HP 9500 widescreen entertainment PC.
I put Ubuntu on it.
I set it up in this hotel room, and before I could click the icon, the wireless connected to the Hotel's router. I was online within seconds of logging in.
No effort whatsoever, and wireless has traditionally been one of two areas where linux got edged out by Microsoft backroom deals with vendors. I play Warcraft on Ubuntu as well, which is supposedly impossible according to windows people and Blizzard.
At present, I have two cell phones, a PSP, and the laptop with browsers open to check messages and Emails. It's a far cry from just four years ago when I couldn't get a new laptop to even connect to a Blackberry without hacking the phone.
Tmobile actually informed me, wrongly, that the Blackberry model had "no modem," however I was online via my laptop with it checking my yahoo messages while talking with her on that same phone. Yeah, it has a modem. "No, it doesn't," she insisted. I laughed.
It was a swedish hacker site which provided the technical specifications for the Blackberry, an easy thing which was readily checked by perusing the RIM website. Yeah, it had a modem, and I used it, daily.
Funny thing is I never got a data usage bill from Tmobile either. Idiots. I could have been uploading mass quantities... guess I could have done all sorts of things, but I'm just not into black hat activities any more.
Anywho, yeah, hotel room. Burbank. Having fun. More nostalgia than I can shake a drumstick at.
Email me for phone number if you actually want to meet up in Cali. or IM to demopoly on google talk.
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Facebook has got to be one of the most overloaded, craptastic sites to ever exist, managing to eclipse even the web-stain of legend, Myspace.com.
Every time someone invests in it, the site seems to go down, then come back even slower than before with more java and flash loaded down on it.
People who use flash ought to be castrated and forced to work as Goats in Australia.
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99% of all media, despite blogging and social networking, are now owned by just a handful of corporations. http://www.thenation.com/special/bigten.html
Science has reacted predictably with Creative Commons and several serious financial boosts to Open Source legal groups. GNU, whom I used to despise as extremely fringe and more than a little loopy, turned out to be right about a lot of things. Now I respect them, although they are still loopy. http://sciencecommons.org/about/
My reaction to media ownership of MY works, was to incorporate. As the CEO of Ungoth Inc, the corporation is privately held and maintains all the rights to any of my works, to be held in trust perpetually. I do not have the right to sign over any of my own works to facebook, myspace, or any other website. So, if they ever make illegitimate use of my photos or posts, I can actually initiate a lawsuit through my corporation.
Facebook I trust just a tiny bit. Myspace is a spam festival.
But, there's more. First, consider this link, where Intel is facing a record fine from the EU for monopolist practices. These practices have gone on for thirty years in the US, uninvestigated and without regard to their firm monopoly. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124199204513504667.html
Now consider this link, where the US space fleet is essentially nonexistant starting next year. http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_ ... d_999.html
Private corporations are already in place which can perform where NASA has failed. The federal space and national security budget will be almost entirely placed within privately held corporations.
Given the rank incompetency associated with NGO's such as Amtrak and with departments such as NASA, we see protests like this one. http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2009/05 ... -advisory/ Nothing changes. Service declines, usability is unimportant, and the money just keeps growing.
The theme is clear: Gradual erosion of all individual rights, with a gradual empowerment of private corporations, to the point of corporations spanning governments.
There could be good in this. The social elements want to force the lower classes to become middle class. They want to eliminate real poverty world wide. The bad thing is most people who have already made it to middle class will lose all the rights we still have, and the newcomers will have a better lifestyle but fewer rights. Most of our civil rights are gone. Some of our human rights are already being challenged. How will it end?
Brave new world? Or 1984? A dawning of a new age of peace, or a never ending war against nonChristians? Anarchy? Tyranny? How about all of the above. All the requirements for each of these facets of life are in place for play. It's a massive chess game. The liberals and freedom lovers, social democracies, and the free people of the world need to be fooled into going along with a nazi regime of unparalleled proportions, something a thousand times more powerful than the Third Reich: The New World Order.
This is no conspiracy. This is documented fact. Bilderburg, they are nobody. We are talking about the UN, WTO, World Bank, and several other elements being brought into collusion by major multinational corporations with more clout than any single nation has.
Skull and Bones? Mere fratboys. There is absolutely no need, and good reasons against, for America to be the lead player in this new world order. The best thing that could happen would be for America to sink into stagnation, with a productive but reduced capacity, a large but mostly struggling middle class, and few rights.
Corporations need to be dealt with, either broken entirely, or forced to abide by the laws of nations. To date, most corporations shrug off even international and US laws. Look at the ease with which Google was able to illegally copy entire libraries of non-public data. Look at the ease with which all our civil rights were signed away overnight in congress with the Patriot Act.
This will not happen by government, because all governments are too weak. The people have to gain control of the corporations by taking them forcibly. Buy up publicly traded stocks and become an owner. Create your own private corporation and DO NOT trade it publicly. IPOs are the first step in selling off all your rights.
When most or many middle class people have incorporated, and stop paying taxes, the government will have no choice but to revise the manner in which they treat corporations. That will force corporations to demand special status and classification. That's when you jump in as shareholders and pull the carpet from under them.
ANY company can be taken down. ANY. Just get enough angry people to buy up its stock.
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This not-working, lame as hell, windows-esque, flashy but useless gui, shitfestival called Amarok is as lame as a legless duck in an alligator pond.
Flash intros do not make for usability, and flash is generally recognized as shit. IF you are serious about animation and power, you go X3D. IF you're just fucking around, you use a 'gif' or java. It seems that if one is an incompetent fucktard, one uses flash.
Yes, because the entire point of LINUX is to get locked into a proprietary and corrupt file structure that eliminates your freedom.
Sniff, hmmm... you can actually smell the sarcasm. It smells like Carrot Cake apparently.
XMMS was awesome, and I've just figured out how to put it BACK into UBUNTU. I'm uninstalling that Amarok shite now.
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Obama has blown my mind. Any serious analysis of this article points in the direction of major social and equity changes for the United States. I'll write more when I calm down...
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The useful range of adjustment falls within a single degree of arc. If you so much as nudge the knob you get cold water or burning hot.
Who needs this? nobody, and certainly NOT in a bathtub or shower. Ironically they are called thermostatic valves. I'd say they were voluminostatic, but that's truth in advertising and we can't have that.
The preferred, sensible operation of any such monovalve, itself a cheap-ass combination valve designed to save a single dollar in the construction of any quarter million dollar home by eliminating the "need" for two valves, is to provide a range within HUMAN TOLERANCES. Freezing to Scalding is not only incorrect, it's dangerous and stupid. While some people who are sick may need a "cool" bath, glacial runoff temperatures are hardly needed in the home. Likewise, the ability to boil water in your bathtub is unlikely to become a pressing requirement.
Any monovalve should always mix in SOME cold, and SOME hot, so that it provides a thermally optimum range of about 55 to 110, with a log-arc that WIDENS at the apex, or midpoint, of the turn. That means, as you approach 99 degrees, the sensitivity of the valve INCREASES such that you need to turn it a little more to increase or decrease the temperature.
THAT would be a very good valve indeed, but no, we get shoddy worksmanship, and poor design, on even the best hundred dollar valves on the market. On a cheap monovalve, the sensitivity could simply increase as it gets hotter.
But, no, that'd be intelligent. We can't have that in America.
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Obama has sadly disappointed me. He is not a visionary, but an old-boy old-school politician who plays close to the established power cliques. His denigration of South America was shameful and embarrassing. His waiver of the CIA's responsibilities and accountability is criminal, and he's just taken on responsibility for the torture himself by excusing those who are most guilty.
Obama talks and talks, and that's what he's good at. Actions, however, are not forthcoming. Like all Democrats, he's full of himself, of his claim to ideas, and his assumedly "liberal" status that is more of a religious morality than any real liberal tenet.
I had hoped for more. I needed to see more. I need to see an FDR, a Kennedy, or better. What I see is a sad excuse of politics as usual. Democrats have this terrible fear of confrontation, an abject terror of accountability, and are as bad as Republicans when it comes to obfuscating the truth.
Nothing Obama has said matches up with what he is now doing. His campaign promises are all but shattered, which is pretty much status quo for a political system that exists purely by maintaining a very high level of ignorance in the American public. "Framing" arguments is the unilateral approach to all discussion, thus eliminating any possibilities of real debate, and of the free exchange of ideas.
In that, politics is the opposite of science.
I used to think religion was the opposite of science, but religion is just an enemy, the abusive parent, of science. Politics are the polar opposite of science, because politics functions best when it destroys the truth, kills dissenters, buries opposition, rules through ignorance, and all while attempting a divide and conquer of the planet through church, corporate, and back-office power exchanges.
There really can be nothing more evil.
1984 was just a little bit early of a prediction. We have all that and more now, in 2009, with a President who is comfortable with cuddling up to torturers, terrorists, sadists, murderers, and thieves. We have a "media" if I can laughingly call it that, which avoids any semblance of impartiality. Bloomburg actually ridicules the South Americas, making broad misleading statements about the impact Obama had in the trade meetings, and kisses up by declaring that Venezuela came crawling to him for boot licking. Chavez was quite stern and very clearly vetoed the USA's agenda with decisive authority that was applauded.
The United States has made the entire world suffer, and now it just expects everyone to turn the other cheek and act as if nothing happened. Well, it seems like a good idea, but it got the last guy who tried that nailed to a tree. It's actually a terrible idea. There MUST be accountability in leadership, or we have no barrier to abuses of power.
Wiping the slate clean, voiding international laws, ignoring UN resolutions, that is what the USA continues to do even under Obama. That's not something that will garner respect for the USA, ever.
One notes that Christians are always quickest to forgive themselves, but hold any other offenses as grave criminal acts which must be repaid and punished. They never forgive their enemies, only themselves. Welcome to the religion of Hypocrisy.
~D
The interesting thing is how few news outlets, read Media, carried the fact that he gave Obama a book. Nothing mentioned on CNN about that, or on the idiotic "AP." Link goes to ABC blog.
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