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Every once in a while some idiot complains about file sharing applications or other uses of the internet and in doing so demonstates such a fundamental lack of understanding of what the internet is - from both a technological as well as idiological stance - that I can't help but being bated into flaming them.

Enjoy:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2348866,00.asp

And my response:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-sotomayor15-2009jun...

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE55D0GG20090614

2.5 million dollars to kill rats on an obscure island in Alaska. Wow. Just wow. Why the fuck do we keep letting these people waste our money.

The news media is always whining about water shortages and telling us to take shorter showers and not to flush as often. My response- shut the fuck up! There is no water shortage. If there really is not enough water to go around you merely have to raise the price of water and people won't waste it any more. Since water is provided at extremely low cost people waste it - long showers, overwatering their lawns, etc. In addition to being annoying constantly asking people to 'conserve' DOESN'T WORK. Conservation is a natural occurrence once demand outstrips supply.

I thought I would do a search on Linux in Bing to compare against Google which I constantly use for Linux issues. Before even click the search button, it was clear that the results were going to be rigged. Look at the suggestions that Microsoft provides when typing in "Linux" the first three are microsoft related- and no doubt these bring up favorable comparisons between Microsoft's offerings and Linux.

Going with my basic premise- it should be easier to single out bad companies/stocks than to predict the good ones- I've put together a screen to pick up some real losers.

Now, the point isn't whether these companies are good or not, or even whether they will grow. It is simply an effort to look at which companies are unlikely to grow in proportion to the market's expectation as given by their P/E ratio.

Obama has completed the next step on his eightfold path to Socialism. The US government now owns 60% of the new GM. I guess that means all your cars will have a max speed of 55 mph and tracking devices from now on.

My favorite quote from http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090531/BUSINESS01/9053...

"GM will file in New York a painful plan to cleave itself into a lean, government-owned automaker pared down to compete in a sputtering U.S. market."

Spelling bees always bothered me. Who gives a siht if you can spell correctly? Spelling in no way reflects whether someone actually knows a god damn thing, yet in this country we elevate the skill to gargantuan proportions. It is part of a greater emphasis for teaching 'facts' and wrote symbol manipulation rules in the name of math. We can't we instead focus on teaching these kinds how to solve problems? Why does Google News have 3257 news articles about the spelling bee champion and none about the kids who have the achieved the most in science or literature relative to their peers?

One of the most interesting things to me about Kindle is that we will finally have a digital copy of all recent books. I can't wait until the DRM gets cracked and we can download books with the ease which we can currently pirate music and movies.

My friend recently registered the awesome domain name 'drunken.ly'. Apparently Libya is selling domains from their tld. I was interested to see what is still available.

A lot of the more obvious ones were taken, but many still remain. I figured there may be some good ones that nobody thought of so far.