Justifiable Homicide?
Let’s say you work for an ISP. One day, while working at said ISP, your network engineer blocks all outside access to your DNS servers at the firewall level. This has the effect of customers not being able to browse the internet or get their email. Now let’s say that the aforementioned network engineer adamantly [...]
Jesus will save m*glug-glug-glug*
The lengths people will go to in order to justify their own religious beliefs are simply amazing. Whether it’s the Virgin Mary on a glass window pane, Jesus making his routine appearances on toast, or people trying to evoke the Divine into miraculous acts of faith, the result is always the same: someone ends up [...]
Swimming in a sea of spam
I don’t normally blog about work, but readers of this blog should already be aware of how much I abhor incompetence. Last week, our esteemed network engineer took all our spam filters offline, and never bothered to tell anyone. His rationale was that no one would notice the spam filters weren’t working. How wrong he [...]
Karr crash
It appears there will be no charges against John Mark Karr regarding the kidnapping, rape, and murder of JonBenet Ramsey. The government flew him at great expense (first class all the way, baby!) from Thailand to the U.S., only to learn that his “confession” had more holes in it than the post-iceberg Titanic. How much [...]
FMA shot down in the House
The Federal Theocratic We-Control-Your-Life Amendment was shot down in the House, falling short of the 2/3 majority needed to pass in the House. The bill was also shot down in the Senate last week. My opinion about government intervention in personal relationships has been well documented on this blog. I go on the record once [...]
Israel vs. Everyone Else
What can I say that hasn’t already been said about the escalating tensions in the middle east? Aside from “About fucking time!”, that is. Hizbullah, Hamas, et al., have been attacking Israeli civilians on an almost daily basis for at least 30 years, and the international community tells Israel to sit there and take it. [...]
Happy Independence Day
I wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a Happy Independence Day. The way things are going in the US with the Republicrats in Washington doing everything possile to erode freedom and independence in this nation, there probably won’t be too many Independence Days left. It will soon be replaced by Nanny State Day. [...]
Moral Equivalence
Moral Equivalence. I despise these words. Whenever this phrase is used, nine times out of ten, religious zealots are invoking it in order to justify their petty bigotries. By invoking the logical fallacy of moral equivalence, zealots state that their morals are absolute because they come from God, never mind that there isn’t a single [...]
We don’t need no steenkin’ Personal Responsibility!
It’s nice to see parents taking an interest in the online behavior of their children, and then taking the appropriate measures to ensure their children are protected and aren’t misbehaving. Oh, wait…. Girl, 14, sues MySpace over alleged sex assault AUSTIN, Texas – A 14-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted by another user [...]
Musings
As a treatment for my writer’s block, a friend of mine suggested that I write about my feelings. Truth be told, this is rather difficult as I don’t like discussing my feelings with anyone. My feelings, my emotions, are just that: mine. No one else’s. Simply put, I don’t like it when others try to [...]
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