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2008-06-18T09:22:00.001+08:00

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Live Earth Makes Me SICK!!!

2007-07-13T00:02:00.000+08:00

This Live Earth Shit just really pisses me off 'cuz it wreaks with hipocrisy. The climate nazis know no bounds, and if Gore calls us global warming deniers, I have every right to call them climate nazis.

Making this argument as short and brief as possible, let's look at some simple facts.... co2 makes up less than ONE HALF of ONE PERCENT of the atmosphere, and according to NASA, 98% of it is there due to NATURAL causes. And about Co2 CAUSING rises in temperature, COMPLETE CRAP. Rises in CO2 FOLLOW rises in temperature, or at least have throughout the history of the earth itself.

An EXCELLENT presentation by Dr. Lee C. Gerhard, State Geologist and Director of the Kansas Geological Survey showing information gathered by Khilyuk, L.F. and Chilingar, G.V. 2006 shows that spikes in CO2 in the atmosphere FOLLOW rises in the climate temperature, and DO NOT PRECEED it! and this chorus being sung by the environmental nazis about unanimous consent among the scientific comnunity about global warming, that is complete horseshit.

Dr. Lee C. Gerhard is not the only one who "denies" the global warming myth. Both the head of NASA, Michael Griffin, and The worlds top hurricane forecaster, William Gray, say Gore does not know what he is talking about.

One of the most heavily publicized "proof" of scientific consensus in the last decade concerning climate change has been the Oreskes Study [Oreskes, Naomi. “The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change” Science Vol.306, 3 December 2004 Vol. 1686] as stated by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But, when results of a surveys used in these study are looked at IN DETAIL, they suggest just the OPPOSITE.

For example, one question on the survey asked “To what extent do you agree or disagree that climate change is mostly the result of anthropogenic causes? This question had a mean score of 3.62 (on a scale of 1 to 7 with 1=strongly agree and 7=strongly disagree). THIS is NOT consensus especially when you find out that ONLY 9.4% of the respondents “strongly agree”. with that statement. In other words, LESS than 10% is consensus as far as the Oreskes study has been represented. Detailed results of the (above/Oreskes) study published in Science, Vol 306, Issue 5702, 1686 , 3 December 2004 the IPCC is not a scientific entity, it is simply a political body of the UN. There is NO science there and never was.

Let's see how quick this gets negative comments. Just remember, I QUOTE FACTS AND PEOPLE. I did not make any of this up off the top of my head like someone's whose electric bill is 20X the national average, lives in a mansion w/a heated pool, flys around in jets, and tells others to take coffee cups from home when they go to starbucks.

Check out this video if you don't believe me, HERE or here.

KaptainHook.com

2006-03-03T03:23:00.000+08:00

KaptainHook.com
My wife left me...

I don't understand.

After the last child was born, she told me we had to cut back on
expenses -
I had to give up drinking beer.
I was not a big drinker, maybe a 12-pack on weekends.

Anyway, I gave it up but I noticed the other day when she came
home from grocery shopping the receipt included $45 in makeup.

I said, "Wait a minute I've given up beer and you haven't given
up anything!"

She said, "I buy that makeup for you, so I can look pretty for
you."

I told her, "Hell, that's what the beer was for!"

I don't think she'll be back

Goodbye Grandpa

2006-02-07T07:17:00.000+08:00

Actor-comedian Al Lewis, who played Grandpa on the famed 1960s sitcom "The Munsters," died Friday night, friends said yesterday.

Lewis was widely reported to have been born in 1910, but his son Ted said yesterday that his father was born in 1923 and was 82. With an unforgettable face and an ever-present cigar, in his later years "Grandpa Al" became a popular New York restaurant owner who was active in politics and even ran for governor.

Lewis was born Albert Meister in upstate New York and was raised in Brooklyn. He worked as a salesman, waiter, poolroom owner, store detective, circus clown and vaudeville performer, and along the way he earned a Ph.D. in child psychology from Columbia University.

Then television made him famous, first in the role of Officer Leo Schnauser on the police sitcom "Car 54, Where Are You?" - which ran from 1961 to 1963 - and then as the vampire Grandpa Munster on "The Munsters" from 1964 to 1966.

"The Munsters" especially has enjoyed an extended life in reruns worldwide.

"You have no idea of the love I get from total strangers because of 'The Munsters,' " Lewis once told the Daily News.

Later, he ran a brokerage firm in Los Angeles for a time and made cameo appearances in a number of Hollywood films, including "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" and "Married to the Mob."

Moving back to New York in the '90s, Lewis opened Grandpa's restaurant in Greenwich Village and got into politics. In 1998, he ran for governor and got 50,000 votes as the Green Party candidate.

"Some people thought his antics were over the top, such as when he remarked at a Capitol press conference that the way to get rid of PCBs in the Hudson was to get a big spoon and feed it to the CEOs of GE," recalled Mark Dulea, the party's campaign manager at the time. "He told me later, 'You have to act a little crazy to get the media to write about you. But the real people, the people on the streets, they understand what you are saying when they hear the joke.' "

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...Then The Grizzly Ate Them For Lunch

2006-02-05T21:27:00.000+08:00

EXPEDITION 2003
Timothy Treadwell
The Grizzly Maze, Alaska
Sunday, September 14, 2003

Roland...
Hello! I am writing you a last letter for the journey. My last food delivery is scheduled for late today.

My transformation complete—a fully accepted wild animal—brother to these bears. I run free among them—with absolute love and respect for all the animals. I am kind and viciously tough.

People—especially the bear experts of Alaska—believe this cannot be done. Some even bet on my death. They are sure you must have some sort of weapon for defense—pepper spray at the least, an electric fence a must. And you cannot hope to make it in a flimsy tent under thick cover among one of Earth's largest gatherings of giant brown grizzly bears.

People who knowingly enter bear habitat with pepper spray, guns, and electric fences are committing a crime to the animals. They begin with the accepted idea of bringing instruments of pain to the animals. If they are that fearful, then they have no place in the land of this perfect animal.

Could I look at Dixon, Lilly, and their mother, Melissa, and tell them that I love them, that I will care for them, with a can of mace in my pocket? Does the fox or vole get zapped by the wicked sting of an electric fence for being curious?

This wilderness—the Grizzly Maze—had big problems not too many years ago. People who came to kill the animals. I was threatened with death. One group promising to stuff me alive in a crab pot and submerge it in the icy sea.

They are gone now. The Maze returned to the animals.

You made this possible. I am a miserable fundraiser. Without you these animals would have been left without any care. Care that I can offer them without any displacement or disrespect. I even erase my footprints.

. . . You got me here for so many years. I will always remember and be thankful. . . . I will tell [the bears] of your kindness and generosity. Animals alive because of you. Myself included.

Sincerely,
Timothy Treadwell

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A Screw & A Nut.... orLesbian Leaving, We Gotta Go Homo.

2006-02-05T20:41:00.000+08:00

Except from Rev. Willie Wilson’s sermon on July 3:
Listen!!!!

“… We live in a time when our brothers have been so put down, can’t get a job, lot of the sisters making more money than brothers. And it’s creating problems in families. That’s one of the reasons our families’ breaking up. And that’s one of the reasons many of our women are becoming lesbians.

You got to be careful when you say you don’t need no man. I can make it by myself. Well, if you don’t need a man, what’s left? Lesbianism is about to take over our community. I’m talking about young girls. My son in high school last year, trying to go to the prom, he said, ‘Dad, I ain’t got nobody to take to the prom because all the girls in my class are gay. There ain’t but two of them straight and both of them are ugly. I ain’t got nobody to take to the prom.’

Now, can I talk here? I ain’t homophobic, because everybody in here got something wrong with him. Whoever you point at, you can point at your own self. You got something wrong with your life. But when you get down to this thing, women falling down on another woman, strapping yourself up with something, it ain’t real. That thing ain’t got no feeling in it. It ain’t natural. Any time somebody got to slap some grease on your behind, and stick something in you, it’s something wrong with that. Your butt ain’t made for that. [Audience shouts and yells its approval in the background.] You got blood vessels and membranes in your behind. And if you put something unnatural in there, it breaks them all up. No wonder your behind is bleeding.

It’s destroying us. Can’t make no connection with a screw and another screw. The Bible says God made them male and female. The Hebrew word "neged," which means complementary nature — there is something unique to man and unique to woman and it takes those two things to complement each other.

You can’t make a connection with two screws. It takes a screw and a nut! (shouting).”

Listen!!!!

Are The Chickens Coming Home To Roost???

2006-02-04T02:46:00.000+08:00

Several government reports this week tell the story. For the first year since the Great Depression, the personal savings rate went negative in 2005. Pay and benefits, meanwhile, rose just 3.1 percent last year - the lowest rate since 1996 and not enough to outpace a 3.4 percent jump in the consumer price index. Looks like the party's over, buckle up and hold on.

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Bittorrent - All You Need To Know

2006-02-03T19:51:00.000+08:00

What the vast majority of Balloon-Knot readers want to know is how to download files over BitTorrent. That's a question I can answer in a single sentence: Install a client, visit a tracker and click on one of the files ending in .torrent. If you want more than that, I'll refer you to the almighty Wikipedia.

But which client to use? Ah, see, here is the part where everyone gets picky. There are a dozen or so truly robust clients for the PC, and about five or six for Mac and Linux. As is always the case, everyone has a favorite, and each client has a core group of devotees.

In this article, we'll examine all of the major BitTorrent clients, looking at their advantages, disadvantages and some of the coolest features. First, however, I think it might be appropriate to back up a little bit and take a closer look at the technology (and the lingo) behind BitTorrent.

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Howeird The Hypocrite

2006-02-03T19:31:00.000+08:00

Howeird Sperm, Mr. Fuck the FCC himself, and his Sirius Satellite Company have now enlisted the FCC to Fuck with Pirate Radio and go after Illegal Filesharing copies of his new show. Howeird, who left testicle radio due to the FCC's persecuation of him, now (unadmittedly) embraces the FCC for it's aid to control piracy of his show.

Here's The PROOF!

All I can say is one thing.... F-HOWARD!

Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., which liberated radio shock jock Howard Stern from the federal decency standards that he felt had shackled him, is finding that freedom's just another word for $500 million to lose.

Since Jan. 9, when Stern debuted on Sirius, pirated versions of the shows have been made available for free via several online file-sharing networks just hours after Stern signs off. The New York-based broadcaster signed Stern to a five-year, half-billion-dollar contract in 2004.

Now, Sirius is, in a word, furious. "We don't condone the stealing of Howard's show, or any of the content on our more than 125 channels," Sirius spokesman Patrick Reilly said. "We vigorously protect our intellectual property rights and we will actively prosecute those who attempt to steal it."

It is not known how many Stern fans are sidestepping Sirius' $12.95-a-month subscription fee by illegally downloading his show. Because most hard-core fans are used to listening to the show in their cars, presumably many of them would subscribe rather than wait until they're in front of a computer screen.

And there is no question that Stern has been good for Sirius, which added 1.1 million subscribers in the last quarter of 2005. The company, which is behind industry leader XM Satellite Radio, reports 3.3 million listeners and expects to reach 6 million by the end of the year.

But ever since Stern traded the terrestrial airwaves for satellite, fans of his frequent interviews with porn stars have found ways to tune in to the self-proclaimed "King of All Media" for free.

A few weeks ago, when the first pirate radio stations began rebroadcasting Stern's show on unclaimed radio frequencies in New York and New Jersey, Sirius immediately notified the enforcement bureau of the Federal Communications Commission — the very body against which Stern has so frequently railed. The FCC in 2004 cited Stern's show on Clear Channel for "repeated graphic and explicit sexual descriptions."

Sirius also moved quickly to crack down on websites that streamed audio broadcasts of the Stern show. The broadcaster sent cease-and-desist letters protesting such "blatant and willful infringements" and threatening to sue unless the underground broadcasters immediately went silent.

But as each one shut down, it seemed, another sprang up.

Stern referred requests for an interview to Sirius on Wednesday. But he has raised the piracy issue on his show with a subtlety that is not his usual forte. Walking a very fine line, Stern has praised the renegade spirit that drives some fans to refuse to pay for what they used to get for free and he has pleaded with folks to just pay "42 cents a day."

Just as the rock band Metallica experienced when it first came out against illegal downloads of its music, Stern risks sparking a backlash. After all, this is the man who built his in-your-face persona around flogging federal regulators, who he claimed were the enemies of creative expression.

There already are signs that after dishing out such criticism for so long, Stern better get ready to take it.

"Mr. Freedom of Speech himself. Mr. $500,000,000 has ordered me to shut down my PERSONAL Web site that some people stumbled upon," wrote the operator of http://www.hearhoward.org , according to the Rocky Mountain News. The site made Stern's show available for free but with a disclaimer that only Sirius subscribers should use it.

BayTSP, a Los Gatos, Calif., firm that monitors online piracy for the entertainment industry, found digital audio files of every episode of Stern's Sirius show on every major file-sharing network.

"It's going to impact the Sirius radio subscribers," said Mark Ishikawa, BayTSP's chief executive. "Why would you pay $13 a month when you can get what you want from the Internet?"

Although no one can know the total number of Stern stealers, it is clear that Stern is a runaway hit among file sharers. His shows are more popular than the TV show "Gilmore Girls" and just behind Fox's "The Simpsons," said Eric Garland, CEO of BigChampagne, an online media measurement firm in Los Angeles.

The proliferation of sites offering Stern's shows for free is an unintended result of Sirius' consumer-friendly technology. Home adapter kits, designed so customers can plug their Sirius radio tuners into home stereo systems, can just as easily be connected to a computer. There, anyone with the right piece of software can convert the show to a digital audio file that can be redistributed online.

Sirius warned investors about the threat of piracy in a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It noted that although it uses encryption to foil those who would try to listen to its broadcasts without paying, those protections might not always prevent theft. If such bootlegging became widespread, "it could harm our business," the company acknowledged.

But a little unauthorized exposure might not be all bad for Stern, whose curly-haired mug recently graced the cover of Esquire and New York magazines.

Industry analysts say people who hear Stern's show on their computer might enjoy it so much, they'll end up subscribing. Without the illegal downloads, it could be argued, Stern runs the risk of being out of earshot, out of mind.

"My view is that the more exposure, the better," said Jeff Pollack, CEO of Pollack Media Group. "If I find content very compelling, I might say, 'Wow, I sure want to be able to catch that every day.' "

But then again, Pollack said with a laugh, "I wasn't the one who signed the check."

The folks who sign the checks — and will do so for the foreseeable future — aren't laughing.

"Pirated broadcasts are a lousy way to listen to Howard," Sirius' Reilly said. "The best way is through a Sirius subscription."

Some longtime Stern fans agree.

"When it comes down to it, if you're a true Howard fan, you want to support his endeavor," said Pokai Liao of Irvine, a Sirius subscriber. "If you want him around for five years, you're gonna pay the $12.95."

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Danish Cartoons

2006-02-03T00:04:00.000+08:00

U.S. Military - Mars In 3 Hours

2006-02-02T09:57:00.000+08:00

The basic concept is this: according to the paper's authors - Jochem Häuser, a physicist and professor of computer science at the University of Applied Sciences in Salzgitter and Walter Dröscher, a retired Austrian patent officer - if you put a huge rotating ring above a superconducting coil and pump enough current through the coil, the resulting large magnetic field will "reduce the gravitational pull on the ring to the point where it floats free".

The origins of this "repulsive anti-gravity force" and the hyperdrive it might power lie in the work of German scientist Burkhard Heim, who - as part of his attempts to reconcile quantum mechanics and Einstein's general theory of relativity - formulated a theoretical six-dimensioned universe by bolting on two new sub-dimensions to Einstein's generally-accepted four (three space, one time).

As New Scientist explains, Heim's two extra dimensions allowed him to couple together gravity and electromagnetism, and permits conversion of electromagnetic energy into gravitational and vice-versa - something not possible according to Einstein's four dimensions, because "you cannot change the strength of gravity simply by cranking up the electromagnetic field".

Heim, then, proposed that "a rotating magnetic field could reduce the influence of gravity on a spacecraft enough for it to take off" - an idea which caught the eye of Wernher von Braun when it was first proposed in 1959 and the rocket scientist was working on the US's Saturn launch vehicle.

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Kapp

2006-02-02T03:58:00.000+08:00

Muhammed Atta Jr.

2006-02-02T02:55:00.000+08:00

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Happy Birthday To Steve

2006-01-30T20:56:00.000+08:00

Tonite - All Marriott On Midnite Radio*
(*starting this afternoon)

Some Infamous Marriott Fans:

Johhny Thunders:
Around 1977, just when the Sex Pistols (and others) were finally tipping a nod to the influence of the Small Faces (and Marriott) - in fact a German mag called the Small Faces "The Damned of the Sixties" - Johnny Thunders declared in the press how much he loved Steve Marriott.
Steve guests on Thunders "So Alone" album.

Ozzy:
Ozzy has said in print that he was a huge Marriott fan and he thought Marriott's voice sounded so strong on stage that he had to be lip synching.
Marriott never needed to do that. Regularly when playing arenas live, Marriott would cast the mike to the ground, and shout a passage of the song to the audience, and be heard by all.

Come Drink With Me...

2006-01-27T08:59:00.000+08:00

Naomi Thunders

2006-01-27T08:56:00.000+08:00

Free Classic Superman Cartoons!

2006-01-25T06:43:00.000+08:00

Dodge Challenger BACK!

2006-01-24T22:52:00.000+08:00

About

Y P2P Will Bring Down Big Media...

2006-01-24T21:45:00.000+08:00

F*ck Big Media:Rolling Your Own Network
Mark PesceLecturer, Interactive Media, AFTRSmarkp@aftrs.edu.au http://www.playfulworld.com/

Now we all know that P2P networks are havens for those among us who show no regard for copyright. I myself have used BitTorrent to watch all of the 4th season episodes of Six Feet Under (currently airing in Australia) just so I could keep up with my friends in the USA. But BitTorrent has legitimate uses as well. Open Source software projects, such as Redhat Fedora LINUX are distributed via BitTorrent. Robert Greenwald, bless his heart, has just released all of the interviews from Outfoxed as a 500 MB MPEG file, suitable for editing and remixing, and that, too, was released via BitTorrent. (That was a popular file - it only took me about 30 minutes to download.) Watchdog groups in the USA have begun to release the video recordings of Congressional hearings on BitTorrent. And on and on and on. BitTorrent is the future, and it's the thing that's going to wreck commercial TV as we know it.

What makes me say that?

We all know that we're in the midst of a transition to digital TV - I myself have a card for my home PC which allows me to receive the five free-to-air networks via digital transmission. The most interesting thing about the DVB signal - the standard for transmission of digital TV in Australia - is that it uses MPEG2 format for audiovisual data, in a format which is very close to the standard used on DVDs. In fact it is very easy for me to record an off-the-air broadcast and burn it to DVD. I've done that with season 5 of The Sopranos, which aired on Nine Network. My digital TV card also includes software which allows me to record the broadcasts to my hard disk, so I can watch them later on - just as if I had a VCR.

I have broadband coming into my home, and a fairly sophisticated home network - as you might imagine - so my web server can see the areas of my PCs hard disk where I keep the recordings made by my digital TV. That means that I can access my website anywhere in the world and check out what programs I've got recorded. I can even choose to download them from my website to whatever machine I'm using. This means that wherever I am in the world, I can watch the programs I've recorded. And, if I give someone else the URL for this website, so can they.

Ok, just a minute hereÉ Doesn't this mean that I've become a television broadcaster? I mean really, what's the difference between someone getting the bits for an episode of The Sopranos from Nine Digital or from my website? Bits are bits are bits, and because of that, they'll be the same bits, whether they come from Nine or from me. So why would anyone willingly watch Nine at the time that the Nine programmer has decided to air The Sopranos when they can watch it whenever they want just by downloading the bits from my website?

Once the TV producers figure this out, it's all over for the networks. After all, wouldn't TimeWarner (which owns HBO) rather have you pay them directly to watch an episode of The Sopranos? They'd make more money than they would from Nine Network. Now truthfully piracy would be rampant in that environment, but it's rampant in the current environment - it takes about four hours between when an episode of The Sopranos premieres on HBO and when it premieres on BitTorrent. Which is just about long enough to convert the broadcast from a fat MPEG2 file to a slimmed down DivX recording.

Piracy is the price a producer pays for living in the digital age. We've heard the record companies and the movie studios bitch and moan about the money lost to piracy - even as they declare ever-greater profits. They want all the benefits of digital distribution, without paying any of the associated prices. Well, fuck them. They can't have it both ways.

Within a decade - and perhaps a lot sooner - the television networks will have been deprived of nearly all their pre-produced programming. Television will become a live medium - as it was in its beginning, so it will be in its old age. Sports, news and event programming (terror attacks and awards shows) will be the staples for broadcasting in the 21st century. Advertisers will love live television - because it's where the people are - but never again will a television broadcaster be able to dictate to you what you can watch and when you can watch it. Those days are already past - at the price of a small crime of copyright violation.

All this means that as the Internet rises, broadcast television falls. That means cable as well as free-to-air broadcasters, because cable will also be competing against this Internet-based television. As more and more material becomes more consistently available to the TV viewer, the trend will be away from the circumscribed choices offered by the TV channel (five or five hundred channels, neither are very alluring when compared to the near-infinity of programming available over the Internet already) and toward the Internet.

Which gives all of this triumph of the media megacorps the flavor of a Greek Tragedy: when they reached their zenith of power, at that moment the seeds of their downfall were sewn.

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Check out IBTV

Some Great P2P Broadcasters:

Streamer

PeerCast

Freecast

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http://www.infoanarchy.org/story/2005/5/7/184955/1184

http://ezinearticles.com/?Peer-to-Peer-Internet-Video-Broadcasting&id=60862

Keef

2006-01-21T02:56:00.000+08:00

TUNINGS:

OPEN G:
D,G,D,G,B,D low to high. Known as Russian Tuning. Since root chords tend to appear at the 5th string in open G, remove the 6th string, it just gets in the way. Songs such as Honky Tonk Women (their first hit recorded in open G), Start Me Up,Tumbling Dice, Happy, Brown Sugar, You Can't Always Get What You Want, and solo songs such as How I Wish are all played in open G.

OPEN D:
D,A,D,F#,A,D low to high. Used on Street Fighting Man, Jumping Jack Flash & Child Of The Moon.

NASHVILLE TUNING:
Makes your guitar sound like a 12 string (ie. Mick Taylor's guitar on Wild Horses was in Nashville tuning). The first 2 strings are strung normally and the lower strings, replaced with smaller gauges, are strung an octave higher than normal. It gives it a nice ring like a 12 string.

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2006-01-14T22:54:00.000+08:00

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