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| pagan quiz |
[Aug. 25th, 2006|03:11 am] |
| You scored as Ecclectic Pagan. A veritable blend of all the pantheons and perhaps a dash of a few other religions as well, you're the versitile Ecclectic Pagan. You have no problem wearing an ankh while setting an offering to Herne on your alter just below your image of Hera. You don't believe in coloring within the lines, and are a bright free-thinker. While you respect the views of your fellow pagans, as far as you're concerned, religion is the sky, and there's no one about to clip your wings with lines and limitations.
Ecclectic Pagan | | 100% | Zoroastrian Pagan | | 75% | Shamanic Pagan | | 65% | Eastern Pagan | | 50% | Roman Pantheonic Pagan | | 50% | Sumerian, Babylonian, and Mesopotamian Pagans | | 50% | Kabbalistic Pagan | | 50% | Greek Pantheonic Pagan | | 45% | Celtic Pantheonic Pagan | | 40% | Norse Pantheonic Pagan (Asatru) | | 35% | Egyptian Pantheonic Pagan | | 30% | Catholic (Pagan?) | | 5% | </td>
What kind of Pagan are you?
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| hot sci-fi babes |
[Aug. 12th, 2006|04:58 am] |
Just a really stupid list of geekdom superhotties:
Enterprise: T'pol (and its not like the writers/camera guys took every , , opportunity to exploit that hotness or anything)
DS9: Ezri Dax (fuck you I like her!)
Voyager: 7 of 9 (like any list would be complete without her)
DS9: Evil Kira (she's just hotter than normal Kira, sorry)
Farscape: Chianna
Farscape: Chianna
Farscape: Chianna (oh sorry , i got stuck for a minute, uh.. let me just , clean off this keyboard now.
Farscape: The frozen red head chick that screams real loud
Farscape: the other red head chick that controls her gravity center
Farscape: the crazy old 3 eyed witch lady (I'm sorry I have no idea why , , just that i would do her ok? i'm just sick like that
Voyager: kes (oh gods she's hot)
Voyager: B'elanna Torres
Next Generation: Troi (sure, she served no purpose, but look at that ass!)
Farscape: Furlow (okay now I'm just being sick. Yes, I mean the fat engineer chick. I don't know, but I'd do her. Guess I'm just attracted to girls that want it, and aren't afraid to say so. I mean if they're cute that's a definite plus; but you gotta love a girl that works on spaceships.)
Farscape: Nearly any girl that walks on the set of farscape. Well, except Aryn Suun |
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| Rigel is the Anti-Yoda! |
[Aug. 12th, 2006|04:28 am] |
If you don't (or won't) watch Farscape don't even bother reading this; it won't make much sense.
In fact even if you do watch Farscape you probably shouldn't waste your time. Unless you're just really that much of a geek that this would interest you.
For that matter I shouldn't really waste my own time writing it, but let's us just face it; I'm bored.
God your pathetic, okay fine then, here goes:
Its like they were coming up with characters and thought; "We need one as cool as Yoda(tm) one that will immediately catch on in the public psyche. No wait I've got it! an Anti-Yoda!"
okay, so he's gotta have the big pointy ears. check.
short and wrinkly? check.
Green? well, kinda.
Cute in a really ugly kinda way? Um, How bout really ugly in a "I'm still ugly kinda way"?
But this is farscape, and we wanna be different, sci-fi with ATTITUDE! so, the ANTI-Yoda!
Lets brainstorm guys, take everything yoda stands for and turn it upside down:
(just remember i'm talking Luke(tm)'s Yoda(tm) here, NOT that crappy Phantom Menace, Episode I-III bullshit cgi yoda!)
oh yeah back to what yoda stands for:
Y: right
AY:Wrong
Y:Wisdom
AY:uh, Cunning, conniving,
Y:Benevolent
AY: Greed!!
Y:Lived in a crappy hut all alone eating swamp gruel for the last 100 yrs or so (give or take)
AY: well, prison cell, but before that Royal Palace drenched in slave girls, food , and general opulence.
Y: Loyal servant of a higher power
AY: Domineering Regent (we'll call him Dominar) who expects satisfaction of his every whim
Y:has magical powers of the force
AY: farts helium? how bout we make him practically incapable of moving without his floaty chair?
Y:Makes Luke his loving apprentice (plz don't start the fanfic!)
AY:Makes Chrichton (and everyone else) Hate him even more, every frelling day.
Y: "Master"
AY: "Sparky"
Y: speaks weird does he
AY: well, he speaks like a dominar i guess, ok this is getting pretty lame
Aren't you glad you played?
Maybe next week we'll compare Moya to a Taun-taun.
Or D'argo to a wookie?
maybe a wookie slash Twi'lek?
ok but I get to be the ewok this time. |
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| "i'm just doing my job" |
[Aug. 12th, 2006|03:31 am] |
anyone who ever says this to you deserves to be punched in the face.
Every being on this Earth has a moral imperative to do what they feel is right. Any time they violate that imperative, in whatever way, no matter how small, they have chosen to do so of their own free will. No matter what the consequence or reward of that choice may be, it is still their OWN decision.
Judas (Iscariot?) sold jesus out for 30 shekels. How much do you get paid per hour at your job? Is it enough to sacrifice your beliefs for? Are you being paid enough to do whatever your employers may ask? No matter how it affects another person?
How much money would it take for you to kill someone you'd never met? For reasons you either did not understand, or did not believe in?
Understand! the point is not that every minor inconvenience you cause someone in the course of your job equals the same as murder. This is NOT the point. The point is, that blaming your "job" for your actions is ludicrous. Every action you take in the name of profit is YOUR decision to make. You have weighed the outcome of your action versus the amount you are being paid; you have made your decision based on its affect to your livelihood, and chosen to do what you felt was best. Period.
Never blame your superiors, you are NOT a mindless zombie, wether you choose to live as one or not. You ARE the choices you make; wether you choose to follow your heart, your wallet, or your sense of security and/or duty.
The point is that "I'm just doing my job" or any other variation thereof, is just a lame and ultimately FALSE excuse. Admit it, you've chosen your path, and it was not money nor fear nor loyalty that steered you there. It was your OWN cognitive ability. YOUR choice, YOUR decision, YOUR own guidance and counsel. If your actions violated your moral imperative then that is your own fault. At least have some balls about it. Admit freely and openly that you are a bastard, and, in this case at least, have chosen to put your own benefit ahead of that of others.
It is wrong to say "just doing my job" even if you are a firefighter saving a life. (Although almost no one will call you on it) Why? Because, stupid, you CHOSE that profession! Sure, maybe it was the only good job available in your town, maybe you only joined to get chicks, maybe you could give a fuck less about the people you saved. Do you really want to tell that to their family? Because, really, maybe you meant to just be modest, but the reality of what you're saying to them is "Nah really, I could give a fuck less if your kid lived or died, I just like my paychecks" and "Hey, fuck you, I only risked my life in there for the money-I'm just that greedy!" Take some credit when you have to, honestly; your sense of humanity deserves better than to be shoved in a closet under the heading; "its just my job" If you take pride in what you do, you should never be ashamed to admit it; to admit that you chose that profession. But if you find yourself using your job as a scapegoat for your actions, its time to find a better career.
Wow, I think i managed to get through this whole article without mentioning Hitler even once. Yay for me! |
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| vandals |
[Aug. 8th, 2006|11:11 pm] |
so my little 87 cavalier has been parked in our back lot (the alley) forever now; awaiting the day when i can just get enough money to fix it. its been broken into once. they tried to pry up the trunk lid, no deal, but they did manage to pop out the rear driver side window. they didnt find anything worth stealing, so they just kinda threw stuff around, popped the hood and yanked a bunch of plug wires loose. Then the next day someone smashed the windshield, no apparent reason. Now they've smashed out the driver side window. Every time this shit happens i thank GOD that the police are watching over us, protecting me and my loved ones. I'm sure they'll catch the bad guys for me, just like they always do. And of course, our fine justice system will make sure that whoever did this will replace the window for me. Because I truly believe in the effectiveness of American Justice.
Does anyone know where i can get a good cross-bow for cheap? |
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| War |
[Aug. 4th, 2006|01:37 am] |
There is a war going on. And it seems like the vast majority of ppl on this planet don't even know it. Perhaps they are distracted by all the little IRL wars going on right now; Iraq, Israel, Lebanon. Or more likely there are just not enough ppl who are "plugged in" enough to realize what the internet is really all about. Oh sure, they hear stories, they know everything the television tells them. But your television is lying.
TV can't help it really, I mean its strictly a one way communication format; no matter how many times you "vote" on american idol. Besides, half of you go to the internet to cast your pathetic votes anyway. And that's barely a flea on the tip of the iceberg of where the war starts. Napster was a much bigger blip on the radar; but still, it was barely a beginning and not even that. Napster was more like a visible symptom of what was already in progress.
I shall call this war "The Data War" and its far bigger than most of you think. Its not just about mp3s, nor even just about filesharing. Its about EVERY SINGLE METHOD OF COMMUNICATION ON THIS PLANET. And eventually perhaps beyond. The entire economic structure of all media and all forms of communication on this earth are going through a massive revolution; they are all being dragged towards a completely new orbit, whose axis is the internet. I think we could even call this world war III. Who knew it wouldn't be about nukes?
Television:
As I was hinting, TV is being sucked down into the WWW like a toy boat in a toilet. Why bother paying for cable TV when you can download all your favorite shows with your broadband connection? Sure Tivo is nice, but why bother? I don't have to set a stupid box to record all my favorite shows, i just jump online and grab them whenever I want. Usually commercial free even. (unless you count the banner ads on the torrent site)
Telephone:
Ma Bell has been scrambling for a while now, what with competition from all those other services due to the big break up. Now its also fighting cellphones; but thats nothing. Go over to http://Skype.com . I don't even own a working telephone right now, of any kind. A cell phone would be nice , but i just can't afford it yet. So free Voice Over IP (voip) works fine for right now. And when i get a few dolllars together I might even pay to get incoming calls. Ma Bell will probably survive though, they offer internet service. Not as fast as cable, but its a start.
Porn:
Do I even need to go there? srsly, just goto http://thehun.com . I'm sure there's probably better sites out there; anyone know of a good free pornshare community? I mean i assume one exists already; how hard can it be to set up a community site where ppl just trade naked pics of eachother? I mean other than fighting with uptight christian moral police.
Movies:
You still buy DVDs? why? i mean unless its some really obscure title, just save yourself the $15-$50 at the store. Srsly, you can use all that money yr wasting to buy a new hard drive. You'll need it, because burned dvds skip too much. The only reason i can think of to actually buy a DVD is for ripping it to your computer, and then only because blockbuster has a shitty selection. Try netflix instead. Otherwise, I would suggest going to see it at the theater, I mean they DO have a bigger screen, and after all, you gotta leave the basement once in a while.
Music:
I shouldn't even have to mention mp3s. Its the first thing everyone thinks about. Still, there are some things to talk about. Buying an mp3 is like paying a bouncer to let you into a concert for free. At a rate of say 1 cent per song, how much do you really think the artist is making off your mp3 purchase? After the label's cut? Last I heard even IRL album sales only paid the artist pennies per purchase; what the hell makes you think your pathetic investment helps your favorite band at all? Why do you think t-shirts cost $20 at a concert? Why do you suppose these "big rich rock stars" tour all year round and charge $50 a head just for you to see them one time? They do it because the label is "kind" enough to LOAN them the money to even go on tour. Its a loan they desperately need too. because without ticket sales and t-shirt sales at every stop, they don't make SHIT! Hasn't it ever occurred to you to wonder why they right so many songs about the trials of being "on the road"? Would you spend half your life jammed in a tour bus with your bandmates, thousands of miles from your girlfriend/wife and children if you could sit on your ass and watch royalties pile up from your penny-a-piece mp3 downloads? Quit being a stupid asshole; if you want to "support the artist" go to their next concert, and buy a damn shirt! Anything else is just supporting their label/slavemaster. New bands sign horrible record contracts because they believe they HAVE to. But it usually turns out to be little more than a loanshark arrangement. Show the artist a better way. Don't buy their albums; go to their show instead.
Supporting major record labels is just plain wrong, and not just for the reasons above; it inhibits creativity, diversity, and just plain art in general. Think about how the system works. As I said its alot like a loan arrangement. Ever try to get a loan? Are banks looking for an exciting new investment on some crazy new business idea? No, they are looking for a stable, tried and true method that they already know is making money. Does that sound like rock and roll to you? Because its exactly how major record labels operate. They pick up an act that is either already successful, or sounds just like one that is. That's why every time some "new sound" comes out, the radio is flooded with other bands that sound just like it. Think about the "Seattle Sound" that came out in the 90s; SubPop (a small indie label) had already found huge success with Nirvana and such; big labels like geffen came in and scooped up every grunge band they could find. Pretty soon we were hearing shit like 7 mary 3 and Creed. Pretty soon you couldn't turn on the radio without hearing some whiny, heartfelt voice bleating out their personal problems over a pawnshop guitar doing three chords through a fuzz pedal. Hey, Pearl Jam is fine, but do we really need to hear every fucking band that sounds like them? I mean its not art, its formula; fuzz pedal + flannel + gravelly whine = airplay. Record labels are NOT fountains of artistic merit, they are the Down Syndrome of music and must be destroyed!
Well that last bit was a fun rant Ah, where was I? oh yeah:
The Internet:
yes, the internet itself is also under attack, or more specifically, the ISP's (Internet Service Providers) Maybe you've heard about wardriving? Its the practice of driving around looking for free wireless network connections. The link to wiki there will tell you more, (like "ethics") but you may not need to even leave your house to find a good wifi network to tap into. I mean why pay $50 a month to time warner when you can get a connection to the internet free (because its not as fast--yet) the city of New Orleans set up a FREE wireless internet system over the whole damn city in the aftermath of Katrina, so its citizens would have a vital communications link after some hurricane/flood dealie wiped out land lines and such all over town. What a great idea! Now everybody gets free internet! Gee, why don't they do that just everywhere? Well, because the Internet Service Providers who want you to PAY for their service are fighting against it, in court. Otherwise we'd probably all have free internet. Yes, there are service providers out there who really want to give it to you for FREE, but the government won't let them. Important rule of the internet: Whatever one company wants you to pay for, someone else will give away free. which brings us to:
Software:
My favorite is webattack.com Well, now its called SnapFiles or something gay, but either way. Sure, you can pirate software just like anything else on the web, but hell, these guys are GIVING it away. Its kind of a theme on the internet; the FREE exchange of information and data. Should you really give the richest man alive a hundred bucks or so for windows xp, when Linux actually works BETTER? I guess you'll just have to until Bill Gates lets go of his monopoly and major software developers start porting everything to Linux (which is still more stable, and far less succeptable to viruses (virii?) but hey, keep throwing your money away on a product that routinely screws you over, unless you want to join the fight. OR just make the best compromise and pirate windows. I've heard its like a $25,000 fine for every pirate version of windows they find on you, but until homeland security takes ALL your rights away, they've got no way to check without a warrant. Just don't download any child porn or anything. Really though, nearly every overpriced microsoft product i can think of has a competitor in the freeware realm, and most of the freeware actually works better. I have no idea why. All I know is that I'll take Firefox over MSIE any day. Hell, even Opera seems better. The point is, again, whatever someone wants to charge you for, someone else will give away free, pirates or not.
So, The internet is changing EVERYTHING. Not just music, or movie releases; but the fundamental economical systems behind ALL forms communication on this planet. Basically, if it can be broken down into ones and zeroes, its not financially sound anymore. I haven't got much else to say right now, (its late, im tired of typing) except that, the basic financial system of this world is going to change, radically; and there will be alot of casualties. In this war, we have a chance to finally topple evil regimes, or submit to them even further. We must seize power while we still can! They've got the funds, we've got the numbers. And in a world where the product is given away freely, money means nothing. All we have to do for now is keep it free, and freely moving. Keep producing the data, be it music, or movies, cartoons, games, programs, art, whatever; and make damn sure everyone gets it. |
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| car thieves |
[Jul. 17th, 2006|05:52 am] |
So the other day I got robbed. In broad daylight! Some guy came to my house with a gun, took like $270 (more than half my paycheck!) and stole my car, only to drop it off in some random place on spring grove avenue.
Did I call the police? Fuck no. The guy who robbed me WAS a cop. Even if he hadn't been what would they do? Had me fill out some paperwork while their other officers were busy having someone else's car towed for expired tags? I've dealt with cops before. They are fucking useless. Tell me how they protect us the next time YOU'RE getting shot at by some little 16 yr old punk. Or when some dude just robbed you and ran down an alley. Or broke into your car and smashed the windshield for fun.
You think we need them as a deterrent to crime. You're wrong. Think about it; how many times a day do you seriously considering snatching some lady's purse and running off down an alley, but then you don't do it just because your afraid of the police? How often do you really think seriously about beating some old lady to death in the middle of the night. Is the thought of the police is the only thing stopping you?
If your fear of cops is the only thing stopping you from raping that hot girl that sits next to you on the bus, you're pretty fucking sick. You're also wrong. Unless you're a total idiot the cops won't catch you. (you'd be surprised how low the actual "average" IQ is. There are a lot of morons bending the curve)
The point is, normal people don't just wanna rob rape and kill their fellow man just for fun. I'm pretty sure at least 80% have morals, and its not just about consequences. Still, there are people who don't. You really think the police are a deterrent to crime? How long have we had police in this country, in one form or another? 200+ yrs at least? And they've been steadily increasing their numbers all that time. And has the crime rate gone up or down in the last 100 years? Hell, maybe they increase it!
Look around town some time. How many parking benches have a picture of some dead guy on them, pleading for clues about his murder? How many T-shirts have you ever seen people wearing "in memory of" some poor relative or friend they know that got shot to death for no apparent reason. How many times do you have to see the phrase "RIP so-and-so" spray painted on a wall somewhere before you get the point? People get killed in our cities all the time, and no matter how much we watch "c.s.i." the murderers are not getting caught. You wanna get away with murder? Get a gun from somewhere and shoot some poor bastard at random in Over the Rhine late at night with no witnesses. Make damn sure he's dead, and then go throw the gun in the river. (file off the serial number too, duh!) Unless he just happened to be some congressman out looking for hookers, they'll never catch you, bet you a hundred dollars they won't. (obviously if you're dumb enough or morally deficient enough to take that bet you'll lose either way, and hopefully you'll find your way out of our gene pool)
Murder should be a big deal to us, its not. Even when it makes the nightly news, do you have trouble sleeping at night, wondering who the killer was? No. And neither do the cops; they're too busy writing parking tickets, or trying to keep our highways safe from people who love driving more than they do. Seriously, how many shootings and murder reports do they show on the news, and how many stories about the police actually catching the murderer? Sure, the "big" crimes get solved now and then, when its some rich white dude's family. Because the FBI gets involved. But not that one kid outside the club in bond hill, or that other guy in the ghetto somewhere; those are just a kind of "casualties of war" or "normal ghetto life"
But back to the story: the police in this nation are no more than a massive network of organized, nay, legalized crime. They take what they want, whenever they want. They can pull you out of your car, search you, dig around in your floorboards, and basically just get into your personal life whenever they want; all on "probable cause". And you don't dare try to fight them, because let's face it, they have guns. I almost punched that cop in the face the other day. I mean it very seriously went through my mind. But I didn't, only because I remained rational enough to decide it would not help my car getting towed. And he would probably just shoot me. Never did it occur to me that it would be in any way morally wrong to punch a cop; the fuckers deserve it.
I make about $1000 a month. With the tow fee and storage at their impound lot ($140) plus the ticket for expired tags ($70 I just forgot okay?) and finally about $50 for that stupid little sticker the size of a postage stamp, I had to give away nearly a quarter of my monthly wages. Never mind stomping around downtown, and spring grove ave, in the middle of heat wave, which was relieved only by a torrential downpour later. Of course I could have driven instead, but oh yeah, someone took my fucking car!
And you know, this might not bother me so much if I felt the cop was doing this for his own personal gain; greed I can understand. But he's not. Half my bi-weekly paycheck and that little hitler fuck doesn't see a penny of it. He just honestly feels its his moral duty to pull my car off the street. To punish evil doers who think they can just forget to renew the tags on their car, and live in the squalor of demonic irresponsibility. I smoke too btw, maybe you should put me in jail for my own good? Certainly my second-hand smoke is a danger to the public? Maybe you should just execute me for engaging in chemical warfare, even terrorism? But don't bother catching that guy who smashed my windshield in the middle of the night, or the 16 yr old who tried desperately to kill me for the $30 in my pocket. You know, honestly i have more respect for them than any police officer. At least they were acting in the name of personal gain. Instead of some bullshit excuse of moral duty, to enforce any little asswipe law that they may or may not even agree with, all on the grounds of "i'm just doing my job".
I wash dishes for a living now, I don't make a whole lot of money, but really neither do the cops. And if my employers asked me to go steal a customer's car for them, as part of my job; well, I think I might just find a different career. One that doesn't involve fucking up other's lives. |
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