Monthly Archive for April 2006

Strange Weather




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Originally uploaded by metzecki.

Heute Abend gab es eine schöne Konstellation von Wolken und Licht über Metzingen, da musste ich einfach die Kamera auspacken. Hier das Resultat.

Ist ganz Amerika auf Crack?

Ein netter Artikel eines Kanadiers über seine südlichen Nachbarn und deren Politik gegenüber dem Iran.

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Is Your Entire Country on Crack? - Brainshrub.com:

This entire crisis has been manufactured, and has been years in the making. Stop and think back five years. What did we have five years ago? A moderate reformist Iranian government making overtures to the United States, rebuilding its relationship with Europe, liberalizing its society, and modernizing its economy. Post 9/11 vigil in Iran.
9/11 comes along, the Iranians are overflowing with sympathy. Mass candlelit vigils are held in Tehran. Iran offers aid and cooperation. Iran hates the Taliban who have executed Iranian diplomats and massacred Afghan Shiites. Iran hates Saddam Hussein. Iran hates Al Qaeda which is a Sunni Fundamentalist organization which declares Shiites infidels and subhuman.
Iran shares its intelligence with America - they even arrested Taliban members and handed them over to US custody.So we’ve got the Iranian spring; things are finally going to sort out. And what happens? The Bush administration rebuffs every Iranian overture and does its best to instigate a cold war. Afghanistan is invaded, and suddenly, the Iranians are looking at American troops and allies on their eastern border. Then Iraq is invaded, and American troops and allies on their western border. Then bases and treaties in Uzbekistan, and whoops, there’s more American troops and allies on the northern border. The Persian Gulf is filled with American warships and carrier fleets.

Allemal lesenwert und auch nicht so bierernst geschrieben.

Shelley die Republikanerin

Ich bin gerade über den Blog von Shelley, der Republikanerin gestolpert. Es strotzt nur so von Patriotismus und Hass auf alles, das nicht US-amerikanisch ist, gewürzt mit einer Prise fundamentaler Religiösität:

Imagine if the State of the Union address were hacked because the TV station decided to save money by using Linux? Imagine if a stealth-bomber crashed because it’s software was written by anonymous Chinese or European hackers. It would make as much sense as inviting the French to come over and take over the White-House.

And guess what software Osama Bin Laden uses on his laptop?

If you guessed it was Linux you would be 100% right. Osama uses Linux because he knows designed to counterfit DVDs, curcumventing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and defraud companies like Disney.

Next time somebody asks you how Al Queda agents pay for their rifles and rocket launchers, you can tell them that foreign hackers make software called Linux which helps them steal from Americans.

Aus dem Artikel: Linux: A European threat to our computers (by Tristan)

Linux ist also kommunistisch, böse, gottlos und unterstützt Al Quaida…

Dear Friends
Europe is a good example of how America could look like if the leftwing liberals have their way.
The utter and complete lack of morals and the total destruction of family values are shockingly visible in todays Europe.

Aus: Europe: Liberal hell

Da bleibt nur zu hoffen, dass die Bemühungen der derzeitige Bundesregierung, der christlichen Religion wieder zu mehr Bedeutung zu verhelfen, erfolglos bleiben. Es reicht, wenn solche stumpfen schwarz-weiß Seher in den USA das Sagen haben.

Aber eigentlich ist es schon ein paar Lacher wert, vor allem die Diskussionen in den Kommentaren sind genial.

Noch ein Zitat aus dem Artikel “Gate to Hell/Seeking World Domination: GERMANY (”Hitlerdeutschland”)

“Angela Merkel” was involved in the NPD and other extreme nazi organizations in the late 70s. Merkel is an old fashioned German world for “Devils Advocate”.

Das ist so abstrus, das muss ein Fake sein :-D

Verdeckte Operationen der USA im Iran bereits im Gange

Via Bodo Staron:

TEHRAN - A former Iranian ambassador and Islamic Republic insider has provided intriguing details to Asia Times Online about US covert operations inside Iran aimed at destabilizing the country and toppling the regime - or preparing for an American attack.

“The Iranian government knows and is aware of such infiltration. It means that the Iranian government has identified them [the covert operatives] but for some reason does not want to show [this],” said the former diplomat on condition of anonymity.

Bitte hier weiterlesen: Asia Times Online

Nettes Gleichnis

The Inquirer vergleicht die Strafen, die auf Raubüberfall stehen mit denen, die einem seit neuem im Land der unbegrenzten Haftstrafen (USA) für Raubkopieren drohen.

For example assaulting a police officer will get you five years, downloading child porn will get you seven years, assaulting without a weapon will get you ten years and aggravated assault six years.

So in other words if you copy a Disney CD and sell it you will be in the same league as a paedophile who is distributing pictures of sexual attacks on children.

If you copy Craig David’s CD you get ten years, but if you punch him in the face and pummel him into a seven day coma you will only get six. You are more likely to get the respect of the prison population with your six year sentence as well.

Quelle: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31256

Update: Auch Hackmeck vom FUCKUP Blog schreibt darüber, wenn auch nur kurz (wie ich).

Google größter Stromverbraucher der Welt?

Laut Martin Varsavsky ist Google der größte Stromverbraucher der Welt. Schuld daran seien die Unmengen an Computern, die dazu benötigt werden, den Google-Bot am laufen zu halten:

These days when you Googled you saw symbols showing that Google was promoting solar and wind energy. Personally as an investor in both I support that move. But when I saw the icons I remembered a dinner with Larry Page at the Clinton Global Initiative in NYC last September when I asked him what he thought was the limits to growth of Google and much to my surprise he did not say servers, or people, but he said electricity. It turns out that Google is by now the largest owner of computers in the world and that computers are consuming more and more of the electricity that is used in the world.

Erstaunlich, und wenn es wahr ist, auch sehr beunruhigend.

Via Martin Varsavsky