Terminally Incoherent

Ok, let’s recap what happened yesterday. Bunch of Mooninite Light-Brights created a mass hysteria, and media outcry in Boston. The officials hunted down the innocent people involved in the viral marketing scheme, arrested them, and sent bunch of media hounds out to make embarrassing speeches about terrorism, security, and etc…

In the meantime some dude planted fake pipe bombs in a hospital, and no one really cared enough to actually arrest him or press charges. These were no Light-Brights mind you, but very realistic looking replicas, that for safety reasons had to be detonated by the bomb squad.

This makes total sense.

You arrest the people responsible for a silly viral marketing campaign and you proceed to make this a huge deal in the media claiming that “there is no way to overreact” to a bomb threat.

But when someone plants actual fakes, and creates a very real bomb scare in a hospital, no one even bothers to arrest the guy. Was Boston PD to busy searching for deadly Light-Brights to actually take a real bomb situation seriously.

Can we please export some of the clue to Boston? If you have any spare clue lying around, just stuff it in the envelope and send it to Boston city hall.

The magnitude of this two-fold total extreme power fail is so intense that I’m afraid that if Boson fails one more time this year, it will collapse upon itself, and create a black hole of complete and utter fail.

We already have one of those centered around George W. Bush in DC, and another ever expanding one named The Jack Thompson Failure Chasm. Do we really need another one?

STFU, and get off my news cause you suck at terror prevention like no one else.

You know, I sometimes forget that people are generally a heard of fucking sheep. On average, we are so fucking dumb I’m amazed we can actually maintain this thing we call civilization. Case in point:

img found @ yahoo news

Yup, it’s a policeman “disarming” an blinking LED sign featuring a Mooninite. Apparently, the retarded monkeys that inhabit Boston decided to shut half of the city down, because they saw a blinking light on a bridge or two, while the homo sapien part of the population was busy actually doing meaningful stuff (ie. not calling 911 over stupid bullshit). After all, every one knows that a terrorist bomb from Al Queda has bright blinking LED and a little cartoon dude flipping you the bird, right? And you can totally blow up a bridge with a flat circuit board and some AA batteries. Seriously people - how do you guys deal with Christmas over there? It must be freak out central around that time of the year.

stupid: ZOMG! It’s a BOMB!
911: Relax ma’am it’s just Christmas lights…
stupid: Oh.. ok… ZOMG! Another BOMB!
911: Nope… Still Christmas lights…

Congratulations Boston - you win the award in total fail of the year.

Of course this is a total win for Aqua Teen Hunger Force - they get national coverage, and a spot on evening news on almost every channel. All because Boston authorities can’t tell a bomb from a promotional sign. Awesome job guys!

Stephen Colbert explains how antitrust laws apply to AT&T:

if you can’t see the video click here

I find it funny how these days only fake news shows actually talk about meaningful stuff, and make really insightful observations.

It seems that isoHunt has been fucked by their ISP. From their website:

Update, Jan. 16, 2007
Lawyers from our primary ISP decided to pull our plug without any advance notice, as of 14:45 PST. No doubt related to our lawsuit brought by the MPAA, but we don’t have more information at this time until people responsible comes to work tomorrow. We will be back in operation once we sort out this mess with our ISP, or we get new hardware ready from our new ISP.

Sit back and enjoy the rest of the internet in the mean time, while it last. For your torrent searching needs, try Google for now by searching for “SEARCH TERMS ext:torrent”.

You can also come hang around our IRC channel (SSL on port +7000). We’ll update on this page and on IRC when we have more information.

- The isoHunt crew

I wonder if this is for good or if they can actually regroup and get the site back up with another ISP.

You probably know this already but let me reiterate this for you: The Pirate Bay - a group of Swedish torrent tracker operators, webmasters, and the founders of the first Pirate Party in the world want to buy Sealand - a small WWII gun platform off the cost of Englad which declared independence and became a sovereign nation.

My reaction to this: holly fucking shit awesome!

Ever since the Sealand story surfaced on the internet we have been talking about this sort of thing. Every geek out there dreams of a nation with no copyright law, no patents and no rules that would constrain creativity and free exchange of ideas. A place in the world where you can put your torrent website, and host some trackers without fearing of being raided by the police. A place where the technologically minded elites would make the rules. If TPB manages to scrape enough cash, and buy this old platform this dream of our own little safe heaven nation may come true.

Of course some people claim that Sealand survives only because so far it has been flying under the radar, and Great Britain simply had no reasons to enforce their territorial rights. TPB creating a file sharing hub right of the coast is high profile though, and may turn out to be a thorn in the side of all the copyright natzis out there. The pressure from American entertainment industry and their lapdogs (the US government) may actually be a good enough excuse to send bunch of armed marines to the platform and retake it.

Would the world care about England wiping a file sharing enclave off the map? I don’t know. So far the status of Sealand is not certain as it has not been officially recognized by any nations. It will be interesting to see how it unfolds.

Whether they succeed in buying Sealand or not, this seems to be a great PR move for Piratebay and their budding political party, and a nice way to make some extra cash from advertising and donations.