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Tag Archives: slacktivism
Becoming irrelevant one bit at a time
Dear Entertainment Industry, If you belong to organization whose name ends in AA, this post is for you. I’m writing this, because I would like to introduce you to this relatively new concept of Internet. You see, this globe spanning … Continue reading
Diebold Machines Malfunctioning in Florida
It seems that voters casting early ballots using the Diebold machines in Florida already have reported persistent bugs and glitches preventing them from casting their votes correctly. Apparently most of the faulty machines would assign the votes cast for Democratic … Continue reading
Scariest thing you can read this Halloween
This is possibly the scariest thing that you will read this Halloween: Bush just signed a provision which will remove any limits over military involvement in domestic law enforcement effectively allowing him to declare martial law at any time and … Continue reading
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Political Apathy
Given the two following political scandals, please tell me which one is more significant, and disturbing: George W. Bush killing hebeus corpus and gaining despotic powers Mark Foley sending dirty emails to congressional pages If you will look back on … Continue reading
AOL Data Leak
If your search queries were among those recently made public by AOL, let them know that they suck! Get your banner from EFF and then post it all over the place. Spread the word! click for EFF action page Here … Continue reading
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Exxon Responsible for the Anti-Gore YouTube Movie
I assume you have seen the stupid anti-Gore, YouTube cartoon that has been popping up on various blogs and news sites last week. If not, don’t bother watching it. It is bad and annoying. Furthermore, if you are a linux … Continue reading
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Online Gambling Ban is Stupid
The Online Gambling Ban is the stupidest internet regulation initiative since “War on Pr0n”. I haven’t done any statistical research about this, but I think that next to pr0n and email, gambling is one of the major uses of internet … Continue reading
Secret Courts Scare Me!
Remember when EFF sued AT&T for allowing NSA to illegally wiretap it’s customers? After allot of dodging, and trying to brush off the case, the government now decided to go ahead with it… But in a secret, shadowy non public … Continue reading
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John Stewart on Net Netutrality
This might be the best summary of the Net Neutrality madness out there. It has everything including excerpts of Ted Stevens’ speech, animated illustrations of tubes, and witty commentary from John Stewart. Watch it: I think that Ted Stevens single … Continue reading
Internet is not a Truck!
I made this sign to support Net Neutrality. If you don’t get it, please go and read about the speech given by Senator Ted Stevens. Remember kids, save the internet! Update Sun, July 09 2006, 02:51 AM Heh, check out … Continue reading
The Real Pirates
Every time I rent a movie from blockbuster, I am forced to watch that fucking dumb anti-piracy advertisement. Thank you MPAA for reminding me how much I hate your guts. I really, really enjoy when you shove your crappy propaganda … Continue reading
Page Rank and Advertising without Net Neutrality
You know, I have been thinking. How is lack of net neutrality going to affect things like page rank or online advertising? Let’s suppose I have a highly ranked site, and one day my host decides to stop paying AT&T … Continue reading
Peak Oil
Please check out the Life After the Oil Crash website by Matt Savinar. Please repost this on your blog, forward it to your friends and show it to your relatives. It is crucial that people see this, and take it … Continue reading
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War on… Stuff
Can we finish one war before starting another one? We have War on Drugs, War on Terror and now War on Piracy. None of these “wars” has ever accomplished anything. Why? There is a reason for this. What do those … Continue reading
Jack Thompson is a Douchebag: Part 78
Jack Thompson (aka The Biggest Douche of the Universe) is at it again. This time Mr. Jack “I like to urinate on severed brain stems” Thompson attempted to discredit a well known Seattle philanthropist Michael Malone. Why would the Thompson … Continue reading
Jack Thompson == Duche
Jack Thompson aka “The Biggest Douche in the Universe” is saying ridiculously stupid shit without thinking once again. According to Jack “nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you’re a hit man or a video gamer.” I’m not kidding, this … Continue reading
Why don’t they Practie What they Preach?
Isn’t this sad that the biggest Copyright propaganda pushers are the people who plagiarize content properly attribute, and link their citations? As you may, or may not know, the joke of the week is Capitan Copyright™ – a Canadian superhero … Continue reading
ThePirateBay.org was raided…
It seems that everyones favorite Swedish bittorrent heroes got themselves raided by the police. ThePirateBay.org headquarters were stormed by 50+ armed policemen who arrested several people and seized the servers. Apparently Swedish authorities still are still diligently working to find … Continue reading
Anti Environmentalism
Apparently we can expect a strong anti environmentalist advertising campaign on TV in US. The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has produced two 60-second television spots focusing on the alleged global warming crisis and the calls by some environmental groups and … Continue reading
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Diebold Voting Machines are Easy to Crack
If your state is planning to use one of the Diebold machines in an upcoming election, you should be concerned. Apparently, these things are really easy to compromise. Just about anyone with physical access to one of these machines can … Continue reading
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Don’t Kill Freedom!
Image © Tarmle Spread the word people! I found this here and the pic is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Share Alike 2.5 License. So please distribute this! Put it on your webpage, steal it, edit it, modify it, … Continue reading
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1984 in 2006…
What the hell is going on with this country? Every single day, I wake up having a little bit less liberty, a little bit less privacy, and a little bit more paranoid. This is supposed to be the land of … Continue reading
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Angry Liberal Rant
This angry liberal rant, was posted at boingboing. I think it briliantly sums up all the things we should be angry about. It is a good thing to be an angry liberal. In fact, I think angry liberals are the … Continue reading
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Save the Internet
Come on people, this is serious! Let me show you how the internet works. Right now it is set up like this: You pay for your own bandwidth (up and down) to an ISP Google pays for it’s own bandwidth … Continue reading
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No chanel switching during commercials.
Holy Jesus Jumping Christ! WTF is this world comming to? Philips suggests adding flags to commercial breaks to stop a viewer from changing channels until the adverts are over. The flags could also be recognised by digital video recorders, which … Continue reading
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