June 25, 2008
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“Scientists announced today that
they have found a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown
the slightest bit of interest in it.” “Boy, I feel a lot safer now that
she’s behind bars. O.J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still walking around;
Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the one woman in America willing
to cook, clean, and work in the yard and haul her ass off to jail.”
- George Carlin on Martha Stewart “Just think of how stupid the average
person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!” I wrote about the famous Stanford
Experiment back in 2004, in which a random group of students became
“guards”, and others became “prisoners”. What was horrifying about
it is that ultimately the answer was that “them”, the abusers, the torturers,
the sadists…were in fact “us”, the good people, the caring and compassionate
ones. The experiment used two random groups that had been pre-tested
and which showed no significant differences in the personality inventories
that were used. The group assigned to be guards became as abusive
as any guards anywhere. Had the experiment not been stopped it’s
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| Office Sex Eddie wanted desperately to have sex with this really cute, really hot girl in his office… But she was dating someone else. One day Eddie got so frustrated that he went to her and said, ‘I’ll give you $100 if you let me have sex with you… The girl looked at him, and then said, ‘NO!’ Eddie said, ‘I’ll be real fast. I’ll throw the money on the floor, you bend down and I’ll finish by the time you’ve picked it up.’ She thought for a moment and said that she would consult with her boyfriend…So she called him and explained the situation. Her boyfriend says, ‘Ask him for $200, and pick up the money really fast. He won’t even be able to get his pants down.’ She agreed and accepts the proposal. Over half an hour goes by and the boyfriend is still waiting for his girlfriend’s call. Finally, after 45 minutes the boyfriend calls and asks, ‘What happened…?’ Still breathing hard, she managed to reply, ‘The bastard had
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“The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they’re an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They’ve got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They’ve got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying - lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else. But I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. You know what they want? Obedient workers - people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And, now, they’re coming for your Social Security. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fucking place. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club.” – George Carlin |
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“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” - George Carlin |
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On this day in history, June 25, 1906: Towards the end of the premiere production of Mam’zelle Champagne at Madison Square Garden, a bizarre murder takes place. Harry K. Thaw was a disturbed man. He was the son of a wealthy coal and railroad baron who seemingly was born paranoid and violent, according to his mother. He spent his young life being kicked out of one school after another. After not completing his education, he moved to New York City where he began to use morphine and cocaine. Evelyn Nesbit was a young model and chorus girl. Her father died, leaving the family in poverty. The beautiful child became the sole support of her remaining family by age 16 when she moved with her mother to NYC. She was part of the Floradora Chorus and a coworker introduced her to married, 47-year-old playboy, Stanford White. Her mother, aware of White’s reputation, nevertheless encouraged the relationship. Evelyn lost her virginity to White who then became disinterested in her. She went on to dating a young John Barrymore. After two pregnancies, she was still childless and now became involved with Harry Thaw. Thaw and Nesbit had a tumultuous relationship. Thaw was a sadistic man, known for brutally whipping his “dates” as part of foreplay. He and Nesbit went on a European tour and Nesbit finally accepted Thaw’s marriage proposal. Nesbit had confessed to her fiancé about her deflowering by the rogue, White. Thaw was an extremely jealous and possessive man and the knowledge burned within him. After a chance meeting and knowing that White would attend the same show as the Thaws, Harry prepared himself. He shot White in the face at point blank range three times. Before the trial, Thaw’s mother offered Evelyn both a divorce and $1,000,000 if she would testify that White had abused her and Thaw was merely defending her. She did so and was granted a divorce but never received any money. Thaw was found not guilty by reason of insanity and confined in an asylum. He walked away and left for Canada. He was returned to the States and re-incarcerated. He remained in an asylum until 1924. “In jealousy there is more self-love than love.” - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld “If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.” - Charley Reese “Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.” - Maya Angelou |
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“It snowed last
year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked
my brother down and then we had tea.” |
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Ruth in Washington wrote: Thanks Tim–I understand things much better now!! I’ll have to think about all this for awhile but it should finally be crystal clear soon, I hope. I re-read everything about four times so I made sure to get all the info. You’re welcome, Ruth. Let’s see if I can put this all together and simplify it somewhat. First, every computer needs an IP address to get on the internet. Every computer has an IP address of 127.0.0.1, which is referred to as the localhost. Say you wanted to create a web page. You would want to test your web page before putting it on the internet. To do this, you would type http://localhost. You don’t have to be connected to the internet for this to work because your computer knows that the IP address for localhost is 127.0.0.1. It doesn’t need to ask the really big internet phone book (RBIPB) what the IP address for localhost is because that information is kept in your private hosts file (RBIPB lookup step #1). There is also a Private network. Let’s say I have 7 computers on my network, but I don’t need to connect to the internet. I just want to see the web page I just created from a different computer on my network. Just like 127.0.0.1 is your computer’s private IP address, there is a local “Class B” internet address range from 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255. To see that web page from my other comptuer, I would have to type the IP address of computer hosting my web page, or give it a name and put it in the hosts file on the computer I’m looking from. If I wanted to name it “mywebsite” and the computer I’m trying to see my web page from had a hosts file entry pointing “mysebsite” to my web server’s IP address, I could type “mywebsite” into the address bar of my other computer’s browser and find the website on my computer. Now lets say you wanted to connect to the internet. To do this you need a unique IP address not in the Private network zone. That IP address allows you to communicate with other computers on the internet. The most common way to get that IP address is for your computer to ask for one using DHCP. This is done using your computer’s unique hardware (MAC) address. It broadcasts this request to all the MAC addresses possible. Your ISP’s DHCP server gets this request and sends your computer an IP address. The other computers on the network ignore MAC requests as only the DHCP server is configured to hand out IP addresses. So now you have an IP address and want to talk to other computers on the internet, but you don’t know their IP address. You can remember Yahoo.com, but don’t know their IP address, so we move to RBIPB lookup step #2, your Domain Name Service (DNS) server. Your DHCP server gave you an IP address, but when it did so, it also told your computer where to look for the RBIPB. Your DNS server contains only a portion of the RBIPB, but it has its own DNS server in case it doesn’t know the IP address for Yahoo.com. The RBIPB is broken down into layers to make lookups faster, so your requests are actually handled by several DNS servers. Lookup step #2 might turn into step #3 if my DNS server doesn’t know the address of Yahoo.com. If my DNS server’s DNS server doesn’t know the address of Yahoo.com either, it will ask its DNS server, which would be lookup step #4. If that DNS server didn’t know, it would be lookup step #5. The lookups would continue until they pass or fail. In order to pass, Yahoo.com would have to register their name and IP address with the RBIPB. You really have to think of yourself as a number on the internet, Ruth. You don’t need a name in the RBIPB because your computer has an IP address, and you are looking for other computers, they aren’t looking for “Ruth”. When you send your request, you send it with a reply to IP address. Once it has that number, it doesn’t need the RBIPB or DNS servers or anything. Yes, it’s sad,
you are a number, but that number changes, so at least you can change
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Re: Gay Marriage Faithy in Baltimore said: Gay people are not just running around having sex, any more than straight people. Fortunately for them, she is wrong. I have spent the greater part of my life hanging around with gays and lesbians. One thing I am sure of is that they have sex more often than the straight people I know. They may not enjoy it more than straight people do, but they clearly are enjoying it more often. Frankly, I am against gay marriage. I think marriage will do the same thing to gay sex it does to straight sex–practically ruin it. Next thing that will happen, my gay friends will start hanging out with couples with kids. - Mike from Florida Mike wrote: Yes these marriage amendments pass in most states where they are on the ballot. But voting for a constitutional amendment has never been a valid way of determining civil rights. Are you joking, or are you ignoring the discipline by which the constitution was established in the first place? The definition of marriage is not a “civil right”, it is a historical fact, now being ignored by certain courts across the country. The benefits derived from public sanction of a particular union is a choice of the people, not an innate civil right. Mike wrote: When Lincoln freed the slaves his decision was so unpopular with a portion of the public that a war resulted. Oh, please. That is historically inaccurate, at best. See here. Mike wrote: When the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964 it represented the government forcing their opinion on the public. Also inaccurate. The Civil Rights act was unpopular with much of the south, was passed by a larger percentage of Republicans than Democrats (roughly 80% vs. 70%), and was wisely signed by President Johnson. Since the representatives are elected by the people in a republic like ours, your statement is false. Mike wrote: Even today if a vote were held I dare say many states would vote against giving blacks basic civil rights. And I suppose you can point to a survey that confirms your wild-eyed imagination on the subject? Not hardly. Mike wrote: Isn’t this the same? How valid is it to allow the public to vote on whether to allow a minority a civil right such as marriage? You confuse a sanction with a right. I have a right to life, innate in my being. I have the right to association, to speech, and to security. I do not have the right to command any respect of my beliefs by others, to the point that they are forced to support, by sanction of any kind, my behavior. I may only command the respect not to be interfered with so long as my behavior does not touch others, and even this is not loosely interpreted to mean I may use illegal drugs, or burn my house down, or abuse animals I own, as examples. Gay marriage is the demand of a sanction from a group who have the right to free association (non-sanctioned gay marriage has been celebrated in civil as well as religious ceremonies for many years in Portland, for example), who have the rights to inheritance through wills and trusts, and who are not molested in their living arrangements, but who want more: they want public approval and sanction of their choices. Mike wrote: I used the term “fear” because I think that a fear of change as well as a fear that gays are out to “get us and our children” is what drives the opposition to gay marriage. What you think about it and my experience working with people entirely opposed to the public sanction of gay marriage — which most people consider an oxymoron — are entirely different. Mike wrote: People somehow think that allowing gays to marry will destroy all marriage. This is the same logic that created laws against interracial marriage. Not quite. There was a prevailing thought, carried forward by several Christian denominations as well as by other groups not spiritually minded, that the races should remain separated. One Christian group, embodied in the person of Bob Jones of Bob Jones University, held doctrine that proposed that God had separated the races at the Tower of Babel, and that therefore they should not be joined together again. They have recently stepped away from that prohibition, although I suspect the doctrine still prevails. Curious about that peculiar belief, I once called the university to ask where the doctrine came from, and in less than a minute I was speaking to Bob Jones III himself. I had no need to get into a debate with him, so I asked as neutral a set of questions as possible. It was during that conversation that he explained the Tower of Babel concept. It was too bizarre to comprehend, since that the Biblical story of Babel ended with the confusion of language, not the separation of skin color, and that while proclaiming to be honoring God’s judgment of Babel by enforcing a separation of races, Bob Jones University ironically and humorously teaches language courses, enabling a breaking of the language barrier of Babel. Such a peculiar, illogical doctrine. To the contrary, William Wilberforce, and the great bulk of the abolishionists were Christian, with far better understanding of the text. There is no doubt of one thing: gays cannot mate, because it is not in the nature of the creature. If rights are innate in man, as our Declaration states, than gay marriage is not included even if one considers that heterosexual marriage is (which I do not claim). Mike wrote: And yes, CO2 is natural and needed for life. So is water. But it is possible to have too much of a good thing. Ever heard of drowning? You will pardon me for suggesting that is a silly analogy. CO2 is not a pollutant, any more than water is. CO2 in the atmosphere is at the concentration of approximately 387 ppm, or 0.0387%. To be toxic, it must at least be 50000 ppm, or 5.0% (and I’m being really conservative). Look it up. The entire biomass of the earth (and earth is about 6.2% more productive now than it was before CO2 started rising) is estimated at roughly 75 gigatons, and atmospheric carbon (in the form of CO2) at roughly 750 gigatons. If ALL the vegetation of the earth was put into a big pile and burned, we still could not double CO2 in the atmosphere, and it would have to be more than 100 times more prevalent before you could suggest a danger of toxicity. And please don’t look silly by suggesting that human use of oil even comes within spitting distance of burning the entire biomass of the earth, OK? I repeat, yet another time, that there is simply no empirical evidence supporting the idea that CO2 drives the earth’s temperature, although it certainly contributes to the maintenance of earth’s livability by feeding plants and providing somewhere around 1% of the infrared capture and warming of the atmosphere. Calling it a pollutant is deception, the latest smoke and mirrors ploy by a desperate crowd determined to drive mankind into caves. Now, let me blunt: any person who suggests the world must curtail hydrocarbon usage is demonstrating wanton disregard for the poorest of the planet, who will be the ones to pay, with their lives — as always — so that the privileged of earth who call themselves “environmentalists” can feel better about themselves. I guess they just aren’t satisfied with the deaths of a million or more children every year from malaria, which could be almost completely stopped with even a limited reintroduction of DDT. If we make energy expensive we condemn the poor to starvation, privation, and death, while not changing the survivability of the earth at all. THAT sort of “environmentalism” is a true crime against humanity. - Tom in Oregon City Re: Gas Prices Mike from Florida wrote: Speculators have little to do with the “high” price at the pump. Buying and selling futures options may add a little bit to the fluctuation in the price of crude oil, but the real price problem is the management of refinery capacity by “big oil” and restricted production by OPEC. … Ok, we can tap into some more of the oil we are pretty sure is there, but why do that when oil ready to pump is not being sent to market because of unused refinery capacity? I suppose you realize that refinery design is specific to the crude oil supply, right? That you can’t just ship crude oil to any ole’ refinery, and get the products you want? And I suppose you realize that the seasonal price fluctuations in the price of heating oil and gasoline are due primarily to the problems of switching over operations from one sort of product to another, and the difficulties with stockpiling more than a few days of finished product? And I suppose you realize that the cost of refinery construction now includes huge risks due to site lawsuit defense, so that very little additional refinery capacity has been built in the US for a long time? Mike from Florida wrote: Exactly who do you think is going to gain access to those off-shore sites? Does anyone believe it will be someone other than an oil company already enjoying monster profits? With profits hovering between 8% and 10%, just what school of economics did you graduate from, to call those “monster” profits? If I could only make 10% ROI in my business, I would shutter it and go sit on the beach. Or are you only interested in the gross amount, with absolutely no brain cells applied to understanding that those profits become the distributions to the millions of stockholders who put their money at risk to finance those companies, including, if you are lucky enough to have one, your pension plan? Mike from Florida wrote: Whoever ‘wins’ the off-shore leases will be getting the current price for oil. Why else would they want to explore and drill? Bingo, Mike. Why else? And that’s just the point. Where supply is abundant, producers bid against each other to sell their product. And don’t forget that the leases carry with them extraction taxes, so it’s not as if they are “free”. So, perhaps you can call your congressman to convince him to incentivize the construction of more refining and distribution facilities, by cutting the access to the courts for every loon who wants us in caves instead of condos, right after he votes to open up the spigots of the earth around our shores, so that it’s the Middle East that must come begging us to buy, instead of building opulent palaces while their people still live in the 12th century. - Tom in Oregon City [Tom, surely you don’t expect anyone here to believe that Exxon, who reported record profits every quarter for at least the past year, only makes between 8% to 10% profit. The last quarterly report I heard put Exxon’s profit at 47 billion. With the cost of their raw material at record prices, and demand for their finished product down there is no logical reason that profit is up except that they are making an obscene profit selling the oil they produce and destroying the world economy by driving oil prices up and keeping them there. And Mike, everything I’ve heard is that if leases were signed for offshore drilling today it would be 8 to 10 years before any of that oil would make it to the gas pumps. Too little, too late. But in the June 18th issue Tim sent a link to an audio file of Oregon Rep. Peter Defazio discussing the oil problem. According to Rep. Defazio, 80% of the known oil offshore is currently under lease. The oil companies are sitting on it in order to keep from driving prices down by increasing production. All the while begging for rights to the rest of the offshore oil plus the Alaska wilderness oil! My opinion, develop the reserves you’ve already got then we can discuss giving you more. By the way, welcome to the crowd. You know you’ve made it at RGQ when you get got by Tom!] Re: Reader Submission http://www.arcamax.com/uknews/s-364541-146218 Early genes might have come from the stars LONDON (UPI) — A British-led study has confirmed for the first time that an important component of early genetic material is extraterrestrial in origin. The scientists from Imperial College London say an important component of early genetic material found in meteorite fragments suggests parts of the raw materials to make the first molecules of DNA and RNA might have come from the stars. The scientists, from Europe and the United States, said the materials they found include the molecules uracil and xanthine, which are precursors to the molecules that make up DNA and RNA, and are known as nucleobases. The team discovered the molecules in rock fragments of the Murchison meteorite, which crashed in Australia in 1969. The details of the
research are published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
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