Sounds like a heavy, brooding subject, does it not? Well, it’s really not that hard thing
in this case. I just want make you think for yourself as usual. Today, the internet is
a fairy free thing and we can surf pretty much where we want, and it doesnt cost
us more then the subscription. That might change and according to some people, that
is a good thing. You should have to pay for everything. Funny, I thought I already did
but thats beside the point. Now, in sweden we have the FRA scanning all datatraffic going
abroad, meaning MOST of all the internet traffic. So, no privacy there. Then, we have
the media companies sniffing around the internet trying to pick up potential pirates
regardless of where im surfing, since, to get to the point where they can indentify me
they have to have read my datatraffic. Interresting? Where will this end?
Anyhow, back on track some. Sweden has a political freedom and a freedom of speech
that has been moderated and are more and more getting torn asunder from companies
greed, and the need to “keep a proper face” seems to override the fact that it is every
mans right to be politically active in WHATEVER POLITICAL PARTY HE FANCIES. That goes
for both LEFT AND RIGHT wings. Im not saying either side deserves a bigger break, im stating
that they should BOTH have rights. I may not enjoy the policies, but according to swedish
laws, they have a right to voice them, at least to an extent.
Now, people are starting to be afraid to mention their political branch. Why? Well, its
pure and simple economy and social status. There was a good example a few months
back of what companies can do. Some it guy in Örebro got FIRED for having discussions
about his sympaties with the pirate party. Now, the company stated “his views was not good for
the company’s image. Now, hows that for job security. So what will happen? With this
open neglect for the personal integrity that has walked all over us? Well, if you can stand
to read some Swedish, here’s a treat. Lisa Magnusson at Aftonbladet has picked together
a little story of what might happen when “the taliban law of telecom” gets passed. Trust me
it wont make a lick of difference what we, the actual people want, since the politicians
are either A: watching their own asses, or B: taking “gift” money from the record industry.
Here is the link to the story in any case :
Now, really.. Can someone stop the hysteria train, because I for one dont want to voice my political
views, because at the rate things are going now, In a few years I will most likely be arrested by the RIAAPTF
(Recording industries association of america’s Police Task Force) and hauled to the deepest dungeon
until I agree to write their propaganda instead of protesting against laws in one of the few ways I can.
Too all you other critics of the Telecom law.. We can all sing kubayah together in our cell in 10-20 years.
In the first instance, the TPB guys was found guilty.
Now, you know what standpoint i have on these things and its really
not hard to see why. Ok, maybe these guys pushed it, but really. Did they push it?
Lets make it very hypothetical.
I start a service to host text files. Text files are generally not that large
and I feel that I can host them on my private server without too much of a problem.
I create the application for upload and indexing of the text files and people
upload them. Now, I may or may not be responsible for what users post
on that server, but i am hosting them, so that might be a crime right?
Ok, lets take the perspective of torrents then.
I create a service, that lets users upload a minimal file, that tells
others where to find stuff. Nothing but the files that are made
by the users are stored on that server. Simple? Ok, lets push it.
My users finds out that hey … if i make that minimal file tell people
where to download movie X or song Y, we can share with the world.
Now, I am pretty much not doing anything myself. Its just my users
that are giving out the copyrighted material. Should I be held accountable
for what thousands of other people have done? If so, can I please file a case
against Fredrik Reinfeldt, Tomas Bodström and Beatrice Ask for what
stasi and the kgb has done to the citizens in their respective country please?
I can even go to those countries and file the claim if that helps.
Someone please give me a sign that stupidity isnt that spread.
Time to get a little philosophical I think. Or what do you say?
Time and time again people have meditated the large mysteries in
the world, like “how do they get the toothpaste in to the tube” and
“if you choke a smurf, what color does it turn”
Well, thanks to Discovery Channel, one of those
mysteries is solved….. The smurf turns black.
Another question or rather, prejudice filled notion
has been floating around for a while aswell. How do
you tell who is gay?
Well, I think I may have deviced a pretty good test.
Now, hear me out on this one (and if you cant see
that this is irony and sarcasm, get the hell out
right away. I cant stand people with no humor.)
At work, we are a few guys and one woman in our department.
Now, this woman gives as good as she gets so she is
in no way to be pitied to be among those levels of
testosterone, but rather feel priviliged. Not to be
“working with a few excellent examples of the male
species or any other thing like that, but rather,
she has a lot of guys she can boss around because
we all want to be nice to her.
Anyhoo, out of a whim I asked her “whats inside your
handbag?” And whew .. she was like any other woman,
she was carrying a few different lipsticks, a pacifier
for the kid etc etc etc .. I mean.. it was easy over
30 different items in there.
Now, lets sidetrack a bit here. On my former blog
I had a post regarding a theory about womens handbags.
I will repeat that in brief here so you understand.
The major designer companies for handbags all gathered
together and summoned a minor demon from the netherplane
and bribed that demon with human greed to get access
to a dimensional portal. They combined that with
modern science to lock the dimensional portal to human
chromosomes. If the hand that comes into the bag
has a set with X-X the dimensional portal “reads”
the hand and the item that the hand is looking for
pops right into the hand. However, if the hand
is carrying X-Y chromosomes, the dimensional portal
opens, but shoves tons and tons of miscellania into
the hand, making it pointless to even try to find
anything in it for a male.
However, as scientists of today have discovered that some
people have extended Y chromosomes, pretty much an X with a
half lower-right leg, this might also work for certain males.
The same scientist insists that because of that half lower leg
some males turn gay and feminine. I am guessing that this
is why so many gay men actually carries a handbag and can
get the portal to work.
Now, when this woman in our team had replaced all her
items in that gaping maw that was her handbag. I asked
a male collegue to locate the silvery lipstick.
Yesterday was one of those days… literally. I have been working evenings
this weeknd and well, frankly, evenings are the worst if you think about
the workload, but for me, being a nightperson, its good to sleep in.
However, the day really started off wrong. My girlfriend was in a prissy mood
when she woke me up, and well, that hardly put a smile on my face. Normally
when I wake up I have my little routine. Normally I get out of bed, go outside
for a smoke, then in to the bathroom and then, I sit down in my chair to clear
my foggy head. It usually takes somewhere between 30 minutes til 1 hour
to get control of my brains and my hands. Before that is done, I cant basically
hold anything fragile because I would either break it or drop it.
Now, I get my son more or less shoved onto me. Oh well. deal with it i guess.
While holding the kid, I somehow, manage to make myself a pot of coffee.
So, When I give David back to his mother for my little morning coffee, I sit down
and start to read the news. When I reach out to grab the mouse for the computer
my coffeecup gets turned over .. right over my keyboard. So now, I have a
nice black, logitech keyboard filled with almost an entire cup of coffee.
Ok, in the previous post I mentioned a webcomic. Bruno the bandit. I have been a follower
of that one for quite a while and it still havent bored me, wich sadly, happens quite
easy. So, I scour the web for more to read.
For a while I followed Scott Abrams “Sluggy Freelance” quite funny and surreal
having a little rabbit with a switchblade knife, and said bunny has a hatred
towards telemarketers that is unrivaled. www.sluggy.net
Another of the comics I follow is User friendly. A techie comic
about a small ISP and its weird denizens, including the wannabe
evil genious Pitr (really named Peter) who has adapted a fake slavic
accent to appear more evil. To show HOW evil he is, he manages
to merge pepsi and coca cola under the name Pitr Cola wich consists
of 98% caffeeine. The old Tech Relic Sid who knows how to play
quake on an abacus. The timid and shy designer A.J, The bitter
support guy Greg. The slimy marketer Stef and of course, the female distractions,
Miranda, a sysadmin and Pearl, Sids daughter.
And here comes the odd men out. You have Cthulhu
and Hastur (hastur was found by distilling usenet bitterness) and
a walking ball of dust called Dustpuppy, who by accident codes
a super intelligent AI using Cobol. Satire is waiting to happen. www.userfriendly.org
Ill keep posting more interresting webcomics here in a while.
