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FSB Calls FBI Agent an Illegal Hacker

“”If Russian hackers can be convicted on evidence obtained by the Americans through hacking, it means the U.S. secret services may use further illegal means of obtaining information in Russia and in other countries,” an FSB spokesman told Interfax on Thursday.” — The Moscow Times Good point. Apparently search warrants Continue Reading

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17th Street Truck Ban

“The U.S. Secret Service as of today will ban most trucks on an eight-block stretch of 17th Street NW just west of the White House because of the threat of potential truck bombs, D.C. and federal officials said.” — Washington Post They’re lying to you. My guess would be it’s Continue Reading

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Same-Sex Unmarried Partner Data

fact n. (‘fakt):a piece of information presented as having objective reality – in fact : in truth “1) Same-sex spouse responses were flagged as invalid to comply with the 1996 Federal Defense of Marriage Act (H.R. 3396) passed by the 104th Congress. This act instructs all federal agencies only to Continue Reading

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testing testing one two six

Just testing out a new program — Kung-Log. Should let me post to my movable type logs without using a web browser. Nice clean interface. Good basic features. And if it doesn’t work, you won’t see this anyway.

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security in the skies

“British tourist Judy Powell, 55, bought a GI Joe doll in America as a gift for her seven-year-old grandson George. “Security officials at Los Angeles airport found the toy — similar to Action Man — when they searched Judy’s bags before she boarded a flight to London. “Then they took Continue Reading

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why not me?

I’m disturbed. More so than even Sara will tell you. I have been the modern internet. I have been through every trend and every type, before any of them became fashionable. I IRCaddicted and romanced. I cracked and pirated. I telneted to online music shops before CDnow was a nightmare Continue Reading

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DC is a planned city

You know..Ierjk .,, ,xc, ,, .,c , . sorry… sneeze. I was saying… I have a hard time taking pictures in this city. A small part of it is no doubt that it is hard to find anything interesting in the familiar. But the more looming problem is the lack Continue Reading

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Education is no excuse

"In the way they’re kind of writing it right now out of the Senate Finance Committee, some people could spend their entire five years on welfare – there’s a five-year work requirement – going to college. Now, that’s not my view of helping people become independent, and it’s certainly not Continue Reading

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Lickety Split Couriers

“Jim, a punk dyke bike messenger, is addicted in equal parts to her stripper girlfriend, Ally Cat, her bike and speed, though the three competing habits have a tendency to cancel one another out. Breedlove also was once a speed freak, a dater of strippers and a bike messenger. (She Continue Reading

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Fuck the RIAA

“The Recording Industry Association of America’s Web site was unreachable over the weekend due to a denial-of-service attack. “The apparently deliberate overload rendered the RIAA.org site unavailable for portions of four days and came after the group endorsed legislation to allow copyright holders to disrupt peer-to-peer networks. “”Don’t they have Continue Reading

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Russian cargo plane crash kills 14

“An eyewitness who identified himself by his first name, Konstantin, said that the plane had banked hard on its left-hand side, hit the ground and exploded. “Vasily Nayuk, an official with the Emergency Situations Ministry, said that according to preliminary information 14 people were killed. Two flight attendants survived and Continue Reading

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He will get me killed.

You kind of get sick of the helicopcopters here. One reason or another, they’re always overhead. But sometimes the definition of overhead gets a bit ridiculous. Last night there was something, presumably a helicopter, hovering at roof level somewhere in the neighborhood. Quite a few neighbors were at their windows Continue Reading

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Calder2002

If you find yourself in a place where ‘yonder’ is an accurate measurement, ‘Old Man …’ is a proper title, and erecting an awning over your trailer makes it a house, then you know you’ve ended up in Robert Lee, Texas. From growing up in New York, to working as Continue Reading

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reading Islamic newspapers

"The basis for the complaint was that they were believed to be reading Islamic newspapers," she said. — Naples Daily news They were whispering and reading a newspaper in a library? Well someone call out the fucking swat team. They sure have cahones, don’t they?

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I disturb myself sometimes.

Disturbing. I disturb myself sometimes. When I heard reports about the Supreme Court’s rulings involving schools a couple weeks ago, I don’t like how I reacted. I did manage to ignore the obsession people seemed to have with the more religious of the two. Timed to coincide with the Pledge Continue Reading