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I'm not a big fan of Macromedia's flash. It's a great technology, but it is overused. If you use a Mozilla based browser, you might like Flashblock
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Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla and Firebird browsers that takes a pessemistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves a placeholder on the page that allows you to click to view the Flash content.
The group "Rolling Thunder" has endorsed Bush over Kerry. It's a fairly large well-known veterns group. Instapundit has the story
I could link to the Washington Post article, but I think those registration required sites are evil.
I'll be out on Holiday all the for the next 4 days, blogging will be light. There is something about 4 day holidays.....oh..that's right, no WORK!
Have a good Holiday everyone. Including my British friends, since Monday is some kind of national bank holiday for them.
I patched both of my OS X boxes with the new 10.3.4 update. I haven't had any problems on either box. I'd suggest everyone update.
I got home at 5:32 p.m. from work tonight. There was a car pulled over in front of our house. I didn't think much about it, maybe a flat tire, car troubles. Nope, just a theif stealing our wild asparagus. I pulled into the driveway and walked towards the car, the woman jumped into the drivers seat and the car sped off. Yup, Thieves. This has been going on all spring. Last year my wife and I ate fresh asparagus until we didn't want to eat anymore. This year, we've had asparagus 1 time. At first I thought an animal was eating our asparagus, but now I realize someone has been stealing it. Our wild asparagus stand is off the road and in our yard away from the fence line, it is clearly in our yard and is clearly ours. What makes people think they can just steal our stuff? They obviously knew it was wrong, since they drove away as soon as i started walking towards them. Now I need to think of a way to keep people out of our property. Next thing you know, someone will help themselves to our zuccini, pumpkins, corn, peas etc.... *sigh* people suck
News.com Article
According to the link above, we now need the Federal government to step in and help the RIAA and Movie Industry crack down on people using peer to pee file sharing technology. Somehow those two industries, who take in record profits year after year after year, need the FEDS to spend our tax dollars policing copyrights. I find this totally disgusting. The lobbyists really do have our politicians in their pockets. The real problem is the RIAA. Technology has changed and they are fighting it. If the RIAA would have jumped on board with peer to peer early on, embraced it, and charged everyone $.25 per download, everything would be fine. But noooooo, they fight it and fight it and fight it and people take the technology and run with it and create napster and all it's ugly step-children and instead of making $40000000000000000000000 profit they only make $30000000000000000000 profit and they get upset. So now we will spend tax dollars to help them get all their gobs of cash back. Hmm..maybe people don't want to buy $15 or $20 CD's with 1 good song on them? Just like we don't want 150 cable channels we want a la carte, we want our music that way too. The movie industry isn't as crazy as the RIAA because they are breaking records on every new decent movie that comes out it seems. Shrek II is broke a record last weekend, Lord of the Rings broke several records and made ooodles of cash. The Computer Gaming industry is making more money than ever, even though I see pirated games everywhere on the web. These industries have tons of cash and can protect themselves. Spending our tax dollars to protect them is ridiculous.
I'll step off my soap box now.
Testimony from girls and aid workers in the Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp in Bunia, in the north-east corner of Congo, claims that every night teenage girls crawl through a wire fence to an adjoining UN compound to sell their bodies to Moroccan and Uruguayan soldiers.
The trade, which according to one victim results in a banana or a cake to feed to her infant son, is taking place despite a pledge by the UN to adopt a "zero tolerance" attitude to cases of sexual misconduct by those representing the organisation.
Where's the world's outrage? Where is the media outrage? The U.S. military stacks some naked bodies in a pile, snaps a few photos and the world wants our heads to roll. U.N. peacekeepers rape 13 yr. old girls they were sent there to protect and the world responds with a collective *yawn*.
This makes me wonder why the left puts so much faith in the U.N. We have stories of U.N. soldiers in Bosnia taking part in the sex slave trade, and now U.N. soldiers stationed in the Congo are raping 13 yr. olds. The U.N. should be disbanded.
New Research study is out, it says the media is liberal *gasp*
Don't worry, this won't affect our news coverage at all. (sarcastic tone)
My theory is that the media has always been liberal on social issues, but when it comes to money, all the media is as far right as it gets.
I think people are asking the wrong question when they ask "why do they hate us?" (referring to the islamofascists)
Hmm..well, you could ask Madonna why
(hat tip CrushKerry.com)
Authoer was booed during speech
What happened to the speech that was supposed to inspire graduates? I think it is pretty pathetic to politicize a graduation ceremony. There is a time and a place for everything, someone should inform this author of that.
