tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-237300042011-12-13T19:53:34.268-08:00A place where I, a "liberal" college student from Oregon going to school in California can rant about what I consider to be stupid and idiotic.WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.comBlogger711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-12837700915121914932007-03-22T03:16:00.000-07:002007-03-22T03:21:39.326-07:00

Hello out there to anyone in the field of Journalism, especially if your in charge of hiring people for jobs and/or internships. I am looking for either of these at any publication as a writer. I don't do well at editing, but I can write well, don't let my blog fool you, I don't try to edit my writing in this blog. I am most interested in writing about anything relating to new gadgets (big or

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Is it weird that I want to join the military even though I kind of hate following rules, and really hate stupid rules (which is what the military is full of), and even though I don't think this nation has used it's military in an effective "moral" way since World War 2? I have this urge, almost a need to see combat, and be involved in the combat, unlike a war correspondent which is what I have

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How willing would you be to fight all the way to the bitter end for what you believed to be wright to save someone you don't really know? This is just a theoretical question, been watching House, first season, lol.

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The Onion has a good article about Campaign Finance Reform. It makes fun of it, or at least some of the arguments for it. I will say now that I do not know very much about the official position taken by people who want to reform Campaign Financing, but it seems to me that whoever wants to spend money on a campaign should be able to with whatever amount of money they chose, ether that, or a set

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I had no idea that so many people my age going to college had alcoholics or violent people for parents, or otherwise just messed up families. I guess I am much more lucky than I thought. My mom is a recovering alcoholic, she has been sober for 18 years, and dry for longer, so I never had to deal with the personality traits of an alcoholic in my home. Well, back to class.

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Anyone who really believes in capital punishment after seeing a show like Prison Break, and realizes that there have been innocent people killed before, and that it will happen again, and still believe in the death penalty deserves to be locked up like the killers that they are.

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1162886897885043362006-11-07T00:01:00.000-08:002006-11-07T00:08:17.896-08:00

I just read a headline that said "'Borat' beats 'Clause' at boxoffice". Why is that news at all? Of course the Borat moving beat the stupid Santa Clause 3 movie! The first two were only ok, the third, I don't know, but given how much press Borat has gotten, not to mention how good Borat is, of course it is beating the Santa Clause Movie.On another note, I am trying to review the beta for Supreme

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I was running from the main base, heading for our objective. I heard the sounds of battle ahead in the distance. My pulse quickened. My initial fears were put to the back of my mind, I was excited and angry; my people were fighting for their lives and I wasn’t even there yet. I ran faster. Upon reaching the top of a small hill, I dove to the ground, pulling my Morretti SR4 Sniper

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Why are we so damned concerned about airline security? Why is preventing death from terrorists/murders so much more important than preventing deaths caused by accidents, diseases, etc? More people die from car accidents every year than in 10 average years of plane crashes. Hell, more kids die of starvation everyday than the amount of people killed from the terrorists attacks of 9/11. Hundreds of

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Well, tonight I found out the financial situation of my family. My father is a family practice doctor in private practice, who has been in practice for over just over 20 years, he's 57, and he makes the equivalent of $27.48 an hour He works about 80 hours a week, and he's going to burn out at this rate.This is Medicare at work people, for the past 8 years they have been lowering their

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Trying to beef up airport security is pretty fucking funny in my mind. For one, about 90% of the time, I know I could get a gun and at least one bullet on board of a plane. The only times I probably could not would be on those rare occasions where I get patted down. See, Glock makes a 95% plastic gun, with only the barrel, firing spring, and a few other small parts being metal. Therefore the

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Yeah so sex, um, it would be nice, but I'd like a long term partner, have no idea where to look around the area that I live. Life is boring, can't wait to get back to school. Also at school there are more ladies in the area, so finding a girl friend will hopefully be easier. Didn't find one last year, I should expand my horrizons a bit. Oh well.

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Well, were all doomed. Please go to the link and at least read the clips from the article that is on slashdot. As soon as I have robbed enough banks to afford my own country (yes buying an island and turning it into a country has been done before!) I am buying one, and I will let hackers reside there!

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Forgot to spell check last post btw. Also, I see the Cingular has way more phone choices, anyone know why Verizon has so little? Because the seem to have great service in all the other ways, but a shitty selection of phones. Vote for your favorite cell phone service, and i'll keep track.

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Lately I have been wanting to get a new phone, and perhaps, switch to a different provider. I read several gadget blogs, including the very popular Gizmodo. I want to get a cool, slim phone that can play mp3s, or at least mp3 ringtones. I currently have Verizon (in a business plan with parents), and have an upgrade using Verizon's 2 year upgrade program thingy, that requires another two years be

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Likes to play video/computer games, or at least understands my need to play sometimesAble to take the lead in the relationship, though not be pushy. Wow putting feelings into words is much harder than you might think.Not more than 15-20 pounds overweight, sorry but I have to be physically attracted.usually I like long hair, but short can be ok, as long as its no shorter than 4 inches.height is

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Not really, it hurts like a bitch to swallow right now, but I found out why I have been really tired for the last year and a half-I wasn't getting enough oxygen when I was sleeping, so I slept through important college classes, and had no energy to exercise and gained weight. Hopefully after my throat heals, I'll be able to lose some weight and find my self a girl friend. I know I don't want a

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For the past several weeks, I have been catching up on watching Andromeda, the science fiction show that was created by Gene Roddenberry, creator of the famous Star Trek series. To my knowledge it was his last TV show idea. The producer of the show is Majel Roddenberry, Gene's late wife, now known as Majel Berrett, I don't know. Anyway, the show never did get very much attention from the press,

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Hey max found your blog!

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Hey Maxwell, thanks for the comment, if you leave your email I can get back to you.

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Hello people, I'm looking for a car. Would like something at $5000 or less. Looking at manuals or really really cool automatics only. The cars need to be withing 150 miles of Portland, Oregon. Mostly looking at Honda Civics and some Toyotas. If you live within 50 miles of Redlands, California and have a car I could possibly buy it after August 26th, but it has to be a really sweet deal for me to

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I have been trying out the creigslist.com personal ad section, trying to find someone to chat with. The very few people I have emailed (most of the girls are like, I'm really curvy, like large as fucking hell curvy. I'm sorry, I need to be physically attracted ok!), don't get back to me. So that's it, my "love life" or the lack-there-of, fucking sucks ass.To top that off, I got into a posting

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Just watching Dane Cook on youtube.com right now, watching one of the 23 minute clips from the Insomniac Tour. He's pretty funny, but one joke pissed me off a bit, the one about the phone camera's. There is still a lot of fucking people out there who don't have camera phones, or if they do, have never used that function because they got the phone free and just wanted a fucking phone! Also, the

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Check out this wired.com article. Maybe they will fine me too: Fuck the Italian government for being against free speech! Are they reverting back to fascism? I mean I love hot Italian chicks, and love pasta, but any government that fines a blogger must be fascist, right? (While I do not know if my statements here are true, I hope I get fined for them, it would be hilarious, because they're never

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Hello everyone, I have about 10 thousand, yes 10,000, Star Wars CCG cards from the original Star Wars CCG series, not the new Jedi one, for sale. I am asking for $2000 dollars because at least 500 of the cards have price tags at $1, 200 cards at over $2, and another 200 at over $5 and about 100 over $10. The rest of the cards are worth between $00.01 and $00.99, most come in at 10 cents though.

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My comments about the lawsuit is directly on the comments page as WCD_Thor, my gaming name. Someone else on some internet servers think they can use WCD_Thor, BUT I MADE UP WCD!! West Coast Diablos!! I made the clan in late 1999 or 2000 for Rainbow Six. While it is no longer a clan I am still the founder and have not given permission for it, or its abbreviation, to be used by anyone else but a

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Hello people, I want to get linux for an old sony vio laptop, which distribution should I get? Thanks people.

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I need that car man! NEED IT. So, Gone In 60 Seconds is one of my favorite movies, purely because of the cars, and as such, I really want a 1967 Shelby GT500. The problem is, an original restored one, the price tag is around $130,000. If any goodharted, car loving, rich person would like to give me ether the money to buy one, the car, or any fast, cool sports car, even if it needs to be fixed up

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I am unsure as to whether I should support the people pirating music, movies, and software. One argument for their support could be a claim that they are forcing the big names in the industry to lower prices so they can compete with the piraters (Face it, $20+ is way to much to pay for a god damned movie!). An opposing argument could be made stating that they are forcing the same companies to

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So, I'm home for the summer, and already going nuts. Need to get a job, any ideas of where to look would be great. So far during the days I have done nothing but watch TV (wasn't feeling to good, going out to look for a job tuesday after I get a haircut) and at night watch tv untill around 1pm. After that there is nothing worth watching on, and so I get nervous. Were so alone where I live that I

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I would like to applaud all the hackers out their that are in the hacking game to have fun and expose security flaws, or governmental secrets, etc. All the hackers that use your abilities to be bad and steal can jump off a cliff. One hacker I would like to applaud is Adrian Lamo who changed stories on Yahoo news to incorrectly quote Ashcroft. Also, the dude that claims he found evidence of UFO's

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1147312695598793022006-05-10T18:53:00.000-07:002006-05-10T18:58:15.990-07:00

Check this article out about how the feds accused a hacker of not complying with their order for him to give them DNA. The idiots are in the dark ages and wanted him to give them blood, when everyone knows you can get DNA from hair, fingernail clippings, or a quick mouth swab. My question is, how the fuck did the federal government get away with this Justice For All Act bullshit that makes it

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Girls can be nuts. Or perhaps I should say young women, but for the purpose of me saving time, I'm going to say to hell with PC and use girls, if you have a problem, please tell me, but I can't promise I will care.Anyway, one thing that girls do, mind you these are extremely gorgeous girls, that I find completely nuts and annoying is when they complain to another gorgeous girl right in front of

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1146223736732179112006-04-28T04:26:00.000-07:002006-04-28T04:28:57.740-07:00

Should you really be able to patent such non specific ideas as using chat on the samescreen as you are watching your TV on? That it just what Microsoft did. Its not even a new idea, its not an invention specificly, its A GOD DAMNED FUCKING IDEA THAT HAS BEEN THOUGHT OF BEFORE!!! THE STUPIDITY OF THIS NATION IS ALMOST STUNNINING; THEN I REALISE WHO MY NEIGHBORS ARE.

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Should it be legal for the Pentagon to withhold pictures, film footage, and blogs from the public when they are taken by military personal as they did with one tape of footage from the up coming film War Tapes?Personally I think that this kind of censor ship is bullshit, mostly because the tapes, pictures, and blogs they are censoring do not show anything related to our national security, unless

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Check this shit out. May whatever you believe in save you from prison, and the assraping that will folow.

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Take a look at this article. I personally believe that there is nothing more important than the rights granted us in the first 10 constitutional amendments, otherwise known as The Bill of Rights. I hope the journalists win this one, and since when did Apple get so fucking evil?

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Read it and think people read it and think, that's all I ask, to think, and maybe comment here or click on some ads lol, kidding adsense . . .

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Check this out.

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Yes, Apple is at it again, trying to rape its supporters for leaking "classified" information. Read the article, and get angry, and support journalistic freedom. If anything, an outside source could be allowed to access O'Grady's email, but not Apple its self, nor it's own lawyers.

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This article about how retired officers are now criticizing Rumsfeld is nuts. The author actually thinks that the government is being run how it is supposed to. Wait, maybe it is running how it was supposed to, but if that's the case, that's the scariestshit I've ever heard about the founding of our country.

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Take a look at this article if your reading my blog, lol like people read my blog, lol.

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While I am not a gun nut, not a member of the NRA, nor a republican, I think that the state gun laws are a little nuts. One could validly say they violate the right to Bear Arms; to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon, one must pay a bunch of fees, and wait a long time. And permits are not legal in other states for the most part. While I don't want criminals having guns, I don't think I

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So what if Iran want Nukes? The United States has no god damned right to censure Iran for attempting to enrich uranium, nor does any of the permanent members of the UN Security Counsel, BECAUSE ALL OF THEM ALREADY HAVE ACCESS TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS!!! And the US has more than any of them!!!!! Why doesn't the New York Times and all the other major newspapers write about that?!!! Hypocrites!!!

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Yes, I know, the title of this posting, as well of this article sound as if it came from The Onion. "That alone disqualifies the article, or at least the study, its self!" Said my intelligent dorm neighbor. This study was not large enough to mean jack shit. Plus, does that mean anything is wrong with the games. Generally I'll agree that violence is a bad thing, but not nearly as much as idiotic

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Finaly some praise,from something closer to mainstream media than pc gamer, for first person shooters. Clive Thompson has it right on the money.

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Recently a Judge in the UK has been criticized for not ruling against a 10 year old boy who had called a classmate a "nigger" "paki" and "bin Laden". While the kid deserves to be punished, does the government, any government, need to get involved in the punishing of 10 year olds about racism? I think the judge did the right thing, especialy since the two kids are now friends. The parents of the

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Yeah, so I thought I would jump on the April Fool's Day parade. The title is just wishfull thinking.

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1143801543584040862006-03-31T02:20:00.000-08:002006-03-31T02:39:03.606-08:00

I really don't understand why I am here. I think all I do is waist other people's time, and in the case of my parents, their money. I do nothing worthwhile. I feel like I am waisting my parents money on college, just like I have waisted it on toys in my younger days. I don't know what I want to do with my life. I can't seem to find any girls that would ever be interested in me. It just fucking

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1143675036729596472006-03-29T15:26:00.000-08:002006-03-29T15:30:36.740-08:00

So, Whirlpool will be buying Maytag for $1.68 billion. I have two views on this: 1) On one hand I fervently believe in the freedom to buy what you want when you want it as long as your not damaging someone. 2) On the other hand, two of the biggest names in home appliances becoming one can't be good for competition in the market-place or for prices, so maybe this is harming people?I'm not really

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1143558679874572692006-03-28T07:03:00.000-08:002006-03-28T07:11:20.516-08:00

This article by wired is pretty interesting. On one hand, it makes legal sense for the government to get involved in the MMORPG's that one can sell items or currency for real, non-virtual money. On the other hand, it is scary that the government would get involved in online gaming, it seems that the government is already violating enough privacy without monitoring online games. The author of the

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1143203666361773312006-03-24T04:11:00.000-08:002006-03-24T04:34:26.426-08:00

Ok, seriously, I really need to get laid, or at least get a girl friend. I guess I don't need sex, but I really would like a girl friend. I want someone to love me in a non-friend, non-parental way. I'm a college freshman in California, and even though I'm in a really liberal part of the University it does not mean that the girls I am surrounded by are all extremely attractive, all in their own

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1143197986146609342006-03-24T02:50:00.000-08:002006-03-24T02:59:46.166-08:00

I recently came across this post on slashdot.com! I cannot wait until I can legally download a film, oh wait, never mind, I can wait. I can wait until they reasonably price the god damned things. If it is only ten dollars or so a movie, this will be sweet, especially if you get the DVD in the mail like the article mentions, because the day I trust my windows operating system and the hard drives

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1143117982863963452006-03-23T04:43:00.000-08:002006-03-23T04:46:22.890-08:00

Hey, here's a guy who has a brain, and works for one of my favorit sites, Wired! Of course more computers should be involved in airport screening, and I know that I could get a gun on board a plane with a bullet, in fact I have thought of trying just to see what happens. I should be a security tester, seriosly, my brain is always thinking of ways to get around different security, and if I was

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1143109226673884102006-03-23T02:17:00.000-08:002006-03-23T02:20:26.683-08:00

I urge everyone to go to the Chilling Effects website, because they are trying to protect the average computer user from being bullied by companies. If you have ever gotten a cease and desist letter/email, or know someone who has, from a company, please go to the website and tell your friends too!

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Oh great, so, Dell is going to buy Alienware, meaning one less company for them to compete with. I really don't understand why Dell is doing this a year after launching their own line of gaming PC's. This means two name brand competitors will no longer be competing with each other, possibly raising prices in the long run. I feel this is bad for the consumer in the long run, because the less

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1143031067815511742006-03-22T04:28:00.000-08:002006-03-22T04:37:47.900-08:00

Recently, Wired posted this article, claiming that France would be doing the right thing forcing Apple (and other companies) to make the music they sell via their websites playable on any hardware, not just their own proprietary music players.While this would be good to the consumers, I think France is trying to push a company around too much. Many people say that companies and corporations get

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1142929140154909702006-03-21T00:04:00.000-08:002006-03-21T00:19:00.196-08:00

Hey, looks like airline passengers are losing even more rights. Wired had this article, which is about how the Ninth circuit Court of Appeals ruled that once a traveler walks through the airport metal detector, they cannot change their minds if they get singled out for more extensive "testing".This is a blatant violation of our civil rights, and I hope someone with the means to do so fights this

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1142864237773351952006-03-20T06:06:00.000-08:002006-03-20T06:17:18.990-08:00

Using Google's wonderful customizable homepage, I ran across the heading "'Atomic' storm shatters Innisfail." Of course I had to read it because of the word atomic, but it ended up being this; yet another big storm. While I am sure it was a huge, scary ass storm, why would anyone liken it to an atomic explosion?! Atomic explosions of any merit destroy everything within a radius of at least half a

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1142857908838757802006-03-20T04:25:00.000-08:002006-03-20T04:31:48.866-08:00

I'm sick and tire of articles like this one that act like biofuel is a new thing. I've been hearing about this for 4 years now, and it was created in the 1980s, but people are too god damned stupid to notice that they could run their cars and help slow down global warming for over 20 god damned years!!! Hey, for the past year it would have even been cheaper, with some saying it would only cost

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1142742639358174102006-03-18T20:02:00.000-08:002006-03-18T20:30:39.390-08:00

Recently the Bush administration (or should I say the Cheney administration?) has subpoenaed Google for a list of 50,000 randomly selected websites indexed by its search engine, and for a list of what people have been searching for. A federal judge recently ordered Google to provide the list of websites, but through out the government's demands for the search terms. The government did not want

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1142587638334119332006-03-17T01:19:00.000-08:002006-03-17T01:27:18.333-08:00

Here is a case that shows how google got fucked. I know I wrote about this somewhere, but I'm writing it again here; IT IS TOTAL BULLSHIT that Google gets fucked for showing clips from other people’s websites that illegally put up images from websites such as Perfect 10! Anyway, go Google, Google fucking rocks your fucking ass off!

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1142587044325249472006-03-17T01:13:00.000-08:002006-03-17T01:17:24.356-08:00

YAY! Again I have something from slashdot.com. Google won a case against some writer who said his writes were being infringed on when google showed a small portion of his website in their search resalts and a small portion of his usenet posting. Article is here: Google wins!!!

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1142549459683764492006-03-16T14:40:00.000-08:002006-03-16T14:50:59.693-08:00

This post is in response to other blog posts I have seen reacting to Bill Gates mocking the $100 laptop program set up to help developing countries. I agree that Bill Gates should not have sarcasticly mocked this program, but calling him a jackass and a selfish bastard is going a bit far. Calling him arrogant is just stupid, because of course he is arrogant, he became the richist man in the world

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1142464245458107932006-03-15T14:59:00.000-08:002006-03-15T15:10:45.466-08:00

I recently found this story on Slashdot. I find it appalling that any company would fire the person who helped creat it. That is the ultimate act of treachery in the business world. I hope Gael Duval wins his lawsuit. His idea of an easy to use Linux was a great idea. The links on Slashdot are interesting; basicly the new boss of Mandriva said that Gael was being laid off. Why would you lay off

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1142340773595612662006-03-14T04:46:00.000-08:002006-03-14T04:52:53.620-08:00

So, my parents have told me that this summer I have to find a job, otherwise I can't live at home. Its fair, especialy since they are paying for my college education. My problem is I am extremely unmotivated because I cannot think of any job a 19 year old can do that is interesting. Working at McDonalds after my Junior year was not hard, but it was still a horrible job because of how boring it

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1142213557471592402006-03-12T17:30:00.000-08:002006-03-12T17:32:37.480-08:00

Does anyone else feel that Google should "take over the world"? I feel that if they took over many areas relating too technology that the world would be a much beter run place. Google is all about new ideas, which is exactly what our society needs right now. More thoughts on Google to come.

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1142167759229474182006-03-12T04:45:00.000-08:002006-03-12T04:49:19.236-08:00

Alright, right now I am drunk, I don't get drunk too often, so don't think I'm a crazy partier. All I have to say is that my life sucks in some ways, and here is the ways: I have the worst luck with girls/women that anyone could have. I'm always the "friend" or even the "cute friend" but never will I be of boyfriend material. I swear, the second a girl sees me, she puts me in friend catagory, and

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1142071048593110092006-03-11T01:50:00.000-08:002006-03-11T01:57:28.660-08:00

Well, today my friend and I have decided we are going to ether start a business, or patent an invention of his. If we do the later, we will problably sell the rights to use the patent and use the capital to start a business partnership. The reason we would not sell the actual patent is that if his idea works, it would make a lot of money in the long run, and losing control over it would not be

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1142033093676499032006-03-10T15:19:00.000-08:002006-03-10T15:24:53.683-08:00

Last monday I went to Ultraviolet. I have to say that this movie was not very good, for two reasons: 1) For the most part the dialog made the story line more confusing, especialy towards the end of the movie. 2) I didn't like the movie makers' try at a comic book look, it made everything look kind of fuzzy.On the plus side, this film had one of the, if not the, best bullet time scenes I have ever

WCD_Thorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816812214276615242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23730004.post-1141904986307927492006-03-09T03:39:00.000-08:002006-03-09T03:49:46.316-08:00

I think that the recent settlement Google anounced here is nuts! Why should the be responsible for others' "crimes"? They are not the one using the Google ads to drive companies down, and why is clicking a link so wrong anyway?! I feel like I should go and start clicking links right now just to pice off these businesses that think they need to be protected by someone with more money than them. I

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