licentious radio

Friday, March 15, 2002
[11:25:53 PM]

Note to Google: server-declared automatic refresh should be opt-in. If I read a web page, and leave the page diplayed in the browser, exactly *nothing* must happen. If you want to give me an option, fine. Let me choose how often it refreshes. (Goes for everyone, of course. Not just Google News.)

[11:16:20 PM]

Whacky Euros: <rant>In the U. S., the internet came along at just the point when computers were powerful enough to do interesting things with multimedia cd-roms. We all rushed for the internet, because you could make some money there, and it didn't matter that you weren't smart enough to make money in multimedia.

Those whacky Euros were internet-deprived for years longer. Instead, they went wild with multimedia CDs. (Not that many of them were smart enough to make any money at it.)

And that's the difference: Euros have their whacky pseudo multimedia websites that crash your browser every few minutes because they spent a few years making CDs. GIVE IT UP!

Look, the first rule is *do no harm*. Not only do we not care about your dumb design, we hate your stupid "experience*, and find it intolerable that you crash our browsers. It not only ruins our experience of your website, it subtracts value from the web. Got that? It's EVIL.

Whacky euros who don't care whether their stupid javascript crashes your browser are known disproportionately to use Mac OS < 9.1. On the Mac, you don't care if you crash someone's software. Mac software crashes all the time.</rant>

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[10:52:30 PM]
Enron Owns the GOP. That's dirty, dirty, dirty.

[10:41:35 PM]
And who thinks that what Anderson did for Enron is unique in the accounting/consulting industry?

[10:37:58 PM]
After Israel's offensive, terrible toll, terrible hate [iht.com]:

"Nobody in the Shin Bet thinks these operations will stop terrorism," said the source, speaking of Israel's domestic security service. "It's impossible to end this wave of terrorism without a political process." [...] Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, whose public support ran high for his first 10 or 11 months in office, is now plummeting in the polls.

[10:30:02 PM]
Google News: Google keeps doing the right thing. I notice they point to websites you can read without registering or paying.

[6:00:49 PM]
83%: Hello! 83% = (100% times 50% Republicans) + (66% times 50% Democrats). This is a normal war thing. It's even quite reasonable for us all to rally together when we're asking soldiers to fight and die. It doesn't mean Bush would be popular if there weren't a war.

Trifecta: Last September, Bush had problems. Campaign finance loomed: "unilateral disarmament" for the Republicans, because it's *very* expensive to get people to vote for greed, hate, and corruption. The newspapers were about to release their analysis of the Florida voting -- that Gore would have won by any reasonable standard. And Enron was about to melt down.

Just in the nick of time, though, terrorists crashed into some buildings. Carpe diem, and we're off to war. "I hit the trifecta!" -- Little George.*

It starts to look like Bush's only hope is to keep the war going. Can anyone talk them out of invading Iraq?

Remember that Gulf War I destroyed the real estate market, put the economy on hold, and sent energy prices through the roof. ("What's wrong with that?" -- Ken Lay.) The cost of the bombs was a pittance compared to the overall economic costs.

If it's a choice between the economy and Little George's job, let's go with the economy. What do you say?

Also decide whether it was worth the lives of a hundred thousand teenage Iraqi conscripts (conscription=slavery), carpet bombed to oblivian on orders of heroic men like Schwarzkopf, Powell, and Daddy Bush. I mean "honorable men". So are they all "honorable men". Know anyone with a teen-age son? What do you say to someone whose son died in a hole from a B-52-load of bombs?

* "Trifecta" is a gambling term; the sort of thing drug addict/sleazebags know all about. You get three things right and you win. Little George didn't actually mean WTC1, WTC2, and the Pentagon. He was really joking about war, national emergency, and recession. Warmed up properly, Republicans find this *funny*.

[5:37:19 PM]
Raise your hand if you think it doesn't matter whether a Republican or Democrat is president.

[5:33:45 PM]
So the Democrats torpedoed a judicial appointment. Rah. I guess it's a start. They have a *long* way to go to redeem themselves. Get with it, folks.

Then there's Gore. At least he isn't stupid. But is he the guy?

To win you need three things: 1) money, 2) viciousness, 3) be good at a funeral. Money is obvious. By vicious, I mean you've got to fight against the dirtiest, most corrupt gangs of thugs in living memory. Nixon was a freaking pansy to Delay and Baker. If you're not up to it, stay home.

You've got to be good at a funeral. Think of Clinton after the Oklahoma City bombing. Would you have wanted to listen to Gore? No. Now think of how much faster we would have felt better if Clinton had been president last September. Pre-scandal Clinton would have drubbed Little George. That's what we need.

I think you can be flat out vicious with absolute integrity. Don't come between mama bear and her cubs. Shine a light on every foul lie and dirty trick the Bush mafia pulls. Take it to the streets: count every vote. Insist on keeping the polls open until people can vote: Mugabe learned a lot from Republicans. Make an issue of the vile racism, the sociopathic corporate greed, and the monstrously dangerous powertrips. They all tie together. Nail them to the wall at every turn, and don't let up.

All I remember is Gore chanting "I'll fight for you", and then he rolled over and handed power to the axis of evil. The process seemed to suit his personality: he was calling the shots himself.

Looks to me like Gore is not the guy.