Monthly Archives: November 2006

Keith Olbermann on Bush and Clinton

By probabilityZero | November 29, 2006
Posted in Current events, Videos | 2 Comments

Germany calls for violent video game ban

By probabilityZero | November 24, 2006

Once again, there are politicians attacking video games. This time, they’re proposing an outright ban on “killer” video games.
The debate over violent video games has been rekindled in Germany after a recent school shooting left students and teachers hospitalized. 18-year-old Sebastian Bosse returned to his secondary school in the town of Emsdetten yesterday and opened [...]

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UCLA student assaulted with taser

By probabilityZero | November 21, 2006

This is a video of a UCLA student being stunned with a taser because he didn’t have his library pass.
Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a UCLA student, was repeatedly stunned with a Taser and then taken into custody when he did not exit the CLICC Lab in Powell Library in a timely manner. Community Service Officers had asked [...]

Posted in Current events, F***ed up, News, Noteworthy | 3 Comments

New Congress likely behind net neutrality

By probabilityZero | November 18, 2006

Internet neutrality proponents believe that the recent change in Congress is likely to boost their efforts to push legislation that would prohibit tiered access to the Internet.
It was sad to see so many people convinced by telecom lobbyists that net neutrality was an added regulation that prohibited a free market, when that is exactly opposite [...]

Posted in Current events, News, Tech and games | 1 Comment

Starting a forum

By probabilityZero | November 12, 2006

I’m in the process of setting up a forum, in collaboration with NPC and several regular readers here: Inanity (inanetalk.com). It’s focused on the less serious aspects and topics covered here, as well as those at other forums. It’s still in it’s early stages, and I’m in the process of customizing the software — if [...]

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People want change

By probabilityZero | November 9, 2006

The Democrats are now in control of the House and the Senate. Is it because of the Foley scandal? The deficit? The manipulation of Christian evangelicals? The casualties in Iraq? Wasted time over flag burning amendments? Well, no, I don’t think it’s any of those, or the hundreds of other fuckups that have come from [...]

Posted in Current events, Opinion | 2 Comments

Rumsfeld steps down

By probabilityZero | November 8, 2006

I honestly didn’t expect this to ever happen, but I’m glad it did.
Give President Bush credit for being honest about his dishonesty. Last week he told reporters for the top wire news services — the AP, Reuters, Bloomberg — that Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney were doing fabulous work and would remain in their jobs [...]

Posted in Current events, News | 2 Comments

Pinky and the Brain

By probabilityZero | November 5, 2006
Posted in Current events, Other | 1 Comment

Army Recruiters Lie to Students

By probabilityZero | November 4, 2006

No one wants to go, and we don’t have a draft, so what does the army do to get recruits? Lie through their teeth, of course:
“Nobody is going over to Iraq anymore?” one student asks a recruiter.
“No, we’re bringing people back,” he replies.
“We’re not at war. War ended a long time ago,” another recruiter says.
How [...]

Posted in Current events | 3 Comments

Lord of the OS

By probabilityZero | November 3, 2006

Windows Vista
Three OS’s from corporate-kings in their towers of glass,
Seven from valley-lords where orchards used to grow,
Nine from dotcoms doomed to die,
One from the Dark Lord Gates on his dark throne
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.
One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and [...]

Posted in Tech and games | 1 Comment