Thoughts

How will peace ever be established between the large parts of the muslim world and the west, when young kids are being taught to kill for depicting a god in a way you dont like?

Well, thats exactly what a children show stipulated a few days ago, regarding the now infamous Muhammed drawings.

A show for kids by the palestinian channel al Aqsa, had a pink bunny say, that if the artist behind the drawings ever did such a thing again, he must certainly die!

Well, thats just great. Another nail in the coffin that is our cultural divide.

Link to Danish news site reporting of this here

This is a pretty cool billboard hack. I like it alot. “Evil Death Star” anyone?

These Quantum Fireball harddrives was the bomb back in the day, this is what it looks like when one crash:

Unfortunally I dont have any more of these laying around, and if I did, I would probably replace them after seeing this

It would seem that another HP NC8430 is about to bite the dust. It has been running its fan constantly for the last couple of months, and using coretemp.exe i can see that both cores are extremely hot all the time (75+ degrees Celcius).

Again, HP disappoints, I need to pay to have onsite service, and not just a small fee, but about 250 Euros. If they really wanted a true “Personal” appearance, they should either make better products, or charge a minimum fee to fix them. Anyways, this is a work laptop, but still, it sucks to have to send it in when its the only workstation you have.

Im certain that something like this would never have happened, if it was a Macbook /Pro

Im off to cool off my left hand, while making more angry calls to HP with my right hand.

“and do you really believe 10,000 outraged letters to a congressman outweigh $10,000 in unmarked bills?

government is one of the few real bargains left”

Seen on BoingBoing.net regarding the ComCast hearing (FCC)

So Larry Lessig has decided not to run for congress. The decision comes mainly because of time and fear
it might damage the entire “Change Congress” campaign. I can understand that position. I would very much
like to see a game plan on how this campaign will gain momentum.

And I would really like to help out, but seeing as im not an American, theres apparently not much I can do to help

I have given some thought about Larry Lessig’s possible candidacy for congress. I have come to the conclussion that I would agree with it, for the following reasons:

1. Exposure.
2. Rally the right people.

For starters, I believe that by running for congress, Lessig will create some exposure about the corruption in American politics. Everybody knows its there, but nobody is willing to change it. Lessig is out to change it, and for that very reason, all exposure is good exposure.

Secondly, at the moment I believe that many of his supporters are the same people who believed in his previous life as a copyright-reformist. I do not necessarily agree that this crowd is the same as the crowd thats needed for a direct political effort.  I would love to be wrong about this one, as it would prove that technologists have political influence as well.

Im looking forward to receiving word on what the decision will be. Either way, his cause is a good one, one worthy of pursuing by any means necessary.

Just noticed that Lessig is considering running for congress this year. I am not quite sure how I feel about this yet. I have great admiration for all his work so far, but i guess i just have a bad feeling about all politicians in the beginning. Will Lessig be able to change anything from within congress, and does it really matter if he makes it or not, as long as he makes enough noise about the issues, in doing so? or will people see a failure to win, as a failure to the cause of creating a corruption free congress?

I dont know, but i think i will come to a better understanding after having thought about it for a day or two. To be hones, I really didnt think he seriously considered running.

<To Be Continued>

http://lessig08.org/

Okay, so this sunday evening, my folks and the like of my girlfriend aren meeting for the first time, and a heavy debate is under way, concerning what to serve them. What do you serve on such an occasion, and how do people with limited dining room make something nifty anyways?

Anyone ever thought about how the destruction of property is getting worse and worse?

This weekend, alot of lamp posts got thrashed close to where I live. A few weeks back somebody actually stole a car and ran into the exact same lamp posts, busting them completely.

And the recent burnings around Denmark because of the prophet thing. It just keeps getting worse and worse, and more and more accepted. Its pissing me off.

When I was younger, all we ever did/saw was maybe crawl around in a lamp post, we certainly didnt thrash the light itself, and certainly didnt steal and total any cars. Why is this so much more common now? is this trend just in Denmark, or globally, and what do we do about it?

Just curious..