Author Archives: χάος

DEATH BY SNOO SNOO: Life imitates art as Nigerian man raped to death by 5 jealous wives…

POLL: 86% of voters don’t want tailored political ads…
HOT FLASHBACK 2004: “Imagine: Video speeches and explanations of positions by the candidate to the Internet audience will be the norm. Interactive sessions where a vote can be culled based on their exact concerns. The feedback from this will lead campaigns to craft email announcements to supporters based on their concerns and keep them abreast of developments on a much more targeted basis.”

Albright recalls Romney thanks for ‘keeping my mouth shut’ on Olympics uniforms made outside USA..

Jim Henson Company breaks off relations with Chick-fil-a over anti-gay stance…
Chick-fil-a gets caught faking back-dated ‘recall’…

Widow of ‘liar loan’ inventor selling iconic Sunset Blvd estate for $150,000,000…

‘AUDIT THE FED’ BILL READY FOR HISTORIC HOUSE VOTE…
Bernanke makes last plea, bashes Congress/politics…

Computer geeks making millions off political races…

Zogby: Libertarian Johnson hurting Romney..
WELL DUH: iSideWith’s 600K members deem Johnson winner if election based on issues…
Frustrated young voters turning to libertarians…
“What the polling shows is that among all voters, but particularly among young voters, there’s no confidence in anything or anybody”
LEGALIZE: Gary Johnson pushes pot platform into presidential propaganda…

‘Minority Report’ software hits the real world… David Schwartz, the company’s vice president for sales, said ‘We get calls from people in the military who say, ‘I want the ‘Minority Report’ interface.”

Jason “Costanza” Alexander posts gun/government (pro-security) rant over Aurora, CO shootings…
Michael Chertoff suggests precrime solution to mass shooting psychos…
FFF: Don’t let Aurora shooting curtail right of self-defense…
RON PAUL CALLS FOR REASON… “Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives.”

Atlanta man fills potholes to ire of local government…

By failing to secure a county permit for his work, Cabrelli’s efforts were technically illegal under county code. Those permits signal county inspectors to check on repair work and to make sure the right materials are used in the right way, Brennan said.

Cabrelli, though, was unrepentant.

“It’s a lot easier to ask for absolution than approval,” he said. “All I’m trying to do is keep the neighborhood decent.”

Ocean scavengers pull 48 tons of silver from S.S. Gairsoppa, 3 miles deep in N. Atlantic…

Corporate cash hoards skyrocketed after 2008 crash…

VIDEO: Rap artist blames bad parenting for society’s ills in new single…
Lyrics…

I’m embarrassed
And I’m ashamed I played a part in this devilish game
Making your common sense perish
But I ain’t taking the full blame
Cause most of you chumps running around here ain’t never had strict parents

Linus Torvalds channels Ayn Rand…

In many ways, I actually think the real idea of open source is for it to allow everybody to be “selfish”, not about trying to get everybody to contribute to some common good.
Models hold up Android-based smartphones The Linux-based Android smartphone system has spread the use of Mr Torvalds’ invention

In other words, I do not see open source as some big goody-goody “let’s all sing kumbaya around the campfire and make the world a better place”. No, open source only really works if everybody is contributing for their own selfish reasons.

Now, those selfish reasons by no means need to be about “financial reward”, though.

The early “selfish” reasons to do Linux tended to be centred about just the pleasure of tinkering. That was why I did it – programming was my hobby – passion, really – and learning how to control the hardware was my own selfish goal. And it turned out that I was not all that alone in that.

OVERHYPED: Ron Paul forces fall short at Nebraska GOP convention…

TINY DEATH BOTS: Two foot missile could be ‘months’ away from drone war…
“a kind of deadly Moore’s Law. That’s certainly commensurate with the miniaturization of killer drones, like the kamikaze mash-up of missile and robot called the Switchblade.”

VIDEO: Massive x-class solar flare to hit earth over weekend…
Solar storm incoming: Federal agencies provide inconsistent, confusing information…

Inside look at Scientology’s creepy futuristic compound in Clearwater, FL… Security cameras are on all Scientology properties and even hidden in the shrubbery. Every move and, no doubt conversation, can be monitored. It feels incredibly sinister.

Security tightened against Ron Paul revolutionaries descending on Nebraska GOP convention…
Fate of campaign…

Pauls’ now fight for “Internet Freedom”
Manifesto…

New consulting firm created to help Libertarian candidates…
Liberty Torch Political Consulting, LLC…

Slow rEVOLution: With ‘freedom’ in fashion, is libertarianism back?
Something’s going on in America this election year: a renaissance of an ideal as old as the nation itself – that live-and-let-live, get-out-of-my-business, individualism vs. paternalism dogma that is the hallmark of libertarianism.