By Reuser | Published:
April 14, 2010
Fuck you, Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice.
Fuck you.
Crime Prediction Software Is Here and It’s a Very Bad Idea .
Really? “Reliable projections”? “Action in real time”? “Preventing criminal activities”? I don’t know about how reliable your system is, IBM, but have you ever heard of the 5th, the 6th, and the 14th [...]
By Reuser | Published:
April 13, 2010
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, “Clinging to nuclear weapons in excess of our security needs does not make the United States safer. … And the nuclear status quo is neither desirable nor sustainable.”
via Will Obama End the Nuclear Era? – Page 1 – The Daily Beast.
Yet despite this, and other treaties, such as the [...]
Also posted in Politics, Stupid |
By Reuser | Published:
April 7, 2010
“If the Department of Defense can’t figure out a way to defend the United States on a budget of more than a half a trillion dollars a year, then our problems are much bigger than anything that can be cured by buying a few more ships and planes…” -Defense Secretary Robert Gates
Required reading for Americans.
By Reuser | Published:
July 8, 2009
FRONTLINE: poisoned waters: introduction | PBS. – watch the whole two hours before you condemn. It gets through, inexorably to a quality point.
Wake up, people!
Also posted in Biology, Design, Economics, Hurt, Math, Personal, Politics, Science, Stupid, Technology, Videos |
By Reuser | Published:
March 9, 2009
Wall Street on the Tundra | vanityfair.com. – Iceland joins the Dutch in the great crazes of all time.
New accounting rules for the Federal Budget.
Band of Brothers, one of the EVE mega-alliances, ceases to be. Heavily infiltrated, their forums cloned by the Goons, BoB chose to make their forums public.
Vegas is running out of water, [...]
By Reuser | Published:
November 6, 2008
“Structures” tugging at the universe.
Also posted in Math, Politics, Science |
By Reuser | Published:
July 26, 2008
I hate to link to op-eds… I especially hate to do so with hyper opinionated rags. *cough NYT cough* But here it is. Accurate as hell, and documented. As Eron has said many times… McCain is a gray wearing a human suit. Think Edgar in MiB.
By Reuser | Published:
July 13, 2008
Schneier talks about the war on photography. Extremely well written. Get your wallet document now, if you are a photographer. When is the US going to return to sanity, again?
By Reuser | Published:
April 18, 2008
I seem to recall something.. er… Oh, just never mind.
Also posted in Books, Stupid |
By Reuser | Published:
February 8, 2008
Never fear, InfraGuard is here! Finally, you too can be granted immunity for killing someone to protect the infrastructure!
Also posted in Judiciary, Politics |
By Reuser | Published:
January 28, 2008
Er, the Pan American Highway is broken. The Darién Gap is quite an interesting place. Murky information much?
Trance. Yes, I ended up downloading most of this thread to my Zune. Bless you, all you can eat 19.95 sub!
Cyborg Bunny Eye. Cyberpunk is now, and I just reserved my set of [...]
By Reuser | Published:
November 20, 2007
e-ink and e-books are both good, and combined, are a net HUGE win. I love the kindle, Amazon’s new e-book device, for what it is, a major play into the market, and the instant updates, wikipedia, etc. There is a lot of awesome in the device to love. Ultimately though, this article [...]
By Reuser | Published:
November 9, 2007
An extremely good photo series, if a bit hard to watch in places. Bush clearly is uncomfortable in some of these pictures, but again, who wouldn’t be? Aside from the self-righteousness I feel from seeing Bush uncomfortable with the results of the war, I was struck by how much the veterans were clearly [...]
By Reuser | Published:
August 29, 2007
Great article on American farm life via Reddit. More information on the author.
Related: Everywhere I turn, from all sides of the political spectrum, people are pissed off with their government – liberal and conservative alike. My wife and I differ. I think it’s going to take revolution to change things… She [...]
Also posted in Economics, Hurt, Politics |
By Reuser | Published:
June 25, 2007
No, actually, it isn’t. Twice as much per GDP. Huh.
Also posted in Economics, Math |
I have thus far simply refused to comment on the up and comming Transformers movie… My reason for this being that…. Bumblebee is a friggin Camaro…Yes thats right they now modify 20 year old characters based on advertising fucks living the dream… Having decepticon cars and such I can deal with but the Camaro thing [...]
Also posted in Auto, Movies |
By Reuser | Published:
February 3, 2007
From the USA Today article: “PITTSBURGH (AP) — A 15-year-old girl has been arrested for taking nude photographs of her self and posting them on the Internet, police said.”
After the light brite fiasco in Boston, I thought that things could not get any more surreal. Then I read the above. Coupled with the [...]
Also posted in Comedy, Hurt, Stupid |
By Reuser | Published:
January 26, 2007
Dungeons and Dragons leprechauns… (the odd camera work is the work of a Logitech tracking cam…)
By Reuser | Published:
January 18, 2007
Excellent piece on fisheries, chowder, economics and legislation in New England. Worth the read.
Also posted in Biology, Gravy |
By Reuser | Published:
January 5, 2007
Don’t tell me that I didn’t warn you…
Also posted in Technology |
By Eronysis | Published:
December 15, 2006
Estimates are that up to 1/3 of the 750 workers were in fact illegal.
Lovely. I just cannot wait for the illegal immigrants working as border guards.