Category Archives: Rant

Crime Prediction Software Is Here and It’s a Very Bad Idea

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 [...]

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Will Obama End the Nuclear Era?

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 [...]

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“…our problems are much bigger than anything that can be cured by buying a few more ships and planes…”

“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.

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PBS Frontline – Poisoned Waters

FRONTLINE: poisoned waters: introduction | PBS. – watch the whole two hours before you condemn.   It gets through, inexorably to a quality point.
Wake up, people!

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Linkdump!

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, [...]

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Lastly, E.O Wilson on well… Damn near everything.

Here.

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Obama AND the multiverse, bitches!

“Structures” tugging at the universe.  

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Bush lame duck is the most delicious kind…

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.

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Near and dear to home…

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?

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Stranger in a Strange Land

I seem to recall something.. er… Oh, just never mind.

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Yes, Virginia, the US is preparing martial law for its’ citizens…

Never fear, InfraGuard is here! Finally, you too can be granted immunity for killing someone to protect the infrastructure!

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Link Dump. Yes, indeed.

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 [...]

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Why I both like and hate the kindle.

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 [...]

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Bush visits injured veterans (photos).

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 [...]

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Everything I want to do is illegal.

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 [...]

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It’s true – the US only exports hate.

No, actually, it isn’t.   Twice as much per GDP.   Huh.

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Transformer Goodness

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 [...]

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Pittsburg has Boston beat.

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 [...]

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What the hell?

Dungeons and Dragons leprechauns… (the odd camera work is the work of a Logitech tracking cam…)

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The chowder of yesterday, today… No chowder tomorrow?

Excellent piece on fisheries, chowder, economics and legislation in New England. Worth the read.

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Paper. Pwnd.

Don’t tell me that I didn’t warn you…

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US/MEXICO Border Fence builders busted for use of Illegal Workers

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.

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