Archive for February, 2004

February 29th, 2004

Top Twelve Reasons Not to Support Gay Marriage

I came across “Top Twelve Reasons Not to Support Gay Marriage” at Neurosophy and would like to include it here, since the list seems to be in the public domain. (The only one I disagree with is #8.)
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Homosexuality is not natural, much like eyeglasses, polyester, and birth control.
Heterosexual marriages are valid because they produce [...]

February 29th, 2004

The “Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act”

One of the main reasons the Internet has been so successful in the last decade is the fierce resistance given in response to meddling politicians who want to protect us from ourselves. Most of the laws that have been passed to regulate the web have either been ruled unconstitutional, or were completely useless and [...]

February 28th, 2004

Go CIA!

I can’t say how true this is, but it’s certainly a great story: In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet Union through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions, including software that later triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline, according [...]

February 28th, 2004

Anti-China Protest in Taiwan

Wow: More than 2.5 million people joined hands to form a 500-kilometre (310-mile) human chain stretching the length of Taiwan in a huge anti-China protest ahead of the island’s presidential elections next month, organisers said.

February 26th, 2004

Limbaugh warns of danger to free speech

Well, I never expected this from the conservatives, but I’m glad that one of them finally had enough sense to say it:
The nation’s top radio host Rush Limbaugh warned of growing government intervention in broadcasting content.
Limbaugh made the comments after his parent company clear channel dropped Viacom’s Howard Stern from its stations.
‘Smut on tv gets [...]

February 24th, 2004

Comanche Helicopter Scrapped

The Comanche helicopter program was scrapped today after $6.8 billion, 20 years of development, and not a single operational model. The helicopter was intended to oppose non-existent Soviet super-weapons, and after 1990, a non-existent Soviet empire. It took 13 years for the program to catch up with political reality. The helicopter has [...]

February 22nd, 2004

Flying Around

I probably wont be doing much blogging in the near future. In addition to my usual hectic life, I got MS Flight Simulator 2004 yesterday, and will be spending most of my free time up in the clouds. Once my dvi-vga adapter comes in, Ill be flying with 4 monitors.

February 22nd, 2004

Drudge has a review on the new book “Rumsfeld’s War.” Drudge picks out the primary reason why pacifists of all flavors despise him: Rumsfeld changed the rules of fighting against terrorists, focusing on one primary goal- killing them. Amen!
Update: The Washington Times has another good story on the book.

February 21st, 2004

Gay Marriages in San Franscisco

Arnold Schwarzenegger has decided to take a stand against the orgy of gay marriages coming out of San Francisco City Hall. Whatever one thinks of the legitimacy of gay marriage, I think this is a brilliant move for City Hall and a win-win situation for everyone. The San Fran authorities obviously have a [...]

February 18th, 2004

“polluting our minds with unnecessary greed”

I ranted last month about the socialist rag produced by the business student council at my school. I had hoped that this was an anomaly, until I opened up the latest issue. Here is a quote from Cant Buy Me Love, an editorial from a freshman business major:
Gullible consumers rush to the stores, [...]

February 17th, 2004

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February 16th, 2004

a quick look at the Win2k source

LMAO: “We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source.”

Interesting: Commercial software aided reboot on Mars.

February 15th, 2004

An Islamic “human rights” group

The video you are about to watch is a rap video designed to inspire people to take up jihad against the West. Posted on a radical Islamic website based out of the United Kingdom, the video is undeniably entertaining, as professionally produced as any video you might see on MTV. Consider the irony: [...]

February 14th, 2004

“An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World”

Check out Charles Krauthammer’s awesome speech: “Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World”. This is definitely one of the best and most insightful foreign policy talks Ive ever read.

February 11th, 2004

All of whom “just turned 18″, I’m sure…

Harvard University voted yesterday to approve a student-run magazine that will feature nude pictures of Harvard undergraduates and articles about sexual issues.

At this point, I could write a brilliant philosophical rant on how the vote was a liberal echo of the FCCs anti-indecency jihad, ultimately stemming from a corruption of the concept of censorship by [...]

February 11th, 2004

Kerry’s Hypocrisy

In 1970, John Kerry shed his pacifist front, and revealed his altruist ideology:Kerry said that the United Nations should have control over most of our foreign military operations. “I’m an internationalist. I’d like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.”

On other issues, Kerry wants “to almost [...]

February 9th, 2004

Return of the KGB

Leading challengers to Putins re-election are quietly disappearing, with murder investigations being shut down by the Kremlin, and the state media keeping mum. Putin has already silenced and nationalized the media, secretely shot opposition politicians in cold blood, and all but assumed his former KGB role. Anyone doubting that Putin is capable of [...]

February 9th, 2004

My Books

One of the fads going around the blogosphere is to list a dozen or so of the songs youre listening to. Interesting idea, but I dont think ones music preferences really say much about a person. So instead, I decided to post a photo of my bookshelf. Obviously, this is just a fraction [...]

February 8th, 2004

Orkut

Orkut is a brand new online community begun by a Google employee. Its fast, easy to use (there are communities for every imaginable interest Im in 40 or so) and it makes it very easy to meet people for friendship, business or dating. Its invitation-only, so contact me if you would like [...]

February 8th, 2004

Ooops

Ever wonder what would happen if you used handwashing detergent in place of dishwashing detergent?