FXN//Better Than Suicide

Personally amusing article about a philosophy that should have died before the article itself was printed:
http://books.google.com/books?id=-1UEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA92&as_pt=MAGAZINES#v=onepage&q=&f=true

I should ask the randroids to check their premises, thanks in advance.

yo yo check it out y'all

you are now listening to teh technical sounds of intelligent dance music

stimulatin your mind so you can buy free trade coffee beans at starbucks

like to give a big up to LAWRENCE LESSIG always makin it funky enough

also wanna give a very special thanks to RMS; takin it slow and keepin it free

aight peace

[15:26:53] <&Pinkuh> Dude
[15:26:57] <&Pinkuh> you live in North America
[15:27:00] <&Pinkuh> thus you are american 

So here in Nevada we've been getting seeing a lot of the fight for the White House. We're a swing state, we have a good record of choosing presidents -- we voted for Bush, we voted for Clinton, we voted for Reagan and so forth. Obama and McCain have both made appearances at the local university, Romney has recently been visiting little mining towns. The radio is hot with adverts for both parties. And today, I received my copy of Obsession, the hour-long pre-release of a video about "Radical Islam's War Against The West." As it says, "It's our responsibility to ensure we can all make an informed vote in November." If you don't want to desecrate your DVD player with this disc, or you live in a securely red/blue state and won't get this in the mail, I wrote about it as I watched it:

( DIGITAL GAR GAR GAR )

accepting nominees for best fictional band:

Omega and the Mechanical Animals
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Glass and the Ghost Children
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Since financial bailouts are big in the news these days, here's a good one: Gravity Probe B, recipient of a $2.7 million donation from an unnamed group. GP-B is a ridiculously precision instrument currently in Earth orbit proving Einstein's theories of relativity. The four niobium-coated gyroscopes in their superconducting lead box drift/wobble under their own influence no more than one hundred-billionth of a degree per hour. Other sources of drift -- geodetic drift and frame shifting -- then become apparent. The satellite has shown that in the presence of a gravity field, circles are less than 360 degrees, and the Stanford team is currently reviewing data to show that Earth warps and pulls gravity with it.

LOL HURF SCIENCE PORN or whatever.

1800 miles, 12mpg, fuel averaging $3.80 across five states. Utah, you fucking suck at road construction. Visit scenic Idaho:



Anyways, I return from vacation and suddenly I find out that we're experiencing a massive gas shortage. Or a massive rise in Southern stupidity, depending on how the story's been written. According to some experts, I've been hoarding gasoline since I started driving. I'm sorry. Meanwhile the Georgia governor is demanding that Bush open up the national reserves -- and taking other hamfisted measures against this localized shortage. On the flipside, North Carolina's governor is blasting fuel distributors for the supposed shortage.

So according to these reports, fuel supply is nearly at pre-hurricane levels, shipments are flowing uninterrupted across the country... demand is down, and has been down. Prices had been dropping, refineries were running at partial capacity, and distributors had cut their stockpiles all due to the decrease in fuel demand. Sensing a surge in fuel prices in the wake of the hurricane season, and having been presented with a convenient excuse, it appears that many fuel distributors in the Southeast are currently rebuilding their stockpiles and artificially cutting supplies. They've created a local crisis that has sparked nationwide fears, incompetent politicians rushing to set up an even larger crisis, and more discussion of the "peak oil" myth. Impressive.

I was recently informed that AudioScrobbler still exists, after having forgotten about it for three years. What this means is, there's an easy to browse snapshot of what my music collection was like three years ago. I'm a bit depressed that my collection hasn't changed that much -- yes, it's a full magnitude larger now, but I've just been filling in the gaps on my recommended music list (that I hadn't seen, since I haven't looked at the site in three years). Anyway, here's a thing:

I'm so intelligent. Nay, just observant and reflective.

While driving my recumbent E-350, on an excursion to check out a number of 'abandoned' 240 ton haul trucks, I had an epiphany. Everything that's wrong with the fandom, all the hurled shouts and curses from the trolls and self-hating furries can be so easily solved. As you know, for I've said it for years, the trolls are incapable of recieving what they give. Each and every one of them - oh, it's so simple, I didn't realize the elegance of the solution until "Die Winnipeg Die Die Die Fuckers Die" came up on my mix tape. They'd all crawl back into their basements if we just ridiculed them back, threw all their abuse in their faces. They'll be begging for the warmth of their plushies and nervously fingering the keypad of their phones, pondering with trepidation how mommy would react to their impassioned pleas for attention.

I've flirted with the idea during conversation with gravecat, and now it seems to fight fire with wit and sarcasm is the proper resolution. After all, trolls were uniformly bullied as children (again, we know because I've said so for years). If they refuse to grow up we only need to remind them what high school was like, then watch them crumple back into their meek selves. angrylittlefox fully agrees, after dealing with those dumbasses at CYD. And I'm sure rainluong would be happy to know of our work, her art has truly inspired me to this level of greatness.

I've started a 'poll' of sorts here. It wouldn't take more than a good essay or article to take the fight to the trolls, to put them in their place and make them run.

But really, I have way better things to do than write about people I don't like on the Internet.