Rediscover Communication

Could attack on Dalnet mean the end of IRC?

I'm not sure how many of you have seen this or the accompanying theories, but I think there's a high probability that the Dalnet attacks are the result of a frustrated RIAA and MPAA who, knowing that they can't stop IRC file trading on any legal front, have decided to go back door with their attacks. I don't doubt that they'd risk legal action to get rid of the pesky IRC networks...

"'Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans, this time armed by Saddam Hussein.'

Now imagine they have big scary fangs and ray guns and they're looking at your sister funny."

zwan at first ave
1 day presale for tickets starts tomorrow at 10 am

it's still billy and jimmy live

Oh, I forgot. Few things in this world piss me off more than bathroom hand dryers. I mean, REALLY, what is the point? They are about as useful as nuclear hand grenades and silicone thigh implants.
I mean, REALLY.

The big question I have is what is the picture over Adam's left shoulder? :)

[my head pounds]
Chris's 20th birthday was a success. Last night proved once again that there are definitely times to drink until you can't think and act like a total dufus.


Of things ZWAN:
I probably will never be able to get over the fact that billy isn't playing "pumpkins" music anymore. Some things that disturb me about the music though. The hooks for hooks sake approach. (cake is the only band to do this well imo). Its nice to see jimmy drumming... but he doesn't do anything anymore. And things wouldn't be complete without a female bassist, and a lanky dark 2nd guitarist.
geez... ZWAN feels more like a spare tire... a donut.

the age of zwan has begun

the pumpkins will be missed greatly

Remixed Propaganda.

and now..

the coolest word EVER...


asshat...



http://www.confusednation.com/asshat/

I viewed the leven video, sans sound, because my station here doesn't have a sound card. I guess that is a good thing. It was fairly comical to see the apparently intensely felt gyrations and facial expressions. I laughed out loud to see the one shot of the "crowd"... about 5 disaffected youth bobbing to the beat. It kind of surprised me in a way... The one girl (there may have been more, but I only noticed the one) was swaying to and fro, while the guys were doing full body head bangs. Is there that much of a difference in the way that males and females perceive music or rythm? It was a noticeable difference here...
oh well.
l8r
the kid is 21... I am becoming an old man.

OH my fucking god.... Mark Crawfords Band Leven has a VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!


LOL
jesus christ!

Well, I must say I am confused about current events, which lines up nicely with my philosophy that none of us have any real idea what we are talking about. People (citizens, average joes and janes, I mean) line up and support their own preferred mode of foreign policy, but I still think that we do not have the data to know what is happening outside of our collective spheres of experience. I may be a bit of a consipracy theorist here, but I think that what we can see of current events (which may or may not be anything like actual current "events", however you would choose to define that), would say that Iraq probably does have chemical and biological weapons at least, though I rather doubt that they have any real nuclear capability, and N. Korea is probably the opposite, that they have nukes, but not a whole lot of chem or bio weapons. The only reason I say this is that the US would look royally stupid if the administration pushed so hard for a war in Iraq, claiming to have evidence, and then could prove none. And North Korea would be the same, but opposite, in that if N. Korea launched a nuclear attack on South Korea (the first and most likely target-N.Korea can put 1 million rounds into the DMZ and as far as Seoul in 24 hours), we would have lots of radioactive egg on our faces for not doing something to stop it. Which brings up something that rather bothers me in regards to our foreign policy. There is no correct answer, no correct action. It is very in vogue, both abroad and in the US, to hate america. Everybody is doing it. But we are the first to get called when something goes wrong. Palestinians and Israelis can only agree on the one point that the US has to be involved in a peace deal for it to stick, but the palestinians are celebrating in the streets when terrorists attack us. South Korea is becoming more vocal about the US leaving the DMZ and the korean peninsula, but we are the only viable group to bail them out in any way in case of attack. Saudi Arabia wishes to deny us the use of their country and airspace for any attack on Iraq (which is their right, as a sovereign country), but is itself seeking to overthrow Saddam.
People on both sides throw out red herrings...
"the smoking gun may be a mushroom cloud"
"no blood for oil"
and more... Glaring questions arise.

Why is it so wrong for other countries to posess WMD, but so right for us?
Fear. Pure and simple. Does that make it right?

Why create a costly war just for oil, when there are so many other, cheaper sources available?
Does not compute. This war is not for oil. There is no profit, only loss. Talk to the Venezuelans or the Russians or look inside our own borders if you wish to profit from oil.

Why don't we preemptively attack N.Korea, India or Pakistan?
They may not be the leading threat at the moment. Or it may be stupidity. Or politics. I believe that stupidity and politics are synonymous. But who knows? If anyone has cogent data, please post it.

So what is the correct choice? I don't know that there is one, but the one thing I do think, is that everybody, on all sides, should be careful what they wish for. Be VERY careful what they wish for. Wish for peace at all costs? May lose your life or your freedom. Wish for war without reason? May never achieve peace. The only thing to do is sit back and watch, because in the end, all the world is a stage. We cannot see what is happening backstage, so we have to trust the people who can see it, however unsettling it may be to do so. There is no other choice. Is Bush or Rumsfeld or Cheney or Powell sitting and thinking "wow, you know, those protesters are right! What was I thinking with this whole war thing? How silly!"? I guess I ask myself, what would I do in a similar position, knowing the things that they (the administration, say) know (or don't know)? Maybe the same thing they are doing. Maybe not... but I can't tell from this vantage point. Spin-free data is required, but I don't know if there is such a thing...
"Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter
When the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath the clear blue sky?"
goodnight all, and goodbye blue sky

the blog's been seeing more action than IRC lately. so i vote to just bring the rampant conversation here...
i'll start

hows things?

Media attention attracts media attention.
Fuck.
I can't believe this article is real. It seems like it should be on the onion or something...

"When teenagers start coming up to me and talking about the rising cost of Phish tickets, something is really wrong."

ummm... Impeach NOW?

ignorant Texan

revolution?

and in other news......

ICYHOTSTUNTAs!

what a great concept for some TV ads...

a style parody of the "drugs support terror" commercials.

I'd love to see those back to back during the super bowl :)

the detroit project has some worthwhile subvertisments to check out

The question is, "Which country really poses the greatest danger to world peace in 2003?"

hehe... at the time of this posting, the US leads with 71.1% of the vote. What does this say?

hehe

i just got done watching donnie darko



holy fuck....



must watch again...

thats really strange.
I'm actually eating a waffle right now. thanks for reminding me of such a wonderful food...

I never knew a person could waffle until tonight. Waffle? A verb?
Sure.

And apparently, it turns out that I'm a damn good waffler and didn't even know it. Bust out the syrup.

Puddle, huh?

I've had the air conditioner running for the past three days.

I scoff at your puddle.

its january in minnesota, and there is a puddle of melted snow in my front yard.

i thought that said fuckknuckle at first...


crazy lack of sleep...

You like it.
Funkuncle.

Not sure about the obsession with order, but when I was in elementary school and junior high, I had a strong superstition that if I looked at the clock and it was 11:11, I would have to tap the clock three times or have bad luck for the next three days. I have no idea where it came from either. Though I've always been a really superstitious person (excluding the high percentage of black cats in my pet-owning past). To this day, I close my eyes, touch metal, and make a wish whenever I drive over railroad tracks - to send the wish through the metal to the tracks, in hopes that it will be carried off into the world by a train to be made true. And you know, I don't care how stupid that is... It's worked in the past.

Um... so yeah. The 11:11 thing... anyone ever heard of that superstition?

well, back again. it is 11:11. Is anyone else in the world obsessed with seeing order in random strings of numbers? SSN's, Driver License #'s, phone #'s, time, odometers, etc. I am really bad about it.

That is all.
Tis good to see the web page back.

yes, i am a rebel, crashing blogs wherever they are...

i 0wn bl0g 4n|) /\/\4|<3 1T cr45|-|

yes these are the cries of a madman....
it turns out i pointed my greasy, ignorant finger at the wrong blogbuddy... apples broke the blog, not kittyfire.

/me scolds applekid

bad apples!

it was me, check the archive... i told chad it was me, but he had to reassign the blame...

blarg

This is possibly one of the most truthful commercials I've ever seen.

...Nice media, Chad. But Kittyfire refuses to accept responsibility for mucking up the blog.
{Arms folded in indignation.}

So there.

Happy New Year everyone.
Wheeeeeeeee!