Schiavo parents to sell donor data to direct-marketing firm

The Schindler's (in)famous for not accepting reality and using tears to twist and corrupt the checks and balances of this democracy are now selling all information from (in the words of my friend Gabe, a neo-con himself) the bed-wetting bleeding heart Neo-Cons who helped contribute to thier shenanigans. I heard many allegations by the talking head and so-called compassionate people slanderous or otherwise, the Mike Schiavo was only doing this for financial gain. The real swindlers here are the Schindlers, and the politicians like DeLay for exploiting this situation for gain.

from: Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things

Be careful jumping to 64 Bit

Be careful jumping to 64 Bit
I've just upgraded my boxen to a AMD64 3200+ with 2GB of ram. I downloaded WindowsXP 64 bit eval from microsoft (free, not pirated), and thought the same thing as the guy in the post. I am finding that most drivers and software written for x386 procs do not work, even though MS claims that it will, unless it contains legacy 16-bit code.
I guess I'll just roll back to 32bit XP, until MS releases the XP64, and all my drivers support it. This reminds me of back in the day when windows 2000 came out, or when Windows 9x came out. It took a good year after release before new software started to run natively in 9x, and about that same time for drivers for existing hw to support NT5. I hope it doesn't take that long, it seems like 64 bit procs have already been out a year.

Knitting

I ran across this post on a new blog I currently use to help waste time at work. I have no intrest in knitting, but I have a cousin who does.

elective Amputation fetish

An interesting article is posted on BoingBoing about nuts that want to have specific body parts amputated. Perhaps they should join the Army or Marines, where is seems to be a frequent occurance right now.

More Right to Die rantings

I heard on the radio today that there was a memo circulated around congress to the republicans extoling the political benefits of passing a law just to save Mrs. Schiavo. Among the benefits was that it will make Democrats look bad, and there is a Florida Democrat up for reelection soon. This is all part of the same faux sentimentality that will let a Texas Governor and now PUSA condone the death penalty, and deny clemency out of one corner of his mouth, but in rushing back in an 11th bid to contradict the Judicial branch, gush about how laws should favor life, out of the other.

This is quite ironic that the neo-cons don't see the disconnect between their pro-life agenda, and their pro-death death penalty beliefs. How can executing retards, underage offenders or anyone for that matter be a law that favors life?

I'm glad that the Catholics are taking this opportunity to try and fight the Death Penalty again. It only serves to point out the hypocrasy of the "compassionate" conservatives.

It is better [that] 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer." Benjamin Franklin

Republicans as aimless hippies.

Congress wastes time

The recent attempts by congress to save the life of a human vegatable by manipulating the law to keep her alive is an attack at the very checks and balances that help ensure democracy. By congress trying to call Terry Schiavo as a witness to ensure her safety is a prime example of one branch of the government over stepping their bounds. If she is a brain dead vegtable, then what good would she do as a witness? This hipocritical compassion for the hopeless is no different than PETA's compassion for only cute animals. The president is rushing back from the WhiteRanch so that he can sign a bill that will completely ignore the Florida Supreme Courts ruling, completely overturning the checks and balances afforded to the Judicial Branch of the Federal Government. He puts no value on the human lives that were taken due to overzealous torture directives by the now NSA Morales, but goes back to work early so that he can prevent the wasting of an empty shell. If they had any compassion, they would euthanize her. An overdose of morphine would put her body into an endless sleep, and finally give Terry the dignity of a burial.

Grrrr

The douche that shipped me a broken radio from ebay has now stepped away from mediation, and is now threating me with legal action because I gave him a negative rating. The mediation was the only way of me redacting the rating, and I paid an extra $20 just to try to work it out with him. Why I am suddenly an asshole magnet?
[Legal disclaimer: douche and asshole are totally deserved terms that have only been assigned after the displeasure of dealing with this douche]
I swear I'm racking up a huge karma credit; I need to start buying lottery tickets.

I went to the doctor today, and was prescribed some Antibiotics for whatever infection I have. I has already kind of made me feel better. Just in time for Friday.

nyquil high

I am just starting to feel the effects of 30mL of CVS brand Nyquil. Why am I taking nyquil you ask? Because I am sick. My neck is sore, my throat hurts, and I'm getting hot and cold flashes like a 50 year old woman. I felt even less like running today than I normally do. I've also had my birthday forgotten by Mama-C and even worse, my own brother. I don't know if its the forgetfullness, or the fact that I am now just 3 years away from 30, or 1 year closer to death. Speaking of which, I followed a link from boinbboing to Make magazine's blog http://make.oreilly.com/blog, and found a site called deathclock.com or something. It says I'm going to die in October, 2051. Thats pretty depressing. I've also sold out a little by adding googles ads to the right of my page. it was empty space anyway. So be nice and click on a link, I might just get a couple of cents out of it. I think I'm going to pass out now, I'll post more later

No Slapped head, bad controller.

i took the bad HDD out of my comp, Of all the drives in the array, the newest one is what failed. I would have figured my IBM DeathStar 75gxps would have failed already, since I've had them for almost 5 years. Instead, a 1 year old Maxtor Diamond Max 40GB weent out. The bios doesn't even recognize it, so I suspect the controller board. I took it apart and noticed several dark brown spots on the foam that insulates the controller board from the hard drive casing. This may be normal, but I suspect that several resistors overheated on nthe board, causing or resulting from the damage. Now, my only hope to recover the 120GB RAID 0 array is with the extra 40gb drive that I ordered. If it is the controller board, then a direct swap of the boards should work, if not, then I'm really screwed. If weren't for my work laptop, I wouldn't know what to do. I have a paper due on Monday, and thankfully I found a draft of it in my GMAIL account.

I also had a guy come by and pick up a fender and hood from my wrecked 240.
I think I will go running in the park before sunset, the winds look really good for flying a kite.

Head slap

I sent this email like 7 days ago, I don't know what is up, but blogger really sucks balls when it comes to posting via email.

Offline forawhile. cpu is down. A bad sector must've popped up where my system files are. So i am posting from my cell.

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I have a baby in my belly

Tonight, Sophie told a waiter that she had a baby in her belly. The doctor put it there.

I checked my grades and looks like I got an A for Accting. I think all I needed was a 78 on the final, but 90% is the same as 100% when it gets simmered down into a 4. I've had to deal with more crap related to this jerk who sold me a broken radio on ebay. Maybe the possibility of mediation removing his negative feedback will convince him to make good.

I still have an overdue lab to turn in for my online Earth Science class, and 3 quizes.
I'll be glad when this school thing is over.

I'm now registered for 16 hours this semester, its forcing me to really learn time management.

Long Day over

I took my World Lit 2 mid term, and think I did really well considering I read the cliff notes for 2 of the books, Madame Bovary and The Death of Ivan Illich. I would really recommend www.sparknotes.com for anyone that wants an indepth executive summary, and test prep. I also took my Accounting 1 final. I think I might have gotten a B or a low A, depending on the Curve, but all i need is a 78% for an A in the class. I also had to deal with a slacker of a seller on ebay. I bought a stereo for my car in December, didn't receive it until January, and it was broken due to poor packaging/mishandling. I had to file my first negative feedback on someone, but I am attempting to resolve it through mediation. Time for bed, 15hr days suck.