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Category Archives: Politics

Participating in the Grand Democratic Experiment, one post at a time.

cheap or speedy.

by Rob Friesel

Broadband: Pick Cheap or Speedy, Blogged similar points before re: this debate. DSL’s main advantage over cable is that it’s a dedicated line. Again though, DSL remains an option really only if you’re in a relatively urban area and just down the block from the central switch. Cable still beats it on speed. Unfortunately, the […]

“i admired hitler”.

by Rob Friesel

Asked who his heroes are, [Schwarzenegger] answered, “I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it.” He goes on to describe him as being “a good […]

dealerskins bad.

by Rob Friesel

At least 1,000 automobile shoppers who submitted online credit applications to any of 150 different automotive dealerships around the U.S. had their personal and financial details exposed on a publicly-accessible website, according to a computer security consultant who stumbled across the privacy gaffe. Dumb arses.

more wtf.

by Rob Friesel

First, explain to me why the tiger thing ranked 3 items up from the story on al-Hashimi on Blogdex. Then explain to me why — if we’re really there on the side of law and order and the attempt to bring democracy to Iraq — why are we being so REACTIVE about everything? Unless of […]

white boyz.

by Rob Friesel

It seems to be the fate of all white male hip-hop supastarz to get hauled off to court for copyright violations. In this topsy-turvy time of P2P downloads (mostly of utter shite, but that’s beside the point) w/ © law and infringement so in the faces every man, woman, child, rock-star, pimp, congressman, and wannabe […]