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I mean, if there were no guns, people could still rob 7-11 with the threat of a good lethal face-punching right?

"Oh my god, this War on Guns is going to rule! Remember when the USA had a drug problem and it declared war on drugs and now you can't buy drugs any more? It'll be just like that!"

I can't wait until this War on Terror is over and there is no more terrorism. Remember when the USA had a drug problem and it declared War on Drugs and now you can't buy drugs anymore? It's going to be just like that, right?

(apologies to Get Your War On)

So why are RAM sizes still based on powers of 2? Why are disk sectors still a power of 2? Drive manufacturers are hypocrites. Thanks Apple, now files will be "different" sizes depending on what OS someone is using. This doesn't make anything easier, it makes it harder! Now people will have to figure out why the 1GB of pictures their friend sent won't fit in the 1GB of free space they had on their memory card. Mega, Giga, etc, when used with Bytes (not bits per second, which is a rate measurement), are 1024-based. Why is that so hard for people to understand? I just explained it in one sentence! mebi/gibi/etc - these prefixes are retarded. 1000-base units should be called metric MB, metric GB, etc. I mean, we already have ton and metric ton, so why not? "Oh, noes, they've subverted the SI Rules!" - shut up, pansy. I'm the go-to guy for computer issues in my family, and no one has EVER asked me about this. If your parents can figure out facebook, they can certainly figure this out, if they even care. So, Apple, fix this, someone slap the drive manufacturers, and then we can all move on to something that actually matters.

non-xkcd comic of what Apple just did: http://www.mnftiu.cc/2002/11/26/filing-004/

Oh, I don't know... I can think of a few pretty brilliant uses of clip art...

Unless John Ashcroft is #2 I don't really see how this could be any worse.

He could bring in Robert Mugabe for Secretary of Agriculture...

http://www.mnftiu.cc/category/gywo/war17/

Just wait...if Cuomo discovers that child porn is shared via HTTP, he might force ISPs to drop access to the web.

I have dug a lot of Cuomo's recent suits for their customer/consumer-friendliness (recently he settled with Verizon when they advertised unlimited cell phone use and then dropped customers who talked too much, and also sued Dell for failing to deliver support). This is kind of silly, though. I mean, it's essentially declaring war on a protocol. It reminds me strip #2 of Get Your War On.

http://www.basicinstructions.net/

http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html

"Oh my god! This war on terror is gonna rule. I can't wait until it's over and there's no more terrorism"
"I know! Remember when the US had a drug problem and we declared a war on drugs and now you can't buy drugs any more? It'll be just like that."
http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html

Remember when the US had a drug problem and then we declared a War on Drugs and now you can't buy drugs anymore?

Thank you, thank you, thank you for properly spelling and capitalizing the real name of the USAPATRIOT act. Every single time someone simply calls it the "Patriot" act, it buys into the misdirection that it's somehow "patriotic."

Thanks! I don't think calling it Patriot Act actually endorses the act as being patriotic; it's still a ridiculous appeal to patriotism, and the name can still be used ironically by people who don't buy it. It's just that USAPATRIOT emphasises what a truly stupid backronym it really is -- I mean they even found a way to work 'USA' into it -- and I'm all for accuracy when it maximizes the embarassment to our legislators.

Here's a comic I think of whenever I think of USAPATRIOT: http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/images/war.118.gif

Grown-ups did that. Never forget that.

This reminds me of this comic....

http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html

check out the second comic on the page. heh.

"Fuck a mild mannered apology on page 10. The only honest way for the New York Times to deal with this shit would have been to run a big-ass banner headline that says 'WHY THE HELL ARE YOU STILL READING US? DOES JUDITH MILLER HAVE TO KILL YOU HERSELF?'"

As to hate directed toward the nation as opposed to its leadership... when the guy actually won an election outright, despite having demonstrated how dangerous he was, I think that may have, in the eyes of many, made the nation as a whole responsible for him. Anyone else remember Get Your War On for 11/8/04?

As for your second paragraph... First, disapproval of the current administration's policies doesn't imply a huge hard-on for the Taliban. One can think that starting a bloody civil war halfway around the world was a bad idea on its own merits (not to mention the blood and treasure we spent and are spending on it) without thinking the dictator in charge was a nice guy. And secondly, I'm not going to believe flim-flam about "but think of how they treat women and gays" for two reasons. (1) The people doing the invading aren't particularly hot on women and gays here; I'm not buying that they've suddenly had their collective consciousness raised. (2) If this had anything to do with actual human rights, we wouldn't be sucking up to Uzbekistan and Pakistan because they roll over when the US asks them to, because they're dictatorships. (Not to mention that if we were really friends of liberty, we wouldn't be trying to overthrow democratically-elected leaders in Latin America like it's 1973 all over again.)

It's a false dichotomy to imply that critics of US policy are insufficiently critical of Iran or North Korea. It's morally bankrupt, and it's a cheap attempt to wriggle out of accountability for the gross incompetence and compulsive lying that the administration has shown, by claiming that so long as we're not as bad as authoritarian dictatorship x, the citizens have nothing to complain about. (For extra points, try using "Clinton was worse!" as a defense as well.)

I'd love to take credit for the phrase, but it comes from Get Your War On.

Here's why

http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/images/war.008.gif

It's so stupid it's hilarious:

My new filing technique is unstoppable

Considering the amount of inhumanity that goes on in the oil industry - including the protection and support by oil companies of murderous and repressive governments in oil producing countries - it is not too far a stretch to say that we already are filling our tanks with human remains. I'm not the first to have this thought.....

Do these count as comics?

Some of the characters repeat, and the stuff goes over multiple panels. They were some of the funniest anti-war comics I saw; they captured the spirit of the time, and the cowboy-Americanness of Bush and the neo-Cons.

These were made possible by clip art. After they spread like crazy on the web, the book came out.

http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war8.html

There's nothing like taking a crappy image from childhood culture and using it in the context of Bush foreign policy....

Voltron's Office of Homeland Security is in the Heeeouse!

I agree.
There is a cartoon at http://mnftiu.cc/ that is funny as hell in this regard. One of the characters is talking about "not being mean" to the red states and says something like:

"We've got the theory of gravity, lets not blow it"

Exactly. Fuck with Voltron and you fuck with yourself.

Booyah.

That sounds like a line from "My new filing technique is unstoppable". It's now one of my favorites. I bought the book at a discount bookstore. My new filing technique is unstoppable

Wow, who elected you Noam Chomsky? (with apologies to David Rees)

My new encryption method is unstoppable!

Check out the second comic on this page from "GetYourWarOn".
http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html
Michael

Give credit where credit is due. You stole that joke from Get Your War On (it's the second strip from the top of the page).

You've read GetYourWarOn, didn't you?

What do you wear in a civil war, anyway? [scroll down to the last comic]

"I get up every morning worrying about how to protect the
'merican people."

I wouldn't bet on it.

Thanks in advance,
Kilgore Trout

Redubyacans For Fascism

"I get up every morning worrying about how to protect the 'merican people." -- G. W. Bush

"It's a hard job". -- G. W. Bush

Where are Osama bin Laden and the Weapons of Mass
Deception?

Thanks in advance,
Kilgore Trout

Defend America: Deselect "President" George W. Bush

Or, as it was so eloquently put by the ever-brilliant get your war on...

Get Your War On

Who are we fighting on Mars? Wait, lemme guess--TERRORISTS.

Seriously.

Grown-ups did that. Never forget that.

To: All Patriotics
RE: Get Your War On

Where's My (Bleeping) Sex?
Who wants a DVD player that automatically deletes all the juicy bits of movies? One guess

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Friday, April 23, 2004

Because what the world really needs now is more uptight little companies from Utah that will help us all block out the random messy naked blood n' guts of the world.

Companies that will, without anyone asking them to, protect us from media evildoers and exposed flesh and scary exploding things and that part in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" wherein the universe is blessed, for the briefest of moments, with the joy of Kate Winslet's radiant nipples.

This is what is happening. This is the happy godlike agenda of Utah's ClearPlay, a twee and shrill little corporation that has taken it upon itself to sit around the cube farm all day and watch countless Hollywood flicks and zap out any and all icky violent suggestive material in, say, "Lost In Translation." For your protection. How kind.

ClearPlay has, thank the Lord Almighty, developed a method that automatically bleeps out and/or completely skips over words, scenes and entire sections of Hollywood films it has deemed offensive or inappropriate, and displays the rest in sanitized, defanged, nipple-free form, so you won't ever find yourself having to explain to your precious wide-eyed heavily Ritalined 8-year-old just exactly what part of Penelope Cruz Tom Cruise is sucking in that one part of "Vanilla Sky." I mean, praise Jesus.

ClearPlay is a content-filtering company. It relieves all twitchy God-fearing Americans of the horrible and brain-draining duty of actually taking a modicum of responsibility for what they see and hear and for what they allow their children to see and hear, and replaces it all with a type of hapless willful ignorance, mislabeled as "choice."

All you have to do is buy ClearPlay's cheapass scene-deleting DVD player from Wal-Mart (of course), set the level of filtering you want from 1 to 16 (1 being, presumably, "Sex is icky" and 16 being, I suppose, "Lobotomize me now"), pop in a ClearPlay-approved DVD from your local video store and, voilà! -- your movie experience is pure and holy and now shows only happy bunnies and nummy butterflies and people kissing sweetly without tongue or moan or bulge. And, lo, the world is a better place.

What a fabulous idea. Dammit, if only more companies would get into the act of protecting us from the crap put out by other, more heartless companies.

And then if only someone would launch a company to protect us from the crap put out by the company that is ostensibly protecting us from crap put out by the first company. Why, you'd never have to think for yourself ever again. What a wonderful world.

I volunteer. I am hereby starting a new company called SpankThis that will not only de-ClearPlay all Mormon-sanitized DVDs but will also, in fact, actively enhance the scary icky sexy parts and will actually saturate them in hi-res surround-sound 3-D Technicolor and display them on infinite loop on a 40-foot mobile screen, which I will then drive very slowly through the parking lots of all Wal-Marts of America whilst blaring old Black Sabbath and new Rufus Wainwright. IPO forthcoming.

But why stop there? Hell, if only the U.S. government and maybe the puppets of the FCC and the sneering lizard men of the U.S. Senate would step up and crack down on corrupt American broadcasters.

If only they would enforce their snippy interpretation of God's will and ensure everyone on the goddamn planet knows that the F-word is officially the absolute scariest and worst possible utterance you can possibly scream out, next to maybe the C-word or the V-word or "masturbate," why, we'd be so much better off. Damn, if only that would happen! Oh wait.

Let us not get into overly defensive mode

That should be Scrambled-In-Command

Remember to Get Your War On

As far as the war on drugs message goes -- I agree with you, it was totally out of left field. However, I didn't detect any sarcasm in the posting and don't agree with your analysis.

You must've stopped reading too soon. The very next sentence was:

Soon, copied films will be as rare as students lighting up a joint after their exams.

Which seems like pretty clear sarcasm to me. It's along the same lines as this cartoon.

Mr President: Why does The United States of America, the only country that supports freedom in the world, support religious repression in Uzbekistan?

Thanks for nothing,
Kilgore Trout

Bush seeks asylum in Pakistan 2-1

Cheney found with bin Laden 5-1

Bush marries Dick Cheney 10-1

Gasoline hits a new high in the U.S. in 2004: 2-5

Bush admits snorting Coke in The White House: 50-1

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Powell tried, sentenced, convicted
of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan 4-1

Bush bans Nov. 2004 presidential elections 6-1

Patriotically yours,
Kilgore Trout
Get Your War On

The real problem with the "War on Terror" is... there is no end. When all the Muslims are dead, something else will be classified as terrorism. Unions, "file-sharers", hackers, cable television thieves...

The government of the United States should be concerned with INCREASING my liberty and privacy; not the opposite. If they want to pass a law regarding oversight of law enforcement activities... why don't they pass one INCREASING oversight?

Only one thing will save us and the world from our out-of-contol political system and wannabe emperors... eventually, we will be so far in debt that tyranny will bankrupt itself.

Bush is the most transparently corrupt and immoral president in modern United States history. He does not value our democratic traditions. The only thing more putrefied than Bush and his administration; is the heart of every citizen in the United States who voted for him. We get what we deserve.

- Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore? It'll be just like that!
- God, if only that War on Drugs hadn't been so effective! I could really use some fucking marijuana right now.

- Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore? It'll be just like that!
- God, if only that War on Drugs hadn't been so effective! I could really use some fucking marijuana right now.

David Rees, is that you??

(Why aren't you updating GYWO anymore? I miss it man.)

David Rees, is that you??

(Why aren't you updating GYWO anymore? I miss it man.)

Or are retarded.

You get to pick which one.

Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?

remember when Ronald Reagon first started that war on drugs that even rewarded children for snitching on their parents...

I know! Remeber when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War on Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?

Whenever I hear about Kissinger these days, it reminds me of this (page seventeen, Get Your War On by David Rees).

It really is.

I share the planet with this idiot.

As they say on mnftiu.cc, is this really the only Earth I can live on?

Wow.

I didn't realize other countries were entitled to the money I give the US government in taxes. How about these other countries pull themselves up by their bootstraps like many other countries have done and they can stop the bullshit of killing each other as their national pasttime. From the state of the world these days, you would think "act like it's the middle-fucking-ages" has become an acceptable job. They sure have great little military parades, though. I bet their people think "it's great that we have The Bomb now, I wonder if it tastes good".

Get Your War On

Bush impeached by Oct. 2004: 1.20 +0.78

Cheney indicted for war crimes by
Nov. 2004: 2.50 +1.25

Saddam Hussein discovered in Dick Cheney's
bunker: 5.00 +1.56

Dick Cheney discovered in Saddam Hussein's
restaurant 1.05 -0.78

Cheers,
W00t

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