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"Everyone wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads."

These Boots Are Made For Walkin

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Hey, you left off one Ian MacKaye's three tenets of the straight edge lifestyle! Or is the third one simply implied on slashdot :)

Obligatory Fishbone reference here.

And then leak that information to the 'News aganencies' who then can tell that mr.X used the F word a lot in the private of his own home. and even has used the N word (when completely alone and listening to Clawfinger)

This then will ruin the starting politic carreer or if it is something 'worse' (like doing the nasty with the intern) wait to bring it out when needed.

Although they are not illegal in any way, they can be enough to influence the politacla agenda.

Oh and American Public, please bend over a bit more, because I am sure you love what they are doing to you, otherwise you would struggle more and perhaps even yell rape.

Any connection to Mr Horrible?

Bikini Atoll, that everyone decided to change the name "Bikini" to "Freedom suit."

The term "bikini" had no other meaning back then. The suit you are referring to was so named because of the bomb-testing — a stroke of a marketing genious. I must admit, it is quite rare to find a slashdot-poster less informed than a musician:

Aim for the body rare, you'll see it on TV
The worst thing in 1954 was the Bikini
See the girl on the TV dressed in a Bikini
She doesn't think so but she's dressed for the H-Bomb

I'm sure his demands will cause Congress to immediately begin to do exactly as he says in every way. Or perhaps not. He can "demand" anything. What he gets is what they want to give him.

That's even true today. The Democrat controlled congress won't send the Republican president bills he wants. Look at the economic stimulus package Bush proposed. Democrats don't accept it as it is now, with "'significant' ideological differences" between what each on wants.

Noone ever explained Customs and Immigration to you? Ships can't enter the USA without first getting approval from the Customs people, and then the IRS gets to talk to them about tariffs. No Federal Government means no Customs, which means merchant shipping stops just like the airlines.

I already addressed this even if you want to ignore it. The president can ask congress for a bill that addresses ports, with provisions that shippers pay the costs.

On the one single important issue, there is no difference - neither Party has any interest in surrendering any Federal power at all. Which means they'll be united against a President who wants to reduce Federal power to the Constitutionally mandated limits.

Look at the economic stimulus plans each wants. They both agree something needs to be done but they disagree with what course of action to take.

Note the Reagan, who was an immensely popular President didn't manage to shrink the Federal government one iota, even though that was one of his nominal goals

"Nominally" may be right but he actually wanted to, and did, increase the size of government. In late 2005 or early 2006 "Reason magazine" had an article detailing just how Reagan increased the size of government, especially the so called "War on Drugs". And he once said "I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."

Note, by the way, that I in no way approve of the Federal power grab over the last three-quarter century. But I know enough to know that we can't turn the clock back on it. And believing that we can is a sign of self-delusion.

Saying it can't be done is self defeating. If all those who want it to happen don't work towards that end it won't happen, but if they try it may happen. Not right away but it can. As one of my favorite singers, Billie Holiday, sung "The difficult I'll do right now, the impossible will take a little while."

I'd rather be optimistic than a defeatist. And I know something about that. If I had been a defeatist instead of an optimist I'd be dead now. Over ten years ago I was hit while riding my bike, after classes in college, and while I was in a coma the docs told my family it would be a miracle if I lived. I spent more than a year in therapy and saw around a dozen therapists, some of whom said after looking at my medical records that I must of been stubborn to have survived.

Apparently you aren't a fan of They Might Be Giants... And you call yourself a nerd!

I've found that lyrics sites are very common offenders. Just Google some lyrics from a popular singer and you will quickly find an infinite source of spyware and adware. Now, they have ads for many different ineffective spyware removers on those sites as well, so they are doing their best to screw their visitors twice.

And their appetite knows no bounds:

"Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in.

Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in.

In their styes with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around
In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking.

Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon."

- Piggies, by The Beatles

"Every dolphin wants prosthetic tail fins on their real fins..."

These site1 site2 do something similar.

Actually, I just went back through my history file to find the culprit site, and here it is:

http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/

This site calls a JavaScript from searchbarcash.co (here's the javascript source that installs it) which in turn attempts to install an XPI from flingstone.com. Both of the aboved domains are aliases for blazefind.com-- a known spyware provider whose parent company is also responsible for XXXToolbar.

Oh, and just for safety's sake, I'll add the requisite warning: don't click on the links without taking appropriate precautions...

They also said it pretty well in "Money for Nothing"

The Trees

There is unrest in the forest,
There is trouble with the trees,
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas.
The trouble with the maples,
(And they're quite convinced they're right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light.
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made.
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade.
There is trouble in the forest,
And the creatures all have fled,
As the maples scream Oppression!
And the oaks just shake their heads
So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights.
The oaks are just too greedy;
We will make them give us light.
Now there's no more oak oppression,
For they passed a noble law,
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw.

I DJ college radio, mostly hardcore and punk. I am not a "shock jock", and most of what I play and say on the air is not intended to get a rise out of people. However, I have almost been kicked off the air multiple times because of the lameass obscenity rules imposed by the FCC. Songs such as this, this, this, and this have cost me much grief in the past.

None of these songs are terribly obscene, and really, the use of this language is really commonplace in our culture now. The reason that blanket laws like this trigger kneejerk, eye-rolling reactions is because it's silly. In the same way that nobody is particularly shocked or taken aback to hear about someone smoking pot or drinking underage, these milquetoast rules dilute the force of the law because nobody takes them seriously.

Likewise, none of the songs that I posted up there are really that offensive; you'd have to be living under a rock to be offended by that. On the other hand, "obscenity" is a really slippery slope. For instance, none of these songs have any bad words.

This song will probably offend you
But what about this one? It's only kind of bad, I guess....
And what about this one?

Where do you wanna draw the line?

Oh, I thought it was going to be codenamed ABBA. You know, like this.

Another way of saying it is that Voyager has now gone Into the Void...

It's been messing up my head too, even though it is "Die Die My Darling" at

http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/M/Metallica

No, but it's Beer Thirty, Honky-Tonk Time!

-uso.