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Even as I sit here, I can't believe I'm writing this. I've never been one to voice my opinions in such a public manner. But after learning that Mr. Proud American wants to spread hatred, animosity, and divisiveness, I felt I at least had to set a few things straight. Let us note first of all that if you don't think that his canards should be recognized, but only as a complete fraud, then you've missed the whole point of this post. I want to reveal the constant tension between centripetal and centrifugal forces of dialogized heteroglossia resulting from his musings. I want to do this not because I need to tack another line onto my résumé, but because if we are to advance a clear, credible, and effective vision for dealing with our present dilemma and its most wretched manifestations, then we must be guided by a healthy and progressive ideology, not by the self-indulgent and hopeless ideologies that Mr. American promotes. Perhaps if he thought about it, he'd realize that he likes to make serious dialogue difficult or impossible. Such activity can flourish only in the dark, however. If you drag it into the open, Mr. American and his trained seals will run for cover, like cockroaches in a dirty kitchen when the light is turned on suddenly during the night. That's why we must get Mr. American off our back.

My real point here is that he coins polysyllabic neologisms to make his notions sound like they're actually important. In fact, his treatises are filled to the brim with words that have yet to appear in any accepted dictionary. As reluctant as I am to admit it, this should not and need not be the case. I always catch hell whenever I say something like that, so let me assure you that I wouldn't want to deploy enormous resources in a war of attrition against helpless citizens. I would, on the other hand, love to address the continued social injustice shown by shallow politicos. But, hey, I'm already doing that with this letter. You might think that anyone who doesn't know that Mr. American is power-drunk must be inhabiting a different world. Well, if that's the case, then I'm afraid Mr. American's hirelings must have spent the past month on Mars. Finally, whatever your thoughts or feelings about Mr. Proud American are, I urge you to help me anneal discourse with honesty, clear thinking, and a sense of moral good.

Sincerely,
Your Humble Servant

I would like to take this opportunity to inform people of the truth about the MPAA's Mr. Jack Valenti, the RIAA' Hillary Rosen, and most of all the truth about Microsoft.

Senator Hollings is nothing but their willing puppet.

And while I'm at it I think I should also mention CmdrTaco and CowboyNeal, CowboyNeal, and CowboyNeal.

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I would like to take this opportunity to inform people of the truth about the MPAA's Mr. Jack Valenti, the RIAA' Hillary Rosen, and most of all the truth about Microsoft.

Senator Hollings is nothing but their willing puppet.

And while I'm at it I think I should also mention CmdrTaco and CowboyNeal, CowboyNeal, and CowboyNeal.

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I would like to take this opportunity to inform people of the truth about the MPAA's Mr. Jack Valenti, the RIAA' Hillary Rosen, and most of all the truth about Microsoft.

Senator Hollings is nothing but their willing puppet.

And while I'm at it I think I should also mention CmdrTaco and CowboyNeal, CowboyNeal, and CowboyNeal.

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I would like to take this opportunity to inform people of the truth about the MPAA's Mr. Jack Valenti, the RIAA' Hillary Rosen, and most of all the truth about Microsoft.

Senator Hollings is nothing but their willing puppet.

And while I'm at it I think I should also mention CmdrTaco and CowboyNeal, CowboyNeal, and CowboyNeal.

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I would like to take this opportunity to inform people of the truth about the MPAA's Mr. Jack Valenti, the RIAA' Hillary Rosen, and most of all the truth about Microsoft.

Senator Hollings is nothing but their willing puppet.

And while I'm at it I think I should also mention CmdrTaco and CowboyNeal, CowboyNeal, and CowboyNeal.

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I would like to take this opportunity to inform people of the truth about the MPAA's Mr. Jack Valenti, the RIAA' Hillary Rosen, and most of all the truth about Microsoft.

Senator Hollings is nothing but their willing puppet.

And while I'm at it I think I should also mention CmdrTaco and CowboyNeal, CowboyNeal, and CowboyNeal.

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I would like to take this opportunity to inform people of the truth about the MPAA's Mr. Jack Valenti, the RIAA' Hillary Rosen, and most of all the truth about Microsoft.

Senator Hollings is nothing but their willing puppet.

And while I'm at it I think I should also mention CmdrTaco and CowboyNeal, CowboyNeal, and CowboyNeal.

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I would like to take this opportunity to inform people of the truth about the MPAA's Mr. Jack Valenti, the RIAA' Hillary Rosen, and most of all the truth about Microsoft.

Senator Hollings is nothing but their willing puppet.

And while I'm at it I think I should also mention CmdrTaco and CowboyNeal, CowboyNeal, and CowboyNeal.

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I would like to take this opportunity to inform people of the truth about the MPAA's Mr. Jack Valenti, the RIAA' Hillary Rosen, and most of all the truth about Microsoft.

Senator Hollings is nothing but their willing puppet.

And while I'm at it I think I should also mention CmdrTaco and CowboyNeal, CowboyNeal, and CowboyNeal.

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I would like to take this opportunity to inform people of the truth about the MPAA's Mr. Jack Valenti, the RIAA' Hillary Rosen, and most of all the truth about Microsoft.

Senator Hollings is nothing but their willing puppet.

And while I'm at it I think I should also mention CmdrTaco and CowboyNeal, CowboyNeal, and CowboyNeal.

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Back a few years ago while I was in college, a friend and I ran a little humor club of sorts... Our "publications" were few, but we thought they were pretty quality...

Anyway, in the parody that we made of our school's website, we encouraged people to use Scott Pakin's automatic complaint-letter generator to generate letters to submit to our school paper as letters to the editor. As it turns out, I was reading said paper a few months later, and came across a very familiar writing style... We got quite a kick out of it.

ahh... memories.

Let the complaints begin :) Complaint Generator :)

As much as some people may disagree with the following observations, I stand firmly by them. Let me start by stressing that I am not attempting to suppress anyone's opinions, nor do I intend to demean nanotechnology personally for its beliefs or worldviews. But I do suspect that I must prescribe a course of action. Nanotechnology is not only immoral, but amoral. In theory, nanotechnology's contrivances are featherbrained but reflective of the localized normative attitudes among sadistic rotters of various stripes. But in reality, someone once said to me, "Nanotechnology's hypocrisy has reached a new low." This phrase struck me so forcefully that I have often used it since.

Let's be realistic: I am convinced that there will be a strong effort on nanotechnology's part to seek temporary tactical alliances with dim-witted antagonists of various stripes in order to organize a whispering campaign against me by next weekend. This effort will be disguised, of course. It will be cloaked in deceit, as such efforts always are. That's why I'm informing you that nanotechnology's convictions have caused widespread social alienation, and from this alienation a thousand social pathologies have sprung. I like to think I'm a reasonable person, but you just can't reason with improvident yobbos. It's been tried. They don't understand, they can't understand, they don't want to understand, and they will die without understanding why all we want is for them not to impugn the patriotism of nanotechnology's opponents. So, sorry for being so long-winded in this letter, but my personal safety depends upon your starting to fight scurrility and slander, just as your personal safety depends upon my doing the same.

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You'd have to make substantial changes to defeat Nilsimsa (which I'm not sure if Razor is really using yet, but it is planned).

I doubt a tool could be crafted to automatically alter a text message sufficiently to avoid Nilsimsa without also distorting the message so badly that it'd be worthless (it'd have to be automated to be effective). Even knowing where Nilsimsa will decide where the clusters are within the data, you'd need to be able to make a good number of those clusters change, and change in a different combination that ever done previously.

It'd take quite a linguist to craft code to substitute words, phrases, etc and still achieve the same overall message with each one significantly different. Then again, maybe Scott Pakin could do it?

Green Frog Linux!

I can't believe it still shows the logo I did three years ago when I couldn't draw. *blushes of shame*

(FYI, http://www.webhost.cl/~lugonzal/ doesn't exist anymore. It's now http://www.lgm.cl/) :)

But seriously, if you want to learn something about the evils of globalization as it is being played out, check out:

• The Noam Chomsky Archive
• Bad News: Noam Chomsky Archive

Does he actually think his arguments through, or does he just chug along on his computer writing about whatever trite politics happen to suit his needs that day? I ask, because I'm willing to accept that his blatant indifference towards the feelings of others is due to intense misunderstanding, suspicion, and fear. I'm even willing to accept that it is easy to see from the foregoing that he has lost what little credibility he once had. But he constantly insists that his pronouncements can give us deeper insights into the nature of reality. But he contradicts himself when he says that he knows 100% of everything 100% of the time. Some prolix saboteurs have raised objections to my vituperations, but their objections are all politically motivated. Sen. Hallings has commented that this is the best of all possible worlds and that he is the best of all possible people. I would love to refute that, but there seems to be no need, seeing as his comment is lacking in common sense. I've already said this a thousand times and with a thousand different phrasings, but I frequently talk about how there is every indication that every morning he asks himself, "How can I fool the masses today?". I would drop the subject, except that I myself have never been in favor of being gratuitously ignorant. I have also never been in favor of sticking my head in the sand or of refusing to stand up and fight for our heritage, traditions, and values.

Nonetheless, for the nonce, Sen. Hallings is content to drag men out of their beds in the dead of night and castrate them. But by next weekend, he will spit in the face of propriety. You've heard me say that his drones are all sappy shirkers. True, that's a cheap shot, but too often, they do think and behave in ways that reinforce that image.

Isn't it odd that the worst types of mindless bureaucrats there are, whose libidinous lifestyle will displace meaningful discussion of an issue's merit or demerit with hunch and emotion sooner or later, are immune from censure? Why is that? This isn't such an easy question to answer, but let me take a stab at it: Sen. Hallings's inclinations represent a backward step of hundreds of years, a backward step into a chasm with no bottom save the endless darkness of death. You may not be aware of this, but Sen. Hallings would have us believe that arriving at a true state of comprehension is too difficult and/or time-consuming. Yeah, right.

Even without the bleeding-heart ideology of corporatism in the picture, we can still say that obscurantism is a growing threat to society and should be outlawed. Do I blame society for this? No, I blame Sen. Hallings. As a consistently mortified observer of his double standards, I can't help but want to reveal the nature and activity of his lickspittles and expose their inner contexts as well as their ultimate final aims. Almost without exception, when I'm through with him, he'll think twice before attempting to attack the fabric of this nation. Our goal must now be to expose Sen. Fritz Hallings's memoranda for what they really are. If you believe that that's a worthwhile goal, then I can truly use your help. Let me hear from you.

To start about the SSSCA, if you can go more than a minute without hearing the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act talk about classism, you're either deaf, dumb, or in a serious case of denial. Don't be fooled: The fact of the matter is that if we let the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act leave a generation of people planted in the mud of a pestiferous, insolent world, to begin a new life in the shadows of solipsism, all we'll have to look forward to in the future is a public realm devoid of culture and a narrow and routinized professional life untouched by the highest creations of civilization.

The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act's operatives constitute the only known species of animal life that is both mammalian and invertebrate. I know you're wondering why I just wrote that. I'll explain shortly, but first, I should state that the space remaining in this letter will not suffice even to enumerate the ways in which the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act has tried to make a mockery of the term "roentgenographic". I won't bore you with the details, but suffice it to say that whenever there's an argument about the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act's devotion to principles and to freedom, all one has to do is point out that the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act's undertakings have a crippling effect on science and technology. That should settle the argument pretty quickly. Let the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act's infernal arguments stand as evidence that the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act's reinterpretations of historic events are built on lies, and they depend on make-believe for their continuation. Before explaining why daft euphuists cause insurmountable trouble for us, I must first act honorably. Essentially, there is something grievously wrong with those devious pinheads who exhibit cruelty to animals. Shame on the lot of them!

The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act's central role in the promotion of filthy elitism dates back a number of years. It is tempting to look for simple solutions to that problem, but there are no simple solutions. It is unprofessional and more than disgusting to believe that skin color means more than skill and gender is more impressive than genius, yes. But "the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act" has now become part of my vocabulary. Whenever I see someone shred the basic compact between the people and their government, I tell him or her to stop "the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act-ing". That's our situation today, in very rough outline. Of course, I've left out a thousand details and refinements and qualifications. I've not mentioned that the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act treats serious issues callously and somewhat flippantly. And I've ignored racialism altogether. I've simply pointed out one key fact: I find much to disagree with in the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act's complaints.

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