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Bikes Against Bush Creator Busted
An anonymous reader writes "Joshua Kinberg, creator of Bikes Against Bush, was arrested in NYC for vandalism while being interviewed by MSNBC. Kinberg's website describes his project as 'using a Wireless Internet-enabled bicycle outfitted with a custom-designed printing device, the Bikes Against Bush bicycle can print text messages sent from web users directly onto the streets of Manhattan in water-soluble chalk". Both Wired and Popular Science have done stories on Kinberg's work." Update: 08/30 01:30 GMT by J : Mr. Kinberg has been released; he describes his arrest and brief stay behind bars on this MSNBC blog.
although I can't say I'm upset either!
First Swift Boats are against Kerry.
Now bikes are against Bush.
This is only the beginning. The machines will soon rule us all...
> what he did was vandalism, whether or not it was about pink elephants, faeries, or a dumbass president.
Actually he was going around printing "first post!" on all the sidewalks in the neighborhood, and the authorities thought it was some kind of coded terrorist message.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
tried takin it to the streets.. protesting spam anyway.. by sending this to the bike. Was too late. *sigh*
/dev/null.
I do not want your MLMs;
I don't want to see nude teenage femmes.
I do not want psychic advice,
So there's no need to mail me thrice.
I do not like New Jerseyan swearing,
And I don't want the panties you're wearing.
I do not want your Asian chicks;
I don't care about your lame stock picks.
I do not want to see Pam's bod,
Don't care about your views on God.
I don't want calling cards prepaid,
Nor Herbalife's new diet aid.
So, Dave Rhodes, lawyers Seigel and Canter,
And the "I am so great" ranter,
And all you others who have no name--
Whether small-time or of nanae fame:
I do not want to sound too crass,
But I think someone should kick your
** "It's not my job to stand between the people talking to me, and the ones listening to me." -- Pego the Jerk
Let's all send him messages like, "ONE WAY" and "RIGHT TURN ONLY"
:)
That should make NYC streets even more interesting than usual for a while.
Great, here come the Slashdot lawyers out of the woodwork. We're sure to be blessed with some rock-solid legal advice now.
I don't recall such activism around the Democratic national convention - leave the freaking Republicans to have their week too.
I don't agree with most of the crap Hitler believes in. For what it's worth, I think Hitler is a sleazy, shady douchebag. And, save for the level-headed folk I see on Slashdot, I can't fucking stand Hitler supporters and militant Nazis. I really hate those fucking pudgy, clean-shaven, uptight business suit socialist twats on my campus. But my distaste for socialists and Hitler pales in comparison to my distaste for whackjob allieds.
The way the allied-leaning have conducted themselves in regards towards Hitler is utterly fucking appalling. Never before in the 20th century have I seen people so fanatically and stupidly obsessed with insane and idiotic hatred towards a fuhrer. When someone else was fuhrer, I was appalled by the behavior of Nazis towards him, and I can tell you that as a left-leaning person myself I donated to Nader and was rooting for Al Gore. But the hatred for Hitler has taken a new low.
One can make a great case for hating Hitler. He's fucked up a lot, he was not level with the German people, he supports laws and ideologies that are potentially dangerous in regards to our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And that's not to say that there have not been plenty of reasonable, erudite condemnations regarding Hitler. But this is not true for the majority of Hitler haters. If you're going to hate on Hitler, hate on him for the right reasons, and do it in a reasonable, erudite manner. For example, when he says "the Jews are a menace to our pure Aryan blood," instead of accusing him of stupidity, try to disprove that claim in a reasonable, intelligent manner.
That's not to say that the right wingers are not full of profoundly stupid anti-Kerry idiocy. But it does not hold a candle to the stupidity in which the left has bashed Hitler. Instead of rational discourse, we are treated to whiny, strawman lecturing by Tom Tomorrow and Gary Trudeau. Instead of tact, we hear cries of "Hitler iz dum lol." Instead of truthful discourse on Hitler's evils, we have fat media whoring fucks lying and distorting the truth in ways which makes Adolf Hitler look like George Washinton. Moore should have learned a thing or two from Hitler - lying to make your case will always bite you in the ass in the long run. Instead of balanced, fair investigation, we see one-sided rants and conspiracy theories propogated by Rolling Stone and other mags, which then have the tenacity to complain that the media is controlled by capitalists and righties (I think the media is controlled by no one). Instead of voting one's conscious, we see nihilism and cynicism towards the political process, with the mantra "anyone but Hitler." We see Hitler punching bags, Hitler bashing books, basically a socialist franchise of playa hating which legitimizes the very socialist system the idiots abhor as being spearheaded by Hitler. An entire culture of angsty, misguided stupidity. So, I'm being angsty in the other direction.
In short, the liberal left has managed to piss me off more than the Radical Right. And as far as I'm concerned, Kerry's differences are so miniscule so as not to make a difference. Better to stick with the evil you know than the evil you don't know. But most importantly, I'm voting for Hitler as a big FUCK YOU to all the idiots who have made me lose faith in the liberal mode of thought.
I can't argue with these people, I can't reason with these people. There is nothing I really can do in any tangible manner to silence their idiocy. But as a German citizen, I can cast my vote.
So unless Teresa Heinz personally gives me a blowjob, or Hitler consumes an infant on live television, my vote will be going to Hitler this November, and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
as often as they draw legible political messages on the pavement, i suppose.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
It's scale that matters eh? Get those spraycans out lads, it's only defacement in a "widely distributed network".
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
Ok, you open a small business and let me know the address. I'll come over with my chalks that take a couple weeks to wash away but which do not leave a permanent mark and write "niggers can swallow my jizz," along with a couple other permutations along the same theme, in big letters on your sidewalk and maybe the walls of your place for good measure. Then I'll tell you that you have the "option" of paying to remove it before it naturally washes away in around 2 weeks.
Forget that this guy got arrseted. I want one..for my car! Finally you can send a message to the guy behind you..
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And of course:
Sadly, you must have missed the blowjob party. There were huge lines tho, and it took forever. :(
So cast your vote. That's the cool thing about voting, everyone can vote - even those who want to make a middle-school retaliatory gesture. See you at the polls; don't forget to take your bat and ball and go home.
Was Alyssa Milano's character's lawyer played by Joe Pesci?
Did they arrest Bill Gates?
I dunno, were those MAGICAL grits poured down Alyssa Milano's pants?
"The Wright brothers were the first to fly with a heavier-than-air machine, but boy did they have a lousy plane"
Yeah, but the difference between dirt on your sidewalk and Kinberg's chalk on Manhattan streets is that the latter is arranged in symbols that can be easily parsed into information contrary to the propaganda endorsed by the GOP.
Now if his bike had been plastering "NYC [heart] Bush" all over Manhattan, do you think he would have been arrested?
(He might have gotten lynched, but not arrested.)
I can see the fnords!
He's been like that ever since he stopped beating his wife.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Throwing spaghetti on NYC cops eh?
Right.
NYC cops shoot people for looking funny. Hell, they don't just shoot, they obliterate you with massive salvoes of small arms fire. Everyone knows not to fuck with NY cops, if anything, and I guarantee you everyone who has gone to NY to protest is well aware of that. The story itself prove you are a fucking liar, and a liar for a bad cause into the bargain, which makes you a double nitwit fuckwad.
ironically, you're anti-anti-bush people. Why can't you simply be pro-bush. Why do you have to rain down upon the anti-bush crowd with your anti-anti-bush agenda. :-)
because I have been enjoined by this Holy Office to abandon the false opinion which maintains that the Sun is the centre
Hmmm... ok then, how about "Political speech is not commercial speech" instead?
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
Isn't there a penal code for something like that?