Bahh. That was back in the day when "beer" meant beer. The strength of the old steel can was intended to compliment the beer with a sense of substance -- and it was built to last. This newfangled bubbling pansy fuddle is put into aluminium for morale. The poor excuse for men who feebly molest the frail cans of today need the extra confidence that the lightness of aluminium provides; it makes them feel strong and capable, like their ancestors. These modern milksop piss-containers couldn't survive fallout from a wet cherry-bomb.
Sorry mate; it only works on American beer. Try that shit on Guinness and not only will you defile it beyond repair, you'll infuriate a bunch of micks and be pullin' bits o' shoe and clover out yer teeth for a good long while too;) Blighted taters is one thing, but don't mess with the drink.
I'd always wondered how something so simple as water, barley and hops could be subverted into such a horrendous fluid. Hell, now I know; just place some decent ale an appropriate distance from a few megatons of atomic fury, filter out everything but the alcohol, add some dye, diacetyl and propylene glycol, slap a label on it, print and distribute images of healthy men consuming it without immediately dying, airbrush in a few half naked women appearing to appreciate the situation, and behold the most mysterious industry in the universe unveiled!
Thankfully, some far-seeing Teutonic king thought of Reinheitsgebot, a law which prohibits the use of atomic warfare on beer.
I've heard heard rumors of a rogue DOT agent who has pledged to shave all men who do not shave themselves. I think perhaps a clue to this mysterious paradox has been provided by your link. It must be him.
This could get confusing...
Travel Agent: Alright, that about sums it up. But a little word of advice before we part; when you arrive in the UK, be sure to keep a smile on your face.
Customer: But isn't that illegal?
Travel Agent: They're a little different over there. Ya know, they drive on the other side of road and such and eat scones.
Customer: Hmm. I don't know. I was once tazed by a TSA VIPR agent for smiling and it wasn't fun. I pissed myself in front of my kids.
Travel Agent: Good grief! Things are getting ridiculous around here, aren't they. Have you ever considered Iceland?
Customer:...Iceland. Hmm. Yes, that sounds good.
Maybe they expected all attempts would be foiled by eternal debates on the meaning of each digit and whether they really existed or not. If so, (Infinity ^6) is pretty strong and they were probably on to something, at least existentially.
Slightly off topic, but for those who don't know of Terry Pratchett's battle with Alzheimer's and its effects on his life and writing, here's an hour-long documentary on the subject, including his interesting and thought-provoking visit to Dignitas in Switzerland:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=slZnfC-V1SY
I found it quite depressing and wouldn't recommend it to those similarly inclined. It is pretty powerful, or so I think.
Thousands Standing Around in a Terribly Substandard Administration squeezing the haggard Tits of Social Affability while Taxpayers Submit to Abuse by armed Trollops Sanctioned to Agitate them. Tyranny Subsists on Acceptance, which is why this Terminally Stupid Administration should be Terminated Soon; Alas, it may be too late, but we can still try.
Well, they are Treacherous, Superfluous and Appalling; and Totalitarianism is Socially Abhorrent. But I think what we are really dealing with is a bunch of Thespian Supercilious Antics that are really quite Tyrannically Sequestering our Airports and now Tainting Streets in America too.
Taxes Squandered Arduously
Theater of Sovereign Arrogance
Tush Squeezing Auxiliary
Trifling Sleazy Abductions
Testicle Screening Apparatus
Trouser Skeptics Association
Transgressing Social Abodes
Trimester State Assurance
Trespassing Submissive Anatomy
Tenaciously Swabbing Anything
Traveler's Subversion Agency
Terminally Sordid Asshats
Titillating Sensitive Appendages
That's all for now
First, I am very grateful for Wikipedia and would rather not imagine the world without it, even though one need only look back a decade to do so. As a fine and powerful, but fallible tool, it is like the scent of carrion to conniving circling buzzards -- and circling they be! Ahh, yes, the skies are clear you say; where are these buzzards?. Well, Chicken Little has been thoroughly plucked and I'm not following suit. Instead, I'll drop this link (this one too), say a few things, specifically that I suspect there is a problem, and hope this/. article will motivate some capable Slashers to do a little digging and telling, if they will.
The first link directs to a Wired article on Virgil Griffith, a CalTech grad student who did a little forensic prodding, tracing the IPs of certain chivalrous Wikipedia editors. While such agencies and corporations as the CIA and Microsoft have been observed doodling gleefully about, a plenitude of other interesting sources have too. Certainly the CIA and Microsoft are welcome to make appropriate edits to Wikipedia; however, what qualifies as "appropriate" could probably use a good public review.
The second link is simply damned interesting, IMO.
Warning: Rant Begins Here:
It beggars the mind of a bumbling patriot like myself to conceive jingo-seraphim such as Petraeus diverting their genial hoof garments hither domestic. And surely fables of Mocking Birds are no true tales of conniving buzzards. After all, elaborate psychological conditioning could never compete with the unhindered purity of the American phenotype shining so brightly amongst a world lightless without. No, it is not intentional manipulation that deserves credit for the strength of our glorious consumer might. It is far more likely the intrinsic virtue of any decent ape-in-transition to be just as we are, or worse to be fair. Critical-thinking is a disease which must be mitigated by central intervention, by those who know best. For the masses would be lost in an endless banquet of sodomy and cannibalism without the guidance of Malthusian oversight to cull them. Without such counsel, humanity would grovel in the sorry wake of cretins like Tesla, reeling through horrid century after century of wanton growth, like a wicked and vibrant cancer that cannot be controlled, spreading beyond the sweaty grasp of central planning and anthropoid politics. There is a stark and deep Universe beyond the smoke and mirrors of our terrestrial slave'osphere. The iron hand that presses your shoulder every time you gaze into that forbidden abyss of the anti-ape, it only strives to protect you. Baby, it's cold out there.
Get a bloody canoe and put Chuck Norris in it for god's sake. Much cheaper and every bit as discouraging to prospective adversaries. I can already see it: Chuck Norris paddling merrily about while whistling Enya songs and Submarines diving nose-first directly into the sea-floor in terror. Great Whites would beach themselves when he licked his Sun-parched lips, if the Sun would dare. The Yellow Sea would be red (mostly red), white and blue and even China would agree. The Ring of Fire would ask politely for permission to twitch.
And how much time would you need to crack a password such as:
GrimTittyPat00shkinGarment
?
Time is all we have. Why squander millennia on a mediocre password? Also, it's not the weakness of passwords, but the weakness of protocols here. Install proper firmware that does not support WPS and REAVER becomes little more than aircrack. With a solid WPA2 setup on open-wrt, I'd relax and not even bother monitoring my network traffic whilst surrounded by hostile REAVER users.
When I don't prefer my spam with eggs, I often prefer my spam with plain spam. Nothing wrong with spam, is there? What more could you ask for anyway? It's already an exciting 3D representation of an entire pig stuffed into a single tin, with a few elements of modern science added.
~ Plain Spam - The Number One Choice for Spam Purists Since 1970
It uses the aircrack suite and supports injection. I imagine if people write convenient scripts for this software, it could get pretty popular. I've never owned a smartphone and don't know what their ranges are, but if they are close to a half-height mini-PCI, then this is a pocket sized menace indeed. Throw in the Cloud, rainbow tables, mega dictionaries and so on, and you get action. I have no doubt that many people will use such an application just as a novelty (because they can) -- but others may opt for more. Of course, those who don't use common ESSIDs and use peculiar passwords along with WPA2, they should have nothing to worry about. The rest, however, should definitely start with stronger passwords.
For example, someone can crack your WEP regardless of your password; but to enter the router where the real fun can begin, they would encounter great difficulty if a strong password and unique user ID were set. Verizon figured this out some time ago. A strong password could limit an "attacker" to simply using your network. While stronger passwords are a good idea, it shouldn't be one's only recourse though.
I didn't know all printer manufacturers did; I'll be looking into it further, despite not having a printer for 5 years. The "officially anti-counterfeiting" bit is pretty dubious (as an excuse, not your statement) though. I actually thought their excuse would be The Children. Either way, while I dislike criminal activity, I do like due anonymity.
First I must state that by general default, I consider every global leader one of the following:
1. An Actor
2. A Power Proxy
3. A Prostitute
4. A Fool
5. Insane
6. In Extremis, Moribund, or Dead -- AKA -- Doing their job, Trying, or Successful
However, Putin is difficult to fit into any particular of my standard categories. Unlike most Big-Time politicians or leaders, he seems possibly interested in the longterm survival of his own nation -- quite unlike what seems the case elsewhere. He is one of the few yet unyielding to the flaccid and stagnant vernacular of conventional diplomatic bitch-speak -- the lingua franca of the Ministry of Confusion; He has exhibited unusual loyalty, albeit to a pretty rough group, but at least domestic; He has made what seems attempts at preventing the assets of his country from being overtaken by those with no portfolio of doing their own nations any good -- at least not by any means of self sacrifice. He is also capable of swinging more than a tainted pen (judo?) -- an uncommon attribute of politicians these days. (OK, fine; Rumsfeld was a wrestler. You got me on that.)
The world of Man being the laboratory of deception that it is, affords an easy image of Putin as an actor on the stage of geo-absurdity. The FSB, like the CIA, Mossad, etc., routinely engage in covert (and overt) criminal activity, some of which is arguably unforgivable. Maybe Putin is full of shit. Maybe not. From what I've seen, anyone not going along with the suicidal protocol of western bandits is villainized. I don't live in Russia and I don't know as much as I'd prefer to. I do, however, suspect Goldman Sachs and Friends would not fare so well over there; but again, I can only 'suspect'.
As an American seeing 'my' leaders only able to utter a word of sense under the contingency of inevitable contradiction, I can't help but to at least appreciate his abstinence from the parody I've come to expect as the height of political eloquence here.
I can't disagree with those who are upset about the Pussy Riot affair, but it is difficult for me to point a finger while sitting in a nation that not only has the largest prison population in the world and an entire industry built upon it, but boasts of liberty while doing so. And I think that for those who've had their coffee, the forecast suggests no improvement.
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Bahh. That was back in the day when "beer" meant beer. The strength of the old steel can was intended to compliment the beer with a sense of substance -- and it was built to last. This newfangled bubbling pansy fuddle is put into aluminium for morale. The poor excuse for men who feebly molest the frail cans of today need the extra confidence that the lightness of aluminium provides; it makes them feel strong and capable, like their ancestors. These modern milksop piss-containers couldn't survive fallout from a wet cherry-bomb.
Sorry mate; it only works on American beer. Try that shit on Guinness and not only will you defile it beyond repair, you'll infuriate a bunch of micks and be pullin' bits o' shoe and clover out yer teeth for a good long while too ;) Blighted taters is one thing, but don't mess with the drink.
I'd always wondered how something so simple as water, barley and hops could be subverted into such a horrendous fluid. Hell, now I know; just place some decent ale an appropriate distance from a few megatons of atomic fury, filter out everything but the alcohol, add some dye, diacetyl and propylene glycol, slap a label on it, print and distribute images of healthy men consuming it without immediately dying, airbrush in a few half naked women appearing to appreciate the situation, and behold the most mysterious industry in the universe unveiled!
Thankfully, some far-seeing Teutonic king thought of Reinheitsgebot, a law which prohibits the use of atomic warfare on beer.
I've heard heard rumors of a rogue DOT agent who has pledged to shave all men who do not shave themselves. I think perhaps a clue to this mysterious paradox has been provided by your link. It must be him.
Apparently this year, an Olympics spectator was arrested for not smiling: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/08/olympics-spectator-parkinsons-arrest-smiling
...Iceland. Hmm. Yes, that sounds good.
This could get confusing...
Travel Agent: Alright, that about sums it up. But a little word of advice before we part; when you arrive in the UK, be sure to keep a smile on your face.
Customer: But isn't that illegal?
Travel Agent: They're a little different over there. Ya know, they drive on the other side of road and such and eat scones.
Customer: Hmm. I don't know. I was once tazed by a TSA VIPR agent for smiling and it wasn't fun. I pissed myself in front of my kids.
Travel Agent: Good grief! Things are getting ridiculous around here, aren't they. Have you ever considered Iceland?
Customer:
Maybe they expected all attempts would be foiled by eternal debates on the meaning of each digit and whether they really existed or not. If so, (Infinity ^6) is pretty strong and they were probably on to something, at least existentially.
Bacon bits and bacon bytes, sha hash 'em in a block and mine 'em in a pool, with ne'er a C, but a GPU.
Sorry, I had to try.
Add some beans, beer and garlic and you'd certainly have gasification.
If only I could lucratively mine bacon!
This Shew's Adjourned ?
Slightly off topic, but for those who don't know of Terry Pratchett's battle with Alzheimer's and its effects on his life and writing, here's an hour-long documentary on the subject, including his interesting and thought-provoking visit to Dignitas in Switzerland:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=slZnfC-V1SY
I found it quite depressing and wouldn't recommend it to those similarly inclined. It is pretty powerful, or so I think.
Thousands Standing Around in a Terribly Substandard Administration squeezing the haggard Tits of Social Affability while Taxpayers Submit to Abuse by armed Trollops Sanctioned to Agitate them. Tyranny Subsists on Acceptance, which is why this Terminally Stupid Administration should be Terminated Soon; Alas, it may be too late, but we can still try.
Well, they are Treacherous, Superfluous and Appalling; and Totalitarianism is Socially Abhorrent. But I think what we are really dealing with is a bunch of Thespian Supercilious Antics that are really quite Tyrannically Sequestering our Airports and now Tainting Streets in America too.
Taxes Squandered Arduously
Theater of Sovereign Arrogance
Tush Squeezing Auxiliary
Trifling Sleazy Abductions
Testicle Screening Apparatus
Trouser Skeptics Association
Transgressing Social Abodes
Trimester State Assurance
Trespassing Submissive Anatomy
Tenaciously Swabbing Anything
Traveler's Subversion Agency
Terminally Sordid Asshats
Titillating Sensitive Appendages
That's all for now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiScanner#Media_coverage_and_reaction -- CTRL-F "Vatican". Probably just correcting a spelling error or something, but you never know ;)
You could try to append a link to this one.
OK, before I am attacked: Province. There you have it -- a typo.
First, I am very grateful for Wikipedia and would rather not imagine the world without it, even though one need only look back a decade to do so. As a fine and powerful, but fallible tool, it is like the scent of carrion to conniving circling buzzards -- and circling they be! Ahh, yes, the skies are clear you say; where are these buzzards?. Well, Chicken Little has been thoroughly plucked and I'm not following suit. Instead, I'll drop this link (this one too), say a few things, specifically that I suspect there is a problem, and hope this /. article will motivate some capable Slashers to do a little digging and telling, if they will.
The first link directs to a Wired article on Virgil Griffith, a CalTech grad student who did a little forensic prodding, tracing the IPs of certain chivalrous Wikipedia editors. While such agencies and corporations as the CIA and Microsoft have been observed doodling gleefully about, a plenitude of other interesting sources have too. Certainly the CIA and Microsoft are welcome to make appropriate edits to Wikipedia; however, what qualifies as "appropriate" could probably use a good public review.
The second link is simply damned interesting, IMO.
Warning: Rant Begins Here:
It beggars the mind of a bumbling patriot like myself to conceive jingo-seraphim such as Petraeus diverting their genial hoof garments hither domestic. And surely fables of Mocking Birds are no true tales of conniving buzzards. After all, elaborate psychological conditioning could never compete with the unhindered purity of the American phenotype shining so brightly amongst a world lightless without. No, it is not intentional manipulation that deserves credit for the strength of our glorious consumer might. It is far more likely the intrinsic virtue of any decent ape-in-transition to be just as we are, or worse to be fair. Critical-thinking is a disease which must be mitigated by central intervention, by those who know best. For the masses would be lost in an endless banquet of sodomy and cannibalism without the guidance of Malthusian oversight to cull them. Without such counsel, humanity would grovel in the sorry wake of cretins like Tesla, reeling through horrid century after century of wanton growth, like a wicked and vibrant cancer that cannot be controlled, spreading beyond the sweaty grasp of central planning and anthropoid politics. There is a stark and deep Universe beyond the smoke and mirrors of our terrestrial slave'osphere. The iron hand that presses your shoulder every time you gaze into that forbidden abyss of the anti-ape, it only strives to protect you. Baby, it's cold out there.
Get a bloody canoe and put Chuck Norris in it for god's sake. Much cheaper and every bit as discouraging to prospective adversaries. I can already see it: Chuck Norris paddling merrily about while whistling Enya songs and Submarines diving nose-first directly into the sea-floor in terror. Great Whites would beach themselves when he licked his Sun-parched lips, if the Sun would dare. The Yellow Sea would be red (mostly red), white and blue and even China would agree. The Ring of Fire would ask politely for permission to twitch.
And how much time would you need to crack a password such as:
GrimTittyPat00shkinGarment
?
Time is all we have. Why squander millennia on a mediocre password? Also, it's not the weakness of passwords, but the weakness of protocols here. Install proper firmware that does not support WPS and REAVER becomes little more than aircrack. With a solid WPA2 setup on open-wrt, I'd relax and not even bother monitoring my network traffic whilst surrounded by hostile REAVER users.
When I don't prefer my spam with eggs, I often prefer my spam with plain spam. Nothing wrong with spam, is there? What more could you ask for anyway? It's already an exciting 3D representation of an entire pig stuffed into a single tin, with a few elements of modern science added.
~ Plain Spam - The Number One Choice for Spam Purists Since 1970
It uses the aircrack suite and supports injection. I imagine if people write convenient scripts for this software, it could get pretty popular. I've never owned a smartphone and don't know what their ranges are, but if they are close to a half-height mini-PCI, then this is a pocket sized menace indeed. Throw in the Cloud, rainbow tables, mega dictionaries and so on, and you get action. I have no doubt that many people will use such an application just as a novelty (because they can) -- but others may opt for more. Of course, those who don't use common ESSIDs and use peculiar passwords along with WPA2, they should have nothing to worry about. The rest, however, should definitely start with stronger passwords.
For example, someone can crack your WEP regardless of your password; but to enter the router where the real fun can begin, they would encounter great difficulty if a strong password and unique user ID were set. Verizon figured this out some time ago. A strong password could limit an "attacker" to simply using your network. While stronger passwords are a good idea, it shouldn't be one's only recourse though.
I didn't know all printer manufacturers did; I'll be looking into it further, despite not having a printer for 5 years. The "officially anti-counterfeiting" bit is pretty dubious (as an excuse, not your statement) though. I actually thought their excuse would be The Children. Either way, while I dislike criminal activity, I do like due anonymity.
HP (and others) used to, or maybe still do, use watermarking in printers to hide data revealing time, printer type, etc.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-5811739-7.html
https://www.eff.org/issues/printers
~ Meta data is watching
First I must state that by general default, I consider every global leader one of the following:
1. An Actor
2. A Power Proxy
3. A Prostitute
4. A Fool
5. Insane
6. In Extremis, Moribund, or Dead -- AKA -- Doing their job, Trying, or Successful
However, Putin is difficult to fit into any particular of my standard categories. Unlike most Big-Time politicians or leaders, he seems possibly interested in the longterm survival of his own nation -- quite unlike what seems the case elsewhere. He is one of the few yet unyielding to the flaccid and stagnant vernacular of conventional diplomatic bitch-speak -- the lingua franca of the Ministry of Confusion; He has exhibited unusual loyalty, albeit to a pretty rough group, but at least domestic; He has made what seems attempts at preventing the assets of his country from being overtaken by those with no portfolio of doing their own nations any good -- at least not by any means of self sacrifice. He is also capable of swinging more than a tainted pen (judo?) -- an uncommon attribute of politicians these days. (OK, fine; Rumsfeld was a wrestler. You got me on that.)
The world of Man being the laboratory of deception that it is, affords an easy image of Putin as an actor on the stage of geo-absurdity. The FSB, like the CIA, Mossad, etc., routinely engage in covert (and overt) criminal activity, some of which is arguably unforgivable. Maybe Putin is full of shit. Maybe not. From what I've seen, anyone not going along with the suicidal protocol of western bandits is villainized. I don't live in Russia and I don't know as much as I'd prefer to. I do, however, suspect Goldman Sachs and Friends would not fare so well over there; but again, I can only 'suspect'.
As an American seeing 'my' leaders only able to utter a word of sense under the contingency of inevitable contradiction, I can't help but to at least appreciate his abstinence from the parody I've come to expect as the height of political eloquence here.
I can't disagree with those who are upset about the Pussy Riot affair, but it is difficult for me to point a finger while sitting in a nation that not only has the largest prison population in the world and an entire industry built upon it, but boasts of liberty while doing so. And I think that for those who've had their coffee, the forecast suggests no improvement.