Month: August 2009

Yeah. I want one of these for my back yard:

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/23247/

Imagine, a maintenance-free nuclear reactor? Sure, it’s for manned space exploration, but dayum it’s nice to see a feasible solution.

Disclaimer: I’m 100% in favor of nuclear power on earth, too. Although it’s not a renewable resource, it’s a darn sight cleaner than all of our other non-renewable resources.

It’s been too long since I’ve been too loud Since I’ve showed you how to rock the crowd Movin’ the masses with my lyrical wordplay Wasting your day setting your iPod to replay My songs over and over and over some more I invade your ears like you’re an aural whore My name is Weed, the microphone’s my bitch Never smoked up but the names’s no glitch I’m hardy, I’m everywhere and I can’t be tamed I can’t be blamed because I can’t be shamed Claiming the crown of lyrical genius Living the funkiest life, maybe not the cleanest The Funk & me, nothing comes between us Except when your girl needs to polish my *radio edit* A lyrical master but a musical Muggle Weed to music like a cactus to snuggle Which is why MC Heb’s my ace in the hole If Weed is the heart, then Heb is the soul Working his bass like Bob Villa works tools He’s pure grain while your crew is O’Douls Fools step up and are quickly mastered Like level 54 on the Robotron blaster So here’s some funk on the Barnson domain You may not have been warned, but please don’t complain There’s no preparation for the DSFT invasion No need to be scared, no need for evasion We make you feel good no matter your affiliation A much better ending than the book of Revelation

Weed’s out

P.S. MC Heb, the gauntlet has been dropped…

I keep telling people this, but they don’t understand. Tasers HURT. I have been hit with tasers several times in training, and tasers are quite literally torture devices.

The problem is that the stigma of ‘Nonlethal weapons’ has given Police officers the freedom to use these torture weapons at will and with little to no accountability, and this is a freedom many of them have abused.

Assault is assault, but it has become standard to consider ‘assault’ by a police officer something they ‘have to do in the performance of their duties’ and turn a blind eye to bullies that hide behind a badge.

several people have been tasered and DIED because of these ‘nonlethal’ weapons.

Literally, the police taser training program states that tasers are supposed to be used if a suspect is ‘belligerent’. Belligerent? seriously? so if a suspect gets upset that they are being arrested without sufficient justification or insults a police officer the police are permitted to use torture and potentially lethal force. The term ‘belligerent’ can mean so many things, from simply arguing about a ticket to looking at an officer the wrong way.

At least if a police officer pulls out a gun and shoots a suspect, they can be held liable for criminal actions and have to, at a minimum, face a board of inquiry. In fact, if a police officer pulls a baton and uses it they must still account for their actions. And yet, pulling out a ‘high tech’ implement of torture and potential death and using it against people that might not even be suspects in a violent crime doesn’t, in many cases, require that a report even be filed.

Why are we giving sadistic bullies the power to torture and kill citizens at will? what are we coming to? Why do we keep electing people that allow this kind of terrorism?

this rant is sponsored by the newest article on legalized police brutality, over at MSNBC

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32414436/ns/today-today_people/?GT1=43001

That officer should be facing a minimum of a 5 year sentence for assault and battery, and preferably a 30 year sentence for torture, but it’s unlikely he will recieve more than a slap on the wrist, because shooting a helpless woman twice in front of her children for simply arguing about a traffic ticket is totally legal.

“Governments should be afraid of their citizens.” -V

Last week I started using Google Voice. Way cool. I’m having some early successes with the ease of the interface and the smoothness of releasing a single 10-digit sequence to reach me. All the phones are ringing and I’m starting to group incoming calls.

I’m feeling like I’m not taking full advantage of the service. When I tried to find a user group through google’s site I came up empty. So, anybody out there willing to share some tricks of the trade top optimize experience and facility with Google Voice?