Month: December 2010

Thank God

Well that’s a relief (that I didn’t even know was a potential problem), Super Douche Bloomberg said he won’t run for president. I didn’t even know this was a rumor circulating:

The mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, has said there is “no way, no how” he is going to run for the US presidency in 2012.

Of course now I’m worried he will run for president as he’s a great one for saying one thing and doing another (outside of politics it’s called lying in politics it’s called politics). That’s the last thing we need in this country, a very hardcore anti-rights activist in the White House.

Rail Guns Kicking Ass

You know what’s awesome? Making a world record. Know what’s even more awesome? Breaking your own record. Following in the steps of Manowar who broke their own record for loudest concert ever, the Navy has built a rail gun that broke it’s own record for blowing shit up:

Navy scientists set a world record Friday during a test of an electromagnetic railgun, a tractor-trailer sized weapon that sends a 20-pound projectile rocketing through the air at seven times the speed of sound.

The futuristic gun was tested twice at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Va., and the first shot generated 33 megajoules of force out of the barrel, a world record for muzzle energy, the scientists said.

HELL YEAH! Think about that for a moment, a gun that propels 20 pounds of projectile to seven times the speed of sound. That’s 7,882 feet per second or 5,374 miles per hour. Roughly translated that equals about FUCKING AWESOME on the awesome scale. The video the Navy put out seriously needs a heavy metal soundtrack put to it.

Of course rail guns are still illegal to use for hunting in Wisconsin.

Snowmygodmageddonpocalypse

Did you hear? We received snow… a lot of snow. This shouldn’t be too surprising since this is the state of Minnesota but we always get a little concerned when two and a half feet of snow pile on in one day. This lead to all sorts of fun and games.

First the roads obviously became practically impossible to drive on. I’m not talking a little difficult, I’m talking so bad that the country pulled the snow plows off of the streets. The local metro buses halter operations leaving at least one of my friends stranded at work. Local light rail was bogged down because of the additional passengers and the accumulation of snow on the rails. The Minneapolis airport shut down for a while until they were able to get one runway going partially (they would run it for half and hour, spend 20 minutes clearing it off again, then run it for another half hour). Something akin to 600 people went off of the road throughout the state. Hell the mail wasn’t even delivered in some areas. Basically it was a bad snow storm here in Minnesota.

Summing it up in words really doesn’t do it justice so here are pictures. Everybody on my Facebook feed was also talking about something related to vikings. I’m not sure what they meant but I think it was this song:

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On a positive note when snow like this falls Minnesotans usually come together to assist one another. I think everybody I know helped at least two other motorists dig their vehicles out (I almost did but the guy I was going to help was a rude asshole so I left him there). Neighbors with snow blowers went to clear the driveways of their neighbors who had only shovels. A lot of people went on retrieval missions to get friends and families unstuck. And of course everybody enjoyed the pleasure of the police being unable to enforce many stupid laws (for instance a fun sport when the police are stuck and unable to respond is to get on a snowboard, hook up to a four wheel drive vehicle, and go wake boarding).

It’s weather like this that also reminds me why I drive a truck. Yeah my Ranger only gets 17.5 miles per gallon on the highway but when you kick it into four wheel drive that truck will tear through almost anything. Having roughly nine inches of ground clearance also helps.

The entire event can be summed up with the following phrase, global warming is bullshit (seriously when can we get some of that sweet sweet global warming?) and fuck you Al Gore for getting our hopes up!

Wait… What

This has to be one of the biggest what in the fucking fuck moments in history:

Queensland police have appealed for public assistance in finding 10 handguns stolen from a Brisbane gun club.

They have recovered 14 of 24 guns stolen at gunpoint from the Sporting Shooters Association’s Belmont club at 6.35am (AEST) last Thursday.

Apparently in Australia a two man team with a single rifle between them can rob a gun range. I’m imagining how this would go down at any gun range I’ve been to in the United States… yeah I can’t see this going down the same here. The main difference I see is there being one dead thug, another thug with wet pants, and every gun stored at the range still safely locked in their safes.

Seriously how to you rob a gun range and walk away without any additional holes in your person? I’m completely baffled by this.

Illinois Police Stealing Money

Illinois has appeared twice on this site today, how unfortunate for them. First Mayor Daley of Chicago is whining that his beloved database of peasants who are armed isn’t ready. Now I learned via Dvorak Uncensored that the Aurora Police Department are refusing to comply with a judge’s order to return $190,040 of money they stole:

Though neither Jose nor Jesus Martinez is charged with a crime, authorities are seeking forfeiture of $190,040 found in Jesus’ truck when he was stopped by an Aurora police officer on Oct. 18.

A Kane County judge ordered the money returned, but the city has refused.

The police followed the “logic” that anybody who has a large quantity of cash on hand is a drug-dealer and thus the money can be forcefully stolen by the state. What’s most interesting is a judge ordered the police to return the stolen money but they are refusing. I think this is a little outside of their authority. Then again I don’t understand where they received the authority to steal money from private citizens with no evidence or charges of any wrong doings.

These officers should be arrested themselves for armed robbery (they were armed when they stole the money so might as well do the same to them as they would do to any of us).

Gun and Literacy

Wow I just found some comedy gold via Snowflakes in Hell. It seems the Brady Campaign let one of their people off of the leash and she is spouting all sorts of bullshit.

The latest claim being made is people who shoot one another are equally distributed among the educated and uneducated. The Brady Shill also claims that most of these people weren’t criminals until they shot somebody. Sebastian smacks the Brady Shill upside the head with some actual facts which decimate the anti-gunner argument.

I wanted to make a statement on the Brady Shill’s following claim though:

Most homicides occur among people who know each other and often the shooter was not a criminal until he/she pulled the trigger.

Sebastian’s post shows this isn’t true at all. My question though is how is this statement relevant (to anything)? A fact to bring up is there isn’t a single first time criminal who was a criminal before committing their first crime. For example a person with no criminal history embezzles money from his company, he was not a criminal until he embezzled the money. A 14 year-old kid with no criminal history hacks into a state department computer, he was not a criminal until breaking into that system.

The Brady Shill seems to imply a desire to ban all potential devices that can be used by people to commit their first crime. Shall we ban automobiles? The first “crime” many teenagers commit is speeding when they get their driver license. Many teens weren’t criminals until the first time they exceeded the speed limit, so by the Brady Shill’s logic we need to control automobiles.

I believe in practicing what you preach so I believe it would be a good move by Brady Shill to prove her conviction and get rid of her computer. After all many malicious hackers were never criminals until they used a computer.

Chicago Gun Database Isn’t Ready

Somebody call the whambulance because Mayor Daley is sad that the Chicago gun registry database isn’t online yet:

“It is annoying” that the registry isn’t yet in place, Daley said when asked about the topic after the City Council meeting.

“They should have it by now,” he said. “I’ll find out why they didn’t do that.”

The mayor said he doesn’t know why the database isn’t available to police and firefighters yet, but said it shouldn’t have taken this long.

Yes it’s frustrating that Daley’s hard on for a police state isn’t being fulfilled yet. How much money do you think Chicago spent to create this database? How much money do you think they spent enforcing their unconstitutional gun restrictions? How many lives have been lost in Chicago because possession of a means of self-defense can only be obtained by those with means (it costs money to get a gun permit in Chicago)?

Oh and this line from Daley is golden:

“Maybe it’s bureaucracy. I would ask the superintendent,” he said.

You’d know all about bureaucracy now wouldn’t you? I’m curious about this database, is it required to be online before the city will issue handgun permits? If that’s the case I wouldn’t be surprised if this “delay” is a purposeful attempt at preventing the peasants of Chicago from having a means to acquire handguns. Of course if this database isn’t required to be online in order for the peasants to get handgun permits then it could very well just be incompetence (or a means for the police department to beg for more money by claiming the delays are due to a tight budget).

Either way the denizens of Chicago can rest easy knowing Mayor Daley is on the case. What case that is I’m not really sure though.

Biting Off More Than You Can Chew

Hot on the tails of attacking MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal the boys and girls that compose Anonymous are performing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Amazon. The funny thing is it doesn’t seem to be working as I can access Amazon without any issue.

I don’t think these guys make the connection that Wikileaks chose to use Amazon’s hosting service specifically because of how robot Amazon’s infrastructure is. Amazon makes their money on people visiting their website and thus have made massive strides in ensuring it’s always accessible. Amazon has been a victim of DDoS attacks before (usually to extort money from Amazon to make the DDoS attack stop) and know how to deal with it. It’s would be like trying to take down Google via a DDoS attack, it won’t work.

This also sends a bad message to web hosts. Basically Anonymous are saying anybody who has hosted Wikileaks and stopped is going to be attacked. Likewise anybody hosting Wikileaks will also be attacked by people from the other side of the issue. Why would any web host be willing to host Wikileaks at all if all they’ll get for their troubles is a big old helping of DDoS. If you want to set a precedence in favor of Wikileaks work to stop the DDoS attacks that are targeting Wikileaks, not a web host who hosted Wikileaks and later terminated the hosting.

I’m still finding the events surrounding Wikileaks far more interesting than the actual leaks themselves.

America Making Terrorists

If the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) creates a terrorist can they really claim they stopped stopped him? Apparently they think so:

A man has been charged with attempted murder and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction for allegedly plotting to blow up a military recruitment centre near Baltimore with a car bomb.

OK that sounds like they stopped somebody right? Wait there is more:

The bomb was also a fake supplied by agents as part of a sting operation.

This is the second guy who has attempted to “bomb” something with a “bomb” given to them by the FBI. Also it should be noted both of these guys were recruited by FBI agents working to get their arrest numbers up under cover.

It’s also interesting that the FBI manufactured terrorist is being charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. The last time I heard a regular bomb was an explosive and a nuclear bomb was a weapon of mass destruction. This classification falls under the fact a regular bomb takes out part of a building while a nuclear weapon takes out an entire fucking region of the planet. Concept of scale apparently escapes the FBI though.