"Hello my name is Pip, and I would like to speak some lyrics,
Into this microphone that's amplified so you can hear it."
I did not clip the whole article and it is very entertaining. Gotta love good sense of humor. WHAT’S up, Times readers? Normally right now you’d be nodding off over a very thoughtful prescription for offering Qaddafi an honorable exile at a plastic surgery teaching hospital. But not today, people! Because I deleted that snoozer when I hacked my way in here. |
That’s right. I hacked the Op-Ed page. You’re only reading this because I broke into The Times’s internal network (“The Old Gray Linux Box” we call it) and put this piece in the lineup myself. |
Surprise, surprise: a dead-tree media company’s cyber-security was no tougher to crack than Citibank’s or the C.I.A.’s or any of the other institutions my brethren have hacked into in the past few months. |
You’re probably wondering what I want. To be clear: I, along with a large group of my associates, am acting alone. We take orders from no one. Though in the spirit of disclosure, in this one Estonian chat room there’s a 9-year-old boy with some surprisingly good ideas. |
FACT: The New York Times network’s user name and password were “intern” and “Ochs1234.” Come on. To hacktivists like me that’s like an engraved invitation — if we ever even used paper, which we don’t. |
FACT: The boys in corporate don’t want anyone to know, but 70 percent of company revenues last year came from Times New Roman font royalties. |
ACT: Tom Friedman’s column has, for the last three years, been written not been by Tom Friedman but by a consortium of Malaysian university students studying artificial intelligence. T.F. has agreed to keep this quiet because the Malaysians agreed to give him the book rights to the whole thing. |
Congratulation reader! Our very good reputation firm has now possession of Yakutsk gold mine but needs financing wired to Moscow for financial purposes. Due to short time we have re-hacked newspaper Web site for spreading word to smart Op-Ed readers ==>
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Arghh, sorry. Hacker Steve here again. Clearly some bugs to work out. Go read “Thomas L. Friedman” for a few minutes? I gotta go ask my Estonian what to do here. Check back next Tuesday. That’s the slot I’ve decided I want. |
How do you deal with it? The force of religion is getting stronger. I guess it is kind of payback to Christians who have been all over the world trying to convert others to Christianity. TWO young Muslims have been arrested in Australia following an attack on a 31-year-old man who recently converted to the religion of peace. |
The victim – identified only as “Christian” – was allegedly lashed with electrical cable by four heavily bearded men who broke into his bedroom in Menton St, Silverwater, about 1am on Sunday. |
The victim told police he recognised the men from his local mosque who were punishing him for having a few drinks with friends. |
Meanwhile it is reported here that, in the “Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets” in London, a rash of posters have appeared stating: |
You are entering a Shariah controlled zone. Islamic rules enforced. |
Beneath, images declare that smoking, alcohol, music, drugs, prostitution and porn are forbidden. |
Although they do not mention homosexuality, the posters are expected to cause concern among the local gay population. |
The latest posters are identical to ones found in Waltham Forest and Newham. |
This is an area where the Muslim community will not tolerate drugs, alcohol, pornography, gambling, usury, free mixing between the sexes – the fruits if you like of Western civilisation. |
The posters are part of a campaign: |
Aimed at both the Muslim and non-Muslim community in terms of what the Sharia means economically, socially and politically. |
Earlier this year, the lunatic claimed he had “thousands” of people willing to patrol streets up and down the UK to dissuade people “from anti-Islamic behaviour”. |
I never understood the big fuss about the marriage--since it proved itself that it is not a contract not to break the deal as if they claim with big words "the death takes apart or similar false promise--why gay people have been pushing for status-co so hard. Do they want to be part of statistics which will be recorded in divorced crowd or not?
I wish people spend more energy for fixing the broken intimacy concept, which also brings many kids to this world as if this is a freaking easy game. We all have responsibilities, that is what makes us social animals. The responsibility is not trying to impress others--forget that f**king your own life, but many others' while satisfying the status-co. I will respect the ones who don't see this life as if playing Barbies and rip their legs when they get tired of it, but participating as honest, caring with full of appreciation. That is the real commitment, not the signed paper god knows when it will be unsigned...Unless you want to use the marriage institution to scam a looser.
I think we are on the path for more polarization in the long run. This man is reportedly responsible for the Utoya terror attacks: |
32 year-old Anders Behring Breivik, the man who shot at children on Utoya island in Norway. This photo is from his Facebook page. |
His Facebook page reveals that he is from Oslo, Norway and is a Christian Norwegian Conservative. |
Described as 6ft tall and blond, he is reported to have arrived on the island of Utoya and opened fire after beckoning several young people over in his native Norwegian tongue. |
Reports suggest he was also seen loitering around the site of the bomb blast in Oslo two hours before the island incident – and also before the capital’s explosion. |
UPDATE: The gunman reportedly had his own company, dealing with geofarming, which would explain access to explosives. |
While trying to give a spin to Alexander Calder doodle on Google search page, I got curious and looked at the source. Ohhh my; you will appreciate more after seeing the monstrous JavaScript behind.Edit |
Krekar was the original leader of the Islamist armed group Ansar al-Islam, which was set up and commenced operations in Kurdistan while he had refugee status in Norway. Krekar claims, however, not to have had foreknowledge of the various terrorist attacks performed by the group he was leading. Since February 2003 he has an expulsion order against him, which is suspended pending Iraqi government guarantees that he will not face torture or execution. Norway is committed to international treaties which prohibit the expulsion of an individual without such a guarantee.[1] |
In February 2003 the Norwegian government ordered Krekar to be deported to Iraq, but as of July 2009 the order had not been implemented because of the security environment in Iraq, and the risk that Krekar could face the death penalty there, as Norway will not deport people in these circumstances. Krekar has unsuccessfully challenged the expulsion order in court, with the order being confirmed in September 2005. Norway's government has said that the new government to be elected in Iraq in December 2005 might permit discussion on whether Krekar's expulsion order can be implemented.[10] |
Probably they don't have much water during summer--video shows quite a current. I have never done white water rafting and so excited that I will have a chance to do it in a month.
I have been kind of joking lately that it is all Archimedes's fault. When he discovered that “Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world.” , we were blessed with harvesting the extra power and doomed to f**k ourselves up at the same time. It seems like only yesterday that the planet’s population hit 6 billion, but in fact it was 12 years ago in 1999. This year, the planet will hit the next big milestone – the UN Population Division just announced that the world’s human population will hit 7 billion on Halloween 2011. Unfortunately, 7 Billion Day means that as we continue to dominate the planet, we are stretching natural resources, fresh water and food supplies to their limit while increasing our environmental impact exponentially. |
The increase of a billion people in 12 years is worrying, especially since the global population only reached one billion in the early 19th century. In the following 150 years the earth’s population rose by 1.5 billion people, and in just the past 60 years the population has exploded with an increase of 4.5 billion people. |
So what can we do? Adopt a one-child policy like China? Grow more food? Switch to renewable sources of energy? Well, yes to the last two. As each generation is born, we are going to have to adapt our diets, our energy sources and how we live if we are to survive a global humanitarian disaster. After all it is not our numbers that are the problem ( 7 billion people could fit into Los Angeles apparently) — it is the resources we currently crave. Our consumption grossly outweighs our needs and, unless we address that the world is not going to change. |
According to UN scientists, our impact is creating an epoch called the Anthropocene. This is: “a break with the geologic past marked by humanity’s long-term alteration of the natural world and its biota.” In short, we are inadvertently bringing on the sixth mass extinction because our desires are too great, our technologies have had too great an impact on the environment, and our use of the land is unsustainable. |
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