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20080610

It is time for citizens to commandeer oil prices! - Click!

Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) worked valiantly today to send a message to the oil industry that we have had it with the oil companies high prices with no merit. But when the bill that she proposed that would charge the oil companies a windfall sales tax failed, then another bill that gave tax breaks to alternative energy died, both at the hands of the Establishment, it has become clear that no amount of legislative action, or judicial action, and certainly not any executive action, would stop the oil companies from overcharging Americans.

The oil industry makes enough money, that they are above the law. They could commit murder (which they have) and simply write a check for bail if they were in a trial. The oil industry has no respect for the laws of man or the natural rights of humans. Their crimes have hindered the wellbeing of citizens, as police and fire departments must cut back on their crime and safety training for gasoline. The oil industry has obstructed the school year of children that school years must be truncated, shortening the educations of some students, and rerouting buses to standing room only for mass-transit systems.

Today, the estabishment stated that they are in full support of the oil industries crippling America, its infrastructure, and its government.

We are now at war with The Estabishment. The Estabishment that declared war but sent its troops into battle without armour. The Establishment that promised "Gas Tax Holidays" to bribe people into gaining their consent and compliance to continue to raise the price of fuel and lower environmental standards. The Establishment that has damaged the environment to the point that their are no bees to polinate crops, which in turn endangers our food supply. The Establishment that bailed out mortgage lenders and savings and loan groups just as they did nearly 20 years ago. The Establishment that put energy companies in charge of environmental and energy standards which made the air we breathe unhealthy and the people who could not afford heating or air conditioning freeze or swelter. The Establishment that mistreated hospitalized war veterans, exported jobs overseas, and held back students who proved that they could succeed.

The Establishment is afraid of change. It is afraid to lose the power it has been inebriated itself with the freedom of its citizens. It has taken this country and the world for a ride and it was incahoots with alot of bad people who also fear change. Many of these changes were maid possible online, reguardless of the attempts of disinformation which tried to drown out or lie about what is going on. Television and radio only tell us what the Establishment wants us to see and hear. The Internet has changed the playing field. Not like in 2000 or 2004, but for real this time in 2008.

We frighten the Establishment, and that is a good thing. We aren't sending them terriorist threats or manufactured lies to keep people in control. We are spreading the honest truth that life stinks right now, but at they same time we are telling people that we are not going to take it lying down.

We are ready to take on the changes that the Establishment will fight us tooth an nail over. We are not going to let them continue to keep the status quo because we know what has happened--that IS HAPPENING--because we gave up freedom for quiet conscent.

It is time we commandeer the gas stations and put the price of oil back under $2 per gallon. The oil industry makes more than enough money that they deserve to be victums of their own crimes.

But by no means does not paying for gas mean that we can drive around in the big gas-guzzling vehicles.

The automobile industry is still an accessory to the crimes of the oil industry. They broke the laws too, raking in profits while their workers took a pay cut so that the guys upstairs got a pay raise.

It is time that the citizens of the United States of America took control of this situation, as the Establishment, the oil industry, and the automobile industry won't.

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posted by Bushido Hacks 6/10/2008 09:39:00 PM (0) comments top

20080609

America is desperate but not stupid, Mr. Akin - Click!

Senator Todd Akin (R-MO) proposed this morning the $150 Barrel Energy Extortion Act of 2008, a bill that will continue to keep the status quo as far as energy standards go.

Pretty much it calls for what every Republican-based energy bill proposes.



If this bill sounds familar, like it has been done before, it has.

Akin's bill continues to ignore alternative energy and only continues to support the oil industry.

Does he really think that we are going to buy into this? It's about as foolish as that "gas tax holiday idea". Do we really believe that the oil indsutry is going to lower the price for oil if we cut out the tax for oil? HELL NO! They're going to jack up the price and make money off of what the federal, state, and local governemnts charge for oil.

And that is what this bill is. It says "When oil hits $150 per barrel, GIVE THEM MORE MONEY!"

Akin says he saw this coming since 2001. If that is so, why didn't he stop the oil barons when oil hit $50 per barrel? Or $75? Or $90? Or $100? Or $125?!

We are already being extorted and forced into coercive complaciency! It's like tossing a lobster into tepid water then slowly turning up the heat. Eventually the lobster boils to death.

This bill's only purpose is to stear people away from alternative energy--which is gaining momentum--and put keep the oil, coal, and nuclear industries in control. Just because they are losing customers (like a very small fraction) they make a big stink about it with the government but tell everyone that it means nothing. Well if it means nothing, why the hell are they so afraid that that small fraction is breaking away? "Oh no! We lost 0.001% of our customers! Quick call the government! We might not make $40.8 billion dollars this year! We'll only make slightly less than that! Save us, Senator Akin!"

This bill does not stop the oil industry from extorting customers. IT PROMOTES EXTORTION!

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posted by Bushido Hacks 6/09/2008 08:13:00 AM (0) comments top

20080218

GM Vice Chairman Calls Global Warming "a crock of sh*t". - Click!

Popular Science writes that GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz called Global warming "a crock of sh*t".

ORLY?

Considering GM touts "energy alternatives" but doesn't really live up to the environmental standards that some people have, they should really think about what they are saying. The same goes for Ford and Chrystler.

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posted by Bushido Hacks 2/18/2008 12:28:00 AM (0) comments top

20070618

FUDBusters!

Today I want to start a new segment call FUDBusters. I decided if there was anything worth using the tags again for my blog it would be to dispell alot of these false complaints floating around the Internet which are nothing more than FUD.

First item of business is this nVidia Drivers for Linux issue. The only thing people should be complaning about with the drivers is the nVidia logo screen that shows up on startup. It should be noted that you should know what kind of Graphics card your system uses before installing this software. Just to be on the safe side, if you have an nVidia graphics card on your system, the only nVidia Drivers you should install are the basic drivers. FreshRPMs has this problem covered. The have nVidia drivers available for Fedora Core 7. Despite the caveat emptor, it should be safe to install the drivers, just be sure to install FreshRPMs YUM configuration files and use the "Add/Remove Software" feature. You are probably going to want to use GNOME for the desktop interface.

Speaking of GNOME, I've decided to stick with it. KDE isn't as great as I remembered. Probably because KDE 4 hasn't come out yet. I'd like to give Beryl a try, but so far all I get is this white screen and nothing to do buy press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. (This will end your session incase of emergency.) There was som instablity with KDE in terms of multimedia. I've been working on getting the HDTV card up and running. Hopefully, it picks up radio since my inital intention was to install a radio card to listen to some local radio stations. Thats another item on the todo list.

Linux 64-bit is great. AMD2 users who are complaning about why they can't install Fedora 7 probably haven't read some of the ariticles I wrote last month.

Java: Still haven't found how to get it running. Quite honestly: WHO NEEDS IT?! Flash is the New Java. Java loves to suck up memory. That's probably why I prefer programming in C++, PHP, Python, etc. over Java. The only thing for SUN Microsystems left to do is turn into a red giant, supernova, shrink into a white dwarf, and die. I just wish Yahoo! would make Literali run on Flash so I don't have to use Java. It turns out I'm not the only person to have problems with Java. The National Weather Service office here in St. Louis was reporting that they had problems with their animations lately because of a Java upgrade. Fortunately, the have KML files to dowload, which brings me ot my final point this afternoon.

YES! Google Earth DOES work on Fedora 7 Linux 64-bit with nVidia drivers. Again with the drivers. The only drivers computer geeks should be worried about are the nirods with a cell phone in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other on highway who don't use their blinkers.

chmod 744 GoogleEarthLinux.bin; ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin

Now, no more FUD!

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posted by Bushido Hacks 6/18/2007 04:49:00 PM (0) comments top

20070502

Digg gets HD-DVD pwn3d!

I used to look up to Kevin Rose back when he was on TechTV, but this news about Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson taking money from the HD-DVD promotions group and the MPAA is like finding out Barry Bonds took steroids.

In response to this stab in the back, here's the number that the MPAA tried to censor from public knowlege to crack their crappy overpirced coasters.

09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0

Shame on you, Kevin. To hell with you , MPAA.

What numbers will the MPAA try to censor next? pi? e? The speed of light in a vaccum?

UPDATE
Kevin has quickly appologized for today's actions.

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posted by Bushido Hacks 5/02/2007 12:04:00 AM (0) comments top

20070419

School Shooters are Stupid!

By now most of us have been IMMERSED in The Virus's 24 Hour coverage. The only reason I'm writing about this event is because Maddox doesn't respond to these events.

If you have seen the photos the press recieved this kid looks like a moron.

"Duh, no body likes me. I'm a psycho case waiting to happen. I think I'll go listen to some Linkin' Park and fake speaking in a deep voice."

This was all planned. He wanted to cause this chaos. What he percieved would tear people apart, has only made them stronger.

The real weapons were not the two guns he had. They were the mainpulation and fabrication of mass media ("The Virus") The virus is his weapon. Using this he puts the Virus Addicts (miserable people who do nothing but watch talk shows and yellow news journalism).

The news media will be kicking around his propoganda for weeks, spreading disinformation and asking school leaders, law enforcement, and lawmakers to enforce hyperpower security that is about as pointless as trying to control other people's thoughts.

Such yellow journalism deserves a countermeasure to bust up this culture of fear.

Here's a photo that perfectly profiles this guy.

Asian people won't be picked on. No goths or outcasts harmed this time. You failed, Cho Seung-Hui. Burn in hell. And take your crappy photographs with you!



Man I hate the thrid week of April.

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posted by Bushido Hacks 4/19/2007 01:22:00 AM (0) comments top

20070406

PUNDIT FIGHT! - Click!

In the Red Corner, Bill O'Rielly. In the Blue Corner, Geraldo Rivera.
TWO MEN ENTER! ONE MAN LEAVES!


What? A happy ending?! This is so lame! I was hoping they'd both suffer strokes.

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posted by Bushido Hacks 4/06/2007 11:53:00 PM (0) comments top

20070327

Seattle School Bans Legos, Having Gonads - Click!

THIS IS THE MOST F***ING STUPID STORY EVER!
Tell those two teachers in seattle to go back to North Korea!

"Hey! Teachers, leave those kids alone!" --Pink Floyd "The Wall"

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posted by Bushido Hacks 3/27/2007 04:30:00 PM (0) comments top

20070322

Japan says they have the answer to the Iraq War. ORLY? - Click!

Japan's Foreign Misiter Taro Aso claims that because of their race (Asian), they could bring peace with the Arabs who are constain fighting "white blonde haired blue eyed Americans". This coming from a country that pulled out of the war over a year ago. It wouldn't matter what race you are.

The least they could do is go back and send some supplies.

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posted by Bushido Hacks 3/22/2007 09:32:00 PM (0) comments top

20070304

Y2K7

Thanks to your elected leaders, both current (i.e.: George W. Bush) and past (i.e. Al Gore), computer programmers have a new problem, seven years after Y2K and thirty years before Y2K37. (That's when the UNIX clock runs out. Better do something about that, Linus.)

Ever since Bush took office in 2001, politicians on both sides of the asle, especially those with something to hide, have tried to manipulate contol of the technology than is suppost to catch criminals (especially the elected ones) and make elected representatives be more honest (espeically the dishonest ones).

Ever since the tape recorder logged Richard Nixon's involvemant in the Watergate scandal, dishonest politician and lobbyists have been pushing more legislation to make Big Brother watch citizens more that their leaders.

While it is reasonable in this day and age to put security cameras in some places like inside shops, busy intersections, buses, and other places where a large number of people congregate, we never see these things inside the offices of public officials. If they can wire tap our phones and log our public internet records, why can't we spy on them?

While these questions should be addressed, it seems more suitable to ask the EFF.

Looking back since 2001, the FBI New York field office was destroyed on September 11, 2001, containing the largest collection of confescated devices created by hackers going as far back as the 1960s.

In 2002, the PATRIOT Act allowed the government to warrentlessly spy on citizens. It doesn't say anywhere to my knowledge that citizens can't sequester the government's privaciy, although common sense would excuse the part of the government that is truely defending this country. What kind of fool would brag about war stragegies that help our troops who risk there own lives to protect this country and to help opressed people in countries that do really like us but are fortunate that we are there to help them and to let them know "I didn't come here to serve the leaders of my country but to serve the people that I love just as you've struggled to serve the people you love."

Which brings us to 2003. I don't think I need to explain a whole lot about what happened that year. War was declared. As much as our country though they were doing the right thing, we actually screwed up. On one hand, we took out Saddam. On the otherhand, we created more problems than we solved. On top of that, just about everyone who had a passion or interest in history worldwide was pisted. Of course our adminstration wasn't going to be lectured by a bunch of history professors, archiologists, scholars, museum curators, or any smart people. Never mind the fact that despite all the troops we sent into Iraq, the leaflets we dropped out of the sky, and the fact that there were even generals at CENTCOM who knew that there is much more in the Middle East that sand and oil. But would it have killed someone to protect the Iraq National Museum of Natural History? Like a special ops team? A phone call? A box of locks to secure the doors? Nope, our leaders were too busy watching Saddam's 23 gold palaces. Thanks to our leaders, nearily every artifact that could tell us about the Cradle of Civilization has been lost, damaged, stolen, or destroyed. Even the Mongolians knew to protect certain places back when they invaded Baghdad in the 16th century. This was also the year gas started costing over $2 per gallon. Who needs an honorary presidential pension when you can steal money from people who have to work for theirs? Let's also not forget the lost of one of the space shuttles due to an underfunded space agency that our country likes to brag about but never supports.


In 2004, there really was no election. John Kerry never intended to win. That would betray his fellow Skull and Bone brother, George W. Bush. Kerry is no hero. When you join the armed forces, you sign a commitment to serve your country, NO EXCUSES! Bush got his daddy to write him a note. Kerry shot himself in the foot, then scraped himself twice. Kerry and Bush are no Vietnam Veterans. I don't see them in black vests, riding motorcycles, working down at the VFW hall, or going to The Wall to rub a crayon on a piece of paper over somebody's name. This was a set up. Another four years of misery. This was also the year that thanks to the Hollywood Elite, the Christian conservative-run FCC cracked down on censorship after an intentional accident during the superbowl and some F-bomb by some old-as-dirt musicians. Thanks for the mamories, you stupid rich people!

In 2005, Hollywood and the media (now known on this website as "the virus") continued to show signs of foot-in-mouth syndrome espeically in the midst of a myriad of disasters. A tsunami in the Indian Ocean in late 2004. A destructive hurricane season that lasted well into the beginning of 2006. The piss-poor response by our government to provide help to a city that was destroyed. While fear-mongers shouted "global warming" and racism, the government once again turned a blind eye. Starting that year, many cities and states began to develop new programs for disaster response, especially greater support for people in low income areas. It was this year, that we learned that the adminstration would leave us to die if the unthinkable happened. We made a statement that if they wanted to preach about how life was sacred yet start wars and let people drown then we weren't going to go down without a fight.

In 2006, elections occured. Stem-cell research (SCR) was approved despite the kicking-and-screeming response of the uberconservative and the hypocritical federal government. When the results came in and SCR got the go ahead, opponents claimed that we didn't know what we were doing or that we were confused. It is bad enough they call the scientist who work on this stuff murderers, but to call the people who know that life begins when sperm meets egg not when boy meets girl stupid should anger anyone who is religious. I'd gladly go back to church if it wasn't for the people who forced their believes upon me or violated their own canon laws. When I go to church, I want don't want to look at some protestor waving their framed fetus-in-a-womb posters. Meanwhile in 2006, Al Gore's head continued expand rivial that of nimrod conservative talk show host Bill O'Rielly. While their egos continue to throw off the Earth's axis, the St. Louis area was hit with three separate storms that knocked out the power in most of the area for over a week. If you want to know what life is like in a post-apocalyptic world, try going without power for nearly a week while the mercury is over 100 degrees or below freezing. Gas topped $3 per gallon, but there were no pumps to fetch it. This was also the year we learned the Internet was not a big truck, but a series of tubes. The inbred intelegence of the telecom industry does not see technology in terms of zeros and ones but a check with a lot of zeros.

So far this year, the egos of the "global warming" campaign continued to get stuck under overpasses as Gore got an Oscar, gas continues to hover near $3, the PS3 and Microsoft Vista suck, and thanks to the federal government's inability to conserve energy, use Abrams tanks that get less than one mile per gallon, and because they've punished California for using more clean renewable energy, we now have to spring forward two weeks earily and fall back two weeks later.

"That doesn't sound like a big deal. You made me read all that to tell me about changing my clocks?"

Wrong! This has much more to do than just clocks. Computers now have to update their timekeeping software because of a bill passed by the federal government extending daylight savings time by four weeks.

That 400 point drop in the stock market last week wasn't because of Far East financial problems. It was stock investors covering their ass because they haven't downloaded any software patches to be Y2K7 compliant. There have been several upgrades to Linux and UNIX time zone data, but no announcements by Microsoft or Apple about their software. Not to metion, no major corporations who home brew their operating system have made any announcements. So what are banks going to be doing way earily on Sunday morning around 2AM? Probably not paying attention to the cyber-prowlers taking advantage of the earily shift in time. I suppose we will find out next week.

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posted by Bushido Hacks 3/04/2007 10:57:00 AM (2) comments top

20070203

Mobo Jojo

My beautiful black case came in the mail yesterday. Special thanks to BUYPCDIRECT for providing the first step in my journey.

Building a computer is a monumental moment for any computer geek. It is like the same feeling that a wrenchead (one who likes to build their own car or motorcycle) has when they begin building their first vehicle.

My parents think that this project will occupy most of my time and that I won't stick to my regular work. Not true!

This project does cost money, and will need to be spread out over the next few months. This means I will still stay on task while I work on one of my greatest achivements.

That's another thing that concerns them: cost. My brother did a project like this a couple years ago. He ponied up for the biggest most expensive stuff that was out their.

I, on the other hand, have plans on building something a bit more moderate and less expensive.

While I have no interest whatsoever in Windows Vista, Microsoft has brought forth the need to upgrade to 64-bit computing.

In order to keep up with the Gates (as oppose to keeping up with the Jones), I have decided to build my computers based on x86-64 architecture.

If there is one thing that the people at Microsoft and the resistant group of geeks (including myself) agree on it is that Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has the better architecture for this task. AMD has been working on 64-bit architecture for several years now, even while Intel was promoting the Pentium 4.

In 2005, one of the most significant competitions in the computer industry begain since the Browser Wars of the mid-1990s. This hype as we now know it is called the "Core Wars".

The "Core Wars" brought forth Dual-Core processing, an idea forged from the concept of parallel computing. Many of us have seen the ads for products from Intel.

For those of you who are not computer geeks, the products that Intel has advertized over the years are for computer chips called microprocessors. A microprocessor is nothing more than a piece of plastic with this little teeny-tiny switches on them that are arranged with such precission that a machine must be used to manufacture them. A computer has many of these devices embedded into them into a big circuit board called the motherboard, or mobo for short. One chip that is heavily advertised, and one of the most important, is called the central processing unit, also known as the CPU or "core". The CPU is "the brain" of the computer. It works so hard, a fan is attached to it to displace the amount of heat. On newer desktop machines, the CPU has its own fan separate from the other fan that keeps everything cool and well ventelated. Some cases have come with thermal gauges to monitor and regulate the amount of heat a computer puts out, especially the CPU.

Until last year, the concept of having more than one core in your computer was reserved for the highly skilled computer engineer or the hardcore gamer. To be quite honest, having one core is good enough for me. But the concept of multi-core systems, though more expensive, does have its advantages.

A computer with one core puts out alot of heat. If the heat is not pushed out of the system, other parts of the computer become warped from the high temperature. To alleviate the stress caused by such a high amount of thermal energy, computer engineers took a page from the supercomputer industry.

If the name is not enough to tell you, a supercomputer is a computer with such high amount of processing capabilities that only a select few research laboratories, industries, and the government use them. A supercomputer, despite the recent advances in miniaturization brought on by improvements in nanotechnology, is about the size of a phonebooth and put out so much energy that it needs its own room with a large fan to blow out the hot air and draw in cool air. I read in some computing magazine that because these machines put out so much wasted energy, some companies in California channel the hot air into the air conditioning system to heat up the building in the winter time. Another company developed another, more practical idea to circulate the air in the room by reusing the air using convection. Convection occurs when hot air rises out of a heat source, then cools down causing the air to sink back to the floor where it is sucked back in again.

A supercomputer is able to process large amouts of information while generating less heat using a concept called parallel computing. This means a computer with dual-core processing uses two processors that have half the processing power as a single processing unit but because they work together, they computer the same amount of processing power as the single processing unit.

Because two processor with half the processing capabilities as a single processor but work just as dynamic, Intel has hyped up the concept with their "do more advertisement." *in that loud Kevin Spacy as Lex Luthor voice* WRONG!. Dual-core processing does not allow you to do work twice as fast as a single-core system unless you purchase a dual-core system with two processors that have the same power as the single-core processor EACH!

So what about this hype about "quad-core" (4 CPUs on one CPU)? Same concept. One big processor divided into four smaller processors with about a quarter of the processing capability as the single processor EACH!

The entire concept of the CPU was to store all those teeny-tiny switches onto ONE microprocessor. They way I see it, multicore processing is a step backwards, that or the chip manufacturing industry trying to cut cost instead of trying to find way to keep the computer from possibly burning up without burning a hole in your wallet, or worse burning the house down. (I'm talking to you Dell Computers!)

The downside to x86-64 architecture is that everything you know about assembly programming (especially for 16 and 32 bit systems) needs to be modified to include 64 bit systems. Fortunately, C and C++ programmers won't need to change the way the program too much. But if you use low level programming, now would be a good time to brush up on 64-bit assembly as technology marches on.

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posted by Bushido Hacks 2/03/2007 08:46:00 AM (1) comments top

20070128

The Pope Condems Video Game, Cartoon Violence - Click!

His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI gave lapsed Catholics one more reason to skip Church on Sunday by condemning video game and cartoon violence on Wednesday, January 24, taking a few lines from Miami lawyer and anti-videogame activist Jack Thompson.

This is ironic considering there is a VeggieTales videogame on the market that is not very good which has pleanty of Cartoon Violence and a Left Behind videogame which is really bad. (Yeah, so what if non-Catholics make that blasphemous crap. They still sell it at the Catholic supply store and at Christian bookstores.) I miss the old Pope.

I guess if saving the Princess by slaying a few demons is wrong, then I don't want to be right.

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posted by Bushido Hacks 1/28/2007 10:25:00 AM (1) comments top

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