goddamn... I know everybody's blogging stuff about this, but isn't the net a bizarre creation of humanity? especially when combined with the mad mad world of 21st century lightening-fast business...
for those of you who don't know it yet, the creator of the aforementioned website made a cool million bucks in four months with that little webpage... damn his smart-ass. and praise the dollar.
recent events in portugal, depicting the present state of affairs in public administration:
A 50-day old baby girl went into a coma after being submitted to a city hospital for the fourth time, showing signs of severe physical punishment, apparently inflicted by her own parents. The 22-year old father had been charged previously on 3 counts of sexual abuse of minors, and 1 count theft. The 20-year old mother shows signs of mental insufficiency. After the first occurence, the hospital witheld custody of the child, given the clear evidence of harmful family environment, but was later forced to release her given that the local institution responsible for child protection issued a release order, stating the the case was under observation, and that it was safe, and appropriate, to return the baby to her family. At the final occurence resulting in the coma, police authorities were informed, and the parents arrested pending investigation. The president of the aforementioned child 'care' institution was questioned on the issue, and stated that "the system has worked".
thank heavens. imagined if it didn't. he might actually have been given a reprimand for it (I was going to say 'fired', but then I remembered that's impossible).
this is my country: the state can get away with murder, rape, torture, theft and overall sheer lack of respect for the people. all that'll happen is the first name of the politicians will change (but seldom shall the last) - for a while. that's the way it's been since there was a so-called peaceful revolution. I know now that a peaceful revolution is hardly a revolution at all.
hey mr bush, when you're pulling your sorry ass out of iraq, do us all a favour and drop a few nukes over here on the way back. the world will hardly notice and I'd be grateful if you sunk this lump of thrash into the atlantic ocean. a few good people would be gone, and it's a pity to ruin such a nice landscape, but humanity would be rid of quite a big bunch of cunts.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-11-29-wikipedia-edit_x.htm
seems to me that this problem existed way before wikipedia came along... except before only a chosen few had the power to control the propaganda being spread, and now just about anyone can do it. bring on the chaos! let the fires of anarchy burn down society! I'll be warming my hands and roasting a nice piece of PIG on it. Muahahahahahha!!!
...too bad the killing is looking so sexy it'll probably require a planet-class computer to run.
'tis the season to be spiteful! December 23rd is almost here, and thusly, so is Festivus! If you're an infidel, get cultured and seek redemption here!
...and a Festivus for the rest of us!
Nietzsche said that mankind would limp on through the twentieth century “on the mere pittance” of the old decaying God-based moral codes. But then, in the twenty-first, would come a period more dreadful than the great wars, a time of “the total eclipse of all values” (in The Will To Power). This would be a frantic period of “revaluation,” in which people would try to find new systems of values to replace the osteoporotic skeletons of the old. But you will fail, he warned, because you cannot believe in moral codes without simultaneously believing in a god who points at you with his fearsome forefinger and says “Thou shalt” or “Thou shalt not.”
—Tom Wolfe, “Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died,” Hooking Up (2000, p. 99)
sony distributed 20 new cd releases with an abusive anti-piracy system, that collects private data silently, and installs a rootkit on your pc, rendering it vulnerable to serious security breaches, all under the guise of preventing piracy. this is untolerable behaviour by the corporation, and due punishment is yet to be served. in the meantime, they deserve a total boycott. do it now, or suffer the consequence later.
check out http://del.icio.us it's one of those small revolutions in websurfing... feel free to check out my public bookmarks at http://del.icio.us/joao.lx
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