SpaceX Falcon 1 liftoff

The 2 stage rocket is designed to compete with all current operators of satellite launch platforms and be 10 times cheaper than them. There is not so much emphasis on bringing people into space, making this probably commercially more viable. Their first launch was a flop, so they were happy that this launch lasted untill 200 miles (in around 4.5 minutes!) before telemetry data was cut off due to osscilations at altitude. They expect this problem to be easily solvable and SpaceX was happy enough with the 95% successful flight. YouTube has the videos.

Dutch Electronic Art Festival 07

DEAF07 has as it’s title “Interact or Die!”

It will be held between 10 – 29 April in Rotterdam and consists of workshops, seminars, presentations, exhibitions, etc. The program is impressive, this should be worth a visit.

There is a secondary exhibition linked to it called unDEAF, which invites anyone to participate however they like, which will be unjudged or theme restricted – ie. complete chaos. This will be held between 10-15 April.

Scents improve memory formation

The scientific community knew that scent is closely related to memory, as people can recall events / places with a certain smell when they smell the associated scent easily.
Now, they’ve found out that if you have a task that requires studying, then associate that with a smell and then throw that smell at you during deep sleep, you will have remembered what you studied very much better than if you hadn’t used the smells.
Interestingly this doesn’t work if you replay the smell during REM sleep, as the hippocampus isn’t activated, making researchers think that REM sleep accounts for absorbion of activity and emotive memory.

Is the US IRS illegal?

Zathur thought this one out for us:

People will have to do their own research. I just googled to get some topics out. Not saying that I support any of the topics discussed, I’m PRO making people think about society and issues around them and not to take stuff for granted.

IRS is illegal in US
The well researched and documented legal allegations by citizens comprising what has become known as the “tax honesty movement” include the following:
1) In 1913, the 16th Amendment (the “income tax” Amendment) was fraudulently and illegally declared to be ratified by a lame-duck Secretary of State just days before leaving office;
2) There is NO LAW that requires most Americans to file a tax return, pay the federal income tax or have the tax withheld from their earnings;
3) People who file a Form 1040 “voluntarily” waive their 5th Amendment right not to bear witness against themselves;
4) The IRS routinely violates citizens’ 4th Amendment rights against illegal search and seizure, by failing to properly obtain warrants issued by a court upon probable cause and supported by oath and affirmation; and
5) The IRS, as standard operating procedure, routinely and grossly violates citizens’ due process rights in its administrative procedures and operates far outside the boundaries of U.S. law.
A must see film/documentary then is: Aaron Russo’s America – From Freedom to Fascism (the interview with the director of IRS is really funny)

http://infowars.net/articles/October2006/251006Russo.htm

Using Pension Funds to pay of Foreign Debt or losing the money all together

i.e. privatization of Pension funds… a fucking mess
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2005/site_packages/ss_privatization/050115memo_experiments.html

For u non-Hubbert peak oil theorists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil

Corporation as a Psycopath

My discussion was not how free market economy is bad, the opposite, free market economy stimulates growth and competition….

Its just that the concept of a “corporation” (not a company or business, no a corporation is a company which is owned by private investors) is just so wrong and does not fit in the free market economy….

How is it that in a corporation
a) Priority number one (over all other rules/regulations/laws) investors MUST get paid out and the corporations must return investment to them
b) Investors can never directly be sewed. The corporation can be sewed i.e. NO ONE IS LIABLE!
c) Etc, etc, etc

http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2004/08/the_corporation.html

A must see film/documenta4ry then is: The Corporation – a film by Mark achbar, Jennifer Abbot & Joel Bakan

Lobbying in the Economy

The concept of the commercial sector pushing your government decision making is just plain wrong. Though it is a necessity in modern society…..

Pillaging IRAQ

How contractors are pillaging iraq….. look for more companies who just rip out the money outta iraq…

“Halliburton Co. and other U.S. contractors are being paid at least $1.9 billion from Iraqi funds under an arrangement set by the U.S.-led occupation authority, according to a review of documents and interviews with government agencies, companies and auditors.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37822-2004Aug3.html

Want to read “Freedom” Press in South America?

Want to know the shit that happens in S.America? The absolute mess that’s left behind by everyone and the constant fingerpointing and political farce? How the DEA/FBI/CIA leave a trail of chaos and mess behind?

Good place to keep track of the mess in Mexico now?

www.narconews.com – The Freedom Press of S.America

Impeach Bush!

lol, kk thx bye bbq

http://infowars.net/articles/december2006/051206Impeachment.htm

IMF: Corrupt Piece of Junk, how to rape and pillage ur economy

Stiglitz caused controversy in October 2001 when he exposed rampant corruption within the IMF and blew the whistle on their nefarious methods of inducing countries to fall under their debt before stripping them of sovereignty and hollowing out their economies. Stiglitz agreed that the process of hijacking and looting key infrastructure on the part of the IMF and World Bank, as an offshoot of predatory globalization, had now moved from the third world to Europe, the United States and Canada.

The Globalizer Who Came In From the Cold Joe Stiglitz: Today's Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics

Toxic Wife Syndrome

The new generation of gold diggers see it as their responsibility to be high maintenance and do nothing.

The danger signals of a wife going toxic are all too plain:

— She gives up work to care for the children and then sends them to boarding schools as soon as they outgrow their nannies.

— She demands wall-to-wall help with a maid hired to work up to 14 hours a day six days a week.

— Cooking and housework are strictly out of bounds.

— They have to live in a country mansion, forcing the husband to commute daily to London.

The best Goatse Story Ever

Don’t you know what a Goatse is?

Basically, it’s a picture disguised for a while as something innocuous, and when enough people are looking at it, or when they least expect it, you change the picture to a horrible, disgusting one of a huge distended arsehole. It’s one of the most shocking things IMHO you can find on internet ever.

This story will give you the run down on the best goatse I’ve seen so far. Warning it’s not safe for work 🙂