Monthly Archives: July 2008

RNLAF runs out of options

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After trying to visit the factories of Rafale and Eurofighter, both companies have declared they will not be offering their products to the Dutch ministry of defence, leaving them with the Gripen, Advanced F-16 and JSF as options.

Considering the leading role the Netherlands wants to take in international politics, yet again they will be stuck with a fighter that will not be interesting to coalition forces in international operations, just like the F-16 was before the MLU.

All of the fighters left in the offering are short range point defence fighters, designed to be cheap to build and used after the air dominance fighters (Eurofighter, Rafale, F-15 and F-22 in the West) have cleared the airspace.

Again – using child porn as an excuse

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In the drive for total control over the internet, ISP’s have got together to outright block any “child porn” they may find. This of course sounds like a nice plan, but the problem is that it sets a precendence in that the ISPs have the power (and the responsibilty?) – both of which should be reserved for jugdes of a court system – to block whatever content they feel like.

In an inane twist to this idiocy, now New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is threatening to sue ISP Comcast for not agreeing with his version of the anti-child-porn treaty. He has no real case, but he’s defaming them by stating that if they’re against him, they’re for child porn.

So who made him the global child-porn fighter then?

Donkey Punch I and II

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Incredibly, they’ve gone and made a high budget version of…

DONKEY PUNCH!!!! 😀

My favorite review of all time is on that movie, I’m sure you ALL
remember it 😀

(Here it is again, should you wish to reperuse it at your leisure:
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/horrors-of-porn/donkey-punch.php)

YES!

And the point of this message?

THEY’VE REMADE AND RE-RELEASED IT!!!

Now I’m sure only a tiny minority of you has actually SEEN the
original, but let me tell you. It was… unforgettable.

Anyway, apparently the second version is higher budget than the first
one but just as depraved.

Here is the pile of distress heaped onto it by the completely
disgusted Dialy Mail reporter

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035810/Donkey-Punch-vilest-film-Ive-seen-says-AMANDA-PLATELL.html?fark

Using TV style voting in physics class

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Professors in the US are using TV voting machines (called ‘clickers’) to test students’ knowledge of the subject being taught during lectures. As they vote, bar graphs go up in real time allowing people to see how the voting is going.

Students using the clicker system score 10% higher than without and it seems to level the field between the genders.

Even though the students are not forced to participate in the clicking, 90% generally do. If you add an incentive, 98% do.

EU to protect singers for 95 years

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Because the record companies insist on following a dramatically failing business model, the EU now wants to encourage their incompetence. They want to raise the period that a rightsholder has rights to their performance (of any song, not necessarily one their own) from 50 years to 95 years, like in the US.

One of the claimed arguments is that if you performed something at the age of 20, when you’re 70 you won’t have any income from it any more. Of course, maybe you should just work in the intervening 50 years and build up a pension just like the rest of us.

More than that though, it props up the incompetent recording companies who we don’t really need as we can see by the increasing amount of independant production companies and the falling sales. They generally own the rights of a performance as they generally strip these rights off the happless 20 year old performer who is only too happy to be given the chance to perform at all.

Cocaine technology

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Where cocaine smugglers used to use cigarette boats, very fast boats and small aircraft to move drugs into the US, now they’re using partial submersibles, which travel just below the surface of the water and are easily scuttled. If the crew is caught by the navy, they sink the ship and the navy is left with a rescue mission, no proof and none of the crewmembers willing to talk, as they’re very aware that there is no evidence left.