March 04, 2005 Medifast Coupons

Speaking of kids learning to outmaneuver their Overlords, I love these projects. When development is a little further along on the distributed education reform project I am putting so much of my work time towards, I will spend a lot more words on civic networking platforms and everything related to them.

Posted by J.Kende at 04:14 PM
 

Oh great, another wonderful contribution from the Japanese on the kid control front. Not only are schools in the US starting to give breathalyzer tests to any student who happens to be required to spend all day, every day in their poor-excuse-for-a-learning-environment, daycare-prison... But in the very near future they can start testing for whether their students are smokers too!

I love progress. I hate the idiots who fuck it up to band-aid their own failures.

Posted by J.Kende at 04:02 PM
 

I can't wait until the young RFID and SMS tagged kids of today start using the networking resources they are immersed in to learn how to stand up for themselves, and use this abuse of technology againt their All Seeing Master Overlords who pretend parenting is a subset of Marine Biology.

Posted by J.Kende at 03:53 PM
 

I've always been one to have a sneaking suspicion dolls and other faux critters are more alive than they seem while we are looking. But even if you don't share my paranoi... er... superstition, go watch Ghost In The Shell: Innocence and tell me this isn't a bad idea.

Posted by J.Kende at 03:49 PM
 

Bad case ruling, and bad marketing strategy for currently widely loved Apple. I'm hoping the ruling doesn't stand, and Apple listens more to it's own hype of being user friendly.

Update: Blogging on no sleep leads to new hybrid words. Customer + Consumer = Consumer. It's fixed now.

Posted by J.Kende at 03:38 PM
 

The New York Public Library has made a huge Digital Gallery of images available to the public. Visual artists and educators must be salivating. I know I am.

Posted by J.Kende at 03:12 PM
 

In a point - counterpoint by way of Slashdot, Tim Buckley from ALT+CTRL+DEL offers up the choice quote:

I think that if someone plays a video game, and then goes out and harms another human being, or themselves because of what they just saw in the video game, they were screwed up in the head long before they got their hands on a controller. In my profession I have met thousands and thousands of gamers, all of whom have played the same type of violent video games that I have, and we've managed not to kill each other.

So you mean those little pixelated people on the teevee screen aren't real? Damn. Guess there's no point to playing anymore.

Posted by J.Kende at 03:05 PM
 

How to destroy the American military and pretend you are patriotic at the same time: Draft talk returns.

Thankfully sanity exists elsewhere, even if not in Phil Carter's and Paul Glastris's military proposals.

Posted by J.Kende at 01:24 PM
 

Everything you ever needed to know about the failure of the Democratic Party in one sentence:

"Anyone who relies on the Times and CBS to explain what American voters are thinking deserves the inevitable losses which result."

Maybe the Times should poll them on whether they will ever wise up about this.

Posted by J.Kende at 01:15 PM
 

Statement of the shamefully obvious: Insta links to wonderful things.

From a blog dedicated to a goal I'd be happy to see become reality in '08, a look at what has happened in the past 4 years with alliances in the Pacific:

* Japan has built a mighty anti-submarine fleet of destroyers
* Japan has been a loud supporter of America’s War On Terror
* Australia has pulled closer into the American defense network
* The Indonesian government has pulled away from the terrorists and close to the U.S.
* Pakistan’s military is no longer as hostile and the government is friendly
* Condi is a welcome visitor in India next week.
* Japan has grown closer to Tawain.

What we see here is a gradual formation of a formidable military (naval) deterrent to China. The only ally China can depend on is North Korea.

Being best friends with North Korea is like asking Jeffry Dahlmer to dinner.

Slowly a gentle check on China's ambition's is starting to make public moves.

Hmm.. Wonder why I'm suddenly in the mood for a good game of chess.

Posted by J.Kende at 12:41 PM
 

Ed Morrisey nails McCain-Feingold for it's severe restrictions on political speech. Let's hope this attempt to shut down blogging goes the way of Trent Lott's Senate leadership and Dan Rather's information gatekeeper dominance.

Posted by J.Kende at 12:34 PM
 

Biodefense is one issue Democrats could gain a lot of ground on, if they took anything other than themselves seriously at this point. I'm not holding onto any hope of that, though.

Posted by J.Kende at 12:31 PM
 

Warning: Political, may provoke thought:

ONE OF MY favourite cinematic moments is the scene in Monty Python’s Life of Brian when Reg, aka John Cleese, the leader of the People’s Front of Judea, is trying to whip up anti-Roman sentiment among his team of slightly hesitant commandos.

“What have the Romans ever done for us?” he asks.

“Well, there’s the aqueduct,” somebody says, thoughtfully. “The sanitation,” says another. “Public order,” offers a third. Reg reluctantly acknowledges that there may have been a couple of benefits. But then steadily, and with increasing enthusiasm, his men reel off a litany of the good things the Romans have wrought with their occupation of the Holy Land.

By the time they’re finished they’re not so sure about the whole insurgency idea after all and an exasperated Reg tries to rally them: “All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”

I can’t help but think of that scene as I watch the contortions of the anti-American hordes in Britain, Europe and even in the US itself in response to the remarkable events that are unfolding in the real Middle East today.

Posted by J.Kende at 12:22 PM
 

Take a dash of the criminalization of everything with a pinch of the infantilization of everyone, and you've got my first Law School paper. If I ever go to Law School, that is.

What kind of classes does Glenn teach, btw?

Posted by J.Kende at 12:07 PM
 

Azerbaijan is showing signs of popular democratic stirrings. Is it more than a blip on the screen? Too soon to tell.

Update: Much more from democracy guy.

Posted by J.Kende at 12:00 PM
 

I can't wait for Bloomberg to trounce Ferrer in the general election.

With all of Bloomberg's flaws, and he has plenty, he is depressingly better than all of the declared competitors for the NYC Mayor's race this year.

Here's a suggetion for Ferrer's campaign: Before you go national, wasting the money of millions, learn how to use voice mail.

Posted by J.Kende at 11:43 AM
 

Press credentials without a deadline? When can I sign up?

Posted by J.Kende at 09:53 AM
 

March 01, 2005

I think this is an understandable reaction: Fuck you Senator Stevens.

Posted by J.Kende at 10:33 PM
 

Apparently asthmatic students in all Pennsylvania schools haven't been allowed to carry their own inhaler until recently. The absurdity of Zero Tolerance never ceases to terrify and amaze.

Posted by J.Kende at 03:11 PM
 

The Independence Intifada continues. Broad sections of the Lebanese population have come together to demand a full withdrawal by Syrian forces and answers to who killed Hariri. They have already succeeded in bringing down the pro-Syrian puppet regime in Beirut.

It's amazing to see this Red and White Revolution so fast after the Orange Revolution in Ukraine and the Purple stained fingers of the Iraqi election.

Keep it going. Syria next!

Posted by J.Kende at 02:42 PM