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Well, today I will try and do an image update using the new input engine. It's sort of an experiment, so I expect it won't be a full update since much of the time will be fine tuning those routines for efficiency.
I do have a funny correspondance with someone who'd written an “experience” called *~*My Cool Piercing*~*. I put experience in quotes because it was only a couple short paragraphs followed by “x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x” to trick the robots into thinking it was full length. Since it was effectively fake, it was of course denied.
PinkIzGr82311: u think i care wot u freaks thinkFrankoDerb: Probably you do, yes, but you will pretend not to.
PinkIzGr82311: no, my story wiz good ur site is just crap, i mean male and female genital piercings r u perverts???
FrankoDerb: Yes, everyone here is a pervert. Best to stay away, or you may become a pervert too.
PinkIzGr82311: Your site is just disgusting, my story was better than nething u's could rite
FrankoDerb: Do I need to remind you that you didn't actually write a story, that you just went "x x x x x x x x x" to make 800 words?
Oh well.
In other news, the US Army is prepping for “block to block” urban combat. This type of combat would have a guaranteed outcome: heavy US casualties. The only “good” side to that is heavy US casualties might have the effect of ending the war early: the US population hates loosing troops. That said, it might well rally people behind the war too. Of course, to balance things out, the US is blocking aid to Iraq to help ensure high Iraqi civilian casualties.
Remember how Bush said that the war on Iraq could be avoided if Saddam let UN weapons inspectors in? Well, that didn't happen, did it? We've been told that UN inspectors finding no evidence is all the evidence they need for war. And remember how Bush said if Saddam stepped down and went into exile the war could be avoided? Not any more. The US has pretty much announced that short of surrendering its oil fields, nothing will stop this war. (Even the Vatican knows this is about theft of resources — international piracy).
The US public at this point does not support this war. Neither does much of the military, and pretty much every expert has decried it as a horrible idea… But still Bush plunges forward! And I thought democracy meant government by the people for the people. I guess we all got that one wrong.
As a final link, The Rise and Fall of Great Empires.
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