Wednesday, November 10, 2004
If you're reading this, you survived the great IAM blackout of 2004. Many thanks to CT and Rachel who were far more instrumental than I in getting things fixed (so thank them, not me). Expirey systems are currently turned off, and tomorrow I'll be granting extensions to all currently active pages.
In addition to the latest Legal Link and Publisher's Ring BME/News items which were both added during the outage, there's also been a new Uvatiarru trailer released. I should warn people that it's quite graphic (in the erotic sense of the word). Thanks to Jenna, Lassi, and Asurfael for their help in creating it.
3:42 – 22 meg in WMV or 31 meg in Quicktime – 18+ only
Format: Windows Media Video Apple Quicktime
Put on your headphones when you watch it — Uviatiarru is a musical! (Svarte Greiner)
I don't know what the release date of the film is going to be. It's still in production and will be for some time. I can still use footage. If you'd like to take part, send me a message. If you've got access to a camera, and you're currently alive or at least have a friend that's currently alive, I need your help.
(Original forum unavailable, sorry)*
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
Mountains of updates still ahead…
OK, I've just posted a small (just under 1,300) image update. It doesn't even come close to eliminating the current backlog so you can expect a few more updates like this in quick succession. Thanks for your patience; I'll be processing submissions from oldest to most recent. Today is only caught up to most of October 25th (happy birthday Picasso), so there really is a lot to go.
Anyway, since it appears that politics works best when put into the simplest of familiar terms, and is absorbed most effectively. Because of that, I've decided to try and illustrate the choice that Americans now need to make about their future — after all, it's not like it's “all over” because an election got stolen… again. Now you've got four years where you're going to have to call and write your Senators and other representatives urging them to put an end to war (Chile) and aggressionist foreign policy. On one hand the US can continue terrorizing the poor of the world first with economic war, then with covert military pressure, and then with full-on blood and guts war (listen)…
Sorry! “Simple and familiar”… I'll use tattoos from the current update to explain.
OK, here's path number one. Let's call it “Four more years”.
Get a brain! Morans! Alternately, instead of playing to the lowest common denominator we could get geeky. The codenerds among you will certainly get the idealistic wisdom in these tattoos. Not that it was an option in this election after my boy
Kucinich got laughed out of the election, but I've always been partial to sniffing the flowers and other generally relaxing and friendly activities.
But, it's been shown over and over that no one likes eggheads, so let me explain that those are the HTML tags for
“start love, end hate” and
“open minds, end hate”… I realize that only one of the two paths makes a good video game. You can't have it all, but there are better ways to live (
build agrarotopia).
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
I'm having a lot of trouble believing that Bush is not only dramatically more popular now in much of the country than he was in 2000, but that according to the stats, in many regions of the country, that Bush is the most popular Republican in twenty years. People can't really believe he's done that good a job? Given the millions of young people and minorities who voted this time, overwhelmingly for Kerry, that means that the rest of the country overwhelmingly swung to Bush, and I just do not believe that is possible. I also have trouble believing that in many US states an overwhelming majority wants to ban gay marriage. I just don't believe that Americans are that evil or that stupid. I can't bring myself to believe that the terrible stereotype people have about Americans is true.
Leaving one with only one possible conclusions, Dr. Watson… the whole thing was rigged.
I guess we can look forward to economic devastation, escalating wars around the world, big government, poverty, the withdrawal of foreign money from the US, the dominance of the Euro over the US dollar, a lot of new ex-pats, collapse of US foreign relations, banning abortion, corporate welfare, lies, fraud, and deception, corporate collusion, the elimination of civil rights, oil crisis, and bulk environmental destruction… and I just can't bring myself to believe that's what the American people want.
My advice? Buy a gun and stockpile ammunition.
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
I know that a lot of you reading this are thinking that after today, the Imperial Senate won't be such a worry to the Bush Cabal, as Cheney dissolves the council permanently and the last remnants of the Old Republic are swept away, with regional governors having direct control over the territories, fear keeping the locals in line. Fear of this battle station.
But seriously, you, the rebels, have an almost complete technical readout of what's going on, and as unlikely as it is, you seem to have found a weakness in their plans — voting — and are exploiting it. Yes, they'll tell you that voting is a useless gesture, no matter what technical data you may have obtained, but their ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the Will of the People.
PS. Monitor the election.
As you know, under the Bush watch, almost 400 tons of high explosive went missing from al-Qaqaa. While it's only the tip of the iceberg (more), it's an important theft in the development of Arab weaponry. What you may not know is that al-Qaqaa was locked down by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) as it was one of the sites of Saddam's nuclear program in the 1980s. Since then it's been “quarantineed”, and was last confirmed sealed by the IAEA in March 2003. Supplementary video shows the explosives there in the presence of US troops, but now a pro-Iranian Islamic terror group claims to have possession. It's important that you understand the implications of this error.
Those explosives were made up of 195 tons of HMX (more), 141 tons of RDX (more), and 6 tons of PETN (more), all polymer-bonded high explosives. In simple terms, the way a nuclear bomb works (more) is by packing a ball of uranium inside traditional explosives arranged in the form of shaped charges to create an inward shock wave. When the traditional explosives are detonated, they compress the uranium to a super-critical mass which undergoes a fission reaction, and boom, you've got a nuclear explosion.
Unlike Iraq, Iran and North Korea have fissible uranium, but they don't have HMX or RDX, meaning that any nukes they built had to be very large — in the realm of 10,000 pounds — using conventional explosives. However, now at least Iran has access to HMX and RDX thanks to Bush giving it to the terrorists with his mismanagement of Iraq, meaning they can build a far, far smaller nuclear weapon. To be very clear, this means Iran now has the ability to build nuclear warheads for their long range missiles, which until now did not have the lifting capacity to launch a nuclear strike.
Iran's Shahab-6 missile has a range of 6,000 km (more). Think about what that can hit.
