tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32212662024-09-08T11:57:57.832-04:00Random thoughts and musings from Miles Grayutungahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192958090197336773noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221266.post-18438268689341133032009-05-27T02:16:00.000-04:002009-05-27T02:17:27.491-04:00

Today, a small bomb went off outside Upper East Side Starbucks. Last week, there were four arrested for trying to blow up a synagogue in the Bronx.What is too easy to forget, from over here, is that these things can instill genuine fear in the people who are nearby - a sense of "Oh God that could've been me".It appears that the politics of fear are returning to the US and the arch deacon of all

utungahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192958090197336773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221266.post-16480117547882400602008-05-26T07:37:00.003-04:002008-05-26T07:44:39.875-04:00

if you listen to Hilary Clinton's exact words, in this recent kerfuffle, she says.."between my opponent.. and some in the media there has been this.. urgency to end this, and [y'know] historically that makes no sense... again I've been around long enough. My husband did not wrap up [his nomination] till June.. we all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June.."Maybe. Just maybe, she's

utungahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192958090197336773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221266.post-23198590862446029542007-10-18T04:12:00.000-04:002007-10-18T04:16:36.920-04:00

Some folks may not realise this but the Administration is currently demanding that Congress pass an unconstitutional law to try to get retroactive legal cover Telecoms violations under FISA law both after and before 9/11.According to Barbara Honnegger,It is primarily President Bush Bush, not the IT companies, who is pushing for retroactive immunity. The carriers have told Congressional

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I know there are hundreds, if not, literally, hundreds of millions of folks in the States and worldwide that are literally terrified as what might happen if our/their mad dictator finally does go off the deep end and actually 'use nuclear weapons' in the Iran/Middle East 'arena' if you will.But how do you suppose the actual everyday Iranians feel about it? How the hell would you feel?Oh, yeah, we

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UPDATE: Still here. Thank the all.So, appparently.. the story goes like this.August 30 the USAF 'lost' 5 nuculear weapons whilst being transported from Minot AFB to Barksdale AFB.The story from the Barksdale end was that 5 weapons were 'found' but it was later reported from the Minot AFB end that 6 weapons were lost.Apprently in 1991, by Presidential order (under Bush Sr.), nuclear weapons were

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Catching up with last weekends Meet The Press just now. Director of National Intelligence (whatever that is) Admiral McConnell was actually strangely convincing up to this point. Then he said the following, in response to Tim Russert's question about Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan and I just about choked on my biscuit..MR. RUSSERT: If his [Musharraf's] government fell, how detrimental would it be

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Extract from.."THE CORE RULES OF NETIQUETTE"Rule 1:http://www.albion.com/netiquette/rule1.html..Never forget the story of famous email user Oliver North. Ollie, you'll remember, was a great devotee of the White House email system, PROFS. He diligently deleted all incriminating notes he sent or received. What he didn't realize was that, somewhere else in the White House, computer room staff were

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Also cool. The first time I thought it was just some surreal William S Burroughs candy then the second time I watched it, I realised, oh wow, its completely, deafeningly awfully lucid

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OK so just sent out a mass email. People may actually - oh no - visit this page. I better put something cool on it. Except all I have is incoherent scree.Quick, link to something that really is cool. Check this out:http://dwave.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/quantum-computing-demo-announcementAlso there's a video too - "a quantum computer is to a light bulb what a laser is to light" - sounds cool. I

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OK so here’s a theory – actually on further consideration its basically bunk but I'll lave it for you to consider… I'm still working on a new 'not crap' version...So let’s start off with the fact that this recent ‘surge’ thing makes absolutely no sense. It stares you straight in the face that an extra 20,000 troops… not even returning force levels to where they were 2 years ago, is not really

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ha ha.. look he's written a CMS with, well, its probably best if I just let him say it.."META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="eNetwizard Matrix Server v0.0.2"containing.."Cutting Edge Technology * God is built right into the system. Also known as the $Core class. Never before has a content management system been designed around the concept of a universal point of contact for all

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Rummy.. is taking on Bush (and Bush senior over the war). He's saying. I'm sure that the people are behind me. I know they are absolutely behind us, we can "stay" the course for at least another year or three. Bush (sorry, I mean Condi) is like "how can you honestly believe that? your self delusions are getting the better of you" and Rummys like.. "I'll prove it to you". You watch.. call off the

utungahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192958090197336773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221266.post-1161210282521165262006-10-18T18:22:00.000-04:002006-10-18T19:11:20.686-04:00

A friend points to aadvarks recent commentary about the future of computing and asks "So any opinions on whether we will see new technology based computers soon, or not for quite some time?"This set off the following scree. Bit incoherent but noone reads this blog anyway so whats the harm..Really fascinating stuff. I'm sure its a good 10 years out before we even start to see this kind of thing

utungahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192958090197336773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221266.post-1159923467754401762006-10-03T20:54:00.000-04:002006-10-03T23:35:25.563-04:00

The timing for this is certainly suspicious. Just when the administration was starting to get into serious trouble over Habeus Corpus, Torture, and more and more 911 revelations.. Foley Gate comes along with all number of salacious and distracting details. Classic Rovian tactics.All I wanna know is - where did the IM's come from? Who pulled them in the first place. Was it.1. At the sending end (

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OK lets just start out by assuming that he's going to, probably, be lying. Now, now, I'll admit that doesn't sound very 'bi partisan' of me to say that - but at this point I think you'd have to be a fool not to be at least 'very' suspicious of the motives behind everything George W Bush and his crew do.So.. lets just assume right off the bat that when he says that his new initiatives are focused

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On 26 Jan 2006 I wrote:Particularly scary is that the Patriot act gives the feds the right to basically march up to every ISP in the country and install special 'black boxes' [doing] God only knows what and the ISP's cannot even mention this fact publically let alone not comply...---Now we have confirmation from a whistleblower that this is exactly what they've been doing."I learned that the

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________________________________Some points you might choose to make, in your own words [sic] of course:- 9/11 was the pretext for two wars and a transformation of the country. Trillions of dollars were shifted from butter to guns. It's all based on the idea that foreign terrorists are the primary threat to our security. The truth of 9/11, that the threat actually lies within, will help end the

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It's really unfortunate that it is the name "google' that is showing up in all the headlines in connection to Chinese censorship.... because the only reason it is news is that it is strikingly*different* from the way that google normally behaves.Microsoft and Yahoo for example had already caved in (if thats the word for it) months ago to the Chinese demands for censoring chineselanguage search

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This is truly awful.Some seemingly brilliant but obviously very conflicted guy decides to commit suicide and posts the fact on his blog and on Joel Spolsky’s website. The net result? He becomes semi-famous (for an internet split second) and I find myself reading through his blog with a mixture of horror and fascination and come across some links that seem interesting and relevant enough to post..

utungahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192958090197336773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221266.post-1077328920735424132004-02-20T21:02:00.000-05:002004-02-20T21:03:58.420-05:00

Written in response to.. Peter Dale Scott put it best when talking abut the Vietnam War. It was floating crap game where various corporate and financial players took seats and made money. Occasionally players would leave and be replaced or there would be "shootouts" between the various players. But the moment anyone threatened the game as a whole, everyone in the game turned on them, whether they

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I think you're (all of you!) missing something important about the current elites. The capitalist elite stands virtually unchallenged across the globe, and if there is one thing Elites have learnt through the ages its that destablization and unrest is *bad*, calmness and status quo is good. That is, by definition of those who are in power right now the goal is to *prolong* the status quo and

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I love PGP and think more people should use it more of the time. The main reason I think this, is because the more people use PGP the harder it will be for systems like ECHELON to organize/filter/categorize the content that they filter. (ECHELON is the international side of the NSA-sponsored system that intercepts all fax, phone, email, internet traffic and analyzes it. I am convinced there is a

utungahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192958090197336773noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3221266.post-1073658237291436772004-01-09T09:23:00.000-05:002004-01-30T18:35:42.780-05:00

"My family was one of Hitler's victims. We lost a lot under the Nazi occupation, including an uncle who died in the camps and a cousin killed by a booby trap... "So far, I've seen nothing to eliminate the possibility that Bush is on the same course as Hitler. And I've seen far too many analogies to dismiss the possibility. The propaganda. The lies. The rhetoric. The nationalism. The flag waving.

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OK, so here's the thing. If there's, like a whole lot of toxic waste in a huge explosion in the Jersey tunnel, you gotta blow the goddamn tunnel shut, man. For the love of god, man. Like even if there are people there, man. Which reminds me, I saw a man on the subway today and he had this hat that said, like, ""What the FUCK!". So of course I said to him, "Young man, you appear to be wearing

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China is waaay more important than Oil. Please understand, I am speaking here in terms of what is important to those demented "We're gonna take over the whole freaking world" folks that seem to be in the Administration, at present. I'm gonna call this my "CIMTO" theory. That is, as opposed to the "IATO" or "Its All About the Oil Stupid" theory, which is sometimes (given how laughingly

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