The world as battlefield

I'm very, very leery of the Alex Jones crowd.  I worry that even, no ESPECIALLY, when he writes something I agree with, that I'm falling off into the deep end of paranoia.  As part of my life goal of never starring in a movie with a creature that could bite my head off, it's important to me to avoid sounding like Mel Gibson in conspiracy theory (or in real life, I guess).





That Eat Pray Love movie is stranger than I realized. Also, does she consider eating babies a snack because they're bite-sized?

 

But when someone points out to me that the crazier versions of what the "beared porcupine" said turns out to be not only true, but increasingly likely, I get worried.

Obama had originally threatened to veto the bill, but not over the indefinite-detention clauses. In fact, bill sponsor Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.) says it was the White House that insisted the language be altered to include American citizens:

The language which precluded the application of Section 1031 to American citizens was in the bill that we originally approved….and the administration asked us to remove (it) which says that US citizens and lawful residents would not be subject to this section.

Under the bill, American citizens can be indefinitely detained without proof merely on suspicion of having supported terrorist groups. Exactly what constitutes such “support” is, as always, the government’s guess.

Does this mean I need to go buy "Catcher in the Rye?"  Or, since I'm technically working for the bad guys, do I get a black helicopter of my own? That would be sweet.

You shut your dirty mouth!

At least, that's what I took away from this oddly pretty post about two of the previous century's greatest thinkers: Hesse and Bueller:

Salvation is possible. Reverse the polarity. Become a quiet-aholic. A noise-ophobic. Bind yourself to the mast such that you may hear the Sirens’ song without succumbing to its allure. The Sirens are not without their charms and increased communication is a net good, but the application of that good is often the opposite. Abjure the elites and the shackles they seek to impose, allow your imagination to flourish rather than atrophy, and relish in a bit of boredom. Listen to the crickets in your backyard. Watch a rainstorm instead of a television show. Remember Ferris Bueller’s advice – Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you  could miss it.

Fear the Future

This seems like a really, really, really, really bad idea.

As it seeks to become a leader in robotic technology, South Korea is about to put a new type of droid through its paces: a robot prison guard.
Under a project sponsored by the Ministry of Justice, trials of the robots will be held for a month at a jail in the city of Pohang, southeast of Seoul, from March.
The robots are designed to patrol the corridors of corrective institutions, monitoring conditions inside the cells. If they detect sudden or unusual activity such as violent behavior they alert human guards.

I don't need to explain why this is a terrible plan, do I?

Wait, what?

Do the people at the Department of Agriculture even remember attending a government or civics class?  Based on the evidence, nope.

So let's clarify:

-it's not a tax, but you have to pay it to the government and can go to jail for failing to do so
-it's an "added cost" on a religiously themed item by the government to promote the purchase of that religiously themed item to people who will likely purchase that religiously themed item in the first place.

Okay, understand that?  Good.  Please explain this to me.

'Sup, bitch?

Fear the Future (yes, again... shut up.)

Apparently no one has ever heard of the blue screen of death.  Either that, or they wanted to see what it was like to witness a "literalized metaphor."

Cities could soon be looking after their citizens all by themselves thanks to an operating system designed for the metropolis.

The Urban OS works just like a PC operating system but keeps buildings, traffic and services running smoothly.
The software takes in data from sensors dotted around the city to keep an eye on what is happening.

So, you fucking morons are working to create the sort of thing that makes normal people lie awake in terror?  What could go wrong?

Quit being stupid, assholes.  They will straight up kill us.

Fear the Future

This is how it will come to an end. 

This is Zwischenräume, a mechanical art installation that features a bunch of autonomous robots hiding behind a living room and beating it down at random intervals, stopping only to peer at the gawkers outside.

The germans, again, are goinig to try to end the world.  Awesome.  Good looking out, assholes.

I wonder what a therapist in Japan makes.

Suddenly a lot of stuff about Japan makes sense.

The outside of the train is painted with traditional Japanese monsters, while the interior is fitted with spooky blue lights and human hands hanging from the ceiling. As the Yokai Train leaves the station, a spooky sounds can be heard coming from the speakers, and the monsters make their entrance. Some are dressed in white kimonos and wear white masks and triangular white crowns (which means they are dead), while others sport creepy masks and torn rags. Some of the older kids react pretty well to the yokai, but the younger ones cry and scream while their mothers and the other adults watch and smile.

Well, doc, it all started with a train ride, I guess...

And now that faith in mankind is gone.

Thanks a lot, science.  This is not okay.  This is the sort of shit that makes me glad I've installed a machine at the center of the earth that will kill humanity and it's cyber-overlords.  Especially our SINGING FREAKTASTIC cybernetic overlords.

Seriously, I'll do it.