Despite UK Governments Machinations the Web is Going to Become a Brighter, Better Place!
According to the Financial Times Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp and Microsoft have been in talks to create an exclusive deal ensuring that only Microsoft’s own “Bing” search engine carries Newscorp content. Microsoft obviously intend this as an attack on Google who are their main competitor in the developing cloud/distributed computing field. For Newscorp it’s more the bellow of a dinosaur confused and frightened and by the new world it finds itself in, similar to the repeated wailing and gnashing of teeth that has been coming from the entertainment industry ever since its attack on Napster and 12 year old girls failed to quench people’s desire to share. What neither company realises however is that far from hurting Google they are simply going to be improving the quality of the service it delivers.
Imagine a world where you are searching for news and no longer have to deal with the right wing garbage spewed forth by such wonderful resources as Fox News or The Sun! A world where should you want to look for the opinion of a right wing bigot you actually have to specifically go and look for it.! It will be like Daily Mail Island but in reverse. As tie goes on and people are exposed to less and less of the ignorance, bigotry and hatred that Newscorp loves so dearly we will enter a new age where people respect one another and don’t live in fear of one another. A world with no Richard Littlejohn…
So Microsoft and Newscorp I salute you for your valiant attempt to commit sepuku in order to preserve the future for our children.
Oh and please don’t take the Glenn Beck videos off youtube, he’s funny as fuck. 
The Grusome Twosome.
Daily Mail In Gypsy Support Shocker!
I can’t believe that I missed this story. It seems the Hate Mail managed to shoot itself in the foot by pissing off the Twitterati (if it’s not already a word then it is now!). It seems that to mark the end of Refugee week the Hate Mail, from hereon in to be known as the Daily Fail, placed a poll on it’s website asking “should the NHS allow Gypsies to jump the queue?” in relation to an article by that bastion of human decency.. sorry I mean utter cunt rag, Richard Littlejohn. In his article he espouses the usual racist bile that we have come to expect from the fetid little man yet with which he still manages to shock us.
Anyhoo. In relation to this rather disgusting, and ever so slightly leading, poll question the Twitterati swung into action and before long the poll was showing that over 90% of the Daily Fail’s readership supported gypsies getting special treatment from the NHS. This show of decency from its readership led to the Fail removing the poll from its website and replacing it with one asking “Should Commons Speaker Michael Martin resign?”. Does anyone want to tell them he resigned a month ago!
I know this is already a week old but I really wanted to add my wee voice to the hordes already laughing their arses off at the Daily Fail – FAIL!
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This month it will become illegal to photograph the police.
Seriously!
On the 16th of Febuary this year the police get the power to arrest, with the threat of ten years in prison, anyone seen photographing them, or more specifically any one who ‘elicits or attempts to elicit information about (members of armed forces) … which is of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism’.
Which is just as catch all as every other piece of anti-’terror’ legislation that has beenpassed in the last 7/8 years. So now if you, or anyone else, takes a photograph of the police assaulting people/acting an inappropriate manner you are quite likely to get arrested and threatened with jail time!
Shower of bastards.
Full story here.
Respect To The Pirates Of Somalia But Is This The Begining Of The End For The Town Of Eyl?
Somali pirates have become somewhat notorious over the last ten years or so with ever more daring raids upon cruise and cargo ships off the east coast of eastern Africa and Yemen. This month has seen their biggest haul yet with the capture of the Saudi oil tanker the Sirius Star carrying two million barrels of oil.
The usual practice for these pirates is to capture the vessel and then take it to the town of Eyl in Puntland northern Somalia. There are at present at least a dozen captured ship kept there at the moment. Once at Eyl the ship is docked and the crew are generally well looked after as the pirates enter into hostage negotiations for the safe return of vessel and crew. They ask anything up to US$1,000,000 for the ransom. Because of this the crews are normally well cared for. In fact in Ely there has even sprung up a restaurant mini-industry around catering for hostage crews.
The town of Eyl has traditionally been a safe haven for pirates but for how much longer? As the Sirius Star approaches port with its precious cargo will they be allowed to reach port? If they do will they be allowed to negotiate?
I get the distinct feeling we may see military action to ensure the return the lifeblood of western civilisation. If military action goes ahead will this spell the end of Eyl as a safe haven for the pirates?
We shall have to wait and see.
Ghouls The Lot Of You
Spread all across the front cover of the papers this morning was the cherubic face of a we blonde boy. What’s I thought? Upon closer inspection it turned out to be an image of the poor little mite known as Baby P. It was only upon seeing this picture that hit home the bleakness of the situation.
By this I do not mean the horror inflicted upon this small child but the way the media is in a feeding frenzy of mutual masturbation over the whole thing.
Ask yourselves this, what purpose does it serve to have this little boy face splashed all over the papers. A final indignity served up in the names of selling a few more issues of a paper. They would not of course be doing this were there not a market for this and people lapping it up by a million rubberneckers ogling the poor boys corpse.
Shame on you all.
Ghouls.
If You…
…don’t freely share your photo’s for free when you post them on Flickr then I despise you. There are not words in the English language that can describe the contempt I hold for you and your ilk. Do you really think that by not sharing you will stop people from using your pictures? view source and ctrl+f class=”photoImgDiv” fuckers. In fact if I look at a picture on flickr that is not shared it makes me want to copy it and paste it up for free elsewhere.
Where do you get off not sharing? Did your parents not hug you enough when you were young? Did the other kids tease you and your stunted social abilities?
Cunts, the lot of you.
Hysterical Loons Attempt To Hold Back Development Of The Species – Again!
According to the Grauniad this morning there are actually people who are against scientific advance and the knowledge we will gain through the use of the Large Hadron Collider at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. It turns out that some of these opponents are actual scientists rather than just smelly hippies who will extol the dangers of science before attempting to align your chakra’s for you.That these scientists are not physicists or mathematicians I find rather telling.
These intellectually stunted buffoons have now launched a legal challenge against the turning on of the LHC in a week and a half. They had previously attempted to get an injunction to prevent the LHC being turned on but thankfully sanity prevailed and the judge residing threw the challenge out on its ear yesterday. The court has still to rule on whether the LHC breaches the right to life in the European convetion on human rights.
Professor Otto Rössler the German chemist who is one of the more vocal dim wits claims that the collider will produce mini black holes that will consume the Earth from the inside out. This may sound scary, especially when it comes from the mouth of a professor. However the guy is a professor in chemistry not physics. Note the lack of opposition from the people who actually study things like black holes, you know PHYSICISTS!! The same people who have been using particle accelerators for the past thirty years. Admittedly all the ones that have been used so far have been smaller than the LHC but the earth gets beaten about every single day by particle collisions much, much stronger than those the LHC will be able to create. The great thing about the LHC is that it allows these collisions to be studied in a controlled environment.
And now environmentalists, they would have to get involved the fucking backward facing scum, in Hawaii are launching a suit to get the US government to intervene and delay the switch on of the LHC. Whilst I’m not too worried about the European court giving in to these fools the case in the US is slightly more concerning. I mean they allow their kids to get taught that the world was made 6000 years ago by some weirdy beardy sky daddy.
Hopefully common sense will prevail and the LHC will get turned on on time and when the results get back we will know even more about how our universe grew and developed from the beginning of time and space.
For The Win Bitches
GAH!
I don’t normally watch the news and use the net to pick up on world and local news. However tonight I felt like watching it on the electric valium for once. Tuning in to BBC News 24 for the six o’clock news I was mightily peeved that it took a whole ten minutes for the news to start. The reason for this ridiculous delay was of course the bloody olympics. Ten whole minutes of sports news ahead of the Russian invasion of Georgia, nonce of the month Gary Glitter getting kicked out of Vietnam, facial recognition technology being launched at Manchester airport passport check, NATO soldiers killed in fighting with the Taliban, a British soldier killed in Afghanistan and Guatemalan babies being kidnapped and sold to wealthy families. But still a couple of gold medals ranks higher as news, fucks sake.
Anyone would think that there was a concerted attempt to whip up nationalistic sentiment in the country to bolster an extremely unpopular war and an increasing economic downturn. Nationalistic sentiment, economic crisis, whipping up of antipathy towards migrants and foreigners. Sounds horribly familiar to me.
Hell in a handbasket.
On a lighter note Gary Glitter has said he’s not ruling out a comeback.
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