Fuck the press

So, this is my first Sunday that I am not downloading the audio of "Meet the Press".

Why, do you ask?  Because David Gregory is a piece of shit journalist, undeserving of the role once held by Tim Russert, the pinnacle of journalistic integrity.  "Stretch", as he was nicknamed, by Bush the moron, decided that instead of questioning members of Congress or the Obama adminstration about the NSA spying on American citizens, in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, he should question the exercising of the First Amendment rights of Glenn Greenwald.

David Gregory, you are an asshole.  Tim Russert is turning over in his grave, because of you and what you turned his platform of holding politicians accountable into.  I'd asked what your justification is for holding Glenn Greenwald's feet to the fire, instead of the Obama administration, but I really don't care.

Why don't you have a heart attack and die?  It would probably be the only worthwhile thing you would ever accomplish, you pathetic excuse for a journalist.  You are a disgrace to your profession.

Sound on old laptops with Linux

Anyone who has read my previous posts knows that I love both Linux and old computers, specifically because Linux runs on old computers.  Knowing that laptops are a bit touch and go, I am reticent to buy newer laptops, unless they are IBM Thinkpads, but I cannot afford to buy IBM Thinkpads.

Here is my problem (uh-oh), Compaq Armada 1750's are as old as IBM Thinkpad 600e's, yet getting sound to work on both of these laptops (both of which I owe) is still a bitch and a half.  Given that my distro of choice is Debian, I can understand the hoops that I have to jump through on the Thinkpad (because of licenses), but when it comes to a Compaq Armada 1750, WTF!  There is nothing that I have been able to find on the interweb that would indicate that the 8 hours I spent getting sound to work is related to licensing.  I have seen, through my research, solutions dating back to Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

Debian 7 (Wheezy) was released this year; how the fuck is this still a problem?  Just in case the poor, suffering developers of Debian want to feel victimized, sound doesn't work on Legacy OS either, and that is based on Puppy Linux.

How can I be expected to advocate for Linux, when I can't play a wav file on a computer with a Pentium 2, because of an oversight by the developers?  Based upon my research, this is not isolated to Debian, but I do not see as how it is the problem of ALSA's developers, because when you follow the instructions on their webpage, it works.

Why do I have to go to the Alsa project webpage to figure out how to get this shit working?  I put up with the hoops that I had to jump through for the Thinkpad 600e, and it made me a better Linux user for it, but I cannot figure out why I spent 6 hours (2 hours trying to find any distributions to work, and 6 hours on a clone of one of my other debian laptops) trying to get the same result, without the licensing restriction.

Is it time for me to say 'fuck you' to Linux, or should I just say 'fuck you' to Debian?  Should I move forward, to BSD (that is never expected to work but does), or regress to Windoze?

Medical School

I have a niece that wants to go to medical school, to become a neurologist, maybe it is because her parents are both retarded, but I digress.

Living in the bastion of mental retardation, she wants to move from Texas to New York City, because the morons that re-elected Mien-Fuhfur Bloomberg are only slightly less stupid than the intellectual black hole that gave this country George W (the W stands for 'what') Bush.  Because she wants to get a good education, so that she can become (in my biased opinion) the best neurologist this undeserving country has ever seen, she has to find a way to pay for school.

Here is the problem, she can't afford NYU or Columbia.  There are students from other countries that can afford to come here, but we cannot provide education to the sons and daughters of us.  Thanks to our government's ability to do nothing other than protect there own interests (and let's not forget the asshole of the universe, Rush Limbaugh), we get to hear that our jobs are being outsourced to foreigners.  Well, given that we give all of our taxpayer dollars to India and are indebted to China, is it any wonder why they are our tech support and doctors?

Do you think I am a radical?  Here is a challenge.  Look at the last amendment to our Constitution (it is number 27, for those of you that can't count that high).  Do you agree with it, you fucking idiots?  You should pay me to point out what you are obviously are too fucking stupid to recognize for yourselves.  I would use half of it to pay for my niece's college education, and still have enough to pay that guy that hit Nancy Kerrigan in the knee to punch Sarah Palin in the mouth.The other half, I would put to good use, buying beer.

Harry Reid is a pussy!

I'm listening to this prissy on "Meet the Press", and suffice it to say that David Gregory is a douchebag, but the Senate majority leader is FULL OF SHIT!

I saw that smug smirk on his face when Tom Brokaw announced that the successor to Tim Russert (probably the most respectable journalist to cover Washington DC) was Stretch, as the first retarded president called him.  As a member of the White House Press Corp., you should not have a lovable nickname, asshole.

But back to Harry Reid.  You need to go see a doctor and get a prescription of "MAN THE FUCK UP!", to cure you of your case of being a little bitch.  If you have a problem with the filibuster rule that you allowed to continue, here is a solution: Make John McCain stand up, with his walker and filibuster!  Simple solution to a simple problem.  Wendy Davis did it in Texas, and look how popular she is, in comparison to you, you castrated fuck!

Go to Florida, if you want to kill someone.

Based on the Casey Anthony and George Zimmerman verdicts, murder is legal, not because of the laws, but because of prosecutors being incompetent.

Enough said!

Hawthorne PD

So, this guy walking his dog decides to videotape some police activity, and gets arrested.  The end result is a dog ends up shot dead by a cop.  Here is the problem:

1) the person walking his dog and filming the police did nothing wrong,
2) the "suspect" put his dog in his car,
3) the dog got out of the car, to protect his owner,
4) an officer attempted to approach an obviously agitated animal, and
5) said dipshit shot that animal 4 times.

I'm not particularly fond of dogs, but I hate cops.  Exactly what part of their training instructs the Hawthorne Police Department to attempt to approach an animal and treat them in the same fashion as a human being?  WTF?  Officer shithead approaches an obviously hostile dog and then feels threatened by its response!

What transpired on the video that I saw is sickening.  That the officers involved have received death-threats is well deserved, as are the death-threats against their family members.

Thank you to the Police Department of Hawthorne, California for further validating my statement that the only good cop is a dead cop.

Fuck you!

Compaq Armada Laptops

My first laptop was a nice, slick, black Compaq Armada.  I forget what model; it may have been an M600, or something like that.  My mom bought it for me, as a birthday present, in my second semester of college, and it almost made it the 15 months to my graduation.  The screen died, and I was not quite yet the computer/Linux/1337 haxor that I am now.  In fact, at the time, I was running Linux, but it was Smoothwall, on a second pc, just so I could share a dial-up connection between my desktop computer and this laptop.

Fast-forward a few years, now I'm an underpaid Excel specialist, with access to tons of old hardware, which I love.  So, one day, I come across a 366MHz PII Compaq Armada 1700.  This was a temporary joy, as my company was obliged to dispose of it, but that was not the end of my quest.  For anyone that knows me, they know that finding and buying a 1750 online for $50 is not shocking.  Why, because I have a Thinkpad T410, issued by my employer, which I could upgrade to a T430, but I would prefer to fiddle away on the 600e that one of my college mates gave me years ago.

I love playing with old hardware; you know, the stuff that you want to throw away, because Firefox opens in 7 seconds instead of 3.  What I can do with a 366MHz PII, 128 MB RAM, 20GB of hard drive space, and Linux is an adventure of exploration.  Should I set up a firewall, a file server, a print server, a DNS cache, a proxy server/web filter, or a VPN concentrator?  How about a command line based workstation, capable of playing mp3's, browsing the web, and such?  What about combining all of them?

Any ideas are welcome.  Suggestions to install Windoze will be met with ridicule.

A picture is worth 1000 words

I saw this, and I think it perfectly states how I feel.

New York's Finest MY ASS!

So, I'm walking along the boardwalk at Coney Island today, when I notice two things, first, three people (within 10 seconds) step on a corner of wooden planks that flexed to the point that each of them almost fell, and two cops, about 20 feet away.

So, being a good citizen, I approach the people who are supposed to be working in the interest of public safety and point out this obvious safety issue.

What does fucknut do?  He asks me what is in the can that I am holding?

Is this what my tax dollars go to?  I present a person lacking observation skills with a problem, and he decides to persue another problem.  It is piece of shit cops that make me want to buy a gun and stop paying taxes.    It seems that I am better capable of protecting myself, and based on what I have observed, the entire citizenry of New York City should consider doing the same.

So, to officer douchebag, thank you for validating my statement that the only good cop is a dead cop.