tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63682102024-03-19T00:04:30.562-05:00Catbeller. Mouse with a mission."I'm not negative, I'm ANGRY!" -- Howard the Duck's moment of satori. Or is that redundant?
Lighting more candles in the dark, because they keep blowing them out.Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-24492098058095134302012-01-11T22:09:00.000-06:002012-01-11T22:11:08.360-06:00From Boing Boing, today:http://boingboing.net/2012/01/11/tom-the-dancing-bug-use-your.html The Constitution does not grant us rights. The rights exist independently of the paper they are written on. The 9th amendment makes this clear: rights exist that are not explicitly stated, and the explictly stated rights do not preclude the existence of other rights that we deem we have."The enumeration in Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-12007266500556752122011-07-12T18:26:00.006-05:002011-07-12T18:40:19.585-05:00I joined Google+ today with high hopes of networking without Facebook's we-own-you approach to our privacy. But now, Google is demanding we use our real names as usernames. No.Turns out that Israel has been mining social networking sites like Facebook to find pro-Palestinian activists' real names - and used that information to make (?how?) other countries refuse to let the activists leave for Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-45725941084835140292011-02-04T22:39:00.000-06:002011-02-04T22:40:02.700-06:00Corporations are government-created entities, and exist as legal fictions at our convenience, not theirs. Their job is whatever we tell them it is. Their own theory is that they exist to make profit; nicely self-serving. They exist so that a group can perform actions without exposing individuals in the group to liability. Beyond that, they made the rest up. If they are becoming a pain, we could 1Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-11236933160166425562011-01-30T10:06:00.001-06:002011-01-30T10:08:42.481-06:00Our US national phone companies didn't feel the need to track and log the phone calls of their customers for over one hundred and twenty-five years, and civilization and phone company infrastructure survived unscathed.As for the need to track for purposes of managing bandwidth; expand the bandwidth so that it is not necessary. The present situation, managed artificial scarcity, exists to maximizeCatbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-37452090551237842922010-05-02T11:46:00.002-05:002010-05-02T11:50:36.942-05:00The fossil-fuel energy economy will be far more damaging than any nuclear plant breakdown. Greens didn't understand the safety factors on American nuke plants, and discounted the immense potential for planetary breakdown if we didn't stop using fossil fuels.Now we have Chernobyl in the Gulf of Mexico. This is a Phillip Wylie disaster novel. Drill, baby, drill.Obama, you Neville Chamberlin-wannabeCatbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-91662063199910746262010-01-20T07:11:00.001-06:002010-01-20T07:12:54.175-06:00The proper name for this maybe-willbe Apple tablet should be the iBook.Apple does hold the trademark, after all. And it is an iBook.Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-66100811546516750932009-03-23T19:28:00.004-05:002009-03-23T19:33:44.550-05:00Posted on Digg, re: Un-American: Have you listened to the right-wing media?I never really call the conservatives, except when I'm being ironic. They are right-wing. *I* am conservative.I believe in the Constitution, which mandates separation of Church and State. I believe that the government doesn't have the right to suspend the document.I believe that corporations are creatures of the governmentCatbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-86596777237163133662009-03-23T15:49:00.003-05:002009-03-23T15:51:43.233-05:00Twitter is an original idea? Um, no.Twitter users: you've rediscovered the AOL chatroom experience, circa 1993. Congrats. Yeah, it was and is fun.But it ain't original.Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-15735195962119059192009-03-23T15:37:00.006-05:002009-03-23T15:46:24.887-05:00Is Twitter the Vengeance of the Popular Kids' Lunch Table?Seriously. The tech world has long been dominated by loner geeks: those who wouldn't be dating the cheerleader from the Popular Table in the school lunchroom.I'm listening to Leo LaPorte's TWIT podcast, just downloaded fresh this morning. And Twitter, as they mention, has consumed the tech world. And Twitter is nothing but a popularity Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-77281080580611057702009-03-23T13:58:00.003-05:002009-03-23T14:01:31.788-05:00Noticing here that the Apple stock didn't get trounced after the iPhone 3.0 announcement. Perhaps Apple's puzzling decision to stop announcing new products on a predictable semi-annual schedule and instead pop them out randomly with almost no notice to anyone has screwed up the stock-shorting geniuses' timing. About damned time.Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-19546265413219431992009-03-23T13:54:00.002-05:002009-03-23T13:58:05.901-05:00The Wall Street Journal says that Netflix stock is overvalued, despite the fact they are taking over the video market and have future revenues of Apple-like levels stretching out before them.Someone has decided it is time to short the stock and suck the profits out of its marrow. The Real Stock Market is about to fleece current shareholders of yet another excellent company. Get a cat food Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-65266534522027925902009-03-17T10:49:00.003-05:002009-03-17T10:53:55.272-05:00Apple is about to release iPhone 3.0 in an hour. Gentleman, start shorting the stocks! Whee!Cramer actual admits talking Apple stock prices up and then immediately selling short and talking the price down again. He said it was easy to do an very profitable as well.I said some time back that Apple announcements always caused a major shortselling spree. I keep taking a bath on this, while the Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-70239513232401850182009-03-12T10:53:00.002-05:002009-03-12T10:58:25.514-05:00Now it is possible, with lithium titanate or lithium iron phosphate batteries, to charge a car's battery pack in minutes. However, people are pointing out that it would take a 180 KW pipe to charge the car. Not available. Fail, say they.Think a little. What you need is a sidewalk or garage capacitor/battery array that charges slowly and constantly off a 120 or 240 volt pipe from the grid or your Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-91122140035478884572009-03-09T10:08:00.002-05:002009-03-09T10:21:18.920-05:00The Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper died today.Comedy Central should form a news team, hell, a news network, around its Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert core group. Comedians of the "left" seem to be much more informed then the "middle" wing of the various mainstream news media.Stewart understands that he needs the news networks to actually provide him some news to work with. But that seems Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-36970877032867185442009-03-03T22:02:00.000-06:002009-03-03T22:03:41.174-06:00What? - no one has noticed that Rush Limbaugh is running for president?Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-67161286520753559362009-02-06T18:56:00.002-06:002009-02-06T19:07:44.067-06:00Fire Sale!I hear the talking Democratic heads on Rachel Madow carefully pointing out that the Republicans should remember that so much depends on what they do right now - depression or recession, loss or win.Damn. I must point out what they surely know but cannot say - but should.If the economy tanks, if we enter a Greater Depression, those who hold wealth - and Republicans represent them - will Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-29193920515659756752009-02-04T13:29:00.002-06:002009-02-04T13:29:54.068-06:00http://tinyurl.com/gaimanbatmanCatbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-14153281505247520812009-01-23T12:16:00.001-06:002009-01-23T12:18:18.119-06:00So Obama frees the stem cell lines for research today.A ban Bush put in place to save baby souls.And remember this well: he took a week off to think about this subject before issuing the ban. Went on a retreat, listened to "spiritual leaders" about the subject. What didn't he do that very special week?I'll give you a hint: he didn't read a report called "Bin Laden determined to strike within the Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-47616615808918464912009-01-19T11:33:00.001-06:002009-01-19T11:36:16.396-06:00If George Bush has left the White House already, who the hell is the President at the moment? Is he phoning it in?Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-60068629164411962822009-01-09T11:26:00.001-06:002009-01-09T11:26:54.480-06:00Paper vs. electronic ballots I can't stress enough: Franken could win this election because the voters, through their election process, could count the actual ballots, on actual solid really real pieces of paper. If an electronic system was in place, no recount would be possible, as the ballots would be unexaminable and totals only available through the kindness of private companies. Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-64408720387445608632009-01-08T10:02:00.003-06:002009-01-08T10:16:49.269-06:00It struck me, in the few minutes of one of the Obama/McCain debates last year, that Obama would be a Republican in the America I grew up in. I remarked that he was just another Republican, in my rude fashion, to my couchmates at the time. So today, Firedog lake diarist DeanBaker reports that Obman is thinking of "restructuring" Social Security and Medicare to bring it in line with our national Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-49641602884503399352009-01-02T17:30:00.001-06:002009-01-02T17:32:46.631-06:00Here it is, a new Watchmen trailer, now with extra Rorschach! Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-3893270920810095892008-12-21T03:25:00.003-06:002008-12-21T03:33:03.676-06:00Gentle Reader, Al Franken looks like he will win the recount of the votes for the seat of Senator from Minnesota.This will be because, Albert Gore take note, he did not give in and concede the election to look like a statesman to the opposition party, which does not give a damn about such things.And, this is the most important thing: the votes were on paper. Paper can be reexamined. Computers Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-76444395293882740372008-12-17T14:14:00.002-06:002008-12-17T14:32:42.436-06:00Well, Children, it looks like OPEC is getting its act together and will cut oil production to raise prices.This is the final hammer, the trigger of Depression II. If inflation kicks back on, and no reason why not, that's the Reagonomic apocalypse. Credit collapse combined with rising prices. Damn.Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-67996498976554090272008-12-16T19:32:00.001-06:002008-12-16T19:32:25.656-06:00Shoe throwing Iraqi jounalist Muntathar is being torturedAccording to this Iraqi's blog, shoe-hurling journalist Muntathar is being beaten, and his colleagues were arrested and stripped. American media not covering the story, as far as I can see.read more | digg storyCatbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.com