You’re kidding me… Our Governments LIED?!

Finally it’s official, in a mainstream political mag,  so all you sensible government fearing folk can now believe it… It only took them FIVE YEARS… but now it’s too late they can chat about it. Pathetic. All of this information was around on blogs, and the `alternative media` which was largely dimissed (avoided/ignored/obfuscated). Next revelation to the masses will be 9/11 WAS UNDENIABLY A FALSE FLAG attack as used throughout history to justify military action in some little tinpot country on the other side of the globe as part of the US imperialist agenda. Come on folks, you may not like it, but it’s hardly shocking if you know your history or even bother to investigate, and using slightly more diverse and unbiased sources than the BBC! Anyway, here’s the revelation that the Covenments apparently lied to us the sheeple about the justifications for commiting genocide in, erm, I mean, invading Iraq,  according to New Statesman -http://www.newstatesman.com/200802210001

Oh and if we are going to apply Ockham’s razor to 9/11 (this is a favourite for government apologists,  god knows why, it’s held up as some kind of scientific principle when all it is is a `rule of thumb` - the principle recommends selecting the theory that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities when multiple competing theories are equal in other respects. It should be, to anyone with any semblance of free thought and intelligence, even more abundantly obvious what happened here. How convenient for the administration who were just desperate to reap the rewards of Iraq. Anyone fancy placing bets on how long it will take them to get into Iran? Come on, let’s see your money…

Usenet not P2P…

Why people should use Usenet not peer to peer… (or at least in addition)

P2P was great around the early days of Napster, WinMX  and the like, but no longer.

We had private BBS’s, Anon public FTP sites, and even websites would actually host content…wow, how things have changed… Anyway top few reason for getting on Usenet…

1) Speed – With a premium usenet account you can usually get your full downstream bandwidth, peer to peer is slooooow, broadly speaking, due to its distributed nature and the fact a lot of people have crappy upstream rates. For example I get constant 200k/sec on my 2Mb cable connection from my news server/s.

2) Retention – you can generally find things on (premium) usenet servers – for example old rare duocuments, videos, programs, the eclectic and arcane et cetera which do not surface in P2P circles as they tend to be quite contemporary.

3) Security/transparency – you  have far more control with a usenet connection to a single usnet server, rather than making hundreds perhaps thousands of arbitrary connections all over the world to who knows who…there is no lack of honeypots out there. Not to mention the overhead of having so many simultaneous connections.

For a good example check out www.eurofeeds.com and their prices. There are many others out their, find one close to you which carries a high (70,000+) volume of groups and has good retention.

A free C compiler and fish…

Lccwin32 looks interesting, as compilers go. More importantly it’s free. Will be experimenting with it over the next few weeks.

Would love to stay and talk to you about it more,  but I have two sons, both of whom are rather keen to go and see the fish and reptiles at the local garden centre so looks like I’m off out. Wishing I’d gone to bed before 2am and slightly less baked…Gotta love the Super Silver though, just so moreish ;)