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July 16th, 2007

Quebec troops fly off to Afghanistan - 940 MONTREAL

Some 200 more Canadian soldiers are headed to Afghanistan to relieve another group of Canadians.

I know we’re supposed to be a peace-keeping army, but I don’t think peace was ever a goal over there when the Americans invaded in the first place. Years have gone by, and still we send our people to clean up after a crazy man and his family’s vendetta.

My question is: who’s going to come to Canada’s rescue when the Americans decide we’re ripe for the picking ?

Fuck this war, and all it represents. Bush says he wants Democracy in the middle east, but he doesn’t know the first thing about it.

Confessions: Geek Squad likes porn

July 12th, 2007

Confessions: Geek Squad Hatched Plot To Harvest Porn From Pornstar Jasmine Grey’s HardDrive, Days Before She Died In Car Crash - Consumerist

Man these stories just keep coming! (pun intended)

Every time I read one of these, I shake my head because it doesn’t make sense to me. You’re a fucking geek, why would you “need” to scavenge customers’ hard drives for porn ? Any half-wit with a P2P client can fill their drive with dirty videos until their head explodes.

After taking a moment to juggle the facts, I came to a very obvious conclusions: these geeks are posers!… Read the rest of this entry »

Wireless Tazer Weapon | SCIFI.COM

July 11th, 2007

The guys at Scifi.com have a little blurb about a Wireless Tazer that may be coming to a cop near you.

It’s certainly not rocket science, just a bullet-sized gadget with electrodes and a battery. While I’m sure there’s a mile of paperwork documenting all the homeland-security-funded R&D, the fact is I’m simply not impressed. The potential benefit of a wireless tazer is greatly outweighed by the absolute certainty of its abuse by law enforcement officials. It’s not like they can be trusted with regular tazers anyway.

Oh I wonder how the… Read the rest of this entry »