Feel safe that He is watching out for you and your children

alternateorg on April 9, 2001

I’ve spent the last few hours reading over articles on what Bush has been up to recently because I have kind of fallen behind. Aparently he is trying to kill us. If you think I am being facetious, I’m not. This is a malevalent, mean-spirited killing of just about everyone in the United States. It’s not the clueless bumbling of the Reagan era. This is just downright mean.

Who, in complete honesty, wants to raise the maximum arsenic levels in drinking water. I guess only George W. Bush, because after he anounced his intentions his staff quickly clued him in that it wasn’t a good PR move to poison people in his first year in office and that it might affect his chances at re-election.

Then he decides to hit non-voters by proposing to eliminate salmonella
 testing in public school lunches. Who wants to send their kids to schools that knowingly feed their children food that, very likely, could be contanimated with a widely spread disease? I wouldn’t. Apperently 5 percent of the meat is contaminated. So that means that 5 out of 100 school days your child may have to be sent home with at least mild food poisoning. That isn’t a very reassuring statistic. His staff didn’t think it was a good one either, so they asked him to back off until further testing, or whatever.

The icing on the cake is really the Kyoto accord. Here is his broadest genocidal/suicidal move to date. He is entirely refusing to sign this treaty that would require the US to lower its emittions levels by about 5 percent in ten fuckin’ years. This required some foresight on Bush’s part because he wont even be President then. This is like a global, long-term fuck, because he thinks it is ‘unfair to the United States.’ This is based on the fact that developing nations wont have any restrictions in this treaty. What gives the President the right to complain about unfair, we already have them by their economic balls. Sometimes I wish he would shut his fucking mouth and think about someone other than himself and his business interests.

Let them eat cake!

alternateorg on April 7, 2001

Michael Dell offers the following words of wisdom on Apple: “We know how the movie ends, it’s just a question of what happens in the middle.
… It’s not to say that Apple’s products aren’t innovative or cool, but the economic factors here are so overwhelming, it’s very hard for them to swim against that tide.”

Let’s see, ‘we all know how the movie ends, it’s just a question of what happens in the middle’. Woah, that’s deep. Coming from an upper class princeling who has never had to worry about anything other than how to get the next million.

Would it ever occur to him that he just described EVERY SINGLE HUMAN LIFE? If he is implying that ‘what happends in the middle’ is a trivial side note of no consequence to the conclusion, why doesn’t he take his own advice and kill himself? After all, it’s the same ending to every single human life, regardless of what happens in the middle, right?

Born into a rich white upper class family, he has no idea how the rest of us live from day to day, without any hope of being a millionaire before 30.
“…the economic factors here are so overwhelming, it’s very hard for them to swim against that tide.” No sh*t, Michael. Has it occurred to you that ‘swimming against the tide’ is what the rest of us do our whole life? What would you know about saving up for a mortgage on a 5 figure salary with three kids?

It’s hiliarious when one of these upper class doughboys thinks he can dish out advice on what other people should do with their careers.

They just want to help

alternateorg on April 6, 2001

Worth checking out. For George Dubya: The World: a primer. Pretty fucking funny.


Canada
A winter-sports town that is popular with vacationing Americans. Sizeable minority of population speak in unidentified foreign language.

Ha.

WTF?

alternateorg on April 4, 2001

What the fuck is this?

Fucking ABCNews. The President’s CAT ran away, and it’s an ‘Exclusive?’ And people wonder why I don’t respect major media outlets.

Haven't we heard this before?

alternateorg on April 4, 2001


A two-month investigation by Sm@rt Partner shows the Internet is at risk from unexpected outages caused by everything from seismic disasters to system overloads, terrorism and just plain human error. Security is spotty, standards still don’t exist in many arenas and, because of the distributed ownership of the Internet itself, getting those standards in place is anything but easy.

What was it that I had heard a few years ago? Something along the lines of ‘the internet is growing so fast that it will collapse under its own weight sometime in 1998,’ or something? Whatever. Ain’t gonna happen.

To Be or not to Be

alternateorg on April 4, 2001

Rumor has it (from FuckedCompany, but I can’t find the story) the Be, inc is well, fucked. Laying off 25% of staff, and closing all European operations. Does anyone know if Jean-Louis Gassé is in France? Does that mean he’s laid off, too? Somehow, I doubt it, although it would probably be best for the platform, no? Maybe then the OS would run on PPC chips newer than 604s made in 1997.

My birthday was a riot

alternateorg on April 3, 2001

Yesterday was my 21st birthday. Most of you don’t care. But it also coincided with NCAA National Championship and my was school playing. This alone makes for anticipation of a fuckin’ outrageous birthday. However, after we lost things became just insane.

I’m in the crowd in one of the shots, but you can’t make it out. I wasn’t involved with rolling any cars or anything, but I did get some pictures that didn’t turn out so well because of the shitty quality of disposable cameras in the dark.

Just to clarify, I’m not into basketball and I really don’t think that rioting for sporting events is a reasonable thing to do. But it was a crazy birthday. Im afraid that every trip to the bars from now on will be a big let down in terms of excitement.