Stonehead

Sweet.

Looks like some buttons got pushed. Bwahahahahaha! That's right brand it as heresy, ridicule it, laugh about it but don't try to see the other viewpoint. "Since the early 1970s the average annual salary, adjusted for inflation, has risen from $32,522 to $35,864 -- according to a Fortune magazine study -- an increase of approximately 10 percent. In that same time the annual compensation of this country's top 100 CEOs has increased from $1.3 million to $37.5 million -- according to the same Fortune survey. Over this 30-year period, we have seen American CEOs earnings increase from 39 times the pay of the average worker to more than 1,000 times in 1999. In comparison the CEOs of major corporations in Great Britain and France earn only 22 times the wages of their average workers. But remarkably, as we approach a presidential election year President Bush and his Republican Party are doing their best to ignore these realities, while the Democrats seem incapable of framing new ideas to correct them." Forum: Stop the plutocracy

Have you seen the latest in high tech airport security? Dept of Homeland Security scores. (NSFW) Patience. It may take a moment to load on narrowband.

Yeah like that justifies the most inequitable society in the history of the world. Tool.

Yeah, the double standard BS!

I think the Supreme Court determined that it's not pron if it has some redeeming quality, which means it has artistic, aesthetic, or social value, or in other words, if you doesn't only cause a bodily response but rather engages your mind in thinking, contemplation, etc. for that elusive additional quality that makes the work more than titilation. Or sumthin like that.

oh yeah the possibilities and you can tell everyone that you lost the tip of your finger to frostbite!

Hey here's a game for you climbers who also happen to be sado-masochists. Feel The Fear! Fear isn't the only thing you'll feel when you play this exciting game of chance. It's truly electrifying! Select the number of players, put your finger in one of the four slots, and let it "spin." Lights and sounds start out fast and gradually slow down (just like a roulette wheel) to prolong the tension. When the sound stops, someone gets the shock of their life -- and everyone else gets a big laugh! Victims are selected at random electronically, so you never know who's next. Sure to be a scream at your next party. 3 "AA" demo batteries included. Not recommended for small children, cowards, the extremely unlucky, Russians or persons with a medical condition.

Since this thread kind of has a weird vibe, I'll continue along those lines. The 'green flash' has been referred to as the eye of God (or the eye of Reason, the sun being equated with the light of reason) and thus is equivalent to the eye depicted on the apex of the pyramid visible on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States (also shown on the back of the US dollar bill). Latin wording is seen above and below: annuit coeptis Latin. He (God) has favored our undertakings. novus ordo seclorum Latin. A new order of the ages. The latter is the motto on the U.S. Great Seal. "Both phrases on the seal are taken from Virgil's Aeneid, thus identifying the American Republic with the virtues of the ancient Roman Republic. "Annuit Coeptis" comes from Virgil's lines, "Jupiter omnipotens, audacibus annue coeptis" (All-powerful Jupiter, favor my daring undertakings). "Novus ordo Seclorum" comes from another Virgil quote, "magnus ab integro seclorum nascitur ordo" (A mighty order of ages is born anew),referring to the birth of the Roman Republic. Charles Thomson explained that the pyramid sugnifies strength and duration and the eye and the motto ," ... allude to the many signal interpositions of Providence in favor of the American cause". He also stated that the date underneath the pyramid "...is that of the Declaration of Independence and the words beneath it signify the beginning of the new American era, which commences from that date." Seems like all this symbolism (sigils, incantations, etc.) takes on added meaning with the Neoconservatives' Project for a New American Century, which is proposed as an outline justification for the invasion of Iraq. Told ya this would be wacky. BTW, I haven't seen any unusual celestial events but others have: News story, January 6, 2004 "Hundreds of Spaniards have reported seeing balls of fire or incandescent objects fall from the sky, emergency centres said. Some of the objects are believed to have sparked fires. The phenomenon was reported on a stretch reaching from Galicia in the north-west to the Balearic Islands in the east. No injuries were reported. In northern Leon province, residents reported seeing a ball of fire light up the sky and explode in a mountainous area, igniting a fire and shaking house windows. A similar explosion was heard near Palencia in the north." Also: News story, January 2, 2004 A meteorite has hit northern Iran causing minor damage to property but there were no immediate reports of casualties, state radio has said. It said the impact sent locals in panic onto the streets in the northern town of Babol in Mazandaran province. "A meteorite which hit Babol on Friday morning caused only some minor damage to residential units," radio said, without giving further details or citing any source. It said the impact was felt up to one kilometre away.

I got the hunch that the identity theft problem will grow to such proportions plus add problems such as counterfeiting and other criminal actions, that we will one day see a national ID card supplimented by fingerprinting, DNA sampling, or tracking by RFID (radio frequency id)tags. It doesn't take much of a stretch of imagination to see that. Couple that with the currently existing storage capacity of computers and damn, you've got quite the making of a totalitarian world. But hey, what I got to worry for? I ain't got nothun to hide.

Seems the common thread between being a libertine, a nihilist, and an anarchist is the disregard of convention and ultimately of authority imposed from without. "I write of the great eternal truths that bind all men together the whole world over. We eat, we shit, we fuck, we kill, and we die." --Marquis de Sade, In Literature

What about Aleister Crowley?

Would you have considered Marquis de Sade a nihilist or an anarchist or both? BTW, I know he's French not Russian and he lived earlier.

bullshit, thats a black-hatted Hollywood cowboy thing. And actually, many of the bomb throwers were Nihilists. But who could tell the difference between a russian nihilist and a russian anarchist? Yeah, yeah, it's caricatured propanganda meant to send you the message that these guys hate all things good people like. Baseball, hotdog, apple pie,...sweet girls. So, what makes a bomb-throwing activist a nihist as opposed to an anarchist?

Interesting reaction by Brazil... Brazil Starts Fingerprinting U.S. Travelers I'd imagine that the European governments probably have adequate internal policing and cooperate with INTERPOL. If I recall correctly, the idea of an international police organization developed around the late 1800's to early 1900's in response to actions by anarchy groups, actions such as bombings and assassinations. The image of the villain in black cape getting ready to toss a round bomb came from these anarchists. These guys also tied pretty girls to the railroad tracks, too.

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He's the one on the left with the battleaxe guitar.

Bushwhackers

Fuck mad cow. Fuck the terrorists. Fuck SARS. If these things signal the trend of the future then it looks fucked up to me. Better now to live it up.

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That's what she said.

Yes, this year's statuette was donated by Iain. Will you be giving the acceptance speech now? the New Year.

"Concept" sounds too much like conception. The ball and chain again. Oh well I guess some people can make it work--climb all the time and continue to stay hooked up.

Institution? Criminy! Sounds too much like prison or school.

Talking about axes. What'd it be like if jolly ol' Santa had an axe? Click the link to play the 'mad santa game'. Update: link repaired.