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… most of you who know me know that as a general rule, I couldn’t give a flying piss in the wind what actors/musicians/etc think and have to say, but I figure this one is worth posting up … since I pretty much completely agree with it 100%.

This video rated: M for Mature due to foul language and political shit you might not agree with.

Here’s the transcript for those who aren’t video buffs, I think it’s worth reading.

“Freedom is under attack, under attack by hysterical and well funded Christian psychotics, intellectually undernourished leaders who lie and manipulate information, overfed baby huey coward bitch motherfuckers like Carl Rove and their suck up weakling apologists like Sean Hannity, to question their authority is to be somehow unpatriotic, unamerican, and in league with terrorists worldwide… FUCK YOU. With even elections results becoming more and more questionable, the constitution a thing to be manipulated, ignored, and frivolously amended even democracy itself seems to be on the run, so where is the one place you can go and tell your version of the truth, rail against liars, fakes, and propagandists with your own unique propaganda, sign your name to it and let the whole world know how you feel? That’s right, the internet. Perhaps responsible for the most substantial shifts in culture in the last several decades there is so much freedom and potential on the world wide web that one is barely able to get ones head around it. Who in their right mind would dare to regulate or charge websites to be on the internet, who would dare to rain on a parade so fantastic that many of us would not know what to do without our high speed connection and our lives on the internet. Actually, some very powerful forces… telco companies want to make you pay for your site to be carried on the internet, if you cant afford to pay, guess what, thats right you’re cyber history pal. The bush administration wants major internet and phone companies to keep track of where their customers surf all in the name of “the war on terror” don’t you know, how much do you want to bet they want the internet regulated, contained, and thrown into a cell at Guantanamo bay. For a country that talks so much about freedom being on the march, seems to me that some people want anything but, if they come for your freedom you must not only resist you must strike back with a vengeance that will stun them, on this front if your anger and outrage are not at the forefront then you’re already dead, dead to me anyway, fuck these cowards, these traitors, these enemies of democracy, thanks for watching the show this season, never relent.” - Henry Rollins

Some gmail users have finally been hitting the 2g limit on the amount of mail you can have (well almost 3g now, but regardless) this blog has a post describing what happened when he reached the limit.  That being said… I used to have 18g of mail stored… i dumped it after I pulled as much out of it as I could and I’m now sitting at about 1g including my gmail… pity you can’t import your old mail into gmail > : )

Over at gonintendo you can see the new thicker straps coming out for replacement when you break your strap.  Nintendo really responded pretty well and quick on getting heavier straps since people are swinging the wiimote hard enough to break the previous strap.  I’ve gotta wonder what the previous strap was rated at… I’ll bet it was fairly sturdy to begin with and people are just swinging obscenely hard (I’ve seen some people play ddr *twitch*)  Still stalking a Wii personally, either strap will work fine for me… I don’t get that energetically into my video game experience.

So I had an opportunity to fiddle with a Zune today at office max while I was getting a new computer chair. It’s an interesting player but in all honesty I’d rather have an iPod or Zen. The Zune just has a lot of restrictions that don’t make any sense if they’re honestly trying to gain market share with this player… I choose to look at this player like most Microsoft early releases… horrible and will get better in revisions. Think about it… 98 was bad… 98SE wasn’t to bad comparatively. IE3/4 was *horrible*, IE5 was a Netscape killer. The XBOX was pretty lackluster but the 360 is truly a beast. I expect the Zune will be a similar product… right now it’s weak but in the future it has some potential. They really need to get some marketing people and techies working on that project pronto though.

Edit: Aszurom sent me this picture for this post… rofl.

I expect the worst out of reviewers, I knew a few who legitimately evaluated the games the way they played and basically they got ripped apart and the company threatened to pull advertising revenue from the magazine unless they retracted the review, etc. So I *know* there is a lot of dirty behind the scenes buyouts out there going on. However… don’t try to put the fault on the reviewer or people offended by people passing it off as truth. This gem at wired by Michael Ansaldo tries to fault Hexus for publishing emails about Alienware telling them in writing point blank “We won’t send you hardware anymore because you didn’t give us a good review, guarantee a good review and we’ll send you hardware.” Gee, do you think he may suddenly feel a bit guilty about taking payoffs in the past for good reviews? The original article by Hexus is published here. If you’d like to see alienware back peddle a bit, read more on the last page…