2007-11-09
America to the Rescue!
This would have been extremely funny, wasn't it for the fact that it is instead deeply disturbing!
The video is from the Swedish site Bubblare.se, since YouTube apparently had to kill it off due to Viacom International Inc. doing the DMCA dance.
2007-11-05
Google Mail - Gmail - have IMAP!
Google Mail, Gmail, have enabled IMAP for remote access! They formerly only had POP, which sucks for remote access.
Yes!
For those that doesn't get it instantly, this means that you may access your email using Thunderbird at home, Outlook at work (you must have a shitty job!), The Bat! at school and the very good Gmail web interface for everywhere else. Everything and everywhere will be synched: If you get an email and read it while at work, it will also pop up (as read) when you open up your Thunderbird at home, in the folder you moved it to when at work.
Many standard users choose to only use the Gmail web access system, as that is very simple to understand yet very flexible and powerful.
Google have choose to handle the tag/folder problem in the most obvious way: if you copy an email to another folder, it will still be the same email, just "tagged" with the new folder. This means that even if you remove an email from every IMAP folder, it will still show in the All mail folder. However, if you move it to Thrash or Spam, it will only reside there, and if you remove it from those, it'll be gone forever.
It was a breeze to set up in Thunderbird, everything just as expected.
For the ones that would get cracking: enable IMAP in the Gmail Settings (and click Save Settings!). The IMAP server is the obvious
Actually, using the Google SMTP server is a great option even if you don't use Gmail actively (you'll have to sign up for Gmail to be able to authenticate with the SMTP server, but you don't really need to use the actual Gmail). One reason is that the "outgoing email server settings" won't change if moving a laptop between home, work or a random coffee shop. Also, Google Mail's SMTP services implement DomainKeys and DKIM (same thing, really), so that your emails will get a huge "good score" on most spam-filtration systems on the reception side (your email won't end up in the SPAM folder of the recipient).
Lovely.
I will now change to using Gmail as mail host for my way to many accounts and folders, putting nearly my entire life in their hands..! (I already use Google Calendar!).
Yes!
For those that doesn't get it instantly, this means that you may access your email using Thunderbird at home, Outlook at work (you must have a shitty job!), The Bat! at school and the very good Gmail web interface for everywhere else. Everything and everywhere will be synched: If you get an email and read it while at work, it will also pop up (as read) when you open up your Thunderbird at home, in the folder you moved it to when at work.
Many standard users choose to only use the Gmail web access system, as that is very simple to understand yet very flexible and powerful.
Google have choose to handle the tag/folder problem in the most obvious way: if you copy an email to another folder, it will still be the same email, just "tagged" with the new folder. This means that even if you remove an email from every IMAP folder, it will still show in the All mail folder. However, if you move it to Thrash or Spam, it will only reside there, and if you remove it from those, it'll be gone forever.
It was a breeze to set up in Thunderbird, everything just as expected.
For the ones that would get cracking: enable IMAP in the Gmail Settings (and click Save Settings!). The IMAP server is the obvious
imap.gmail.com, using SSL (port 993, standard), and SMTP server, if you want your outgoing mail to go through Google instead of your ISP or your job or whatever, is the obvious smtp.gmail.com, using TLS. Since many ISPs block port 25 outgoing, thus hindering you from using another SMTP server than the ISPs' own, Google's SMTP server is also available at port 587. (The reason for blocking port 25 are good - it stops evil hackers from using zombie computers as spam servers).Actually, using the Google SMTP server is a great option even if you don't use Gmail actively (you'll have to sign up for Gmail to be able to authenticate with the SMTP server, but you don't really need to use the actual Gmail). One reason is that the "outgoing email server settings" won't change if moving a laptop between home, work or a random coffee shop. Also, Google Mail's SMTP services implement DomainKeys and DKIM (same thing, really), so that your emails will get a huge "good score" on most spam-filtration systems on the reception side (your email won't end up in the SPAM folder of the recipient).
Lovely.
I will now change to using Gmail as mail host for my way to many accounts and folders, putting nearly my entire life in their hands..! (I already use Google Calendar!).
2007-10-30
Proud America: The Waterboard
You Americans are really a nice bunch of fuckers..
Reading this article by Malcom Nance in the strange "Small Wars Journal" just makes me want to puke.
The above article mentions Tuol Sleng in Cambodia. I've also been there. Realizing that the USA actually employs the techniques described on the walls there is atrocious.
Jesus Fucking Christ, folks.
Please also take the time to read at least some of the 42 pages of this scholarly paper (pdf), titled "DROP BY DROP: Forgetting the history of water torture in U.S. Courts". The idea is that USA has several times been part of courts where people conducting waterboarding has been convicted harshly, up to life. Now all of a sudden you idiots employ the exact same tactics on your enemies, arguing for some insane reason that it is all perfectly legal, nice and ethical, and next to healthy for the victims. It is all thoroughly documented in the paper. It is revolting.
Your ugly leaders (and probably Jack Bauer in the "patriotic" 24-series) has destroyed your moral grounds and ethical foundations.
You have become scum.
I only hope that you some day will realize the HORRORS of your absolutely fucked up ways, and come back to the "western world" begging for forgiveness - which you shall not get, at least not from me.
This piece of history I shall always point to when USA is mentioned.
Quoting from Malcolm Nance's thorough article his three main points (sincerely hoping that he won't mind the context):
" There is No Debate Except for Torture Apologists
1. Waterboarding is a torture technique. Period.
...
2. Waterboarding is not a simulation.
Waterboarding is a controlled drowning that, in the American model, occurs under the watch of a doctor, a psychologist, an interrogator and a trained strap-in/strap-out team. It does not simulate drowning, as the lungs are actually filling with water. There is no way to simulate that. The victim is drowning. How much the victim is to drown depends on the desired result (in the form of answers to questions shouted into the victim’s face) and the obstinacy of the subject. A team doctor watches the quantity of water that is ingested and for the physiological signs which show when the drowning effect goes from painful psychological experience, to horrific suffocating punishment to the final death spiral.
Waterboarding is slow motion suffocation with enough time to contemplate the inevitability of black out and expiration –usually the person goes into hysterics on the board. For the uninitiated, it is horrifying to watch and if it goes wrong, it can lead straight to terminal hypoxia. When done right it is controlled death. Its lack of physical scarring allows the victim to recover and be threaten with its use again and again.
3. If you support the use of waterboarding on enemy captives, you support the use of that torture on any future American captives. ..."
The following video is from MSNBC's Morning Joe, broadcast on October 19, 2007.
Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, "Extraordinary rendition", "enhanced interrogation techniques", "chemical mind control" and only the devil himself knows what else you spawn of Satan have been up to. The horror. When are you ordinary Americans going to tell your SICK leaders to stop?
Dudes - I come close to want you all to die horribly, knowing such facts. What the FUCK do you think those "crazy muslims" want?
You are to thank yourself, morons.
Update, Jan/Feb 2008: USA finally finally acknowledges that it has waterboarded at least three persons, and defends its practice, stating that it might be used again. An interesting observation from Jennifer Daskal, senior counterterrorist counsel for Human Rights Watch: "Under what circumstances would the United States ever accept as legal one of its citizens being strapped to a board and suffocated with water?".
You double-moral fucking arseholes.
As I mentioned: You are to thank yourself, idiots.
Reading this article by Malcom Nance in the strange "Small Wars Journal" just makes me want to puke.
The above article mentions Tuol Sleng in Cambodia. I've also been there. Realizing that the USA actually employs the techniques described on the walls there is atrocious.
Jesus Fucking Christ, folks.
Please also take the time to read at least some of the 42 pages of this scholarly paper (pdf), titled "DROP BY DROP: Forgetting the history of water torture in U.S. Courts". The idea is that USA has several times been part of courts where people conducting waterboarding has been convicted harshly, up to life. Now all of a sudden you idiots employ the exact same tactics on your enemies, arguing for some insane reason that it is all perfectly legal, nice and ethical, and next to healthy for the victims. It is all thoroughly documented in the paper. It is revolting.
Your ugly leaders (and probably Jack Bauer in the "patriotic" 24-series) has destroyed your moral grounds and ethical foundations.
You have become scum.
I only hope that you some day will realize the HORRORS of your absolutely fucked up ways, and come back to the "western world" begging for forgiveness - which you shall not get, at least not from me.
This piece of history I shall always point to when USA is mentioned.
Quoting from Malcolm Nance's thorough article his three main points (sincerely hoping that he won't mind the context):
" There is No Debate Except for Torture Apologists
1. Waterboarding is a torture technique. Period.
...
2. Waterboarding is not a simulation.
Waterboarding is a controlled drowning that, in the American model, occurs under the watch of a doctor, a psychologist, an interrogator and a trained strap-in/strap-out team. It does not simulate drowning, as the lungs are actually filling with water. There is no way to simulate that. The victim is drowning. How much the victim is to drown depends on the desired result (in the form of answers to questions shouted into the victim’s face) and the obstinacy of the subject. A team doctor watches the quantity of water that is ingested and for the physiological signs which show when the drowning effect goes from painful psychological experience, to horrific suffocating punishment to the final death spiral.
Waterboarding is slow motion suffocation with enough time to contemplate the inevitability of black out and expiration –usually the person goes into hysterics on the board. For the uninitiated, it is horrifying to watch and if it goes wrong, it can lead straight to terminal hypoxia. When done right it is controlled death. Its lack of physical scarring allows the victim to recover and be threaten with its use again and again.
3. If you support the use of waterboarding on enemy captives, you support the use of that torture on any future American captives. ..."
The following video is from MSNBC's Morning Joe, broadcast on October 19, 2007.
Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, "Extraordinary rendition", "enhanced interrogation techniques", "chemical mind control" and only the devil himself knows what else you spawn of Satan have been up to. The horror. When are you ordinary Americans going to tell your SICK leaders to stop?
Dudes - I come close to want you all to die horribly, knowing such facts. What the FUCK do you think those "crazy muslims" want?
You are to thank yourself, morons.
Update, Jan/Feb 2008: USA finally finally acknowledges that it has waterboarded at least three persons, and defends its practice, stating that it might be used again. An interesting observation from Jennifer Daskal, senior counterterrorist counsel for Human Rights Watch: "Under what circumstances would the United States ever accept as legal one of its citizens being strapped to a board and suffocated with water?".
You double-moral fucking arseholes.
As I mentioned: You are to thank yourself, idiots.
2007-01-17
An English blog too!
YAB - Yet Another Blog - this time in English!
(here's the Norwegian one..)
Since there only are about 4.7 million Norwegians, while about 6570 million people in the world, where between 450 and 2900 million people know some English, I reckon that I can heighten my chances of anyone else reading my thoughts if I also have a blog in English.
Although, zero times whatever is still not a lot, is it?
Some other links:
Worldometers (several interesting numbers about the world!)
ibilio's "worldpop" (another world population estimate)
US popclock (so many Americans - and they're growing!)
Second language (Wikipedia)
Breathing Earth Watch the simulation for a little while - Food for thought!
PS: My girlfriend pointed out that Swedes and Danes might be able to read my Norwegian blog too.. Good point: There are over 5.4 million Danes and 9.1 million Swedes.
PPS: I suddenly realized that the number of people on the earth increase by a good bit more than "one Norway" every month (~6.3 million and more). That's ... pretty intense.
(here's the Norwegian one..)
Since there only are about 4.7 million Norwegians, while about 6570 million people in the world, where between 450 and 2900 million people know some English, I reckon that I can heighten my chances of anyone else reading my thoughts if I also have a blog in English.
Although, zero times whatever is still not a lot, is it?
Some other links:
Worldometers (several interesting numbers about the world!)
ibilio's "worldpop" (another world population estimate)
US popclock (so many Americans - and they're growing!)
Second language (Wikipedia)
Breathing Earth Watch the simulation for a little while - Food for thought!
PS: My girlfriend pointed out that Swedes and Danes might be able to read my Norwegian blog too.. Good point: There are over 5.4 million Danes and 9.1 million Swedes.
PPS: I suddenly realized that the number of people on the earth increase by a good bit more than "one Norway" every month (~6.3 million and more). That's ... pretty intense.
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