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June 24, 2004

The Perfect Weapon

Posted by nerdling | June 24, 2004 02:34 PM

Oklahoma judge Donald D. Thompson has been given the boot because he was a little bit too friendly while on the bench. And by friendly, I mean shaved, oiled and pleasured himself. In court. Under the robe. During a trial.

The US Government is now attempting to hold P2P networks, among others, responsible for the unknowingly illegal acts of file traders.

In a prepared statement, Hatch compared peer-to-peer networks, which allow people to exchange any digital content over their computers, to villains of literature and film, including a character in the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang who lured youngsters into danger with false promises of free lollipops. He said the networks should be held liable for creating technologies that enable often unwitting consumers to house pirated materials on their computers.

We are, obviously, looking at a very black-and-white situation of good versus evil. P2P software developers are intentionally creating software that will lure the innocent public into doing illegal things. These are bad people who make good people do bad things.

Logically, this idea has so many holes it wouldn't even make a decent sponge. If I were to follow this line of thought, that would mean that my parents are responsible for the car accident I was in when I was 17 because they bought me the car that enabled me to be in the accident. This means that bar owners are responsible for drunk drivers because they sold them alcohol. This means that gun dealers are responsible for shooting deaths because they enabled the discharge of the weapon. Hell, even cows are responsible for being made into the hamburger meat that so vexed Morgan Spurlock and the legions of litigious McDonald's victims. Nothing that anyone engages in, knowingly or unknowingly, is actually their fault because we no longer have any personal accountability!

"Today, Kiss has become the worst possible parody of itself, a traveling Vegas act located at the intersection of nostalgia and bloated bombast. The band's contempt for its audience is palpable."

A former Kiss Army member makes a list of the ten worst moments in Kiss history. With so many to choose from, I can't believe he only picked ten. {Via largehearted boy}

For those who might be interested, former Jane's Addiction/Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist and Mr Carmen Electra Dave Navarro has a new project called Camp Freddy. It's a cover band featuring Chris Chaney (Jane's Addiction), Matt Sorum (Velvet Revolver), Billy Morrison (The Cult) and, uh, Donovan Leitch as band members, as well as a revolving cast of singers that appear with the band at will. It doesn't sound all that exciting to me, but I'm only here to serve.

Visit the blog for Dave's newest new project (not Camp Freddy).

Anyone who ever claimed that rock 'n' roll saves lives could be more right than they know. Thermoacoustic refrigeration is a process that uses soundwaves to generate a heat transfer in a chamber of noble gases. The process eliminates the need to use CFCs as coolants, thereby removing the environmentally hazardous by-products of current refrigeration techniques.

Just imagine: Judas Priest's "Hell Bent for Leather" chilling your beer. It's almost too good to be true.