I’m gonna release secret classified information from the government.
Watch the experimental Super-Caffeine designed to keep our troops fighting for months on end with just a single dose.
Warning: Spastic content!

Found at Mostly Cajun…

I for one don’t think this is needed, or wanted. I do respect those that think it is necessary, but I think it isn’t exactly what they want. So, here is what the amendment should read:
“No person may be charged or convicted of any crime or misdemeanor should they whup the ass of anyone burning, defacing, or disrespecting the flag of the United States.”

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The Razor has got some great photoshop on the NYT…
Some more here and the wrap up here…

I know I’ve been slacking here lately. And it’ll take a while to get the readership back up.. but I’m back, with 4 posts so far this morning. I’ll be bugging the co-hosts to post more too.

A review about Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 that’s coming out soon…

Although the Office Communicator 2007 client can connect to an IP-PBX, it has to first go through Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 as an intermediary. I should point out that Microsoft’s smartphones (Windows Mobile 5.0) have still been fairly slow to take off as compared to Treo and others, which are often used for business applications such as email access.
If Microsoft wanted to give its smartphones a shot in the arm, the company should have included support in Office Communicator 2007 client for any SIP-based IP-PBX without the need for the Server 2007 platform. Sure, it’s nice to have all the tight integration and ease of management, but hasn’t Microsoft realized that most organizations are not 100 percent Microsoft shops? What if I want to use Microsoft’s client with the popular Asterisk IP-PBX and without the commercial Office Communications Server 2007 software? Can’t do it.

OK… now, here’s my question: how does this guy mix up Microsoft’s smartphones, which are cellphones, that have pocket pc capabilities, with VOIP?
I have a smartphone, the XV6700. And I run Communicator 2005 on it, so I can chat via LCS no problem.
But it has nothing to do with the Communicator client which runs on your normal windows desktop like MSN messenger and is primarily an instant messenger platform based on the LCS. LCS also supports SIP signalling to tie it in with PBXs. In fact, I did this exact thing the other day…
But what it really comes down to: Office Communicator is a client for the Live Communications Server. You don’t buy OC clients if you don’t have LCS. That’s just stoopid. And then the guy complains that a side feature of OC requires LCS too. Does this make sense to anyone???

After being married 25 years,one day I took a look at my wife and said, “Mary, do you realize 25 years ago, I had a cheap apartment, a cheap car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10 inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot 25 year old brunette. Now, we have a nice house, nice car, big bed and plasma screen TV,but I’m sleeping with a 50 year Old Woman. It seems to me that you are not holding up your side of things.”

Now Mary is a very reasonable woman. She told me to go out and find a hot 25 year old brunette and she would make sure that I would once again be living in a cheap apartment, driving a cheap car, sleeping on a sofa bed….

I shut up and took out the trash..

What drives people to the cities, while others are thoroughly disgusted by that type of life?
While having a chat with a vendor the other day, we came up with what we feel is the reasons.

It comes down to responsibilities.

Some people believe things should be done for them, and when something goes wrong, it is someone else’s fault.
These folks, lets call them, liberals, move to the city. There, since they generally don’t own a car, they like being told if you show up at this place called a bus stop at a certain time, someone else will take you to where you want to go. If the bus is late, it is someone’s fault that you can blame. Once you get to your destination, a place called work, you’re loaded into a people farm of cubicles, where again you’re always told what to do. How to do it. When to do it by. When you can take a break. etc. Once home in your apartment, along with the thousand other people you live with in the same building, you go to a tenants meeting where everyone is told what day to take out their trash. And how loud to play their stereos. And that they can’t have pets. And then the sniping starts where the tenant in 34a complains about the upstairs neighbor for some perceived slight.
And these people must have more welfare. And can’t someone else clean the streets. And can’t someone else fix the building. And the city need more cops to make us all feel better without having to do anything personally.

I think you get the hint.

While out in the red counties, things are pretty different. Sure, some state services are essential, such as highways. But people are more responsible for themselves. If they’re not at work on time, guess whose fault it is. Not the bus drivers who are on strike. And work is also different. More people are their own bosses. And while cubicle farms still exist, the atmosphere is truly different.
A non-city dweller hears a sound outside the house. They’ll pick up their gun and go out and investigate, and take care of the issue themselves. Car breaks down? No whining to be heard, cell phones only come out after the hood has been opened and things poked and prodded. The call doesn’t go to 911, it goes to their buddy nearby who can come out with his pickup and give a tow to the mechanic. Town meeting? The mayor is called by his first name.

So, who would you rather be? I suppose there isn’t truly a “right” answer.

A bit of an update… Right Thinking posts on a new study showing the difference between wolves and sheeple…

About 50 people, mostly students at the university, were divided into wolves and sheep based on their performance on a standardized test. They also were tested for the presence of stress hormones before and after the test.

Not surprisingly, the wolves hated losing. But not the sheep.

As our results show, one man’s poison is another man’s cake, said psychology professor Oliver Schultheiss, who conducted the same study earlier in Germany and found the same results. The power-hungry wolves among our participants were hit hardest by defeat, whereas the sheep couldn’t care less about being beaten.

crosslinked to Mudville…

Google makes some plugin where it will synchronize your firefox bookmarks. Wanting to do that between home and work, I gave it a try.
And now I give it an F.
I’m still trying to figure out just how many bookmarks were lost…

Anyone who says anything about Geneva conventions and the terrorists, and close Guantamano because its cruel, well, they can go fuck themselves with something large and spikey.
Why? This is why.

An Iraqi military official said the bodies showed signs of torture and of being killed in “a barbaric way.”

Can anyone give me any reason at all why we should not bring back the time honored practice of burying Islamic terrorists in pig skins? Notice I didn’t say dead Islamic terrorists…

Chizumatic pointed me to here… pdb.blog-city.com

In case you haven’t noticed, I love America, unreservedly and without irony. I like to think that I embrace America’s awesomeness and dents with equal enthusiasm.

Specifically, I love the South. I love every damn thing about the South. I love sweet tea, flirty waitresses, mountains with trees on ‘em, fluffy biscuits, porch dawgs, barn cats, muddy pickups, gun shops filled with folks doin’ more chattin’ than buyin’, redneck Sheriff’s deputies, affordable portable housing, pig pickin’s, and banjos. Every morning I get up with a shiver when I realize that when I swing my legs out and put my feet on the floor, they’ll be hitting a Southern American floor!

Why the daily rejoice?

I spent 20 goddamn years in Canada, that’s why.

Life on the edge ya know…

BBC NEWS has a comments area where people are talking about closing Guantamano’s prison camp.

All I have to say is, I find it hard to believe most of the people in the rest of the world are so mind numbingly stupid.

Yeah, people have a right to their own opinions. But no country in the world is more transparent about what it does than the US. And these people are running around believing the whole thing is almost a black helicopter operation.

Others can’t believe that suicides could be used as a military tactic, and it could only be caused by despair. I just have to say that tactic is working perfectly, since all these morons are doing exactly what was expected of them. “Close Gitmo because these peoples hearts are hurting, its not fair… waaaaah.” Hey fucknuts, these people practically invented suicide bombings. What disconnect is happening in your brain that you can’t put it together?

I would not be suprised if the group consisted of much more than the three people. That this was a perfectly calculated idea, with the three “winners” being honored to be selected. That they’re not celebrated by the others.

Either way, we are a little bit closer to closing Gitmo. We just need a lot more winners down there…

Incoherant Ramblings is the place to visit.
Some of you may remember Risawn as the “Not sorry” one with the big gun.

Well, times have changed, she’s back in the US from Bosnia, and now she’s working in Yellowstone. I was thinking about taking a ride up there sometime this summer myself, I may just have to say hi!

English only isn’t the problem

Situated in a South Philadelphia immigrant neighborhood, Geno’s — which together with its chief rival, Pat’s King of Steaks, forms the epicenter of an area described as “ground zero for cheesesteaks” — has posted small signs telling customers, “This Is AMERICA: WHEN ORDERING `SPEAK ENGLISH.”‘

Everyone’s all upset, idiot immigrant groups are smelling a lawsuit, all the normal crap.

The problem is: Pats doesn’t taste as good.

Listening to the radio this morning, I’ve realized that both Tony Snow and my sister do the exact same thing: Deal with 1st graders who ask the same questions over and over and over and over again who tend to whine and complain when they don’t get their way.

The Call Center Movie…

“What the hell is an aluminum falcon?”

Basic order of operation: multiplication before addition ; unlock your car door before trying to open it;
I’m currently doing time chained to a cube at a large corporation.  The office building I’m working in has two features we care about.

The first is a breakroom with a wall of free beverages.  Sodas, water, carbonated water, juice, stuff.

The second is a bathroom.  They’re in close proximity.  Not close enough to be an issue, but close enough to cause an interesting phenomenon.

Now when I wander out of my cube, I’ll take my empty cans/bottles into the breakroom recycling bins.  Then hit the bathroom.  The back into the breakroom (which is maybe a 15′ walk because of walls in the way) to grab more drinks and then back to the cube.  Makes sense.

All the time I see people in the bathroom putting their unopened (or opened?) drinks on the bathroom counter, using the facilities, possibly washing up, and then grabbing their beverage and heading out to where ever.

Order of operations: Use bathroom, then get drinks. Makes sense to me…

–jason