It is perfectly possible that my carefully constructed path will lead me off a cliff.

North korea is a display of the miracle of organization. It is a state held together entirely by discipline and habit. The eastern europeans survived for barely 45 years at the price of a warped generation. What will the consequences of this more extreme and long term project be?

It does not matter to me much where or when I am to disintegrate eternally, only that it happens. I must hope that physics are as pessimistic as me.

Thoughts

My views tend to move in tiny steps. No single source radically shifts the way I think. I am building a road in the fashion that the Romans did. The road is leading me towards reality. If a only a few stones out of thousands are missing or otherwise unsuitable, I can still reach my destination safely.

Those who follow a single individual or doctrine have no such truth to comfort themselves with. They stare at a monument instead of following a road. But when their stone idol falls, as they all must fall eventually, they are crushed beneath it.

http://forums.divx.com/viewtopic.php?topic=60522&forum=9

No government, no organization, no person speaks for me. I have no allies. My image is my own. I am part of no greater movement, and the only things I can be criticized for are my actions and my words.

And I am a fortress.

genetic engineering is really a form of time travel. It speeds up the natural gradual modification of DNA. Instead of countless generations grounding out the best adaptations, taking millions of years and countless suffering and death, we cut to the chase. We tweak the DNA ourselves into what we need it to be. We have to be careful not to make mistakes.

We will make them anyway, of course. But we can fix them quickly, much more quickly than nature. Time and nature themselves are passing the torch to us, if we will only have the courage to risk being singed by it.

Charles Whitman is an uncomfortable reminder of just how little control we have.

Great Two Player Games
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario Three
Contra III
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Rock and Roll Racing
Pocky and Rocky 2
Ghoul Patrol
Turtles in Time
Donkey Kong Country
Secret of Mana
Steet Fighter Two
Super Smash Tv
Bomberman
Final Fight 2
Final Fight 3
Tiny Toons Wacky Sports
Sunset Riders
Soldiers of Fortune
Yoshi's Island

If you see history as a series of heroes and villians, you don't see history. You only see your own mind.

Sssssh

The administrative head of the project was Stalin's former chief of security Lavrentii Beria, and its scientific head was the physicist Igor Kurchatov. The project started outside Moscow and later moved to the village of Sarov, which then disappeared from the maps for forty-five years.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project

Cheers mate! We can kill 16 million civilians BEFORE the yanks kill all the rest.

On August 29, 1949 the USSR tested its first nuclear weapon at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan (see also Soviet atomic bomb project). Scientists in the United States from the Manhattan Project had warned that in time, the Soviet Union would certainly develop nuclear capabilities of its own. Nevertheless, the effect upon military thinking and planning in the US was dramatic, primarily due to the fact that American military strategists had not anticipated the Soviets would 'catch up' this soon. However, at this time, they had not discovered that the Russians had conducted significant espionage of the project from spies at Los Alamos, the most significant of which was done by the theoretical physicist Klaus Fuchs. The first Soviet bomb was more or less a deliberate copy of the Fat Man device.

With the monopoly over nuclear technology broken, world-wide nuclear proliferation accelerated. The United Kingdom tested its first atomic bomb in 1952, followed by France in 1960 and then the People's Republic of China in 1964. While much smaller than the arsenals of the USA and the USSR, Western Europe's nuclear reserves were nevertheless a significant factor in strategic planning during the Cold War. A top-secret white paper produced for the British Government in 1959, compiled by the Royal Air Force, estimated that British atomic bombers were capable of destroying key cities and military targets in the Soviet Union, with an estimated 16 million deaths in the USSR (half of whom were estimated to be killed on impact and the rest fatally injured) before bomber aircraft from the United States' Strategic Air Command reached their targets.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_war

Oh yeah, one other thing.

We'll all die too.

people are naturally petty. They take single incidents and claim that it represents something pervasive and universal.

Both sides of any issue should be presented, but they should be weighted accordingly. It would be instructive to teach children about holocaust denial, if only to show how flimsy and absurd it is. By putting them in an information blackout, when they eventually and inevitably discover the restricted information, it will have greater credibility by virtue of it being previously supressed instead of diffused.

In the long term, building walls is not a solution. They have all eventually crumbled, and they always will. Of course, in the long term, we will all be dead, so it might not be a good idea to be against all walls at all times.

Forgiveness is necessary, but forgiveness of a great enough crime is a crime in of itself.

It is the height of folly to run a race you know you can't win. One should only attempt to gain political office when one is reasonably confident of victory. Doing otherwise only exposes weakness.
When one bans something offensive or controversial, it does not actually address the core problem. Imagine if a doctor told a patient with aids who was covered in sores that the solution was to wear makeup to conceal the sores instead of attempting to slow the spread of the AIDS virus. That is what one does with censorship. One can ban the public expression of an idea, and sometimes in an extremely totalitarian society, the private expression of an idea, but it is not yet possible to ban the personal expression of an idea. It is vital to win the argument with nazis, religious nihlists, cultists, communists, neo-liberals, and lunatics of all manner and shape. By supressing them, they fester. They become more unchecked, insular, and radical. Engage and destroy their beliefs in a systematic manner.

What pisses everyone off so much about the belorus dictatorship is that it works at least as well as post soviet capitalist 'democracy'.

A few simple thoughts:

No crime is too great.

I don't think sexual preferences, eccentricties, or oddities reveal anything about a person.

Fear of violence and overthrow leads to more rapid change than parlimentarianism.

The police are your friends. Any chance of victory depends on swaying them to your cause. You will never defeat them in a pitched battle, so you must defeat them with words and comraderie.

Those present at tienamen square fucked up. They pushed a little too hard. Had they protested, then declared victory and withdrawn, china would be a different place today.

It should be legal to murder nihlists.

Oligarchy is inevitable, so all talk of anarchism is nonsense. All we can hope to do is to create the best oligarchy possible.

The Kronstadt rebellion is enough to forever tarnish trotski.

Insanity!

http://www.stephenjdubner.com/journalism/101899.html

There are things that I am glad for that at the time caused me a great deal of suffering. I am glad that I was an ugly and socially awkward child. It gave me more time to read books and prevented me from having my time consumed by socializing and games. It also, to a large degree, kept me separate from the mass culture.

I am glad that I went to an abysmal failure of a high school. The purpose of the mandatory education is to grind a few neccessary skills into to people, but primarily, to grind them down. It serves many functions. It prevents crime by youths. It acts as a daycare for adults so that both parents can be in the work force. This leaves the child at the mercy of the mass culture, which is of course, very stupid.

I have no objections with that part of the system. Most parents are very stupid people. It would be best if the proper raising of the children was left to the society, with the parents taking on a supplementary (or possibily opositional) role, but in any case, be secondary.

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4191

this is a very fascistic/mericratic article. I like it.

Epic Victories and Crushing Defeats in the realm of the Sandwich

A few weeks back, I finally got into sandwiches. A particularly delicious BLT was the cause, and I won't tease you with the succulent and erotically charged details that you can never fully experience, ever.

Suffice to say, it got me thinking about the possibilities two pieces of bread can hold. The first attempt was a crude, primitive sandwich, consisting of turkey, 91 cent mozarella cheese, and whitewheat bread. (don't ask. Let's just say that you're going to be getting diabetes and I'm going to be getting rock-hard erections when I'm 80. You don't want to say it? Fine, I'll say it, and say it's from both of us.)

Harnessing the power of a microwave, which wikipedia tells me "can result in severe burns." Unfortunately, I permenantly lost my sight in a freak accident both before and after, but not during the reading of that excerpt. (don't ask. Let's just say that you're going to be shooting milk out of your anus on the hour, every hour, in about 6 months, and I'm going to be building log cabins out of pudding and selling them to art dealers.)

Moving on: I fused the cheese, bread, and flesh into a single object that can never be taken apart or destroyed, then consumed it. It was suprisingly bountiful in flavor, but it could have been better. Much better.

I was missing many things. My checkbook, my wallet, my phone, part of my thumb and possibly one or both of kidneys, but none of those relate to this story in any way.

The things I was missing were condiments and spices. I don't mean fancy things like goose liver and tumeric. I mean things like mustard and pepper. Furthermore, a quick check of my pockets revealed that I could touch myself in public via a clever hole without anyone realizing. A more extensive check revealed that the existence of previously established clever hole precluded the possibility of money being in previously established pockets. Presently established godfuckingdamn it.

So, with the sweat of my brow, I extracted a few dollars from the harsh and infertile penny jar then went to a grocery store. I went on a whirlwind tour of spending, carousing, gambling and whoring. I'm not sure she was working "it" at that moment, in the grocers, but I am sure that she was a whore. I purchased "durkees", a cunning southern sauce. I purchased "for maximum value mustard", which I pray is a near cousin of actual mustard and not a dollar store variant of rat poison. Why would I suspect that you ask? Let me illuminate your empty head, pilgrim. By removing all the letters but the first letter of each word, we get FMVM. I feel that even the most thickskulled in our number should be able to make the tiny deductive step neccessary for establishing reasonable doubt of possible proof. Moving on: I furthermore purchased lettuce in a bag. I inquired within, and was assured that it was fresh by a local retard who is happier and wealthier than me. And I don't want to again address issues of my sexual orientation (straight and very narrow. Just like my penis. It's like a garden hose. I have to coil it in my pants or it'll get crimped.), but anyway, regardless, forthcoming, I think the retarded gentleman was "packing some serious penis heat", as a more discrete statesman once said. So, the real question is, who will put him out of his misery? He clearly can't enjoy life as much as me, with my tiny apartment, high rent, painful rectal itch, and deep loathing for all humanity including myself.

I also purchased several varities of curdled cows milk, which were cleverly remarketed as "cheese". Well done gentlemen, but don't think I didn't notice. You have been warned.

I came home. I put the various components together. I reached for the pepper without looking. I reached for the pepper with looking. I reached for the pepper in the grocery bag. I reached for the pepper in places there had previously been no pepper. I frantically reached over the entire kitchen multiple times for the pepper. Finally, I reached for the godfuckingdamn it and placed it slowly in my mouth, savoring the remarkable but spiceless flavor.

Postscript: The sandwich was disposed of. No pepper once, shame on me. No pepper twice, I throw away the fucking sandwich.

Second Postscript: I called up 6 or 7 sandwich shops in town that night to complain. From Subway to Jimmy Johns, from local businesses to monolithic multinational corporations, I complained without distinction. I complained about the seasoning. I complained about the service. I complained about other ingredients that never, technically interacted with my mouth and never technically came from thier store. I feel no guilt.! I needed to complain and curse regarding a sandwich with someone. I probably didn't "need" to threaten them, the lives of their families, or mention that "my gang" had been "casing" the "joint" and was going to "light it up" if they didn't give me "satisfaction", but I did. It was a mistake borne soley out of a desire for justice.