Now that David Chase has completely ruined his series (ever noticed how all the good mob movies ended with a rather satisfying ending?), its not time to cancel HBO. Since 6 Feet, Deadwood and Sopranos are all gone, why have this piece of crap around?
Why didn't HBO , as OMC said it in "How Bizarre," 'Buy the Rights.' They didn't need Chase anymore. Chase is an idea guy, and not a super great one at that, get this, a miniseries featuring plot-lines ripped from tens of great mob movies. Its fun to watch. Who would have thought?
Anyways, Chase directed only the first and last episodes. It shows. The last episode was inferior.
Also, it tended to be that things that he wrote and co-wrote were below the batting average of the shows.
He left curb stomp Coco out there, the Russian guy in the woods, Silvio in a coma, The FBI guy saying "we'll win this yet" without explanation, Uncle Junior demented, Paulie with unresolved issues with Tony, you name it, this scumbag Chase (David DeCaesare, lets call this prick by his name, David DeCaesare) left everything hanging.
The show ended for my when they killed big pussy anyways.
I wish someone would capture David DeCaesare-Chase, and cut his right leg off above the knee. And while cutting it off laugh and spit in his face. Tell him he didn't need that right leg like everyone didn't need a proper Sopranos ending. Thats what I wish would happen. He may have money and hubris, but he now would have to limp like the bitch gimp he is, and his little piles of money couldn't change that.
Anyhow, I think HBO should hijack the rights and hire even bigger and better writers to finish this off with style. One of the greatest movies of all time, Godfather, ended properly, this is just a piss poor excuse at being artsy, but in reality its a giant F.U. to the fan base.
Everyone, get the stones to get up and cancel HBO. It just went from Home Box Office to seriously Heavy Body Odor.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Janitor's Evil State / Evil Eye music : Koyaanisqatsi
In the scrubs episode "My New God", (98th episode), the music playing during the evil stare is Koyaanisqatsi, by minimalist composer Philip Glass, who was himself lampooned in the south park episode "A South Park Christmas." The Janitor rules.
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Core inflation, Inflation, Money Supply, The Fiat Monetary System Nearing Breakdown.
Core inflation, Inflation, Money Supply, The Fiat Monetary System Nearing Breakdown.
The New York federal reserve said that using "core inflation" is not good inflation metric, it is more telling to use a moving average of CPI.
Which means that all those times "healthy" inflation numbers were reported the numbers were seen as good simply because gas and food were not used in the calculation of those inflation numbers.
Reading 'The Economist' paints another ugly picture for inflation: 100 USD in the year 2000 is equivalent to 204 USD today. Did your salary adjust (double) to accommodate this horrific inflation?
In fact, inflation is such a problem and is latent on everyone's mind it was satirized in a cartoon in the Economist:
A bull with horns and a t-shirt that says "Markets" runs full speed towards a soccer ball. He punts the ball at full speed and full strength. The ball flies away. The bull flexes his muscles after his stratospheric punt. A HUGE soccer ball comes back and blows the bull away. Another bull with bandages and bruises comes into the picture with the caption "Inflation!" That "record" down when normalized against commodities, gold, industrials, steel, anything, isn’t so "record" high. It’s a new low being sold as a high - but the invisible hand knows.
With inflation, core or "All Items," factored in, the current "record" markets are just getting back to where they were five years ago, and if those records are adjusted for inflation… - Things aren’t doing to well - certainly not a record.
The Fed has been printing money, expanding the money supply for the last 6 years such that a dollar today is worth half as much as a dollar in 2000. See:
Big Mac Index (The Economist):
Big Mac in April 2000 was $2.15
Big Mac today: $3.22.
Wire: (anecdotal)
A coil of ROMEX wiring for houses used to about $35 bucks in 2000.
ROMEX (100ft 10/2) is $95 + shipping (weighs about 20lbs)
Gas: (energy.ca.gov)
Gas Price, 7/2003: $1.60 (CA)
Gas Price, Today : $3.50(CA)
US Median House Price of Homes Sold (source economagic.com)
Year 2000 - $165,000
Year 2006 - $232,500
US Average Price Of Homes Sold (economagic.com)
Year 2000 Q1: $202,900
Year 2006 Q1: $ 290,100
Has your salary nearly doubled since 2000? Looks like the money supply was expanded (M0 + M1 + M2 + M3 ), prices adjusted exactly to the increased money supply, yet a dollar is just as hard to earn. Jobless claims are underreported, and those who are not educated and in demand or not yet commoditized by inexpensive overseas or immigrant labor aren’t doing too well as far as being able to maintain a standard of living that the US should be capable of supporting.
The Fed stopped publishing the M3. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply . This is most likely a strategy to hide the vast increase in money supply.
The calculations for inflation that are often quoted is the 'core inflation,' which excludes GAS and FOOD. Yet this has been said by the NY Fed: "Analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York indicates that this measure is no better than a moving average of the Consumer Price Index as a predictor of inflation."
CPI and the "Core Inflation" are more or less the same thing. Inflation is being underreported. The prices for things not made in China / PRC are rising sharply.
This is Stagflation. We better hope for the dollar to come back to being money and hope interest rates go up. For all those with big loans they need to tie, those who foolishly borrowed greedily stole money from the children's future for transient low quality items and a McMansion - a liability for the owner in the form of taxes, insurance and paying interest, and a boon for the banks and local governments.
Low interest rates and "cheap money" help buy things you cant afford and may help stimulate non-US / overseas / emerging market sales, but salaries are still paid in USD, so rooting against the dollar destroys what is saved, destroys the value of profits and the buying power of the dollars for both businesses and employees.
The New York federal reserve said that using "core inflation" is not good inflation metric, it is more telling to use a moving average of CPI.Which means that all those times "healthy" inflation numbers were reported the numbers were seen as good simply because gas and food were not used in the calculation of those inflation numbers.
Reading 'The Economist' paints another ugly picture for inflation: 100 USD in the year 2000 is equivalent to 204 USD today. Did your salary adjust (double) to accommodate this horrific inflation?
In fact, inflation is such a problem and is latent on everyone's mind it was satirized in a cartoon in the Economist:
A bull with horns and a t-shirt that says "Markets" runs full speed towards a soccer ball. He punts the ball at full speed and full strength. The ball flies away. The bull flexes his muscles after his stratospheric punt. A HUGE soccer ball comes back and blows the bull away. Another bull with bandages and bruises comes into the picture with the caption "Inflation!" That "record" down when normalized against commodities, gold, industrials, steel, anything, isn’t so "record" high. It’s a new low being sold as a high - but the invisible hand knows.
With inflation, core or "All Items," factored in, the current "record" markets are just getting back to where they were five years ago, and if those records are adjusted for inflation… - Things aren’t doing to well - certainly not a record.
The Fed has been printing money, expanding the money supply for the last 6 years such that a dollar today is worth half as much as a dollar in 2000. See:
Big Mac Index (The Economist):
Big Mac in April 2000 was $2.15
Big Mac today: $3.22.
Wire: (anecdotal)
A coil of ROMEX wiring for houses used to about $35 bucks in 2000.
ROMEX (100ft 10/2) is $95 + shipping (weighs about 20lbs)
Gas: (energy.ca.gov)
Gas Price, 7/2003: $1.60 (CA)
Gas Price, Today : $3.50(CA)
US Median House Price of Homes Sold (source economagic.com)
Year 2000 - $165,000
Year 2006 - $232,500
US Average Price Of Homes Sold (economagic.com)
Year 2000 Q1: $202,900
Year 2006 Q1: $ 290,100
Has your salary nearly doubled since 2000? Looks like the money supply was expanded (M0 + M1 + M2 + M3 ), prices adjusted exactly to the increased money supply, yet a dollar is just as hard to earn. Jobless claims are underreported, and those who are not educated and in demand or not yet commoditized by inexpensive overseas or immigrant labor aren’t doing too well as far as being able to maintain a standard of living that the US should be capable of supporting.
The Fed stopped publishing the M3. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply . This is most likely a strategy to hide the vast increase in money supply.
The calculations for inflation that are often quoted is the 'core inflation,' which excludes GAS and FOOD. Yet this has been said by the NY Fed: "Analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York indicates that this measure is no better than a moving average of the Consumer Price Index as a predictor of inflation."
CPI and the "Core Inflation" are more or less the same thing. Inflation is being underreported. The prices for things not made in China / PRC are rising sharply.
This is Stagflation. We better hope for the dollar to come back to being money and hope interest rates go up. For all those with big loans they need to tie, those who foolishly borrowed greedily stole money from the children's future for transient low quality items and a McMansion - a liability for the owner in the form of taxes, insurance and paying interest, and a boon for the banks and local governments.Low interest rates and "cheap money" help buy things you cant afford and may help stimulate non-US / overseas / emerging market sales, but salaries are still paid in USD, so rooting against the dollar destroys what is saved, destroys the value of profits and the buying power of the dollars for both businesses and employees.
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Death to Microsoft Exchange OWA - pisses me off.
I have Vista on a machine. Exchange 2003 OWA doesn't work properly with Vista. Microsoft, the pack of assholes, requires a patch to the exchange server OWA to make OWA work on Vista RTM. No one should have to patch the server simply to fix a broken fucked up client like IE7.
Anyways.
Firefox works great. Its not the premium client - but hey, at least I donut have to ask IT to risk breaking a working exchange server simply to make Vista work.
So now the main reason for tolerating exchange, OWA (outlook web access), looks like shit because I have to use Firefox to actually be able to reply to things - and Microsoft premium OWA requires fucktive activex, so that means opera and firefox have to look like shit.
Now here is the kicker.
You know how Firefox is super-awesome and saves half filled out forms and post boxes for you so in case of an accidental forward/backward or crash, its all there for you when you get back? Well IE7 doesn't do that shit, and somehow, OWA fucks Firefox from being able to work its magic in the reply box.
So I lost about 3-4 minutes work on a longer email reply.
All I have to say to Microsoft - give me a break. Microsoft can pull off vista, have a huge OS that works ok, a huge API, you name it. But they cant manage to keep libraries straight (WinSXS anyone? What a fuck-up), the 64 bit emulation sucks (WOW64 is a dirty, lame hack and Windows in 64 bit mode sucks, stuff like palm desktop doesnt even work right over USB), they manage to have an IE 7 that sucks worse than FireFox in every way but startup time (adblockplus - yes , stumbled upon, yes). Not even IE7Pro can help to unfuck how bad IE7 is, the Interix environment (Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications), get this, ar was fucked up because they named is ar64 or something, and the userland on Interix out of the box sucks hard - so hard, its hard to bootstrap the GNU toolchains - and what the fuck is with .NET frameworks. Why not just do the $JAVA_HOME thing and be done with it? Why is this stuff so melted and glued and stapled into the OS? Here is a directory with the VM and some classes and shit. Use if you want to.
This is all to say that the core, the David Cutler / DEC/VMS rip off part works great. The frosting sucks shit. Microsoft needs to pay more attention to not getting fucked by stupid shit. The kernel works great, now stop making shit flavored frosting and everything will be grand.
I wish microsoft had a super thin no login require portal to post stuff like this so they could improve this stuff. If I was gates/ballmer/whoever, I light a big fire under the product managers for transgressions like this - letting open-source stuff drastically out-pace Microsoft on usability.
Anyways.
Firefox works great. Its not the premium client - but hey, at least I donut have to ask IT to risk breaking a working exchange server simply to make Vista work.
So now the main reason for tolerating exchange, OWA (outlook web access), looks like shit because I have to use Firefox to actually be able to reply to things - and Microsoft premium OWA requires fucktive activex, so that means opera and firefox have to look like shit.
Now here is the kicker.
You know how Firefox is super-awesome and saves half filled out forms and post boxes for you so in case of an accidental forward/backward or crash, its all there for you when you get back? Well IE7 doesn't do that shit, and somehow, OWA fucks Firefox from being able to work its magic in the reply box.
So I lost about 3-4 minutes work on a longer email reply.
All I have to say to Microsoft - give me a break. Microsoft can pull off vista, have a huge OS that works ok, a huge API, you name it. But they cant manage to keep libraries straight (WinSXS anyone? What a fuck-up), the 64 bit emulation sucks (WOW64 is a dirty, lame hack and Windows in 64 bit mode sucks, stuff like palm desktop doesnt even work right over USB), they manage to have an IE 7 that sucks worse than FireFox in every way but startup time (adblockplus - yes , stumbled upon, yes). Not even IE7Pro can help to unfuck how bad IE7 is, the Interix environment (Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications), get this, ar was fucked up because they named is ar64 or something, and the userland on Interix out of the box sucks hard - so hard, its hard to bootstrap the GNU toolchains - and what the fuck is with .NET frameworks. Why not just do the $JAVA_HOME thing and be done with it? Why is this stuff so melted and glued and stapled into the OS? Here is a directory with the VM and some classes and shit. Use if you want to.
This is all to say that the core, the David Cutler / DEC/VMS rip off part works great. The frosting sucks shit. Microsoft needs to pay more attention to not getting fucked by stupid shit. The kernel works great, now stop making shit flavored frosting and everything will be grand.
I wish microsoft had a super thin no login require portal to post stuff like this so they could improve this stuff. If I was gates/ballmer/whoever, I light a big fire under the product managers for transgressions like this - letting open-source stuff drastically out-pace Microsoft on usability.
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Marvell SATA Controller
I have a D975XBX2 Intel MB. It has a Marvell 88SE61xx Controller. This is a criminal chipset and is the worst SATA controller ever made with the worst drivers and if I was Pinochet for a day, I would throw the CEO of this company out of a C-130 at 20,000ft for all the hard drives and data loss this chipset causes.
This chipset is criminal.
Why dont Asus, Intel, etc, why dont they just solder 3ware or LSI or any decent non-FAKE-RAID (FRAID) chips on these motherboards? Why would a program manager ever choose an asic that has fake raid, is crap, has crap drivers and sucks?
This chipset is criminal.
Why dont Asus, Intel, etc, why dont they just solder 3ware or LSI or any decent non-FAKE-RAID (FRAID) chips on these motherboards? Why would a program manager ever choose an asic that has fake raid, is crap, has crap drivers and sucks?
Conroe vs. Netburst
Conroe vs. Netburst
In response to:
http://badhardware.blogspot.com/2006/03/conroe-roadmap-and-prices.html
Wrong. Why Netburst CPUs are way worse than Conroe:
1) The Conroe has an extra execution unit (4 instead of 3)
2) The pipeline 1/3 the size Netburst CPUs (12/14 stage pipeline vs 30+ of Netburst)
3) The FPU is significantly improved (SSE4, etc)
4) The heat dissipation is lower per unit of work done and lower overall.
5) The caching algorithms used by the Conroe CPUs are drastically improved.
The main bottle neck these days is DRAM refresh cycles and how slow mass storage is, but if you are waiting for things to render or things to encode, the Conroe will be drastically faster.
Check out:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/
You will see Netburst CPUs doing horrible, AMD single core doing well, AMD dual core doing ok, and Intel Woodcrest and Conroe absolutely killing the competition.
The 4MB cache Conroe CPUs are the ultimate CPU ever to be offered to the public at such a low price point.
I think that buying the E6600 4MB will provide a huge improvement over that piece of junk, hot Netburst.
Intel is throwing out the junk silicon dooming you to a Netburst CPU. Why in god's name would you want to get a new rig with an obsolete piece of junk?
Corel users: Get an E6600 a large fast hard drive like a WD5000YS, and reasonably fast memory.
Post benchmarks if you are going to make performance claims.
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Conroe roadmap and prices
Intel Conroe Prices Core Duo E8000 4MB 3.33GHz 1333MHz Q4 $1199Core Duo EEdition 3.33GHz(L2 4M) 1333MHz Q3 $999Core Duo E6900 4MB 3.20GHz 1066MHz FSB Q4 $969Intel Core Duo E6800 2.93GHz(L2 4M) 1066MHz Q3 $749Intel Core Duo E6700 2.67GHz(L2 4M) 1066MHz Q3 $529Intel Core Duo E6600 2.40GHz(L2 4M) 1066MHz Q3 $315Core Duo E6500 2MB 2.40GHz 1066MHz FSB Q4 $269Intel Core Duo E6400 2.13GHz(L2 2M) 1066MHz Q3 $240Intel Core Duo E6300 2MB 1.86GHz 1066MHz FSB Q3 $209Core Duo E6200 2MB 1.60GHz 1066MHz FSB Q4 $179Core Duo E4200 2MB 1.60GHz 800MHz FSB Q4 $169Intel Celeron D 350, 3.2 GHz ( L2 256K) 533 Mhz NOW $99Now, let compare Core Duo E6900 and Celeron D350.E6900 is better: 2X due to 2 coresE6900 has 2 times higher FSB clock, but can dual cores communicate with memory simulatenously?E6900 has 2 MB L2 per core, thus it is 8 times bigger than at Celeron D 350But E6900 has price 10 times bigger !?Conclusion for Corel user: You will pay 10 times more for the 2 times faster Corel execution.Conclusion for both cores user: When one nice day, when Intel masters Hyper Transport, you will have 4 times more performance for 10 times higher prices. Well, let be correct, when Intel finally make it, E6900 price should be some $500 (Intel will not voluntarily lower its prices) and you will get 4 times more performance for 4 times more money, if you are black mailed with Intel. Otherwise, why to wait, when I can make higher performance boost per $ with purchase of any AMD64? Yes, but E6900 is Intel's next generation processor. Well, after the facts above, it seems me more like Intel's next generation fraud.
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Bad Hardware Week is not technically inclined and should not be listened to.
In response to:
http://badhardware.blogspot.com/2006/03/conroe-roadmap-and-prices.html
Wrong. Why Netburst CPUs are way worse than Conroe:
1) The Conroe has an extra execution unit (4 instead of 3)
2) The pipeline 1/3 the size Netburst CPUs (12/14 stage pipeline vs 30+ of Netburst)
3) The FPU is significantly improved (SSE4, etc)
4) The heat dissipation is lower per unit of work done and lower overall.
5) The caching algorithms used by the Conroe CPUs are drastically improved.
The main bottle neck these days is DRAM refresh cycles and how slow mass storage is, but if you are waiting for things to render or things to encode, the Conroe will be drastically faster.
Check out:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/
You will see Netburst CPUs doing horrible, AMD single core doing well, AMD dual core doing ok, and Intel Woodcrest and Conroe absolutely killing the competition.
The 4MB cache Conroe CPUs are the ultimate CPU ever to be offered to the public at such a low price point.
I think that buying the E6600 4MB will provide a huge improvement over that piece of junk, hot Netburst.
Intel is throwing out the junk silicon dooming you to a Netburst CPU. Why in god's name would you want to get a new rig with an obsolete piece of junk?
Corel users: Get an E6600 a large fast hard drive like a WD5000YS, and reasonably fast memory.
Post benchmarks if you are going to make performance claims.
------------------
Conroe roadmap and prices
Intel Conroe Prices Core Duo E8000 4MB 3.33GHz 1333MHz Q4 $1199Core Duo EEdition 3.33GHz(L2 4M) 1333MHz Q3 $999Core Duo E6900 4MB 3.20GHz 1066MHz FSB Q4 $969Intel Core Duo E6800 2.93GHz(L2 4M) 1066MHz Q3 $749Intel Core Duo E6700 2.67GHz(L2 4M) 1066MHz Q3 $529Intel Core Duo E6600 2.40GHz(L2 4M) 1066MHz Q3 $315Core Duo E6500 2MB 2.40GHz 1066MHz FSB Q4 $269Intel Core Duo E6400 2.13GHz(L2 2M) 1066MHz Q3 $240Intel Core Duo E6300 2MB 1.86GHz 1066MHz FSB Q3 $209Core Duo E6200 2MB 1.60GHz 1066MHz FSB Q4 $179Core Duo E4200 2MB 1.60GHz 800MHz FSB Q4 $169Intel Celeron D 350, 3.2 GHz ( L2 256K) 533 Mhz NOW $99Now, let compare Core Duo E6900 and Celeron D350.E6900 is better: 2X due to 2 coresE6900 has 2 times higher FSB clock, but can dual cores communicate with memory simulatenously?E6900 has 2 MB L2 per core, thus it is 8 times bigger than at Celeron D 350But E6900 has price 10 times bigger !?Conclusion for Corel user: You will pay 10 times more for the 2 times faster Corel execution.Conclusion for both cores user: When one nice day, when Intel masters Hyper Transport, you will have 4 times more performance for 10 times higher prices. Well, let be correct, when Intel finally make it, E6900 price should be some $500 (Intel will not voluntarily lower its prices) and you will get 4 times more performance for 4 times more money, if you are black mailed with Intel. Otherwise, why to wait, when I can make higher performance boost per $ with purchase of any AMD64? Yes, but E6900 is Intel's next generation processor. Well, after the facts above, it seems me more like Intel's next generation fraud.
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Bad Hardware Week is not technically inclined and should not be listened to.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Batch file for clearing all the logs at once in Vista.
Vista has quite a large number of log files. Sometimes its nice for troubleshooting to wipe out all the logs and create a problem to see that problems manifestations in the logs. The following in a batch file will do this.
wevtutil cl "Application"
wevtutil cl "DFS Replication"
wevtutil cl "HardwareEvents"
wevtutil cl "Internet Explorer"
wevtutil cl "Key Management Service"
wevtutil cl "Security"
wevtutil cl "System"
wevtutil cl "EndpointMapper"
wevtutil cl "ForwardedEvents"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-ADSI/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-AltTab/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Backup"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Bits-Client/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Bits-Client/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-CertificateServicesClient-CredentialRoaming/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-CodeIntegrity/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-CodeIntegrity/Verbose"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-COM/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-CorruptedFileRecovery-Client/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-CorruptedFileRecovery-Server/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-CredUI/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-DateTimeControlPanel/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-DateTimeControlPanel/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-DateTimeControlPanel/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-DCLocator/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnosis-DPS/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnosis-DPS/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnosis-DPS/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnosis-MSDT/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnosis-MSDT/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnosis-PLA/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnosis-PLA/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnosis-WDI/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Networking/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Networking/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Diagnostic/Loopback"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-DiskDiagnostic/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-DiskDiagnosticDataCollector/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-DiskDiagnosticResolver/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-DriverFrameworks-UserMode/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-DxgKrnl/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-EFS/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-EventCollector/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-EventCollector/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Eventlog-ForwardPlugin/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-EventLog-WMIProvider/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-EventLog/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-EventLog/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-FileInfoMinifilter/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Firewall-CPL/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Forwarding/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-FunctionDiscoveryHost/Tracing"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Help/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-HotStart/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-HttpService/Trace"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-International/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-IPSEC-SRV/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Acpi/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-BootDiagnostics/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-PnP/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Prefetch/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Process/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Registry/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-WDI/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-WDI/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-WDI/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-WHEA"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-LanguagePackSetup/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-LanguagePackSetup/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-LanguagePackSetup/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-LDAP-Client/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-MeetingSpace/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-MemoryDiagnostics-Results/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-mobsync/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-MPS-CLNT/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-MPS-DRV/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-MPS-SRV/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-MUI/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-NetworkAccessProtection/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-OfflineFiles/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-OfflineFiles/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-OfflineFiles/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-OfflineFiles/SyncLog"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-PowerCfg/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-PowerCpl/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-PrintSpooler/Aux-Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-PrintSpooler/Core-Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-PrintSpooler/Core-Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-PrintSpooler/ISV-Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Program-Compatibility-Assistant/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-QoS-Pacer/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-QoS-qWAVE/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-ReadyBoost/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-ReliabilityAnalysisComponent/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-RemoteAssistance/Admin"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-RemoteAssistance/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-RemoteAssistance/Tracing"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Resource-Exhaustion-Detector/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Resource-Exhaustion-Resolver/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Resource-Leak-Diagnostic/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-ResourcePublication/Tracing"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-RestartManager/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-RPC/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-RPC/EEInfo"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Security-Licensing-SLC/Perf"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Sens/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-ServiceReportingApi/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Services-Svchost/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Services/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Shell-AuthUI-Common/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Shell-AuthUI-CredUI/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Shell-AuthUI-Logon/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Shell-AuthUI-PasswordProvider/BootAnim"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Shell-AuthUI-PasswordProvider/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Shell-AuthUI-Shutdown/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Shell-DefaultPrograms/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Shwebsvc"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Shell-ZipFolder/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Speech-UserExperience/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-stobject/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Subsys-Csr/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Subsys-SMSS/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-SystemHealthAgent/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-PnPDevices/Admin"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-PnPDevices/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-PnPDevices/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-PnPDevices/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-UAC-FileVirtualization/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-UAC/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-User-Loader/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-VolumeSnapshot-Driver/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-WindowsUpdateClient/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-WinINet/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Wininit/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Winlogon/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Winlogon/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-WinRM/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-WinRM/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Winsock-AFD/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Winsock-WS2HELP/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Winsrv/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Wired-AutoConfig/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-WLAN-AutoConfig/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-WMI-Activity/Trace"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-WSC-SRV/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-WUSA/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Setup"
wevtutil cl "Application"
wevtutil cl "DFS Replication"
wevtutil cl "HardwareEvents"
wevtutil cl "Internet Explorer"
wevtutil cl "Key Management Service"
wevtutil cl "Security"
wevtutil cl "System"
wevtutil cl "EndpointMapper"
wevtutil cl "ForwardedEvents"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-ADSI/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-AltTab/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Backup"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Bits-Client/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Bits-Client/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-CertificateServicesClient-CredentialRoaming/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-CodeIntegrity/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-CodeIntegrity/Verbose"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-COM/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-CorruptedFileRecovery-Client/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-CorruptedFileRecovery-Server/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-CredUI/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-DateTimeControlPanel/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-DateTimeControlPanel/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-DateTimeControlPanel/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-DCLocator/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnosis-DPS/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnosis-DPS/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnosis-DPS/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnosis-MSDT/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnosis-MSDT/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnosis-PLA/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnosis-PLA/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnosis-WDI/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Networking/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Networking/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Diagnostic/Loopback"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-DiskDiagnostic/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-DiskDiagnosticDataCollector/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-DiskDiagnosticResolver/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-DriverFrameworks-UserMode/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-DxgKrnl/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-EFS/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-EventCollector/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-EventCollector/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Eventlog-ForwardPlugin/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-EventLog-WMIProvider/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-EventLog/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-EventLog/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-FileInfoMinifilter/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Firewall-CPL/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Forwarding/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-FunctionDiscoveryHost/Tracing"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Help/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-HotStart/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-HttpService/Trace"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-International/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-IPSEC-SRV/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Acpi/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-BootDiagnostics/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-PnP/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power/Diagnostic"
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wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Registry/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-WDI/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-WDI/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-WDI/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-WHEA"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-LanguagePackSetup/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-LanguagePackSetup/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-LanguagePackSetup/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-LDAP-Client/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-MeetingSpace/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-MemoryDiagnostics-Results/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-mobsync/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-MPS-CLNT/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-MPS-DRV/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-MPS-SRV/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-MUI/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-NetworkAccessProtection/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-OfflineFiles/Analytic"
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wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-OfflineFiles/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-OfflineFiles/SyncLog"
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wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-PowerCpl/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-PrintSpooler/Aux-Analytic"
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wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-PrintSpooler/ISV-Analytic"
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wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-QoS-Pacer/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-QoS-qWAVE/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-ReadyBoost/Operational"
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wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-RPC/EEInfo"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Security-Licensing-SLC/Perf"
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wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Diagnostic"
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wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-UAC-FileVirtualization/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-UAC/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-User-Loader/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-VolumeSnapshot-Driver/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-WindowsUpdateClient/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-WinINet/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Wininit/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Winlogon/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Winlogon/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-WinRM/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-WinRM/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Winsock-AFD/Operational"
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wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Winsrv/Analytic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-Wired-AutoConfig/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-WLAN-AutoConfig/Operational"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-WMI-Activity/Trace"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-WSC-SRV/Diagnostic"
wevtutil cl "Microsoft-Windows-WUSA/Debug"
wevtutil cl "Setup"
Friday, January 05, 2007
Hey, Oprah, there are black people in Louisiana that need your help never mind Africa.
Hey, Oprah, there are black people in Louisiana that need your help never mind Africa.
Nelson Mandela != God, Messiah, etc. Just wanted to clear that up. He poops like a man, and has , in conjunction with his wife, done some very naughty things.
Let me tell you how to fix the world. Start with yourself, make sure you don't drink too much, do hard drugs, exercise a bit, and keep yourself financially solvent, obey laws, work and self actualize if possible. Then be sure your family members you are responsible for do the same, then work on extended family, then work on friends, then work on your town/county/state, THEN work on your country, THEN, maybe then, when all the other problems are solved, THEN think about Africa. If everyone took care of their own damn house, there wouldn't be any problems in the world.
Something awful said it best:
Oprah Winfrey Does Care About Black People
I have never liked Oprah Winfrey. There's something about her that sets me wrong in the same way as a flowing curlicue wig on a baby or a man with no teeth seen from a distance biting into an apple. This unease I feel at the sight or sound of Miss Winfrey goes well beyond my innate distrust of her people and the crafty indolence to which her race is genetically predisposed. There is an ill-defined something at her core that is amiss.
Over the years she has transformed herself several times over. She has gone from corpulent maven of baby mama drama, to over enthusiastic motivational den mother, to her current incarnation as cooing self-righteous philanthropist. This latest and greatest Oprah, already bound for media sainthood, is the one which concerns me the most.
After having already saved the written word, Oprah announced the grand opening of her theme-park-cum-elite-academy for girls in South Africa. Located somewhere near a giant pit full of people dying of AIDS, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy intends to "nurture, educate and turn gifted South African girls from impoverished backgrounds into the country's future leaders". Winfrey believes this can best be achieved by spending 40 million dollars building a sprawling state-of-the-art campus for a very small number of girls.
Many critics wondered aloud and possibly into microphones why Winfrey had chosen to spend all of her money educating girls in Africa when there are plenty of perfectly adequate girls in the United States.
"I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there," [Oprah Winfrey] says. "If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school."
"Girls excited about their new opportunity. Not pictured: 2,848 girls still living in poverty."
In response to their requests for school uniforms, Oprah built a campus that includes a beauty salon, yoga studio, state-of-the-art theater, stately dorm rooms that put most American university dorms to shame, wireless internet and a giant gold statue of her with those creepy eyes that follow students wherever they go. Yes, girls who lived inside refrigerator boxes next to a pile of dirty diapers are finally able to activate their chakras and download videos of white people dancing next to moving cars. It's sort of like finding one of those Japanese guys who spent the last 60 years on an Island in the Pacific thinking World War II was still going on and then flying him immediately to California to tape an episode of Jeopardy.
Oprah received over 3,000 applications for her Leadership Academy and she accepted the 152 girls with the most tragic or heartwarming stories. They're mostly AIDS babies, maybe a few kids raised by hyenas, one with two heads and a heart of gold, some adorable puppies that survived cross-country adventures with their kitten friends, that sort of thing.
The 2,848 kids who just weren't quite feeble and heroic enough to pass muster were shown the door. No school uniform, no iPod, just a gift tote with some bath salts and a candle that smells like apple pie.
Oprah's Leadership Academy opened its doors on January 2nd of the new year. Being a Harpo Production, the Academy could not have a low-key opening. It received a full-scale media blitz, press releases by the dozen and a plush party featuring celebrities who no doubt care deeply about creating the next generation of leaders in Africa.
Tina Turner, Chris Rock, Sydney Poitier, Mariah Carey and Mary J Blige were all present at Oprah Winfrey's Hollywood-style opening of her leadership academy in Henley-on-Klip, Meyerton, on Tuesday.
Local businessman Tokyo Sexwale was also present and Nelson Mandela was expected to attend although he had not yet arrived by midday.
In addition to a businessman with the most awesome name ever in the history of all time, the party included a lavish spread of cocktails, delicacies and a cigar bar. The students who were rejected by the Academy were allowed to dig through the trashcans for crusts of bread and Tina Turner's used sanitary napkins. Some time around 9 PM Nelson Mandela shit in his pants and Oprah read a poem by Maya Angelou about a rock on fire rolling down a mountain being the black struggle.
The touchingly misguided, or misguidedly touching, saga of Oprah's misguided school for impoverished African girls reminds me most of all of a scene from one of my favorite movies.
Near the end of Steven Spielberg's cinematic thrill-ride Schindler's List there is a scene in which Oskar Schindler, a true Nazi hero, has shepherded his ragtag band of Jewish misfits all the way to an armaments factory in the middle of nowhere.
Evil Russians are coming to kill the last of the Nazis and so he has to escape in the middle of the night. The Jews - who are so grateful for his guidance that they have made a ring out of the gold elderly Jews secrete from their gums - stand around thanking Schindler and wishing him well as he and his wife prepare to flee into the night.
After saying a tearful goodbye, Schindler realizes that had he curbed his own life of excess he might have been able to save more Jewish people. He points to a car and a ring with a Swastika and cries "this is worth like 500 Jews", or something to that effect.
The Jews quiet him down and send him on his way, but the moral of the scene is clear and is one Oprah should ponder before embarking on her next epic of philanthropy: even when you do good, you can do more good if you try harder. Or something along those lines.
Nelson Mandela != God, Messiah, etc. Just wanted to clear that up. He poops like a man, and has , in conjunction with his wife, done some very naughty things.
Let me tell you how to fix the world. Start with yourself, make sure you don't drink too much, do hard drugs, exercise a bit, and keep yourself financially solvent, obey laws, work and self actualize if possible. Then be sure your family members you are responsible for do the same, then work on extended family, then work on friends, then work on your town/county/state, THEN work on your country, THEN, maybe then, when all the other problems are solved, THEN think about Africa. If everyone took care of their own damn house, there wouldn't be any problems in the world.
Something awful said it best:
Oprah Winfrey Does Care About Black People
I have never liked Oprah Winfrey. There's something about her that sets me wrong in the same way as a flowing curlicue wig on a baby or a man with no teeth seen from a distance biting into an apple. This unease I feel at the sight or sound of Miss Winfrey goes well beyond my innate distrust of her people and the crafty indolence to which her race is genetically predisposed. There is an ill-defined something at her core that is amiss.
Over the years she has transformed herself several times over. She has gone from corpulent maven of baby mama drama, to over enthusiastic motivational den mother, to her current incarnation as cooing self-righteous philanthropist. This latest and greatest Oprah, already bound for media sainthood, is the one which concerns me the most.
After having already saved the written word, Oprah announced the grand opening of her theme-park-cum-elite-academy for girls in South Africa. Located somewhere near a giant pit full of people dying of AIDS, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy intends to "nurture, educate and turn gifted South African girls from impoverished backgrounds into the country's future leaders". Winfrey believes this can best be achieved by spending 40 million dollars building a sprawling state-of-the-art campus for a very small number of girls.
Many critics wondered aloud and possibly into microphones why Winfrey had chosen to spend all of her money educating girls in Africa when there are plenty of perfectly adequate girls in the United States.
"I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there," [Oprah Winfrey] says. "If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school."
"Girls excited about their new opportunity. Not pictured: 2,848 girls still living in poverty."
In response to their requests for school uniforms, Oprah built a campus that includes a beauty salon, yoga studio, state-of-the-art theater, stately dorm rooms that put most American university dorms to shame, wireless internet and a giant gold statue of her with those creepy eyes that follow students wherever they go. Yes, girls who lived inside refrigerator boxes next to a pile of dirty diapers are finally able to activate their chakras and download videos of white people dancing next to moving cars. It's sort of like finding one of those Japanese guys who spent the last 60 years on an Island in the Pacific thinking World War II was still going on and then flying him immediately to California to tape an episode of Jeopardy.
Oprah received over 3,000 applications for her Leadership Academy and she accepted the 152 girls with the most tragic or heartwarming stories. They're mostly AIDS babies, maybe a few kids raised by hyenas, one with two heads and a heart of gold, some adorable puppies that survived cross-country adventures with their kitten friends, that sort of thing.
The 2,848 kids who just weren't quite feeble and heroic enough to pass muster were shown the door. No school uniform, no iPod, just a gift tote with some bath salts and a candle that smells like apple pie.
Oprah's Leadership Academy opened its doors on January 2nd of the new year. Being a Harpo Production, the Academy could not have a low-key opening. It received a full-scale media blitz, press releases by the dozen and a plush party featuring celebrities who no doubt care deeply about creating the next generation of leaders in Africa.
Tina Turner, Chris Rock, Sydney Poitier, Mariah Carey and Mary J Blige were all present at Oprah Winfrey's Hollywood-style opening of her leadership academy in Henley-on-Klip, Meyerton, on Tuesday.
Local businessman Tokyo Sexwale was also present and Nelson Mandela was expected to attend although he had not yet arrived by midday.
In addition to a businessman with the most awesome name ever in the history of all time, the party included a lavish spread of cocktails, delicacies and a cigar bar. The students who were rejected by the Academy were allowed to dig through the trashcans for crusts of bread and Tina Turner's used sanitary napkins. Some time around 9 PM Nelson Mandela shit in his pants and Oprah read a poem by Maya Angelou about a rock on fire rolling down a mountain being the black struggle.
The touchingly misguided, or misguidedly touching, saga of Oprah's misguided school for impoverished African girls reminds me most of all of a scene from one of my favorite movies.
Near the end of Steven Spielberg's cinematic thrill-ride Schindler's List there is a scene in which Oskar Schindler, a true Nazi hero, has shepherded his ragtag band of Jewish misfits all the way to an armaments factory in the middle of nowhere.
Evil Russians are coming to kill the last of the Nazis and so he has to escape in the middle of the night. The Jews - who are so grateful for his guidance that they have made a ring out of the gold elderly Jews secrete from their gums - stand around thanking Schindler and wishing him well as he and his wife prepare to flee into the night.
After saying a tearful goodbye, Schindler realizes that had he curbed his own life of excess he might have been able to save more Jewish people. He points to a car and a ring with a Swastika and cries "this is worth like 500 Jews", or something to that effect.
The Jews quiet him down and send him on his way, but the moral of the scene is clear and is one Oprah should ponder before embarking on her next epic of philanthropy: even when you do good, you can do more good if you try harder. Or something along those lines.
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Someone's advice on how to get ahead at work...
Someone posted this on how to get ahead at work:
Show up before everyone.
Dress nicer and look more awake than anyone else
Do not have a bunch of personal crap in your work area
Do not try to be different in dress or style
Do not have a tattoo showing
Do not pierce anything but each ear once (female)
Do not ever discuss religion, sex, politics, or the boss with anyone
Do not look for friends at work… you work for money. Period.
Do not smoke at or near work
Be working when they are talking
Take short lunches and zero breaks
Stay late and leave last
Never call in sick
Never be late
Do not use vacation for one year straight.
Keep your car clean and not full of garbage. Yes it matters
Keep a daily log as to what you do
Do whatever the boss tells you to. Everything is your job. Coffee maker, sweeper, no questions asked. But log what you do.
If your boss is wrong and wants you to do it wrong, do it wrong. Then log it.
If co-workers begin crapping on you for your efforts, write it in the log but do not tell anyone.
Do not ask for a raise. ever. When you want more money you will find it elsewhere and then you will give your current employer a chance to match it. No raise, then give 2 week notice and go to the other place. At the new place use the exact same formula.
If you follow this guide I gaurentee[SIC] you will either move ahead where you work, or gain so much great work-ethic and work-experience that you will go find what you want.
You’re welcome.
Robots don’t make happy workers. A lot of places are now allowing Dogs to accompany workers at work, one larger company that comes to mind is Google. Companies are becoming more aware and placing more importance on the well being of employees creating a sustainable workplace.
I do agree the advice helps impress pointy-hair bosses (PHBs) who are automaton know nothing drones in corporate culture, but it was folks like Wozniak, Allen, John Draper, that gave rise to new technologies, wacky wonky scientists doing what they loved how they loved doing it.
This sounds like advice for people who really have nothing to offer and have to do everything in their power to appear as if they do.
Working hard != working smart, and billions of competitors to the USA, Japan and EU prove that despite a superior apparent work ethic, the goods delivered are mostly shoddy, second rate and rarely world class. It is the summation of mediocrity and folks mastering the advice above.
Show up before everyone.
Dress nicer and look more awake than anyone else
Do not have a bunch of personal crap in your work area
Do not try to be different in dress or style
Do not have a tattoo showing
Do not pierce anything but each ear once (female)
Do not ever discuss religion, sex, politics, or the boss with anyone
Do not look for friends at work… you work for money. Period.
Do not smoke at or near work
Be working when they are talking
Take short lunches and zero breaks
Stay late and leave last
Never call in sick
Never be late
Do not use vacation for one year straight.
Keep your car clean and not full of garbage. Yes it matters
Keep a daily log as to what you do
Do whatever the boss tells you to. Everything is your job. Coffee maker, sweeper, no questions asked. But log what you do.
If your boss is wrong and wants you to do it wrong, do it wrong. Then log it.
If co-workers begin crapping on you for your efforts, write it in the log but do not tell anyone.
Do not ask for a raise. ever. When you want more money you will find it elsewhere and then you will give your current employer a chance to match it. No raise, then give 2 week notice and go to the other place. At the new place use the exact same formula.
If you follow this guide I gaurentee[SIC] you will either move ahead where you work, or gain so much great work-ethic and work-experience that you will go find what you want.
You’re welcome.
Robots don’t make happy workers. A lot of places are now allowing Dogs to accompany workers at work, one larger company that comes to mind is Google. Companies are becoming more aware and placing more importance on the well being of employees creating a sustainable workplace.
I do agree the advice helps impress pointy-hair bosses (PHBs) who are automaton know nothing drones in corporate culture, but it was folks like Wozniak, Allen, John Draper, that gave rise to new technologies, wacky wonky scientists doing what they loved how they loved doing it.
This sounds like advice for people who really have nothing to offer and have to do everything in their power to appear as if they do.
Working hard != working smart, and billions of competitors to the USA, Japan and EU prove that despite a superior apparent work ethic, the goods delivered are mostly shoddy, second rate and rarely world class. It is the summation of mediocrity and folks mastering the advice above.
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Air Travel improvements needed now.
The MD-80 should be deprecated.
All planes should be supplied with tracking monitors that show position altitude, attitudes ( Y P R ) airpseeds Mach IAS TAS, etc.
All planes should have a working cockpit chatter station.
All planes need free wireless internet service, if they wont give you free food, booze or comfort, at least let the victim passenger blow the time away with the internet.
All planes should be supplied with tracking monitors that show position altitude, attitudes ( Y P R ) airpseeds Mach IAS TAS, etc.
All planes should have a working cockpit chatter station.
All planes need free wireless internet service, if they wont give you free food, booze or comfort, at least let the victim passenger blow the time away with the internet.
TV technology table. I want to buy an SED when it comesout. Otherwise, I'd go with LCD
| OLED | DLP | LCD | Plasma | LCOS/DILA | RP LCD | SED | CRT | |
| Contrast Ratio | very high | very high | medium | high | medium | medium | highest | highest |
| Typ. Brightness | 600+ cd/m2 | 750+ cd/m2 | 700 cd/m2 | 1000†† cd/m2 | 750+ cd/m2 | 450 cd/m2 | 400 cd/m2 | 300 cd/m2 |
| Longevity (hours) | TBD | 2-4k (lamp) | 30k** | 30k** | 2-4k (lamp) | 2-4k (lamp) | TBD | 20k+ |
| Burn-in | No | No | No† | Yes | No | No | No | No† |
| Viewing Angle | 160°+ | 170° | 160°+ | 170° | 180° | 170° | 180° | 180° |
| Fully Digital Display | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Refresh Rate | <6ms | NA | <12ms* | <8ms | <12ms* | <12ms* | <2ms | NA |
| Max Resolution | 1080p | 1080p* | 1080p | 1080p* | 1080p | 1080p | 1080p | 1080i |
| Weight (lbs) | lightest | medium | light | medium | medium | medium | medium | heavy |
| Set Depth | <1-2" | 6.5" - 24" | 2"+ | 3" - 7" | 24" - 30" | 13" - 20" | <4" | 16" - 30" |
| Screen Size | <10" | 43" - 73"* | <82"* | <103"* | <82" | <70" | TBD | <42" |
| Power consumption | Very Low | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium | Low | Low | High |
| *Fairly new development noticed at CES 2006 ** Expected LCD backlight lifespan or plasma half-life; note: differs from manufacturer claims † Fixed images can result in burn-in over long-term (unusual) †† Plasma "real-world" measurements after calibration are considerably lower | ||||||||
Death to HDMI, HDMI is a SCAM, do not buy, it wont work.
I returned all the HDMI cables I bought and will never use them again. The companies (Best Buy, Circuit City) are price gouging making even trying this stupid standard a $300 affair (cables start at $40 per, and go to $200+). I bought a Sony receiver and hooked up the DVD to the receiver, no audio, had to use a separate cable. LAME. HDMI out through receiver from HDTV cable didn't work either, had to go back to optical component. I tried TWO (2) Sony receiver and HDMI is as far as I can tell: NEVER works with audio, barely works with receivers, and if someone uses a component IN and HDMI OUT or vice versa, nothing works as it should.
This is a sad, pathetic DRM infected standard that is basically worthless, and I will work tirelessly both in real life and on the internet to expose this non-working standard this is the WORST piece of crap rip off standard I have ever seen in my life - concerned more with securing digital signals than delivering working content and audio. These cables are probably inferior to shielded component video and optical audio anyway with these flimsy thin wires.
Thank the powers that be we PC users can still rip and burn whatever we want, DRM fails and this crap will fail to stop it, and we have things called standards, e.g., PCI, where when you want to play ball we use things like TCP/IP and PCI STANDARDS that anyone can implement. Consumer electronics are crap, this standard is crap, and this whole thing is a scam. Sad.
This is a sad, pathetic DRM infected standard that is basically worthless, and I will work tirelessly both in real life and on the internet to expose this non-working standard this is the WORST piece of crap rip off standard I have ever seen in my life - concerned more with securing digital signals than delivering working content and audio. These cables are probably inferior to shielded component video and optical audio anyway with these flimsy thin wires.
Thank the powers that be we PC users can still rip and burn whatever we want, DRM fails and this crap will fail to stop it, and we have things called standards, e.g., PCI, where when you want to play ball we use things like TCP/IP and PCI STANDARDS that anyone can implement. Consumer electronics are crap, this standard is crap, and this whole thing is a scam. Sad.
Friday, December 15, 2006
Sysadminons - System Administrator minion.
When you refer to system administrators, please use the word:
sysadminion.
The reason we use minion is that invariably system administrators, production/ops folks, etc are bossed around by a retard, and the system administrators are his minions.
And we aren't even talking about Windows guys, they are just called Windows Guys.
sysadminion.
The reason we use minion is that invariably system administrators, production/ops folks, etc are bossed around by a retard, and the system administrators are his minions.
And we aren't even talking about Windows guys, they are just called Windows Guys.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Evard Munch sucks and Google Murders Chinese Dissidents
Google murders Chinese dissidents by helping out the authoritarian Chinese find and kill them. I'll be Page or Brin is on a waiting list for a dead Chinese dissident organ or something.
And Murdoogle puts Edvard Munch, on the front page, who incidentally SUCKS (that art is like a bunch of crappy finger paint smears), but when it was Veterans day, no special front page.
Google also seems to violate the GPL on the Google appliance - ask them for all the source code for for all the GPL stuff the mucked with - lets see if you get it. I suspect they modified the Linux kernel and distro, but you'll be the last to know.
And Murdoogle puts Edvard Munch, on the front page, who incidentally SUCKS (that art is like a bunch of crappy finger paint smears), but when it was Veterans day, no special front page.
Google also seems to violate the GPL on the Google appliance - ask them for all the source code for for all the GPL stuff the mucked with - lets see if you get it. I suspect they modified the Linux kernel and distro, but you'll be the last to know.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Elizabeth Fraser
The House MD theme, Teardrop, by Massive Attack is perfect, except the lame vocals by Elizabeth Fraser . I hereby call to all music makers, PLEASE, offer a vocal-less version of every one of your songs.
I seriously want to get the original digital tracked master of this track so I can remove her voice, its awful whiney crap, like a bad version of Alanis.
I always liked Steely Dan vocals since they are not sensible, and distract from the music little. The lyrics to 95% of all music including this are whimsical CRAP, and most people are no "3 Tenors" or Charlotte Church at singing.
Stop all crap vocals, crap lyrics and make good music.
House MD rules.
I seriously want to get the original digital tracked master of this track so I can remove her voice, its awful whiney crap, like a bad version of Alanis.
I always liked Steely Dan vocals since they are not sensible, and distract from the music little. The lyrics to 95% of all music including this are whimsical CRAP, and most people are no "3 Tenors" or Charlotte Church at singing.
Stop all crap vocals, crap lyrics and make good music.
House MD rules.
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