Friday, May 30, 2008

My New Hero

Fuck yeah man, keep the dream alive.

The thing about digital media

People who are willing to pay for something they enjoy, even when they don't *have* to, generally will on principle. People who are *not* willing to pay for something they enjoy are *not* going to pay for it no matter how difficult you make it to steal. The *only* thing that DRM does is turn away those would would have been otherwise happy to pay for the product.

In short, those who plan to steal your creation are not your target market. Stop wasting money trying to force them into being a part of it. Instead, take that money and find new and inviting ways to give back to those of us who *are* a part of your target market.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Let's Ride

Gonna try and get in to get my motorcycle learning permit tomorrow. Why not just go for the whole thing? Cuz I lack the skills to pay the bills man, that's why. Gonna see about a set of assless chaps, a spiked helmet, a mustache, and chin largification surgery to go with it. Fuck yeah I'm the shit.

Update 1: Shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. Line was too long for me to get in and out without taking time off work. I'll head in earlier on Monday to get at the front of that government induced nightmare.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Hey thanks CableOne

I appreciate you guys blocking port 25 so I can't setup a mail server without routing through you first. It's awesome that I pay you a fucking shit ton of money so that *you* can decide what I'm allowed to do with the service. Fucking assholes.

Also, you jackass spammers that are the *reason* things are this way, fuck you. I hope a large rock falls on you. Every last one of you.


p.s. WE'LL DO IT LIVE! FUCKING THING SUCKS! God bless you bill o'reilly. You are my example of how a man should compose himself.

Friday, May 23, 2008

Foxboro Hot Tubs

It's good to see that even under a different name, the guys from Green Day still can't seem to make any worthwhile contribution to the world's library of music. I said it earlier today and I'm saying it again, these guys are nothing but a marketing tool for getting post punk into the hands of women. They're the pusher's free sample of the gateway drug to the world of horribly repetitive music.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

The Poverty of Philosophy - Immortal Technique

Most of my Latino and black people who are struggling to get food, clothes and shelter in the hood are so concerned with that, that philosophising about freedom and socialist democracy is usually unfortunately beyond their rationale. They don't realize that America can't exist without separating them from their identity, because if we had some sense of who we really are, there's no way in hell we'd allow this country to push it's genocidal consensus on our homelands. This ignorance exists, but it can be destroyed.

Nigga talk about change and working within the system to achieve that. The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you. There is usually nothing wrong with compromise in a situation, but compromising yourself in a situation is another story completely, and I have seen this happen long enough in the few years that I've been alive to know that it's a serious problem. Latino America is a huge colony of countries whose presidents are cowards in the face of economic imperialism. You see, third world countries are rich places, abundant in resources, and many of these countries have the capacity to feed their starving people and the children we always see digging for food in trash on commercials. But plutocracies, in other words a government run by the rich such as this one and traditionally oppressive European states, force the third world into buying overpriced, unnecessary goods while exporting huge portions of their natural resources.

I'm quite sure that people will look upon my attitude and sentiments and look for hypocrisy and hatred in my words. My revolution is born out of love for my people, not hatred for others.

You see, most of Latinos are here because of the great inflation that was caused by American companies in Latin America. Aside from that, many are seeking a life away from the puppet democracies that were funded by the United States; places like El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Columbia, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Republica Dominicana, and not just Spanish-speaking countries either, but Haiti and Jamaica as well.

As different as we have been taught to look at each other by colonial society, we are in the same struggle and until we realize that, we'll be fighting for scraps from the table of a system that has kept us subservient instead of being self-determined. And that's why we have no control over when the embargo will stop in Cuba, or when the bombs will stop dropping in Vieques.

But you see, here in America the attitude that is fed to us is that outside of America there live lesser people. "Fuck them, let them fend for themselves." No, Fuck you, they are you. No matter how much you want to dye your hair blonde and put fake eyes in, or follow an anorexic standard of beauty, or no matter how many diamonds you buy from people who exploit your own brutally to get them, no matter what kind of car you drive or what kind of fancy clothes you put on, you will never be them. They're always gonna look at you as nothing but a little monkey. I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperately trying to be something I'm really not, just to fit in. And whether we want to accept it or not, that's what this culture or lack of culture is feeding us.

I want a better life for my family and for my children, but it doesn't have to be at the expense of millions of lives in my homeland. We're given the idea that if we didn't have these people to exploit then America wouldn't be rich enough to let us have these little petty material things in our lives and basic standards of living. No, that's wrong. It's the business giants and the government officials who make all the real money. We have whatever they kick down to us. My enemy is not the average white man, it's not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the street; my enemy is the white man I don't see: the people in the white house, the corporate monopoly owners, fake liberal politicians those are my enemies. The generals of the armies that are mostly conservatives those are the real Mother-Fuckers that I need to bring it to, not the poor, broke country-ass soldier that's too stupid to know shit about the way things are set up.

In fact, I have more in common with most working and middle-class white people than I do with most rich black and Latino people. As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue. Many of us are in the same boat and it's sinking, while these bougie Mother-Fuckers ride on a luxury liner, and as long as we keep fighting over kicking people out of the little boat we're all in, we're gonna miss an opportunity to gain a better standard of living as a whole.

In other words, I don't want to escape the plantation I want to come back, free all my people, hang the Mother-Fucker that kept me there and burn the house to the god damn ground. I want to take over the encomienda and give it back to the people who work the land.

You cannot change the past but you can make the future, and anyone who tells you different is a Fucking lethargic devil. I don't look at a few token Latinos and black people in the public eye as some type of achievement for my people as a whole. Most of those successful individuals are sell-outs and house Negros.

But, I don't consider brothers a sell-out if they move out of the ghetto. Poverty has nothing to do with our people. It's not in our culture to be poor. That's only been the last 500 years of our history; look at the last 2000 years of our existence and what we brought to the world in terms of science, mathematics, agriculture and forms of government. You know the idea of a confederation of provinces where one federal government controls the states? The Europeans who came to this country stole that idea from the Iroquois lead. The idea of impeaching a ruler comes from an Aztec tradition. That's why Montezuma was stoned to death by his own people 'cause he represented the agenda of white Spaniards once he was captured, not the Aztec people who would become Mexicans.

So in conclusion, I'm not gonna vote for anybody just 'cause they black or Latino they have to truly represent the community and represent what's good for all of us proletariat.

Viva la revolution!

I Try

Life is a beautiful struggle
People search through the rubble for a suitable hustle
Some people usin' the noodle, some people usin' the muscle
Some people put it all together, make it fit like a puzzle

Friday, May 09, 2008

Sqrt

In case anyone was wondering, sqrt(sum of squares) != sum of sqrt(square)