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Datacenter Confidential #13

A blast from the past, circa 1994! Well here's a special feature on new groupz that appear on the IRC, this feature is covering the mysterious and often misunderstood SK, better known as SaTaNzKiDz. So who are these guyz? Well let me show their membership list cum info sheet : SK.NFO -=- STARTS HERE -=- SK.NFO [ Satanz Kidz ] Satanz Kidz is a group. The actuality of being a child of satan is handled on a per-member basis. We are not here to re-structure irc. We are not here to put out k-spiffy 'zines for people to chuckle at. We are here to look out for one and other, we are here to merely signify an alliance (excuse the pun) of irc kiddies that think in relatively the same distorted, sick, perverted manner. There are only two requirement you must fulfill in being a Satanz Kidz member; being a generally k-rad guy (or girl), and having [Satanz Kidz] in your ircname in some form. Tattoo's, brandin

Again, Thank God For Mental Illness..

Wow..

Call to Action - Kucinich barred from Iowa debate

The Des Moines Register has arbitrarily barred Democratic Congressman and Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich (OH) from participating in their Democratic Presidential Debate. Please register your displeasure, politely, with the Des Moines Register here: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071212/NEWS09/71212029/0/NEWS09 Also, you can, and should, email or call them and register your displeasure. Public debate, regardless of being sponsored by corporate media, should be beholden to equal time rules -- barring Kucinich may not be illegal, but it is surely immoral and unfair. Call the Des Moines Register at 1-800-247-5346 and protest their private decision to censor a public election. The Iowa Caucus has National Implications and the Des Moines Register is excluding Dennis Kucinich from the Debate based on local politics. If that infuriates you, step up and call the Des Moines Register at 1-800-247-5346. Better yet, call their Editorial Board too: Carol Hunter

War is Over

27 years ago you were taken from this world, John. This was the first time I remember feeling sad about something, about someone I never knew. I was not even 6 years old. Your's is also the only Christmas message that seems to have anything at all to do with the philosophy of the Jesus Christ of the Bible: War is over (if you want it). Rest in Peace , Mr. Lennon. You may be dead, but you are not gone.

Religious Freedom

[Note: this is in response to Joe Conason's Op-Ed regarding the religiosity of Republican Candidates for President over at Salon.com ] It is interesting that of the three supposed forerunners on the Democrat side of the 2008 race to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, in order, the top to bottom, their pronouncements of faith are less and less disingenuous: Hillary Clinton, who no doubt is as religious as I am a Black-Asian Lesbian Amputee from Mars, to Barack Obama, who I am sure feels some affinity for a generic Church and form of worship, but whose real idols are secular progressive pursuits and their real-life embodiments in the Civil and Human Rights campaigns of the last century and Edwards, whose good works bely his Southern religious values of which I feel he genuinely and deeply believes (and, going through what his family is going through regarding Elizabeth Edwards, I'm sure that it is for him a source of strength and stability -- the only real purpose of spiritual belief in t

For Immediate Release

Fuck the DEA. http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/sanfran120307.html Contact: Casey McEnry Number: 415-436-7994 Everyone is encouraged to call Agent McEnry and communicate how you feel about the illegal capture of political prisoners by our lawless prohibition junta thugs and their mendacious supporters in the legislatures. Thanks for ruining my New Years plans. LSD is harmless. Also: Rudy Giuliani, you are a liar. Your own kids hate you. Stop lying for once in your sorry political career.

Datacenter Confidential #12

After taking an incredibly unscientific poll of friends and colleagues, I have discovered that the Linux users tend to lean toward Ron Paul and the FreeBSD users tend to lean toward Dennis Kucinich. That said, I have a handful of 7.0-BETA2 and BETA3 boxes up and running at ApartmentNet. So far so good, no major upsets. I even managed a "JumpStart"(*) install of 7.0-B1.5 on a box without a CD/DVD without too much hassle. SMP seems to handle noticeably faster, but like the Ron Paul/Kucinich test, there is no hard data to back that up. What I've also never had any hard data to back up is why I have never really been comfortable with Linux and more specifically the Linux "community." It would be cliche (and also false) to say that my disdain goes back to the 0.9X kernel days where you had to download 20 floppy disk images over 28.8k modem, but I think that the real turning point actually came shortly thereafter when people started distributing their pre-packaged ver

Grow a Flower, Go to Jail

As this (early) political season and Christmas season heats up, remember that millions of Americans, wifes, children, fathers, mothers are separated from their loved ones held as political prisoners in America's war on Black Men and The Poor. Remember as our wars become more and more existential, our freedoms suffer as a result: the war on hunger, drugs, terror, ephemera, et cetera, et cetera. I saw Ethan Nadelmann give this speech , repeated several times on public access cable in Cleveland, Ohio over the Thanksgiving break. Nadelmann heads the Drug Policy Alliance, one of many organizations dedicated to decriminalizing victim-less crime and bringing awareness to alternatives to imprisonment of drug users and dealers. To be sure, Nadelmann forcefully points out that when someone harms someone else, whether or not as a result of drug or alcohol use, then that person must be held accountable. But in the drug war, he points out, usually no-one is helped and those harmed most are peop