BAD MACHINATION

In a way that you will totally find marketable, Life Scoop.

( It's dope being wise. Act III Scene 2, by Saul )

The aggression at the status quo exhibited in that is utterly intoxicating. Scope it out, sometime. Ought to be on youtube.

When I first saw this on the repositories, I said something like "AisleRiot? wtf? who needs 80 different solitaire games!?"

I now realize that it was me.

A. Promiscuity
B. Criminal Behavior
C. Taking to the high seas, to violate maritime law.

Helplessness or otherwise lacking the capacity to direct myself and [to a lesser extent] what's going on around me.
Nope. I don't even know how to address something so big.

In addition to bad action star. Ace.

He's also a singer, songwriter, action movie producer, writer, director, founder of Seagal Enterprises, which markets an energy drink, a line of herbal oils, a steven seagal aftershave, and an imprint of Kershaw Knives, and is, according to Lama Penor Rinpoche, a reincarnated tulku (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulku) of Chungdrag Dorje (http://www.palyul.org/docs/statement.html).

Clearly the man even breathes awesome.

Had a late start today. Lazed around until about 1. Then I took a look around downtown. First order of business I checked some stores. I should have checked more I was planning to check a few "on the way back" but ended up coming back a different way. I also scouted a smoothie place I want to try but also didn't for that very same reason. I snapped a shot of some graffiti by chance, and that established a motif for the day. I discovered a raised walkway went up to a park space on top of a tunnel actually, with trees and bushes all over. Surprised the hell out of me. It looked more like the woods than a garden. Saw raised view of the lake on that same pavilion. Wow. Then I walked down onto the shore, explored old bits of junk and jumbles of large to huge granite boulders, very slowly going back and fourth I worked my way up to a canal, and a little Army Corp Of Engineers visitor center I meant to scope out but didn't. Saw the old lighthouse at the area, and a new one. Watched ships, walked some more, took some pictures of the mills and factories on the waterfront. Icky that they are there, but I still love the functional weirdness of industrial architecture. Scoped out the aerial lift bridge that seems to be some kind of architectural mascot of the place. There was a ton of graffiti on the lighthouses. From out on the pier I spotted what appeared to be a sandy beach. Surprised the hell out of me, so I checked it out. I ended up hopping over a wall, and much to my delight there was a few big colorful displays of graffiti, including a bit I liked so much it will be a new icon. Mark my words. I wandered for awhile, picked a landmark and made myself turn back once I reached it. SHIT I just realized there was a docked Coastguard Cutter I wanted to scope out. I took pictures of some of the various statuary that I saw, not so much that I liked them so much, but because I am trying to make an active effort to document my experiences since I'm actually beginning to range farther than the home-grounds. Walked along the lake for a while, visited a veteran's memorial, came back around to the hotel, because by this point I had ranged in a big loop along the shore swinging out to each side of the hotel. Met up with the motherboard again and we went to the irish pub across the street. I ordered Guiness and Fish and Chips... but they were out of Guiness, and only served pizza (wtf!!!?). Instead I had a dark stout. Still seeking fish and chips we were going to another pub, determined it was either closed or really fucking far away, so we went for shitty chinese food. Kind of a shame. On the way out, I discovered that much like my native Saint Paul this joint shuts down at ~ seven pm (wtf!!!? again). It's bizarre, since Minneapolis, my other native city tends to be in operation until the wee morning hours. As a kid I assumed all "big cities" (big enough to have SKY SCRAPERS!!!!) were like that. After chinese we came back, the motherboard, as thoroughly rude as ever, began speculating on whether a particular gentlemen ahead of us was homeless or not. Next: room service dessert. After: lazing around. Tomorrow: Gooseberry Falls, and Split Rock Lighthouse.

UPDATE: Now I'm prolonging a fight on youtube.
Do I still count as a bad person if I know it's a farce?
Does it make me worse for deriving glee from provoking the one who is taking it serious?

Questions questions (which are rhetorical, I might add. No one is allowed to answer :P ).

A night to be proud of, certainly. *choke*

I'm not asleep, so here I am fucking around on LJ alternately looking at people's userinfo, and reloading my friends page in the faint hope that someone updated. What the hell am I doing? I have a ton of reading, writing, no 'rithmatic, but it wouldn't hurt, and even some art to do. Am I doing it? No. I'm wasting time on Livejournal.

Halted a friendship? Not quite.
Lost a ton of respect for? Yes.

Is there any issue I would? No. There would have been quite a few five years ago, but I'm more chilled out (or is it more edified?) now. Contrary opinions are just chances to possibly learn something. The people that seek to sanitize the input they receive are contemptible in their shortsightedness. "Go watch some pundits, fool."

This isn't really relevant, but I'd like to see about half of the posters whose answers I've read so far executed.

Not on the basis of their answers, so much as how those answers have been delivered. I think reading comprehension must be a problem here.
What do you think of that, Intel, Sponsors Of Tomorrow? Instead of sponsoring an inane question to appear on a blog site, perhaps it would have been better to put those resources, comparatively paltry as they may have been, directly into sponsoring some education [for instance].

I would also like to submit for edification the assertions that ad hominem attacks over differences of ideas is shamelessly masturbatory, and made even more pathetic and loathsome by the vicarious nature of the internet; and that superficiality is intrinsically misguided - not to mention perhaps even more masturbatory.



You know, we could even eat the executions, or feed them to animals that we may want to eat, or release the bodies to physiological and/or nutritional studies. Not only is our future brightly improved by the removal of those individuals, but removing them in one or more of those ways could potentially improve the way we eat.

Failing that, in the far future we could all be genetically altered to have tentacles like an octopus and beaks like a macaw. This would give us a few more (highly versatile!) appendages, and strong beaks to crack hard nuts for the tender flesh inside.

keys and mice work find for me. touch screens are for technophobes that like to clean up skin-oils.

Wow. How about that? Adsplash!! on the lj topbar. Ah, capitalism.

Mambo Sun, by T.Rex - at least according to my last.fm

This question seems to beget frustrating results.
There is a difference between a capacity to explain everything, and how much we can explain at this moment...

Yes. There is a scientific explanation for everything, we just don't know them all yet. Science is a means to explain and to document evidence to remove all or nearly all doubt from a mystery. The term "Science" has been taken and applied to a number of things which are not science, among the least offensive of which (though still a bedeviling transgression!) is a rationalist view of the world (though, rationalism is not science, I will emphasize).

Cheney, with no supplies.

from: http://www.openrce.org/blog/view/981/Build_Your_Own_Botnet_with_RDP


"...So one day I was helping out a friend, let's call him Bob, and he was having a problem with a remote Windows machine. After watching him fire up his remote desktop client and enabling the sharing of "Disk Drives" (so that he could pull a log off the remote machine), I wondered what the implication was of actually setting up a file share between the two machines.

The question I had was: "What if someone owned the remote machine? What can they do from there?"...

...So what are some of the things we can do with this?

If the remote user (the RDP client) is "Administrator":

a) Overwrite anything in C:\WINDOWS\system32\ say the next time they fire up calc.exe they get compromised.
b) You could search the remote machine for vulnerable versions of say Adobe Acrobat, and then replace all of the pdf's on the filesystem with malformed files.

If the remote user is a limited account:

a) Parse all of their shortcuts on the Desktop, replace them to point to a binary that you push across the share.
c) Use the b) step above to change all of their "My Documents" to contain bad files that will ultimately compromise the system...

...Everytime someone connects to your machine.... ....you are able to ride back the channel to ultimately drop whatever binary you want on their machine. You could also easily social engineer someone into connecting to your machine, because psychologically if I am giving you access to my Windows server, I am showing you that I have some implied trust in you. It puts me in a position of vulnerability, and people will generally accept that they are the ones who hold the power, not really thinking about the implications of accessing my trusted environment."

I had the full text here behind a cut, but LJ didn't want to let me put it in. There was a non UTF-8 character it said. Rather than mess with it, I'll let anyone who wants to read the whole article go to on their own, though really I have posted most of it.

Anyway, that was basically for me and the other unix-based operating system users on my friends to thumb our noses at everyone else.