A couple of people have asked, in e-mail and otherwise, if I was serious when I suggested doing something in another post a few days ago.

Was I serious?

Yup.

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…then check THIS out. At least Bill Gates doesn’t have a strikeforce that’ll bomb your house if you put cracked Windows XP on Kazaa.

Army to Hackers: We Know Where You Live

By TechWeb News

The executive producer of “America’s Army,” the free online game funded by the U.S. Army, is hopping mad at hackers who have taken advantage of the game’s security holes, saying, “the Army is angry, and we’re coming for you.”

In a posting to the game’s official forum, Phil DeLuca, said that hackers infiltrating the game were not only “breaking the EULA you’re misusing Army property ” and, worse, you’re misusing US Army computer programs and equipment.”

DeLuca’s post, which has since been removed from the site, went on to say that “we know who you are, and can track down where you play from.” He also went so far as to cite 20th century

It’s been sitting in our living room for about a month, still shrink-wrapped. We fired up the DVD player last night and watched the first disc (of the actual movie: the film is two discs and the others are supplemental material) then the second this afternoon.

VAST improvement over the theatrical version but that’s mostly because a lot of things that we barely saw in the original one are delved into more here (Faramir and Eowyn hitting it off in the Houses of Healing, the Mouth of Sauron riding out to “welcome” Gandalf and crew to Mordor, etc.) If Peter Jackson could be said to have made a mistake at all with this movie trilogy, it’s that he didn’t include Christopher Lee’s scene as Saruman in the original, making it appear here for the first time. It’s not that long a scene, but greatly adds to the story while wrapping ...

…and he’s doing a damn poor job of it too.

“We had an accountability moment, and that’s called the 2004 elections,” Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post. “The American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me.”

Read the full story here.

There is one difference between Bush and Pilate, though: Pilate was openly conflicted about the meaning of truth. Bush doesn’t have that problem… becaue he doesn’t care about the truth.

Y’know, if a revolt ever happens – and completely against the grain of the Christ-like spirit that I struggle to keep in my heart – I must admit coming to relish all the more the opportunity to take headshots at Bushbots… if for no other reason that because if Romania in 1989 was any indication it’ll cleanse out of ...

“When the Emperor passed by we had to bow our heads very low. We were made to believe that the Emperor was too awe inspiring for ordinary humans to look upon directly.”

Hirohito was the last to sit on the Chrysanthemum throne and be considered a god upon Earth. It used to be taught to every small child during the long centuries of Imperial Japan that they must not dare look at the Emperor… else they would be struck blind. Many among the Japanese were still gripped by that sense of fear and awe, even long years after Hirohito relinquished any claims of divinity following Japan’s surrender to the United States after World War II.

(The Emperor is still a big kahuna over there though. You know he’s the ONLY person in Japan who by law cannot eat fugu? I think that’s pretty neat… well unless Akihoto really WANTs to ...

Now, the tendency among a lot of folks – namely, some Christians – is that they’ll hear about this and automatically assume it’s the biblical “mark of the Beast”. That’s a pretty new idea, actually. Until ten years or so ago no student of the Bible (serious or… nevermind) had a clear picture of WHAT exactly this might be but with the advent of implantable chips, it’s by far the most accepted theory of what the “mark” will be. Doesn’t mean it will be the mark, but it sorta makes sense if it is. So this article at Wired News is no doubt gonna raise some eyebrows…

Brave New Era for Privacy Fight

By Kim Zetter

02:00 AM Jan. 13, 2005 PT

As the nation prepares for President Bush’s inauguration next week, privacy activists on both sides of the political spectrum are bracing for a White House push to augment

From a ransom note that will soon be delivered to Walt Disney execs:

dEar DiSNeY dOPEs,
wE ARe hoLdInG tIMoN aNd PUMbaA hoSTAge. dO NOt rEMAKe troN Or yoU WiLL nevER SEe tHEm aLIVE AGaIn iN fACt wE mAy BARbEcuE puMBAa FOr DiNNer hAHAhaHahAHAHahAHaHAhA.

If this is true… grrrrrrr…

So help me, I’ll hire a squad of kamikaze Muppets to walk into Magic Kingdom with suitcase nukes if they screw this up.

Tron is one of those movies that, yeah it didn’t make all that much money at the box office and it’s not quite a cultural classic but you don’t want anyone to mess with it either, because to enough of us it is a classic. Why that is, I can’t explain but I think part of it has to do with the children of the first Star Wars generation, in the years after Episode IV: A New Hope...

The lovely Spousal Overunit and I finished watching a full episode of Lost for the very first time. It seems… intriguing.

I’ve absolutely NO idea what’s supposed to be going on here though....

Okay, I’ll admit that was bad. But it’s not all that inaccurate either.

In an interview with the Washington Times earlier this week, Bush said that he didn’t “see how you can be president without a relationship with the Lord.”

Okay, which lord are we talking about here?

There is Our Lord and Savior. The Prince of Peace. He who sits at the right hand of God in Heaven. The Lamb slain for the sins of man so that we might live. The only begotten Son of God. The One Who was pierced, and yet shall every knee bow toward Him and confess that He is Lord.

At some point in the future. In the due time. But not just yet…

Because the lord of this world and present age is still on his throne. The one possessing all the glory and splendor of this carnal realm to do with ...

But…

Okay, I’m not that far into the game as most people have been, who’ve probably won the thing and gone onto Halo 2 (which I can’t wait to play but I’m a conservative videogamer: gotta finish one game before moving on to any sequels) so maybe this will make sense eventually. Right now it makes positively none to me.

I spent 2 hours last night stuck on that level where the mission is to lead your team aboard the Covenant ship via the “gravity lift” thingy. So far I’m still stuck. Gonna try it again late tonight but that ain’t what’s buggin’ me.

WHY in the WORLD am I trying to take out an ALIEN ship that is named the “TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION”?!?!?

“Truth and Reconciliation”?! There’d better be some method to the Bungie guys’ madness here, ‘cuz that’s about the most UN-THREATENING name for an evil alien enemy’s ...