Oh the joys of drm, and copyright lawyers. Moral: dont buy a kindle or from amazon
October 29, 2009
October 1, 2009
processed food – why humans are doomed.
google ‘fake cheese’ – if you did not then fake cheese is oil based (that’s fat). Guess who uses fake cheese – frozen pizza’s – why ? well its cheaper than milk.
Here’s the thing.If humans consume processed food aka the ‘ready meal’ then it is not good for you.
This is darwinisn in action, while a few might be rich replacing milk based products with oil cheese it does nothing for the idiots who buy crap pizzas except speed up that medical condition.
Its scary that people buy this stuff after it will leave a bitter taste in the future.
August 15, 2009
Europeans sign the petition to get a chioce of computer operating systems
Lets not pay Microsoft for stuff we dont want – Please it is here.
July 29, 2009
July 22, 2009
Why is buying a netbook so hard ?
Bananas in the Falklands is in the market fora netbook computer running Linux, and no windows xp will NOT do.
Dell fail - no sale
If you see this and the image to your right (external link) then it appears the Dell seem to think Linux is a microsoft product.
This would make my life much easier since yes I can purchase a linux netbook without paying the evil ms tax but you cannot buy the newer models from the larger retailers either in a shop or online without buying the windows tax as well – odd that.
I hate Dell with a vengeance and the issue abouve put me off purchasing a mini netbook with a 10 inch screen [dells ctb bumps up the price greatly too]. Moreover try an purchase a Eee pc 1000 with just linux on it, no it mean a eec pc 1000ha or other model. See where i am coming from ?
I will buy the computer without Microsoft and if that means not going to a big website/shop then that is there loss and not mine.
It is also interesting to note that the Novell/Microsoft ‘Suse linux’ distro is not offered either. Proof positive that Microsoft wants Novell out of business.
May 25, 2009
cbs and the riaa trying to kill last.fm
Last.fm is web radio, who cbs an american corp bought. What you may or may not know is that an application on windows tracks all your media (see a problem yet?) so this means lots of data which is uploaded to last.fm [privacy?]
Last.fm is a london,england based outfit and so should really be under the control the evil ifpi, not the american bit which is the riaa and famous for suing music fans with bad data.
The story is here, the moral is don’t run microsoft windows, or trust americans (even if you are an non american citizen) for your privacy.
So Cbs the American broadcaster wishes to destroy there investment in web radio in last.fm, thats ok with me, but the shareholders of cbs might be a bit angry since thats rather a waste of money.
tame and spying on you
It is interesting to note that popular music once a benchmark for american freedom means just the opposite of it today, that goodness those commies in Russia lost the cold war, but lets not mention china.
As to the privacy abuse make up your own mind.
Plenty of issues here i think for all.
May 22, 2009
Fairtrade is a minefield
great bananas, but the catholic preist raped all my children
fairtrade means a ‘fair’ price to those who produced x rather than corporation y. It’s a brand name with a ’cause’.
All kinds of ‘ethical’ can now be bought, but what is galling is when the churches decide to get into this act
That strikes me as being evil, ‘ethical’ does not mean you have to a member of a certain church to start with and the churches are beginning to sully fair trade schemes for example traidcraftshop.co.uk, how does that differ from say the original fair trade providers and who keeps any of them honest.
Whatever your views on ‘fair trade’ goods tea/coffee/chickens means just that – i do not particularly want to eat a catholic chicken, because that might be as bad with catholic priests raping the new farmers children and since they are recruit to the faith is that fair?
Fair trade has the beginnings of an image problem, when the churches get involved.
One might argue that the church is now a corporate entity and thus as evil as say the Nestle corporation is to source producers.
April 15, 2009
amazon.com’s ‘easter hating gays’ moment a one off, or future feature?
Amazon.com is a big shop on the internet, which for whatever faults it now has pushed bookseller from a rather stuffy / lazy profession hence the quote from them before amazon that
“PEOPLE DON’T READ BOOKS”
into a dynamic business worldwide where it appears people do.However with big comes responsibility, the word monopoly might come into a discussion, and the one click patent trolling that amazon still engage in to today mean this beast needs monitoring.
you cant buy jack at amazon easily.
Cave dwellers will not know that amazon decided that any book with a hint of a gay theme – including Captain Jack from Torchwood (my blog) lost its rating on the the amazon .com site, however if your book was soemthing like how to train fighting dogs your safe. So amazon went redneck for a bit.
so what’s the problem ? i hear some of you think.
Well – if you start delisting ‘alternative’ books how long before Harry Potter goes, or Stephanie Meyers book?s. The world does not need extra censorship, in fact censorship is bad for amazon – for this book (my blog) i could not enrich the shareholders of amazon.com.
Granted that the books i read might not be best sellers, and im not likely to read the books that amazon it appears would prefer not to sell but if the only two books allowed to be printed where the bible and how to train fighting dogs then amazon.com would not have a business.
phew amazon think asterisk the gay gaul isnt gay.
If you read the blame game now that this was a cock up by one tolerant french amazon employee caused the issue that does not ring true to me, and why it that english titles like Jack Barrowmans book got censored rather than say asterisk (seen right) then explain that one away.
In short it does not add up. However if you read about the tale of the book amazon would not sell me then you will know that ‘no’ isnt the final word yet.
Exploring the world of bookselling outside of amazon means there are much nicer websites thena amazon, be different explore. Why you should explore is that say a book deals with vampires or witchcraft and some loon complains and amazon repeat this with vampires then both as a shareholder it will help you investing and as a consumer supply you with the things you might need.
If those examples are bad try this if ‘god fearing folk’ have issues with most things, women leaders, eating pigs, sex etc then pick a book up suppose a charles dickens book has strong female character, or emily brontes books might cause womens liberation then the danger is that these retards can both damage a business and have the ability to censor everyone.
The e-book – there kindle is also a means of future censorship, suppose Jane Eyre is banned as a e-book on the kindle, then the drm does not allow any non amazom.com content loaded. You have censorship.
I’m off to purchase a copy how best to train pit bull fighting dog after all im sure they can be trained to bite and kill religous people.
April 10, 2009
Um the wire so what…
chess with da niggars
Due to a frack up with the video that i still don’t understand i failed to get 1 and 2 episodes of the wire that’s now being shown on the bbc.
Starting with episode three i found the writing good, but it covers the same area the corner, the homicide life on the street tv series which most humans did not see and mr simon and mr burns co wrote.
I am a fan of Mr Simons writing which has won a edgar award (my blog), and the the corner which is also a notable book. The tv series (my blog)of the books, had its ups and downs but the actors of these where usually high calibre along with the writing (my blog). Quite why nobody else bothered to see them just shows i know good thing without mass ‘cult’ appeal that wire has since achieved..
I was not inclined to get the wire on dvd since i know the territory.
Its nice you average people finally recognize Mr Simon – but bloody hell talk about taking your time.
If a brave wire fan might like to point out what is ‘innovative’ in the comments then i might change my opinion, but don’t expect me to covert too easily.
ps: The dialoge could have been form generation kill (my blog).
February 12, 2009
Scientologists and the msm/big booksellers (the danger of censorship).
There is a book called The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of The Church of Scientology by Duignan, John published by Merlin (published in Ireland) and is isbn: 978-1-903582-848 and no amazon don’t sell it because of pressure from Tom Cruise* and other like minded midgets.
The John Duignan book got a mention on a Daily Telegraph blog and later on that blog post disappeared ‘poof’ – those Tom Cruise midgets reach the parts of the msm others just don’t reach.
Anyhow being Bananas in the Falklands it peaked my interest.
A quick search in google won’t suffice and don’t expect the big bookshops** to have this book. So i bought it not from them – I tell you again and again the waterstones chain (my blog) don’t want people to read.
Also my library gave up on me, A UK online bookshop website tried to sell it to me – but they failed (then not available), I was quoted a bonkers price by an independent bookshop (£50) for something like a signed in blood original, and so believing there has to be easier option i bought it from Ireland – don’t however try the isbn number because that seems to be foo-bared big time.
So getting it is a bit of an adventure .
Tom Cruise book burner friend of Adof Hitler
What is the ‘danger’ i hint at ? – well suppose you are threatened not to sell a certain book title as a web/shop and assuming your clients know about the ‘banned’ book what happens – well – people start to shop at new places, accounts are created and relationships started. Maybe …. waterstones / amazon/ etc really are becoming lazy, and so a threat not only hurts them as not just a supplier but for the non censored books i might buy after all ive seen some really great web bookshops so far on this blog post.
A wonder amoung the other non big name websites will inform you that amazon (.com/.co.country) seems terribly clunky after some of the newer bookshops out there, it is the reason why i also give isbn numbers rather than links to a certain bookshop. Anybody who has two braincells should be able to get a book based on the information i document i think that is best from wherever you get books from.
Now finally on to the book ….
It is 318 pages long and details a twenty year+ (it is a little vague) stint across the world of Scientology. Mr Duignan has a family history and in style of the victim literature (examples wondering scribe blog/anja peters) details a sad family background. Parental mental health problems are hinted at and Mr Duignan ends up in an adopted extended family in Ireland at a young age.
These family issues and Ireland’s opportunities mean the author wonders 1970’s europe looking for a career without much of an education. Amateur acting for jesus was the first outlet first in then west Germany and then on us military bases arround the world. So there’s a predilection to do the ‘god will help me’ thing.
The jesus acting thing changed into a cult a couple of years down the line and our author was then at a loose end. He did the scientology personality test one day, liked the pretty girl who asked him and a twenty year association was formed. This was before Hubbard died and John being poor (eg no inheritance) meant that e was employed as an scientology employee for a while and then become a member of the sea org – the scientology organisation that when you sign up as an officer you sign a billion year contract. Pay is $5 a day for a 22 hour day, a single bunk bed and no sex life.
Germany, America, Zimbabwe (a persona non grata passport stamp), England and various countries on short stops are hinted at are all places he ’served’ in various stints in roles from cooking lunch, to recruiting celebrities.
The book also has also moments of humour – the authors could not see that a scientologist who started drinking at 9 am probably had a alcohol problem until a thought that happened years later. As the author wore a naval white uniform, his then comments about gay people and working in gay areas brings up the camp 70’s classic somg ‘ymca’ to mind. Since most humans whom don’t believe in scientology line, and are thus deemed wogs, its is amusing that in Africa he calls africans ‘wogs’
The authors driving skills under comrade el ron sound iffy too. The question as posed by Tom Cruise in that leaked video about car crashes is does the Scientology driver hit you, or do you avoid the driver with the crazy death wish in the rental car?.
The book has moments of surreal humour. For instance the damage Mr Cruise caused with his crashing cars video, means that he is still a hero in scientologists circles, but outside we all know he is a bit of joke.
Eventually ‘reason’ caught up with the author whom was responsible for getting the funds together to pay the out of court and silence compensation claims in England, and clean up after upper management’s purges so the author has some brains.
Scientology also likes its purges of ‘bad scientologists in management’
the Author was due a senior post with the head of the now iving
scientologist David Miscavige (who personally served Hubbard on a
board ship as a child messenger in sea org). knowing what happens to ‘bad
scientologists’ the author then decided to make an escape as apparently there are minions in scientology in the US still in scientology prison*** for upsetting David Miscavige’s plans.
The book varies in pace but its an experience. 5/5 Bananas
So is Scientology a cult – i would say yes, but don’t take it from me, read the book and come to your conclusion.
Tom Cruise the book burner is most welcome to come and try and burn our book here at the zoo, come on Tom you know where we live….
* I suggest that everybody also boycotts Tom Cruise, and Will Smith films just to even the score ** no not even waterstones stock it. So if you think amazon are the be all and end all to books please think again. *** As funded by Tom Cruise and anybody who sees a film with him in it .
