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Kommentar til Karina Lorentzens (SF) Facebook udmelding “Når seriøsiteten svigter, står oppositionen klar!”

Politik er af og til morsomt, og det bør det være, ellers ville verden da være grå, og kedelig. Problemet er bare når noget næsten er komisk af dårlige grunde. Følgende er endnu et klart bevis på noget, som egentlig er tæt på komisk, men pga. seriøsiteten, ikke er sjovt overhovedet!


"Karina Lorentzen Dehnhardt vil lade statsministeren, hans parti og spinvennerne lege politik - så skal vi andre nok stå for at lave politik. Når seriøsiteten svigter, står oppositionen klar!"

Kilde: Facebook.

“Når seriøsiteten svigter, står oppositionen klar!”


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Bare lad være med at fremsætte grundlovsstridige, ytringsfrihedsmyrdende, uigennemtænkte og unødvendige lovforslag, som kun spilder tid. Det der med at oppositionen “står klar”, finder jeg efterhånden noget utroværdigt. Fremfor at kæmpe for socialt progressive mærkesager, såsom ligeløn imellem mænd og kvinder, fuld lighed for homoseksuelle i samfundet, adskildelse af kirke og stat, ordenlig fokus på bekæmpelse af fattigdom, eliminering af skattelettelserne til de rige svindlere, ratificering af nye menneskerettighedstraktater, insisteren på undersøgelse af den ulovlige krig i Irak, NEJ, istedet støtter Socialdemokraterne et grundlovsstridigt burkaforbud, og du og SF foreslår, at man laver indirekte censur af internettet ved at straffe folk for at se på noget indhold, ikke for at udgive det. Alle som synes Karinas lille fikse idé er god, prøv at sætte en artikel om demokrati på kinesisk ind i den kontekst, jeg vil væde med at jeg kan høre jer skrige helt fra Sibirien. Det er ikke noget absurd eksempel, fordi principper testes kun når tingene bliver svære, principper er nemme at overholde når det er ting man i forvejen er enig i, eller synes om, det er kun når det modsatte er tilfældet at principperne træder i karakter eller bortfalder.

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Quick reminder for any oppressed people!

Given that the Danish politicians, yet again, dare even ponder the notion of censoring the Internet, and then try to dance around it like were they walking over a path of burning coal (And the Danish electorate seem to be too damn afraid of those oh so scary Muslims, and their minarets that they don’t care about another chunk of their freedom of expression going down the toilet!), I thought this might be a good opportunity to remind any oppressed Chinese, Burmese, Iranians etc., that if you are in need of computer software, to help you escape the dictator’s grip on your ability to express yourself, check my Encryption Software section.

I’ll have to remember to update and expand it in the near future, because hell, maybe I or my neighbor might be needing it one of these days!

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Kommentar til Karina Lorentzens (SF) blog-indlæg “Ingen censur af internettet”

I tilfælde af at sf.dk’s moderatorer ikke bryder sig om, min meget tilspidsede tone, er her hvad jeg skrev som svar på Karina Lorentzens (Fra Socialistisk Folkeparti, SF) blog-indlæg “Ingen censur af internettet”, hvor hun på fuldstændig fantastisk (For at bruge Villys udtryk) vis, forsøger at bortforklare Internet censur.


Karina skriver:

“Man kan ikke censurere internettet – og det skal man heller ikke. Men man kan godt stille krav til folks adfærd på nettet. Det gør man allerede i dag når det gælder pædofili, som det er strafbart at opsøge og downloade. Det samme kan man gøre med opfordringer til vold og terror.”

Hvis man kan straffes for aktivt at opsøge og surfe efter og downloade børneporno, som er til ubodelig skade for tusindvis af børn verden over – så kan man også straffes for aktivt og med forsæt at opsøge opfordringer til vold og terror – der koster tusindvis af mennesker, herunder også mange børn, livet verden over, hvert år – altså at nuancere muligheden for, hvornår man forbereder en forbrydelse.

Der er altså ikke tale om censur af hjemmesider. Ej heller er der tale om at teleudbydere skal holde justits med terrorhjemmesider. Det betyder derfor ikke øget overvågning, ej heller filtre og anden teknologi – men at politiet skal kunne gribe ind, når de har en konkret person i kikkerten med de midler, de allerede har.

Men der er tale om at PET og politiet får mulighed for at slå til, hvis en person aktivt og systematisk har været opsøgende i fht. terrorgruppers opfordringer og brugsanvisninger til vold, drab, terror.

Når det gælder fænomenet ”hate-crime” – altså forbrydelser der som motiv har had til f.eks andre etniske grupper, seksuelle minoriteter, anderledes politisk tænkende etc., så er hate-crime en skærpende omstændighed. Det er noget SF har kæmpet for!

Mange af disse terrorhjemmesider har et budskab om død over bestemte nationaliteter, holdninger, minoriteter, trosretninger. Det er altså organiseret ”hate-crime”.

Hvad så med den almindelige net-bruger, der surfer rundt på må og få? Det SF har foreslået at vi undersøger, er at man skal udvise omtanke når man færdes på nettet. Som i alle mulige andre sammenhænge i tilværelsen kan skødesløshed eller grov uagtsomhed blive et problem for den enkelte, når man skal stå til ansvar for domstolene. Men fordi man til en skoleopgave eller i sin forskning frekventerer visse sider – så er det jo ikke dét PET har brug for at slå ned på. De har nok at gøre med de virkeligt farlige personer.

Men PET kan have brug for et redskab til at kunne anholde en person, som med sandsynlighed, og når andre indikationer peger i samme retning, kan være ved at tilegne sig viden der skal bruges til terror. Derfor har vi spurgt jusitsministeren om dette allerede er kriminaliseret eller om der kan være behov for at gøre noget på et tidligere tidspunkt.

På pædofili-området har vi allerede i dag en række strafferegler i vores lovgivning – hvor ufuldstændig og uperfekt den end er – som kunne overføres til terrorområdet: At man enten forholder sig klogt, når man færdes på nettet – ligesom i trafikken. Eller hvis man vil tilegne sig terrorviden, risikerer at måtte stå til ansvar for domstolene. For den enkelte skal jo, på fuldstændig vanlig vis, for en dommer og have vurderet sin sag.”

Kilde: Ingen censur af internettet


Jeg skriver i min kommentar:

“så kan man også straffes for aktivt og med forsæt at opsøge opfordringer til vold og terror ”

Karina, jeg vil meget gerne at du forklarer mig hvordan et forbud mod det du her påpeger, ikke ville ramme folk som måske af ren interesse for biologi osv. opsøger det man kunne kalde “bombeopskrifter”, for af vide hvilke stoffer der bruges i bomber eller fyrværkeri, af ren videnskabelig interesse. Nu er det ikke alle som interesserer sig for biologi som vælger det som levebrød, eller har mulighed for det gøre så, og tage en universitetsuddannelse o.l.!

Du siger du ikke vil censurere hjemmesider, nej okay, men du foreslår noget der i såfald har næsten samme effekt, vi gør ikke hjemmesiderne ulovlige, men vi forbyder dælme folk at læse dem!

Der er MILLIARDER af websites på nettet, skulle en lille censurkommitée hos PET, Folketinget eller andre, nogensinde kunne holde styr på dem alle? Enhver fornuftig person, skulle nok kunne indse er det er helt umuligt. De egentlige forbrydere som vil slå andre ihjel ved at smide bomber, skal sgu nok finde en måde at få den nødvendige viden på, hvis ikke ved at finde en hurtig opskrift på nettet, så ved at studere noget biologi, og så er det da, at vi for alvor ikke kan kende forskel på bombemanden og biologinørden.
Vi ved at mange terrorister langt fra er dårligt uddannede, nogle vi har set har haft høje uddannelser i mange ting, det kan japanerne også fortælle os lidt om. da de terrorister som lavede saringas angrebe på Tokyos metro i 1995 havde store universitetsuddannelser i biologi og mange andre videnskaber.

Selv HVIS vi antog at Folketingets Censurudvalg eller hvad pokker vi skal kalde det, kunne holde styr på hvornår en person i Chile lægger noget ud på sin blog som en bombemand kan bruge, så tager det altså ikke mere end 10 minutters snak med en computernørd med samme viden som mig (Og der findes mange med mere viden indenfor feltet end jeg, sikkert også folk med en forskruet moral) for at bombemanden har alle de anonymiseringsteknikker han/hun skal bruge, for at undgå den konstruktion som dit frygts-masturberende forslag ville stille op. Jeg undskylder udtrykket, men det du foreslår giver kun en falsk følelse af sikkerhed. Og en falsk følelse af sikkerhed er meget værere end slet ingen, fordi når man ikke har nogen, så ved man at man ikke sikker, hvis man “TROR” man er sikker, så har man tilbøjelighed til ikke at være kritisk overfor sine egne konstruktioner, og så går man bombemandens ærne.

Lige en sidste ting, hvis det var Iran eller Kina som gjorde noget i den her stil og henviste til tibetanske websites med “farlig information”, så hvinede vi i vesten, med god grund, til vi ikke kunne trække vejret.
Lad nu for pokker være med at give ultra-liberalisterne alt hvad de skal bruge for at erklære SF for “NORDKOREA PARTIET”.

For at opsummere, og jeg undskylder min tone, men det forslag her er godt nok det mest useriøse, uigennemtænkte jeg har hørt siden de Konservatives burkaforbud, MEN VENT det var jo ikke så længe siden!!! Er det kun mig eller kommer de her “intellekts-udhuglede” (Man fristes til at bruge stærkere ord) forslag efterhånden bare på linje, og i stimer fra politikkerne på Christiansborg?

Jeg tror og mange andre vælgere i disse dage tænker følgende:
SÅ TAG JER DOG SAMMEN!!!

Hvor ærger jeg mig dog af og til over, at vi i Danmark har et så umoderne demokrati, at vælgerne i de forskellige valgkredse ikke har mulighed for indsamle underskrifter så vi tiltider kunne få nogle recall-valg, synes simpelthen der er så meget useriøsitet i Folketinget, at var det en almindelig arbejdsplads, offentlig eller privat, så var mange blevet fyret for længe siden!


Jeg tilføjede som en hurtig opfølgende kommentar:

Jeg skulle måske også lige understrege, at forslag og snak som det her, er ting som for første gang, efter kun 1½ års medlemsskab af SF, har fremprovokeret de første udmeldelsesovervejelser. Jeg er i forvejen politisk mere på linje med Enhedslisten, men tilslutter mig, af forskellige årsager, partipolitisk til SF, men hvis man bliver ved med så elendige, useriøse, og “intellekts-udhuglende” (Sjovt ord, men tror godt man kan gætte, udfra det, hvilket ord jeg egentlig gerne ville bruge, men pga. kommentarfeltets advarsel ikke bruger) forslag, så vil jeg ihvertfald hurtigt tage konsekvensen!

Jeg har grinet min *** i laser over folk, som sammenlignede SFs nyere kurs med Dansk Folkepartis konstante, fremmedfjenske populisme, og det vil jeg nok blive ved med lidt endnu, men synes godt nok det her fortjener at gå planken ud og direkte ned i en gylletank fyldt til bristepunktet!

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European Pokémon fans, unite!

On December 24th, Yule/Winter solstice celebration/Christmas day here in Denmark, I launched an ambitious new project of mine, which I have planning been for, for about a month, which I call the United European Pokémon Communities.

The basics of it is, that it’s a phpBB3-based forum, with a ton of language packs, some small hacks to make language support even more smooth, a unique structure of governance, and the goal of attempting to bring Pokémon fans from across Europe together on one forum, to supplement national forums and make for a bridge between our nations.

The forum has national sections, currently Danish, Germany, Greek, British (English) and international forums, so that people can come and discuss things in their native language and if they feel like it, through the same site, trivially communicate across national borders.

United European Pokémon Communities

Latin:

Est Europa nunc unita
et unita maneat;
una in diversitate
pacem mundi augeat.

Semper regnant in Europa
fides et iustitia
et libertas populorum
in maiore patria.

Cives, floreat Europa,
opus magnum vocat vos.
Stellae signa sunt in caelo
aureae, quae iungant nos.

English:

Europe is united now
United may it remain;
Our unity in diversity
May it contribute to world peace.

May there forever reign in Europe
Faith and justice
And freedom of the people
In a greater homeland

Citizens, may Europe flourish,
A great task calls on you.
Golden stars in the sky are
The symbols that shall unite us.

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Voyage through cyberspace run aground!

Last Wednesday (4th of March, 2009) when I sat down in front of my computer, after watching TV in the living room, I noticed that the Internet had mysteriously dropped off completely. Applications I use that depend on Internet connectivity had throw up error messages etc. I tried resetting my ADSL modem, my routers, everything, but nothing worked, the Internet was dead. So on Friday I called my ISP, and they ran a test on my connection and it showed that there’s a cabling problem somewhere. They did book a technician to look into it, but that wouldn’t happen for another 6 – 10 days. Really, really, really, REALLY annoying, when you pretty much use the Internet all-day everyday.

It’s said that you take stuff for granted until you loose it, or are otherwise without it. And holy crap, that statement really holds some truth in it! Except for the fact that loss of Internet connectivity is not life threatening, right now I feel like I was out, by myself, sailing on the open ocean, and my engine broke down, I called for help on the radio, but assistance wouldn’t come for another 6 – 10 days! It’s tough in many ways. I would probably feel lonely a lot more than I do without the Internet, it’s like it enables me to be on my own, but not be alone or lonely.

Now, I’m sure you’re asking “If your Internet connection is out, how the hell can you post on your blog?!!?!?”, well, desperate situations call for desperate action! I’ve snuck into the computer room of the school I went to last year, and with my laptop in hand, is snooping on their Internet connection. Think of it as you wish! :P

I’m a big dreamer, both in terms of actual dreams when I’m asleep, and also day-dreams. Of course I’m looking forward to be back online for real, but also in a slightly dreamy sense. At home I have also erected a computer lab in my room, I run a very sophisticated firewall, a DNS server, a web server, and many other things, fairly massive given the location. When I can reconnect to the Internet, it’s gonna be like in episode 15 of the anime series Last Exile, when the Silvana (Big-ass, steam-powered, airborne capital ship), after almost being sunk, and some on-spot repairs by crew-mechanics, can finally take off again.

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Blobs suck!!!

Recently I’ve been messing with my new media center computer, trying to get it to work with XBMC and that good stuff. However, XBMC requires 3D acceleration, and radeonhd doesn’t yet support the 3D features of my graphics adapter (Radeon HD 3200). So I tried using AMD’s proprietary fglrx driver, and I can say is that blobs freaking suck! It doesn’t work at all on Fedora (My preferred distribution), and that’s over a month after the distro came out, giving AMD time to fix their damn driver.

All I have to say is to echo the release song of OpenBSD 3.9: Blob!.

 Little baby Blobby was a cute little baby
 when we found him on the beach,
 there was nothin' shady
 you could bounce him on your knee
 like a ba-ba-ball
 and his first little word was adorable

 He said a blah blah blah blah blah
 blah blah blah
 Blah!

 Thin edge of the wedge?
 But everybody was so happy - about Blob

 Blob was popular at school he was helpful too
 He could get your motor runnin'
 with a drop of goo
 He was givin' it away never charged a dime
 But by the time he graduated
 Blob was business slime!

 He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah
 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
 blah blah

 He's givin' you the Evil Eye!

 Now everybody had it
 they was drivin' around
 They was givin' up their freedoms
 for convenience now
 Blobbin' up the freeway, water black as pitch
 And somehow little Blobby was a growin' rich!

 He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah
 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
 blah blah

 It's linkin' time!

 Now it was out of control
 n' fishy's came to depend
 on Blobby's Blob Blah, seemed to be no end
 Then his empire spread and to their surprise
 Blobby been a growin' to incredible size!

 He's a blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
 B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b

 Then along came a genius Doctor Puffystein
 And he battled the Blob
 who had crossed the line
 He was 50 feet tall - Doctor said "No fear"
 I got a sample of Blob I can reverse engineer!

 But it was too late!
 Blob was takin' over the world!
 He wants your video!
 Ya he wants your net!
 He wants your drive!
 He wants it all!!

 Somebody help us!
 Noooooooo!
 NVIDIA!
 Intel!
 Atheros!
 3-Ware!
 VIA!
 ATI!
 Broadcom!
 TI!
 Myricom!
 HighPoint!
 Adaptec!
 Mylex!
 ICP Vortex!
 and IBM!
 Takin' over the world!

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Always avoid x.0 releases of software!

Since Fedora dropped KDE 3.5.x for Fedora 9 and thereby future releases, I was kind of squatting what operating system to use for my main computer. I was getting so desperate that I even considered going back to openSUSE (Which supports KDE 3.5.x in 11.0, which is supported with security updates for two years), which I left in the first place because Novell started to just piss me off with their laissez-faire attitude towards the free software community. Their deal with Microsoft and other things show this to a great degree. Other technical things also annoyed me back then, such as their reluctance to include applications such as Azureus, despite them being completely legal.

I know that Debian 5.0 Lenny, probably coming out in a month or two (Debian loves their delays!), but I REALLY don’t like Debian at all, so that was not a good option.

So what I picked was FreeBSD, since KDE 3.5.x is in the ports system, and looks like it isn’t going away any time soon. Also FreeBSD, in general, is a very solid operating system.
So for the last 10 days I have been messing with FreeBSD on my main computer. However, I discovered how true the saying “Always avoid .0 releases of software” is! I first picked FreeBSD 7.0, and I ran into some serious bugs, the area of networking, where the vr network driver would drop-out as I tried to transfer files to other machines on my local network, or had intensive traffic to the Internet going. I also ran into problems with sound, where the sounded output of KDE’s artsd sub-system would skip and drop. While artsd is very cruddy these days, it still barely works. So I tried installing FreeBSD 6.3 and did a quick test setup, and I didn’t run into those problems. The 6.x series of FreeBSD, has been out for a good while now, and it shows, the system seems more solid than 7.x, I was actually flabbergasted that something as simple as the vr ethernet driver for VIA-adapters was broken, because it’s such basic hardware as 10/100 ethernet networking. I decided to have a look in CVS, to see whether it might have been fixed for 7.1, and I did notice a bunch of changes, so hopefully it will be fixed in FreeBSD 7.1, and if not, hopefully 7.2, because this sort of basic issue would tarnish FreeBSD’s otherwise very good record of solidity, reliability and stability. But anyway, I’m willing to cut them some slack, since 7.0 was exactly that, a “dot zero” release, which often with any operating system and any category of applicaiton, often is a good example of something to avoid, until childhood illnesses are rooted out.

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The postage system took a dump … again!!!

Yesterday I ordered a Promise SATA300 TX4 controller, and it did get shipped yesterday, but yet again Post Danmark (The company that runs the postage administration) took a dump in a beer can, because the package didn’t get moving in the system before today!!! This really pisses me off. My fuse is very short when dealing with these guys, because it’s not the first time these morons have burned me. Sometimes I can see the argument that liberals often make, about how government sponsored monopolies are bad for consumers, because Post Danmark gets away with charging me up the ass for crappy service. The only thing that saves the grace is the PD employees, who have delivered stuff to me recently, they have been very nice.

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Software conservatism

Politically, I am in no way a conservative, in fact, I can’t help but shake my heads at many conservatives I see on TV these days. However when it comes to the computer software I use, I am somewhat conservative. The reason is that I love it when my computer works, literally. Certain people I know, love to run the latest versions of everything, and occasionally have to fix their machines because something broke. I don’t like that, I like to just be able to go over to my computer, sit down and just use it. This is why I don’t use Windows, or any Microsoft software at all. If we look aside the fact, that Microsoft doesn’t give you any freedom in relation to your computing, all their stuff is just broken out of the box. I can’t think of one piece of Microsoft software, that doesn’t simply suck, and is broken out of the box.

One thing I plan to do for the foreseeable future is to use KDE 3.5.x, until KDE 4.x is a full replacement for what I do. And that could take a while to come, which is why I appreciate the KDE has got 3.5.10 coming out next month.

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Time to plan for vacation in 2009?

Since KDE and GNOME have agreed to hold their annual developer conferences, Akademy and GUADEC, for 2009 on Gran Canaria from July 3rd until July 11th, maybe it’s time I started saving up for a vacation trip down there for next year! Going there for Akademy would be seriously kick-ass as a vacation! :D

I’ve been to Gran Canaria several times in the past, nice place, going there alone would certainly be an interesting experience, especially with two really cool free software conferences going on! :)

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