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If you hadn't heard ICE raided 32 mod chip dealers around the country recently. I'd write my own angry rant about this, but this guy has already written an incredibly eloquent one himself. I'll just say that our country was founded on the principle of ownership. When I buy anything it is mine. I can do whatever I want with it. If I buy a banana I can eat it, throw it away, cut into pieces, throw it all over my walls, whatever the hell I want. If I buy a book, I can read as many times as I want, I can rip it's pages out, I can write my own words inside of it, whatever the hell I want. If I buy underwear I can wear it to cover my privates, use it as a hat, turn into a slingshot, use it as a notepad, whatever the fucking hell I want. It is a travesty that a country founded upon freedom, is making criminals out of anyone simply exercising the liberties guarantied to us by our founding fathers. I don't care who the fuck makes what product, when I buy it, I own it! I might not be able to make and sell exact copies of it, but I can do what I want with the copy I own. We are coming quickly to a time where ownership is completely abolished, and the only people who own things will be the government and giant companies. That is a fiefdom, and we left that flawed and atrocious form of civilization centuries ago.

Apparently I have WAY too much time to waste...

So yeah, I was curious the other day about how many books/stories I've read this year, and I wanted to see which author I read more of. So I spent 20 minutes in Excel. I'm such a fucking dork.

Yeah, second comic post in a row. Actually that's all I've posted this whole freaking year. But whatever, I thought this was hilarious. Here's a link to the comic's site. This has been funny pretty consistently.

This is from Three Panel Soul. I found it on BoingBoing today. It's pretty good, I've started reading them from the beginning. I thought this one was hilarious. :)

The damn bastard...

I got this from Ctrl+Alt+Del.


From GamingHorizon.com:

"Earlier this month, gamer named Mitchell S. with the online screenname "Kuja105" who posts on a few online videogame forums (including GameFaqs.com and MetalGearSolid.org) committed suicide. On January 2 he posted a message in both forums detailing his intent to end his own life, citing overwhelming complications with school and finances.

A very brief period of initial disbelief was followed by a barrage of replies from fellow forum members pleading that he not take his life, trying to talk him out of it.

For days, no word was heard from Mitchell. Fearing the worst, members and administration from metalgearsolid.org began searching for contact information, spending hours on the phone trying to get in touch with him. Finally on January 4, Ryan K., an administrator at metalgearsolid.org, got him on the phone and spent hours desperately trying to talk him out of it.

Sadly, Mitchell soon ended his own life by consuming antifreeze and painkillers.

Later, members from the site contacted Mitchell's family to find out the grave news. They reported it to their online community, and posted a tribute to their passed friend on the front page of metalgearsolid.org." Full Report Here.

Mr. Jack Thompson then sent in the following letter regarding the situation to MetalGearSolid.org, one of the forums frequented by Mitchell, where he was known well:

"Your "gamer friend" will find peace through the Lord, Jesus Christ, but sadly it's too late for that.

There is a void in every heart. You can fill it up with the things of God, or the things not of God. This unfortunate soul chose to fill it up with combat games. The playing of these video games is masturbatory activity, meaning senseless self-stimulation. If you gamers could use a dictionary you would know that that term is not necessarily a sexual one.

The real tragedy here extends beyond the life and death of this one fellow. There are literally millions of young people and young adults whose despair is deepend by turning to the things of this world and then finding them meaningless.

All of you gamers need to put down the controllers and get a life. The utter inanity of the vast majority of postings here shows how vapid "gaming" really is.

You are one of the cheerleaders for this wasting of time and the wasting of lives. Do you feel any remorse for having contributed to this "culture of death?" Of course not. Hey, let's all play MORE games, and ignore all the really productive things to do with our lives.

Let's pretend to be shocked that a gamer might descend into deeper depression, as his gamer "buds," knowing he was killing himself, couldn't figure out how to call 911 themselves for him. That would have involved leaving their computers I guess.

Sad. Sad for all of you."

Here is an article written by friends and peers of Mitchell at MetalGearSolid.org.

Yes, Arrogant Bastard Ale. Truly one of the greatest bears ever. I just thought this was hilarious. :) I found this at their website, check it out.

Here we go. Well, not much I have to say about this, I'm kinda in a hurry. Feel free to post your thoughts, and I'll write more about this one later.