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http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2005/11/11/veterans_day/index.html

Dear Senator Lieberman,

Go fuck yourself.

Due process is why our country is great. Removing the right of habeas corpus to people accused of a crime against our nation simply because they are an "enemy combatant" makes us no better than the very people we fight against. Seriously, what is this shit? I expected the republicans to vote yes, lockstep, in this. I was disappointed, though not surprised, to see McCain in the list of Yeas. But you? You're a fuckwad. I'll vote republican for the first time ever to any ticket I have the opportunity to vote on that contains you. No vice presidential stuff, no presidential primary, nothing. Why don't you go be the dictator of china or iran or something like that? Take your buttwipe republican buddies with you. We'll take the republicans who voted nay, and the ones who abstain. They're better Americans than you. In my opinion, we should hold anyone who voted Yea on this as an enemy combatant, because they're destroying our american principles from the inside. See how long it takes them to understand why it's important.

Thank you for showing respect to our veterans by showing what you truly stand for, and what they fought for – a land where our president is free to determine that anyone is an enemy, deprive them of the rights the veterans fought and died for, and make us look like shitheads to the world. I don't care what any individual nation thinks, but I think we should be held to a higher standard than any other nation out there. If they're all looking at us in disgust, then we're not holding ourselves to that standard.

I hope that this amendment is further amended before it becomes law. Making Guantamino's tribunals more accountable, I like that. But stripping these guys of their rights? Not cool at all.

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Yea, I pretty much feel that way about Cogent and Level 3 today. I think dogbert should write the FAQ on both of their sites.

I speak this as a victim* of both companies. The worst kind of victim – the kind that pays both of them monthly and still can't have them speak to each other.

* = Actually my employer, but I don't speak for them…

I actually like a lot of the people working for level 3 – a great deal of them are awesome. I like their colocation facility in Detroit, and I like their network. This sort of silly nonsense makes me think their upper management is, to put it nicely, retarded. I don't care what their reasons are, don't crucify your customers – the ones that pay you money. We're hanging on a cross today, and it's the fault of both carriers.

Please, kindly grow up, both of you. I'm more specifically looking at you level 3, since you fired the first shot. I don't care who's to blame. You disconnected us from a part of the internet. Plain and simple.

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Regardless of your feelings about the issue, can the world please declare a moratorium on the use of the phrase "pro-life"? It's not descriptive of the idea they're trying to convey anyway. I'm all about life, so can I call myself pro-life if I hypothetically agreed with abortion? Technically, yes.

No particular political statement here, it's just damned annoying. I was researching laws on human cloning out of boredom (You complete me, mini me!), and there was a anti-abortion version of an anti-cloning bill. I look at the phrase "pro life" and think "wait, cloning creates more life, so isn't that technically a contradictory term, if they're opposed to cloning? OH, THEY MEAN ANTI ABORTION OKAY." So what's with the ambiguity? Obviously so they can call pro-abortion people "anti life"…. but amusingly a great percentage of pro-abortion people are also anti-death penalty, so doesn't that make them "pro life"? And many anti-abortion people are pro-death penalty, so is it accurate to call them "pro life"?

To define:
When I say "anti-abortion", I mean people who are are in favor of making it illegal. There are many people who are pro-abortion who would never do it themselves.
When I say "pro-abortion", I mean people who are in favor of keeping it legal. I don't mean they are all about aborting by the billions, just that they think it should be a choice between a doctor and patient.
When I say "pro life", I mean people who always want to see people survive at all costs. Of course, by this unambiguous definition, this would mean someone who doesn't believe in abortion (regardless of whether they think it should be legal or not), doesn't believe in the death penalty (since that's unabashedly a pro-death thing..), and doesn't believe in suicide or euthanasia.
When I say "pro death" I mean people who are about death for death's sake. Murder, War, Suicide, Euthanasia, Abortion, and the death penalty. Few true "pro death" people are around, for obvious reasons.

See how clear that is? Why are we using words that distract from the debate? Why are we annoying Paul? All must stop.

Rant off.

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Lawnmower Men drama

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So there are these two people who are in a constant battle to try and cut my lawn at the lawn edge. Each has the offer of $15 to make it fucking pretty, no grass on the sidewalk, clean up around the AC condenser unit, don't chew up my flowers and shit. The only rule is you come by on Saturday late morning, early afternoon. So last time this one guy did it (I'll call him LM1). I had only a $20, and said fuck it, here's $20, $10 next time? "Sure". I made it CLEAR that next time was IN TWO WEEKS. Two. Because grass just isn't growing as fast at this time of year.

So he comes by the next week, and I remind him I said TWO WEEKS. So he leaves.

He's bugged me 3 times this week, each time talking about how he has no money, blah blah blah, like it makes a damn bit of difference. I make it perfectly clear that I'm not a charity, I just am a guy with a lawn that needs mowing, and that I said saturday, and I meant saturday. It would be another thing entirely if he was sitting there with his mower, he wasn't – he's like hey can you front me and I'll cut it saturday. How's about a hell no?

Anyway, so LM2, the guy who initially was with him when they cut it the first time back in July (and it was monsterously overgrown then, so it was really a two person job), comes by today, telling me yet another sob story about how he lives at his mom's and the other guy lives in his own place blah blah blah. I again point out that I don't care, all I want is a mowed lawn. Since he's here at the right time, I said give the other guy until 11:15, since he said he'd show at 11. If he's not here then, it's yours. I'll be in the shower, just start mowing the shit at 11:15, you know I'm good for it.

I'm in the shower, 11:15 rolls around and the guy fires up the mower, and takes care of business. I give him $15 and take off to run some errands. The guy tells me on my way out: "Please just tell the other guy a kid came by and did it". Now, I honestly am a shitty liar, hope this guy understands this. Oh well. I guess it's not a lie, since they act like fucking children and all I want is my goddamned lawn mowed. It's almost easier to strap on a dust mask and do it myself than deal with this childish drama over who gets to cut my grass. What the fuck?

Anyway, enough venting.

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Today's suckage.

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Why my day sucked, by Paul Timmins:

  • My main mailserver going down from what appears ot be a cron job
  • (Did I mention that timmins.net is still under attack from heavy backscatter from a joe job?)
  • (Did I also mention that the main mailserver served timmins.net?)
  • (Did I also forget to mention I don't have physical access to the machine outside of business hours?)
  • The secondary and tertiary machines, unable to clear their mail queues, began getting filled up.
  • As each machine ate more than 60,000 mails each today (from 6am yesterday, to 4am today – over 100,000 on the secondary, and 57,381 on the tertiary, not counting the number eaten by my joe job killer), they started to slow down as the machine dedidcated more resources toward managing the queue and flushing it as configured. This, of course, starts a chain reaction where the machines take longer to accept the mail, which causes the machine's load to go up, which causes queue management to get behind, which causes the mail to take longer to process, which causes the machine's load to go up…..
  • In the middle of all this, my DSL modem (which is both my primary internet connection here at home, plus the tertiary nameserver and mailserver's internet connection, eep!) breathes its last.
  • This happens while I'm performing cleanup operations on the secondary, which was forced offline so the machine could dedicate all its time to cleaning out the garbage from the queue.
  • Then the hardware needed to also be upgraded, so I swapped drives into a newer chassis while the network was down.
  • Then I had to find a working ADSL modem in my pile of shit. I found 4, so I picked the one I found the adapter for first, and ran with it. I had to reconfigure the way my network worked, and set up PPPoE on a server that has 5 network interfaces, so it could replace the all in one router that did PPPoE for me previously. On the other hand, this frees up an IP address, so rock on!
  • Then my tertiary mailserver ran itself into the ground under load because it could finally use the internet properly for the first time in weeks. (this DSL modem problem started out slowly, and gradually deteriorated)
  • Then I came up with a pretty clever solution I'll explain later in its own post. I'm probably gonna leave this in place, as it's a perfect way to handle joejob load.