April 30, 2008 by dinofond.

Yesterday I walked into a 7-11 with a friend to get a bottle of water. On the front page of the National Enquirer was a story about how Hillary Clinton was a Lesbian, on the front page of the Globe was a story about Obama having an affair and his wife catching him. Wow America we have really arrived haven’t we. Next week I’m sure we will have a story about how John McCain’s wanker fell off because he took to much Viagra…….

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April 30, 2008 by dinofond.

AP

GENEVA (AP) — Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired — and arguably corrupted — millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102.

Hofmann died Tuesday at his home in Burg im Leimental, said Doris Stuker, a municipal clerk in the village near Basel where Hofmann moved following his retirement in 1971.

For decades after LSD was banned in the late 1960s, Hofmann defended his invention.

“I produced the substance as a medicine. … It’s not my fault if people abused it,” he once said.

The Swiss chemist discovered lysergic acid diethylamide-25 in 1938 while studying the medicinal uses of a fungus found on wheat and other grains at the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm in Basel.

He became the first human guinea pig of the drug when a tiny amount of the substance seeped onto his finger during a laboratory experiment on April 16, 1943.

“I had to leave work for home because I was suddenly hit by a sudden feeling of unease and mild dizziness,” he subsequently wrote in a memo to company bosses.

He said his initial experience resulted in “wonderful visions.”

“What I was thinking appeared in colors and in pictures,” he told a Swiss television network for a program marking his 100th birthday two years ago. “It lasted for a couple of hours and then it disappeared.”

Three days later, Hofmann experimented with a larger dose. The result was a horror trip.

“Everything I saw was distorted as in a warped mirror,” he said, describing his bicycle ride home. “I had the impression I was rooted to the spot. But my assistant told me we were actually going very fast.”

“The substance which I wanted to experiment with took over me. I was filled with an overwhelming fear that I would go crazy. I was transported to a different world, a different time,” Hofmann wrote.

Hofmann and his scientific colleagues hoped that LSD would make an important contribution to psychiatric research. The drug exaggerated inner problems and conflicts and thus it was hoped that it might be used to recognize and treat mental illnesses like schizophrenia.

For a time, Sandoz sold LSD 25 under the name Delysid, encouraging doctors to try it themselves. It was one of the strongest drugs in medicine — with just one gram enough to drug an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 people for 12 hours.

LSD was elevated to international fame in the late 1950s and 1960s thanks to Harvard professor Timothy Leary who embraced the drug under the slogan “turn on, tune in, drop out.”

But away from the psychedelic trips, horror stories emerged about people going on murder sprees or jumping out of windows while hallucinating. Heavy users suffered permanent psychological damage.

The U.S. government banned LSD in 1966 and other countries followed suit.

Hofmann maintained this was unfair, arguing that the drug was not addictive. He repeatedly argued for the ban to be lifted to allow LSD to be used in medical research.

Peter Oehen, a psychiatrist in the Swiss town of Biberist, says substances such as LSD and MDMA — also known as ecstasy — can produce results where conventional psychotherapies fail.

“They help overcome the wall of denial that some patients build up,” said Oehen, who met Hofmann and has studied his work.

Hofmann welcomed a decision by Swiss authorities last December to allow LSD to be used in a psychotherapy research project.

“For me, this is a very big wish come true. I always wanted to see LSD get its proper place in medicine,” he told Swiss TV at the time.

Hofmann took the drug — purportedly on an occasional basis and out of scientific interest — for several decades.

“LSD can help open your eyes,” he once said. “But there are other ways — meditation, dance, music, fasting.”

Even so, the self described “father” of LSD readily agreed that the drug was dangerous if in the wrong hands. This was reflected by the title of his 1979 book: “LSD - my problem child.”

In it he wrote that, “The history of LSD to date amply demonstrates the catastrophic consequences that can ensue when its profound effect is misjudged and the substance is mistaken for a pleasure drug.”

Hofmann retired from Sandoz in 1971 and devoted his time to travel, writing and lectures.

“This is really a high point in my advanced age,” Hofmann said at a ceremony in Basel honoring him on his 100th birthday. “You could say it is a consciousness-raising experience without LSD.”

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April 29, 2008 by dinofond.

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April 29, 2008 by dinofond.

April 29, 2008
Beyond Behavior - Defense Mechanisms

We all have defense mechanisms that we’ve developed over time, often without being aware of it. In times of trouble, the behaviors that have worked to get us past challenges with the least amount of pain are the ones that we repeat; even when part of us knows they no longer work. Such behavior is a natural response from our mental and physical aspects. But because we are spiritual beings as well, we have the ability to rise above habits and patterns to see the truth that lay beyond. And from that moment on, we can make choices that allow us to work directly from that place of truth within us.

Most of our defense mechanisms were developed in childhood; from the moment that we realized crying would get us the attention we craved. Passive aggressive ways of communicating may have allowed us to get what we needed without being scolded, punished or laughed at, so we learned to avoid being direct and honest. Some of us may have taken refuge in the lives of others, discovering ways to direct attention away from ourselves entirely. Throwing ourselves into projects or rescuing others from themselves can be effective ways to avoid dealing with our own issues. And when people are truly helped by our actions, we get the added bonus of feeling heroic. But while defenses can keep away the things we fear, they can also work to keep our good from us.

When we can be honest with ourselves about what we truly desire, then we can connect our desires to the creative power of the spirit within us. Knowing that we are one with the energy of the universe allows us release any need for defense. Trusting that power, we know that we are exactly where we are meant to be, and that challenges bring gifts of growth and experience. When we can put down arms raised in defense, then we are free to use our hands, minds, hearts and spirits to mold and shape our abundant energy to create and live our lives.

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April 27, 2008 by dinofond.

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April 26, 2008 by dinofond.

Watch from 2:11 onward, he knew where the world was headed. Dumb shit Heavy Metal rivit heads.

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April 25, 2008 by dinofond.

You have to love a country who’s judicial system is so corrupt and immoral that 3 Cops can shoot a total of 50 rounds into an unarmed man and be acquitted but Wesley Snipes is sentenced to 3 years for Tax Evasion because he’s a black man? Yeah lets all vote for John McCain or Hillary Clinton!

Hey did you hear the one about the sudden unforeseen food shortages in the US? It’s just in time for Bathing suit season!

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April 24, 2008 by dinofond.

In this place Im a soul so hollow
In this mud with the pigs I wallow

Friday when sundays gone
Tomorrow Im leaving home
I dont need to beg or borrow
Got all my friends out on loan
Got an ocean of laughter for a pool of sorrow
(I just cant lose now)

Easily the way you deceive me
Strung out so you stay but you leave me

Friday when sundays gone
Tomorrow Im leaving home
I dont need to beg or borrow
Got all my friends out on loan
Got an ocean of laughter for a pool of sorrow
(I just cant lose now)

Ill wait to see which way youre gonna go
Sell me cheaply at the rivers edge
Darkness grows around my heart and I let it go
Ill wait to see how this will end
Then Ill step into the light to find

Friday when sundays gone
Tomorrow Im leaving home
I dont need to beg or borrow
Got all my friends out on loan
Got an ocean of laughter for a pool of sorrow
And in light?
To find Im not alone
And Ill step into the light
To find Im not alone
And Ill step into the light yeah
Into the light

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April 24, 2008 by dinofond.

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
~Brian Littrell

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April 23, 2008 by dinofond.

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April 23, 2008 by dinofond.

“If you love someone put their name in a circle not a heart, because a heart can be broken, a circle goes on forever.”

~Brian Littrell

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April 23, 2008 by dinofond.

I <3 Macintosh….. can’t hep dat, Iza fan boy.
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Apple released their second quarter 2007 financial results today.

Apple posted revenue of $5.26 billion and net quarterly profit of $770 million, or $.87 per diluted share. This compares to revenue of $4.36 billion and net profit of $410 million in the year-ago quarter (Q2 2006).

Apple shipped 1,517,000 Macs and 10,549,000 iPods this quarter, representing a 36% increase in growth in Macs and 24% increase in iPods compared to the year-ago quarter.

“The Mac is clearly gaining market share, with sales growing 36 percent — more than three times the industry growth rate,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We’re very excited about the upcoming launch of iPhone in late June, and are also hard at work on some other amazing new products in our pipeline.”

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April 22, 2008 by dinofond.

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April 20, 2008 by dinofond.

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April 20, 2008 by dinofond.

I don’t know if anyone has bothered following the techerazzi bullshit coverage of psystar’s new OS X capable PC. It’s the worst case of Skumbag Journalism in the tech sector I have seen plain and simple. it’s all happening in this place we used to call America do to an overage of imbeciles who were not excluded out of the food chain for unknown reasons. Jezuz, you’re not doing your job man!

This following article is systematic of the pathetic state of Journalists especially in the US. Make everything a Brittany Spears stalkerazzi FUD theme because it’s the best these press morons can innovate to enhance profits. Climb aboard the wagon every one’s making a buck. Larry Dignan You’re are a pathetic excuse for a journalist and ZD is even more pathetic for approving this story let alone posting this POS. Whatever happen to journalistic integrity? They must not teach ethics at universities anymore. This is the same reason the world has no idea what is happening in Iraq, it’s not cost effective. These guys actually published peoples license plates, jesus fucking christ what assholes!

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Posted by Larry Dignan @ 11:29 am

As this Psystar saga turns–the alleged Mac clone maker is either an overwhelmed legitimate business, a scam or something in between–it’s helpful to have some feet on the street. A reader–an local IT guy in Miami–visited the last address for Psystar and verified two things: There’s activity and inventory on the scene. There is a business there and he noted headquarters “isn’t located in a shady part of town.” But a lack of signage and the fact he couldn’t get in doesn’t provide a confirmation that Psystar is actually at the address.

But if Psystar (all coverage) isn’t there it’s quite a ruse. I just had a good chat with this technology manager–who doesn’t want to be named right now because he doesn’t want to be bombarded and actually wants to chat with Psystar in person to buy one of these Mac clones for his company–and he’s a quality source. In fact, he’s known in his industry in Miami. However, he’s not much of a photographer, but we’ll be getting more in as he investigates. However, he’s officially at Between the Lines deputy now though.

Without further ado, here’s Psystar’s (latest) facility at:

PsyStar Corporation

10475 NW 28th St

Doral, FL 33172
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If you want to see the pictures click on the story link, it’s not worth my time to even post them here. /Spit!

EDIT: After blasting Larry Dignan in an email the jerkoff blotted out the license plates, I hope he gets his ass sued! Anyone wishing to have screen shots of the original posts of the license plates for use in suing these mooncalfs you can reach me here.

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April 18, 2008 by dinofond.

It is my firm belief that’s it’s a mistake to hold firm beliefs.

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April 17, 2008 by dinofond.

NEW YORK (AFP) — Edward Lorenz, a meteorologist who became the father of the modern field of chaos theory, died Wednesday of cancer in Massachusetts aged 90, MIT announced Thursday.

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Lorenz was the first to identify chaotic behavior in the mathematical modeling of weather systems, in which small differences in a dynamic system, like the weather, “could trigger vast and often unsuspected results,” the university said.

A committee that awarded him the 1991 Kyoto prize for basic sciences wrote that Lorenz’s groundbreaking theory represented “one of the most dramatic changes in mankind’s view of nature since Sir Isaac Newton.”

Lorenz’s research led him to develop what became known as the “butterfly effect,” the idea that an infinitesimally small alteration — like the flapping of an insect’s wings — can lead to potentially monumental consequences.

The term stemmed from his 1972 academic paper “Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set off a Tornado in Texas?”

MIT said Lorenz’s early work “marked the beginning of a new field of study that impacted not just the field of mathematics but virtually every branch of science — biological, physical and social.”

“Some scientists have since asserted that the 20th century will be remembered for three scientific revolutions — relativity, quantum mechanics and chaos,” the statement said.

The original experiment that lead to Lorenz’s groundbreaking theory was conducted in 1961, when he was using a numerical computer model to rerun a weather prediction.

When, as a shortcut on a number in the sequence, he entered the decimal .506 instead of entering the full .506127, the result was a completely different weather scenario.

Lorenz published his findings in a 1963 paper for the New York Academy of Sciences noting that “if the theory were correct, one flap of a seagull’s wings could change the course of weather forever.”

Later speeches and papers by Lorenz replaced the seagull with the more poetic butterfly.

Lorenz was working as a weather forecaster for the US Army Air Corps during World War II when he decided to pursue further study in meteorology.

But he wrote once that his interests in things mathematical and meteorological dated back much earlier, to his childhood.

“As a boy, I was always interested in doing things with numbers, and was also fascinated by changes in the weather,” Lorenz once wrote in an autobiographical sketch.

His daughter told the New York Times that Lorenz was active in his field to the end of his life, in addition to also being vigorous and fit.

“He was out hiking two and one-half weeks ago, Cheryl Lorenz told the daily, “and he finished a paper a week ago with a colleague.”

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April 14, 2008 by dinofond.

It was just a matter of time before someone built a machine that had all the compatible chip sets that would run OS X. psystar.com has done just that and built a tower that is $554.99 with leopard pre installed.

The site launched this new PC last night, demand for them has been so high the huge unanticipated traffic took the website down. A sales person I spoke to a psystar said “Apple has not taken us off line, the demand for a reasonable priced Mac Tower has.” He also noted “our site will be back up on a new server ASAP.” Although installing OS X on any “non Apple branded” hardware is a violation of the EULA it is not illegal. Mac users have been begging for an upgradeable computer for years. Maybe this will light a fire under Apples boardroom to give it’s customers what they want not what they think they need. I know one thing, I already ordered one. I should have it within 6 weeks due to high demand.

Almost all the major Game studios have released video games for the new mactel platform or have them in the works. You can’t expect gamers, the majority of them teenagers to purchase a $3500 mac pro. Pandora’s box indeed has been open, now lets see what big Steve is going to do about it. More then likely I would suspect Apples big lawyer machine to start swinging, but that wont stop Pandora’s clones anymore then they could stop the iphone from being hacked. Apple, it’s time to step up to the plate and give your customer base what they have been asking for. In this day and age they will get it one way or the other. If you keep taking the RIAA route you will loose the market share you have so rightfully gained in the last 4 years.

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April 12, 2008 by dinofond.

(more from mom thanks mom)
Remember Lee Iacocca, the man who rescued Chrysler Corporation from it’s death throes? He has a new book, and here are some excerpts. Lee Iacocca says:

“Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can’t even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, “Stay the course”

Stay the course? You’ve got to be kidding. This is America , not the damned “Titanic”.

I’ll give you a sound bite: “Throw all the bums out!”

You might think I’m getting senile, that I’ve gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore.

The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs.

While we’re fiddling in Iraq , the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving ‘pom -poms’ instead of asking hard questions.

That’s not the promise of the ” America ” my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for.

I’ve had enough. How about you?

I’ll go a step further. You can’t call yourself a patriot if you’re not outraged. This is a fight I’m ready and willing to have.

The Biggest “C” is Crisis !

Leaders are made, not born. Leadership is forged in times of crisis. It’s easy to sit there with your feet up on the desk and talk theory. Or send someone else’s kids off to war when you’ve never seen a battlefield yourself. It’s another thing to lead when your world comes tumbling down.

On September 11, 2001, we needed a strong leader more than any other time in our history.

We needed a steady hand to guide us out of the ashes. A Hell of a Mess So here’s where we stand. We’re immersed in a bloody war with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving.

We’re running the biggest deficit in the history of the country. We’re losing the manufacturing edge to Asia , while our once-great companies are getting slaughtered by health care costs.

Gas prices are skyrocketing, and nobody in power has a coherent energy policy. Our schools are in trouble. Our borders are like sieves. The middle class is being squeezed every which way.

These are times that cry out for leadership.

But when you look around, you’ve got to ask:”Where have all the leaders gone?”

Where are the curious, creative communicators?

Where are the people of character, courage, conviction, omnipotence, and common sense?

I may be a sucker for alliteration, but I think you get the point.

Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo? We’ve spent billions of dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we know how to do is react to things that have already happened.

Name me one leader who emerged from the crisis of Hurricane Katrina. Congress has yet to spend a single day evaluating the response to the hurricane, or demanding accountability for the decisions that were made in the crucial hours after the storm.

Everyone’s hunkering down, fingers crossed, hoping it doesn’t happen again. Now, that’s just crazy. Storms happen. Deal with it. Make a plan. Figure out what you’re going to do the next time.

Name me an industry leader who is thinking creatively about how we can restore our competitive edge in manufacturing. Who would have believed that there could ever be a time when “The Big Three” referred to Japanese car companies? How did this happen, and more important, what are we going to do about it?

Name me a government leader who can articulate a plan for paying down the debit, or solving the energy crisis, or managing the health care problem.

The silence is deafening. But these are the crises that are eating away at our country and milking the middle class dry.

I have news for the gang in Congress. We didn’t elect you to sit on your asses and do nothing and remain silent while our democracy is being hijacked and our greatness is being replaced with mediocrity.

What is everybody so afraid of? That some bonehead on Fox News will call them a name? Give me a break. Why don’t you guys show some spine for a change?

Had Enough?

Hey, I’m not trying to be the voice of gloom and doom here. I’m trying to light a fire. I’m speaking out because I have hope I believe in America . In my lifetime I’ve had the privilege of living through some of America’s greatest moments. I’ve also experienced some of our worst crises: the “Great Depression”, “World War II”, the “Korean War”, the “Kennedy Assassination”, the “Vietnam War”, the 1970s oil crisis, and the struggles of recent years culminating with 9/11.

If I’ve learned one thing, it’s this: “You don’t get anywhere by standing on the sidelines waiting for somebody else to take action. Whether it’s building a better car or building a better future for our children, we all have a role to play.

That’s the challenge I’m raising in this book. It’s a call to “Action” for people who, like me, believe in America . It’s not too late, but it’s getting pretty close. So let’s shake off the crap a nd go to work.

Let’s tell ‘em all we’ve had “enough.”

Make a “real contribution” by sending this to everyone you know and care about……our future is at stake!

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April 12, 2008 by dinofond.

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