Jeff's World

I get asked this question a lot....

Why do you NEED an AK47?

The answer is: I don't. However, if I wanted to live in a country where I only got what I needed, I'd move to China. Got it?


I should probably post-date this entry a couple of years so that it stays at the top of my journal.

-J

I'm posting this everywhere just so that CenturyStink gets the egg on their face that they deserve. For those of you "in the know" about telecom circuits you should probably know that CenturyLink is both the NSP and the LEC for this circuit.

Background: We have a DS3 circuit in Jacksonville, NC that we've been having intermittent problems with for the past year. Every time the trouble starts again, I call them and open a ticket, and every time they send some dumbass kid out with a loopback plug who always says that it's my router and CenturyLink refuses to do anything further with it until we moan and fuss a lot. They will do this even when we replace several thousand dollars worth of our equipment right before their very eyes.

So was the case this time. We have our account manager escalate the ticket, and on Wed 4/16, the following annotation was put in the ticket:

"Called T3 group to escalate ticket., spoke to Duane, demarc has been proven by LEC, CPE trouble is the RFO."

Bullshit. We replaced the CPE. So after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, we finally get them to agree to a vendor meet, so that all parties involved in this circuit can hash it out until the problem is resolved. CenturyLink shows up again, and guess what? They find out that THEIR equipment is fried. Ticket note from 4/23/2014:

"Hello
The local carrier reported inside wiring issue while onsite and will be redispatching to investigate further and repair."

Now what was that about MY equipment being faulty?

Fuck you, CenturyLink.

After they fixed their shit, my expensive DS3 now works again.

I just wanted to post to say that I'm not dead yet, much to the chagrin of millions.

Love,
Jeff

So unless you've been living in a cave, you've all heard about the whole controversy with Wikileaks. You've probably also seen all of the news reports about the group known as Anonymous[1] who have been attacking web sites operated by corporations that have done whatever they can to make Wikileaks life difficult. You probably also know that it's against U.S. Federal law to attack a web site and disrupt its operation, or to assist others in doing so.

But... did you know that there's another group of individuals that have launched the same kind of attack against Wikileaks? Did you know that this same group has launched similar attacks against sites that they (and corporate American interests) think are bad for you? Sites such as The Pirate Bay?

I read a news article today where the FBI served 40 search warrants in its investigation into Anonymous[2]. This is in addition to the FBI raiding an ISP in Texas last week to steal a computer used as a chat server to coordinate the denial of service attacks[3]. What I haven't read, however, is anything where the FBI has served search warrants or raided anybody with regards to the attacks against Wikileaks and the other sites, in spite of it being the EXACT SAME CRIME. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that there's something sinister going on here. The FBI is only selectively enforcing the law. The law that is supposed to protect me and you is only being used to try to cover the government's ass and protect corporations.

Arson is illegal. It's just as illegal for me to go set fire to a known drug dealer's house as what it would be for me to go set fire to my boss' house.

Furthermore, the FBI is devoting limited resources to investigating something that is relatively benign and is being perpetrated mostly by teenagers. They could take these same resources and go after some real criminals, but of course that would be too hard, and most Federal agents really don't know how to do their jobs that well, so they cherry pick.

IT IS TIME FOR THIS TO STOP.

If you haven't already figured it out. The White House, Capitol Hill, the FBI, CIA, IRS, DHS, TSA, and every other governmental agency out there is too busy trying to cover its ass, fight two pointless wars, and protecting megacorporations to give a rat's ass about me and you.

IT IS TIME FOR THIS TO STOP.

Even if you disagree with what Julian Assange and Wikileaks has done, even if you think that internet piracy is a really bad thing, surely you can see what is going on here and how this is not a good thing.

IT IS TIME FOR THIS TO STOP.

Our government does not give a shit about us. It's time to take to the streets and let people know what is going on with this country before it's too late. THIS MEANS YOU.

I'm sure the FBI is going to be showing up at my door now because of this post. But I don't care. I'm not advocating violence. I'm not telling people to park Ryder trucks filled with explosives in front of Federal buildings. I'm not telling people to hijack airplanes and crash them into skyscrapers. But what I am telling you is that it is time that we sent our government a clear message that they can not ignore that we are sick of this shit and we are not going to tolerate it anymore.

Did you ever wonder what happened to the America that we learned about in elementary school? The land of the free, home of the brave, et cetera? I have never known that America. Let's make it happen.

Also, if you read this and you think to yourself "I don't see what the big deal is" then most likely you're part of the problem.

Take this message, fax it, Xerox it, email it, post it to your blog... get the word out there. The only thing I ask is that if you leave my name on it that you do not change ANYTHING in this.

I will be posting this to all of my "online presences" so apologies in advance if you see this more than once.


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anony…
[2] http://www.computerworld.com/s/art…
[3] http://www.thesmokinggun.com/docum…

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A former Duluth police officer received a 60-year sentence Tuesday for shooting another officer and attacking a woman while drunk, according to WSB-TV.

Jay Dailey, 44, was convicted in June on three counts of aggravated assault, three counts of possession of a firearm during commission of a felony, and one count of battery and terroristic threats.

Dailey's attorney, Jeff Sliz told WSB-TV he plans to appeal. According to testimony, Dailey was drunk when the Feb. 1 incident occurred, resulting in him firing shots at Paul Phillips, an off-duty Fulton County police officer.

The incident began when Dailey chased down a female motorist, faked an injury and proceeded to pepper spray the woman when she attempted to call 911.

Authorities also claim Dailey told her she was ruining his life and threatened to kill her.


Source: http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/e…


As anybody who knows me will tell you, I am certainly not one to defend a police officer when he fucks up. I fucking hate cops and love reading about when they fuck up. In fact, I think I am going to start printing out these news articles and keeping them with me so that when some dickwad police officer tries to tell me that I should trust the police, I will have a whole stack of reasons to counter his argument. HOWEVER...... terroristic threats? Are you fucking kidding me? I think this whole "terrorism" thing is way overblown nowadays. It seems that I can threaten to hand out a good old-fashioned asswhipping to somebody and suddenly I am an OMGTERRORIST. What a fucking joke. What's an even bigger joke is that the sheeple in this country eat this shit up hook, line, and sinker, because they're so scared that there might be another 9-11-2001. Sorry, America, but you've already let the terrorists win. Have a nice day.

-Jeff

I have some really, really trippy dreams sometimes. I would love to document some of the shit that I dream about, but the problem is that I can never remember enough details after I wake up. Last night's dream wasn't nearly as trippy as a lot of them (you will see the irony in this in a minute) but since I actually remember most of it, I will write it down here.

I was somewhere... I'm not sure where, and I was talking to this chick. She was a relatively attractive chick, with blonde hair, blue eyes, and was wearing a white shirt. I think we were talking about music. In the middle of the conversation, she pulls out two joints and a vial of PCP and proceeds to make herself some sherm sticks. She offers one to me which I decline. She gets upset at me over this. She then proceeds to try to dose me with the PCP by putting some of it on my skin. This freaks me out, for I have watched way too many videos on TV and read too many stories of how fucked up people get on angel dust. So I go find an ER, and tell them what happened and explain to them that I am scared shitless and that I need some help because I have no idea what is going to happen to me while I'm under the influence of this stuff. The last thing I remember before waking up was sitting in the ER lobby watching TV, and I think I was starting to get some color visuals from the PCP.

I don't even know if PCP can be absorbed through the skin like LSD or not, but in Jeff's Dream Land it apparently can be.

In other news.. went to The Masquerade tonight and saw Audra Mae. I'm in love. This chick has wicked, wicked talent. I can't say much for the other bands that she's touring with, but if you can catch her show, DO IT.

Also... I bought a new toy last month. A 1979 Jeep CJ5.





I knew it was going to need some work, but I didn't quite realize exactly how much work I was going to have to put into it right away. So... guess what I spent Father's Day doing? Here let me illustrate...





Now...I used to HATE working on cars. In fact, I haven't done any serious work on a vehicle since I was in my early 20's (and I'm now 37) so this is a pretty serious endeavor for me. Strangely enough, however, it's been enjoyable. Of course once I start putting Humpty Dumpty back together again I might be singing a completely different tune.

So, Livejournal. What have you been up to lately? Tell me a story.

-J

So last night the big topic on Twitter was a leaked picture of Hayley Williams' (lead singer of Paramore for those of you living in caves) tits. While it can't be proven for sure, but what seems to have happened was that she got a new Blackberry and decided to christen it by taking a topless shot that she then probably attempted to text to her boyfriend Chad Gilbert. Instead of sending it to him, it inadvertently made it's way to her Twitpic account where it was deleted only seconds later. However, it wasn't deleted soon enough. Within hours the rather bland shot was posted all over the various corners of the internet, and Haley became Queen of teh Intardnets, or something.

Now here's where the lulz begin. Hayley tries to dowplay the incident on her Twitter, claiming that she was hacked. However this makes no sense, though, because somebody had to have taken the picture in the first place, right? Further inspection of the EXIF data reveals that the picture was likely to have come from Hayley's Blackberry, not to mention the fact that the girl in the picture not only looks exactly like her, but is also wearing the exact same necklace that Hayley is wearing in a good number of the 592,000 pictures of her that are on the internet. Why she couldn't have just 'fessed up to a misdirected text instead of lying about it is beyond me, but I guess Gregory House is once again proven correct in that Everybody Lies(tm).

On top of that, the drooling hordes of Parawhores (as they so classily label themselves) converge upon Twitter comforting our poor topless princess as if she has lost a dear family member or something.

The biggest lulz was @JaceyBBY's attempt to start a #boobsforhayley trending topic by posting a rather nice topless shot of herself but failing to get anybody else other than a bunch of ugly guys to follow suit.

Other gems:

pika_pika_rawr: @yelyahwilliams , i miss your tweets. hope you're okay darlin. we're all here whenever you wanna talk. <3 x (:

ibleedcolours: @yelyahwilliams You're right, we'll all support you no matter what.. Keep your head high, you're an amazing person, nothing can change that.

MacBNE: @yelyahwilliams geez Hayley! this is insane, i'm feeling so down and all i need is you :'( i wish i knew you so you could come over & hug me

..ad nauseum

On the other hand we have people like @ohcuts who apparently think that a single misdirected topless shot of somebody automatically makes them a slut. Way to get up on your moral high-horse, eh?


I think I'm getting too effin' old for the internet.

-J

PS. If you haven't seen the rather uninspiring picture, here it is courtesy of cristyissues: http://cristismixtape.tumblr.com/p… (Obviously NSFW)

Twice this week I've seen news articles where the FBI is wanting to invade the privacy of Americans more than it's already doing.

First up:

The FBI wants ISPs to keep records of every web site you visit. That's right. EVERY web site, for every American internet user. While it's unclear how detailed they want this information to be, you can bet you that they'll be wanting access to this information WITHOUT A WARRANT OR PROBABLE CAUSE.


Next:

The FBI also wants access to location tracking information about your cell phone, again WITHOUT A WARRANT OR PROBABLE CAUSE.

This is frightening. I already see far too often where cops have gotten really creative with circumventing the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. For example, if they pull you over for a traffic stop, and decide they want to search your car and you don't give them consent to a warrantless search, they will arrest you (thus giving them "probable cause") or they will bring out a drug dog and if the dog "indicates" then that's also "probable cause."

I want to know what's so fucking hard about getting a warrant. Seriously, man. If you want the information that bad, or want to make the search that bad, then certainly you've got a good enough reason that you can present it to a judge and GET A GODDAMN WARRANT, right? If you can't get a goddamn warrant then apparently you don't have a good enough reason to be nosey.

Fuck cops, man, and FUCK THE FBI, and fuck anybody else that wants to trample all over my country's Constitution.

-J

If I go beat up a black person just because they're black, it's racism.

If a black person comes and beats me up just because I'm white, it's racism.


It's a fucking two way street. You political correctness weenies need to fucking understand this.

A lot of the situations where dumb white people have claimed "racism" has been pretty stupid. But also a lot of the situations where black people (and other minorities) have claimed "racism" have been pretty stupid. This does not make the real claims any less real.

I'm so fucking sick and tired of this shit. I'm in favor of gay rights. However, I will STRONGLY oppose giving gay people MORE rights than straight people. I'm also in favor of minority rights. However, I will STRONGLY oppose, and fight til the death, against giving minorities MORE rights than white people.

Call me a homophobe or a redneck or a racist or any of your other stupid labels because of this. I don't care. It doesn't make it any less true.

If you disagree, you can kindly go fuck yourselves.

-J