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Welcome to the latest edition of my ongoing warped web publication. Today we are going to talk about things that creep me out and things that piss me off. Doesn’t that sound like fun, boys and girls? I thought so. So let’s start off with the creepy stuff. I hate spiders. They creep me out. I was attacked by a bunch of spiders when I was a kid. It required some serious medical attention. Ever since then I have kind of had an aversion. Understandable I think. Anyway, some guy was keeping a bunch of potentially deadly spiders as pets. Dumbass. The spiders ganged up on him and killed him. Glad I wasn’t anywhere near.

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Want to publish on your own because you don’t buy into the corporations that specialize in selling books? Hmm. Well, you probably won’t have a national bestseller, but at the same time, you can fulfill all of your paranoid fantasies by learning about self publishing through Guerilla Press. Kind of interesting, in a DIY bookbinding, spending too much of my free time doing this kind of way.

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Ever want to have someone explain, in simple words, how Einstein’s theory of relativity works? Me too. Dammit, Jim, I’m a mathematician not a… never mind.

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I found this graphic amusing. There really isn’t much more to it than that. It’s a geeky joke and I am all about those.

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Finally, the thing that really torked me off today… Forcing a company to keep records of volitile information so that some corporate asshole can come by and troll through the records to “find wrongdoers.” Fuck that. I am seriously sick of the judicial system catering to big business simply because they control the purse strings. It’s high time that someone stand up and say something!

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So there has been an all-new vision of corporate control over art. The RIAA has been suing for a while, and the suits continue. They are now suing 16 students for damages of $750 per song they illegally downloaded. This is completely outside of the realm of acceptable policy. The only reason that I can think the American judiciary would accept this is that they have their collective hand in the RIAA’s pocket all the way up to the elbow. Since the students could download any song from iTunes for $0.99, I don’t know how the RIAA or the presiding judge could ever see 750% gain an acceptable retribution. This whole thing just sickens me as things progress. All of a sudden I have pangs of distaste toward Metallica again, who seemed to be the spearhead for this whole campaign. That’s right, guys. People think your product stinks so you stoop to extortion to recoup your losses. Just go out of business already and leave us alone!

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While we are on the topic of my complete outrage, lets take a look at the 19-year-old girl that is currently being sued by Regal Entertainment for filming the first 20 seconds of the Transformers movie to show her friend.   The local District Attourney was “pressured” by Regal Entertainment to prosecute Jhannet Sejas for copyright infringement.  Now, mind you, I don’t endorse filming the entire movie and distributing it…  There is just a certain amount of wrong-ness to showing up to a movie with a camcorder, but Jhannet claims that she was trying to encourage her friend to see the movie.  This sounds like “education” which falls under fair use.  Hmmm.  Aside from that, who the hell does Regal Entertainment think they are?  Even the MPAA is leaving this one alone…  Not only that, but I can assure you that regardless of the outcome, Jhannet will undoubtedly never use a Regal Cinema again.  Argh!

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