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News You Can't Use
If you're running a Web site in a country known for its draconian censorship laws and brutal human rights violations, staying under the bureaucratic radar is somewhat important. Which is why it's not particularly helpful when Reporters Without Borders hypes the threat of "cyber-dissidents." Or when a European radio station names you a free speech pioneer, tips off the authorities, and gets you busted:
Chinese authorities have blocked a pro-democracy Web log after it was nominated for a freedom of expression award by a German radio station, a press freedom group said Thursday.
|11.4.05 @ 5:50PM|#
Well, to be fair, there's an inherent tension between getting the word out and being noticed by the authorities.
|11.4.05 @ 6:05PM|#
Friendly fire ain't just on the battlefield. Maybe next time they'll check the target coordinates before firing.
|11.4.05 @ 6:10PM|#
Well maybe it will turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory for totalitarianism. Maybe the outcome of the blocking will be something good for freedom. Maybe.
DaveInBigD|11.4.05 @ 6:12PM|#
Uh, so maybe wait until they get busted before nominating them
for awards? At least then there's no harm done.
What's Chinese for "Ix-nay on the Ublicity-pay!"?
|11.4.05 @ 6:22PM|#
What's Chinese for "Ix-nay on the Ublicity-pay!"?
If you're from the government, it's a bullet to the head.
|11.4.05 @ 6:45PM|#
It's been a grumpy Friday around here, for some reason. Someone peed in all our Cheerios.
|11.4.05 @ 6:47PM|#
Eric, I think it could all have been avoided with a Fun Link. But nooooooooo . . . .
|11.4.05 @ 8:06PM|#
It's been a grumpy Friday around here, for some reason.
Someone peed in all our Cheerios.
Not mine!
My wife gave birth to the most beautiful little baby girl in the
world yesterday! (sorry folks... not relevant to any thread so I
just posted it here because i'm so happy!). I guess if I had a
website I could post pictures of her there and link to it and we
could have THAT be the Friday Fun Link.... but since I don't, maybe
the news itself could just serve as a kind of stand-in for the FFL,
depending on your view of procreation, or whether one thinks that
someone such as myself contributing to the gene pool is a good
thing or not ;)
Sandy|11.4.05 @ 8:33PM|#
OK, OK, here's your Friday Fun Link.
Just write your own caption to reply to this
Sandy|11.4.05 @ 8:39PM|#
Congrats, independent worm.
Just sign up for a Blogger account--they're free, and you can track
progress for your extended family.
|11.4.05 @ 8:42PM|#
Congratulations, independent worm!
All of the sleep you're about to miss is worth it.
Little girls are the greatest.
|11.4.05 @ 9:51PM|#
Off topic post
But does anyone know a good place to look for info at beating a
drug test. i smoke weed almost every day and need to take a test in
7-10 days.
|11.4.05 @ 10:40PM|#
But does anyone know a good place to look for info at
beating a drug test. i smoke weed almost every day and need to take
a test in 7-10 days.
Claim that you found some brownies in the fridge and happened to
eat them.
TallDave|11.4.05 @ 10:44PM|#
friendofliberty,
Try www.urineluck.com, I know a couple guys who swear by it.
Plus, how could any product endorsed by Tommy Chong possibly
disappoint you?
Just promise me you're not operating heavy machinery while high,
cuz I would feel if u got killed.
|11.5.05 @ 2:36AM|#
My wife gave birth to the most beautiful little baby girl in
the world yesterday!
Congrats!
R C Dean|11.5.05 @ 11:59AM|#
But does anyone know a good place to look for info at
beating a drug test. i smoke weed almost every day and need to take
a test in 7-10 days.
Start flushing your system, now. Drink lots and lots of water, all
day every day.
The metabolites get stored in your body fat. Start burning as much
of it as you can, now, but go sedentary a day or two before the
test.
Some of the products can help you produce a sufficiently diluted
sample that still passes muster. That is essentially what they
do.
|11.5.05 @ 12:26PM|#
Fick! Sheisse.
Not quite. Using the word Fick as an expletive will elicit
only looks of confusion and perhaps the retort "Lern' erstmal
Deutsch!" However, you may say "Fick dich ins Knie, Alter!" - why
they say this, I do not know. I know only that they do.
Scheisse is always appropriate and serves
as a good German version of "D'oh!" Hell, even little old ladies
use it, as Mark Twain once noticed.
|11.5.05 @ 8:36PM|#
a German-speaking pedant,
I dunnoooooo....I've heard Germans say Fick! Scheisse
before...at least in a movie. (No, it wasn't an American
interpretation of Germans, either). Dialects vary...
independent worm,
Congratulations!
Eric, I think it could all have been avoided with a Fun Link.
But nooooooooo . . . .
Hey, I submitted two different candidates for a Friday fun link to
H&R....both of which have been rudely ignored!
friendofliberty,
Flush your system. Drink lots and lots of
cranberry juice. Water is good also. Take Goldenseal root
(available at any GNC). I don't remember the correct dosage of
Goldenseal root....you should probably just follow the indications
on the package.
|11.5.05 @ 10:54PM|#
smacky,
If that's true, I'm surprised that cranberry juice, goldenseal
root, and water haven't been made prescription-only yet.
Help Desk: Thank you for calling the water
department help desk, how may I help you?
Homeowner: Well, to start with, you could tell me
why my water's been shut off.
HD: Just a moment while I call up your
records...oh yes, you've exceeded your ten gallon limit for the
day...
Homeowner: Wha...ten gallon limit? I was just in
the middle of a shower!
HD: Sir, ten gallons is a lot of water. Unless
someone in your household is trying to tamper with a drug test, you
should have no problem getting by...
Homeowner: Wait a minute, someone's at the
door...they just kicked in the door! What the---
HD: Oh, and I almost forgot, DEA regs require us
to report any suspicious water usage...
|11.6.05 @ 1:22PM|#
"I second that emotion (except for the God part). :)"
God, what is the deal with you fucking atheists and your
qualifications of any statement with "God" in it? The concept of
"God" can be taken an infinite number of ways (the life force, the
universe itself, peace and justice, etc.) and does not refer to the
cunt deity of the Old Testament. Stop taking yourselves so goddamn
seriously (pun not intended)!
|11.6.05 @ 4:00PM|#
Congratulations to independent worm and Mrs.
worm on the birth of their new dependent worm!
PS: I don't know how to say, "D'oh!" in German, but I asked our
German intern how to say, "Holy crap!" and it's something like,
"Heilige Scheisser!"
I also asked how to say, "Happy birthday!" but it's an incredibly
long phrase, too long for me to even memorize. It's like three or
four different "fahrvergnugen"'s strung all together.
|11.6.05 @ 4:11PM|#
Friend of Liberty--
I've read that, in addition to drinking lots of water and cranberry
juice and whatnot, to clean out your system, you should also take
B-vitamins, which supposedly will make your urine extra-yellow (and
thus hide the fact that it's been "diluted.")
|11.6.05 @ 5:01PM|#
RWB putting out a generic "instruction booklet" for bloggers and "cyber dissidents" h'aint exactly "hyping the threat" of them---nor do I think that it's that likely to make the chinese gubmint somehow crack down HARDER on them.
|11.6.05 @ 5:15PM|#
I also asked how to say, "Happy birthday!" but it's an
incredibly long phrase, too long for me to even memorize. It's like
three or four different "fahrvergnugen"'s strung all
together.
Ahem, "Freuliche Geburtstag!"
|11.7.05 @ 12:09AM|#
Thanks, smacky!
Although I swear, our intern's translation was twice as long as
that.
Maybe it's because he's from former East Germany, and maybe they
have a longer traditional birthday wish over there. Like, "Happy
birthday -- and uh oh, the Kommissar, run!"
Anyway, danka.
|11.7.05 @ 12:12AM|#
OK, OK, here's your Friday Fun Link. Just write your own
caption to
|11.7.05 @ 12:19AM|#
Just got around to thinking about the topic of this post.
"Lips that aren't tight sink sites and human rights!"
So, do journalists (including mabye citizen bloggers) have any
responsibility to not report news that may blow the cover
of and endanger the presumed "good guys"? Or do they have an
obligation to report it, as disinterested reporters
serving the People's Right to Know?
It's an old question, of course -- but usually it comes up in the
form of "Do journalists have an obligation to cooperate with their
govt's national security apparatus in time of war?"
Discuss.
(OT: I think I'm getting the flu.)
|11.7.05 @ 12:44AM|#
Thank God* employers don't test for smokeless powder residue, or
I'd be hosed.
*--> ;-)
And congrats to the Worm family on their new addition.
|11.7.05 @ 8:09AM|#
Stevo,
Your friend most likely said "Herzlichen Glueckwunsch zum
Geburtstag" (I assume using umlauts doesn't fly here on Hit &
Run), which is the traditional way of wishing someone a Happy
Birthday in German.
P.S. If you've happened to miss someone's birthday, you can always
say "Herzlichen Glueckwunsch nachtraeglich."
|11.7.05 @ 10:21AM|#
German-speaking: Yeah, that seems more like what he said. And I
will never memorize that.
I'll have to use the shorter nontraditional "Freuliche Geburtstag!"
and hope that's good enough.
|11.7.05 @ 3:57PM|#
10 years ago, when I was subject to random drug testing (passed
7 tests in 7 years), a whiz quiz could result in a false positive
if you had consumed certain OTC medications. One trick, in addition
to some degree of everything mentioned above, was to not use these
false positive producing medications, but indicate on your
paperwork that you have done so.
This site lists a few:
http://www.passyourdrugtest.com/false-positives.htm
|11.7.05 @ 4:01PM|#
Um, uh, I just want to point out that the reason I passed all those drug tests is because I don't use drugs. Just wanted to clear that up.
|11.7.05 @ 5:13PM|#
Stevo,
By the way, if you are still reading this thread, here's something
you can say to impress your former East German intern (although why
anyone would want to impress an intern is another question): if he
does something really good in the office, you can say Voll
urst! (pronounced "foal oorst"; means, hmm, "totally crazy" or
"cool"). Only someone from the DDR would say that.
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