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Taken at the opening ceremonies of the 2007 Empire State Games
Major news from the New York Times:
"Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month, according to a person briefed on the federal investigation."
Media outlets are reporting that he will be stepping down as governor.
Man, it's a good thing I'm Neutral Good, because if I were Chaotic Evil, this shit would be in the back of a van, which I would also have stolen.
Rally and March in Washington DC Against Mass Surveillance, October 26, 2013. Poet Malachi Byrd speaking.
Okay, so the tech media and the neck beards that make up the Fake Outrage Brigade (Anti-Apple bloggers) having been reporting a fair bit of hysteria involving stuff that's broken with Snow Leopard. The first target was CS3, which like CS2 actually works with the installation of Rosetta. Apple actually provides a list of incompatible software here:
Of course, this hasn't stopped PC World from releasing their own list of software that have been reported to have problems with Snow Leopard. Here it is below:
Backup Bouncer, Books, Boxee, Butler, Camino, CheckPoint SecureClient, ClamXav, Cocktail, ConceptDraw Pro, DataBackup, Dave, Disc Inventory X, DiskWarrior 4.1, Electricsheep, Fallout II, Flip4Mac 2.3.0.7, Forklift, Fruit Menu, Google Gears, iStat Menus, iStumbler, Leopard Cache Cleaner, Leopard Cache Cleaner, Macromedia FreeHand MX 11.0.2, MailFX Pro, MenuMeters, Mirage, NodeToad, OneSwarm, PGP Desktop, Plex, Protector Suite, QuicKeys 4.0.3, RealVNC, Reader Notifier, Apple Server Admin 10.5.3, SmartScroll, Sonos 3.0, Sticky Windows, TinkerTool, TivoDesktop, Undercover, Vectorworks, WindowShadeX, WireTap Studio, and X-Lite.
The first thing that struck me about this list is the fact that most of these apps are actually tweak tools for Leopard, so of course they're going to have problems with Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard has been completely rewritten. Apps like Flip4Mac actually work fine, it's just that Flip4Mac was actually coded for Quicktime Player 7, so Snow Leopard will automatically search for Quicktime 7 in the Applications folder when you play a WMV video file. The problem with this is that the people at Apple moved Quicktime 7 to the Utilities folder. Unless you navigate Snow Leopard to Quicktime 7, it won't open the file (solution: just use VLC)
So PCWorld is actually being truthful by saying that Flip4Mac is having problems, but not for the reasons you might think.
And the inclusion of Macromedia FreeHand, an app that hasn't been supported by any OS for years, is just ludicrous. Macromedia doesn't even exist as a company anymore. It got bought out by Adobe in 2005. Me thinks that PC World is padding the list. Hey, but if you can't trust a site called "PC World" for Mac news, who can you trust?
But just to help out, let me reiterate. I've had problems with the EyeTV and Crossover Games. The latest version of EyeTV, 3.1.2, has been coded to work with Snow Leopard, but you can't get that version without actually updating it directly in EyeTV 3.0, which won't even open in Snow Leopard and the company that makes EyeTV, Elgato, doesn't provide a download for 3.1.2 (obviously because of piracy concerns) on their web site.
Frankly, the problem with EyeTV isn't Apple's fault. In fact, most of the incompatibility problems aren't Apple's fault. Developers have had versions of Snow Leopard close to two years running. Of course, that hasn't stopped the Fake Outrage Brigade at places like CNET from complaining about omissions in iSync. It looks like Palm OS devices have been locked out of Snow Leopard. No, they're not referring to the Pre, Palm's pre-eminent iPhone killer, they're talking about the old Palm OS, the one that Palm is slowly phasing out.
I mean, Jesus Christ, people, give me a break!
The bottom line is this. If you have a mission critical work flow that depends on tweaky apps like Sticky Windows, then maybe you should wait until those apps are Snow Leopard certified. I'm you're a casual home user, who uses Apple branded software like iLife and nothing else, then it might be safe for you to proceed. Make sure you install Rosetta if you have anything left over from the PPC generation.
If you're a Windows 7 beta user, Snow Leopard has a treat for you and that's Boot Camp 3.0. Not only does Boot Camp 3 allow you to read your Mac drives from Windows now, it also has official support on Windows 7 for all your Mac hardware.
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Crossover Games
9 January 2010
That big brick fortress there used to hold switching equipment for Pacific Bell and handled most call routing for the west coast of the US.
It transpired that the US Federal Government had a bunch of wiretapping equipment in the basement that they were using to randomly listen to overseas phone calls and to spy on reporters.
PacBell has since moved on and the building now belong to a porn studio, which is, I would guess, why it's flying the BDSM Pride flag.
I was already making more macros of printed circuit boards. This has in the past always worked quite well, but as close as here I am never approached due to the then low depth of field, it lacked the viewer just a lot of information about the board.
In these images, I've done two things differently:
Setup as shown us by Tilo Gockel (Thanks Tilo, cool idea!) Supplemented with slight brightening by a flash with blue gel. So I wanted to make the PCB a bit upbeat.
Then 15-20 photos made with migratory sharpness, which were afterwards rendered with a Stacking software into a single image.
So beautiful can electronic waste be
I find especially the blurry photos quite aesthetically.
Here's some examples (with making-of).
If you want to take a look to my spin doctor, voila: www.flickr.com/photos/galllo/14347373239
An Italian senator and top aide to Silvio Berlusconi has been forced to deny reports linking him to an alleged Mafia-run plan to hand Berlusconi 50,000 fraudulent votes, as voting gets under way today in the Italian elections.
Marcello Dell'Utri, who is appealing against a sentence for consorting with Mafia clans, has admitted helping to enrol on Berlusconi's election campaign a man whom prosecutors suspect teamed up with the Calabrian Mafia to fix votes. But the Sicilian senator, who helped to launch Berlusconi's Forza Italia party in 1994, described reports of his possible links to the alleged vote fraud as 'lies and garbage', adding that he had not been told he was under
investigation. With a tight race in the senate expected as voters head to the polls today and tomorrow, the overseas vote could prove to be decisive in the battle between Berlusconi and centre-left leader Walter Veltroni to take over from Romano Prodi, whose government collapsed in January. Just over 1.2 million votes have been cast overseas.
Investigators believe the scam was set to take place in South America, where expatriate Italians handed in their votes to Italian consulates last week. Aldo Micciche, a businessman who moved to Venezuela after being convicted of fraudulent bankruptcy in Italy, is suspected of planning with the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta to fill in 50,000 blank ballot slips obtained from corrupt officials, Corriere della Sera wrote yesterday. Micciche denied the allegations. The Interior Minister, Giuliano Amato, confirmed he had been alerted by investigators in Reggio Calabria, capital of the Calabria region, about possible electoral fraud in South America. He added that controls had been tightened.
Dell'Utri confirmed on Friday that he had been contacted by Micciche, who told him he could help to promote Berlusconi's Freedom Folk party to expatriate voters in South America. 'I put him in touch with our representative, Barbara Contini,' Dell'Utri told Il Giornale. 'That was the end of the matter. This person was interested in organising the vote of Italians abroad, as are many people who are linked to all parties and in all parts. I do not see what the problem is.'
Barbara Contini, who was governor of the Iraqi town of Nasiriyah when it fell under the responsibility of Italian troops, said that no candidates for Berlusconi's party abroad were involved in electoral fraud. But Corriere della Sera alleges that police wiretap transcripts show Micciche told Dell'Utri on the phone: 'It will be enough to pay a staffer... Those responsible for the vote will shut both eyes when one of our people retrieves all the unfilled slips and puts a cross in the Freedom Folk box.'
The fee asked was €200,000, the newspaper added. Italian newspapers said investigators believe that Micciche was working with members of the Piromalli clan, part of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta Mafia, which has recently overtaken its Sicilian and Neapolitan counterparts thanks to drug trafficking and its ties to Colombian cartels.
Quoting leaked police documents, Corriere della Sera claimed that Micciche asked two leading members of the clan to visit Dell'Utri at his Milan office. Dell'Utri was taped after the meeting, the newspaper wrote, complimenting Micciche for introducing him to two 'good picciotti,' a Sicilian word for youngster used to describe low-level mafiosi. Dell'Utri has risen through the political ranks after running an advertising firm owned by the media magnate.
At the end of his second term as Prime Minister, between 2001 and 2005, Berlusconi changed the electoral law to allow Italians resident abroad to elect six senators and 12 parliamentary deputies.
( from The Guardian. Picture taken from the web)
Hillary Rodham Clinton
by Ginny Stanford
Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture (Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
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Used by The Colorado Independent ("Wiretap: We all already live in Hillary-land, or not" - January 21, 2014) at www.coloradoindependent.com/145670/wiretap-we-all-already...
"There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
That time has come for us." - MLK Jr.
Former Army Colonel Ann Wright retired from the State Department in protest of Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003.
More information here.
Free Lynne Stewart
212-625-9696
Lynne Stewart Defense Committee 350 Broadway #700, NY, NY 10013
Lynne Stewart is a civil rights lawyer who faces up to 40 years in prison for representing a controversial Muslim client. In 2002 her indictment was personally announced by former-Attornet General John Ashcroft. She was convicted of lying to the government and conspiring to aid terrorists in February 2005. Stewart is one of the few lawyers who represent political dissidents, and her case is a clear warning to attorneys who change the U.S. government.
Stewart was charged for violating a gag order on her client, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, and issuing a press release on his behalf. For the past 9 years Rahman has been serving a life-sentence to bomb New York landmarks. Rahman is one of the many political cases Stewart has defended since 1975 including the Black Panthers, the Black Liberation Army and the Weather Underground.
The main evidence against Stewart was based on attorney-client meetings that were secretly monitored and wiretaps of private conversations among Stewart's staff. Stewart's paralegal, Ahmed Sattar, and her arabic translator, Mohammed Yousry, were convicted along with Stewart. Prosecutors also prejudiced the jury by introducing a tape of Osama Bin Laden as evidence although Stewart and her co-defendants were not charged with any 9/11 connection. After 30 years of law practice, Stewart has been diabarred, and she faces a maximum prison sentence of 40 years.
Know what cracks me up? The mental image of Barrack Obama seething, writhing, twisting with desire to jump up and tell the world that Joe Biden did NOT get 15 million more votes than he did in his "landslide victory" in 2012.
Because there's no way the fumbling, mumbling, bumbling, stumble-bum Joe Biden get 7 million more votes than Donald Trump, and Obama knows it.
Particularly when Donald Trump got 10 million more votes than he needed to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016.. So it's not as if tens of millions of Trump supporters abandoned him and voted for Joe. Not only did no one abandon him, but 11 million more people voted for Donald Trump than voted for him in 2016.
Biden had no plan, no energy, no campaign, no enthusiasm, no ground game, no rallies, no campaign slogan, no charisma, and no possibility of getting elected. And yet, he got 15 million more votes than the mighty Barrack Obama did.. Really? Ah-hahaha!!!
Hillary got 65,853,514 votes in 2016, which was held up for 4 years as proof that she *should* have won, since she won the national popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. (Trump got 62,984,828 votes in 2016)
This time we are told Donald Trump got 73,904,195 votes, and Biden got 80,063,589 votes. We're supposed to believe that 25 million more people voted this time than voted in the very hotly contested race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump - in spite of the pandemic.. I'm not buying it.
Barack was all about "audacity", but padding the Democrat's vote by millions.. That's bold. That's North Korea 'vote' bold.. That's Russia vote 'bold'.. And there's only one way you do that. You rig the software.
And if anybody raises any concerns, you rely on the Leftists in the media to destroy their credibility. Remember what they said when Trump tweeted that his campaign had been wiretapped? But it was, wasn't it. It *was* spied on. So forgive me for suspecting they would do literally *anything* if they saw what we saw - Donald Trump about to win a second term.
As Stalin was famous for saying, "I don't care who votes. I care who COUNTS the votes..".
By 1984 it appeared that a virtual state of war was imminent between the State of Oregon, Wasco County, and local communities with the Rajneeshee commune of Rajneeshpuram; there were lawsuits from Oregon Attorney General David Frohnmayer over the city being an arm of a religious organization (and thus unable to incorporate over the separation of Church and State) and the 1000 Friends of Oregon over the land use violations. Armed local ranchers and farmers confronted the likewise armed Rajneeshpuram Peace Force. The Rajneesh cult had stated that an apocalypse (either nuclear war, or later AIDS) would occur around 1990 and wipe out most of humanity, and now there were rumors that it was approaching, that the National Guard was ready to arrest Rajneesh. Everyone focused on the November election of 1984, when the Rajneesh hoped to take over Wasco County and everyone else hoped to prevent that from happening.
Additionally, conflicts increasingly arose between Rajneesh's inner circle, especially between his spokeswoman Ma Anand Sheela and her supporters and evidently everyone else. The conflicts had slowly bled the commune of supporters as people lost faith and left. Rajneesh had angrily sided with Sheela, until finally as the internal conflicts simmered he brought all of his circle into his trailer and admonished Sheela before all, claiming that his house, not hers was the center of the commune. A few months later Rajneesh broke his vow of silence and began speaking again.
And then suddenly things began dissipating. Despite a measure busing in 3000 homeless under the cult's "Share-a-Home" program to vote in the Wasco City elections, the effort was blocked by the county clerk who enforced a regulation that forced new voters to submit their qualifications when registering to vote. The homeless were drugged after disputes with the Rajneesh and finally The homeless abandoned into the surrounding communities. The Rajneesh lost the votes in landslides. In September, 1985 Sheela and her supporters fled to Europe, and Rajneesh held an absolutely amazing press conference, where he claimed that Sheela and her associates were a "gang of fascists" who had-supposedly without his knowledge-of attempted the murder of his personal physician, poisoned public officials, preformed wiretapping and bugging within the commune and his own home, and a launched bioterror attack on the citizens of The Dalles, Oregon. People were shocked by and skeptical of the wild claims.
But investigations showed that they all seemed to be true.
Antelope, Oregon
Room with a View
Awesome view of Mill Mountain out of these corner windows. I want to turn this building into condos. Seems like such a waste.
Undisclosed warehouse
Roanoke, Virginia
2007
Rally and March in Washington DC Against Mass Surveillance, October 26, 2013. Dennis Kucinich speaking.
THE NEW NORMAL brings together thirteen recent artworks that use private information as raw material and subject matter. The concept of privacy, though widely invoked, is difficult to define. The private sphere encompasses domestic spaces, bodies, thoughts, communications, and behaviors—contexts that are usually rendered inaccessible to the public eye by legal, social, and physical boundaries. The practices that demarcate the private sphere are so much a part of the fabric of everyday life—wearing clothing, politely pretending not to overhear a cell-phone conversation— that they only become noticeable when they shift, making the private sphere visible to the public eye. Privacy, to put it bluntly, captures our attention only when it is under threat.
In the wake of 9/11, the specter of terrorism was used to justify increased collection and sharing of personal data by governments around the world. This time of heightened surveillance, characterized by luggage searches, Internet monitoring, and wiretaps, was dubbed “the new normal” by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney.
The spread of social technology has affected privacy no less profoundly. With the rise of online commerce, many banks and retailers have developed sophisticated methods of tracking and studying the behavior of consumers, while increased use of the Internet has created new platforms for voluntary self-disclosure, from blogs to MySpace. Private information has never been less private, as evinced by Kota Ezawa’s Home Video II, made from “leaked” video files of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s honeymoon,widely available on the Web. Each of the works in The New Normal—video, Web sites, sculpture, artist’s books, found objects, and photographs—grants access to the private sphere of the artists themselves, of strangers, and of public officials. Overall, the exhibition creates a sense that access to private information is a kind of currency, the exchange of which is growing and evolving in bewildering ways. We may find it frightening or fascinating, but we are all inescapably complicit in it.
The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue co-published with Artists Space, New York, and Huarte Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Huarte, Spain, with essays by guest curator Michael Connor, Clay Shirky and Marisa Olson.
Residential building on Kudrinskaya square (Building on Uprising square) - a high-rise building in Moscow, one of the «Stalin's skyscrapers» («Seven Sisters»)
Built in 1948-1954 years. designed by architects MV Posokhin, AA Mndoyants and designer MN Vohomskogo.
The building consists of a central (24 floors, the height of the tower and spire - 156 meters) and side buildings (18 residential floors) constituting a single structural array, based on the total ground floor.
On the first and ground floors of the building were originally shops and a cinema "Flame" (currently not working), in the basement - underground garages.
Skyscraper popularly called the «House of aviators», because the apartment was given to the workers the aviation industry (in particular, employees of the Tupolev design Bureau) and the test pilot, but, of course, among the tenants there were many party activists.
Said that, when opened near the US Embassy, the top two floors were settled. There KGB installed equipment for wiretapping, and from there to "watch" for Americans.
Sculptures on the facade of the building symbolize creativity, defense, and labor of the Soviet citizens.
I had the privilege to see and hear Senator Rand Paul today at Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Newbury Park, California
Residential building on Kudrinskaya square (Building on Uprising square) - a high-rise building in Moscow, one of the «Stalin's skyscrapers» («Seven Sisters»)
Built in 1948-1954 years. designed by architects MV Posokhin, AA Mndoyants and designer MN Vohomskogo.
The building consists of a central (24 floors, the height of the tower and spire - 156 meters) and side buildings (18 residential floors) constituting a single structural array, based on the total ground floor.
On the first and ground floors of the building were originally shops and a cinema "Flame" (currently not working), in the basement - underground garages.
Skyscraper popularly called the «House of aviators», because the apartment was given to the workers the aviation industry (in particular, employees of the Tupolev design Bureau) and the test pilot, but, of course, among the tenants there were many party activists.
Said that, when opened near the US Embassy, the top two floors were settled. There KGB installed equipment for wiretapping, and from there to "watch" for Americans.
Sculptures on the facade of the building symbolize creativity, defense, and labor of the Soviet citizens.
On August 1, 1947, Roe was told by doctors that he had stomach cancer but that it was operable. On August 4, 1952, he dressed in a three-piece suit and hat and creeped down South Michigan Avenue. At around 10:00 p.m., as he was unlocking his car on the street outside his apartment, a voice called, "Roe!" He turned and was cut down by several shotgun blasts. He died slumped against a tree which still stands outside his former apartment at 5239 S. Michigan Ave.
Roe was laid out in a $3,500-$5,000 casket and received the biggest funeral of any Chicago African American since Jack Johnson in 1946. Thousands lined the streets to catch a glimpse of Roe's 81-car funeral procession. At Roe's funeral, Minister Clarence H. Cobb said: "He was a friend of man, and he had a pure heart."
The Outfit seized control of his policy wheels, and many felt that Roe had pushed his luck too far. That is, until his widow revealed a secret. Lucky Ted had terminal cancer, and had been given only months to live.
Over an FBI wiretap during the early 1970s, Giancana said of Roe, "I'll say this. Nigger or no nigger, that bastard went out like a man. He had balls. It was a fu----' shame to kill him."
Frost/Nixon - Alternative Movie Poster
Original illustration - posters, prints and many other products available at:
ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA. Sorry Virgi, the honeymoon is over! Either wake-up and smell the cappuccino & the cornetto or resign. The Romans are feed up: with the streets filled with trash, potholes, the rats, the incompetence and corruption. ANSA (18/04/2019).
ROMA - Raggi shd [should] quit if wiretaps true - Confession of serious crime, admission of inability to govern. ANSA (18/04/2019).
(ANSA) - Rome, April 18 - Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi should quit if the content of new published wiretaps turns out to be true, League Minister for Regional Affairs Erika Stefani said Thursday. Stefani said that, if true, the wiretaps would amount to "the confession of a serious crime and a clear admission of a flagrant inability to govern".
"In line with the rules of her 5-Star Movement we expect her immediate resignation". In wiretaps published by L'Espresso weekly, Raggi allegedly leans on the former CEO of Rome waste company AMA, Lorenzo Bagnacani, to push the firm's accounts into the red.
Fonte | source:
-- ANSA (18/04/2019).
www.ansa.it/english/news/politics/2019/04/18/raggi-shd-qu...
Foto | fonte | source:
-- edoardo baraldi. “UN AMORE DI PREMIER.” FLICKR (Sept. 09, 2016).
www.flickr.com/photos/edoardobaraldi/29485476251/
S.v.,
-- ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA. DEGRADO - Mayor Raggi: "The Romans look out and see shit” - Vacanze pasquali, ecco cosa vede il turista che sbarca a Roma. Corriere Della Sera (21/04/2019); S.v., The Guardian, U.K. (19/04/2019) & La Repubblica (13/12/2018). S.v., L’Espresso (18/04/2019) & Virginia Raggi | Facebook (18/04/2019). wp.me/pPRv6-4Y5
-- ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA. Mayor Virginia Raggi: "The Romans look out and see shit” & "Rome is out of control.” L’Espresso (18/04/2019) & Virginia Raggi | Facebook (18/04/2019). wp.me/pPRv6-4XV
Residential building on Kudrinskaya square (Building on Uprising square) - a high-rise building in Moscow, one of the «Stalin's skyscrapers» («Seven Sisters»)
Built in 1948-1954 years. designed by architects MV Posokhin, AA Mndoyants and designer MN Vohomskogo.
The building consists of a central (24 floors, the height of the tower and spire - 156 meters) and side buildings (18 residential floors) constituting a single structural array, based on the total ground floor.
On the first and ground floors of the building were originally shops and a cinema "Flame" (currently not working), in the basement - underground garages.
Skyscraper popularly called the «House of aviators», because the apartment was given to the workers the aviation industry (in particular, employees of the Tupolev design Bureau) and the test pilot, but, of course, among the tenants there were many party activists.
Said that, when opened near the US Embassy, the top two floors were settled. There KGB installed equipment for wiretapping, and from there to "watch" for Americans.
Sculptures on the facade of the building symbolize creativity, defense, and labor of the Soviet citizens.
I was already making more macros of printed circuit boards. This has in the past always worked quite well, but as close as here I am never approached due to the then low depth of field, it lacked the viewer just a lot of information about the board.
In these images, I've done two things differently:
Setup as shown us by Tilo Gockel (Thanks Tilo, cool idea!) Supplemented with slight brightening by a flash with blue gel. So I wanted to make the PCB a bit upbeat.
Then 15-20 photos made with migratory sharpness, which were afterwards rendered with a Stacking software into a single image.
So beautiful can electronic waste be
I find especially the blurry photos quite aesthetically.
Here's some examples (with making-of).
If you want to take a look to my spin doctor, voila: www.flickr.com/photos/galllo/14347373239