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Jack Valenti, the long time head of the Motion Picture Association of America (better known as MPAA for those who have been randomly sued by them) has died at age 85. He was head of the MPAA for 38 years, between 1966 and 2004.

President Bush says in a statement, “Jack Valenti was a great American and a great Texan. From protecting families by creating the movie rating system to advocating for intellectual property rights, Jack Valenti helped transform the motion picture industry.”

FUCK THAT. Jack Valenti was a narrow minded sleaze who wanted nothing more than to turn the MPAA into a behemoth of power and influence and having the ability to crush human rights and operate outside of the law. Jack Valenti is a prime example of what happens when people with power try attacking something they don’t understand. The DeCSS fiasco shows how the MPAA ignores the law and starts flooding out lawsuit threats. The MPAA manipulates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to use it as a basis for any legal threat they initiate. Coming from someone who was once taken down by the MPAA, I understand how these people function. Jack Valenti is dead, and the free world rejoices.

If you need further proof that the MPAA is run by assclowns, do a Google search for “MPAA hack” and see how they illegally violate home users’ security and target sites they quite simply cannot touch otherwise.

China announced that it has banned melamine from food products in the wake of the numerous pet deaths across North America. The real kicker? They refuse to take responsibility for the deaths. China’s Foreign Ministry claims the Food and Drug Administration is full of it and the deaths are not related to the FUCKING POISON they tossed in.

“At present, there is no clear evidence showing that melamine is the direct cause of the poisoning or death of the pets,” the statement said. “China is willing to strengthen co-operation with the U.S. side … to find out the real cause leading to the pet deaths in order to protect the health of the pets of the two countries.”

Animal studies have shown that ingestion of melamine may lead to kidney stones, cancer or reproductive damage. It is used for making plastic, foam, and glue among other things. Sounds to me like China is being pretty retarded trying to claim their contaminated wheat gluten SOMEHOW DID NOT CAUSE KIDNEY FAILURE IN THESE DEAD PETS. Oh ok, my bad. I guess the deaths were caused by bad water or something. Thanks China for clearing this up you pansy motherfuckers. It will be interesting to see what kind of quality product they’ll be exporting now that they will be stepping up inspections (or so they say). For now, I say fuck China.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melamine

The first part of my entry today is about the death of former Russian president Boris Yeltsin. He was 76, and died of heart failure. I’m sure most people remember Yeltsin as the pioneer in securing democracy in Russia in the early 90′s. With a social and political change of this magnitude, you’re going to have two sides to it. What seems to be often overlooked is the very negative impact this change had on the Russian economy and population. The ruble lost about 75 percent of its value, massive food shortages caused quality of health to drop, widespread poverty prevented many Russians from buying food and other necessities, and organized crime began taking advantage of the situation. Considering Yeltsin was re-elected for a second term, it looks like the Russian people looked to democracy to solve the social problems despite the early negative impact. Other notable incidents involving Yeltsin would be the bloody fight with rebels in Chechnya in 1994, resulting in thousands of civilian and military deaths. After a rocky end of his second term, Vladimir Putin took control and Russia seems to be rebuilding itself.

Now that I’ve mentioned Putin, this brings us to the second segment. Word is out that British police will be issuing three arrest warrants in connection with the poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. Dmitry Kovtun, Andrei Lugovoi and Vyacheslav Sokolenko will most likely be arrested within 3 weeks, though there is no official word from British police on this. Litvinenko died at age 43 as a result of fatal poisoning. Globe and Mail

Look at that stupid sack of shit. Remember his face, because most of you will learn to hate him. He is an anti-gaming activist and supposedly an attorney though I cannot see how someone with such disassociation with reality could manage to get that far. Our good friend Jack here decided to jump into “15 minutes of fame” mode and fire off a threatening letter to Bill Gates calling Microsoft the cause of the Virginia Tech shootings. CAN YOU FUCKING BELIEVE THAT, because I sure can’t. This guy is so far out of his league it’s funny. Just for shits and giggles, I’ll post up the anal discharge that this loser managed to conjure:

April 18, 2007

Bill Gates

Microsoft

1 Microsoft Way

Redmond, WA 98052 Via Fax and e-mail

Dear Mr. Gates:

On Monday, April 16, at 3:10 pm, I was a guest, as I often have been in the past, on the Fox News Channel. News anchor Bill Hemmer asked me to profile the Virginia Tech rampage killer. I did so, noting that until that day the worst school massacre in world history was at the hands of Robert Steinhaeuser, who literally trained on the Microsoft on-line, hyper-violent shooter game, Counterstrike. I mentioned your company’s game by name. I explained that the rehearsal for such a massacre is key to being able to pull it off, as efficiently as Cho, whose name we didn’t even know at the time. Cho and Steinhaeuser were able to do what they did the first time because it was not the first time. This is why the military uses this same virtual reality simulation to train soldiers to want to kill and how to kill calmly, as the witnesses of Cho said he did.

Sure enough, last night I was doing a west coast radio interview when the host said to me, “Mr. Thompson, you are right. The Washington Post is reporting right now the following:

‘Several Korean youths who knew Cho Seung Hui from his high school days said he was a fan of violent video games, particularly Counterstrike, a hugely popular online game published by Microsoft, in which players join terrorism or counterterrorism groups and try to shoot each other using all types of guns.’”

I thus went back on the Fox News Channel, and Bill Hemmer and I explained not only that I was right about your game figuring in the Virginia Tech massacre but also that the Washington Post excised the above excerpt from the story this morning. That is yet another story. The bad news for the Post however is that you can still get the excised excerpt at http://www.washingtonpost.com/…AR2007041700563_3.html?hpid=topnews. Thus, the cat is out of the bag, and his paw prints are still on the bag. Is this a great Internet, or what?

As you know, I similalry [sic] went on NBC’s Today Show with the DC Beltway Sniper still unidentified and at-large a few years ago and told Matt Lauer and the nation that the triggerman would most likely be a teen video gamer trained on a sniper video game. The tarot card was a clue, but there were other clues. I was right, as Malvo trained on your Microsoft game, Halo. NBC reported that three months later, and it was part of the criminal trial of Malvo.

Mr. Gates, your company is potentially legally liable the harm done at Virginia Tech. Your game, a killing simulator, according to the news that used to be in the Post, trained him to enjoy killing and how to kill. You knew five years ago that your on-line game, Counterstrike, so clearly figured in the massacre by a student in Erfurt that the event and the game impacted the race for Chancellor in Germany at the time!

Yet, here you are, five years after “Erfurt,” still marketing Counterstrike. having done nothing to disable the server(s) for this mass murder simulator, and it looks like “Virginia Tech” is a consequence. There’s more going on in the world than Vista. Just ask the bereaved Virginia Tech families.

Mr. Gates, pull the plug on Counterstrike today, or do we need more dead to convince you? “Virginia Tech” was the 9-11 of school shootings, and it appears Microsoft is in the middle of it, in more ways than one.

Regards, Jack Thompson

Haha, oh my god what a fucking cunt. See original story.

There was a major outage with the servers handling e-mail for approximately 8 million BlackBerry users. It looks like the failure began around 8pm EST Tuesday and continued for at least a few hours. Delayed e-mails are now coming through as of 9am EST. This seems to be another critical blow against RIM, as now they are encountering major services issues in addition to the financial crisis they have found themselves in. I would consider this to be a significant event and RIM may find some of its subscription base move to other platforms. Naturally the networks of drug dealers will stay with the BlackBerry in favour of the PIN to PIN method of message transmission, but legit business people who can’t afford these types of delays may look into other solutions. The technology behind BlackBerry still seems to be what keeps people using it, with data being pushed to the device in contrast with other wireless handhelds which must pull from the servers. Despite all this, RIM’s stock price still seems to be rising. The current stock price is $151.04 (up 2.22). Though RIM isn’t talking about the exact reason for the outage, I’d assume they are starting to oversubscribe their service. According to Yahoo news, their userbase increased by over 1 million subscribers in the 4th quarter alone. They also expect to add another 1.1 million users by the end of the first quarter. We’re still waiting to see what happens with the SEC investigation, so hopefully that doesn’t cause too much of an impact with trading.

I won’t comment a whole lot on this as the media coverage is already quite detailed. The shooter turned out to be 23 year old student Cho Seung-Hui from South Korea. At the time of this writing, the confirmed death count is 32 which places this as the worst shooting in US history. There are several points raised during the CNN coverage I was watching yesterday. For example, after the first shooting incident sometime after 7am there was a notice sent out to all buildings on the campus. The problem with this? It was done via e-mail. I can think of at least a couple ways which would have been better for sending this notice. Naturally as the attempt to warn other students was somewhat pathetic, 30 people died in the later 9:15am shootings at another building on campus. People talked about the security being too poor for the school, but really I think the problem is with US culture and society. Yes the student was Korean but as this probably resulted from a bad instance run in World of Warcraft, Blizzard is to blame. I think the world would be a better place if we abolished these kinds of online realities. Another example would be Ultima Online. I once saw virtual items being sold for UA on eBay for literally thousands of dollars. This is the real problem folks.

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We start today off with the story of a 13 year old girl who caught a flying sea lion in the face, which ended up knocking three of her teeth out. A marine scientist believes the sea lion may have simply been playing and not intended to actually attack. While the image of a flying sea lion smacking someone in the face humours me, I do feel bad for anyone getting hit by these things. No wait…. flying sea lion… SMACK…. hahaha.

A big WTF out in Maryland where a 2 year old kid suffered severe burns after playing in a playground which had been covered with industrial strength drain cleaner. I can almost guarantee that the guys who did this will end up dead. Fox news link

I always thought Americans were stupid, but apparently there’s an extra dose of dumbass in the drinking water down in Louisiana. A 16 year old kid paid another kid $5 to kill his father. Where I come from, hits generally run at least $5000. I can’t imagine the kind of inbred knob gobbler who would murder for $5. Hell that won’t even cover the Vaseline that he’s going to need when his stupid ass gets thrown in the slammer. Fox news link

In other news, Scarlett Johansson is a huge slut. Click here to read more.

For some local news, a 44 year old firefighter in Delta was found to have 380 pot plants growing in his basement. Some other crap happened around here but it wasn’t interesting enough to remember.

Chen Hui must be really pissed that the Chinese government sent him to prison for life simply for running a porn site. Granted he did have 9 million images and 600,000 users, I find it hard to believe that such a harsh sentence could be handed down when much more disturbing things are happening in that country. While I fully understand the need to control the population, it seems that the abundance of aborted babies has caused certain Asian countries to add “deep fried fetus” to the menu. I would suggest a more humane solution for dealing with the population control issue; random assassinations and public hanging of criminals. This will result in three benefits: population is constantly in fear, less strain on the penal system, reduction in amount of aborted babies ending up in landfills. This could pretty much be a win-win resolution for the Chinese. Hell, maybe they can round up some more porn site operators and kill them as they are obviously causing a huge negative impact on China’s youth population. Nevermind the fact that dead babies are being cooked and consumed, I would find nudie pictures to be much more of a problem.

It looks like O.J. Simpson is still a complete idiot. Though lucky enough to have committed murder and be acquitted, he also wrote a book titled “If I Did It” which describes how he would have gone about committing the murders. What a brilliant idea. I could not think of any better way to rub in the fact that he’s only innocent through the eyes of a flawed justice system. Unfortunately the book will most likely never see the light of day after public outrage over it. I could understand what drove him to consider this though, notably the fact that he owes the Goldman family $33.5M and is being a cheap bastard about it.

Some good news for Canadian business. Shaw Communications profit is up quite a bit from last quarter. Looks like selling a shitty product for unthinkable prices is actually paying off. Those French assholes at Bombardier might not be shutting down shop just yet as they still manage to get contracts for building transportation crap. Random business investment in BC and Alberta for building construction also appear to be at an all time high. I have no idea what that means, but it must be good.

Lastly, European lawmakers appear to be completely incompetent and retarded. The IPRED2 legislation aims to criminalize copyright infringement. This is definitely a step in the wrong direction, and I’d have to conclude that the genius who devised this sack of shit is stocking up on kneepads before meeting with RIAA and MPAA officials. I’ll end this post on a stranger note though… Scientists are finding ways for women to create sperm. YAY FOR LESBIANISM! The purpose of man’s existence may soon disappear. Oh shit.

Telus has applied for deregulation for its telephone service. If the CRTC allows it, bad things may follow. Now, this may end up providing some benefits as competition with Shaw digital phone and Vonage are surely causing Telus to wet their pants but I’m failing to see the overall good in allowing such a move to occur. With my own personal experience with Telus in mind, giving them more power and freedoms in the way they operate is not something I would ever agree with. Telus has some fundamental problems in the way they conduct business as is, and I would hope that the CRTC would take this into consideration before making any silly decisions. There are certain public services which are considered essential necessities and when you go and screw with the regulations which the providers must abide by, you end up seeing questionable business practices. This isn’t just some stupid theory I’ve concocted over 10 beers, this is a fact. These false promises of consumer benefits coming out of the mouths of Telus management sound awfully like a select promise I recall from the 40′s. I believe it went something like “Arbeit Macht Frei.”

Now lets talk about a bit more about the RCMP and the fun they have. I’m referring specifically to Lisa Alford getting shitfaced at the West Van station, getting in her car to drive home, and finally crashing her car. There will be a hearing sometime this month to determine which of the “harsh” penalties will be applied in this situation. I’m betting on the verbal reprimand being used here, as it obviously is a just consequence. Nah who am I kidding, they’ll give the reprimand in writing. What of the other officers who were drinking at the station? The RCMP will tell you that Lisa was the only one, but lets get serious here. If I was in the same station and watching a female cop get drunk, what would I do? JOIN THE FUN, THATS WHAT. Hell, who knows where the night would have taken me. I’m thinking L-U-C-K-Y.