Saturday, May 11, 2002

Juicy Fruit - Bring on the innuendos! Get your skiis shined up, grab a stick of Juicy Fruit, the taste is gonna move you. Take a sniff, pull it out, the taste is gonna move you when you pop it in your mouth. Juicy Fruit, its gonna move you, juicy soft, it gets right to you. Juicy Fruit. The taste, the taste, the taste is gonna move you. More stuff from the 70's, 80's and 90's here 10:24:42 AM    comment [] Piracy Piracy on the Wall! Who's the Piratest of them all? Apparently - and I maybe a latecomer to this bus - Microsoft was found guilty of piracy in september of 2001 ?? Here is the Story from NewsForge. I haven't seen a reference to this, but maybe slashdot had some news on it, but it would have been a big brouhaha if /. actually covered it. Related articles from vnunet.com Licensing is the problem, not piracy    [29-04-2002]   Microsoft loses its SoftImage to Avid  [03-07-1998] 9:27:53 AM    comment []   "Racism is takin' me home..." You know, I'm not so sure about this whole Pim Fortyun thing. Agreed that he was gay (and "cool" because of it? nah, I think its more deep rooted than that), and conservative, and somehow his policies rang a bell with the Dutch people. But just because it rang true with the Dutch people doesn't mean that it was a good thing. Dave points out the following three threads on Adam Curry and other's blogs addressing this issue: Guest DaveNet: The Big Lie, by Adam Curry.   [This is a good read] Lance Knobel: "This is idiosyncratic, reactionary politics."  And Lance's pushback begets more.  Here's my take on this... Its really not news to me that someone with policies with racial under/over tones is popular with the Dutch people. Dutch are "tolerant" but tolerant of what? I mean the last openly racist government on Earth had a heavy dutch influence. I find it hard to believe that there are not cultural "call backs" to racism in the contemporary Dutch culture. Unfortunately, not having known the history of Pim's politics, I can't really make comments that are anything but general, but looking at the bigger picture, I don't think Pim was anything revolutionary, he was just another politician catalyzing the ideas that are already cooking in the heads of many Dutch citizens. The problems he addressed are the ones facing Imperial europe, and now the people have started to say, enough is enough, we don't owe anything to the people that we exploited to get where we are today. So let's clamp down on immigration, multiculturalism blah blah blah because its taking our identity down into the gutter. Well, that is just my generalized view of things, but really, its hard to miss the racism inherent in european (north european) politics. The superiority complex penetrates the modern Western world! period! When some guy comes on stage and starts formulating it, some people get upset, because they don't think of themselves as racist bigots, but that may be the actual situation. American brand of political correctness applied to this only makes the picture more grotesque. I don't necessarily agree that Pim was wrong, he was correct in his social framework. The social framework that supports such ventures maybe racist, but in context, he was fine, and that's why he enjoyed the popularity! I read the same racist thinking in the pro/con arguments regarding the Pim debate. Europe is racist, and Europe is in power - the dominant culture - and Europe gets what europe wants (at least for now). 7:56:48 AM    comment []

© Copyright 2005 LninYo. Last update: 1/9/05; 9:33:17 PM. This theme is based on the SoundWaves (blue) Manila theme.