Scary stuff… Hopefully we never get as bad as the below here in the US.Socialism means equality of income or nothing… under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

For those who think that chinese style totalitarian internet censorship couldn’t possibly happen in a free, democratic country…AustraliaJust wait, if Obama gets in, we’ll surely have the same thing happen here with the internet Fairness doctrine, banning any site that doesn’t offer a “balanced” view in some nebulous bureau’s opinion. There will be no stopping it either if the Dems have a 60 seat majority in the senate.Police state, here we come.

Friends don’t let friends dress their kids up in political gear…

It seems that LJ is getting infected in some way by robots. I’ve had two accounts just randomly add me out of the blue, both with no entries and with the exact same template, and nearly nobody friending them back. Quite odd… One of them has already dropped me from their list.

Finally caught up with my back reading on LJ. Well, technically I’m not completely caught up, but I’ve caught up on everything that the friends page still allows me to read. I never knew that entries would fall off the edge like that…Anyway, I just went from renting to home owning in the span of 2 weeks (from starting the search to moving in completely.) I’m exhausted… Not to mention I did it while still going to work.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/the_libertarian_case_for_palin.htmlI’m not entirely convinced, but I can tell you that all of the attacks the mainstream media has been throwing out makes me think that they genuinely fear her. I’d love to see someone with Western sensibility back in the white house.I still think it’s absolutely frightening that of the 2 main parties, Palin is the only candidate for national executive office with any experience operating a large organization as the executive.

I mentioned how I was still using the same old Logitech mouse that I bought years ago back in February. This mouse gets between 1 and 2 months of battery life per set. It works great, but I recently heard about a new series of mice from logitech. Laser mice such as the MX600, which claim battery lives in the 6 month range. Not only that but it has far more buttons than the older one.

I have quite a bit I want to write about, none of them for very long though.Disgaea 1:I’ve managed to finish off Disgaea 1. Excellent game. I’m really short on time though, Disgaea 3 comes out on the 26th and I want to play far enough into Disgaea 2 to get a feel for its combat system before I move on to 3. Already 2 seems like they’ve fixed some of the balance issues with the Cleric/healing classes and made the Bonus Gauge easier to fill without clearing the geopanel puzzles.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/28/fcc_comcast_landmark/Given my past criticism of Net Neutrality fanatics, there should be little doubt where I stand on this. This is an honest to goodness failure of the model that the net neutrality people held up as THE STANDARD for how to run an internet, handling all packet intelligence at the endpoints and having the middle be a big, dumb pipe. Bittorrent though cheats by flooding the net with connection requests drowning out other traffic.

http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/3216.html#Much has been made of the announcements recently of 4 Xbox360 RPG games. 3 Square and 1 Namco. People have been questioning the logic of this given that the 360 does poorly in japan and japan is the major market for RPG games. If you look at the groups in square and the titles being made it’s obvious why they’re doing it this way.Star Ocean 4: Tri-Ace, Action RPGStar Ocean 2 and 3 were both action RPGs as well.