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Copying this here in case the original gets deleted. Interesting article… fucking americans.

Ringworm and Radiation

By Barry Chamish August 19, 2004

On August 14, at 9 PM, Israel’s Channel Ten television screened a documentary film which exposes the ugliest secret of Israel’s Labor party founders: the deliberate mass radiation poisoning of nearly all Sephardi youths of a generation.

“The Ringworm Children” (translated in Hebrew as “100,000 Rays”), directed by David Belhassen and Asher Hemias, recently won the prize for “best documentary” at the Haifa International film festival, and in the past year has made the rounds of Jewish and Israeli film festivals around the world. But it had yet to come to Israeli television screens. The subject is the mass irradiation of hundreds of thousands of young Israeli immigrants from Middle Eastern countries — Sephardim, as they are called today. The story goes like this:

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I’ve never really gotten DVD’s to work reliably in Linux. Ubuntu‘s a great distribution and it’s got a lot of things working beautifully straight off, but as usual I couldn’t get DVD’s to play with Totem. I found Quickstart on the Ubuntu Forums and a lot of people had said it worked fine, as usual with most of the fixes. It didn’t work for me (installed a few other cool things for me though) so I played around a bit, determined to watch Sneakers now that the sound was working 🙂

Just in case someone else comes looking for the solution to this problem like I did tonight 🙂 I found this link by googling a little.

Here’s the solution if you don’t like clicking…

Try adding this to your /etc/modprobe.d/options (or alsa-base) file:

options snd-hda-intel model=XXX

Replace XXX with one of the quoted values in the list below (remove the quotes)

borysSNORC: *yelp*ooh! penis… unexpected penis…

me: *giggles*

There once was a girl named Lenore

And a bird and a bust and a door

And a guy with depression

And a whole lot of questions

And the bird always says “Nevermore.”

Your Score: HELL LEVEL 3

Raw score: 95%

There’s a special place in Hell for you: the basement penthouse. You scored the nastiest possible score on the Sexual Hell Test. You have no sexual restraint whatsoever. You’ll take pleasure however you can get it, and my guess is you get it a lot. If for some reason you don’t right now, you will soon, as people in your category only tend to spiral down ever deeper into the abyss of carnality and delicious sin. Congratulations.

I was trying to get sound working on an EEE PC in Pidgin, and had to do a bit of googling before I found it… here’s the solution (taken from the EEEuser forums)

1. Press Ctrl+P to go to Preferences
2. Then select Sounds tab
3. In the sound method section, select “Command”
4. Type “aplay -q %s” (without the quotes) as the command.

Ok, it’s a blight on the neighbourhood, it’s a massive power use for shinyness and pride, not to mention nothing to do with the real “spirit of christmas” and then someone came up with the idea of driving around to see the bloody things!

I drive pizzas to your house. Please understand if you’re doing about 10km/h on the major feeder roads around your area, driving like a complete idiot and stopping every ten meters, it’s going to take longer for someone to get their pizza. Tomorrow night it might be you!

A photo that a good friend of mine took while in a museum in Turkey earlier this year 🙂