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A single sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means that a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1,587.5TB.

– from Reddit

Of course, one could claim that the majority of that is duplicate data, so really the transfer rate is much lower, with lots of effort to make sure the data is not lost. It’s also encoded information, so with the right algorithm one could decode it and get a lot more data out of it. Of course, one usually doesn’t think of a fertile woman and 18 years of child-rearing as an algorithm, but there you have it.

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16 years ago I got my account with you, and it took me 10 minutes waiting on hold to break that relationship. Good bye, and good riddance. You won’t be seeing my business ever again.

Piss off and die, you financial rapists.

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Just a quick update to an old article on Why Hotmail Must Die- today our mail servers at work got hit with the lovely Hammer ‘o Hotmail and all email from our domain to any Microsoft email server (hotmail.com, msn.com, MS Live, etc) is now being rejected. Not that it is exactly the same as the predicament I found myself in last year, but similar enough that I decided to play around and implement DKIM at home to see if that made any difference in deliverability from my domain to Hotmail. All testing was done with SPF records in place, FYI. Here are the results:

1. No DKIM, no rewriting of headers

   Result: email sent from my domain to hotmail.com addresses would just disappear…or if you were lucky would wind up in the Junk folder.

2. DKIM, no rewriting of headers

   Result: email sent from my domain to hotmail.com addresses would just disappear…or if you were lucky would wind up in the Junk folder.

3. DKIM/No DKIM, but postfix configured to nuke any User-Agent: header and to set the X-Mailer: header to read Microsoft Office Outlook 11

Result: email sent from my domain to hotmail.com addresses would arrive just fine.

So, what’s the conclusion my fine friends? Well, industry-standard anti-spam measures like SPF or DKIM seem to have no affect on mail delivery to hotmail.com address. However, telling Microsoft that I’m using their product seems to do the trick. Is there any doubt left that Microsoft’s main business model is bullying?

Somehow, I don’t think this is going to do the trick at work, but hey, it is at least worth a shot. If anything interesting pops up I’ll let y’all know.

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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
…show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not.

Well, Mr. Obama, you have my vote. Use it well. May you ride this groundswell and help tip our country, poised so precariously, towards a better future.

ps- I had an interesting moment this morning while voting. When I was done I asked to speak to the head electiony-dude at my voting place so that I could complain about the Deibold machines being used (yay for Utah). As soon as I started speaking he rolled his eyes and said, “You and me both, my friend.” We had a short, but heartwarming conversation about our fears, not of a computerized election, but of a poorly and secretly computerized election. Please, dear readers, remind me to get involved in local elections, not for running for office, but running elections. This good man I met this morning could use some help in doing the right thing.

Please, please, people. This is a credit crisis, not a stock crisis, and perhaps we should focus on addressing those issues, not just bailing out Wall Street. Wall Street is not the same as the American financial market, or the credit industry.

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As you can see, Cuil was able to somehow dig out my deep connections with Scientology, despite the fact that I have never gone to a meeting, never read any Scientology materials, and as far as I know am not on the “bridge to total freedom”. While it might have been due to having read Battlefield Earth back when I was 13, I’d rather like to think that Cuil has stepped up the ante and is now reading and archiving every human’s OT level, and obviously I’m scoring pretty high.

So, at least I’ve got that going for me. Chad 1, Xenu 0.

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What is wrong with this picture?

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Now one of Clinton’s Laws of Politics is this: If one candidate’s trying to scare you and the other one’s trying to get you to think; if one candidate’s appealing to your fears and the other one’s appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope. That’s the best.

Huh, given the tenor of Hillary Clinton’s campaign these days, I have a feeling this new Clinton is writing her own rules. Me? I support what Bill said back in 2004, which is why I am not voting for fear-mongering Hillary.

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