The trailer for Return of the King is out. Should be good. The trailer for Matrix: Revolutions was released last week, sorry for the late post.

A few quick comments today:

This is stupid. Don’t these people realize how idiotic they sound when they say things like this?

When bridal shop owner Nancy Owen found ants in her store, she had two choices: relocate the critters or relocate her shop. Extermination was not an option.

That’s because the landlord of the Austin shopping center where her store was located is a supporter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The landlord imposed strict rules on tenants requiring that no meat or animal product be sold in their stores, and that no animals – including ants – be harmed.

“If you don’t have to cause animals to suffer – even the animals we don’t understand so well like ants or mice or chickens – why not choose to be kind rather than to be cruel?” asked PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich.

Yeah, those ants sure are complicated buggers. There’s a lot we don’t understand there.

Here we go again with the stupid lawsuits.

A New Hampshire woman whose husband died in one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center sued President Bush and other government officials yesterday, contending their negligence of airport security resulted in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

First they say that the attempts to make things more secure invade our privacy, then they say they’re not doing enough. And how, exactly, was the state of airport security worsened when President Bush took office? I wouldn’t even try to pin that one on Slick Willie, much as I might like to.

And this just makes me mad.

OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal judge handed down bad news to those expecting their dinners to be forever free from interruptions Wednesday, ruling that the Federal Trade Commission (search) didn’t have the authority to slap telemarketers with a national “do-not-call” list.

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The telemarketing industry has claimed the list, slated to take effect Oct. 1, could reduce its business by half and cost it up to $50 billion in sales each year.

$50 BILLION!!!Give me a break! That means that on average they expect to sell $1,000 worth of their crap to each of the 50 million who have signed up, per year. I don’t think so.

Things are getting stupid, folks.

When I finally do get my Dual 2Ghz G5 machine, here’s the monitor I want for it.

Apparently these guys have nothing better to do than sit around and dream up reasons to sue people. Sometimes it infuriates me that we have to put up with such ludicrous actions. Give me a break. Of course, a group filed suit years ago about the way monitor sizes were measured and advertised, and won. Did it change anything? Not much. The monitors are still the same size, it’s just now a 17″ monitor is actually a 17″ (16.2″ viewable) monitor. Lot of hoopla for a couple of words in parenthesis.

No wonder the US legal system can be called the “Legal Lottery”. You files your suit and you takes your chances.

And, by the way, if you think their suit actually has considerable merit, remember that ultimate drive capacity is actually limited to the file system you use on it. Different file systems use drives more or less efficiently. To make matters worse, file systems have a tendency to use “free space” faster when their closer to being full, or if the number of files is large. It’s a little more complex than I want to get into here, but it isn’t as simple as binary versus decimal.

This is hilarious, and well put. Let’s make sure that kids learning on computers are well versed in the art of “living with a windows machine”, and not actually learn something useful.

It’s like teaching kids how to live with the faults of a screwdriver and a hammer, but not getting to show them what they can build with it.

So after buying a load of groceries this morning, Cynthia comes home to find that the refrigerator is not working. Ice has melted and run down on the floor and whatnot. Argh.

After I run up to the store to get several bags of ice so we can transfer meat and such to an cooler, I make several calls around to see if I can locate a service person who can come out today and diagnose it. On the third call I manage to find someone and lo and behold, they’re there in an hour.

One defrost timer circuit and $180 later and we’re back up and running. Next is the oven, I suppose.

This will mess with your eyes, then your head.

No, I missed the President’s speech last night. We were out at a church picnic and didn’t get in until about 9:00. But from what I saw on the news, nothing surprising. Republicans thought he did a good job and Democrats panned everything he said.

A few quick things of note:

1. California, unsurprisingly, has again lost it’s mind.
2. Johnny Depp, while a brilliant actor, is a loonie.
3. The Dow continues to climb. At this rate it’ll hit 10k in October.
4. No one really knows when the Dual G5’s will be available. (too many links to post)
5. One Dem from Texas grows a backbone and regains a little ethical stance. (I’ll have to comment more about this one a little later)