====================================== A penny saved is exactly .024 grams of copper ====================================== FBI: Gunman Went to LAX to Kill (AP) <---- hehehe. In the corner of my eye, I read this wrong. Greetings, and welcome to ATI. The long awaited issue 325. _ _ _ _ __ _ __ | |_ (_) __ __ (_) ___ | |_ / _` | / _| | _| | | \ V / | | (_-< | _| \__,_| \__| \__| |_| \_/ |_| /__/ \__| _ _ | |_ (_) _ __ ___ ___ | _| | | | ' \ / -_) (_-< \__| |_| |_|_|_| \___| /__/ A lot has happened since http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI/ati324.txt It's sure to take weeks to tell you. So let's start here I guess... Hey Corporate Media. Your Numbers Are Foul Again "Hundreds of blacks rallied in front of the Capitol," says Associated Press, "on Saturday to demand slavery reparations, saying that compensation is long overdue for the ills of that institution." My local newspaper says "several thousand." If you did some real ground work you'd likely find that tens or hundreds of thousands were rallying. And I'm sure you are fully aware. Unless you just don't care. And if that's the case, tear up your Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism diploma [sic.] or use it for the toilet paper it is. Because all you learned there is how to be a yes man for Central Intelligence and an economic slave of the Army Corps of Engineers. So I guess what I'm saying mostly, is the only way EITHER news statements could remain accurate is by allowing for hundreds or thousands of hundreds to still mean "hundreds." Likewise, tens or hundreds of thousands would have to mean "several thousand." You've done this before. In fact you always do it. You suck. marco Journalist. (n) Corporate slave. Piss-boy for Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito. One who just does whatever the central government tells him to. Essentially a soldier. ()()()()()()()() ()()()()()()()() ()letucet lecttue lcettue ucelett() ()letcetu lceettu leuctte lucette() () L e T T u C e L e T T u C e () ()letucet tuclete tletuce tucelet() ()ltuceet leettuc tuclete tceltue() ()()()()()()()()() ()()()()()()() Maybe if I didn't see http://cqdns.com/blackgirl/mm.htm at 2 in the morning I wouldn't be pissing my pants right now. "Peter" ><> ><> ><> to ati@etext.org >from a fellow bass/guitarist, Bobby Cochran, nephew of Eddie... In June, after the British musical group the Planets introduced a 60-second piece of complete silence on its latest album, representatives of the estate of composer John Cage, who once wrote "4'33"" (273 seconds of silence), threatened to sue the group for ripping Cage off (but failed, said the group, to specify which 60 of the 273 seconds it thought had been pilfered). Said Mike Batt of the Planets: "Mine is a much better silent piece. I (am) able to say in one minute what (took Cage) four minutes and 33 seconds." [The Independent (London), 6-21-02] mihra.org http://www.mihra.org <>< <>< <>< <>< Dear marco, Did you know you can get fresh-roasted Starbucks® coffee delivered right to your door? For a limited time, we'll even give you a free gift* with your first shipment of this great service. Just click to find out how you can choose a great Starbucks® coffee. Our full menu includes some amazing coffees you won't be able to get anywhere else. Best of all, they're shipped fresh from the roaster to you. Plus, we'll give you a free... [snip] [ ed note: knock it off.] ><> ><> ><> POP GOES THE MUSICIAN Todays popular sound of music has dealt a knockout punch to a lot of musicians who play musical instruments. Well, whatelse do musicians play? Lots! The scene these days is all about musicians who play turntables, groove boxes, floppy drives and whatever it is that creates todays hip sounds of popular music. Take the case of my talented musician friend Earnie the songster. He's been hit by himself! Earnie was amoung the first few guitar players who switched over to keyboards with automatic bass/drums/chords, starting a 'one man band' trend that rendered his fellow band members redundant. The one man band scene ruled and why not? Earnie had a family to support, playing in a band could only pay half his bills, 'being' the band paid all his bills. Few years down the line the popular one man band trend has given way to the 'no man band'. One does not necessarily have to be a musician to create todays cool sounds of popular music. DJ'ing, programing, sequencing, sampling is where it's at baby. Today a DJ or a computer programmer creates the cool sounds that spearhead popular musics evolution. So what does my friend Earnie do now? You've guessed right! Alright peeps in the house, please welcome DJ Earnie who's gonna spin some mean disc while scratching the shit out of them vinyl frisbees! And by the way, DJ'ing these days pays even next years bills! Colin D'Cruz http://www.hullocheck.com <>< <>< <>< <>< Hey, Marco, I and some other media folks recently did an interview that you might be interested in hearing. We spoke with David Rovics when he played in our town in northeastern Connecticut. As I recall, you are also a songwriter who pays attention to political and media matters. That's why I thought I'd tell you about it. The interview can be heard at: http://radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=5171 or at http://boston.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=7579 FYI. -- George ><> ><> ><> A new Wisdumb is up. Forgive me; I haven't been feeling very articulate lately and it's very late. But, without any further commercial interuptions: www.thesilvercat.com/wisdumb.htm Feedback would be lovely (proof that someone actually read it is all I'm really looking for). -vince- ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><> OK TIME FOR SOME NUMBERS. http://www.jeordie.com http://machination.org http://jeff.paterson.net http://www.clandyken.com http://stegall.org/media.html http://thoughtoutlet.tripod.com http://www.warehouse23.com/basement/box http://www.counterpane.com/pgp-attack.html http://www.iberian.com/services/links.html http://www.narconews.com/stealthisintro.html http://www.roadsage.com/stories/napavalley.html http://members.aol.com/nihilist01/partypage.html http://nologo.org/resources/01/09/30/1614235.shtml http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/08/18/1504098 http://www.newspaper-classifieds.com/directory/news-address/E-ZINE_33.htm http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/Funhouse/funhouse-1.3 http://www.informationwave.net/news/20020819riaa.php http://www.mp3freeparty.com/mp3party/manifesto.asp http://www.tibet.ca/wtnarchive/2001/12/31_1.html http://scene.textfiles.com/tripe/tripe-02.txt http://disc.server.com/Indices/149495.html http://free.freespeech.org/xaa/xaa0008.txt http://www.narconews.com/eminem1.html http://www.clearchannelsucks.org http://www.prometheusradio.org http://www.narconews.com http://hacktivismo.com http://www.leekelm.com ========= "You find something that you love and then you twist it and torture it - try to find a way to make money at it - spend a lifetime doing that - and at the end you can't find a trace of what you started out lovin'" --Harry Connick Jr as Justin Matisse talking about the American Dream in "Hope Floats." ><> ><> ><> One of Marcos' commandantes was visiting a neice in Mexico city and he was heard remarking about the 19 inch monitor on her spiffy new Gateway: "viva la resolution." [ref]=[http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI/ati243.txt] ><> ><> ><> Listen up yo, george w bush. God don't like ugly. ><> ><> ><> A short "ad-aware" report. The other day I ran "ad-aware" on a friend's computer, among the many things I did to help her get her machine to run faster. She shares it with a few other people who all live together, and a bunch of us who live elsewhere but occasionally visit and/or logon a little. She likes to download a lot of music, as do many of her roomies. This is never a problem from a philosophical point of view. But I see two areas where it's problematic. 1) Hard Drive defrag in windows environment necessary weekly 2) Doubleclick (TM) The makeup of a hard drive is changed a LOT when you download lots of songs and are always deleting about half of the things you download, including things you listened to half way through and decided you didn't want it. (the internet is chock full of things someone called a song leaving you wondering if they even know what a song is) So all those changes will get your harddrive pretty fragmented. If you don't do it weekly, then when you do finally decide to run defrag.exe (or dfrg.msc to be precise) it'll cost you about an hour and a half. The dreaded doubleclick. And all the other spyware, annoyware, suckyware. I ran ad-aware.exe and it found over 600 different kinds of spyware to isolate and yank out of her hard drive. Why? Well, they probably downloaded and reinstalled Audiogalaxy, Napster, Limewire and etc., on a regular basis, and I'll bet many of the people sharing that computer don't know very much about spyware, cookies, ads, etc. The sleazy corporations deliberately make their installations look warm and fuzzy, and invite you to click on nice neat things that will fill up your harddrive with garbage that smells worse than the bottom of a dumpster at a meat-packing plant. (I've smelled one, you don't wanna go there) I'm talking really warm and fuzzy. One even has a smiley purple furry gorilla you can click on if you want to buy some of their products or something. Another stores every password you type in for the next few days in what they insist will only be one file right there on your harddrive. Hmmm. Is that particular directory world readable? Are they telling you the truth about it not being backed up anywhere else online or offline? Hmmm. Ask yourself this. They're a corporation who broke into your home uninvited, or at best coerced under duress. You expect complete honesty from them?? Anyhew, each time they installed or reinstalled something it probably added 2-5 new spywares. No wonder the system was going so slowly. There's half a thousand programs all trying to do the same thing through your COM port. Scream bloody murder things like "She's typing a letter P!!!" "She's clicking on an ad with a naked lady!!!" "She's asked in GOOGLE about cheap planefare!!!" "She just got email from someone private!" "Oh my god, she just typed the word 'viagra' (TM) in usenet. Quick, sell her all kinds of things!!!" These harmless looking little programs are all studying the hell out of your purchasing habits. And if half a dozen people use your computer day in and day out, there's a corporation out there that thinks you're a big spender and a perfect victim, even if you haven't bought a single thing online. They see your activity, they don't care at all what you've done with it. Adding you to their list of spams is just fine for them; whether you ever buy something or not. Your worth a LOT to them. But they're not willing to pay you even a penny. Take their shit and get it off your system and keep ridding yourself of them. Run programs like ad-aware as often as you can. <>< <>< <>< <>< Russia Points To Major Nest Of Terror GEORGIA -- [PAWN] The Russian defense minister said Friday that Georgia had evolved into the world's second major "nest" of international terrorism after Afghanistan. It was the latest salvo in the escalating war of nerves between the two former world paramilitaries. Russia has long accused Georgia of harboring deathsquads in its lawless School of Americas near the border with Fort Benning. Moscow has demanded that Georgian authorities allow Russian troops to enter Georgia and flush them out. And we end with some loose stray thoughts: || ||| ||| || || Every time I make myself as poor as I can be; people keep giving me shit. || ||| ||| || || When you radicalize almost everyone around you many of them will radicalize you when you need it. When you die they will radicalize each other; and when you are born again it will be some of them to remind you. || ||| ||| || || I read an interview in the local paper where they were asking Michelle Shocked "you've had a reputation as someone who works completely independent of commercial considerations. Does having your own label make you more or less cognizant of commercial issues?" And Michelle says "that reputation isn't accurate. I don't ignore commercial considerations. I take them into account, and THEN I completely ignore them. || ||| ||| || || "I ripped my pants." -- S.B.S.P. || ||| ||| || || To my friends Adam and Nathan, who keep their copy of "Steal This Book" right there between Herman Hesse and Homer. *&^%*&^%*&^%&^%&$%#$@$#%$$&*&)(*^&$^& Well, that's about it for the E-ZINE send any complaints or submissions to: ati@etext.org Go to all or none of our unofficial websites: http://www.angelfire.com/wi/kokopeli/ATI.html http://www.freespeech.org/kokopeli/grudge.html http://flag.blackened.net/ati/zine/infomaniack.html http://cosmos.lod.com/~ati Our http://www.thepentagon.com/primeanarchist seems to have died out. (good while it lasted I guess...)