‘Sick fearless Bastard’ by Photographer Ivo Berg
OH NO.
Proof i’ll never be reincarnated as a cat.
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5X5 Kanto Starter Prints are now available in the store. Signed and numbered for posterity.
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I’m pretty sure this is a nod to one of my favorite people…
What do you think?
Ouch, can never win.
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dalek christmas
This is beautiful.
WE WISH YOU EXTERMINATION
WE WISH YOU EXTERMINATION
WE WISH YOU EXTERMINATION
AND A LONG PAINFUL DEATH
I don’t normally set up a Christmas Tree, but when I do…
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America’s Internet started out as No. 1 in speed. It now ranks 26th, far behind the networks in Bulgaria, Ukraine and Lithuania. Americans pay the sixth highest median price in the modern world for Internet data — 16 times the rates paid by South Koreans, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Just as serious is the problem of coverage: in France, South Korea and other modern countries a superfast Internet is or will soon be available everywhere. In America, AT&T’s fiber optic lines stop short of homes and small businesses, while Verizon plans to end its fiber-optic installation work once it reaches 18 million residences. As of now huge parts of the United States will never get on the information superhighway but will rather slog along on the digital equivalent of a country road. This presents a genuine economic threat to America: the future industries and jobs that require a universal ultra-high-speed network, after all, will most likely be developed somewhere else.
Break Up the Telecom Cartels – NYTimes.com (via rickwebb)
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Not to be all arguementative with my brother, but this is a much more complicated issue than Rick Webb makes it out to be. There are lots of reasons why internet infrastructure might be slower in America than other places…let’s outline them:
- Replacing existing infrastructure is expensive, and since America already had a lot of it’s “pipes” laid down with older technology, the companies who paid for that want to get a return on their investment before replacing them
- America is one of the least-dense nations in the world…compared with South Korea for example, where 50% of the nation lives in huge apartment buildings. DSL can only deliver fast speeds over a certain distance of copper wire. As populaitons get less dense, speeds decrease.
- Consumer advocacy organizations help keep “advertised” speeds in line with “actual speeds” here more than in, say, Lithuania, where measured speeds can be half of the companies report.
Of course, this is why internet is slower, not why it is more expensive. It’s more expensive (mostly) because the market can bear that expense and the telecoms are out to make money and we’ve given them monopolies. So I’m not saying we shouldn’t “break the cartels” as it were, but painting this in black and white doesn’t help anybody and just gives the opposition ammunition against plans to move forward.
In conclusion…GOOGLE FIBER NOW PLZ!
(via edwardspoonhands)
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There is literally nothing better than a sexy, badass lady.
CHING MOTHERFUCKING SHIH
This lady was such a badass, I can’t count the ways, but let’s try.
She got married to an already successful pirate, Zheng Yi, and took over when he died. She was crazy strict to keep an iron fist over her fleet of pirates, and the punishments for stepping out of line were brutal. If you stole or looted from a town that provided assistance or tribute to the pirate fleet, Ching would chop your fucking head off with a battle axe and dump your lifeless body in the ocean. If you stole from the pirate treasury, or she thought you were stealing from the pirate treasury, Ching would chop your fucking head off dump your lifeless body in the ocean. Raping any captured female prisoners was punishable by immediate death. Fuck, if you had consensual sex while on duty you got your head chopped off and the woman was chucked off the boat no matter where they were at. Ching wasn’t fucking around, and she wanted to make damn sure you weren’t fucking around when you should have been working.
Two years after she took over, she got so notorious for ransacking towns and taking taxes on them that she pissed off the entire Chinese government, and sent out a massive fleet to bring her in line. Most pirates probably would’ve said this was out of their pay grade and taken off to hide out or ransack some other country.
Ching Shih said fuck that.
She not only faced them head on, she wiped the floor with them, killing hundreds and capturing sixty-something ships from the Imperial Fleet. Prisoners were given the choice of joining up or being executed on the spot. The Admiral of the Chinese navy, Kwo Lang, was so afraid of being captured by her or going back to admit he’d been beaten by her that he committed suicide.
For the next two years, Ching Shih not only kept on pirating, she fought off Chinese forces as well as Dutch and British warships that the navy called in to help. Finally the government gave up and offered her amnesty as well as amnesty for her then SEVENTEEN THOUSAND crewman. Ching Shih got to keep all her plunder, so she retired to the countryside where she opened up a brothel and lived until she was 69.
tldr: I’ve come to terms with the reality that I’ll never be as terrifyingly badass as this woman was.
is this now the standard to compare all potential girlfriends against? Daaamn.
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