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Today I was looking through my website, and saw that Adsense (that serves ads on this website) not only does context intelligence to serve ads, but also face recognition! I mean it! How else would it know that the slackermom in the entry below lives in Gothenburg? (see the ad beside the entry)…  It has to have some kind of face recognition technology built in. I am amazed at these Google guys. First image search, now adpublishing based on images shown. WOW. Technology is impressive!!!

In all fairness, Adsense works more on the client side than on the server side. Meaning that ads shown are more prone to contain information based on this person’s previous search history than just random ads. In this case, for instance, I would think it would be impossible that someone from New Delhi would be served this ad. I got it served since I do a lot of web surfing on Swedish websites.

Same goes for people that at one or other time have claimed I am for prostitution, especially from Asia… the ads were served to that person (while visiting this website) because of that person’s websurfing habits – not mine.

So how does Adsense work? Well… everytime you do a Google search, you leave your tracks. Stuff like “Who is it?”, “Where is he/she?”, “What do they look for?” After a while, Google search algorithms make a “user profile” and serve ads based on that person’s previous surfing habits. So anyone saying I am looking for whores in Thailand just got bit in the ass. Then again – I don’t really look for slackermoms in Gothenburg, seen enough of those.

I found a really interesting article in Psychiatric Times. It deals with “stalking”, a phenomenom I am quite familiar with due to the experience of having being stalked for the last couple of years. This article really opened my eyes – I recommend it:

http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/1426568?verify=0

The people behind The Pirate Bay were convicted and sentenced to jail (apart from a ridiculously high amount of damages to be paid)… but what happens next?

They have all appealed, and the appeal (which probably will be accepted and taken to a new trial) will take place in about a year… so – for now – the convicted won’t have to face jailtime.

Now, it seems the judge that handled the case might have been biased. He is member of two organizations: The Swedish Copyright Association and the Swedish Association for Industrial Legal Protection.

This makes him – in my eyes at least – totally biased and not suitable to judge in a case involving copyright. But if Judge Norstrom was truly an impartial, brilliant, expert judge, might he have not offered the following quote: “This is a sensitive case. So before I agreed to hear it, I asked some of my fellow judges whether they considered that I would be in a position of conflicting interests. Two judges said absolutely not. While a third said he wasn’t quite so sure. I went with the majority.”

This says it all, doesn’t it?

On another note, the people convicted actually had a website much like google (albeit much much smaller).. their site (www.thepiratebay.com) contains a search engine and listings to torrent files. They don’t host files. They were convicted for “facilitating” torrent files to the public. So what does Google do? The exact same thing.

That’s why some clever guy registered the name thepirategoogle.com. Where he (or she) uses google to search for torrents. This website has the exact same functionality as the Pirate Bay – it uses Google’s search engine to “facilitate torrent files” to people searching for torrents. It seems, however, that media companies are a bit afraid to sue Google, aren’t they?

“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.” – Bill Gates

“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” – Douglas Adams

“If there was a god, I’d still have both nuts.” – Lance Armstrong

“Science explains everything. There is no meaning in life except to be the best at something. If only I could be the best at something, perhaps my parents would love me.” – Asia Carrera, Porn Star

“I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.” - Billy Joel

“Wow. No God. If Mum had lied to me about God, had she also lied to me about Santa? yes, but who cares? The gifts kep coming. And so did the gifts of my newfound atheism. The gifts of truth, science, nature. The real beauty of this world. Not a world by design, but one by chance. I learned of evolution—a theory so simple and obvious that only England’s greatest genius could have come up with it. Evolution of plants, animals, and us—with imagination, free will, love and humor. I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living.

But living an honest life—for that you need the truth. That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.” – Ricky Gervais (“The Office”)

“Q: Do you believe in God?
A: Yes. His name is Clive Davis, and he’s the head of my record company.” – Barry Manilow

“Hmm… For some people. I hope so, for them. For the people who believe in it, I hope so. There doesn’t need to be a God for me. There’s something in people that’s spiritual, that’s godlike. I don’t feel like doing things just because people say things, but I also don’t really know if it’s better to just not believe in anything, either.” – Angelina Jolie asked if there is a god.

“To YOU I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.” – Woody Allen

“I believe in the good message that’s found in religion. But I doubt there’s someone up there above the clouds running the show.” – Annika Sörenstam (LPGA great)

“There are like two golden rules in life. One is ‘Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you.’ For some reason, people associate this with Christianity. I’m not a Christian. I’m agnostic. The other rule is ‘Be proud of what you do.’” – Linus Torvalds (Linux father)

“If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you Pope.” – Bill Maher

“I am also atheist or agnostic (I don’t even know the difference). I’ve  never been to church and prefer to think for myself. I do believe that  religions stand for good things, and that if you make irrational  sacrifices for a religion, then everyone can tell that your religion  is important to you and can trust that your most important inner faiths  are strong.  Steve Jobs may be an informal fan of Eastern religions but it’s never  obvious in him and I never heard of him regularly attending a church.  That’s only a guess.” – Steve Wozniak

“In the Bullshit Department, a businessman can’t hold a candle to a clergyman. ‘Cause I gotta tell you the truth, folks. When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion. No contest. No contest. Religion. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time!

But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He’s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can’t handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story. Holy Shit!

War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. Results like these do not belong on the resumé of a Supreme Being. This is the kind of shit you’d expect from an office temp with a bad attitude. And just between you and me, in any decently-run universe, this guy would’ve been out on his all-powerful ass a long time ago. And by the way, I say “this guy”, because I firmly believe, looking at these results, that if there is a God, it has to be a man.

No woman could or would ever fuck things up like this. So, if there is a God, I think most reasonable people might agree that he’s at least incompetent, and maybe, just maybe, doesn’t give a shit. Doesn’t give a shit, which I admire in a person, and which would explain a lot of these bad results.” – George Carlin

“If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder”, Pope John I

Any reason to believe in god? None whatsoever. It’s fun to argue with religious people that actually want to take  the fight… they have few (if any) arguments. And always lose.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) — Bishop Richard Williamson, who last month denied the existence of the Holocaust in an interview with Swedish television, was ordered Thursday to leave Argentina within 10 days, the Ministry of Interior said.

“The bishop has repeatedly forged the true motive for his stay in the country, having declared that he is an employee of ‘La Tradicion’ Civil Society when, in reality, his true activity was as priest and seminary director of the Society of Saint Pius X in the neighborhood of Moreno,” Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo said in a written statement.

Williamson and three other bishops who belong to the Society of Saint Pius X were excommunicated in 1988. The society was founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebrve, who rebelled against the Vatican’s modernizing reforms in the 1960s, and who consecrated the men in unsanctioned ceremonies.

“Williamson has had public notoriety following his anti-Semitic statements to Swedish media in which he questioned whether Jewish people were victims of the Holocaust,” Randazzo continued.

“For these reasons, along with the strong condemnation from the Argentine government of how statements like these harm Argentine society, the Jewish community, and all of humanity by trying to deny a historic truth, the national government has decided to demand that the Bishop leave the country or be expelled.”

In the interview with Swedish television, Williamson said, “I believe that the historical evidence is strongly against — is hugely against — 6 million Jews having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler.

“I believe there were no gas chambers,” he stated.

Williamson, who had already been removed from his seminary post in Argentina, made headlines in January when he and three other ultra-conservative bishops were welcomed back into the Roman Catholic Church, more than 20 years after Pope John Paul II excommunicated them on a theological question unrelated to the Holocaust.

The rehabilitation of Williamson sparked condemnation from Israel, American Jewish leaders and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, among others.

The Vatican pointed to several statements by Pope Benedict XVI condemning the destruction of European Jewry. The pope said he did not know of Williamson’s views on the Holocaust when he lifted the excommunication.

The Vatican said Williamson will not be allowed to perform priestly functions until he recants his Holocaust denial.

Williamson apologized for “distress” his remarks caused the pope, but has not retracted them.

Last week, a German court refused to intervene on behalf of Williamson, who is facing prosecution for denying the Holocaust — a crime in Germany.

Yet another issue with the f….ing church… why don’t they just throw him out take the catholic (and other churches) posessions and give them to the people? Religion is bad, religion hurts, religion kills. All religions are bad, no exception. As soon as you start believing in a being above yourself that controls you, you are lost.

(CNN) — Oprah Winfrey once dubbed it the “greatest love story” she had ever heard: a boy held at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II and a girl on the outside who tossed him apples to keep him alive. They eventually married and grew old together.

Herman Rosenblat has acknowledged his Holocaust love story is fake: “I am sorry.”

It turns out the story of Herman and Roma Rosenblat isn’t true.

The two had told their love story for years and years, inspiring a book deal, an upcoming movie, and stories across the globe on television, in papers and on the Internet. A children’s book, “Angel Girl,” was also based on their love story.

When the couple appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” more than a decade ago, the famed host called it “the single greatest love story in 22 years of doing this show.”

But over the weekend, Herman Rosenblat issued a statement through his literary agent, Andrea Hurst, acknowledging the story of how he met his wife was made up.

“Why did I do that and write the story with the girl and the apple, because I wanted to bring happiness to people, to remind them not to hate, but to love and tolerate all people. I brought good feelings to a lot of people, and I brought hope to many. My motivation was to make good in this world,” he said in the statement.

“In my dreams, Roma will always throw me an apple, but I now know it is only a dream.”

Herman Rosenblat really was in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II — a subcamp of Buchenwald — and he really has been married to Roma for decades. Beyond that, the truth is murky.

Berkley Books immediately canceled publication of Rosenblat’s memoir, “Angel at the Fence,” which was set to be released in February.

“Berkley will demand that the author and the agent return all money that they have received for this work,” Berkley spokesman Craig Burke said in a statement.

A movie version of the Rosenblats’ story — even though now proven a hoax — remains in the works. Atlantic Overseas Pictures says the movie is a fictionalized adaptation and that “the story retains its power to grip audiences worldwide.”

Many Holocaust scholars had long cast doubt on the Rosenblats’ story.

Professor Ken Waltzer, the director of Michigan State University’s Jewish Studies program, said he began raising questions to the agent and publisher in November, suggesting that the story was fabricated. But he says his numerous queries went unanswered.

He says he told the editor that the story is “at best embellished and perhaps invented.”

“The idea of a prisoner being able autonomously to approach the fence not just once, but every day at the same time, … none of it seemed plausible,” Waltzer says. “That fence was right next to the SS barracks, so to go to the fence, which was also punishable by death, was to risk death.”

In a letter to “The New Republic,” which first began questioning the validity of the Rosenblats’ story, Waltzer said he was also disturbed about why few others had come forward to point out holes in the couple’s account.

“Less understandable is the widespread belief in their story — by the culture makers, including the publisher and movie maker and many thousands of others who have encountered it over a decade,” he said. “Second, such belief suggests a broad illiteracy about the Holocaust and about experience in the camps — despite decades of books, serious memoirs, museums, and movies. This shakes this historian up.”

“This memoir was at the far end of implausibility, yet until yesterday, no one connected with packaging, promoting, and disseminating it asked questions about or investigated it. Some actively resisted such investigation and tried to shut mine down.”

New Republic special correspondent Gabriel Sherman told CNN another disturbing element is that Herman Rosenblat really is a Holocaust survivor who “didn’t need to embellish his love story, because his own story is so powerful.”

Sherman said Rosenblat was shot during a robbery in the 1990s at his workplace. When he was was in the hospital, Rosenblat said he had a vision from his mother to tell his love story. “From that moment on, he started telling his story in public,” Sherman said.

In his statement released over the weekend, Herman Rosenblat said, “To all [who] supported and believed in me and this story, I am sorry for all I have caused to you and everyone else in the world.

Holocaust scholars say they hope the revelation that the love story is fictitious doesn’t distract from the reality of the Holocaust, when Nazi Germany killed 6 million Jews.

“On the far extreme, something like this could give fuel to those who are in the business of denying that the Holocaust ever took place,” said David Marwell, director of The Museum of Jewish Heritage.

Anyone surprised?

…you can read about the proved (by Swedish Law) illegal harassing of me and my family further down on this page or by clicking on the Cyberharassing button above… won’t post anything more about this matter unless necessary. People like this lonely, sad, awful, despicable and insane person don’t need to be fed to continue their insane rants. Law enforcement is taking action into this matter at the moment and I know they will do their job.

On another note, I just read that, according to the AARP,  86% of all hispanics in the US believe in miracles, angels and “divine cures”… In addition, 56% claim they have witnessed a miracle.

WOW

Is that why Latin America suffers so much? The church has a stronghold on people, indoctrinating them into believing fairy tales, and in those fairy tales condemning the people if they don’t believe in the same fairy tales. Is it strange that more people every day leave the church?

It is time to take a stand against religious dogma and indoctrination. People die everyday as a result of the (catholic, primarily) church.

I am suprised I have found a new emotion in me. I have never before hated anyone. I have been angry, mad, frustrated, despised, desillusioned, sad and disgusted by people. Now I have found hatred. A strange and ugly sensation, but nonetheless a feeling I feel is well deserved. Maybe I shouldn’t feel that surprised. This feeling has been growing for the last couple of months, but I think today is the day I finally can say that “I HATE”. Hate in the deepest sense of the word.

verb

To regard with extreme dislike and hostility: abhor, abominate, despise, detest, execrate, loathe.

noun

1. Extreme hostility and dislike: abhorrence, abomination, antipathy, aversion, detestation, hatred, horror, loathing, repellence, repellency, repugnance, repugnancy, repulsion, revulsion.
2. An object of extreme dislike: abhorrence, abomination, anathema, aversion, bête noire, bugbear, detestation, execration. Informal horror.