On the firewall
Sometimes it so amazes me how much faith people have in their creations. For example – firewalls, or, to be precise, that part of it that blocks the web sites based on content. I was doing a search on Bette Midler’s photos only to find out that:
a) most of the sites in Google’s results are some kinds of automatic link farms, that supply bunch of links as a result so the owner gets paid by click;
b) rest of the sites vary in tasteless design and number of banners employed but have rare, scarce if any, information let alone – decent photos;
b) most of the sites that might have contained some useful information are blocked by firewall. Why? Have no idea…
I have only been living in US for 10 years, so what I say not necessarily may be true, but the way I see it, this country has too much “politically correct” stuff going on that will not benefit even those, who earn political capital on it. This is especially true with all the late events with show “24. I don’t watch it, but it really looks stupid to me when someone feels upset that some terrorists portrayed as Muslims. So what? It’s been dozens of years during wich Russians were portrayed as cruel, nasty animals, terrorists, villains, stupid morons, sneaky bastards, and so on and so forth. So, should I start filing class action suit against all production companies for diffamation of the image of honest russians, especially those who wants to become an american citizens, but are typecast by all these movies as a life-threatening monsters? Somehow it had never occured to us, russians, that we can earn from the system. These days things are going to change.
Summarizing, you may twist it any way you want but no matter what you call shit it will nonetheless smell like shit. And no matter what laws you going to pass through Congress, the shit will come out of the ass, whether you want it or not. So if yet another “politically correct” bill will stinks like shit – you’ll know where it’s coming from.
