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Two things to rant about
Sep. 5th, 2008 08:49 amand both not really worth the time.
First is this asshattery of eL-Jay ads between the journal entries. WTF? It sucks big time and you can do nothing about it. You can't even opt out of this. Fucking stupid eL-Jay.
Sure, you can get rid of them by upgrading, but I'll be damned if eL-Jay gets any of my money.
So I downgraded and that took care of the problems quite nicely. The most lolarious thing about it? I kept all my Muraki icons. XD MURAKIIIIIIII~~~
On the down side, I lost that one Sanzo icon and my Cloud 'Do.Not.Want.'. The latter I can live without, but I will miss angel-killing Sanzo. Y__Y
The other rant - and this might well be one of the extremely rare times you hear me ranting about politics - is on the whole Russia - Georgia warfare. Peacekeeping? Like hell it is.
I've seen pictures, I've heard stories. Even during truce, Russian forces kept moving around without limitations, destroying the area for the hell of it.
Burning down a national park and not allowing firefighters access to it? What sort of peacekeeping is this?
50 000 people can't go back to their homes. Partly because there are no homes to return to.
Attempts to bombard strategically important oil transfer points? Are you fucking shitting me? That's trying to eliminate concurrence and make EU more dependent on Russian oil and gas, not practicing peacekeeping.
Humiliating the people in buffer zones and robbing their properties? Someone's drunk on power and needs to be smacked down ASAP.
Dear lord, I could rant on about it and how wrong it is. But then I'd be late for work.
Warfare is wrong no matter how you look at it and no matter what arguments you pull up. There's a long history of reasons why everything involving politics coming from Russia needs to be taken with several ounces of salt. And possibly more.
First is this asshattery of eL-Jay ads between the journal entries. WTF? It sucks big time and you can do nothing about it. You can't even opt out of this. Fucking stupid eL-Jay.
Sure, you can get rid of them by upgrading, but I'll be damned if eL-Jay gets any of my money.
So I downgraded and that took care of the problems quite nicely. The most lolarious thing about it? I kept all my Muraki icons. XD MURAKIIIIIIII~~~
On the down side, I lost that one Sanzo icon and my Cloud 'Do.Not.Want.'. The latter I can live without, but I will miss angel-killing Sanzo. Y__Y
The other rant - and this might well be one of the extremely rare times you hear me ranting about politics - is on the whole Russia - Georgia warfare. Peacekeeping? Like hell it is.
I've seen pictures, I've heard stories. Even during truce, Russian forces kept moving around without limitations, destroying the area for the hell of it.
Burning down a national park and not allowing firefighters access to it? What sort of peacekeeping is this?
50 000 people can't go back to their homes. Partly because there are no homes to return to.
Attempts to bombard strategically important oil transfer points? Are you fucking shitting me? That's trying to eliminate concurrence and make EU more dependent on Russian oil and gas, not practicing peacekeeping.
Humiliating the people in buffer zones and robbing their properties? Someone's drunk on power and needs to be smacked down ASAP.
Dear lord, I could rant on about it and how wrong it is. But then I'd be late for work.
Warfare is wrong no matter how you look at it and no matter what arguments you pull up. There's a long history of reasons why everything involving politics coming from Russia needs to be taken with several ounces of salt. And possibly more.
