Offline until further notice

Monday afternoon I’m going to shut down my desktop and pack it away into my suitcase and make my way to London, then Dublin, then JFK, then Rochester.

Not sure when I’m going to be online again. I’m due to get in to ROC at 19:30ish. If everything goes okay I’ll try and set everything up that night and say hello. If not I’ll try and find another machine to use…

This will not be a fun trip. My fianc

What, huh?

Okay, in case you haven’t seen the numerous images urging EU citizens to tell their representitives to vote no on the patent thing here’s a text thingy:

EU citizens! Tell your representitives in EU parliment to either absorb the United States (since it seems so hell-bent on emulating it) or to deviate and vote no on the patent thingy.

One thing down, and another pops up again.

With bugs #42712 and #94444 out of the way the way is paved to figure out what on earth to do with this bug. As I’m typing now I’m thinking perhaps moving the patch to sys-devel/distcc-config since it’s a patch for distcc-config and not distcc.

I also was finally suckered into taking on ccache maintainership. After two years someone finally managed to pin it on me. I kid, I kid.

On a personal note:

My ears REALLY fucking hurt. Going to see my doc next week after a blood test. Going to ask him to see what’s going on and perform a hearing test since I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a bit of loss as a result of fluid buildup or infection.

I’m also headed to Heathrow on the night of the 18th and should arrive in the wee hours of the 19th. Check in at 05:15, flight leaves 07:15 and get to Rochester at around 19:35 (New York time). What a crap time to go back to Rochester, though truthfully ANY time is a bad time to go to Rochester, but in the summer it is a really bad move.

A nice followup

In Oh god. SCOTUS gone mad I noted how the Supreme Court of the United States set landmark eminent domain precidents, permitting local government to usurp privately owned land.

It seems that a developer wishes for the local government where Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter lives to give [the developer] Mr. Souter’s land so [the developer] can build a hotel on the site! Brilliant.

http://www.freenation.tv/hotellostliberty2.html

Oh god. SCOTUS gone mad

Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes – This is yet another example of the corporate controlled government perverting the Constitution to usurp land from private citizens. Not for a park or road. No, none of that. The Supreme Court has said that local municipalities can demolish privately held property to be redistributed to businesses to profit from.

The shame of it is the SCOTUS doesn’t realise that it has things backwards. Land should be taken from the capitalists who continue to exploit and steal from those who strugle to live. Take the land from those who would export a thousand jobs from the community to China (or other areas) and build an apartment block for some of those displaced citizens who were “laid off” in favor of low cost foreign workers.

/rant