Cogs can think.

PANIC!!!! PANIC!!!!

Get the flashlights! Turn on CNN! The west is under attack! Islamocommunists are out to kill ten billion people! Head on in to the convention center! It’s coming! Global warming started by fascist men with scarfs around their faces! A plane sure don’t fit in that hole! Bush is behind it all! Black helicopters, aliens, they did it!

PANIC!!!! PANIC!!!!

I want to talk to you about a scientific principle from the 14th century. This principle is called Ockham’s Razor, and it explains that if you have two different theories capable of explainging the same event or phenomenon, the simplest one is usually the correct one. Most people (including myself, actually) got to know this principle via the film ‘Contact’.

Yesterday was 9/11. There are two theories concerning this event. One says the attacks were staged by the United States government, meaning the US gov. has been working for years, with thousands of people, companies, airlines, explosives experts, controlled demolition experts, politicians, the military, etc. without any of them ever leaking any kind of information to the outside world. The US gov. would be willing to kill thousands of innocent people in order to justify going to war with Iraque.

The second theory says that a bunch of brilliant idiots came up with the relatively simple plan of hijacking a few planes and fly them into important buidings, causing mass hysteria and terror.

Back to Ockham’s Razor. You get my point?

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Of course I’m not even going into the fact that almost all claims made by our black helicopter-loving friends have been refuted [.wmv] using scientific research, in particular research by Dutch controlled demolition experts, aeronautic engineers, and scientists from the Technical University in Delft.

A random set of exmaples: the black helicopter people say that the turn the plane that crashed into the Pentagon made was impossible, the plain would fall apart. Nonsense; aeronautic engineers in The Netherlands put inexperienced pilots in Boeing 757 simulators, and made them do the turn; they all succeeded. Scientists from the TU Delft calculated that the maximum amount of G forces experienced during this maneouvre did not surpass 1.5G. You experience more in your car.

Secondly, the claim that controlled demolition was used to destroy the WTC: the controlled demolition experts explained that the building started coming down EXACTLY where the planes hit; it did not look like controlled demolition AT ALL. The fact that the tower who got hit later came down first was because that plane hit lower, meaning more weight of the tower pressed upon the sore spot of the tower, making it come down earlier. The scientists from the TU Delft calculated that the amount of energy of the planes and the crashes were enough to bring down the towers.

And so every argument was torn apart by people who actually know what they are talking about.

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People who believe in these 9/11 conspiracies, as with all other conspiracies, are moronic idiots. “omg wtf lolololol theres a movie on t3h 1nt3rnet, it must be true roxx0rs!”

Look boys and girls, I detest the current US gov. as much as the next guy, but they will not kill innocent Americans like this. To even think that, is completely moronic, and if you believe in nonsense like this, you are ripe for the men in white coats.

Let me state once and for all: yes, I believe know there is life outside of our planet; in whatever form that may be. Just do the math: our universe is believed to be infinite, this means that there is an infinite amount of galaxies, which together contain an infinite amount of stars, which in turn together are encircled by an infitie amount of planets, of which an infinite amount, therefore, can sustain life. It’s fairly simple mathematics (I mean, even I can understand it).

On the other hand, I know they do not come here to visit us. Besides a few redneck and/or sensationalist Americans people, there is no real proof they ever have.

Until I see about it in “Nature”, they have never set foot on this planet.

Update: various comments again falsily attributed to me. The real posters have started a serious discussion on IP addresses, and Kelly is no wpretty much exposed for the Apple whore that he is. Expose Kelly McNeill page updated accordingly.

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Laptop: $700
Windows MCE: $199
Firefox webbrowser: $0
Seeing others telling Kelly McNeill the truth: priceless.

Sometimes you encounter things which are just too funny not to blog about.

Update: ‘More about crazy news by Kelly McNeill’. Hey don’t look at me, they’re his words.

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Yesterday, I wrote a very difficult and harsh editorial about Apple trying to silence the press. I drew a comparison between the goals of the killers of Fortuyn/Van Gogh, and Apple’s goals in trying to force ThinkSecret/AppleInsider to disclose sources. In essense, they are the same: to stymie free speech.

I still stand by that editorial for the full 120%. The moment companies can force members of the press to disclose sources, is the moment the press is dead. Currently, it’s only about computers; but if Apple wins this case, then this case will be used in the future as jurisprudence for more serious matters, i.e. Watergate II.

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Obviously, Kelly McNeill, the guy who sucks each Apple’s employee’s cock, has completely taken the article out of its context, claiming that I said that the murders in itself were the same as Apple sueing ThinkSecret et. al.; this is of course utter nonsense, as I’m talking about Apple’s goals (namely, to stymie free speech and free press)– and oh surprise, what were the goals of the two killers? Exactly– to stymie free speech.

The means are different; however, the goals are the same.

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Kelly also mentions some more nonsense. For instance, he says we at OSNews delete comments we disagree with; utter bogus of course, as we are a website moderated by the community themselves. I haven’t removed a comment in ages (and the ones we do remove, are the obvious trolls, i.e. “Windoos i5 t3h 5uxx0r22!!!oneone” etc.), so he is compeltely off base there– especially taking into account how he has removed multiple comments on his Apple newssite, and of course how he is saying “This is Thom” after each comment on his Apple newssite that dares to critisize Apple.

Kelly McNeill is mentally ill, but regular readers of my blog already know that.

Kelly McNeill has been busy lately. Many anonymous comments on his website were again attributed to me by him. I updated the Expose Kelly McNeill page accordingly. The guy is just sick. He writes ‘This is Thom’ after each falsily attributed comment– many posters have been in revolt, asking him to show proof– which he can’t, of course. Sick.

Update: Another comment has been attributed to me. More at the Expose Kelly McNeill page.

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I’m famous! I’m famous! Where’s my trailer? Fill my trailer with water!

As always, read the real deal at the Expose Kelly McNeill page.

I updated the Expose Kelly McNeil Page. He attributed a whole sets of new comments to me, all in one story, falsily of course. The fcukstick simply has no idea how IP addresses work, it’s really funny. He is somehow truly obsessed, and he is now writing ‘This is Thom’ in a comment after each comment he thinks is me. It’s… Pathetic. At best. Funny detail: many of the comments were made last night CET… I was watching a rented film with friends, with one bottle of Martini Bianco inside my bloodstream. I can’t type while drunk :D.

And if you read the so-called anonymous comments, you can easily see that most of them were written by him; they contain the same silly antics he’s been using for ages.

So pathetic. I’ve got a really pretty wall I want to decorate red, so Kelly, be my guest.

I’m not sure whether or not to place this in my brand new ‘Black helicopters!’ topic, but it sure does fit in amazingly well.

In any case, as some of you may know, The Netherlands still has a few colonies in the Carribean. Aruba, Boniare, Curacau, Sint Maarten, Saba, and Sint Eustatius are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, but have a lot of autonomy (which results in those isles being a mess, we should take some autonomy away there, but oh well). However, the ‘ABC islands’ (the first three) have long been claimed by… Venezuela. Yes, one of the poorest countries in South America has been claiming the ABC islands for centuries. The previous government of Venezuela kind of dropped those claims (they’d be mental to mess with one of the richest countries in the world– a founding-member of NATO for that matter), however, the new president, Hugo Chavez (not really a friend of the US either) has reinstated the claims.

There are actually talks of… War. I’m not kidding.

Henk Kamp, Dutch secretary of defence, has belittled these claims. We Dutch have a complete plan ready to counter any invasion by Venezuela, consisting of bomb raids, counterinvasions, naval war, etc. Kamp also mentioned the ‘one Venezuolan cruiser’, obviously belittleing them even more. We have numerous cruisers in the Carribean fighting drug smugglers and such, and of course the US is right behind us, so we seriously have little to fear.

However doesn’t this sound an awful lot familiar? Did I hear you say Falkland War? Exactly.

Yeah, uh, right. Anyway, I’m not done yet– the best part is coming– the part which makes me place this story in ‘Black helicopters!’ The Venezuolan consul-general said that ‘Henk Kamp is part of a conspiracy of an international minority to discredit the Chavez administration and make it fall’.

I’m still laughing out loud. Consul-general, this is the place for you!