Signal Boost: Return of the DDoS

Originally posted by deathpixie at Signal Boost: Return of the DDoS

For those wanting to know more about the recent DDoS attacks, yes, it looks like it was the Russian government trying to shut down the dissidents again.

As I said last time, while it's frustrating not to have access, LJ is a lot more than a social network platform. From the article:

"LiveJournal isn’t just a social network. It’s also a platform for organizing civic action. Dozens of network projects and groups mobilize people to solve specific problems — from defending the rights of political prisoners to saving endangered historic architecture in Moscow."

So while I know many are considering the move over to Dreamwidth and other such sites, supporting LJ is a way we can help support those who use it for more than a writing/roleplaying/social venue.


Also, as a FYI, LJ is giving paid users effected by the outage two weeks of paid time as compensation.

Your kids, your problem

 Kids are a massive drain on finances, on society and on the environment. There is too many people as it is and we keep popping out more little people. Once we have popped them out, we chuck them into day care and make them someone else’s problem. If I don’t have kids, why should the little brats be my problem? Why should I have to endure some selfish breeders undisciplined spawn interrupting my life? Why cant we send the little brats back to where we came from? Yes, I am an anti-breeder and there should be more of us, damn it.

The other day, while I was walking through Woolworths in the city and listing to ‘Sheep go to Heaven’ by Cake as it was piped through the store, the Goats going to Hell was interrupted by a child a few aisles away. Some would call it a screaming banshee, but it was beyond that. The screams we the screams of a person possessed. It appeared to be a painful possession but the possession was certainly not being rejected by the parent or the child. It isn’t the Goats going to hell, it is the parents of that evil parasite. The umbilical cord on that one should have been cut a litter further from the mother, maybe closer to the child’s throat. The parent inconsiderately continued shopping. Even as I left the store, I could hear the echo of the scream.

Instead of encouraging less children, we want more. The government gives handouts for people who have them. They build infrastructure for then and then what happens when all the children grow up and there aren’t enough people to sustain the school? They close it down, but only after building three more schools further away. The unused, closed down schools slowly fall apart, but it will take decades, if ever, before it is demolished and something practical is done with the space. At the same time more suburbs are built for the grown up kids to live in as they re-spawn to fill the new schools.

It seems that society is designed for breeding. Even my local shopping centre, Cockburn Gateway, has parents with prams parking right near the door. What about the parents without prams? What about those seniors who’s kids have long since left home. People with kids don’t necessarily have mobility issues, but most seniors do. So why don’t they get parking near the door like breeders do? All breeders need is wide parking spaces so they can put the pram up next to their SUV, and a crosswalk between their parking space and the shopping centre door. Why don’t we make special breeder SUV parking a suburb away from the shopping centre. That would also help the child obesity problem that my taxes will be paying for in the near future. Another solution is less handouts to breeders thus less money for the fatty foods that the kids eat. Then my taxes can go somewhere deserved.