A little pointless update

Been a week since the last post again, and nothing much exciting has happened really. Been working, booked a vet appointment for a cat and allowed myself to get frustrated over a couple of news items from "the old country". The EU Data Retention Directive and anti racism are the ones that frustrated me this time.

To begin with anti racism. What is it that makes idiots think that being violent will get any sympathy? Yes, I agree, racism is a bad thing. But somewhere between 50-100 people ganging up to beat up one man, like the anti racists did on Saturday is just retarded. It's not helping anyone, it has nothing to do with the anti racism cause, and just shows that they are no better than the powers they claim to be against. Simple as that.

And then for the EU Data Retention Directive. I hate it. I'm against it with every fibre of my privacy liking being. But when looking at the idiocy which apparently is representing the protesters in Norway, I'm kinda embarrassed to be associated with them.

• No, the Data Retention Directive is not about storing content data. It's location, time and traffic data. Completely different. I don't like the direction it's going in, but for the protesters, at least get your BASIC facts straight on what you're protesting against.
• No, DDoS against two websites that nobody uses anyway isn't going to get you any sympathy.
• No, Anonymous does not have any spokesperson, so the idiotic kiddies in the newspapers were nothing more than idiotic kiddies thinking they were cool.
• No, the low-orbit cannon is not a hacking tool. Using it does not make you a hacker, it makes you a law breaking moron.
• No, the national parliament adopting the Data Retention Directive is not treason. Seriously folks? That's all you got in terms of arguments against this? No fuckin' wonder you lost this one then.
• Is the Data Retention Directive going against the constitution? Fine, then TAKE IT TO COURT for fuck sake! Stop screaming on forums where nobody cares, but actually go do something! Oh, that's right. That would actually take some effort wouldn't it? Better to just "protest" by joining pointless Facebook groups and signing online petitions nobody care about.

There, I'm done ranting now.

Peace out.