pagsz's Journal: Ramblings of an Idiot (25th Installment)

Slashdot - 3:07 PM (EDT), August 27, 2002: A moron going by the nickname of pagsz sat down to create yet another Ramblings of an Idiot post. Many Slashdot readers immediately cringed, realizing yet more stupidity was about to be dumped onto the server. Despite several attempts to get this "pagsz" to stop, or to convince pagsz to think before he posts, the stupidity continues. May God have mercy on us all (or at least on the server) . . .

1. Mozilla: Today I downloaded (fun at 31.2 K) and installed Mozilla 1.1.

   With Mozilla 1.1 Beta, the odds of a crash seemed to increase with each tab that I opened. Hopefully, with 1.1, this will no longer be the case.

2. Politics: Saw this interesting article on ABCNEWS.com: Congress: Bush Needs Our OK on Iraq.

   My first reaction to this was, "Well, duh!" See, I've actually read the Constitution.

   The Congress shall have Power . . .

   To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
   (Article I, Section 8)

   Then I remembered, the last time the United States declared war was way back in 1941!
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   An interesting quote from the article:

   Under the Vietnam-era War Powers Act, the president is required to get congressional approval for introducing U.S. forces into hostilities for more than 60 days. Presidents of both parties have considered the act unconstitutional and ignored it.

   Ah, but one more quote:

   The Congress shall have Power . . .
   To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
   (Article I, Section 8)

   So, if the Congress has the power to make rules about how the military is regulated, how is the War Powers act unconstitutional? And would the courts have the balls to strike down W. should he go without Congressional approval? (In 1991, Bush 41 got a resolution from Congress authorizing the use of force, as did Bush 43 in regards to Afghanistan).

3. SatireWire: Can it be? SatireWire will no longer be updated. I just started reading it a month ago, and now there'll be nothing new? Aw, man . . .

   Oh, well, I'll just read an old article once a week and pretend its new. If I don't pay any attention to world events, I can even pretend its about the topic of the day!

4. Betamax: Sony has decided to discontinue Betamax. What, you're telling me they were still making them? All this time? And nobody told me?

Slashdot - 5:25 PM (EDT), August 27, 2002: The moron pagsz has decided to end his post, bringing relief to thousands of Slashdotters. For now, the Slashdot server is safe from reaching the "critical mass of stupidity." With every idiotic post by pagsz, the server inches closer to this dreaded level. Now that pagsz has stopped, Slashdot is safe for today. As for how long until the "critical mass of stupidity" is reached, no one can say. And no one can be sure of the effects. Slashdot could implode in a flood of trolls, flames, and goatse.cx links. All anyone can be sure of is that, when it happens, it will be bad.