guy fawkes night ALL MUST CELEBRATE

[Liokault]

Guy Fawkes was captured just as he was about to detonate his explosives... it's generally accepted that he didn't have anything like enough gunpowder to do much damage. He was taken to the tower of London where he was given the rack and forced into naming his fellow conspirators.
Here's the interesting bit... he was sentenced to be 'hung, drawn and quartered', but he had been 'racked' so badly he could barely stand, and whilst climbing the scaffold to the gallows, he fell off and broke his neck...

Yeah, it was a bit of a farce all the way through.

My favorit bit is where they conspiritors blew themselfs up while trying to dry wet gun powder by spreading it out in front of an open fire.

[David Jamieson]

Yes, they were idiots. Idiots with religious conviction...

[wenshu]

Haha, fucking idiots.

The hacker group Anonymous is responsible for attacks on Visa, defense contractors, the Church of Scientology and even NATO. Naturally, such anarchic schemes require a certain amount of secrecy, and its members have chosen an apt cover-up. They don masks in the likeness of Guy Fawkes, the 17th century anarchist who tried to blow up Parliament in protesting the corruption of the English government.

The beige mask, with its rosy cheeks and pencil-thin mustache and goatee, has become the veritable symbol of the hackers after its pivotal appearance in the 2006 movie V for Vendetta, about a British revolutionary who acted in the style of Guy Fawkes. It’s the top-selling mask on Amazon, and the image appears every time Anonymous makes the news. The mask has become a representation of fighting corruption in business and government.

But there’s one unintentional consequence – their disguise is earning big bucks for a major media conglomerate. Warner Brothers, the Time Warner subsidiary who produced the movie, owns the rights to the Guy Fawkes mask – and they earn royalties on every sale. (Obligatory disclaimer: Time Warner is also TIME’s parent company, so in an extremely roundabout way, we’re also profiting from this.) While Time Warner hasn’t released any data related to their earnings from the masks, it’s safe to say that the hundreds of thousands of Guy Fawkes masks sold each year helps to bring sure profit to the company.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/29/...ymous-hackers/


Hai, lets put on our Guy Fawkes masks and go protest corporate greed. Don't forget to bring your MacBook so we can blog about it.

http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp...AQ:AAPL&ntsp=0

[Drake]

Well, they certainly aren't hacking away with homemade chipsets and NIC cards... wonder if they used their VISA cards to buy any of their hardware?

[wenshu]

wonder if they used their mom's VISA cards to buy any of their hardware?

fixed.
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[David Jamieson]

Fawkes wasn't an anarchist...they are idiots.

yeesh, technical skills mean nothing if you lack common sense...