Being forewarned is being forearmed. There is currently a rogue antivirus program attacking computers all over the internet. It makes a popup that appears to come from your task bar alerting you that your computer is under attack, to “click here” to download a program to remove the attack. DO NOT CLICK ON IT!!1! Instead, [...]
Archive for the ‘Pirates!’ Category
ATTACK ALERT: “Internet Security 2010″
Posted in Pirates!, Science and Technology, tagged hackers, internet security, Internet Security 2010, rogue anti-spyware, rogue antivirus software on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Arrrrrrrr!
Posted in holiday music, Pirates!, Videos, tagged Pirates!, Talk Like A Pirate Day on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Avast ye, mateys! It’s Talk Like A Pirate Day!
Pirates! Ahoy!
Posted in Pirates!, tagged 1950, American automobile, BBC 4 radio, bribery, Cadillac, Cadillac Debutante, curriculum vitae, Edmund S. Valtman, Gulf of Aden, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, morality, Pirates!, Somalia on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rob Walker interviewed the crew of the CEC Future and others involved in the November 2008 hijacking of the Danish-owned merchant ship by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. (BBC) The most skilled pirates, the ones who prove themselves by being the first to board a hijacked ship, are paid more, and are more [...]
The Solution To All Our Woes.
Posted in Economy, Pirates!, Rampant Stupidity, tagged Economy, Pirates!, privateers on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The brilliant thinkers morans over at The Corner have put on their thinking caps and come up with a brilliant moranic solution to the problem of piracy on the high seas: Establishing private property rights where they don’t currently exist is the solution to about 90 percent of world’s economic problems. Piracy is no exception. [...]
Russell Brand!
Posted in Comic Relief, Pirates!, tagged comedy, johnny depp, pirates of the caribbean, russell brand on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Russell Brand is rumoured to be appearing in the next Pirates of the Caribbean film as Johnny Depp’s brother! I guess I missed the news with all the presidential election excitement.
Avast Ye, Mateys!
Posted in Foreign Affairs, Pirates!, tagged Pirates! on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“(CNN) — An Indian warship has exchanged fire with a pirate “mother vessel” off the hijacking-plagued Horn of Africa, leaving the ship ablaze in the Gulf of Aden, an official said Wednesday. The skirmish took place Tuesday evening about 525 kilometers southwest of Oman’s Salalah port when the frigate INS Tabar spotted a suspected pirate [...]
In murk sunset and foul sunrise.
Posted in Foreign Affairs, Pirates!, tagged Great Britain, Obama!, Pirates!, robert louis stevenson, Somalia, treasure island, US Navy on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As Kenneth Anderson points out over at Opinio Juris, the pirates operating around Somali and Kenya and elsewhere are getting to be a problem. International Maritime officials say at least 83 [ships] have been attacked off Somalia this year, with 33 of them hijacked. The pirates are currently holding about 11 ships, including a Ukrainian [...]
