ecstaticist

FaceBook is funded by people connected to the CIA and the IAO. Check this out.

I’m serious. The Bush Executive Orders are just plain dictatorship, and it seems to be all about what he can get away with, not what is right, needed or supportive of US democracy. The man is killing the American dream, and thus, Hillary Clinton’s line “It’s about the American Dream, stupid” will play well if people come to realize how much Bush has moved his country toward Joe Steel-style rule. Read for yourself:

In an executive order published last week in the Federal Register, Mr. Bush said that each agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee, to supervise the development of rules and documents providing guidance to regulated industries. The White House will thus have a gatekeeper in each agency to analyze the costs and the benefits of new rules and to make sure the agencies carry out the president’s priorities.

How is that different from the good old Communist days when the Kremlin’s man was always watching over your shoulder. A political appointee overseeing all aspects of the regulatory regime?

Ideology is simply this: it is a germ of good idea wildly metastasized so that it chokes off and kills good thinking in every area that exceeds its initial insight.

Bush and everything he has wrought needs to be cut out of the tissue of the US like one cuts out a tumor.

My problem was that the CD (likely the case for DVD disks as well) was physically stuck because of a clear plastic label placed over the playlist side of the CD. I didn’t notice it when I inserted it, which increased the thickness of the CD beyond the tolerance of some aspect of the MacBook’s eject mechanism. I fiddled around with it for quite a while, trying all the various solutions on the Internets, but none worked.

The slot has a felt dust remover that makes it hard to see what’s happening inside. Finally I noticed a metal spring that acts as a kind of door in the middle of the slot. The spring moves up and down when you select eject, which allows the disk to pass.

I suppressed the spring from the top toward the bottom using the very tip of a fine-bladed knife and hit the eject button. A very thin-tipped flat screwdriver would probably work as well, but the business card trick did not hold it down. The drive tried to eject the disk repeatedly and finally I saw the tip of the disk emerge.

Over the last year, many other people have shared additional approaches on this thread, so read further if my method doesn’t work for you.

If this happens to you, be patient, keep trying, and you’ll get it out without wrecking the drive or spending a lot of money to have someone else remove it.

Just thought you might like to go back and read this thing I wrote back in February of last year. And yes, there’s no reason why iPhone can’t do VOIP.