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I'm furious!!! Enough is enough!!
I'm telling you, Orwell's predictions isn't as far fetched as some might think!

Today a law was passed in the Swedish parliament, that now makes it fully legal for the Swedish civilian(!) institution FRA (Försvarets Avlyssningsanstalt) to reccord and trace any data that passes the borders of Sweden.
This means calls from your mobile, text messages and INTERNET TRAFFIC!

Data on the internet travels. It bounces around to different servers quite a bit, even your e-mails.

This law makes it legal for Swedish authorities to intercept, monitor, store and read your e-mails. If it would happen to pass the borders of Sweden on its way to your friends.

This law is a violation of the constitution of the very country where it was now passed! Even the Swedish National Security Police is opposed to this law passing! Should not that be a sign of how ill-advised this law is?

And quite frankly, this scares the shit out of me!!!


Consequences:
The FRA is a civilian institution, which means other institutions like the police, government and customs can order surveillance and searches as they please.

This has major consequences for us Swedes, but some affect the rest of you as well:

The intentions might be good and there to keep us safe. But systems do get corrupt quite often, and the wrong people could get their hands on the information stored about you.

And, say farewell to file sharing and downloading in the future!
Cause now the FRA will be allowed to monitor data traffic and to search and track down any file sharers out there...

No more Anime episodes for YOU!

Looks like the money hungry enterprises are winning...
When the film and music industry says "Jump!" Swedes asks "How high"...

I want to move...

Well this was a sucky friday. 11 hours waiting in the ER is not friday entertainment.

I was supposed to travel away with some friends and spend the weekend partying and having fun. But instead, on our way there, we got hit by another car. It drove right in to ours at about 100Km/h!! We literally didn't know what hit us!

The car will travel never more and a friend is still at the hospital but she's ok. We were four in the car and miraculously all we have are some sore shoulders and bruises.

Friday the 13th is not an unlucky day! I'm so fucking lucky I have no words! Because one single second makes a difference. Had we turned a second earlier the other car would most likely have rammed us to kingdom come...

Well, haven't slept yet, need to do that...

is on the billboard today.
Her technique is still a bit rough and unrefined at times, but what she lacks in technique she makes up in atmosphere and sheer beauty!

Two big news!

1. I bought myself a zombie duck today. Very pretty.

2. I'm off to Hungary, Budapest in 5,5 hours!! Weeeeh!
It's an educational and recreation trip with the company I just started working for, and we'll all be away for four whole days! They even pay for all the fun! So, sweetie pies, I'll be back by Monday. ^^

is on the billboard today.
Her technique is still a bit rough and unrefined at times, but what she lacks in technique she makes up in atmosphere and sheer beauty!

You know what? In my last journal I forgot to tell all of you about the greatest piece of technology ever to enter my apartment! I got it a few weeks ago and now it's plugged in and I've tried it out. My judgement:
Why did I wait this long!?

Yeah, you know what I'm talking about! God's gift to the digital artist:

WACOM INTUOS 3!!

And I got one!

is on the billboard today.
Her technique is still a bit rough and unrefined at times, but what she lacks in technique she makes up in atmosphere and sheer beauty!

New job!!! And I love it!! The work is fun, the people I work with are great and the pay is not at all bad!
It has meant a lot of non existing spare time. Well, atleast not much of me being awake in my spare time.^^

I hope to go though my MASSIVE back-logg of unanswered comments, faves and all my favourite artists new artwork! It might take a while...

But I'm back now, so until next time: