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Also see the history of modifications of the presspass/trial directory
--jeff++

Disney of course can still make money, and on principle, a can support them being able to get extensions, but it is stupid to not allow abandoned works to be free.

There are some old archived programs and movies that are public domain available on archive.org. So far there aren't too many, but at least Night of the Living Dead is there. It's a good start.

There are some old archived programs and movies that are public domain available on archive.org. So far there aren't too many, but at least Night of the Living Dead is there. It's a good start.

In what way is this different from the already existing Archive.org Moving Image Archive? Is Google going to host the movies too, or will they just link to a 3rd party VoD (Video on Demand) provider (DRM comes to mind...)?

>So, basically what he's saying is that is a complex for creators of CGI Chop Socky?

Yes you can laugh all the way you want, but there's a vibrant CG industry in Hong Kong. O yes they are definitely not as advanced as ILM or Dreamworks , but they've made many entries into Siggraph. Some samples on Archive.org: Cola Cola's Clay Dolls and Master Q.

>So, basically what he's saying is that is a complex for creators of CGI Chop Socky?

Yes you can laugh all the way you want, but there's a vibrant CG industry in Hong Kong. O yes they are definitely not as advanced as ILM or Dreamworks , but they've made many entries into Siggraph. Some samples on Archive.org: Cola Cola's Clay Dolls and Master Q.

Wow. If the design of their website doesn't give you a 'Big-brother' impression, nothing will. Seriously... are they GLOATING at the fact that they're an agency which literally nobody knows what they're doing.

Actually, the NSA has a really cool kids website.

WAIT: Scratch that, they USED to have a really cool kids website.

I'm not sure why they killed the old site that had some really cool math puzzles. It was interesting even to adults like myself.

1. The US government has a history of using its citizens in classified research wihtout their consent:
   
   "From the end of world War II well in to the 1970s, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Defense Department, the military services, the CIA and other agencies used prisoners, drug addicts, mental patients, college students, soldiers, even bar patrons, in a vast range of government-run experiments to test the effects of everything from radiation, LSD and nerve gas to intense electric shocks and prolonged 'sensory deprivation.' Some of the human guinea pigs knew what they were getting into; many others did not even know they were being experimented on."
   
   The Cold War Experiments , Budiansky, Goode and Gest,
   U.S News and World Report , January 24, 1994
2. The US government is good at keeping involuntary experiments on its citizens secret. The news media will not report it:
   
   "Suddenly, at the close of 1993, the public was bombarded with "news" about the feeding of radioactive substances to pregnant women and mentally retarded students, about the unethical irradiation of workers, soldiers, medical patients, and prison inmates, and about the government's own internal fears that these experiments had 'a little of the Buchenwald touch.'
   ...
   I am among those who persistently tried to get national media coverage of this outrageous example of government wrongdoing. To say that the media were reluctant to listen would be an understatement. The fact is that, for more than a decade, documentation was ignored and facts were misreported."
   
   The Radiation Story No One Would Touch,
   Geoffrey Sea, Columbia Journalism Review, March / April 1994
3. When the US government conducts experiments on secretly influencing human behavior, using 'unwitting', i.e. involuntary, test subjects is considered essential:
   
   "... On December 17, 1963, Deputy Director for Plans Helms wrote a memo to the DDCI, who with the Inspector General and the Executive Director-Comptroller had opposed the covert testing. He noted two aspects of the problem: (1) 'for over a decade the Clandestine Services has had the mission of maintaining a capability for influencing human behavior;' and (2) 'testing arrangements in furtherance of this mission should be as operationally realistic and yet as controllable as possible.' Helms argued that the individuals must be 'unwitting' as this was 'the only realistic method of maintaining the capability, considering the intended operational use of materials to influence human behavior as the operational targets will certainly be unwitting. Should the subjects of the testing not be unwitting, the program would only be 'pro forma' resulting in a 'false sense of accomplishment and readiness.' ' [Memorandum for the Record prepared by the Inspector General, 5/15/63]"
   
   Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Behavior Modification,
   Appendix A, XVII. Testing And Use Of Chemical
   And Biological Agents By The Intelligence Community,
   Joint Hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence,
   U.S. Senate, 95th Congress, 1977
4. The US government is currently conducting experiments to investigate the ability of modulated beamed energy, including electromagnetic, to influence human behavior:
   
   "Scores of new contracts have been let, and scientists, aided by government research on the 'bioeffects' of beamed energy, are searching the electromagnetic and sonic spectrums for wavelengths that can affect human behavior."
   
   Wonder Weapons: The Pentagon's quest for nonlethal arms is amazing. But is it smart?, archived copy

The United States government, and the US mafia, i.e. powerful groups in the US, have a long history of murdering anyone doing anything they perceive as harmful to their interests, anytime they think they can get away with it.

I will go on record -- under the name "Anonymous Coward" -- as saying: I think something or someone very powerful does not like the free software movement.

Here are some of the reasons.

The powerful know how to control businesses and people whose actions are dictated by selfishly serving their self-interests. But the powerful have trouble controlling the free software movement, because it is community driven, and the selection of its leaders is out of their control.

The powerful don't like what the free software does, which empowers not only the proletariat, but foreign nations and organizations they're not particularly fond of as well.

When Hans Bakker and other free software community members died in an auto-accident this October, after they had dropped off Richard Stallman, I tried to raise the alarm, and got modded two "Funny" points as my reward: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=123832&cid=103 97295 . Please take a look at that post, in wich I ask

>> How happy do you think the United States is
>> that free software has given China and
>> countries like it an operating system which is
>> guaranteed free of any CIA / NSA backdoors?

I wasn't the only one thinking along these lines at that time. A different "Anonymous Coward" asked "An honest 'conspiracy theory' question..." and was ignored: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=123832&thresho ld=-1&commentsort=0&tid=99&mode=thread&cid=1039567 3 .

Trouble-makers of every stripe have an amazingly elevated risk of dying in plane crashes, of a heart-attack, or of a stroke at a young age. If you want insight into what techonology is being used to do it, look at http://www.geocities.com/mrmistermicko and http://www.datafilter.com/mc .

Where possible, they may just try to channel you into "more productive" work (Linus Torvalds) or an MBA (Alan Cox). If that fails, or you're not susceptible to their subtle methods of persuasion, they will just kill you once they are annoyed enough.

Take a look at how enemies of the Bush family, or their interests, have fared: http://witewillo.homestead.com/files/bushbodycount .htm When you find many of the documentation links don't work, the Internet Archive is your friend: http://www.archive.org/ . (Off-topic side note: The site that link was mirrored from has been suspiciously watered-down, with the links to supporting documentation completely removed. Also, it has been officially off-line since May of this year, just in time for the elections ... As the Church Lady (you KNOW she voted for Bush, one of his evangelical, theocracy craving base supporters) would say, "how CONVENIENT").

For many these ideas won't just be too strange to accept, they are too strange to even rationally evaluate. And that is the problem. Large changes in world view, EVEN WHEN they are supported by the evidence, can only happen after the facts are examined over an extended period of time. I suggest you read my links on this technology occasionally over the next month, and then form an opinion.

Yeah, this really sucks for people who enjoy speedrunning. There were a lot of impressive tricks that could be used in the first Half-Life to breeze through a level.

Personally, I don't like the idea that all of Linux depends on Linus. What if he gets hit by a bus (driven by a recently "retired" Microserf)?

Thankfully an empircal study of the results of this has already been carried out.

Jedidiah

The link mentioned in the previous slashdot article no longer works. Compliments of the WayBackMachine

In PR1 I can DL stream a .mov with quicktime plugin by entering a URL http://www.archive.org/download/Mosh/GNN_Mosh_bb.m ov

In PR1 the window has the dropdown menus allowing me to save the file. EZ

Ff_1.0 kills the menus and reduces the user to cache trawling to find the file.

Of course, if the file is yours to distribute and you realy want to pay for bandwidth whenever someone wants to play the file its a feature and not a bug.

Actually, some of the other stuff on his site (Internet Archive mirror, Google cache) is really sweet. He's got all kinds of time and frequency equipment, an atomic nixie tube clock, and a bunch of other cool stuff, all with pictures.

Internet Archive mirror

Google cache

But yeah, it is really neat.

While it must be agreed that democracy and freedom are noble goals, it is unclear whether the unlawful invasion and occupation of Iraq had anything to do with spreading democracy and freedom.

I have to disagree with your assertion that this was an unlawful invasion. In 1991, Iraq signed a document with the USA ending a war. Saddam then thumbed his nose at said document. How many times does the UN need to tell Saddam to behave before there are consequences? Well, the USA decided Saddam had been told enough, so the USA, the initiator of the document (The United Nations is not a signatory to said document) decided since Saddam didn't want to play by the document, they wouldn't either and they resumed hostilities. What law was broken? I would like to say that I feel W completely messed up the political end of the resumption of hostilities, but legally, I don't believe there is an issue.

because of the deliberate lies we were fed by Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rice and their lapdog Blair.

Don't forget Clinton, Berger, Pelosi, Gore, the other Clinton,and Kerry as well. Prior to the invasion, the list of people thinking Iraq didn't have WMDs was pretty darn short, please show me someone who knew at the time....no one was lying, they were merely fooled by Saddam Hussein (who was in turn fooled by his weapons experts telling him he did have such weapons...in my opinion).

Archive.org has it. Powerplay was all BS anyway. A lot of babble, and no substance or working product.

Notice on the left you won't see id software's logo. That's because Carmack laughed them out of his office, he saw right through that crap.

Steam works perfectly for me. Bought HL2 last month through Steam, and played right at release time.

It can be legally downloaded for free at Archive.org.

It's an amazing release. It even comes with a huge PDF booklet explaining everything. Very cool.

This isn't much of a revelation. Wilco, like many music artists that work for a living (ie, play live gigs), don't depend on record sales for their paychecks, they get it from working.

Its these bubblegum music manager creation "artists" that cannot play (eg, Ashlee Simpson), but have canned lyrics that appeal to a large number of people that depend on record sales for their income. Actually, its more of the music manager's and the labels that depend on the record sales for income. The artists get a token commission which provides them enough money to feel rich for a period of time until they have to get a real job.

From Wilco's website:

wilco does permit audio taping and trading of live performances wherever it does not conflict with venue or other restrictions beyond our control. we do not allow direct soundboard patches. we also do not allow videotaping.wilco supports the free trading of live recordings for non-commercial purposes.

I would bet that any other taper friendly band would not care about p2p or whatever, because, again, these bands work for a living, and they know they will make money when they are working.

It's in the archive

The Live Music Archive
http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php

Welcome to the Live Music Archive. etree.org is a community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format. The Internet Archive has teamed up with etree.org to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to enjoy. All music in this Collection is from trade-friendly artists and is strictly noncommercial, both for access here and for any further distribution. Artists' commercial releases are off-limits. This collection is maintained by the etree.org community.

Yeah, I was thinking something like this, but I don't think there were any hurricanes in december of 1996. maybe they confused hurricanes with Mercury Bubble Blasts?

Uh, except that Google hasn't indexed all of the publicly available WWW. It's only indexed a small fraction of it. And the WWW isn't the Internet. They're different. Secondly, the Internet Archive alone has archived 1 petabyte of data so the figure of 230 terabytes of data on the Internet is obviously wrong.

The internet archive has a lot more info than that. And grows by a lot each month. If they think walmarts 460 Tb of data is > than the internet I'd wager that they're wrong.

Wal-Mart has 460 terabytes of data

The Internet Archive has 100 terabytes of data.

For directories and other files (including, interestingly but worryingly zips etc) I found much unexpected data in the Wayback Machine

Now while it's not exactly a search engine itself, it's in the same family, and I use it instead of GoogleCache when needed.
Most informative were the snapshots you can find of sites recorded whilst they were in development (ie, before they turned off directory listings and turned on security settings)
Good for retrieving any backups you forgot to make - although a bit hard (and slow) to re-assemble if using a web-whacker to grab the bits automatically - the mirror files are all over the place.

And Froogle has been in "beta" form for how long? It seems I've been using that heavily used and freely available service for years. The Wayback Machine has it going back to Feb 2003. Maybe Google thinks keeping "Beta" appended to all their web services will absolve them of responsibility if it fails?

Even Microsoft's 2004 May 27th changes which apply only to customers under enterprise licensing contracts, which Microsoft claims grants greater immunity, contains many loop holes which greatly negate Microsoft's liability.

The section 6 clause contain exceptions:
Our obligations will not apply to the extent that the claim or adverse final judgment is based on (i) specifications you provide to us for the service deliverables; (ii) code or materials provided by you as part of service deliverables; (iii) your running of the product, fix or service deliverables after we notify you to discontinue running due to such a claim; (iv) your combining the product, fix or service deliverables with a non-Microsoft product, data or business process; (v) damages attributable to the value of the use of a non-Microsoft product, data or business process; (vi) your altering the product, fix or service deliverables; (vii) your distribution of the product, fix or services deliverable to, or its use for the benefit of, any third party; (viii) your use of our trademark(s) without express written consent to do so; or (ix) for any trade secret claim, your acquiring a trade secret (a) through improper means; (b) under circumstances giving rise to a duty to maintain its secrecy or limit its use; or (c) from a person (other than us or our affiliates) who owed to the party asserting the claim a duty to maintain the secrecy or limit the use of the trade secret. You will reimburse us for any costs or damages that result from these actions.

Loophole #1 "(ii) code or materials provided by you as part of service deliverables" This would effectively still indemnify Microsoft against most of the Timeline Inc patent claims, as it is the developer/end user's code ( even visual basic code ) which would be in violation of Timeline's patent claims.

Microsoft licensed Database/Datawarehouse technology from Timeline Inc, but unlike Oracle and other database vendors, Microsoft chose a license that did not grant Microsoft's customers the right to fully use that technology.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/02/20/sql_server _developers_face_huge/
Timeline has extended it's patent claims to cover many featured widely used by developers, both ISV and in house.
http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/41479/4 1479.html

Timeline Inc has won a US Washington Court of Appeal judgment against Microsoft for the right to sue Microsoft's customers, and subsequently sued Cognos. On February 13, 2004, Cognos settled at cost to Cognos totaling $1.75 million.
http://www.timeline.com/021304PR1.htm

Microsoft has a history of licensing third party code and patents in such a manner that still leaves developers and users exposed to IP threats. Even going back to the LZH/GIF Unisys patents
http://web.archive.org/web/20020806173115/http://w ww.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw/

"Microsoft Corporation obtained a license under the above Unisys LZW patents in September, 1996. Microsoft's license does NOT extend to software developers or third parties who use Microsoft toolkit, language, development or operating system products to provide GIF read/write and/or any other LZW capabilities in their own products(e.g., by way of DLLs and APIs)."

Other Loopholes include (v) and (vii), but the killer is (iv), which disclaims any
indemnity for users who wish to input any data. (ix)(a), also since literally it excludes trade secret liability for improper action on
anyone's part, including MS.

Does Microsoft's new agreement include such loopholes? Anyone have a link handy?

By syndicating .torrents automatically, channels of swarming mirroring can be formed to amass what could be called efficient broadcasting. On private lans, there's also no reason why you couldn't run VLC and Myth, and have a complete video network with on-demand-downloadable-by-bt type content, as well as redistribution of streaming media already out on the net (remember the internet tv article?)

This is big, and it is hot. It's not *entirely* the downfall of big media, but it is in fact the eventuality of big media as our channel list grows, and our options for consumption and means of consuming this media grow.

Some claim that this means TV and Film will die, or that all this material will end up looking like the lamest of public-access tv....

Well, public access TV looks almost exactly in production, quality, and distribution as mid-80's regionally-produced TV shows (like Romper Room, or Cleveland's SUPERHOST!)

Also, your kids are going to school and learning video production... on DV equipment in some cases.

So, it's not the end of big media... it's the start of a new decentralized wonder. It'll probably both be worse than today (ads that make Futurama's attempts at advertising parody not funny anymore), and much purer (how about a family, community, slashdot, or special interest group TV show? Commercial free?)

As a side note, some of these patterns will most likely be evident in tonight's Frontline on PBS about the "persuasion industry" ... I'll be watching that one!

Anyway, start looking into this stuff, because it is what you make it. If you want to bitch about it, well, start your own damn TV show.

Hmmm, that's funny... Crime is down, terrorists are on the run, an evil dictator (Sadam) is out of power in Iraq, etc.

The GOP right now is a radical anti-government party trying to undo the new deal and reconstruction by stealing tax dollars from the liberal coastal states to subsidize rural Christian lifestyle.

Stealing tax dollars from liberal coastal states to subsidize rural Christian lifestyle? What planet are you from? I'm sick of the "liberal coastal states" stealing tax dollars from conservative states to shove crap like the gay/lesbian lifestyle, evolution and junk science in our faces, I'm tired of this crap being tought to our kids via the liberal public education system. You ever heard of Pavlov?

If you don't like the current tax system, then let's get rid of it. I like the idea of a national sales tax then EVERYONE will pay their fair share.

If Kerry actually had a plan plan I wished he would have said something, I would have loved to hear it. All he could say is that he had a plan, I never heard about it.

Kerry kept on harping about a draft, that draft plan that was crafted by two of his OWN party.

What many people don't realize is that Kerry proposed ON HIS WEB SITE MANDATORY National Service for high school students and while people weren't looking, he pulled it from his web site just like the little flip flopper he is.

John Kerry Outlines Plan to Require Service for High School Students

Part of 100 days Plan to Enlist One Million Americans in National Service A Year

On September 11th, 2001, America experienced the most terrible and deadly attack in its history. John Kerry believes we need to think big and do better and get more young Americans serving the nation.

As part of his 100 day plan to change America, John Kerry will propose a comprehensive service plan that includes requiring mandatory service for high school students and four years of college tuition in exchange for two years of national service.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040210043828/www.john kerry.com/issues/natservice/

Anyway, I'm tired of people screaming "we want FREE government healthcare". I'm tired of watching my hard earned money (legally stolen from me by the government) placed into the BANKRUPT legal ponzi scheme known as Social Security.

I'm tired of seeing my great country steered by the politically correct/environmental nut case/junk scienist/evolutionist/anti-Christian/Al Franken/Michael Moore/Babs the Hutt home grown terrorists known as the FAR LEFT. Zell Miller is as about as left as anyone really needs to be.

In short, get over it! The 2000 election wasn't stolen nor was the 2004.

God Bless the United States, Democrats like Zell Miller and last, but not least, President George W. Bush!

I switched from buying new CDs to buying used ones. It saves money and puts dents in the RIAA statistics.

Good idea, as is downloading legally free music and buying albums that aren't made by majors from decent shops.

(Shameless plug: My free music.)

It was perfectly valid for Slashdot to point out the absence of Abu Ghirab photos in Google's image index, and to QUESTION if this was intentional censorship.

If anything, news sources viewed by large numbers of the public are too fearful in reporting stories that have any hint of conspiracy.

Understanding the world we live in, and the cause-effect relations between events, requires we form theories, and then test and modify these theories in the light of new evidence.

Sometimes the best theory is a conspiracy theory. You'll want some examples.

First, there are striking similarities between plans drawn up by a neo-conservative cabal in 1998, the events of 9/11, and America's subsequent invasion of Iraq. The story reported by ABC may have disappeared from the internet, but is still available from the internet archive . You can find tons of stories about this possible connection in the indy-media on the internet. Whether you buy it or not, I think it's worthwhile to keep this theory in mind, and evaluate its plausibility as new events either fit it or do not.

Secondly, it looks like there was systematic vote fraud in the 2004 election, in favor of the Republicans. This hasn't been reported by the mainstream media at all. Here is a summary and screenshots showing how the practice of "weighting" election exit poll data to match offical vote tallys changed the exit poll result in Ohio.

Conspiracy theories have been given an undeserved bad reputation. The term "conspiracy theorist" is being used in a campaign of name-calling to lower the discourse in public forums to the intellectual level of the nursery school playground. It is an attempt by powerful interest groups to keep the public uninformed.

If anyone want to look at the sw in question, it's here. Note: this isn't the result of an illegal break in, THEY published it (without knowing what the hell they were doing...). I don't want to get into a personal piss-contest, but I have some experience designing sw, and I don't consider this to be an half-assed attempt of good design! That's my opinion, You may have another...

The article's section on the NES mentions the "Blinkies" ("You put the game in, turn your Nintendo on, and the screen alternates between blue and white.") but doesn't explain the real reason why this is happening: the original NES has a lockout chip to prevent people from playing unlicensed/third-party games on the system. When a game blinks, but you can still see the game's title screen in between each blink, it's because the lockout chip is freaking out.

Fortunately, there's a very easy mod to disable the lockout chip by opening the NES up and cutting a pin on the PCB. It used to be really easy to find the mod on Google, but it seems to have disappeared (could Nintendo's legal department have squashed it? That'd be ridiculous if so, this is well within fair use). Regardless, you can get it at archive.org -- I'm pretty sure that's the how-to file I used when I did the mod a few years back. It worked like a charm, and I highly recommend it!

Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..."

We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

Also, http://www.spaceweather.com/ should have some pictures (it has some already).

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Archive.org's Election 2004 section has nice quality videos of all the debates. You can get them at fairly high speeds, too.

How about some torrent sites with great legal content?

This site is excellent.

If you have never used BT and watched how it consumes bandwidth, you really ought to check it out. Pretty neat.

Tools like Etherape will draw funky realtime network connectivity maps. Watching your computer talk to that many other peers makes you feel pretty exposed.

Azureus is my preferred graphical client under Linux. Any other favorites?

The site seems to still be available at the Web Archive:

It's interesting to note that the report mentioned in the article has, as you can see by following the link, been removed and replaced with a message basically rubbishing the contents of the report. But there is an archived version available.

I had the URL wrong. In 1998 I was reading CBC news at newsworld.cbc.ca. Not bad considering what other news organizations, even technical iones, looked like at the time.

I had the URL wrong. In 1998 I was reading CBC news at newsworld.cbc.ca. Not bad considering what other news organizations, even technical iones, looked like at the time.

I had the URL wrong. In 1998 I was reading CBC news at newsworld.cbc.ca. Not bad considering what other news organizations, even technical iones, looked like at the time.

People in Canada always harp on the CBC because it receives public funding, but it really is the best news organization in the country and to top it off they actually innovate. They had a decent website back in 1998 (the earliest Wayback is from '99). They stream CBC radio and all of their TV news broadcasts for free, in multiple codecs. And if you want local news that isn't about a dog or a whale they might be your only option. Bravo CBC. They can take it from my cold, dead hands.

Tassach said:
Hell, *I* am over 35, have lived in the US all my life, and have never been charged with any crime more serious than driving 20mph over the speed limit. I'll wager a week's pay that my knowledge of the Constitution is at least as good as Badnarik's. Therefore, by your standards, I'm as qualified to be President as he is. Vote for Me!

Mr. Badnarik has been running for election to a couple different offices since 2000, FYI.

Mr. Badnarik is reported to have been studying the US constitution for 22+ years.

Mr. Badnarik teaches an 8 hour class on the constitution, which just happens to be available online

You may also be interested in some wiki.

Please extend any sort of documentation re: relevant experience re: your knowledge of the constitution. I'm willing to bet a week's pay that you're talking out of your ass and probably haven't read the constituion outside of high school, let alone any sort of in depth study on the topic. :)

Otherwise, drop me an email for my mailing address, i'd be happy to accept payment in the form of cashiers check. I'd readily accept paypal as well, a "pay me" link should be available from my website....

/endPokeFun

Maybe, just maybe he's using the halfbakery's Use Bizarre Metaphors

:: John Kerry for President - A New Era of National Service ::

High School Service Requirement
As President, John Kerry will ensure that every high school student in America performs community service as a requirement for graduation. This service will be a rite of passage for our nation's youth and will help foster a lifetime of service. States would design service programs that meet their community and educational needs. However, John Kerry does not believe in unfunded mandates. No state would be obligated to implement a service requirement if the federal government does not live up to its obligation to fund the program.

Recruiting More Americans to the Military
The highest form of service is military service. America's military is having trouble recruiting and is increasingly relying on the reserves for active duty. John Kerry believes we must change that. The complicated missions we face and technologies we use depend on it. In a Kerry Administration, no university that receives federal aid will be allowed to ban the ROTC from their campus, except for religious reasons. And the ROTC scholarship program will be adequately funded so that students can attend the college of their choice. John Kerry will also make modernizing our GI benefits a top priority, because no program has been more successful increasing educational opportunities for veterans while also providing an incentive for the best and brightest to make a career out of military

How about straight from the horse's mouth?

(via archive.org)

Ignorance can be astounding sometimes...

1. Sure, experience in other offices helps, but a 3rd party candidate shooting for high offices will always lose in an entrenched 2 party system.

2. Badnarik may not have held an office with a little name sign on his door, but has been studying the US constitution for over 22 years now. In fact, he teaches an 8 hour class on the constitution, which is available online for your viewing pleasure. He's been teaching it now for at least 4 years, but possibly more. I bet senator Kerry and presient Bush couldn't even tell you what article of the US constitution describes their position, much less what it actually says their powers are.

I could go on, but it's not worth my time. Libertarians actually go after a lot of this country's problems from the fundamental root, rather than using broad sweeping generalizations like "a safer america is what we want".