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In hidden ways, the U.S. government is violent.It's painful to me, but I have had to accept that the U.S. government is corrupt in some ways. United States government agencies, such as the NSA, CIA, and FBI, have become global police that operate mostly in secret, without control or oversight by the people, and mostly without any kind of effective external control. United States citizens are allowed to know about these agencies only what the U.S. government wants them to know. (NSA is National Security Agency. CIA is Central Intelligence Agency. FBI is Federal Bureau of Investigation. These are official U.S. government web sites.)
Hidden elements of the U.S. government have become the most violent force the world has ever known, with a long history of acting in a violent manner and supporting violent dictatorships: The U.S. government has bombed 24 countries in the 58 years since the Second World War. The list below includes only countries bombed, not countries in which the U.S. government was responsible for other violence. The list includes only violence since the Second World War, not the extensive violence before the war. Most U.S. citizens are surprised and skeptical when they see the list, so a few links have been provided to supporting information. For more information, try the Google search engine or see the links below.- Afghanistan, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003
- Bosnia, 1994, 1995
- Cambodia, 1969-70
- China, 1945-46
- Congo (now Zaire), 1964
- Cuba, 1959-1961 ("Bay of Pigs" invasion)
- El Salvador, 1980s
- Grenada, 1983
- Guatemala, 1954, 1960, 1967-69
- Indonesia, 1958
- Iran, 1987
- Iraq, 1991-2000, 2003 (The U.S. government used radioactive bombs in the first war against Iraq. See United States War Crimes Against Iraq for what appears to be an accurate history.)
- Korea and China, 1950-53 (Korean War)
- Kuwait, 1991
- Laos, 1964-73
- Lebanon, 1983, 1984 (both Lebanese and Syrian targets)
- Libya, 1986
- Nicaragua, 1980s
- Panama, 1989. The U.S. government called it "Operation Just Cause". The link is to a U.S. military web site.
- Peru, 1965
- Somalia, 1993
- Sudan 1998. There are doubts that the pharmaceutical plant that was bombed was making weapons.
- Vietnam, 1961-73 (An estimated 2,000,000 Vietnamese were killed.)
- Yugoslavia, 1999
There are many sources for this information. For example, see this PBS web page: PBS: A Chronology of U.S. Military Interventions (PBS is the Public Broadcasting System in the U.S.) Also see From Wounded Knee to Afghanistan: A Century of U.S. Military Interventions [zmag.org] and The government of the United States is a consistent opponent of international law. [
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A frequent misconceptionActually, anyone damaged by cybercrime must prove that they were harmed to the tune of 5 thousand dollars to get the FBI involved:
"S. 2092 significantly adjusts the $5,000 threshold and other provisions in the current law by:
Read up. You can think of this as the "Fyodor cap", i.e., the threshold of damages under which Fyodor can attack your computer while immune to prosecution. -
Re:The Einstein File
Einstein was a communist, and some communists really did give the Soviets secret information about US nuclear weapons programs, and the Soviets really did want to use those weapons to kill everyone in the US. The FBI was just doing its job.
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Re:The Einstein File
Einstein was a communist, and some communists really did give the Soviets secret information about US nuclear weapons programs, and the Soviets really did want to use those weapons to kill everyone in the US. The FBI was just doing its job.
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The Einstein File
From 1933 until 1955, the Federal Bureau of Investigation compiled a 2,000-page file on Albert Einstein, hoping to "destroy" his immense stature by linking him to Soviet espionage activities. At one point, not long before the scientist's death, a attempt was made to have him deported. This campaign is responsible in large part for Einstein's exclusion from the Manhattan Project, and is docemented in the book Fred Jerome's The Einstein File. Einstein's .
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If its not fake...Ok, yes its a fake. But lets imagine for a second that it is true.
If it is true we should take the deal he offered, Give us Osama, Cure AIDS, and let him walk.
Now if it is really true the guy would be an idiotic PHB. After all, He could claim the $25 million reward from the FBI, use the money to develop a cure for AIDS and make billions selling the drugs he developed. No one would ever know he is from the future or arrest him for insider trading.
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Re:Here in Parallel Logic Land
FBI's Ten Most Wanted Terrorists.
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Re:Not a problemI'm not sure about the specifics, but it's possible that because of the Privacy Act, Craig Livingstone's actions were legal, while Chuck Colson's were not.
I'm not sure when Chuck Colson disclosed an FBI report, but assuming it was before 1974 (which makes sense, Watergate happened in 1971-1972), then it would have been illegal. But by the end of 1975, investigation reports could be requested using the Freedom of Information Act. (The FBI's FOIA page.)
Although since I don't know the exact particulars about either cases, and IANAL, I can't actually be sure that what I'm saying is correct. However, it is a possibility that because the laws had changed, Colson was doing something illegal and Craig Livingstone was not.
(For those who remember that the FOIA went into effect in 1967, good for you. It didn't effect the FBI until amended by the Privacy Act of 1974, which apparently didn't go into effect until the end of 1975. See the above link for info from the FBI.)
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Re:Um, no?You say I'm spewing fear, paranoia, and propaganda? What planet are you living on?
Let's see: sport, self-defense, revolution against an oppressive government. Those are three good ones. Go study a little history. Without citizen-owned guns in the hands of Minutemen we wouldn't have a U.S.A. Same applies to many other countries.
How are these good reasons to own a gun? Because it's fun? My neighbors dog was accidentally shot by some guy hunting for sport. People get injured in hunting accidents all of the time. Why was some guys fun worth a person or even a dogs life? As far as needing to own guns in the US, the point of the guns was to help us set up a government where the guns no longer needed to be used. I'm not saying that in countries with oppressive regimes guns should be outlawed. I'm saying that once the country completes its revolution and is firmly governed by the rule of law, guns pose more a threat to the residents than a defense to outside invasion or way of motivating the government.
I'd rather have more decent people with guns so that they outnumber the criminals with guns. Then criminals would think twice about using their gun.
Think about it though, if no one had guns this wouldn't even be an issue. If what your saying is that right, now criminals don't think twice about using their guns that is all the more reason to improve gun control.
But your point is moot, because if someone wants to kill someone, they will do it, whether they do it with a legitimately-obtained gun, a stolen gun, a black market gun, a homemade gun, or a knife.
You tell me to go look up facts and yet you say something like that with no proof to back it up. People do things because it's convenient . A gun makes killing more convenient. If you couldn't buy sniper rifles would we have to deal with the whole Washington D.C. sniper or not? If it was some guy who had to run up to you and stab you it is a lot less likely that he would have gotten away or not been identified. How about drive-by shootings? I don't know how many times I've read articles about people being killed in their homes or on the street due to stray bullets from drive-by shootings. That wouldn't happen if the person had a knife. How about Columbine, could those kids have walked into the school and killed 13 other people if they didn't have guns? We all know they couldn't have.
You make up "facts" to try to support your already unfounded argument.
I'm sorry I didn't feel like wasting time looking up obvious facts but if you want me to here they are: here, here, here, and here.
For "gun" you could substitute "car," "computer," "house," "baseball bat," and a billion other things. Remember what happens when you assume. A piano could possibly fall on your head tomorrow. Does that make it a valid point?
Obviously you're right and I'm just a complete idiot. Wait, a second, I'm having an idea . . . a car, a computer, and a baseball bat can't fire rounds of ammunition into people. That makes them slightly safer than the average gun.
Owning a gun is a pointless risk. Our government generally does what it can to eliminate pointless risks. Our cars all have chips in them that make them top out at 155 MPH, medication has safety caps, and cigarettes are illegal until you turn 18. As I said before, I don't need a gun to defend myself and I certainly don't want to trust that everyone else who buys a gun to be responsible enough to not kill someone or themselves with it. There is more than one way to the problem of gun related violence and deat (like social programs) but it seems like the most obvious and easy thing to try first would be to reduce the number of guns that exist in this country. It may not be the permanent solution to stopping murders in this country but it would certainly be a decent start.
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Re:Um, no?You say I'm spewing fear, paranoia, and propaganda? What planet are you living on?
Let's see: sport, self-defense, revolution against an oppressive government. Those are three good ones. Go study a little history. Without citizen-owned guns in the hands of Minutemen we wouldn't have a U.S.A. Same applies to many other countries.
How are these good reasons to own a gun? Because it's fun? My neighbors dog was accidentally shot by some guy hunting for sport. People get injured in hunting accidents all of the time. Why was some guys fun worth a person or even a dogs life? As far as needing to own guns in the US, the point of the guns was to help us set up a government where the guns no longer needed to be used. I'm not saying that in countries with oppressive regimes guns should be outlawed. I'm saying that once the country completes its revolution and is firmly governed by the rule of law, guns pose more a threat to the residents than a defense to outside invasion or way of motivating the government.
I'd rather have more decent people with guns so that they outnumber the criminals with guns. Then criminals would think twice about using their gun.
Think about it though, if no one had guns this wouldn't even be an issue. If what your saying is that right, now criminals don't think twice about using their guns that is all the more reason to improve gun control.
But your point is moot, because if someone wants to kill someone, they will do it, whether they do it with a legitimately-obtained gun, a stolen gun, a black market gun, a homemade gun, or a knife.
You tell me to go look up facts and yet you say something like that with no proof to back it up. People do things because it's convenient . A gun makes killing more convenient. If you couldn't buy sniper rifles would we have to deal with the whole Washington D.C. sniper or not? If it was some guy who had to run up to you and stab you it is a lot less likely that he would have gotten away or not been identified. How about drive-by shootings? I don't know how many times I've read articles about people being killed in their homes or on the street due to stray bullets from drive-by shootings. That wouldn't happen if the person had a knife. How about Columbine, could those kids have walked into the school and killed 13 other people if they didn't have guns? We all know they couldn't have.
You make up "facts" to try to support your already unfounded argument.
I'm sorry I didn't feel like wasting time looking up obvious facts but if you want me to here they are: here, here, here, and here.
For "gun" you could substitute "car," "computer," "house," "baseball bat," and a billion other things. Remember what happens when you assume. A piano could possibly fall on your head tomorrow. Does that make it a valid point?
Obviously you're right and I'm just a complete idiot. Wait, a second, I'm having an idea . . . a car, a computer, and a baseball bat can't fire rounds of ammunition into people. That makes them slightly safer than the average gun.
Owning a gun is a pointless risk. Our government generally does what it can to eliminate pointless risks. Our cars all have chips in them that make them top out at 155 MPH, medication has safety caps, and cigarettes are illegal until you turn 18. As I said before, I don't need a gun to defend myself and I certainly don't want to trust that everyone else who buys a gun to be responsible enough to not kill someone or themselves with it. There is more than one way to the problem of gun related violence and deat (like social programs) but it seems like the most obvious and easy thing to try first would be to reduce the number of guns that exist in this country. It may not be the permanent solution to stopping murders in this country but it would certainly be a decent start.
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Re:Way to Go Absentee Parents!
If you objection is with content being pushed to you that a reasonable person (legal term) would find offensive, then this is already illegal in law in many countries, pursue it as if you had received it through your mail through the front door.
On the other hand having content that some one has to go out and look for that you wish to prevent kids from seeing, this is a parental monitoring issue. Parents do not lobby for train stations to be closed because kids may go and play their, and even if they did lobby they should not be allowed to have their will enforced.
If a parent wants to prevent their child from doing or seeing certain things on the internet they have at least three options, there is no restriction on not applying several of these at the same time.
- Be in the room when the child uses the internet.
- Client side filtering can easily be install on a computer this may block some content that should not be blocked but this may be acceptable as it is the parent choice to install the software.
- Client Side logging, if you can not be in the room but are worried about the child having looking at things that the child knows she/he should not look at install loggin software and tell the child it is there. This way the child may look at some thing thatâ(TM)s inappropriate but they know you will catch them and apply an appropriate punishment.
http://www.fbi.gov/publications/pguide/pguide.htm For more information and debate on this see. http://www.teekosoccertips.com/safelinks.htm -
Re:Kevin's Most Important Point
Because the government works with Mafia Dons...
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Database of Letters to the Editor
I'm pretty sure that a repository of letters to the editor is already being kept for your protection.
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Seeding doubt into the enemy is very old
Whilst the technology changes, using propaganda to sap the enemy's will to fight is as old as warfare itself. A famous (though largely unsuccessful, apparently) attempt at such was Tokyo Rose, one of many female broadcasters on radio Tokyo during World War II who mixed American music with propaganda.
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Government Lisencing and Monitoring would be good!
Imagine that, by law, an image of your hard drive must be sent to the government, your DNA swabbed from your input devices, and bugs/keyloggers routineley installed if they find any sign of terrorist or criminal activities or intentions....
Such as:
- Browsing of terrorist or dissenting, un-patriotic, or otherwise not wholesome all-american websites.
- Use of any audio/video compression technology other than lisenced and government approved encoding protocols. No matter if you have no pirate material, If you have the ability and tools, you're dangerous enough!
- Any expression of dissenting or un-patriotic views or opinions in your messenger histories, message board/newsgroup postings, emails, or slashdot poll votes.
Naturally, copies of your drive image will always be sent immediateley to the proper authorities for America's protection.
As we all know, no Saudi funded terrorist group could even dream of affording it's own bunch of nutbars to read up on some HOWTOs and sort out their own computers.
Have A Nice Day!(tm)
Ali - Browsing of terrorist or dissenting, un-patriotic, or otherwise not wholesome all-american websites.
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Re:it figures!
You can add Fascist Bully Boys to that list.
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For perspective...
You have to respect someone who managed to stay on the run for over a year, create a fake identity, and get a high paying job at a law firm with that identity.
Respect him
Too bad he got caught in the end, after all it was nothing but a set up for the goverment to make an example out of someone...
Not really. This is a guy who fled supervised release, was on his third trip or so through the courts for the same basic offenses, continuing committing crimes on the run, and has shown only the vaguest signs of remorse. That's all without mentioning anything about tech stuff. Yes, they made a great example of him for other prospective fugitives and computer snoops.
DOJ's missteps do not make Mitnick smell like a rose. For perspective the DOJ provides a nice table of cybercrime cases -- Mitnick ("notorious hacker") has ample company. -
FBI: % cops killed by own gun
It is such a drag to find stats, and many sites don't provide attribution for them! For all one knows, the numbers are gossip.
According to the FBI, 46 of 594 officers slain feloniously 1992-2001 were killed by their own weapon. Another 49 were killed by weapons other than firearms.
FBI Uniform Crime Reports -- I pulled the pdf for "# Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted" for 2001, see Table 5.
Even 46 dead officers is too many. It would be helpful to have "wounded with own gun" or "3rd party shot with officer's gun" or "gun stolen and later used in crime" statistics, plus the cost and reliability of the gun modifications, before making an assessment. Oh yes, we should ask the cops what they think!
As for cables, sounds like a cheaper way to address this. I wonder about the cons.
There are also occasional surprise disarmings and discharge. Read that one! The magnet is very powerful, but I'm a little skeptical of the "molecular structure" reasoning in the article. I used to be an MRI tech -- what a horrible safety failure. These events can end less humorously, as with a boy killed by an oxygen bottle in New York about a year ago. -
Re:The FBI doesn't want to find Bulger
He was a mob boss in Boston who was tipped off to run by a corrupt FBI agent, or something to that effect. Read the article and follow the link
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IN SOVIET EKROUTFederal Bureau of Investigation Home Page
FBI Responds to Report Issued Today.
areas where the FBI can improve upon its domestic intelligence abilities.
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Hate Crime Statistics:
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IN SOVIET EKROUTFederal Bureau of Investigation Home Page
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Florida is a terrible place to live.We were considering relocating there to retire. Cheap houses, no state income tax.
Then we looked at the crime rates for Central Florida. It's not all Disneyworld--in fact it's #1 and #2 in several categories for crime per capita.
There's a lot of poverty there, and poverty means crime (I'm not sure which one causes which.) Lots of people with their meth labs in their trailers, etc. Lots of drug runners coming through.
Look at this table. Each state has "Rate per 100,000 inhabitants" and you'll see what I mean. We decided to stay in Northern California, despite the 9.5% state income tax because the crime rate is much lower. And I don't care that my state government doesn't do Linux. I just care that 90% of my neighbors aren't on welfare, making meth, or both.
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There's one problem with this paper...
It doesn't take into account how the citizens feel. Having grown up in a town of 40,000, I can tell you that one murder was pretty big news. I can only recall hearing about murders two times during my ten or so years living there. Even assuming that I missed a few, that still wouldn't account for 18 vampires feeding once every three days (that's 2190 deaths per year--13 percent of the total murder rate for the ENTIRE UNITED STATES (~16000/yr)).
Anybody with half a brain would have moved out of that town long ago... and people ceratinly wouldn't be moving in. -
Read more
A 2-page article is hardly going to make you a know-it-all on this man. It's a good overview, but please don't go away from it thinking you're an expert on his life. (That's just a pet peeve of mine, like people who saw a Ken Burns series and now think they're Civil War experts).
What the article barely touches on, for example, is that (like Russell) he turned from science and philosophy to political activism later in life, complete with a heaping FBI file. Read his own words if you want to. There's also an interesting story about Einstein's brain! -
Here is a bigger one.
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Worry not, citizen. It's for your protection.Worry not, citizen.
Total Information Awareness will be used for the security of all American citizens, watching over you with the compassion and leadership of a big broth---er, uh - a favorite uncle.
Our glorious leader will leverage these tools to usher in a new era of safety and prosperity, unfettered by the shackles of complicated and antiquated laws. Never fear, no terrorist will be able to hide behind the The Constitution.
Of course, we rely on your cooperation and your TIPS to ensure our enduring freedom.
Everything is warm and fuzzy. War is peace.
We now return to your regularly scheduled programming.
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Re:fuck you
Sorry, guy, I don't have time to look at your family pictures right now. Why don't you email them to me?
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Re:Debt?Some dude comes out of nowhere on a desert planet to topple the empire.
Oh yeah. Now I remember.
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Re:For $40 Bucks...
Well I am not sure how these statistics will give you relevent info. These crimes were commited by a lot of individuals for a lot of different reasons instead of by an organized effort. Uniform Crime Reports - 2001
Also the crime reports do not specify whether they were shot in the street or inside a house or other structure.
I know a fair number of people that live in trailer parks but I do not know any violent ones although I'm sure there are some.
Perhaps, since statistics show that most murders are the results of arguments we should bomb all the arguers. I dare you to contradict that logic. -
Dear FBI: #@ + Informative
When is the FBI going to acknowledge
Usama bin Laden's alleged connection to
the WTC and Pentagon plane crashes (assuming that
he was not employed by the CIA)?
You may read the Wanted Sheet here
Of course, the Bureau's inability to understand
technology, explains why they have no e-mail
address on their contact page
Be Patriotic: Smoke American Grown Marijuana -
Dear FBI: #@ + Informative
When is the FBI going to acknowledge
Usama bin Laden's alleged connection to
the WTC and Pentagon plane crashes (assuming that
he was not employed by the CIA)?
You may read the Wanted Sheet here
Of course, the Bureau's inability to understand
technology, explains why they have no e-mail
address on their contact page
Be Patriotic: Smoke American Grown Marijuana -
Oh no!
Oh, no! He said "jihad", that must mean he's involved in terrorism! I'd better report this to the FBI at once!
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Come and get me! (CIA FBI NSA bomb)
I'll be grabbing some of the works published in 1923 to 1926, which would currently be in PD were it not for the Bono Act, and posting them on my web site in civil disobedience of the Bono Act. Come and get me beotch.
And so I can make sure that the federal police is reading this, I'm throwing in a few Echelon keywords (which, incidentally, are good for getting around lameness filters):
air strikes Cuba Libya Iran Iraq Korea Sudan Syria axis of evil Saddam Hussein Osama bin Laden jihad Taliban harboring terrorist Al Qaeda bomb World Trade Center FBI CIA NSA DOJ Unabomber FC Bomberman MI5 MI6 Bond espionage counter intelligence AG Ashcroft national security UN IRS rob banks 2600 hacking pay phone cracking DES crypto anarchy
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Re:Still urging...
Investigate breaches of Federal law across multiple state jusrisdictions. Most law-enforcement agencies' right to investigate a crime, pursue a fugitive, make an arrest, carry a weapon, et c. ends at the town/county/state line. FBI jurisdiction extends across all 50 states, all other U.S. territories, and fifty-two other countries (to, of course, a limited extent).
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Instead of a central repository, carry it with youSed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? It doesn't matter where the data are; if they're on a central server, they're at risk -- all it takes is some disaffected sysadmin type or his boss or an FBI/NKVD/Gestapo type, and your personal details are public.
I carry all my logins etc. in my PalmOS device, encrypted in a Blowfish-protected database, and synched to my personal computer when I'm back in the office. I have to enter one decent password to get at my data, and if I lose the PDA I suppose someone could crack it if they *_really_* wanted to, but at least I know the data are NOT on a Microsoft/Sun/Liberty Alliance box where some disaffected BOFH can get to it.
YMMV.
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Re:Kids these days...
Most poor spellers aren't so because they haven't memorized enough words. They don't know *why* words are spelled a particular way because they don't understand the principles and history of their language.
3 words for you...'Hooked on Phonics'.
Poor spellers and IM Chat are totally different things, though. Poor spellers have trouble memorizing (or were never taught) the rules of phonics, and so they can only spell the words that are familiar to them. IM Chat is a lazy way to save time and effort typing in an effort to converse in somewhat realtime.
Have you ever chatted with a slow typist? It's MADDENING. I can't figure out which is more maddening: the old style BBS chatrooms where you could actually see the other guy type 1 character every 5 seconds (and then backspace over his mistakes), or the unending wait for a new message (Is he still there? Did he go to the bathroom? Did my net connection go down again?) on new chat programs.
IM Chat and l33t sp3^k are different too, though. L33t-speak is a sort of 'code' for the initiated, it doesn't save time or typing (it actually takes more time, since characters and numbers are not meant to be used that much) but it looks 'cool'...kind of like gang tagging.
I have no problem with basic (u,r,brb,[g], etc.) IM chat in an informal, realtime, or computer related (discussion board, email, etc.) setting, but formal papers should be written in (semi)proper English. L33t speak should be confined to L33t hangouts or conversations with other 3-L33t5.
And everyone should be able to type a decent WPM so that chats are easier, and people are more willing to correct their mistakes. I don't touchtype (I have a somewhat wierd variation of the two finger typing...somewhere around 3 or 4 fingers) but I type about 60WPM corrected. I make a lot of mistakes typing, but take the time to correct them.
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yeah
Oh yeah, great plan. Centralized download management, virtually no verification of the legality of the content. It would be easier just to drop all your computer equipment off at the local FBI office.
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Re:Terrorism?
Wrong wrong wrong. Check out what your law enforcement agency in charge of terrorism says. You'll note that it explicitly says 'the unlawful use of force and violence'. Waving a grenade around is not terrorism; it is threatening , will promote fear in the crowd, and probably illegal, but it is not terrorism. Now if they were to pull out the pin, throw it into the crowd, and claim to be doing it to promote a some agenda, then yes that would be terrorism. It doesn't become terrorism until a violent or forceful act takes place.
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Re:Well, I guess that's how Fascism takes root....
Your free speech rights have clearly not been abridged, nor are they in danger - or you wouldn't have been able to write what you just wrote, because you'd face imprisonment and execution within days.
The government appears to be doing this, although the time they take to wait is longer than mere days, and executions are not involved, at least yet. I point you to three specific cases:
- Tre Arrow, an outspoken environmental activist and former Congressional candidate in Oregon, is being charged with two counts of arson in connection with environmental terrorist activity. However, he does not fit the profile of the typical ELF terrorist: he's older, not in school, and very, very public in his activities. He also typically uses nonviolent tactics.
- Raise The Fist webmaster Sherman Austin is being indicted by the feds for circulating bomb-making literature and carrying an unregistered handgun. These charges came down six months after federal prosecutors told him there would probably be no charges filed.
- Community activist and American foreign policy critic E. J. Ujaama of Seattle, WA is being charged with aiding Al Qaeda by setting up a training camp in Oregon
All of these charges were filed within two weeks of each other.
I will grant that this is not conclusive evidence of a pattern of political prosecutions of critics of the Bush administration. What I am saying, however, is that we need to be wary of how the government is prosecuting its War On Terror. We need to make sure Ashcroft doesn't engage in political prosecutions, by watching these trials, and the trials of other outspoken activists, very carefully.
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I'm sick of dumbshits saying GWB is great
The economy sucks, most people I know are out of work, 911.
Yesterday I went to go visit some friends up in San Francisco. I was appalled at the
number of large office spaces availiable for lease along the 101. Entire business parks empty. It was an amazingly traffic free drive on the way home down the 280 during what would have been bumper to bumper during the boom.
GWB reminds me of the construction people in my neighborhood. They don't understand the importance of dumping money into the tech sector. They forget that during the boom that EVERYONE had money and was spending it on
everything.
As far as GWB being a great president, well we could have had Saddam Hussain as president when 911 happened, all he would have had to say was Lets kick butt and instant popularity in the polls. Satan could
have said Lets Kick butt and the pope would have rallied behind him. Sure you think i'm kidding? Think back to 911, when GWB said he wasn't going to put up with terrorism. Didn't you think what a cool guy?
I think GWB is a liar! I think he lied to win the election, he's lying about the impact 911 had on our economy, he's lying that we can't catch usama. 27
million dollar reward and nobody has turned the guy in yet? I mean cmon folks get real here, if I was some starving Al Quaida soldier fuck my religion, gimme the money! I think GWB is trying to get as many young
americans into the army as possible to lock us in a huge war so he stays in office. We have no business fucking with Hussain in Iraq either, GWB's daddy already carpet bombed the place in the 90's, we kicked his ass so hard
that he now allows UN weapon inspectors to make sure he isn't building weapons of mass destruction.
We should be focusing on rebuilding our economy and the twin towers, not bombs.
After a year and a half of not working, eating ramen noodles to pay the mortgage and watching a lot of my friends in the same predicement, i'm beginning to suspect that 911 was just a ploy by GWB to gain popularity. Yeah
I know it sounds sick, but we're talking about a president who's father was in the CIA, and did some suspicous things when it came to the election.
Another thing bothering me, is what happened to all the 911 relief funds? I have inlaws in NYC that had inlaws that died. They've gotten jack shit from anyone. My guess is it went to the GWB bomb building
fund.
Mod me down if you like, this is honestly how I feel about things. I think times really suck now and I wish Clinton was still president. Hey the man liked cigars, I can relate to that (wink wink nod nod say no more)
Now on top of fucking the economy to fund his war, lying to the public at any chance he can, and letting the RIAA fuck us on our personal rights, he wants to take more away from me? Fuck no! I won't stand for it. Even
though my vote didn't make a difference in the last election there is no way GWB is going to be able to pull that florida crap a second time. I will vote his ass out and I would urge any slashdotters in a similiar situation
to go do the same. Fuck GWB he's a joke!
Now that i've said all these nasty comments about GWB I can expect a knock at the door from the FBI, because he wants my first ammendment rights too.
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Citing...
Okay.
The source for current information is the U.S. Courts website on wiretaps. This covers 1997-2001. Archival information (pre-1997) is available through the U.S. Gov't Printing Office.
What the FBI is allowed to do is summarized on the FBi Website FAQ. I quote the relavant question:
Q. Are FBI Special Agents permitted to install wiretaps at their own discretion?
A. No. Wiretapping is one of the FBI's most sensitive techniques and is strictly controlled by federal statutes. It is used infrequently and then only to combat the most serious crimes and terrorism. Title 18, United States Code, Section 2516, contains the protocol requiring all law enforcement officers to establish probable cause that the wiretaps may provide evidence of a felony violation of federal law. After determining if a sufficient showing of probable cause has been made, impartial federal judges approve or disapprove wiretaps. The approving judge then must continue to monitor how the wiretap is being conducted. Wiretapping without meeting these stringent requirements and obtaining the necessary court orders is a serious felony under the law.
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Re:Oh, is the war on terrorism over now?
Ashcroft has really been quiet about this guy. I wonder why?
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sharp objects in the "road ahead"?don't forget to check out (reg. req.)
The FBI's new securities fraud (pumper/dumper club) hotline also seems to be producing good tips. Barely a day after the phone line was set up (at (800) 207-7676 or http://sanfrancisco.fbi.gov), more than 20 calls and e-mails had been received. "Some of the tips we've gotten are very promising and even corroborate ongoing investigations," Black said.
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Re:censor slashdot to protect pilots! gimme a brea
Here's the press release the FBI issued. As you would expect from the FBI, the release is riddled with inaccuracies. The company pulled the $350,000 number out of thin air...outages were extremely common. They also say he gained unauthorized access, which is a total lie. The case can be looked up at the usual places, for those interested in more.
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Re:Hint: CONTROL (was Re:Interesting but..)
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Re:Its not as harsh as it sounds.
"these laws discriminate against white people"
Things aren't true just because you say them. Try doing research instead of believing whatever sounds good.
The FBI Uniform Crime Report documents that hate crimes are committed against almost every demographic slice of America you can think of. Hate-crime laws apply to attacks on white people just as on black people. I challenge you to find me a single law anywhere in the United States, enacted or proposed, that says that only black people shall be protected by hate-crime laws.
If you need an example instead of statistics, look to Ronald Taylor, a racist black man who shot two white people. He was arraigned not only for their murders but for "ethnic intimidation," Pennsylvania's equivalent of "hate crime."
If you want the statistics: Hate Crimes, 1995 (see table 2)
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What a joke!Dear Slashdot,
I'm a government consultant for a large institution on the east coast, known for its strongarm tactics. We have recently been contacted by some of our constituents about this so-called "file sharing" that's a goin' on on the internet. Our job is to put the kabosh on it, tout suite! However, before we lace up the jackboots, we wanted to know what a bunch of college students and open source advocates thought.
What an utterly laughable idea.
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Re:DRM or not?
Heres a paper on TCPA / Palladium for your viewing pleasure, and The Register has a good collection of articles on CPRM on ATA.Frankly I'd rather see industry moves toward reliable solid state mass storage. Mechanical means just don't cut it any more as far as I'm concerned, just take a look at my journal to see the reason for my stance on that matter.
But where would we be without a few conspiracy theories?...
- Hard drive manufacturers operate an underground "quality cartel" on desktop grade drives, making people buy more and more, averaging out losses from customers switching brands, pumping up profit.
- HD makers are secretly on the take from the R.I.A.A. and M.P.A.A. to make crap drives, meaning all those evil mp3 pirates cannot hoard and share their booty for too long.
- The Men In Dark Suits Who Do Not Exist secretly sift through dumpsites in the dead of night looking for hard drives from which to recover details and evidence of MP3/DVD pirates, terrorists and other criminal activity. And pr0n.
Ali
- Hard drive manufacturers operate an underground "quality cartel" on desktop grade drives, making people buy more and more, averaging out losses from customers switching brands, pumping up profit.
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Another Kidnapping StoryI realize that this is quasi-off-topic, but there's a local case that hasn't gotten much national press lately, and they could use some help. Two teenage girls disappeared from their Oregon City, OR area apartment complex earlier this year and haven't been found since. The FBI is investigating this as an abduction. If you have any information on Miranda Gaddis (FBI Site) or Ashley Pond (FBI site), please contact the FBI immediately. If you have seen either of them outside the United States, please contact the US Embassy in your country. There is a reward of $50k+ for information leading to the recovery of these girls.
Just to make it on-topic: there was a flurry of media attention paid to these two girls back in May, but it seems to have died out in the wake of the Smart case. Perhaps no new clues means no new press attention.
