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I think he's unwitting, because he believes what he's doing is morally right. He's brainwashed...

It looks to me like you're the one who has been brainwashed. The government broke the very basis of all its laws, the Constitution, the head of the NSA lied to Congress, and Snowdon spilled the beans to the populace. I haven't heard any secrets that he's revealed that could in any way jeopardize national security, and if you have then please tell me what. The only threat to national security is if this bullshit riles people up anough to start shooting at politicians. National security isn't at stake, politicians' security is, fool.

The only traitors in this picture are the legislators who passed the PATRIOT act and are all trying to scare you with the "terrorist" boogeyman, a "threat" that is infinitesimal to almost everybody in the US.

If you're OK with living in a police state, move to Korea or Singapore or somewhere. I want my damned country back. I didn't join the military and volunteer for South East Asia during Vietnam just to have my country turn into a worse surveilance state than the Soviets we were fighting.

He'd be an idiot to volunteer for prison and you're an idiot for suggesting it. Bradley Manning is sure informing us now, isn't he? The guy's been locked up in solitary without trial and without visitors. Where's his right to a speedy trial? He can no longer fight the monster. (song by the old Canadian band Steppenworf, lyrics here)

Snowden can.

Cowardly syncopants like you make me sick.

That depends on how you pronounce "potato".

If you are > 40, you should now Time is relative. I have kids. Playing is something I share with them, tinkering (sadly) not. I didn't want to buy them a game console. I like to share with them other values.

Steam doesn't "waste" my time. I decide to waste my time with Steam.

That's the kind of reasoning that harms our community. I'll rephrase it to you (in my very primitive English):

For lost of reasons I decide to waste my time playing instead of tinkering so I wellcome those who make this possible.

If Debian community can't conceive this scenario, then perhaps it's time to move to another distro (or another OS).

You don't want a real mermaid: Let Shel Silverstein explain why.

A small church bell weighs only a bit over 300 pounds. Revere's factory made church bells, one of which today, in Bellows Falls, VT, used to function as a fire alarm . So it's easy and appropriate to ring a church bell while riding your horse and firing all of your guns at once, and exploding into space.

I agree, that we shouldn't be hammering every kid into the same mold

Good morning, The Worm, Your Honour,
The Crown will plainly show,
The prisoner who now stands before you,
Was caught red-handed showing feelings.
Showing feelings of an almost human nature.
This will not do.
Call the schoolmaster!

(Here is the link, if anyone dares to confess that he needs it :-)

The 1970s OTOH, were overrated IMO (I'm glad I was too young to experience that).

ObFloyd:

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine
Staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun

And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to nought
Or half a page of scribbled lines

Well somebody told me You had a boyfriend Who looks like a girlfriend That I had in February of last year It's not confidential I've got potential

I used Mandrake for a couple of years before Mandriva lobotomized it.

Record labels support the artists.

You must not be a "Southern Rock" music fan, otherwise you'd have heard the song "Working For MCA" by Lynyrd Skynyrd...

"Take a mountain turn it into a mole"

The song from Lynyrd Skynyrd "That Smell" is best represents this situation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjAPoN8qs0Q
http://www.lyrics007.com/Lynyrd%20Skynyrd%20Lyrics/That%20Smell%20Lyrics.html

I seen something similar to that last year when one of the tenants that moved out my parent's apartment and the refrigerator look worst than biological experiment gone wrong and I work at a biological research firm. At least I know what is grown at my workplace (at least I do an test PCR find out the things is) but is in that refrigerator can best classed "Wild type". The whole apartment ha a smell that would set off the gag reflexes of turkey buzzard and my parents refused to go into the kitchen and ask me to go. I brought had a disposable biosuit and mask from work so I had to clean up that refrigerator.
More interesting that what we term "bio-hazard" at work would be just "dumped" in the garbage at an personal residence.

"Copyright exists to promote sharing, not creation."

copyright exists to prop up an unsustainable way of living, that is far from ideal. In a sustainable system, the tree of knowledge grows and teaches you simply by settling in for a nap underneath the tree. the tree of immortality, now that is a different question. immortality leads to a race of extremely bored and listless beings who even have given up on reproducing.

while knowledge is meant to be shared, immortality is an atrocious bug.

original sin was when knowledge was tapped to find how to greatly slow aging, to such a point that effectively some sentient beings could become completely bored with life and be willing to die every day, in every way. and there are abusers of the system, and then there are those who would like to never see any creature die, vs those who believe it is up to some branch of society to say 'this person will die'. the advantage of having a functional death process is that we wouldn't all need vastly limitless data storage, and processing power to make all the sock puppets dancing to the tune of 'the price is right'

i am ahead of my time when it comes to knowledge, i need no barriers to my vision, although i do need barriers in my mind. if your bible says something different, maybe you picked a different story, after all the freedom of choice is all about understanding that knowledge is the great arc of a rainbow across the sky.

anyways, peace and love, what the future needs isn't war, not even by proxy, nor does it need science, science is what the great thinking machines in the sky store a record of. those machines protect life and promote it, and focus on making worlds healthy. not on drop shipping in 40,000 gas guzzling cars. unless the system really needs them.

this song sums it up best. http://www.lyrics007.com/Counting%20Crows%20Lyrics/They%20Paved%20Paradise%20Lyrics.html

anyways. i guess my whole point was I HATE SAURKRAUT

Sure is - black holes have mass and are therefore Catholic.

For some reason your reference reminds me of Hotel California.

Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said we are all just prisoners here, of our own device
And in the master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast
The stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
relax, said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!

The bolded portion bears the strongest relationship to black holes, but possible Christianity references abound. Maybe scientists should name some of them: Hotel California, purgatory, hell and call the one that gets us "the beast".

Shows how in our legal system, even when you win, you still lose to some degree.

Thanks to Bobby Bare there is a musical reference to being a Winner.

As pointed out many times, the RIAA is not exactly good at following the "Gentlemen's rules" of the game. Hope Ms. Lindoor hits them hard in the wallet, would, no doubt, make Mr. Beckerman feel a lot better about Ms. Lindoor taking the draw. Hope the judge tosses the RIAA out of the ring too, with prejudice.

The irony is that even Slashdot bought it - but maybe I shouldn't be surprised anymore...

The basic idea about a keyboard that can get programmed to display different text on the keycaps aren't really new - the difference is that the technology is better today. But the use is limited - only a few doing writing in multiple international languages/character sets will really benefit from this in a real keyboard. For ordinary people it's easier to buy a secondary keyboard and switch whenever necessary.

But in specialized applications the use of programmable keytops may be really useful. Think cash registers and other kinds of devices.

Because Superman is dead?
Ok, how about we fund it by using the left-over fractions of a penny from bank transactions?

Ironically, the official was Lee Yong-chul, who was a presidential monitor against corruption at the time.

I feel like Mick Jaggar in the song "(I Can't Get No)Satisfaction!" However I wish I had grand-daddy Mick's money and I will get some satisfaction. If you read the lyrics to "(I Can't Get No)Satisfaction!" it feels like my life: http://www.lyrics007.com/The%20Rolling%20Stones%20Lyrics/(I%20Can't%20Get%20No)%20Satisfaction%20Lyrics.html

If you talk with one hand in your pocket, is the other flicking a cigarette or playing the piano?

Aikon-

p.s. check here if you're confused.

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Is not Come out and fight like a man!* What are ya? Chicken?

*That is, when you're done exchanging...er...fluids.

The server campaign has been a long and hard fought campaign. MS was far from blindsided. This is a fair and honorable victory. For a long time, it seemed like they were winning, now it finally looks clear that the tide has turned. This 'win' will provide an important bridgehead for the next stage in the war, but the war is definitely still on.

This is not going to be a short war. "I'll Be Home For Christmas" and "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" are two songs that were sung in the European and Pacific theatres for many a year before the soldiers finally made it home.

This rule, combined with Bush's recent victories stripping government whistleblowers of protections, lets Bush fry anyone he wants to intimidate, especially if they've been leaking.

"These days it's all secrecy, and no privacy."
- The Rolling Stones, from "Fingerprint File"

Don Henley of the Eagles says ...

you could put it down to creativity rather than the 'logical' brute force measures that the Borg use? .> I didnt see a lot of Voyager after going to University (pretty much stopped watching TV)

To resist it is useless

maybe from these lyrics by the B-52's we could fit hairy lobster in there somewhere. maybe they could re-do the song. Hey lets get Weird-Al to do a parody! yeah! pass the salad plate please..

"Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times." -Mark Twain

If you don't know what the subject line refers to:
look no further.

Mal-2

The only way my data is private at all at Google, especially with such a Big Brother law, is if it's encrypted, as well as its index, only decrypted on executing a search query, with all plaintext logs discarded after a few minutes - and warranteed private in Google's TOS.

Why does the government get to look at my data after 6 months, but it's so hard to get them to respond to FOIA requests within 6 months (or at all) when the info is sensitive? Isn't this related to this week's Supreme Court decision that Andersen wasn't guilty in shredding Enron documents that would have proven its complicity in that corporate catastrophe? Government can keep arbitrary secrets, corporations aren't liable for destroying evidence of crimes, but humans lives are an open book? How long can a country like that last, especially when smart people can go elsewhere?

"These days it's all secrecy; no privacy"
- The Rolling Stones, "Fingerprint File"

You know one now.

Well, I guess you don't really know me. But I just popped $65 the other day at iTunes to fill gaps in my CD collection and load my iPod Shuffle with workout music and running Jodies.

Sure, I could have bought the CDs or scoured P2P networks for them, but why bother? *Click*, pay, done. Not scour, scour, queue or wait, wait, sign for the package.

I don't care for the DRM - this only serves as an incentive for folks *not* to pay. The other alternative is to wait for the CDs to arrive. But these songs are staying in iTunes and my Shuffle to help keep me motivated while I work out. I'm not likely to listen to Jodies or cheesy pop songs while I surf or code.

The music industry can't have it both ways. Well, I guess they can, but it's certainly not legit. Legit...hmmm...Too Legit To Quit - guess it's time to spend another 99 cents on a cheesy pop song. Man, I'm lame.

I think that's because there's no real education of customers on the extras.

What did they teach me in NYC for example? Word and Excel, Word and Excel. (Sounds like an Eminem line?) Oh yeah, and PowerPoint...and IE; thus we associate PCs with Word and Excel and the "typical" PC tools. People don't tend to use other OSs/tools unless they're told and taught about them, or they're needed for homework/work in general (which leads to the former by necessity). It's hard to print a book report with a Palm Pilot (or grade one that's saved on it with a red pen for that matter), so it's less popular. Furthermore, people who already have TVs/DVD+CD players/watches/phones/fridges won't usually get PCs with that stuff. Those who don't are getting a PC to reap the benefit in one fell swoop.

That's why Linux is becoming popular now, and why Windows 95 was before that, and why Mac was before that. It changes with the buzz and the curriculum (at least here in teh Bronx).

I put the blame squarely on Alanis Morrissette.

Nonono, LSB is a binary form of LSD when seen through an LCD, after reading FUD on why Linux isn't being adopted. It causes your computer to hallucinate Pluto whilst running SETI@Home.

the seriousness of the situation is perhaps expressed best in an old Guns N' Roses song. Listen to it, it's very powerful.

[snip]
Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they've always done before

Look at the hate we're breeding
Look at the fear we're feeding
Look at the lives we're leading
The way we've always done before

My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can't deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars

[snip]

it's ironic that you bring this up because it's spreading like virii which begs the question: who cares?

"We were looking for a way to make the ratings soar So we orchestrated an encounter with the Borg Normally you'd think that that would get us into shit But this one has a smashing ass and a lovely set of tits"

Bulls-eye!

Unfortunately people are generally sheep. As Cake put it in Sheep Go to Heaven, "... goats go to Hell." Going against the grain makes you a goat. So if you don't support the monopoly, you're one of those unclean "free thinkers" and you must go directly to Hell. Do not collect $200, just grab your asbesdos suit and say hi to the Devil.

Did you mean Boots or her cover of The Beatle's Run For Your Life? (Very very un-PC lyrics these days.)

Stan, Eminem. Here are the original lyrics.

01234567890123456789 I never thought that words like product could ever leave my lips,
01234567890123456789 but something happened to me somewhere that made me lose my grip.
01234567890123456789 Maybe it's a lack of inspiration that makes me stoop,
01234567890123456789 or maybe it's a lack of remuneration; I can't recoup.
01234567890123456789 But if you want it folks, you got it;
01234567890123456789 it's all right here in my box set.

01234567890123456789 Disc One
01234567890123456789 it's where we've begun, it's all our greatest hits,
01234567890123456789 and if you are a fan then you know that you've already got 'em.

01234567890123456789 Disc Two
01234567890123456789 it was all brand new, an album's worth of songs,
01234567890123456789 but we had to leave the whole disc blank 'cause
01234567890123456789 some other label bought 'em.

01234567890123456789 Disc Three
01234567890123456789 This is really me in a grade school play;
01234567890123456789 I had about a hundred thousand lines but of course I forgot 'em.

01234567890123456789 I never thought there'd be days like this, there was always someone at my door.
01234567890123456789 I never thought I would ever miss, and the crowd would always holler for more.
01234567890123456789 But now it seems all that people want is what I used to be,
01234567890123456789 and every time I try to do something new,
01234567890123456789 all they want is 1973.

01234567890123456789 I never thought I'd be regretful of all my past success.
01234567890123456789 But some stupid number one hit single has got me in this mess.
01234567890123456789 You can put it on every compilation - that's all right.
01234567890123456789 You can hear it on the oldies radio station every night.
01234567890123456789 And if you want it again, you got it
01234567890123456789 it's right here in my box set.

01234567890123456789 Disc Four
01234567890123456789 Never released before, and you can tell why.
01234567890123456789 it's just some demos I recorded in my basement.

01234567890123456789 Disc Five
01234567890123456789 I was barely alive, I was coughing up a lung,
01234567890123456789 so they had to use a special computer as my replacement.

01234567890123456789 Disc Six
01234567890123456789 A dance remix, so I can catch the latest trend
01234567890123456789 and it'll make you scratch your head and wonder
01234567890123456789 where my taste went.

01234567890123456789 So now my fans are crying sellout,
01234567890123456789 they say that I've lost my touch.
01234567890123456789 They say I should just get the hell out,
01234567890123456789 before I do too much.
01234567890123456789 Hear my songs in an ad for a bathroom cleanser -
01234567890123456789 they say it's greed,
01234567890123456789 And now I'm wondering where my friends are in this time of need.
01234567890123456789 But if you change your mind