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You mean how like the CIA recently suicided 3 detainees by hanging in Guantanamo bay?

http://harpers.org/archive/2010/01/hbc-90006368

The article seems credible. No way I could verify it obviously but it has enough detail that I think it could be verified easily by the FBI or DOJ. If you could get them to do their job, that is.

Or how Bush biographer, J.H. Hatfield, commits suicide
http://archive.salon.com/politics/red/2001/07/20/blue/

Or how Dr. David Kelly, who published facts inconvenient to Bush's poodle, commits suicide
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/830/blair_s_crisis_bush_s_crisis

Or how Itojun, a lynchpin in IPv6 security which would have eliminated many network exploits not to mention Windows, died 'unexpectedly'?
http://www.wide.ad.jp/news/press/20071031-itojun-e.html

There are more. The list is already very long.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

There's another old article going as far back as 2000 from Courtney Love. Although I find her and her music distasteful she sure does open up a lot of numbers that -- although larger -- probably work the same way today. If that isn't condemnation of the music executives milking artists like animals and then dumping them, I don't know what is.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

This! Kudos to Ray Beckerman for your tireless work, and everybody:

Read Courtney Love's article! It's an amazing read!

http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/ (Courtney Love Does the Math, from 2000 - looking at it now, oddly prophetic)

Thanks for keeping us in the loop NYCL.

These seem to be serious allegations. I hope there's action taken this time.

These deserve to be kept in mind:
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/ (Courtney Love Does the Math, from 2000 - looking at it now, oddly prophetic)
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html (The Problem with Music, by Producer Steve Albini - great insight into the process of Major Label music)

This is why we should care. I know that it's clichéd, but these companies care nothing about you, or about music, or about the well-being of the world in which they operate. They are wholly evil, in a way that almost no other business is.

It's worth noting that if Apple were a smaller company, this sort of behavior would (or should, you can always find more shills) get doors slammed in its face at media outlets pretty fast.

You must not read Glenn Greenwald. Our media doesn't give a shit about proper journalism, it cares about "access" so it can get the scoop and be a part of the "Kool Kids Club". If any reporter did what you suggest upon being offered an Apple exclusive, their editor would fire them on the spot.

do they simply advocate countering free speech with *GASP* more free speech? It sounds like propaganda

Speaking of which: http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs/print.html

With this deal in place, government officials and their contractors began approving, and in some cases altering, the scripts of shows before they were aired to conform with the government's anti-drug messages. "Script changes would be discussed between ONDCP and the show -- negotiated," says one participant.

Rick Mater, the WB network's senior vice president for broadcast standards, acknowledges: "The White House did view scripts. They did sign off on them -- they read scripts, yes."

It has cum to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of posters to Slashdot by gathering

Just want to point out the 'airplane recycled-air' claim is a myth. Check this out.

I guess they need more profit, and putting to spite their existing customers is certainly not in the way of their attempts to make more profit.

Then again, when you hear about EA's policies towards developers, is it surprising?

The first time a company screws up, is not it's last. Companies don't change their spots, and EA is no exception.

Lest we forget Left Behind: Eternal Forces, the video game based on the evangelical born-again Christian Tom Clancy / Stephen King-esque, "Left Behind" series.

Join an armed Christian militia after the Rapture (Wait. Weren't all the Christians called up in the rapture? What's the point of faith, if after it becomes super-obvious that one religion was true, you get a mulligan? Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of faith?) who go through the streets of New York shooting UN soldiers that are now part of the Anti-Christ's One World Government(tm), shooting down Black Helicopters, and either converting or shooting the unsaved. (Nothing like spreading the message of the Prince of Peace with the barrel of a gun.)

Yes, This game was a parody of itself.

Needless to say, this game caused quite a bit controversy when released.

Pardon me, but when someone says something terribly ignorant, and that ignorance can be remedied with a 3-second google search, I feel somewhat compelled to step in. http://www.womensenews.org/story/rape/030330/sexual-assault-pervasive-military-experts-say http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/03/07/women_in_military/ http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/31/military.sexabuse/index.html http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/485424/franken_s_anti_rape_amendment http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/04/weekinreview/the-army-s-problems-with-sex-and-power.html Really, you missed all these articles? I guess you really weren't paying attention. You must be either comatose or deliberately blind to certain aspects of reality--you know, those parts that undermine your pithy little points.

> the problem was she couldn't handle the media and was eaten alive.

Yeah, the media was REALLY tricky when pressing her for answers on all those nasty questions like,"What magazines do you read?" What kind of jerk wouldn't take, "All of them," as an answer? I'm sure that if she were president right now, we'd be having news stories like this one, discussing the depth of her thinking.

Running a country isn't all that hard, after all. Everyone knows that all you have to do is hire a bunch of people who agree with your politics and let them work everything out.

Actually Bush DID utter a phrase over and over and over when he ran for prez that was pretty much shown to be a lie when he realized he didn't need the Dems.

"I'm a uniter not a divider"

This transcript
And this one
are two of the many many examples of Bush running on a platform that gave us all the impression he would work with both sides of the isle.

Every arm-chair capatalist knows that everyone else pays for the police who should NEVER stop them from doing anything just everyone else.

Watch Fox-news, you will get the idea soon enough. All drunk-drivers should be stopped, but not if they need their car for business. All illegal immigrants should be kicked out, except their cleaning lady.

Don't forget...draconian drug laws that apply to everyone except the children of the people in power who pushed such laws in the first place.; e.g., John Ashcroft.

This student posted his own story at http://www.salon.com/life/pinched/2009/12/06/living_in_a_van/index.html - I think it's a much more interesting link.

And flying a plane into the WTC?

I was specifically talking about flying a plane into the Pentagon, but the U.S. military routinely strikes "military and economic targets" when we're bombing other countries. See: Iraq, Kosovo, and Iraq again. Guess what the Pentagon and the World Trade Center qualify as then?

What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Which is why we should never have engaged in torture and indefinite imprisonment without trial.

Or is there some further factor that people consider - that WWII was a "real war", but the violence with Osama was somewhat "less" of a war, and therefore targeting civilians was not justified?

There sure is a factor: American hypocrisy. It's why we have no qualms about bombing "military and economic targets", collateral damage, torture and indefinite imprisonment when we're doing it to others, but scream bloody murder when it's done to us. Look at what the U.S. has done based on the fear and rage of ONE day NINE years ago. Then remember that we've given Iraq and Afghanistan the population equivalent of a 911 every few weeks, or less. Meanwhile we give ourselves backslapping platitudes that sound just like the Soviets that invaded Afghanistan in the 80's.

And to all you wingnuts with mod points, show me where I'm factually wrong on anything I've said.

Suggested reading -> http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/

Honestly it reminds me of how the movie companies screw people too. Stan Lee for instance. Big superhero movie makes piles of cash at the box office... but when it's time to pay HIS share well suddenly the accountants have done the math and he gets a pittance. It's sort of like what I call "hospital math", if you've ever looked at one of those bills and wondered why a tongue depressor cost $20 well now you know! Also reminds me of how when I was younger and someone said they worked for a "non profit" I thought wow they're really sacrificing... Until one day a story about a charity I was giving a *significant* portion of my paycheck to (I worked minimum wage at the time) was paying their executives truckloads of cash. Non profit just meant they didn't turn a profit, never mind that they didn't help anyone and paid their executives tons of money. Sorry world, I pretty much lost desire to give to charities after that, I was giving something like 25% of my money away at the time - never again.

Anyway, you get the idea. Yes the fine print spells these things out but when a big name "hip" record guy is telling you you're going to make it BIG and he works for one of The BIGS and he tells you how this contract is "standard" well geez you're sick of eating mac and cheese and you SIGN. No pressure or anything right? Courtney isn't the only one who has spelled this out but that article was the one that turned me off of buying CDs forever. I have since slowly begun to buy MP3 from Amazon (sorry Apple, I prefer MP3) but a CD in a store? No way. If I could I'd pay the artist directly, fuck the labels. I sincerely hope this lawsuit eats them alive and that we see suits just like it here in the States - pretty please?

Finding good in-depth writing by skimming the front page probably isn't the best approach ...

Try this: http://www.salon.com/technology/ask_the_pilot/index.html

http://salon.com :-) I mainly read Doonesbury there, plus articles other sites refer to, because I also stopped going there routinely after the paywall hit, and haven't looked at the front page (except for just now...)

My favorite weekly column, Ask the Pilot by Patrick Smith, is on Salon. I think a lot of us geeks would enjoy his anecdotes and perspective. I look forward to it each week, but I wouldn't have gone past a paywall for it.

If/when a State's department screws up, only that State is affected, and the others learn, how not to do things. When the Federal department screws up, we are all affected and — having little to compare with — may not even know, how much better (or worse) the things could be.

Well, wouldn't that just be peaches and cream...if it were true. I'd love it if all our varying governmental institutions, from the local to the state level, took to heart the lessons taught by the failures of others. But let's be honest; how many can you say to yourself have actually followed this path? So far few, if any, local state education boards have implemented this "learn from others' mistakes" ideology, which, yes, would be a great benefit for them to endorse. We have yet, however, to see governmental institutions do so on any sort of broad scale. The current state of most of our schools, and so many other parts of our decaying infrastructure, makes that painfully self-evident.
As far as that last bit about how much better or worse things could be, I can only say this: I don't need to wait until a bullet is burrowing through my ribcage or my cranium to know I don't want to get shot, or predict what will happen if the trigger is pulled. You still fail to justify disbanding an entire federal department on the "basis of we don't know what will happen." You're wrong. Again. We do.
In the words of George Santayana, "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

More importantly, most of the modern "national" Departments violate the Constitution — if not in letter, then in spirit — by usurping the powers not explicitly enumerated as Federal by the document. Lip-service to that is still paid by Congress — the Federal attempts to regulate the maximum speed nationally, for example, are hidden behind "federal highway money": States don't have to set certain speed limits, but will not get federal funds, unless they cap the speeds...

LOLWUT? Been indulging in some "recreational substances" there, chief? State governments are more than free to NOT TAKE Federal money. No one forces the cash down states' throats. But guess what? If you want to feed at the Federal trough, you play by their rules. Same thing any responsible parent tells their snotty teenager: "As long as you're living under my roof..." I do believe the proper term for claiming rights to taxpayer money without strings is called...*ahem*... Entitlement.

Peace is the absence of opposition to Socialism.

Oops.

I don't understand the modern Left's obsession with the all-knowing and benevolent Central government. What happened to "stick it to the man", etc? I'm not alone in my puzzlement, BTW:

... somehow liberals have drifted into a strange servility toward big government, which they revere as a godlike foster father-mother who can dispense all bounty and magically heal all ills.

That's only part of the picture. Definitely, a good number do believe that Uncle Sam will do everything including providing a nice clean and soft wipe for their backside, followed by just the right amount of baby powder during their diaper change. Some of them are in the Republican Party, too. Remember all the tax cuts and bailouts for big business since 2000?

In the end, I'm just sick and tired of bullshit arguments being pushed as

If the problem was that national dept A, did not ensure that state depts b through z or whatever acted responsibly, what leads you to believe the state departments will act any more responsibly if the national one controlling everything and its corresponding laws go bye-bye?

If/when a State's department screws up, only that State is affected, and the others learn, how not to do things. When the Federal department screws up, we are all affected and — having little to compare with — may not even know, how much better (or worse) the things could be.

More importantly, most of the modern "national" Departments violate the Constitution — if not in letter, then in spirit — by usurping the powers not explicitly enumerated as Federal by the document. Lip-service to that is still paid by Congress — the Federal attempts to regulate the maximum speed nationally, for example, are hidden behind "federal highway money": States don't have to set certain speed limits, but will not get federal funds, unless they cap the speeds...

I don't understand the modern Left's obsession with the all-knowing and benevolent Central government. What happened to "stick it to the man", etc? I'm not alone in my puzzlement, BTW:

... somehow liberals have drifted into a strange servility toward big government, which they revere as a godlike foster father-mother who can dispense all bounty and magically heal all ills.

"What's with the bullshit redirect disguised as a Google page? If you're going to push a badly written, badly designed and blatantly agenda-pushing website on us at least have the balls to link directly to it"

I did a Google search and that's what came up. Down at the bottom it does refer to shootouts with Israeli contractors, so I guess its one of those black propaganda type of articles designed to dilute the veracity of facts by burying them under a tonn of bullshit. At first sight a well laid out piece. Make you wonder who would spend their time in constructing such a piece ????

But the veracity of my post still stands. Bush cut funds to the levee project - to pay for the Iraq war.

"by 2003 the federal funding for the flood control project essentially dried up as it was drained into the Iraq war. In 2004, the Bush administration cut funding requested by the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain by more than 80 percent.

Additional cuts at the beginning of this year (for a total reduction in funding of 44.2 percent since 2001) forced the New Orleans district of the Corps to impose a hiring freeze. The Senate had debated adding funds for fixing New Orleans' levees, but it was too late"

Either that or the majority of both liberals and conservatives are completely confused about him.

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

"This Modern World" says it best. Several times.

http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/08/04/tomo/index.html

http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/10/13/tomo/index.html

Either that or the majority of both liberals and conservatives are completely confused about him.

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

"This Modern World" says it best. Several times.

http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/08/04/tomo/index.html

http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/10/13/tomo/index.html

Laughable. Seriously, put your Charles Craphammer talking points and lame annecdote down for two seconds and put yourself in the shoes of an Iraqi. Or, in the shoes of a veteran of the Soviet armed forces:

The universality of war propaganda
By Glenn Greenwald

I'm traveling still today, but I wanted to note an amazing Op-Ed that was referenced in a book I'm reading: the Op-Ed is by Nikolai Lanine, published in The Toronto Globe and Mail in November, 2006. Lanine was drafted into the Russian Army at the age of 18 and spent several years as part of the Russian occupying force in Afghanistan. Thereafter, he moved to Canada, and in 2006, his wife's first cousin, a medic in the Canadian Army, was killed in Afghanistan. Lanine wrote this column after attending his funeral, and recounted what he and his comrades in the Russian Army believed they were doing in Afghanistan:

I identified with the Canadian soldiers at the funeral mourning the loss of their friend. Like them, I went to Afghanistan believing in "fighting terrorism" and "liberating Afghans." During my first mission, we were protecting refugees escaping an area that was under attack by the mujahedeen. I was deeply affected by their misery, and by the poverty and suffering of the Afghan people in general. In my mind, our presence was "helping Afghans," particularly with educating women and children. My combat unit participated in "humanitarian aid" - accompanying doctors and delivering food, fuel, clothing, school and other supplies to Afghan villages.

It was only later that I began to wonder: Did that aid justify our aggression ?

Exactly the same quandaries arose which the U.S. confronts today, and the same justifications were concocted to dismiss them:

It is hard to kill people without demonizing them. In 1988, my unit accidentally hit an Afghan wedding party. My friend, whose mortar shells had killed innocent people, was shocked when he learned of it. Some soldiers, however, were indifferent. "That village supports the resistance, anyway," they said. Like NATO now, we didn't count "their" casualties. As another friend, Alexander, would later write : "We thought that all of them - old and young - were insurgents." Alexander, to save his unit, had called in artillery that destroyed a village from which the mujahedeen were attacking. People of the villages hit by our air strikes became hostile and turned to the resistance. More attacks by insurgents led to more Soviet strikes.

After 10 years of such a tragic cycle, more than a million Afghans were dead and millions more had fled their devastated country. Also, ignored by many, a powerful religious force of militant Islamic movements grew under the pressure of foreign aggression. In 1989, during negotiations between my regiment and the most radical militants from the area, a mujahed told my friend : "We'll take our revenge to your country." And they did. The backlash spilled out and hit not only the former Soviet Union and Afghans themselves in the 1990s, but also America on 9/11. The vicious cycle I witnessed in the 1980s - violence causing violence - is still continuing.

At Andrew's funeral, the shock and disbelief on the faces of his military friends were all too familiar. So were the official speeches. And the Canadian media coverage seemed like an echo of the Soviet press. "Positive changes are evident. However, it would be premature to say that Kandahar is not a 'hot spot' any more," the Soviets said in the 1980s. "Things have improved," one Canadian newspaper said now, yet "significant problems" remain. "Development is occurring" in Kandahar, the paper added, just like a Soviet journalist had observed in 1988.

Of course, back then it was Russia who was fighting -- a

Speaking of Courtney Love:

http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/

You aren't really disagreeing...

[...] thus legitimizes some form of civil disobedience - hence the sympathy for those developing the means to do just that.

Actually, actively fighting a government's law-enforcement effort is no mere "disobedience". But that's hair-splitting. But you missed the other — wouldn't it be comparably legitimate to try to punish a scumbag (such as a "pig") with the pain and discomfort of malfunctioning pacemaker? Certainly, inquiring minds need to know, and the researchers themselves wouldn't be doing anything illegal, so they should be applauded and allowed to continue using taxpayers' research money...

This leads to fears by some that our current society is leaning towards an Orwellian 'Big Brother' like world

Being from where I was born and raised, I understand these fears better than many. But I can see, where this same logic can be applied — people praising DoS-ing police, if they were consistent in their beliefs, should also be praising research into hijacking the medical devices...

But if they were really consistent, these same people would never allow the Government to extend itself into controlling health care either, or the Internet ("net neutrality"), or TV and radio ("fairness doctrine"), etc. One observer — herself a life-long Democrat — for example, wrote in August:

But somehow liberals have drifted into a strange servility toward big government, which they revere as a godlike foster father-mother who can dispense all bounty and magically heal all ills. The ethical collapse of the left was nowhere more evident than in the near total silence of liberal media and Web sites at the Obama administration's outrageous solicitation to private citizens to report unacceptable "casual conversations" to the White House. If Republicans had done this, there would have been an angry explosion by Democrats from coast to coast. I was stunned at the failure of liberals to see the blatant totalitarianism in this incident, which the president should have immediately denounced. His failure to do so implicates him in it.

Liar.

I'm not the OP, but here's a citation. Please provide a citation to back up your accusations.

all art that can be digitally reproduced will be done by volunteers as there is no way to professionalize art that can be digitally reproduced.

Actually there is a way to get paid for content. Subscriptions. Quite a few websites sell subscriptions, Salon provides free access to some things but to get full access, legally, you have to subscribe. I know this is Slashdot but look at dating sites. According to ComsumerRankings.com the top 5 dating sites have more than 60,000,000 subscribers.

Use subscriptions for entertainment, we already do. Cable or satellite TV, net access, netflix, and others are subscription based. Using the net it's possible to get a large audience, the problem for small unknown productions is marketing.

As for whether anything like this would work for small independent performers or groups I don't know, at least for actors, musicians, and other performers.

Falcon

...kind of like the way all the people who protested Bush have shut up now that it's a Democrat continuing his policies?

As is usually the case, the facts don't meet your storyline.

WHOOSH

Presumably, there is a selective advantage to improved learning and memory. Presumably, there is some kind of downside that balances that selective advantage. Are there other behaviors for which the rat is impaired

As you suggest, there are two possibilities why this advantage hasn't occurred naturally:

1. It adds no selective advantage;

2. The advantage is outweighed by the costs.

There is a third possibility, namely that the set of mutations necessary to give rise to this advantage are too improbable to occur (or perhaps even fundamentally impossible).

Based on no knowledge whatsoever, I suspect that there probably is some selective advantage to higher intelligence in rats, over long enough periods of time. I hypothesize that the rats lack the ability to effectively dissipate heat from a highly active brain, and concurrently those evolutions that allow more effective dissipation of heat (e.g. baldness) are contrary to (or have never occurred concurrent with) the selective advantage of the intelligence. Perhaps we will breed intelligent, bald rats.

It has cum to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of posters to Slashdot by gathering

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of posters to Slashdot by gathering

possibly, but when some of the constituencies don't get what they want with that arrangement, they break ranks and form another alliance. now they get "managed" (told to stfu.)

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/12/fringe/index.html

and before some Republican chimes in with some nonsense, the Repubs do it too. Lindsey Graham's repudiation of Ron Paul Republicans (fiscal conservatives) is a prime example. There is no room at the policy table for fiscal conservatives in the Republican party. But they're happy to take your vote and give you nothing.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of posters to Slashdot by gathering

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of posters to Slashdot by gathering

I was with you right up to the bit about the Columbine girl. According to eyewitness accounts and the FBI, the person whom 'yes' was attributed to has changed, and there was no motivation in the killers based on atheism.

I suspect that the DOD has a hand in putting things like this in popular video games (not to mention TV and movies).

Hey, remember that time in nov2001 when the pentagon and the whitehouse had meetings with hollywood to "discuss scenarios"? The media always framed that as "for hollywood to suggest scenarios to the DoD", I always figured it was the other way around.

http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs/print.html

In late 1997, Congress approved an immense, five-year, $1 billion ad buy for anti-drug advertising as long as the networks sold ad time to the government at half price -- a two-for-one deal that provided over $2 billion worth of ads for a $1 billion allocation.

But the five participating networks weren't crazy about the deal from the start. And when, soon after, they were deluged with the fruits of a booming economy, most particularly an unexpected wave of dot-com ads, they liked it even less.

So the drug czar's office, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), presented the networks with a compromise: The office would give up some of that precious ad time it had bought -- in return for getting anti-drug motifs incorporated within specific prime-time shows. That created a new, more potent strain of the anti-drug social engineering the government wanted. And it allowed the TV networks to resell the ad time at the going rate to IBM, Microsoft or Yahoo.

Alan Levitt, the drug-policy official running the campaign, estimates that the networks have benefited to the tune of nearly $25 million thus far.

With this deal in place, government officials and their contractors began approving, and in some cases altering, the scripts of shows before they were aired to conform with the government's anti-drug messages. "Script changes would be discussed between ONDCP and the show -- negotiated," says one participant.

Rick Mater, the WB network's senior vice president for broadcast standards, acknowledges: "The White House did view scripts. They did sign off on them -- they read scripts, yes."

The arrangement, uncovered by a six-month Salon News investigation, is known to only a few insiders in Hollywood, New York and Washington. Almost none of the producers and writers crafting the anti-drug episodes knew of the deal. And top officials from the five networks involved last season -- NBC, ABC, CBS, the WB and Fox -- for the most part refused to discuss it.

You might want to take a look at this. According to Salon, it was a local cop who tipped off the media. In any case, the fact remains that law enforcement informed the media, and some reporter inadvertently compromised the secrecy of the operation. The ATF proceeded even though they knew this, having been informed by one of their own agents inside the Davidians.

As for shooting at government law enforcement officers, you have the right to defend yourself against such officers if they are acting illegally. The Davidians were under the impression that they were about to be attacked. The ATF action of rushing the "compound" confirmed this impression.

Viewed dispassionately, we can say that both sides screwed up, of course. From a comfortable distance, we can see that the smart thing for the Davidians to do would have been to surrender and fight in court...but they didn't think they were going to be given the chance to do that. The blame rests far more heavily on the ATF. Like all of our law enforcement agencies, the ATF have become militarized; they see themselves as Rambos, not as peace officers. Both at the local and Federal levels, police agencies are no longer taught that they have a duty to use minimum force, or to de-escalate tense situations. Their training and their equipment is military, and their first impulse is to apply firepower.

1. Columbine. Girl was killed for her faith, being verbally abused to "denounce your god or I'll kill you."

False. You would be keenly aware of the facts, had you read past the bloggy/televangelist rehashings of Cassie's mother's book. Also, the false story you're spreading starts like this: "Do you believe in god?" Best you get your tall tales straight.

Actually, either's valid.

Here's a book review that might interest you: http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/10/25/lexicographers_dilemma/

Obviously the pilots should have paid more attention, but I suspect the reason they were trying to squeeze in a little extra work is that they weren't going to get paid to learn the scheduling system on their own time.

Pilots go through years of expensive schooling and have to repay their student loans like everyone else. Their salaries start around $20,000 if they can get hired in a very competitive market.

Remember the hero pilot who landed the plane in the Hudson, saving Flight 1549 and 155 people's lives?

the last talk [Capt. Sullenberger] had with his wife, Lorrie, before the crash... was about money.

Like thousands of airline workers, his salary had been cut in half and he lost most of his pension. At 58, the 29-year veteran faced having to find work outside the industry and possibly having to sell his house.

Many pilots take second jobs. Some are on food stamps:

He took home $405 this week. My life was completely and totally in his hands for the past hour and he's paid less than the kid who delivers my pizza.

I told the guys that I have a whole section in my new movie about how pilots are treated (using pilots as only one example of how people's wages have been slashed and the middle class decimated). In the movie I interview a pilot for a major airline who made $17,000 last year. For four months he was eligible -- and received -- food stamps. Another pilot in the film has a second job as a dog walker.

"I have a second job!," the two pilots said in unison. One is a substitute teacher. The other works in a coffee shop.

The state owns the airwaves, so packet radio wouldn't count by that same reasoning.

Communications companies are heavily regulated because they make use of eminent domain and state granted monopolies. Many of these monopolies are granted as the result of rent seeking and corruption. For a recent example, look at Rudy Giuliani and Fox.

What are you arguing, that the completion of a large expensive venture is only possible with the overhead of government coercion and graft?

Don't tell Burt Rutan, or the next private flight into space might suddenly stop in place and fall to the earth like Wiley Coyote belatedly realizing that he has run off the edge of a cliff.

Wizards of the Coast was bought out by Hasbro a while back and underwent a transformation from geek utopia to corporate cash machine.

The current dire state of the economy is forcing them to show their true nature to an unusual extent- for example, they've recently added a chase rarity to their flagship product, Magic: The Gathering, as well as releasing semi-monthly "collector's edition" products for same.

Is President Obama a mainstream politician?

Damn, that's a clever put down.