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How do you know? How can we check the facts when no facts came out of the Ba'athist regime?

Did you read the UPI report of the 300,000 Iraqis found in mass graves???

Sheesh.

U.S. intelligence officials said Islamic terrorists have picked
economic-warfare targets inside the United States. This includes
intelligence that al Qaeda terrorists plan to attack Microsoft's
headquarters in Redmond, Wash.

The data were among information found during military operations
inside Afghanistan.

Microsoft's sprawling "campus" is located west of Seattle and includes
47 buildings with a combined 5.3 million square feet of office space.
The company's revenue last year was $25.3 billion.

"This would clearly be economic warfare" by al Qaeda terrorists, said
one official familiar with reports of the threats.

Microsoft spokesman Michael Yaeger had no immediate comment on the
threat.

Other targets in the Seattle area include facilities of the defense
contractor Boeing Co., the Navy's Bangor submarine base and the Space
Needle

story at washingtontimes.com

woo hoo! Anyone else have this problem? I think it's funny because I have such a common name.

1. The Department of Commerce; VeriSign's contract to operate .com and .org was originally with them.
2. The Federal Communications Commission, which oversees telecommunications.
3. The Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Communications; contact the committee itself, the chairman, the ranking member, and any of the other members you'd like.
4. The House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, including the committee itself, the chairman, the vice-chairman, and the ranking member. Plus any of the other members you feel like contacting.
5. The Federal Trade Commission, which hears consumer complaints.
6. Your U.S. Representative
7. Your Senators
8. Your Governor
9. Your State Legislators
10. ICANN's wildcard comment address
11. Finally, complain to the media. If they get enough letters on a topic, they'll run stories. Try the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox News, CBS News, ABC News, NBC News and MSNBC.

Remember, VeriSign is busy telling them its side of the story. We need to tell them ours!

The percentage of "foreign-born" residents in the USA is just 3.3%, if you compare this to the UK where 8% of the population are foreign-born you can see that the US are hardly allowing the most foreign immigration.

According to this article we currently have 33 million foreign born living in the US or 11% of our population. It would actually be interesting to see foreign born percentages listed for every first world country but I was unable to find a page that listed such information.

The UK is not the country that warrants comparison in my opinion; wandering around London certainly brings one into contact with a wide variety of individuals and they aren't all tourists. What is irritating, as an American, is to have this country referred to as xenophobic by people who live in some of the other European nations. The people of France and Italy have always struck me as far less tolerant of outsiders than anyone I've met in middle America

Science fiction is often a glimpse of the things to come. If so, I'd hate to live in the world of The Middle-Kingdom.

= 9J =

CIA pursues video game

1. The Department of Commerce; VeriSign's contract to operate .com and .org was originally with them.
2. The Federal Communications Commission, which oversees telecommunications.
3. The Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Communications; contact the committee itself, the chairman, the ranking member, and any of the other members you'd like.
4. The House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, including the committee itself, the chairman, the vice-chairman, and the ranking member. Plus any of the other members you feel like contacting.
5. The Federal Trade Commission, which hears consumer complaints.
6. Your U.S. Representative
7. Your Senators
8. Your Governor
9. Your State Legislators
10. ICANN's wildcard comment address
11. VeriSign itself
12. Finally, complain to the media. If they get lots of letters on a topic, they'll run stories. Try the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox News, CBS News, ABC News, NBC News and MSNBC.

1. The Department of Commerce; VeriSign's contract to operate .com and .org was originally with them.
2. The Federal Communications Commission, which oversees telecommunications.
3. The Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Communications; contact the committee itself, the chairman, the ranking member, and any of the other members you'd like.
4. The House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, including the committee itself, the chairman, the vice-chairman, and the ranking member. Plus any of the other members you feel like contacting.
5. The Federal Trade Commission, which hears consumer complaints.
6. Your U.S. Representative
7. Your Senators
8. Your Governor
9. Your State Legislators
10. ICANN's wildcard comment address
11. VeriSign itself
12. Finally, complain to the media. If they get lots of letters on a topic, they'll run stories. Try the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox News, CBS News, ABC News, NBC News and MSNBC.

#1 The NEO-SOCIALIST plan to take your freedom
Can you be a bit more specific? By providing Healthcare for everyone?

#2 Homeland Security obstructionist liberals
Worse, in the future it might obstruct you as well, imagine if all of the sudden the liberals get into power and use the same laws?

#3 US Goes to Iraq, liberates nation
Yes, I am sure people are happy that they are now at the brink of a three tiered civil and relgious war.

#4 Howard Deans plan to pacify terrorists
Got any more details? Sounds interresting.

#5 The effort to pay off Unions and cripple business
Because companies are always very concious about their employees the environment and possess and abundance of ethics. We don't need to stinking unions.

#6 Using information technology for propaganda
While the current Administration as well as the Republican party decided to go back to the good old days where typewriter ruled the world, as well as AM Radios.

#7 Treaty signing by the United States
Pretty much telling the world to go and pay more for the Oil they need because "We're the US".

#8 Human Shields knowingly commit treason
Surviving Human Shields going to be detained in Guantanmo Bay as "illegal combatants". "This is for our nations security" President Bush said in a brief press appearance before he went to his Ranch in Texas to relax for the weekend.

#9 Afghanistan success
Women are free again to wear the Burkha, no need to buy the latest fashion from the west. "Women are now truly liberated," Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said during a press briefing, "they can now choose the colour of their garment freely.".

#10 Nelson Mandela is a liberal
The Whitehosue regretted to have met with Mr. Mandela several times over the past couple of years and calls it all a "big misunderstanding".

#11 Taliban implicated in U.S. massacre (9/11)
Unfortunatly the court documents had to be sealed for the countries protection, as Mrs. Rice pointed out during a brief Interview: "The details are just too shocking, we, as a responsible government, cannot allow people to be scared by the horrid truth that we have uncovered. Please, think of the children."

#12 Liberal censorship and shoutdowns
Brave Texas Rangers are trying to regain control of the Information Infrastructure and spread the truth to the masses. Dan Rather was seen briefly on Televison promising his full support to the Bush Administration to do "whatever it takes".

#13 US Military defends country for over 200 years
Mainly off shore, as we all know a war at home leaves a mess that not even Tide can get out.

#14 Illegal Aliens
Where spotted today cleaning up the washroom in a restaurant downtown NY on Broadway, news at 11.

#15 South Korea: Lucky to be free
"We wouldn't know what we would do without the US help. It is expensive to build a death zone between two countries and maintain all those mines." says Yoon Young-kwan, south Koreas Foreign Minister on a visit to Washington D.C. while eating at a Burger King near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

#16 France: evil
Germany more evil, tries to dominate the world (again), US prepares to free the world once more.

#17 NPR's liberal slant
FoxNews is "fair and balanced". (We know because they say so).

#18 Forestry now banned profession
Ford Announces new SUV, twice the size of a Hummer, three times the horse power and a gas tank holding 200 Gallons. No MPG available at this time, but pre-order now, they will sell like hot-cakes.

#19 US cannot manufacture goods with all the regulations
But companies found out tha

According to recent statistics that indicate 1 in 37 US adults have done jail time, a large minority of Americans are criminals.

Or is that not a large enough minority to count?

> Still, outlawing something that even 20% of the population does is pretty insane.

What proportion of the population do you think exceeds the speed limit from time to time?

So 20% acceptance is enough to change the law, now? Where do you draw the line? I mean, according to this article 2.7% of adult americans have spent time in prison. So surely, making some bunch of things illegal that means 2.7% of the population are criminals is just crazy, right?

It would be nice to see ... google, BBC, Yahoo, E-bay, and other big name sites down

I think the BBC has chosen their political battles
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20030801-114819-7 505r.htm

Hostility on Slashdot: It amazes me that when someone makes a mistake on Slashdot, someone else, often an anonymous cowherd, will attack with extreme hostility, as the AC has done in the parent comment above.

The quoted article says 79: The AC quotes the Washington Times. The article he quotes says, "In 1991, when the number of homicides in the District peaked at 482, the rate was 79.42 killings per 100,000 residents." I had remembered 77, but the worst was 79. My information was old; I don't often follow DC's homicide statistics. I am very happy that those who run the District of Columbia have reduced the homicide rate there.

I've made a point in the grandparent comment above, that some things are better in Brazil. The point stands. I don't have time to investigate the AC's other statements, I'm very busy now. However, I think the homicide rate quoted for Rio is very old. Some years ago, a mayor was elected who reduced the rate, as the District of Columbia has done.

The city of Rio de Janeiro has a reputation for violence. The homicide rate is 43 per 100,000 people. The city of Washington, D.C, the capitol of the United States, does not have a reputation for violence. The homicide rate in Washington, D.C. is approximately 77 per 100,000 population, close to double that of Rio.

The city of Rio de Janeiro has a reputation for violence. The homicide rate is 43 per 100,000 people. The city of Washington, D.C, the capitol of the United States, does not have a reputation for violence. The homicide rate in Washington, D.C. is approximately 77 per 100,000 population, close to double that of Rio.

What a surprise that the state Rob Malda lives in offers such a course and at a university level. Conicidence? I think not.

Some people believe that religion. I don't.

It's not a religion. It's a simple economic fact.

I really don't see how this proves free trade is good. subsidies abound in all industries in all countries. Your example has nothing to do with free trade.

Man, FFS! How do you think Govts stop free trade, huh? Subsidies are the key way it's done in the US! The other way are tariffs - both end up costing the US consumer more, and encourage people to work inefficiently in dying industries. There are no positive long term effects from these barriers to trade - just no politician is courageous enough to stare down the lobbies.

Do you really think programming is a shitty no-good job? Do you really see all manufacturing as being shitty no good jobs?

Programming is becoming the clerking of the 21st century. The ideas are where the value is added. That is what should be focussed on.

Manufacturing in most instances is the same. How many well paid manufacturing jobs do you know of? The only exception is, like with programming, where highly sophisticated goods are being produced. Like aircraft. Otherwise, any old idiot can do it.

Besides the point, how do you think all those 18th and 19th century empires became so wealthy? I'll tell you - by using cheap foreign labour. They increased their economic output by allowing the countries offshore to bear the weight of the grunt work. The US will be the same - if it owns all the capital, where the labour is conducted is for the most part irrelevant.

I don't know about china. My guess is that not everybody got due process there. I am also sure not every body in the US got due process. Nevertheless that point is moot.

let me rephrase it then. Do you have any evidence to suggest that a person in either of the US or China was incarcerated so as to work in slave labour?

If not, you're doing nothing more than scare-mongering.

The govt has incentive to jail people, it can keep the jails full by making silly things illegal like smoking dope, gambling,prostitution etc. It can take any activity that people enjoy and make it illegal to make sure the prisons are full.

The Govt does not have an incentive to jail people other than they've broken the law. They cannot jail someone unless they have not complied with the law! That's what the justice system is there for.

And the US in particular does not have an economic incentive to jail people: "In some states, it costs more to house a prisoner than send a student to Harvard"
http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20030728-084 134-5711r.htm.

The foreign states often have a smaller GDP per capita than the US, so although in absolute terms they spend less than the US, in relative terms it is a similar figure. You have to build jails, employ guards. And it's hardly like prisoners are the most educated and dedicated workers.

I imagine that the US could very easily set up Hitler style concentration camps. Give the prisoners a communal building with a shelf for a bed, a toilet and some showers. Dig up some historical photos if you want to see what that was like. Better then the cuban and the arizona prisoners but worse then rikers island. Given this you could house prisoners for cheap. Certainly less then 5K per year. You could easily rent these prisoners to corporations for 10K and make a tidy profit.

You're dreaming, buddy. It won't happen. Other than the fact that the public wouldn't let it happen - did you not hear what happened to the prison that was doing recycling for Dell? And, we're not talking making money for Dell here - just recycling what would have been otherwise landfill! As soon as it was dis

"I just find is pathetic that the U.S. can't find $600m to refurb the HST. We're spending about twice that EVERY DAY on operations in Iraq.

Just pull the troops out two days earlier and there you have it... enough cash to service the Hubble twice!" -gerardrj

"The number is 4B per month." -glrotate

"Congress in April passed an initial $62.4 billion measure to pay for the fighting. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld recently put the cost at $3.9 billion a month. Also, L. Paul Bremer, the top civilian administrator of Iraq, last week said $29 billion will be needed just to repair Iraq's electricity and water systems."
July 26th - Associated Press

"At the onset of war, Dov Zakheim, the Pentagon's chief financial officer, said postcombat operations were expected to cost about $2.2 billion a month. By early June, he adjusted that forecast to $3 billion."
July 13th - Orlando Sentinel

"Mr. Dorgan (Senator [D]) said the administration knows it's spending $4 billion a month in Iraq and it makes little sense to pretend the costs do not exist."
July 17th - Associated Press

• "Yes, I was detained and harrassed by federal airport security without cause or explanation because my name is David Nelson. I am not allowed to know that I am on a do-not-fly list or what criteria put a person there in the first place."
• "Yes, I was forced to drink my own breast milk out of three bottles by federal airport security to prove it was not a "security risk."
• "Yes, my right to freely assembly has been infringed my Bush and his cronies with their establishment of (incredibly cyncially named) 'First Amendment Zones' that stipulate that demonstrators who are protesting the president must remain in specific "safe distances" often blocks away from presidential appearances, while "supporters" are allowed to demonstrate in the immediate vicinity.
• "Yes, my government is developing a system that will systematically spy on everyone, all of the time, in an effort to provide me better "security." Thankfully, budgetary politics in the Senate will hopefully kill this monstrosity."
• "Yes, my ability to fairly use information and art I paid for is being stifled and criminalized, to outrageous degrees."
• "Sorry, what was the question?"
  

But of course, since you used the F-word, you must be right.

Hollywood confronts DVD-copy software

Look, 321 Studios got it's start by selling freeware bundled together for $50 and even still sells it to this day. It includes Smartripper and I believe dvdx which is GPL dvdx. DVDToolBox (freeware) can split main movie only two two dvd-rs and also strip out audio and extras, etc. Many in the dvd backup community don't look favorably upon 321 Studios although many wish them luck in court.

What most people do is go to out and buy a dvd burner. Get on google and type in 'dvd copy' that is where it goes down hill. Almost 100 or more hits plus ads are all ripoff dvd software.

I'm keeping a list of ripoff software on my site hoping that others don't fall into the trap but it's inevitable.

BTW, in the above article what I'm trying to say is that this DVD Backup Software is irrelevant and not the cause of revenue being lost. All existing laws are already in place. Stop foreign countries, even people on street corners in big cities in USA from profiting off other's intellectual property. Prosecute those who upload movies to newsgroups, irc, p2p, etc.

The average Joe backing up his movie is NOT where the main concern should be. If Hollywood wins this battle is that going to stop the illegal selling or uploading / downloading of movies? Heck no, it'll just punish the average person from legally making a personal DVD backup.

Its not the Washington Times its the Washington Post.

The Washington Post released a shocking report, but nobody really paid attention during Christmas season.

Now we have the death of 2 afghan prisoners in US custody, ruled a Homicide from "blunt force trauma"[Beating] by the Army investigators. This is the first kind of fatality in US custody, since the US government officially states it does not "torture" people.

Now that Sheikh Muhammad has been captured, the newspapers are debating the ethics over whether it should be legal to torture him for information. Israel's and our official policy is to not torture anyone, even if there's a hidden ticking bomb somewhere. However, this doesn't stop them from getting shipped-- I mean "rendered" to the custody of Jordan, Morocco, Egypt, and Pakistan, who do perform that.

Such efforts were successful in the past; in 1995 an Al Qaeda agent was arrested in the Phillipenes. They knew he was in on a major operation, but they didn't know what. So they tortured him the old fashioned way, breaking his ribs and burning his testicles. After two weeks he broke, and revealed the plan to hijack 11 planes. Of course, a poll on AOL's front page voted 70% Yes to using some form of torture. Editorials aren't so rosy either, one says we should kill terrorists and smear them with pig fat so they won't get into heaven somehow.

I seem to remember the philosopher Nietzche who said "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster." That means we shouldn't sink to their level or worse. Who would be the barbarian then? We seem to be ignoring the "innocent until proven guilty" law, even though it's better to let ten guilty men walk free than let one innocent one suffer. The US will never officially condone any cruel or unusual punishment, but Israel taught them that sleep deprivation, chaining in uncomfortable positions, harsh lights, and interrogation by women will usually yield results.

May I remind you that Saddam tortures children in front of their fathers to make them confess. That's horrible. However, I'm a bit worried about Sheikh Muhammad's two young sons, 9 and 7, being arrested by the CIA and flown to America to help pressure their father to confess. Of course, the US won't deny that the man himself is being subject to "Stress and duress" right now. "Let's just say we are not averse to a little smacky face. After all, if you don't violate a prisoner's human rights some of the time then you aren't doing your job?" said a CIA officer, admitting they honed their interrogation techniques since Vietnam.

CNN expects the war will cost $30 nillion to prepare for, according to the Orange County Register. The Washington Times reports that CNN will lose $10 million on the first day and $6 million thereafter for every single day commercial free. CNN can't afford to be cheap, as Rupert Murdoch has agreed to fund Fox News as much as possible in order to decimate CNN.

Eluding tariffs

We can see the same thing elsewhere, with copyright, the DMCA, softwood tarrifs(designed to increase logging profits in the US which is faced with Canadian competition) and the like.

The essence of mercantilism is to reward your cronies with government favors (corporate welfare, monopolies, tax breaks) while harming their competitors, and anyone else who happens to get in their way.

It shouldn't surprise anyone that Microsoft has secured its position as a beneficiary of "honest graft"

I mean, I hope no one thinks it was in the interests of justice that they got a slap on the wrist in the anti-trust case.

We hit a carpool of hundreds of escaping Iraqi rebels who had just raided Kuwait houses and raped and piliged Kuwaiti citizens.

Remains of an Iraqi soldier
The even is known as the "Highway of Death" and it was a war crime.
They were killed AFTER Saddam had agreed to pull his troops out of Kuwait and surrender and they were bombed with Napalm, an anti-personnel weapons outlawed under the 1977 Geneva Protocols which the USA had signed.

Lets no forget that most of the Iraq army during the Gulf War and Iran/Iraq war were just civilians in military uniform. Of course they surrendered.

You might also be interested in reading this
"The double perimeter may be designed to draw U.S. and allied forces toward Baghdad and then conduct artillery attacks on them using shells filled with chemical and biological weapons."

I think the Washington Times put it best when they compared 1 year after September 11th to 1 year after December 7th, 1942:

Link
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Nobody was ready for "healing" on December 7, 1942, and "closure" was the last thing anybody wanted.
America, on the first anniversary of that other date that lives in infamy -- often the benchmark by which September 11 is judged -- wanted blood and vengeance, without apology.
No flowers, no teddy bears, and no exploration of the national angst. No presidential admonitions to think of Shinto as a religion of peace, no appeals to understand the frustrations that drove the misunderstood Nazis to rape Poland and bomb London.
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The war [WWII] did not eliminate anti-Jewish sentiment. Less than a year ago, a survey showed that 24 percent of all Austrians would "prefer" to live in a country without Jews. And even in supposedly neutral Switzerland, a survey reported by the BBC "indicates that 16 percent of Swiss people are fundamentally anti-Semitic, while 60 percent have anti-Semitic views."

I hope none of the 1 million Governement Snoops I read about via Drudge don't turn you y4nk33 haxxors in. (What happened to fighting the good fight with 'Hacker' vs 'Cracker', anyway?) Actually, its probably reasonable, if someone deliberately set out to kill people by screwing with Air Traffic Control or somethings. But there's a cold wind blowing from the hill.

This piece of news, which the rest of the world has known for almost a decade already, has been suspiciously ignored by the conservative US media and the right wing Slashdot editors (where's the article!?).

The only exception is Rush Limbaugh who hasn't been able to keep quiet. His rants, however, are well worth reading since they offer a great insight into the mind of these "money and profit come first, earth and life distant second" conservatives.

This piece of news, which the rest of the world has known for almost a decade already, has been suspiciously ignored by the conservative US media and the right wing Slashdot editors (where's the article!?).

The only exception is Rush Limbaugh who hasn't been able to keep quiet. His rants, however, are well worth reading since they offer a great insight into the mind of these "money and profit come first, earth and life distant second" conservatives.

Microsoft targeted

U.S. intelligence officials said Islamic terrorists have picked economic-warfare targets inside the United States. This includes intelligence that al Qaeda terrorists plan to attack Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Wash. The data were among information found during military operations inside Afghanistan. Microsoft's sprawling "campus" is located west of Seattle and includes 47 buildings with a combined 5.3 million square feet of office space. The company's revenue last year was $25.3 billion. "This would clearly be economic warfare" by al Qaeda terrorists, said one official familiar with reports of the threats. Microsoft spokesman Michael Yaeger had no immediate comment on the threat. Other targets in the Seattle area include facilities of the defense contractor Boeing Co., the Navy's Bangor submarine base and the Space Needle.

How long until the same is applied to domestic suspects as well?

So, either the war on drugs is creating the economic environment that supports al Qaeda, or else this claim by a "senior official" is BS intended to excuse military action in S. America. Why does it seem incredible to me that S. American coke runners would welcome or benefit from partnership with Moslem religious/political extremists? Yes, they do business with local Marxist insurgencies, but that's because those have a political base there. Like, Columbians need help money laundering or running drugs? And we're supposed to be prepared for this war not to end in "our lifetime"?

I'm prepared to stand behind America doing some really ugly things to those who have actually attacked us. Doing ugly things to those who provide consumer society with its vices I'm only for it also broadens to include the idiots who sold us the SUVs that make us oil-addicted clients of the Saudi princes who have financed bin Lauden all along.

• New York Times
• Washington Post
• Washington Times
• CNN and CNN Goggle Cache
• The Times of London
• Wall Street Journal

My review of news sources: CNN's site seems to have the latest info, if you can reach it. NYT has more info on WTC (duh), and WP has more news on the Pentagon (duh again). Times of London has an excellent synopsis.

Hell - the whole reason China is stripping out our EP-3 right now is so they will have better tech to spy on the US, Japan, Vietnam, and Thailand, among others.

The China Threat

While I agree that China has made significant progress in the past 10 years, we still have to remember we are dealing with a country whose government is ideologically opposed to the United States.

On the plus side, China is going about with their reform in a very positive way. Unlike Russia, China is slowly moving towards a more capitalistic society... but sometimes I wonder if it's at the expense of it's citizens.

Ofcourse, if you look at recent events in the US in regards to the WTO meetings and the way the protestors were handled... perhaps we're not much different than China... and maybe we deserve eachother.

On an interesting note, it appears the the FBI considers TAIWAN a priority in counter-intelligence activities, and a hostile intelligence threat to the United States. Reno calls Taiwan an intelligence threat