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KinsmanCa asks: "Lately I've been thinking of opening a website - but looking over what web hosts provide, I don't like the idea of having a bandwith limit of so many gigabtyes per month, or having to be mindful of what the provider considers community standards. How can I create a website that's as independent as possible? By which I mean, pay as few bills to as few people as possible, and have to answer to nobody but the law itself as far as my content goes? Assume that I'm willing to pay a lot as far as hardware or initial setup costs go.
How much autonomy can a regular person get on the Internet?"
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FIRZT POAZT
A man by the name of Moses H. McGee once told me a story. The horrible story revealed the truth, JESUS WAS A HOMOSEXUAL!
There he was, almost naked, walking through the streets all sweaty and hot. Men stood on the sides cheering homosexual cheers of joy. Jesus, carrying an oversized wooden penis over his shoulders raised the giant shlong and began to climb it. He was stroking it like no other person has ever stroked a giant 15 foot shlong before! He began to give the wooden phallic a blow job, but lost his footing and was impaled down the throat by the giant cock. Three days later, a man came over to the dead Jesus corpse, and began fellatio. After several minutes, Jesus awoke, and ejaculated. It was a miracle, Jesus was alive!
That fucking faggot!
Courtesy of Bush Indicted For Treason
... ... that the fault lies with the Communists et all Cuba [sic]." ...
Call it a Conspiracy? Yes, No, Still Vacillating 'Twixt the Two
April 27, 2002
By Scaramouche
I believe in human nature. Sometimes good, sometimes evil, that is the dichotomy we all face in trying to make sense of this crazy mixed up world. Neither black, nor white, the truth exists in the world of gray.
I read "None Dare Call it a Conspiracy" when I was about 14 years old, some 25 years ago (yes I'm 39 years old - a la Jack Benny). While I could have agreed on some of the book's assertions. It reminded me way too much of the James Bond books I was reading at the same time. If I recall right, that was also one of the arguments in the book. Ian Fleming had been an intelligence operative and he knew what he was talking about. But I couldn't see the Trilateral Commission as SPECTRE. Or identify who Blofield was, Kissinger maybe?
There once was a psychological experiment where they ask volunteers to decipher the pattern of a series of flashing lights. Yet there was no pattern. Upon exit interviews, once told that there was no pattern, those with the most complicated theories refused to believe the testers and were adamantly defending their theoretical constructs. After all how could they be wrong? The final treatise of the experiment pointed out that the more complicated, or convoluted, the explanations posited, the stronger the ties to emotional involvement in the testees belief. Emotional investment solidifies belief. This goes a long way in explaining the beliefs of conspiracy theorists, fundamentalist, and an X-File fans.
Regarding Bush's planning on overthrowing the Constitution and establishing a dictatorship on the pretext of 9/11, I find that flying in the face of human nature. Many who worked in WTC were of his party. If not Republicans, they were ideologically leaning towards his economic policies, and were likely his type of campaign contributors. The risk vs. reward of this kind plotting makes no sense. The man may be dumb as a cactus but he is shrewd. And who knows what would happen when the posse catches up, if it ever came to light.
Remember the movie Armageddon, and that other non-memorable meteor-will-destroy earth-film where they decide we can't let the public know because the panic will be destructive. Maybe there was no intelligence failure. Maybe they thought they could contain it. Oops, there was an intelligence failure but not on part of the intelligence community. That could explain why the White House doesn't want an investigation. Bush has a record of covering up past mistakes and hiding the evidence of such.
This might explain why we get constant terror alerts. They are terrified of screwing up again. We are constantly at yellow alert. Yes, they turned yella', what would happen if the truth gets out.
But then again, I read articles like this:
In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.
Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. Cities The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.
America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. Ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."
The Joint Chiefs even proposed using the potential death of astronaut John Glenn during the first attempt to put an American into orbit as a false pretext for war with Cuba, the documents show.
Should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, they wrote, "the objective is to provide irrevocable proof
The secret plans came at a time when there was distrust in the military leadership about their civilian leadership, with leaders in the Kennedy administration viewed as too liberal, insufficiently experienced and soft on communism. At the same time, however, there real were concerns in American society about their military overstepping its bounds.
There were reports U.S. Military leaders had encouraged their subordinates to vote conservative during the election....
Afraid of a congressional investigation, Lemnitzer had ordered all Joint Chiefs documents related to the Bay of Pigs destroyed, says Bamford. But somehow, these remained.
"The scary thing is none of this stuff comes out until 40 years after," says Bamford
Read the entire article here.
Does this sound familiar? Is this a repeat of history or an aberration of Cold War history??
I read constantly from both sides of extremist's point of view. I adjudicate based on my understanding of human nature, read between the lines, as it were. This is how one deciphers the nature of man.
Hobbes said, "And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short." If this is the state of nature, men have strong reasons to avoid it.
Yet Rousseau said differently, "This common liberty results from the nature of man. His first law is to provide for his own preservation, his first cares are those which he owes to himself; and, as soon as he reaches years of discretion, he is the sole judge of the proper means of preserving himself, and consequently becomes his own master."
So which argument carries more favor? "Humans are selfish and must be constrained" or, "Humans are innocent and can be strive for perfection." It's Pepsi vs. Coke. It's Capitalism vs. Communism. But I don't see the world in terms of black and white. Nor do I have an emotional attachment to either.
I see many shades of gray. And sometimes I dream in color.
I used to run a web server on my static IP @Home connection, until they went under. Now it's DHCP so no DNS possible.
:-( J/K
No more warez!
...You need Jesus to come into your mouth!
A South Dakota college basketball player who tested positive for HIV was arrested this week in a case that has led health officials to two other new infections and what they are calling "a web of sexual contacts" that numbers in the hundreds.
The cases--and the great number of people believed exposed--have rocked a state that last year reported only 22 new HIV cases.
Nikko Briteramos, an 18-year-old freshman at tiny SiTanka Huron University, was charged Tuesday with knowingly having unprotected sex since learning of his HIV status last month. His infection was detected through routine surveillance when he gave blood during a school drive. "After that individual knew that he was HIV positive . . . he was discovered having unprotected sex with a partner who did not know," Gov. William Janklow said Friday at a news conference. "That, my friends, is no different from pointing a gun at someone and pulling the trigger."
The 6-foot-7 center arrived in Huron in August from Chicago. Already, two individuals known to have had contact with him have tested positive for the virus. Scores more who tested negative initially have been told they must be retested over the next six months.
Briteramos is the first person to be charged under a two-year-old state law that makes it a felony to intentionally expose someone to HIV. He was charged with five felony counts, which prosecutors said are related to a single partner. If convicted, he faces up to 75 years in prison and $75,000 in fines.
Within hours of the positive test result in late March, public health officials interviewed Briteramos and began contacting the list of recent sexual contacts he provided them.
Janklow said Friday that one woman provided names of 70 people who need to be informed of the problem. The numbers involved have shocked people in Huron, where the 100-year-old school is a major employer. The tribal university has an enrollment of about 600 students.
"I think what's really surprising people are the numbers," said John Deniger, who owns an auto dealership and sits on the university's foundation board. "One individual supposedly had 70 contacts. I don't think it's normal for anywhere."
Deniger said the community of 13,000 has pulled together in recent days, with educational meetings at the high school as well as on the university campus.
Public health officials said the cases have been "eye-opening" for people in a state where there has been little fear of contracting HIV/AIDS. "Now we are getting a lot of people off the street who have heard the risk factors and are scared and want to be tested," said state Secretary of Health Doneen Hollingsworth.
Hollingsworth said the state this year has reports of nine new HIV infections, making this cluster in one location particularly alarming. She said it will be months before they know how many infections can be traced to Briteramos.
In addition, public health officials have had to contact other state health departments for help in tracking down individuals who had contact with any of the three new cases. Hollingsworth said that, while officials believe most of the people were exposed through sex, they cannot rule out shared needles during drug use.
South Dakota has consistently ranked second lowest in HIV infection rates. Janklow said Friday that the episode has been sobering for residents in a state known for wide-open spaces and quiet living.
I'm always up for baseball talk, so here ya go:
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pdf/pitchingpage.
This file is actually pretty cool, it has photos of how you hold the ball for each pitch and diagrams showing their flight paths. The only one on your list not covered is the screwball, which AFAIK is like a curveball but breaks the other way, so you have to snap your wrist in the opposite direction to throw it. Not very many pitchers use that one. Enjoy!
Do yourself a favor and check out a new month-old internet site called Serence. Since April 2002 they have had a free / no ads / no spyware download for your Windows desktop called Klipfolio and this thing is great. According to the site statistics 3400+ slashdotters have already downloaded the Slashdot Klip and after joining them today, I can see why. (No, I don't have any personal vested interest in this, I just think it's cool.) The Slashdot Klip stays on your desktop and downloads the XML feed from Andover/Slashdot containing current article headlines, alerting you when there is a new one. Klips from a few dozen other founding news sources with XML newsfeeds are also available in a scrolling, dockable, resizable, skinnable package. In the lower left corner of the previous link you can suggest a new klip feed to Serence you'd like to see - a great thing for you to do, the more sites that use this, the better for all of us. You can even start up your own personal Klip feed! Rack up your favorite sites in one desktop package and you are really in control...click on a headline, up comes the article, click on the site symbol, up comes the home page. Like any dot-com, Serence's success depends on market penetration and this is one idea I think deserves to be slashdotted so it has a shot at succeeding...
Offtopic? Not really, the article I'm posting under went out as a Slashdot Klip headline. And what good is maxed out karma if not to risk it in spreading the word about a cool new Slashdot feature?