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Bringing Echelon In From the Cold
An anonymous reader writes: "UPI columnist James C. Bennett says that governments are going to spy no matter what. So he suggests that it would be better to admit that Echelon exists, and formulate some reasonable guidelines on such spying, than to pretend that it doesn't and let governments go about their business without any scrutiny. Interesting suggestion. But who will watch those watchers? And who will watch them? "
cue karma drop... now.
- colin
This 'article' is nothing more than a plot by the illuminati to make up for their failed 'divx' project. Echelon is nothing more than another assault on our freedom!
They're going to brainwash us all and turn us into goose-stepping communist robots!
GET OUT OF MY TEETH!
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Um, I just wanted to make a comment about your signature, but it seems to have disappeared. (Your actual post is entertaining enough to make me respond, be thrilled)
I am now going to work very hard to find it again. Ah, here it is:
Explorations - Fear the power of databases (of the FUTURE!!!!11)
See, this is stupid. No lamer worth anything writes "FUTURE!!!!11"
In order to be "cool" with a signature, you have to prove that you have already observed many "lame" signatures/posters. At some point you can declare your coolness by making an observation on the "lamerz" by feigning affect in your signature.
To be frank, your observation is terrible. It's so bad as to be almost manufactured. No lamer would ever hold the shift key down for ten strokes and then give up. And even if they did it wouldn't be worth commenting on unless everyone did it. And if everyone did it, it would be an observation into humanity that says something on the order of, "Humans cannot keep their excitement past ten keystrokes regardless of how excited they are." And this would be a scientific achievement.
No. What you want to comment on is the lamerz that feign excitement and yet cannot be bothered to A) keep their fingers pressed on the shift key, and B) check their goddamn work.
This is the significant comment that professional trollers have latched onto and absorbed as their own when they say things like, "Wo0t! Woo0t1!"!!
Yes! This IS a goddamn treatise on trollers. Yes, you are one. Yes, you and many others should be paying attention.
HAND. (Learn from the experts, fucker, you wanna be one, learn to live like one, happy to see you).
Oh, and if you think that I didn't GET IT because you already "knew all that" and you "purposefully mispelled in such a fashion as to gain interest" then I think there is one last step for you to learn.
That is all.
As my father lik@(munch munch)...