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hightimes writes: "Business 2.0 uncovers one of the world's most sophisticated IT network in where else, Colombia. According to the story, Colombian drug cartels have spent billions of dollars to build a huge infrastructure that's helping them smuggle more dope than ever before." Even though this is about a raid that took place most of a decade ago, it's an interesting example of the power (and potential abuse) of large-scale data mining.
I am dead serious. He has control of the itgo site and keeps changing it back to a porn picture off and on. He also registered alternate names (by by by by by) to make it seem like it isn't. I'm not saying you are, but the second time I went to the site (with images turned off) it redirected me to the governemt site.
Jeez, you trolls aren't even using convincing low-uid accounts. That's a real piss poor job that you're trying to pull off, trying to get this guy modded down. Give it a rest, everyone can tell that you're trolling.
"I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." - George Bush
I am not a troll. You have 3 people who saw the picture, unfortuneatly two are anonymous, one (me) registered today. Doesn't it seem a tad suspicious that the link just redirects? halgary can change the page at any time. Please don't call me a troll. Look at the guy who posted this! This is his only post. Don't go off about me being a troll when you haven't seen the link when he first put it up.
I agree with you, I saw the picture too. We need more credible people to get mods to believe us.
You think that's bad? I have to use Windows Fucking 95 at work. Why? Cause I'm just a lowly software writer, not good enough like the pimp sysadmins in IT, I suppose. Oh well, they can suck my balls when I get a job somewhere else.
Aw, fuck it. Let's go bowling. - The Big Lebowski
Please don't post any more nasty crap porn. Mods, please mod halgary's post down.
Yeah right. Hey, guess what? Just because you have a low uid doesn't mean that you're not a troll. Leave this guy alone, he never did anything to you.
Friends don't let friends use multiple inheritance.
OTOH the FBI can now read this thanks to the war on "terrorism"
So it's clear: you think the FBI should not be allowed to browse slashdot? Why not?
It's funny you mention that because I think the whole Watergate thing was a set up and that they weren't caught by anything remotely like 'luck'.
I was specifically thinking about Kennedy and the moon landing etc.
The government can hide things- and they really need to quite a bit more often than many will admit around here.
What grates at times is that so many here really cannot see both sides of the coin. They view these issues with a reflex rather than their minds. There are already tons of posts describing the article as propaganda to take away privacy and generate funds for the evil drug war.
No thought is given that informed, reasonable citizens may not agree. Anyone who thinks otherwise is ignorant- has bought into the lies- or has their own agenda.
I wish some would think that there is the same chance of someone being intelligent, informed, reasonable and holding a different opinion as the chance of life elsewhere in the universe. I'm dead serious.
Anyways that whole last part is not a reply to the watergate thing just a little rant I launched on after I was done replying- your response has a reasonable tone.
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It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
The modern Western war on drugs began in the early 20th century with the banning of opium, cocaine, and dope (the latter of which was largely an exercise in the power of tabloid journalism).
It began earlier in China, but the Chinese government's efforts to keep opium out of the country failed when the Western nations used their armed forces to ensure the viability of the opium trade.
This brings new meaning to people who want to "crack" into the system!
Berto
It's from a Simpsons episode entitled "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" in which Homer "knows too much" and gets transported to an island which is a spoof of "The Prisoner" -- it even has a guest voice of Patrick McGoohan in it as one of the other prisoners.
I am not a number! I am a man! And don't you
Ok...spelling 101
It's COLOMBIANS...see the difference? Columbia is a state in the US...COLOMBIA is a different country...got it?
Hey get a job at my place, the software writers can get whatever they want. They figure IT = lowly computer repairmen. I have a crap p2-233 to work on (running nt4). Software writers have the 2.2ghz P4's with xp and a geforce 3. Seriously, we get no respect.
Lousy facepalm.
The first troll to get anything above a 0 mod point.
You're kidding... right?
Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.
I have a crap p2-233 to work on (running nt4).
You still beat me. I have a P/200 with 95. Jeez.
Aw, fuck it. Let's go bowling. - The Big Lebowski