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DARPA Developing 'Combat Zones That See'
t0rnt0pieces writes "DARPA is developing an urban surveillance system that would use computers and thousands of cameras to track, record and analyze the movement of every vehicle in a city. Officials claim that the project is designed to help the U.S. military protect troops and fight in cities overseas, but police, scientists and privacy experts say the technology could easily be adapted to spy on Americans. Combined with other technologies, such as software that scans databases of everyday transactions and personal records worldwide, the government would have a reasonably good idea of where everyone is most of the time. Read the news story and the contracting document."
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HELSINKI, FINLAND
Dear Sir,
I write you this letter of request for partnership which I hope you will give your urgent attention. We worked as members of the Operating System / Penguin Abuse Committee inaugurated by the present Democratically Elected Committee of the Electronic Frontier Foundation headed by General Richard Stallman (rtd). We are empowered to diligently review, re-appraise, scrutinize and approve feces payments to Linux users who executed *BSD devils under the past operating system regime and our work is almost concluded.
In the course of our work we discovered this fecal matter, which resulted from grossly over-used toilets, which were executed for the GNU is Not Unix Corporation (GNU) by a consortium of several Foreign Companies such as:
VA SOFTWARE, RED HAT, INC., SUSE GMBH. AND A JOINT VENTURE OF MANDRAKE AND CALDERA GMBH FOR:
- [1] THE EXPANSION OF THE FECAL NETWORK WITH LINUX USERS' FECES AND DOWNSTREAM PRODUCTS DISTRIBUTION AND SUBSEQUENT EVACUATION.
- [2] CONTRACT FOR THE TURN AROUND MAINTENANCE (TAM) OF THE VARIOUS PENGUIN FECES FARMS IN THE COUNTRY.
- [3] THE CONSTRUCTION OF STORAGE TANKS FOR LUNIX PRODUCTS (SEMEN).
This amounts to the tune of 100 tons of fecal matter, but was over-invoiced to 150 tons of feces. And we deliberately approved these fecal deposits and all Lunix users have been paid with these penguins executed and since abused, leaving the large amount of Eric S Raymond's magnificent deposit floating in the escrow pool of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) ready to be paid for the sexual services from the products in item number [2] as stated above. Before digressing further I would want you to know that our GNU General Public License forbids us from owning any money or having heterosexual relationships whilst in GNU service; hence we are contacting you to be part of this transaction.We intend to use your anus as a front to get the over-invoiced amount of 50 tons of feces out of the BSD sewers and into a designated toilet by you. Not regarding your field of specialization (sphincter expansion) you are going to forward us with any name that we will claim executed the sewaging services in the turn around maintenance of the Penguin fecal abuse farms mentioned above. All logistics are in place and all modalities worked out for the smooth insertion of the feces within ten to fourteen days of commencement after the receipt of a semen deposit from you. You are going to get 25% of the feces by posing as the owner of this fecal matter, while my colleagues and I will get 70% to ourselves with which we wish to invest in Agriculture and Farming in conjunction with you (and 5% will be set aside for the use of both parties for all excretions incurred locally and internationally during the realisation of this transaction, including toilet paper). As a matter of fact you are expected to take a sincere inventory of your toilet paper.
It is imperative to let you know that I am also a keen scatologist, with qualifications world-wide.
Despite research carried out to verify and ascertain your personality we can only move ahead if you can further assure us of your anal capacity and homosexuality and promise to help and treat this proposal with utmost confidentiality. We are men of proven integrity in our various fields who have put in 22 - 30 years of fecal matter in the toilets of our country; we are therefore averse to having our image and anuses widened. That is why we should acknowledge the fact that confidentiality is the key to the smooth insertion of this infection free transaction.
Awaiting your earliest positive response.
Best regards and remain blessed.
DR. LUNIX TORVALDS
Of course, one more USA measure to control the rest of the world. The relation between USA and the rest of the world, is the same as the relation between Microsoft and the other software companies
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
The U.S. has the most power of any country, as does Microsoft, and uses that power to bully around other countries. It forces its citizens to agree to be bound by U.S. laws, then changes them without its citizens' consent (Although every country in the world save a pure democracy does this, since the citizens themselves aren't doing the voting). It doesn't trust its citizens very much and wants to know everything that they're doing all of the time (Though they're partially justified in this because it will help them protect the country). I can easily see the similarity between the U.S. and Microsoft.
I don't necessarily like him or dislike him. I will admit that I'm generally opposed to any Democratic presidential candidate, although if you can convince me that he isn't going to turn this Republic into a Socialist country, then I'll be glad to hear him out.
I assumed his stance on gun control simply because he is a Democrat, and it seems like the Democrats want to take power away from individuals, and give that power to the government, which I adamently oppose. They're also incredibly afraid of the Constitution, and want to overwrite it using the Supreme Court, which is why they oppose any conservative nominee to any court, specific Estrada. In that case, they're arguing that he won't answer their questions, but they haven't asked any... so they're trying to alter the Constitution by making it necessary to have 60 votes to allow his nomination. I have several other reasons I don't like Democrats, but I really don't want to get into all of them right now. But, if you can tell me why he's better than Bush, I'll listen.
"It's better to have a gun and not need it than need a gun and not have it." ~ Christian Slater, True Romance
this whole thread is offtopic.
what the fuck does this have to do with teh article? Nothing.
Goddamn idiotic fucktard moderators.