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CNET's in-depth Coverage of IT security
museumpeace writes "Starting today
CNET news is running a
3 day series of reports and analysis
of government and industry responses to the challenge of making America safe. While it primarily focuses on the technology content of these tangled issues, the report also tries to sort out the impact politics-as-usual is having on this presumably critical national concern...there is plenty of muck to rake: "As if chickpeas, lentils and mohair have anything to do with national security. One congressman even stated that a peanut subsidy, with a $3.5 billion price tag, 'strengthens America's national security,'" the 335,000-member group said. "Members of Congress have been cloaking old-fashioned pork in the robes of 'security' for the 'homeland.'"Lots to read here and registered CNET readers can put in their two cents.
Throwing Money at Techology is the title of the leading report for today and that sums up much of what is going on."
1st. Fund mechanism that self-sustains new bureaucratic structure.
2nd. Fund lucrative pension plan for members of new bureaucratic structure.
3rd. Fund lavish parties and bonuses for members of new bureaucratic structure.
4th. Do whatever it was that new bureaucratic structure was actually tasked to do with whatever funds are left over (which is zero).
I'm 24 years old. I don't want to go through the next 50 years of my life living in an international air of worry and uncertainty. I don't want to live in a permanent state of fear, generated by a megalomaniacal American government taking advantage of the majority low IQ populous' capacity for being brainwashed.
I don't want to live like Israel, fighting militant Muslims round every corner. The problem of Muslim extremists exists and needs to be dealt with, not encouraged by invading innocent countries and waging war on people who have done nothing to deserve it. I want my children to grow up in a world free from military oppression and I want a government that understands that the wars of the future are guerrilla ones which can never be won, even if they are waged for noble purposes (which theirs never are).
The world is fu*cked up enough as it is. The food chain has been poisoned so badly the average human is full of chemicals normally found in plastics and toxic waste. I'm sick of global warning and environmental damage to the planet and the fact the all this time the greenies were right. I'm sick of America being the biggest wilful contributor to the pollution of the planet.
I'm sick of an American school system that produces children who are brought up to believe that America IS the world and anything that goes on outside is irrelevant. Children so stupid they think America invented the Internet, computer, motor car, light bulb, telephone etc ad infinitum....
The Internet or it's successor is the future of entertainment and I'm sick of stupid low IQ, ignorant Americans infecting every corner of it with their insular, jingoistic mindsets, their whiny voices and manifestations of their low self esteem driven by the fact that despite it being their turn as the world's super power, no one actually takes them seriously or gives them the respect that the British or the Ancient Greeks got because a superpower best known for producing mass produced crap is never going to get the respect that one who gave the world Shakespeare, culture, philosophy or mathematics will get.
I'm sick of hypocrisy and two facedness. I'm sick of Gangsta Rap and hamburgers, Political Correctness and TV programmes that begin with 'When' and end in 'go bad and attack people'. I'm sick of reality TV and I'm sick of news programmes that are more censored than accurate. I'm sick of tokens, token minorities, token universities, token degrees, token attempts at the truth, tokens. I'm sick of fat people, ugly people, stupid people, gay people, coloured people, female people, whiny people all complaining they don't have the opportunities in life they would like and it must be someone else's fault. I'm sick of women that act like men and femininity being a crime, unless you're a man in which case you're a new man which nobody ever wanted because there was nothing wrong with the old one. I'm sick of people falling over and suing the ground and people watching nipples and suing the TV and I'm sick of coffee cups with 'don't pour over yourself, you may get burnt' on the side to try and counter this.
I'm sick of stupid Americans who don't know the difference between patriotism and jingoism and who think flag waving should be an Olympic event. I'm sick of Americans who cry that people hate them or are jealous of them or who are anti them because someone dares to point out that the America they've been programmed to believe in from birth bears no relation to the one that exists in real life.
The poorest 95% of America pays for everything through income taxes.
The rest pay nothing because they don't have "income"; they have "capital gains", which is not taxed at all.
Welcome to the New Plutocracy. It will fall, of course, in time. I wonder if we would be able to borrow a guillotine from the French.
Madam Ozdebos sees civil war in America in thirty years.
I'm 24 years old. I don't want to go through the next 50 years of my life living in an international air of worry and uncertainty.
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Freedom isn't free, and I have news for you most people don't get to live through 50 years of there lives without living in an international air of worry and uncertainty. Welcome to reality. It's the reality that our parents and grandparents had to deal with.
I don't want to live in a permanent state of fear, generated by a megalomaniacal American government taking advantage of the majority low IQ populous' capacity for being brainwashed.
Oh Bullshit already. Look at the lower quarter of Americans who drag down the average IQ score in this country.
I don't want to live like Israel, fighting militant Muslims round every corner. The problem of Muslim extremists exists and needs to be dealt with, not encouraged by invading innocent countries and waging war on people who have done nothing to deserve it. I want my children to grow up in a world free from military oppression and I want a government that understands that the wars of the future are guerrilla ones which can never be won, even if they are waged for noble purposes (which theirs never are).
Bullshit, guerrilla wars can be won. It's nice that you want your children to grow up free of military oppression and what not, but do you think that will happen if the US bends over to terrorist demands? Go read what Osama Bin Laden wants from the US. He stated it himself after 9/11. He wants the world to convert to islam...his version of radical islam. Or die. Is that where you want your kids growing up?
The world is fu*cked up enough as it is. The food chain has been poisoned so badly the average human is full of chemicals normally found in plastics and toxic waste. I'm sick of global warning and environmental damage to the planet and the fact the all this time the greenies were right. I'm sick of America being the biggest wilful contributor to the pollution of the planet.
Maybe you should move to a third world country that doesn't pollute as much. You can raise your kids in a mud hut and hope the local gangs don't come and rape your wife and daughters. At least you wouldn't be polluting right?
I'm sick of an American school system that produces children who are brought up to believe that America IS the world and anything that goes on outside is irrelevant.
I don't know what school you went to, but all of the public schools I've been to surely don't teach that.
Children so stupid they think America invented the Internet
The American military did.
computer
America invented the integrated circut
light bulb
Yep, America made this one too.
America clothed the world when it created the cotton gin, it lit up the world with the light bulb, and connected the world when it created the integrated circut. How can you argue against the greatness of such a country other than out of utter jealiously or ignorance?
The Internet or it's successor is the future of entertainment and I'm sick of stupid low IQ, ignorant Americans infecting every corner of it with their insular, jingoistic mindsets, their whiny voices and manifestations of their low self esteem driven by the fact that despite it being their turn as the world's super power, no one actually takes them seriously or gives them the respect that the British or the Ancient Greeks got because a superpower best known for producing mass produced crap is never going to get the respect that one who gave the world Shakespeare, culture, philosophy or mathematics will get.
American culture is world culture nowadays. That must really upset you like it does Osama. Maybe you can take some flying lessons?
I'm sick of hypocrisy and two facedness. I'm sick of Gangsta Rap and hamburgers, Political Correctness and TV programmes that