Yes, release a stinky fear-bomb, heighten your enemy's senses and awareness, get their adrenalin pumping. Great idea, there. Nothing motivates people more than when they're frightened.
I'm not sure why so many folks here are focused on the government reading emails. Doesn't it seem like the web search issue is an even bigger privacy issue?
You won't be able to safely view "alternative" websites without the government knowing about it. You might as well just move to China.
Sic the military on Blackwater. They're a greater threat to America, the world and to freedom than all other extremist and terrorist groups combined. Declare Blackwater to be a terrorist group. Hunt them down and destroy them wherever they are. Enlist the aid of Muslim extremist groups (you know, enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that jazz). Add a line to the constitution ensuring the government will never use paid extra-judicial mercenaries ever again.
I've said this several times before and I'll repeat it now, many of the people who go for school administration or teaching jobs are sadistic fascists who derive pleasure from the fact that they have the power to wield discipline over helpless youth in a mostly closed world.
I can just see the principal's eyes lighting up upon receiving this information. The quickening of his/her pulse as he relished the thought of dishing out the punishment. Oh, the fantasies as he/she worked out what to say to each student. Finally, the near-orgasms as they sat the student down, showed them the incriminating photos, said things like "you're in trouble", holding the punishment over their heads, then assuming the interrogator role - extracting further information to be used against other students, before finally handing out the judgement and discipline.
Oh, the power! That was a happy school administration that week. They went home in a good mood, they were chipper, there was a lightness in their step. Rarely do they get to punish so many kids at once. For that one week these little mental midgets, significantly more immature than the students they teach, felt big.
The instinct to punish is great among them. We entrust our children to people the likes of which would easily create more Abu Ghraib's or Guantamos. If they had their way there would be waterboarding and electric shocks, not to mention nudity. Time was when they could do the nudity as they paddled the manifold exposed bottoms...
I guess I'm so cynical now that my first thought as I watched the vid was this kind of gear would get him arrested in America. The bomb squad would be called in, they'd break stuff, they'd confiscate stuff, eventually they'd release him and return his equipment - but not before they'd charged him with a few frivolous things. Lord help him if he were living in Boston...
You've got it all wrong, Israeli security thoroughly vets you against all available databases before you even arrive at the airport. Every passenger, no exceptions. They don't need to look at your facial expressions, they'll have decided if you're suspicious before you even leave your driveway.
And if you're an Arab and you have even the remotest connection to anything suspicious you're not getting on that plane, period. And if they have little choice, perhaps because you're Palestinian or Israeli, then you're going to be harassed by security like you wouldn't believe. They're notorious for this.
However, if you can prove your bloodline to be Jewish, you're in and cleared, because I guess the thinking is that no Jew would blow up a plane full of Jews. I suppose this is true, as far as I know.
And yes, it works, but absolutely not because of reading facial expressions.
Ok, this story is setting off my bullshit radar. Particularly this line:
When I called them they confirmed my worst fears. In order to access the Watch Now service, I had to give Microsoft's DRM sniffing program access to all of the files on my hard drive. If the software found any non-Netflix video files, it would revoke my rights to the content and invalidate the DRM. This means that I would lose all the movies that I've purchased from Amazon's Unbox, just to troubleshoot the issue.
I'm no fan of Mikeysoft but do you realize the massive implications if what he's saying here is true? Forget the bloody HD monitor, basically, he's saying that he's discovered that Netflix in conjunction with Microsoft have configured things so that ONLY Netflix or Microsoft videos are permitted on his machine? Yeeaaaaah, riiiight.
I strongly suspect that the OP completely and utterly misunderstood something and jumped to the most farfetched and outlandish conclusion possible based on that misunderstanding. Or maybe he knows all to well what he's doing and has shares in Blockbuster.
Sorry, not buying it. The odds of shining a narrow focus beam directly into a pilot's tiny pupils, over a great distance, likely through a floor/door/visor, etc. are just too incredible.
I've got choppers flying around me here and I just can't see it happening. Literally. Who the hell has such good eyesight they can aim a laser that well without something like a telescope, binoculars or a viewfinder? The article doesn't say but if these aids weren't present then I'm simply not believing it.
I know about morons shining these things at planes on final approach but those are people standing directly in the path of planes with the noses down just well enough to provide direct line of sight AND the pilots are looking in their general direction at the landing lights, so it's a bit more plausible - but still hard to believe.
I sincerely hope you're joking...but I know many aren't.
Since when does Greenpeace have terror campaigns? Hanging banners from buildings and bridges, running weenie dinghies around motherf*cker-sized warships, disrupting whaling, fishing and toxic waste dumping, all without violence? That's terror?
I've known since 9/11 that before long the word terror will come to include ANYTHING at all that involves protest or resistance, peaceful or otherwise, and even political or ideological difference, but do you have to encourage it?
The issue at hand is whether companies should be granted immunity for performing illegal and criminal actions if they are asked to do so by the government.
Another issue is the government should not be allowed to amend laws to make something legal, after the fact, just because the government did something illegal.
During the Nuremberg and other war crimes trials many people claimed they weren't responsible for the atrocities they committed on the grounds that they were just following orders. This is the exact same thing. There are always industries propping up criminal regimes and this is no different. In this case the telcos KNOW they're doing something illegal and unconstitutional, spying on every citizen, and so they're trying for a "get out of jail free" card.
This whole thing reminds me of my IRC days. My MOO/MUD days. My Fidonet days. My BBS days. Cripes, even my university days. Gosh, this makes me feel so old.
And I shake my hed as I pat the Wiki children onna hed.
The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.
Note the word "facilitating" (tools facilitate, y'know). Also, note the word "propaganda", another way of saying "information".
Therefore, the implicit conclusion of the statement is that information leads to terrorism, and the internet is a source of information, therefore the internet facilitates terrorism (i.e. the internet can be used as a tool to foster terrorism). Therefore we must find ways to study and limit this source of terrorism.
Think about it. If the bill isn't saying the internet is a tool for terrorists or terrorism then what is it saying? Why mention the internet at all?
As an American who loves your freedom you better damn well want unlimited access to even terrorist-related propaganda. Any limits placed on information is just another way of controlling what the populace thinks. Hell, what if the "terrorist propaganda" happens to be true? Information is such that just because it came from a terrorist doesn't mean it's necessarily false, likewise just because it came from the US government doesn't mean it's true. Facts and information must be assessed on their own merits. To control this "problem" can only mean devising a scheme to pre-screen and control the flow of information.
Google has successfully headed off the issue, preventing a situation where they might be legally compelled to reveal the IP. Trust me, that's a good thing for everyone.
If you think you can determine political affiliation based on how someone rates movies, especially in America, then you're just plain retarded.
To take an example, a left-winger might rate Michael Moore flicks poorly because one thing about Moore's stuff is he almost always seems to avoid more effective ways of making his points. They agree with the message, disagree with the methodology or style of film. On the other side of things, a libertarian, Goldwater Republican, "conservative", etc., might rate Moore's Sicko highly, because there is undoubtably something wrong and shameful with health care in America whether you believe in socialized medicine or not.
But you know what - it wouldn't surprised me if the day came when your movie ratings came back to haunt you. America and other countries do seem to be headed in that direction.
Take a look at the Bernstein diet, where the doctor takes your money, about $1000, gives you weekly injections of vitamin B6 and B12 in liquid form, and YET openly acknowledges that there is no medical or scientific evidence proving this helps you burn fat. He does put you on a diet of less than 1000 calories per day, though, which is a no-brainer.
Technically, he's not being unscientific, since he acknowledges the lack of evidence, but you have to admit he's exploiting the public's inability to figure out the subtleties - they think the magic is in the injections. So I'm sure part of the problem is the general public and media.
By the way, there's no denying the obesity epidemic, it's so bloody obvious. Just scan the crowds at a Canadian or US football stadium and you'll notice vast differences in the average spectator size between the countries. Not very scientific, but still valid as an observation.
To collect similar emails sent by this person to others? Wouldn't this establish that its spam? Given that the definition of spam is probably that it must be an automated email sent out en masse to people who do not wish to receive it, wouldn't it have been easier to prove if you had a handful of them?
Yeah, it's bloody obvious it's spam based on the content of the email, but a single email probably doesn't prove the case.
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The invention of power tools.
Sorry, after seeing what the US military is capable of in Iraq and Afghanistan, I don't see them as the best there is.
Yes, release a stinky fear-bomb, heighten your enemy's senses and awareness, get their adrenalin pumping. Great idea, there. Nothing motivates people more than when they're frightened.
I'm not sure why so many folks here are focused on the government reading emails. Doesn't it seem like the web search issue is an even bigger privacy issue?
You won't be able to safely view "alternative" websites without the government knowing about it. You might as well just move to China.
Sic the military on Blackwater. They're a greater threat to America, the world and to freedom than all other extremist and terrorist groups combined. Declare Blackwater to be a terrorist group. Hunt them down and destroy them wherever they are. Enlist the aid of Muslim extremist groups (you know, enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that jazz). Add a line to the constitution ensuring the government will never use paid extra-judicial mercenaries ever again.
I've said this several times before and I'll repeat it now, many of the people who go for school administration or teaching jobs are sadistic fascists who derive pleasure from the fact that they have the power to wield discipline over helpless youth in a mostly closed world.
I can just see the principal's eyes lighting up upon receiving this information. The quickening of his/her pulse as he relished the thought of dishing out the punishment. Oh, the fantasies as he/she worked out what to say to each student. Finally, the near-orgasms as they sat the student down, showed them the incriminating photos, said things like "you're in trouble", holding the punishment over their heads, then assuming the interrogator role - extracting further information to be used against other students, before finally handing out the judgement and discipline.
Oh, the power! That was a happy school administration that week. They went home in a good mood, they were chipper, there was a lightness in their step. Rarely do they get to punish so many kids at once. For that one week these little mental midgets, significantly more immature than the students they teach, felt big.
The instinct to punish is great among them. We entrust our children to people the likes of which would easily create more Abu Ghraib's or Guantamos. If they had their way there would be waterboarding and electric shocks, not to mention nudity. Time was when they could do the nudity as they paddled the manifold exposed bottoms...
I guess I'm so cynical now that my first thought as I watched the vid was this kind of gear would get him arrested in America. The bomb squad would be called in, they'd break stuff, they'd confiscate stuff, eventually they'd release him and return his equipment - but not before they'd charged him with a few frivolous things. Lord help him if he were living in Boston...
But anyway, DOUBLE DAYUM AND A PUDDLE OF DROOL!
You've got it all wrong, Israeli security thoroughly vets you against all available databases before you even arrive at the airport. Every passenger, no exceptions. They don't need to look at your facial expressions, they'll have decided if you're suspicious before you even leave your driveway.
And if you're an Arab and you have even the remotest connection to anything suspicious you're not getting on that plane, period. And if they have little choice, perhaps because you're Palestinian or Israeli, then you're going to be harassed by security like you wouldn't believe. They're notorious for this.
However, if you can prove your bloodline to be Jewish, you're in and cleared, because I guess the thinking is that no Jew would blow up a plane full of Jews. I suppose this is true, as far as I know.
And yes, it works, but absolutely not because of reading facial expressions.
Ok, this story is setting off my bullshit radar. Particularly this line:
I'm no fan of Mikeysoft but do you realize the massive implications if what he's saying here is true? Forget the bloody HD monitor, basically, he's saying that he's discovered that Netflix in conjunction with Microsoft have configured things so that ONLY Netflix or Microsoft videos are permitted on his machine? Yeeaaaaah, riiiight.
I strongly suspect that the OP completely and utterly misunderstood something and jumped to the most farfetched and outlandish conclusion possible based on that misunderstanding. Or maybe he knows all to well what he's doing and has shares in Blockbuster.
Get botoxed before travelling.
Is that you won't need to have bar codes tattooed to your forehead. It's the same thing, minus the ink.
That is, until the people are tagged like cattle currently are. It's only a matter of time. Escape from prison while you still can.
Sorry, not buying it. The odds of shining a narrow focus beam directly into a pilot's tiny pupils, over a great distance, likely through a floor/door/visor, etc. are just too incredible.
I've got choppers flying around me here and I just can't see it happening. Literally. Who the hell has such good eyesight they can aim a laser that well without something like a telescope, binoculars or a viewfinder? The article doesn't say but if these aids weren't present then I'm simply not believing it.
I know about morons shining these things at planes on final approach but those are people standing directly in the path of planes with the noses down just well enough to provide direct line of sight AND the pilots are looking in their general direction at the landing lights, so it's a bit more plausible - but still hard to believe.
I sincerely hope you're joking...but I know many aren't.
Since when does Greenpeace have terror campaigns? Hanging banners from buildings and bridges, running weenie dinghies around motherf*cker-sized warships, disrupting whaling, fishing and toxic waste dumping, all without violence? That's terror?
I've known since 9/11 that before long the word terror will come to include ANYTHING at all that involves protest or resistance, peaceful or otherwise, and even political or ideological difference, but do you have to encourage it?
The issue at hand is whether companies should be granted immunity for performing illegal and criminal actions if they are asked to do so by the government.
Another issue is the government should not be allowed to amend laws to make something legal, after the fact, just because the government did something illegal.
During the Nuremberg and other war crimes trials many people claimed they weren't responsible for the atrocities they committed on the grounds that they were just following orders. This is the exact same thing. There are always industries propping up criminal regimes and this is no different. In this case the telcos KNOW they're doing something illegal and unconstitutional, spying on every citizen, and so they're trying for a "get out of jail free" card.
I would, yes. Wish it were me, I'd love to take it to court.
Does anyone remember those Mad magazine lunchbox stickers parodying a whole range of brand names? I think this was during the 70's.
Is this to say such stickers are now impossible in the current US legal climate?
Does Best Buy actually have a trademark on blue polo shirts with *any* yellow logo? I seriously doubt it.
The might have trademark on blue polo shirts with *their* logo, but not shirts that are blue, have yellowish logos or even have parody logos.
This whole thing reminds me of my IRC days. My MOO/MUD days. My Fidonet days. My BBS days. Cripes, even my university days. Gosh, this makes me feel so old.
And I shake my hed as I pat the Wiki children onna hed.
Children will be children.
Let's examine this one small quote closely.
Note the word "facilitating" (tools facilitate, y'know). Also, note the word "propaganda", another way of saying "information".
Therefore, the implicit conclusion of the statement is that information leads to terrorism, and the internet is a source of information, therefore the internet facilitates terrorism (i.e. the internet can be used as a tool to foster terrorism). Therefore we must find ways to study and limit this source of terrorism.
Think about it. If the bill isn't saying the internet is a tool for terrorists or terrorism then what is it saying? Why mention the internet at all?
As an American who loves your freedom you better damn well want unlimited access to even terrorist-related propaganda. Any limits placed on information is just another way of controlling what the populace thinks. Hell, what if the "terrorist propaganda" happens to be true? Information is such that just because it came from a terrorist doesn't mean it's necessarily false, likewise just because it came from the US government doesn't mean it's true. Facts and information must be assessed on their own merits. To control this "problem" can only mean devising a scheme to pre-screen and control the flow of information.
Google has successfully headed off the issue, preventing a situation where they might be legally compelled to reveal the IP. Trust me, that's a good thing for everyone.
This post offends my sensibilities. Can we have your real name, please.
Thank you.
If you think you can determine political affiliation based on how someone rates movies, especially in America, then you're just plain retarded.
To take an example, a left-winger might rate Michael Moore flicks poorly because one thing about Moore's stuff is he almost always seems to avoid more effective ways of making his points. They agree with the message, disagree with the methodology or style of film. On the other side of things, a libertarian, Goldwater Republican, "conservative", etc., might rate Moore's Sicko highly, because there is undoubtably something wrong and shameful with health care in America whether you believe in socialized medicine or not.
But you know what - it wouldn't surprised me if the day came when your movie ratings came back to haunt you. America and other countries do seem to be headed in that direction.
Take a look at the Bernstein diet, where the doctor takes your money, about $1000, gives you weekly injections of vitamin B6 and B12 in liquid form, and YET openly acknowledges that there is no medical or scientific evidence proving this helps you burn fat. He does put you on a diet of less than 1000 calories per day, though, which is a no-brainer.
Technically, he's not being unscientific, since he acknowledges the lack of evidence, but you have to admit he's exploiting the public's inability to figure out the subtleties - they think the magic is in the injections. So I'm sure part of the problem is the general public and media.
By the way, there's no denying the obesity epidemic, it's so bloody obvious. Just scan the crowds at a Canadian or US football stadium and you'll notice vast differences in the average spectator size between the countries. Not very scientific, but still valid as an observation.
To collect similar emails sent by this person to others? Wouldn't this establish that its spam? Given that the definition of spam is probably that it must be an automated email sent out en masse to people who do not wish to receive it, wouldn't it have been easier to prove if you had a handful of them?
Yeah, it's bloody obvious it's spam based on the content of the email, but a single email probably doesn't prove the case.
Check out this user testimonial from their site:
It's like they're trying to attract terrorists! GEE, I wonder...