Even when votes are properly recorded the voting record itself is attached to the bill as a static text document. There are many votes and votes on similar bills. It is impossible for the average person to sift through all the bills and find out the voting record of their elected officials. The only sane way to get this information is to look at congressional watchdog groups that will tally votes and keep a proper database of voting records, but even this account may not be accurate as usually these groups have a bias or only focus on one type of legislation.
Last year there was a bill that would have created an online database of congressional voting. This bill failed, good luck finding out what the bill number was or who voted against it.
I recently bought some stuff from performancebike.com. Like many ebusinesses they require an email address when you make a purchase. I dont mind order shipment notices, but I hate opt-out marketing crap so I used a sneakemail address.
A couple of weeks after I recieved my order I started getting forged address spam being send through the performancebike address. I emailed CustomerService@performanceinc.com (go go spamharvester) about it and they said they would remove me from their marketing lists(even though it was clear they had already sold my address). But they didnt appologize for selling my address. Anyway I ended up deleting the performance bike address so I wont be bothered by their spammers and I will never buy anything from them again.
hmmmm... performancebikesucks.org is available though it seems performancebikesucks.com is owned by performancebike.... they must know they suck.
EMusic's low quality mp3s are ok for dialup users, but I'm not about to waste my time with the trial membership, let alone fork over any cash for tin can recordings.
There is a market here and money to be made. They should offer 128kbs downloads for $5/month and high quality ogg vbr downloads $10/month. If the servers were fast I would belly up to the bar. Right now my best option for price/selection/quality/interoperability is illicit channels.
Have you seen what they call houses nowadays, its pretty darn sad. Sure they don't fall down much, but they are stuffed full of fiber board, polypropylene, and blown insulation(where required by code). They stamp them out of cookie cutters and cut corners wherever possible. Shitty rugs, ugly linoleum, flat white paint, laminated cabinets. These things aren't build to last, they don't look good, and nobody cares! They drive their suv out to their suburban home and sit on their asses in front of the tv. art!? whats that?! Shakespeare in love playing on the movie channel?
The general lack of quality in current software apps is a reflection of our society. Quality Craftsmanship is a thing of the past, mass production is where its at. Businesses and managers are pressured to bring products and services to market As Soon As Possible. Process design, peer review, and quality control of central components fall by the wayside as new useless features are added willy nilly in an effort to bolster sales. I try to write good software, but without proper project planning there is never enough time or thought allowed to enter the process. Sometimes I feel like writing quality commercial software is like trying to swim upstream.
I have written some good tools that are used by many of our applications to quickly build linked customizable html displays of database data. I used another project as an excuse to build the tools. No time in the workplan for that! And have never been allowed time update and extend the tools even though it would clearly be beneficial and save time for many other programmers. Projects could be created with object oriented reusable code and modules well planed, organized, optimized etc, but clean code doesn't sell.
USB was designed by Intel to waste cpu power
on
USB 2.0 For Linux
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
USB is a low cost I/O interface that relys on the cpu. Intel wanted a standard that was cheap and would promote cpu sales. As devices are added processing goes up and available cycles goes down. Other I/O interfaces like scsi utilize a seperate processor to allow the cpu to perform more important tasks.
I like usb, its fairly fast and cheap but intel has its own reasons for pushing the standard.
Borders said they were using this to find known shoplifters. They do this by taking pictures of every person that walks in the store and comparing their face metrics with a database.
There is no way to know how long people pictures stay in the database or that they are not becoming part of the database as they link this information with other customer information(borders preferred customer cards? or Amazon database information.) They could then create a profile of your purchases, visit frequency, credit history and coordinate this with any other information they can get from other "partner" companies like doubleclick.
Borders does not have to serve everyone, especially freedom/privacy loving freaks like me.
Before they could bar me from entry I wrote them a nice little email and let them know that they could kiss my business goodbye if they implemented this system.
If borders does not have a right to collect and record this information without informing people who enter their store. A retailer must accept cash in return for goods and services without requiring additional information. Its legal tender. They have to take it. There are laws against recording, archiving and coordinating credit card information. Traditionally consumers have been afforded a certain level of privacy when making purchases. Because it is technologically feasible to track individual shoppers does not mean that it is ethical or even legal.
Dan Gillmor wrote a good
article
about how ms is using xp to foist windows media player & msn messanger on us while killing java and further limiting consumer choice.
"Windows XP isn't just an upgrade of the operating system. It's the linchpin of Microsoft's scarily plausible strategy to control the Internet just as it now controls desktop computing -- and to put itself at the center of all manner of future commerce and communications. It's wrong to allow this unrepentant monopolist to ignore the law and keep on its predatory path."
The 1.4 ghz athlon has been out for a couple months now... the 1.1 ghz athlon has been out for at least 10 months.
Here is a june 6 pcworld
review
where an amd 1.4-GHz system is "the fastest system yet tested by PCWorld.com" beating out 5 systems based on the 1.7 ghz p4.
Here is a tech report
review
of an amd 1.33 vs intel 1.7 where they conclude: "Intel's new entry, the 1.7GHz Pentium 4, performs about like a 1.2GHz Athlon in most situations."
You cant get
duel processing power from a pentium 4 like you can with an athlon.
Clear Chanel and the other three radio companies get paid to play what the RIAA wants you to hear. Why does top 40 suck? Because its profitable. If you hear a song over and over hour after hour you are more likely to buy it. Or at least some morons are. When the record companies began paying radio stations there was a big scandle called "Payola". Congress declared payola illegal and made the companies setup a network of middlemen that would pass the money from the major labels to the radio producers all legal like. And thats why commercial radio sucks.
If you are lucky enough to live in Madison, WI I sugest you tune to one of the few community radio stations left: wort 89.9
I play play quake. Back in the day I was limited to 56k dialup with actual connection speeds of 45-50. I lowest ping times I could find were 125+ and I was usually connected at 150 and could manage to hold my own in a game. Anything over 160 is difficult and will leave you schooled.
Now I have a cable modem and my ping times are significantly less. I can get ping times as low as 45, but usually end up playing at 60-100. My game is much better now and I usually end up in the top 3. Does a low ping guarentee 31337 skillz? nope, Ive schooled 100pings when playing at 200, but its damn hard. Having a low ping is definately an advatage. Most net users are limited to dialup so the best they can get is 150. But really the lowest ping is the best if you want to rack up the killz.
In Madison WI pay phones have been 35 cents for a long time, but I went to make a call the other day and the fucking thing was fifty cents... Worse than the post office. I might be forced to become one of those jerks with the cell phones.
btw ot - who wants to do web surfing on one a screen with 5 fucking lines? I asked people at work what phone I should buy and a guy says he goes through sprint, pays 60 bucks a month and has calls dropped all the time. Im like 60 bucks for shitty service WTF!?
Dolby digital 5.1 sound in audio/video codecs and games.
HDTV reciever cards.
DVD-RW in a standard format.
Fiber Highspeed Internet access.
We have been hearing about this stuff for years, but its not available(or not affordable). Hardware companies keep dragging their asses(DVD-RW) and then they wonder why we stopped buying their old shit.
128kbps mp3s still dont sound that great. Most of my collection is 196kbs or higher. I use high quality varriable bit rate encoding when I rip my own music and the sound is excellent.
AFAIK chances are that every once in a while a three or four character combination will appear in a string of gobbly gook encrypted text. Does this mean that censorware will abitrarily filter out clean messages that are encrypted?
Inside your junkbuster.ini file make sure this is uncommented:
cookiefile scookie.ini
Then in your scookie.ini file enter in web sites that you will accept cookies from like so:
www.nytimes.com
www.slashdot.org
www.dialpad.com
slashdot.org
www.altavista.com
hotmail.msn.com
freedrive.com
And you are all hooked up. Those sites can access the cookies, but others never touch your system. Hotmail bitches at you a little because it cant set a doubleclick cookie but it works fine.
I bet right this instant someone is working on a small program to automatically rename all of your mp3s.
Read in the filename.
replace "o" with "0"
replace "l" with "1"
replace "e" with "3"
replace "a" with "4"
replace "s" with "5"
replace "t" with "7"
Save the filename.
That would pretty much obscure any file out there while makeing it fairly obvious to anyone who added you to their hotlist and was browsing through your collection.
Rich, poor, everyone. Poor people will use it to eat for months and rich people will eat out for a night. Or maybe we should give lexuses to the very rich(cause they need em) and let the poor keep on getting screwed.
Bill Gate's net worth is equal to the net worth of the bottom 50% of the people in the united states. Rich people do pay more taxes, but thats because they can afford to do so. Would you rather the government place the same tax burden on everyone and force the poor to starve to death?
Many taxes are not proportionate. The social security taxes are collected primarily from low and middle income people, but these funds are often "borrowed" to pay for other government programs. Property taxes are linear. Sales taxes are linear and often affect rich people less. Use taxes like vehicle registration, fishing permits, park passes are paid mostly by middle class and poor people. Many rich people hire accountants to create tax shelters or divert their funds to non-profit organizations that operate as charities to promote the causes of rich people. Dubaya's daddys rich friends put him in office. This tax cut is for them, the ceos of enron, philip morris and time warner and as a result a larger portion of the tax burden will be shifted to middle and low income people.
Rich people are not special people crowned by god, they often got rich because of oportunities they were afforded by living in this nation, because of our system of laws and government infastructure. Its only fair that People who reap the bennifits of our system pay their share.
The worst part about this proposed tax cut is that in the future, when this money could have been used to fix social security and improve education, the poor of our country will be the ones really hurt by this. Bend over america its time to bow down the ruling class.
Thank god dubaya wasnt able to produce a heir to the throne.
I have known about junkbuster filtering software for quite some time, but didnt think it was worth the effort needed to set it up properly and maintain the block lists. I didnt mind banner adds too much, if they flashed annoyingly I would just scroll down to clear them from view.
But recently zdnet and cnet started to use huge shockwave adds right in the middle of their stories. These adds are large, annoying and hard to ignore... in a word irritating. I thought about boycotting those sites alltogether esp since the quality of their editorials has slipped significantly recently. But Im a nerd and I need my news so I loaded up junkbuster, got myself a block list and modified the ini files to selectivly allow cookies. It wasnt too dificult to configure, but still painful for non techies.
Now I live in a world without banners and it is good.
If 75GB = 30 mins then 4 hours = 600GB. Thats a chunk of storage space. It may not have quick access times, but if D-VHS can be hacked to store data it could be a great backup solution.
If we know the bill number of the bloated pile of legeslation that this amendment was attached to then we can see who sponsored the amendment and voted for this bill. You can villify congress as a whole all you want, but until the names of these corrupt congressmen who are beholden to the national assocaition broadcasters are made public and they are exposed business will continue as usual in washington dc.
It has to start somewhere
It has to start sometime
What better place than here
What better time than now
-Gurilla Radio by Rage Against The Machine
Knowledge is power, got some books - go read em, wisdom is ignorance, stupidity - I call freedom! - Paul Westerberg
flamebait aside, I am a firm believer in beos, I saw it at comdex 2 years ago and paid for a copy of 4.0 before it was free. I think its a kick ass operating system, its fast, it boots quickly and it was made by people who know how to make a file system and memory management.
But as a gamer and need for speed freak I have upgraded my system since 4.0 and thus lost video driver support. Beos has tied its fortunes to the embedded market and forsaken the desktop. They have not released a new video card driver in 2 years. The os is not open source so not just anyone who can string together a couple lines of c can write their own video driver. Sure, no crappy drivers get released, but the bottem lin is that no drivers get released. Drivers seem to be a pain in the ass time consuming thing, but linux hardware support kicks the shit out of beos.
Now, after years of neglecting the desktop, the only real way for beos to make inroads on the desktop is to go gpl. Free is not good enough.
-Aaron
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default, it can never be recovered.
-Dorothy Thompson
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any less than slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?
-Herbert Spencer
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.
-Walt Whitman
The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.
-Anonymous
A man that would sacrifice his freedom for security deserves neither.
-Thomas Jefferson
This is off topic, but who knew cnn was owned by time warner? I would like to see some tree type organizational structure that details how these mega corporations are tied together.
I live in an area with a high student population which tends to be educated and more environmentally conscientious. The gas station down the street is called the freedom station, which just happens to be owned by exxon.
I want to people to be easily able to see that phillip morris owns miller, marlboro, and kraft. Is this information available on the net. If you are going to boycott time warner you need to know what companies to avoid. This information is public record, but it seems that much is done to keep it from being public knowledge.
Are there any web sites that chronicle this type of information? Is there any easy(consumer friendly) way of finding this out?
Slashdot Mirror
Even when votes are properly recorded the voting record itself is attached to the bill as a static text document. There are many votes and votes on similar bills. It is impossible for the average person to sift through all the bills and find out the voting record of their elected officials. The only sane way to get this information is to look at congressional watchdog groups that will tally votes and keep a proper database of voting records, but even this account may not be accurate as usually these groups have a bias or only focus on one type of legislation.
Last year there was a bill that would have created an online database of congressional voting. This bill failed, good luck finding out what the bill number was or who voted against it.
I recently bought some stuff from performancebike.com. Like many ebusinesses they require an email address when you make a purchase. I dont mind order shipment notices, but I hate opt-out marketing crap so I used a sneakemail address.
A couple of weeks after I recieved my order I started getting forged address spam being send through the performancebike address. I emailed CustomerService@performanceinc.com (go go spamharvester) about it and they said they would remove me from their marketing lists(even though it was clear they had already sold my address). But they didnt appologize for selling my address. Anyway I ended up deleting the performance bike address so I wont be bothered by their spammers and I will never buy anything from them again.
hmmmm... performancebikesucks.org is available though it seems performancebikesucks.com is owned by performancebike.... they must know they suck.
EMusic's low quality mp3s are ok for dialup users, but I'm not about to waste my time with the trial membership, let alone fork over any cash for tin can recordings.
There is a market here and money to be made. They should offer 128kbs downloads for $5/month and high quality ogg vbr downloads $10/month. If the servers were fast I would belly up to the bar. Right now my best option for price/selection/quality/interoperability is illicit channels.
Have you seen what they call houses nowadays, its pretty darn sad. Sure they don't fall down much, but they are stuffed full of fiber board, polypropylene, and blown insulation(where required by code). They stamp them out of cookie cutters and cut corners wherever possible. Shitty rugs, ugly linoleum, flat white paint, laminated cabinets. These things aren't build to last, they don't look good, and nobody cares! They drive their suv out to their suburban home and sit on their asses in front of the tv. art!? whats that?! Shakespeare in love playing on the movie channel?
The general lack of quality in current software apps is a reflection of our society. Quality Craftsmanship is a thing of the past, mass production is where its at. Businesses and managers are pressured to bring products and services to market As Soon As Possible. Process design, peer review, and quality control of central components fall by the wayside as new useless features are added willy nilly in an effort to bolster sales. I try to write good software, but without proper project planning there is never enough time or thought allowed to enter the process. Sometimes I feel like writing quality commercial software is like trying to swim upstream.
I have written some good tools that are used by many of our applications to quickly build linked customizable html displays of database data. I used another project as an excuse to build the tools. No time in the workplan for that! And have never been allowed time update and extend the tools even though it would clearly be beneficial and save time for many other programmers. Projects could be created with object oriented reusable code and modules well planed, organized, optimized etc, but clean code doesn't sell.
USB is a low cost I/O interface that relys on the cpu. Intel wanted a standard that was cheap and would promote cpu sales. As devices are added processing goes up and available cycles goes down. Other I/O interfaces like scsi utilize a seperate processor to allow the cpu to perform more important tasks.
I like usb, its fairly fast and cheap but intel has its own reasons for pushing the standard.
Borders said they were using this to find known shoplifters. They do this by taking pictures of every person that walks in the store and comparing their face metrics with a database. There is no way to know how long people pictures stay in the database or that they are not becoming part of the database as they link this information with other customer information(borders preferred customer cards? or Amazon database information.) They could then create a profile of your purchases, visit frequency, credit history and coordinate this with any other information they can get from other "partner" companies like doubleclick.
Borders does not have to serve everyone, especially freedom/privacy loving freaks like me. Before they could bar me from entry I wrote them a nice little email and let them know that they could kiss my business goodbye if they implemented this system.
If borders does not have a right to collect and record this information without informing people who enter their store. A retailer must accept cash in return for goods and services without requiring additional information. Its legal tender. They have to take it. There are laws against recording, archiving and coordinating credit card information. Traditionally consumers have been afforded a certain level of privacy when making purchases. Because it is technologically feasible to track individual shoppers does not mean that it is ethical or even legal.
Anyone have a mirror of the pictures?
Dan Gillmor wrote a good article about how ms is using xp to foist windows media player & msn messanger on us while killing java and further limiting consumer choice.
"Windows XP isn't just an upgrade of the operating system. It's the linchpin of Microsoft's scarily plausible strategy to control the Internet just as it now controls desktop computing -- and to put itself at the center of all manner of future commerce and communications. It's wrong to allow this unrepentant monopolist to ignore the law and keep on its predatory path."
The 1.4 ghz athlon has been out for a couple months now... the 1.1 ghz athlon has been out for at least 10 months.
Here is a june 6 pcworld review where an amd 1.4-GHz system is "the fastest system yet tested by PCWorld.com" beating out 5 systems based on the 1.7 ghz p4.
Here is a tech report review of an amd 1.33 vs intel 1.7 where they conclude: "Intel's new entry, the 1.7GHz Pentium 4, performs about like a 1.2GHz Athlon in most situations."
You cant get duel processing power from a pentium 4 like you can with an athlon.
Clear Chanel and the other three radio companies get paid to play what the RIAA wants you to hear. Why does top 40 suck? Because its profitable. If you hear a song over and over hour after hour you are more likely to buy it. Or at least some morons are. When the record companies began paying radio stations there was a big scandle called "Payola". Congress declared payola illegal and made the companies setup a network of middlemen that would pass the money from the major labels to the radio producers all legal like. And thats why commercial radio sucks.
If you are lucky enough to live in Madison, WI I sugest you tune to one of the few community radio stations left: wort 89.9
Salon did a nice piece if you care to know more.
I play play quake. Back in the day I was limited to 56k dialup with actual connection speeds of 45-50. I lowest ping times I could find were 125+ and I was usually connected at 150 and could manage to hold my own in a game. Anything over 160 is difficult and will leave you schooled.
Now I have a cable modem and my ping times are significantly less. I can get ping times as low as 45, but usually end up playing at 60-100. My game is much better now and I usually end up in the top 3. Does a low ping guarentee 31337 skillz? nope, Ive schooled 100pings when playing at 200, but its damn hard. Having a low ping is definately an advatage. Most net users are limited to dialup so the best they can get is 150. But really the lowest ping is the best if you want to rack up the killz.
In Madison WI pay phones have been 35 cents for a long time, but I went to make a call the other day and the fucking thing was fifty cents... Worse than the post office. I might be forced to become one of those jerks with the cell phones.
btw ot - who wants to do web surfing on one a screen with 5 fucking lines? I asked people at work what phone I should buy and a guy says he goes through sprint, pays 60 bucks a month and has calls dropped all the time. Im like 60 bucks for shitty service WTF!?
Duel processor AMD 1.6+ghz
Duel chanel DDRSDRAM(or 300mhz DDR)
10,000rpm serial-ATA hard drives.
FireWire
USB 2.0
25" ro 40" wide screen bioluminesent flat panels.
Dolby digital 5.1 sound in audio/video codecs and games.
HDTV reciever cards.
DVD-RW in a standard format.
Fiber Highspeed Internet access.
We have been hearing about this stuff for years, but its not available(or not affordable). Hardware companies keep dragging their asses(DVD-RW) and then they wonder why we stopped buying their old shit.
128kbps mp3s still dont sound that great. Most of my collection is 196kbs or higher. I use high quality varriable bit rate encoding when I rip my own music and the sound is excellent.
AFAIK chances are that every once in a while a three or four character combination will appear in a string of gobbly gook encrypted text. Does this mean that censorware will abitrarily filter out clean messages that are encrypted?
Inside your junkbuster.ini file make sure this is uncommented:
cookiefile scookie.ini
Then in your scookie.ini file enter in web sites that you will accept cookies from like so:
www.nytimes.com
www.slashdot.org
www.dialpad.com
slashdot.org
www.altavista.com
hotmail.msn.com
freedrive.com
And you are all hooked up. Those sites can access the cookies, but others never touch your system. Hotmail bitches at you a little because it cant set a doubleclick cookie but it works fine.
I bet right this instant someone is working on a small program to automatically rename all of your mp3s.
Read in the filename.
replace "o" with "0"
replace "l" with "1"
replace "e" with "3"
replace "a" with "4"
replace "s" with "5"
replace "t" with "7"
Save the filename.
That would pretty much obscure any file out there while makeing it fairly obvious to anyone who added you to their hotlist and was browsing through your collection.
Rich, poor, everyone. Poor people will use it to eat for months and rich people will eat out for a night. Or maybe we should give lexuses to the very rich(cause they need em) and let the poor keep on getting screwed.
Bill Gate's net worth is equal to the net worth of the bottom 50% of the people in the united states. Rich people do pay more taxes, but thats because they can afford to do so. Would you rather the government place the same tax burden on everyone and force the poor to starve to death?
Many taxes are not proportionate. The social security taxes are collected primarily from low and middle income people, but these funds are often "borrowed" to pay for other government programs. Property taxes are linear. Sales taxes are linear and often affect rich people less. Use taxes like vehicle registration, fishing permits, park passes are paid mostly by middle class and poor people. Many rich people hire accountants to create tax shelters or divert their funds to non-profit organizations that operate as charities to promote the causes of rich people. Dubaya's daddys rich friends put him in office. This tax cut is for them, the ceos of enron, philip morris and time warner and as a result a larger portion of the tax burden will be shifted to middle and low income people. Rich people are not special people crowned by god, they often got rich because of oportunities they were afforded by living in this nation, because of our system of laws and government infastructure. Its only fair that People who reap the bennifits of our system pay their share.
The worst part about this proposed tax cut is that in the future, when this money could have been used to fix social security and improve education, the poor of our country will be the ones really hurt by this. Bend over america its time to bow down the ruling class.
Thank god dubaya wasnt able to produce a heir to the throne.
I have known about junkbuster filtering software for quite some time, but didnt think it was worth the effort needed to set it up properly and maintain the block lists. I didnt mind banner adds too much, if they flashed annoyingly I would just scroll down to clear them from view.
But recently zdnet and cnet started to use huge shockwave adds right in the middle of their stories. These adds are large, annoying and hard to ignore... in a word irritating. I thought about boycotting those sites alltogether esp since the quality of their editorials has slipped significantly recently. But Im a nerd and I need my news so I loaded up junkbuster, got myself a block list and modified the ini files to selectivly allow cookies. It wasnt too dificult to configure, but still painful for non techies.
Now I live in a world without banners and it is good.
If 75GB = 30 mins then 4 hours = 600GB. Thats a chunk of storage space. It may not have quick access times, but if D-VHS can be hacked to store data it could be a great backup solution.
If we know the bill number of the bloated pile of legeslation that this amendment was attached to then we can see who sponsored the amendment and voted for this bill. You can villify congress as a whole all you want, but until the names of these corrupt congressmen who are beholden to the national assocaition broadcasters are made public and they are exposed business will continue as usual in washington dc.
It has to start somewhere It has to start sometime What better place than here What better time than now
-Gurilla Radio by Rage Against The Machine
Knowledge is power, got some books - go read em, wisdom is ignorance, stupidity - I call freedom! - Paul Westerberg
flamebait aside, I am a firm believer in beos, I saw it at comdex 2 years ago and paid for a copy of 4.0 before it was free. I think its a kick ass operating system, its fast, it boots quickly and it was made by people who know how to make a file system and memory management.
But as a gamer and need for speed freak I have upgraded my system since 4.0 and thus lost video driver support. Beos has tied its fortunes to the embedded market and forsaken the desktop. They have not released a new video card driver in 2 years. The os is not open source so not just anyone who can string together a couple lines of c can write their own video driver. Sure, no crappy drivers get released, but the bottem lin is that no drivers get released. Drivers seem to be a pain in the ass time consuming thing, but linux hardware support kicks the shit out of beos.
Now, after years of neglecting the desktop, the only real way for beos to make inroads on the desktop is to go gpl. Free is not good enough. -Aaron
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default, it can never be recovered.
-Dorothy Thompson
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any less than slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?
-Herbert Spencer
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.
-Walt Whitman
The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.
-Anonymous
A man that would sacrifice his freedom for security deserves neither.
-Thomas Jefferson
This is off topic, but who knew cnn was owned by time warner? I would like to see some tree type organizational structure that details how these mega corporations are tied together.
I live in an area with a high student population which tends to be educated and more environmentally conscientious. The gas station down the street is called the freedom station, which just happens to be owned by exxon.
I want to people to be easily able to see that phillip morris owns miller, marlboro, and kraft. Is this information available on the net. If you are going to boycott time warner you need to know what companies to avoid. This information is public record, but it seems that much is done to keep it from being public knowledge.
Are there any web sites that chronicle this type of information? Is there any easy(consumer friendly) way of finding this out?