Well, sure, in principle I agree with you. But don't you think there are limits? If you see one guy walking down the street, and another guy shoulder checks him flat, that's funny. If you see one guy walking down the street and, next time he says something, someone hits him with an egg, that's funny.
But when you watch ten people follow the same guy around, day and night, for years on end, tossing eggs on him whenever he opens his mouth to order a sandwich, and shoulder checking him at irregular intervals that average to about every five seconds...
Don't you think that guy should have a right to mow them all down with a machine gun?
seems to confuse/b/ raids and motivational poster templates with a genuine threat to the American public Motivational poster templates... that's what we're calling harassment now?
Is that the same as, if he's down, kick him... if he doesn't move, kick him harder?
I suppose it's just un-American to think that we don't have a right to mob a citizen for fun and entertainment.
You don't think marijuana is a problem? Fine. How about some research? Because, if it were truly dangerous to human life, then humans would avoid it the same way we avoid other poisons and strong hallucinogens. If it truly were evil then it wouldn't have a world-wide reputation (among actual users, as opposed to ignorant witch-hunters) as a peaceful drug, as a way to relax, and as a way to enjoy life.
What is it about ten thousand years of historical record that is wiped away by eighty years of government lies?
I wouldn't want a doctor / a pilot / a bus driver stoned whilst working, Why not? Have you smoked marijuana on a regular basis for any length of time? Do you personally believe that everyone suffers the same weakness which is exploited in government reports? How about doctors, pilots, or bus drivers working at high altitudes? Shouldn't the lack of oxygen predispose them to weakness? What? Oh... you mean they grow accustomed to it? Is that even possible in nature? *gasp* Shock and awe... I thought nobody would ever think of it.
those are public safety related So is driving with one hand, listening to the radio, talking on the cell phone, dealing with kids in the back seat...
I would however hope that my management team would detect any strange behaviour You mean the classical management behavior of being high-handed, abusive, derogatory, self-important, and dismissive of the concerns of the employees beneath them? Oh, you mean that's the acceptable "strange" behavior? Let's be honest with ourselves about this.
It is similar to alcohol in this regard No, it's not, but you keep telling your ignorant, big bad self, that so that you can continue to spread the government line about the evils of that terrible plant.
Oh, that's right, you have no knowledge, background or experience in U.S., or any legal system Can you offer any details to support this? How do you know I have no knowledge or background? Can you tell me of any prominent cases where EULAs have been ruled definitively invalid, and the ruling used to uphold other cases? Can you point to any cases where an employee has both won a case against an employer who was overbearing in regulating off-hours behavior and that case was used to set a precedent to tell other employers to back off?
No, of course you can't, because you're just coming up with blanket questions to harass me, which you've been doing for eight months. How come nobody ever mods you the troll? How come your IP isn't banned? How come nobody ever questions your knowledge, experience, or your derogatory claims against me?
Once again demonstrating that you know nothing of the situation.
Can you supply any details about why I left my job? Do you know any of them? Can you tell me the first day that I began sending out resumes? What "failures" are you referring to? What on-the-job failures have I had?
How come nobody mods you troll? Why hasn't your IP been banned yet? Are you in Slashdot corporate? Maybe you're on AOL--that would explain a lot. You haven't offered a single fact to support your harassment yet.
Basically, it's due to the fact that IBM uses tools like Secondlife to conduct business. So, if business lunches are often conducted at the local DuClaw's, you're automatically banned from playing pool there? If some drunk idiot starts taunting you and getting in your face, in your off hours, with the blessing of the pub owner, you're just supposed to shrug it off because "We might tell your Mommy if you say anything back"? What's to stop IBM from conducting business _everywhere_ on the web and using that as justification to monitor all employees at all times?
Do authoritarians ever draw a line when pursuing their own power?
What kind of company do you work in? In every company I've worked in that sort of game has been the rule of play. Always put the new guy in the middle of political power struggles--that way the major combatants don't get their hands dirty.
I know, I know: RTFA is a joke. How about Read the Fine Road Signs? Can you name one instance where a corporate policy used to regulate the workforce has ever been lessened? Am I the only person who looks to the future?
can it even be legal for the employer to issue guidelines/codes of conduct for activities that are presumably not happening at the workplace? Most corporations already have an Employee Code of Conduct which includes admonitions for behavior outside the workplace. The enforceability of these is similar to EULAs: a million people never contest it, so it must be okay. If one person should ever contest it there's both an enormous legal hurdle (ie. the company can afford more lawyers than you can) and the precedent set by,"Those million people over there don't have a problem with it."
Say, for example, the guys down the hall have been at the company for ten years, and you're a new hire, and they issue to you a challenge to be able to code $something, or find a bug in a particular process, or prove to them how a particular bug can be turned into an exploit. And they're all be-boppin' 'n' scattin' all over you every time they see you, frat boy hazing style, and constantly giving you digs about how,"If you were any sort of real programmer you'd have it done by now" while, in private, constantly reassuring you that it's impossible because they have never been able to do it.
Then, one day, you pull it off. And all of they're be-boppin' 'n' scattin' and taunts and hazing comes back on them from the people in the other building who've been quietly hoping to hell you'll pull off the challenge because, several years back, their department got their budget slashed because the guys down the hall (who issued the challenge and followed it with taunting) managed to come up with a miraculous save on one of their projects and have been egotistical knuckleheads about it ever since. At least until you showed up and put their challenge right back up their nose (where it needed to be).
So now you've become the unwitting participant in a five-to-ten year running ego war between two prominent researchers, both from lengthy lines of prominent publishing research groups, both managing groups of thirty to fifty people with budgets figured in the tens of millions.
Kind of an awkward position, isn't it? Okay, but you're still proud of yourself that you managed to accomplish the $challenge.
Then, one day, when you log on to Second Life... you find yourself surrounded by griefers who never go away and, the day you finally tell one of the griefers to "Shove it!" using rather colorful language, that day is immediately followed the next morning by a reprimand from corporate for not observing the corporate image online.
And then you begin to get snyde in-the-hall comments from the be-boppin' 'n' scattin' hazing frat boy fanclub down the hall that, yes, they're the griefers who've been trolling you on Second Life... but there's nothing you can do about it because they turned you in to HR first, and anything you say now will need to go both against their collective reputation (which, given they came up with the miraculous breakthrough five years ago, is pretty darn big) and the impression that you're just a malcontent who's retaliating against "The Man" and with some psychotic conspiracy theory.
No. No, and No. It is not a good idea for an employer to have any legal authority, either inside or outside the workplace, to observe, monitor, or check on anything you do once you leave their doors.
Oh, see, now you're just being silly. I said two to five people. You're just exaggerating for the purpose of making the point seem ridiculous. A "slashdot-wide" conspiracy would, obviously, be ridiculous. Two to five people, however, is not.
But that's how the ACs have done it all along. Take everything I say, exaggerate it to enormous proportions, and then ridicule the exaggeration. Works every time.
Glad to see you took the time out to use an account, though.
How is pointing out the Slashdot solution to Mr. Ludwig's obvious conspiracy paranoia considered a "troll"?
Is the mod suggesting that I haven't had at least two, if not five, people following up nearly each and every one of my posts over the last six months with "you're just a conspiracy nutcase!" and "it's all your own fault!" without providing any real information, or even original ideas, of their own?
Wake up and smell the damn coffee. This is _*REAL*_.
I'm sure that, if you all gang up on this Ludwig the way you gang up on me, you can convince him that he's just a conspiracy theorist hiding his own personal failings.
you're not special enough to warrant a conspiracy Other than repeating "it's all your own fault", would you care to share any details you think you know about the workplace situations which resulted in my homelessness?
Oh? What's that? You don't have any details and all you do is post the same old variants of "it's all your own fault!", screaming in frothing rage, because, in real life, you are one of the asshats who targets people and wears on them until they finally snap, just so you can go running to HR saying,"See! See! They got angry and I wasn't doing _nothing_!"
You ARE a conspiracy theorist. Dear President Bush,
I have reached a revelation today. Due to the overwhelming ridicule of Anonymous Cowards to each and every legitimate question that I've asked over the last eight months I have decided that it is in my best interests to agree with your line of thinking.
I believe the conspiracy theory.
I believe that there is a conspiracy of "black banks" who manage to exchange currency, grant loans, and fund corporations on the international market without ever revealing their location, their executives, or their source of resources.
I believe that there is a conspiracy of "black corporations" who manage to do business on the international scale, to ship and receive merchandise, to make investments in the global stock markets, to employ thousands of workers in fields ranging from janitorial and food services up to nuclear scientists, all without revealing their locations, the banks who process their funds, investments, and payroll checks, their executives, or their major business partners.
I believe that there is a conspiracy of men, clad in robes, who live in the deserts and mountains yet have the experience and materials necessary to assemble nuclear devices, to buy and sell all manner of weapons ranging from hand pistols to mortar tubes to grenade launchers to ICBMs, who live completely off the land and under the radar, who can communicate on a worldwide network, and who do business with the aforementioned "black banks" and "black corporations" without ever revealing their names, locations, or any other identifying information.
I believe that there is a conspiracy of "black executives" who run the aforementioned "black banks" and "black corporations", whose homes and offices are decorated with artwork and artisanship which is paid for in untraceable funds, who travel on cruise liners and jets which cannot be tracked in international airspace, and who play golf, cribbage, bridge, and whose children attend school right next to the other monied wealthy elite of the world without anyone ever knowing anything about it.
I believe that there is a worldwide conspiracy of "black nuclear contractors" who manage to evade the oversight of the UN, who procure nuclear material from the mining companies which fall under the umbrella of "black corporations", who pay for their employee payroll and their physical buildings with funds from the "black banks", who ship and receive their products using completely unknown "black airlines", whose overland transportation is handled entirely by "black trucking companies", and who buy "black toilet paper" so that they are completely untraceable to the other nuclear interests of the world.
Specifically, Mr. Bush, I believe in your conspiracy of "black everything" which threatens to attack the US, using "black missles", "black passports", "black computer chips", "black IP addresses", "black bank account numbers", "black airplanes", "black semi-trailers", "black forklifts", "black dockworkers", and have their own infrastructure of "black investigators" who sign off on all the paperwork which is required to move so much as a breath mint across international borders.
So, Mr. Bush, could you please stop sending the Anonymous Cowards around? I believe in your conspiracy and, just for the sake of arbitrary creativity, I'm going to continue to assume that none of it is possible, and I'm going to continue to ask the obvious questions of,"If these people are powerful enough to move billions of dollars at a time, how the _HELL_ are they doing it behind everyone's back?"
Don't thank me for my time, Mr. Bush. It is my duty and honor to point out the obvious to the nation.
Sincerely,
Steven B.
The only consistent feature in all of your failures is you Your baseless attempt to demoralize is unsuccessful.
At least I log in, you whiny little bitch. Having a million sock-puppet accounts doesn't count as "logging in".
You did notice that you cited an article mentioning an aggregate study, didn't you? Garbage in, garbage out. They dug up 37 _other_ studies, all of which were probably funded by reefer madness and Just Say No!, and expect to have useful data from them.
Still no links to the actual studies, though, in order to audit the numbers. It's always better that way because, of the hundreds of such studies that I've looked at, every single one is an example of the most subjective and distorted science possible.
Oh, did you read the bottom of the page, noting where the supposed researchers came from and who was paying their bills?
Yes, Red, "rabidly distorted" perfectly describes the link you provided.
The problem with you not having a job is yours. If I were a hiring manager, and an employee came in with a couple of retards who followed him everywhere shouting "conspiracy theorist", "you don't know anything", and "it's all your own fault", then I don't care if he were the perfect person for the position and already had an H1-B. I wouldn't hire him until he got rid of the stalkers.
Just as a dog instantly wakes up and races to the door when it hears its master's voice upon returning home you always coming yammering and barking whenever you see my posts.
Maybe you're a rabid dog. I know what we should do with you.
Whatever your feelings on the matter, it is still illegal. As is embezzlement, fraud, illegal wiretapping, money laundering, and abuse of administrative privelege especially when applied to elected public officials.
Thank you for putting all of that into perspective.
Gee, Red, funny you should show up at a time like this.
Let's look at the article you linked to: Title: "Study: Even Infrequent Use of Marijuana Increases Risk of Psychosis by 40 Percent" Content: "Using marijuana seems to increase the chance of becoming psychotic...The researchers said they couldn't prove that marijuana use itself increases the risk"
And no link to the actual study where the numbers could be audited to make certain that they're not using a test group of 5 inmates from country and a control group of 5 guys in the psyche ward.
Why... YES. I would call that rabidly distorted.
Thank you for trolling, Red. Please go jump off the nearest cliff.
who rambles on about conspiracy theories without offering a shred of evidence Dear President Bush,
I have reached a revelation today. Due to the overwhelming ridicule of Anonymous Cowards to each and every legitimate question that I've asked over the last eight months I have decided that it is in my best interests to agree with your line of thinking.
I believe the conspiracy theory.
I believe that there is a conspiracy of "black banks" who manage to exchange currency, grant loans, and fund corporations on the international market without ever revealing their location, their executives, or their source of resources.
I believe that there is a conspiracy of "black corporations" who manage to do business on the international scale, to ship and receive merchandise, to make investments in the global stock markets, to employ thousands of workers in fields ranging from janitorial and food services up to nuclear scientists, all without revealing their locations, the banks who process their funds, investments, and payroll checks, their executives, or their major business partners.
I believe that there is a conspiracy of men, clad in robes, who live in the deserts and mountains yet have the experience and materials necessary to assemble nuclear devices, to buy and sell all manner of weapons ranging from hand pistols to mortar tubes to grenade launchers to ICBMs, who live completely off the land and under the radar, who can communicate on a worldwide network, and who do business with the aforementioned "black banks" and "black corporations" without ever revealing their names, locations, or any other identifying information.
I believe that there is a conspiracy of "black executives" who run the aforementioned "black banks" and "black corporations", whose homes and offices are decorated with artwork and artisanship which is paid for in untraceable funds, who travel on cruise liners and jets which cannot be tracked in international airspace, and who play golf, cribbage, bridge, and whose children attend school right next to the other monied wealthy elite of the world without anyone ever knowing anything about it.
I believe that there is a worldwide conspiracy of "black nuclear contractors" who manage to evade the oversight of the UN, who procure nuclear material from the mining companies which fall under the umbrella of "black corporations", who pay for their employee payroll and their physical buildings with funds from the "black banks", who ship and receive their products using completely unknown "black airlines", whose overland transportation is handled entirely by "black trucking companies", and who buy "black toilet paper" so that they are completely untraceable to the other nuclear interests of the world.
Specifically, Mr. Bush, I believe in your conspiracy of "black everything" which threatens to attack the US, using "black missles", "black passports", "black computer chips", "black IP addresses", "black bank account numbers", "black airplanes", "black semi-trailers", "black forklifts", "black dockworkers", and have their own infrastructure of "black investigators" who sign off on all the paperwork which is required to move so much as a breath mint across international borders.
So, Mr. Bush, could you please stop sending the Anonymous Cowards around? I believe in your conspiracy and, just for the sake of arbitrary creativity, I'm going to continue to assume that none of it is possible, and I'm going to continue to ask the obvious questions of,"If these people are powerful enough to move billions of dollars at a time, how the _HELL_ are they doing it behind everyone's back?"
Don't thank me for my time, Mr. Bush. It is my duty and honor to point out the obvious to the nation.
Sincerely,
Steven B.
Right after you quit smoking pot. Right after all of the politicians, bankers, and stock investors do because, obviously, what I do on my personal time is of much greater importance to the nation than what they do on their personal time.
Thank you for pointing that out. I can certainly see how my personal decision to use marijuana, whose health effects are considered to be "nil"--as compared to drinking and overeating--by all but the most rabidly distorted medical studies, is much more severe to national security than domestic wiretapping, or embezzlement, or graft, or insider trading, or any of the investigations which are currently underway over men and women who sit in Congress, or are business associates of those who sit in Congress, and collect salaries and benefits, and a lifetime compensation and retirement package, which averages to a yearly total of well over one million dollars.
Thank you for putting all of that into perspective.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, sure, in principle I agree with you. But don't you think there are limits? If you see one guy walking down the street, and another guy shoulder checks him flat, that's funny. If you see one guy walking down the street and, next time he says something, someone hits him with an egg, that's funny.
But when you watch ten people follow the same guy around, day and night, for years on end, tossing eggs on him whenever he opens his mouth to order a sandwich, and shoulder checking him at irregular intervals that average to about every five seconds...
Don't you think that guy should have a right to mow them all down with a machine gun?
Let's be honest.
Is that the same as, if he's down, kick him... if he doesn't move, kick him harder?
I suppose it's just un-American to think that we don't have a right to mob a citizen for fun and entertainment.
What is it about ten thousand years of historical record that is wiped away by eighty years of government lies?
Can you back that claim up? Do you know what my line of work was? What politics was I involved in?
Do you know anything of what you're talking about or do you just come around to monitor and harass me?
Why isn't your IP banned?
No, of course you can't, because you're just coming up with blanket questions to harass me, which you've been doing for eight months. How come nobody ever mods you the troll? How come your IP isn't banned? How come nobody ever questions your knowledge, experience, or your derogatory claims against me?
Once again demonstrating that you know nothing of the situation.
Can you supply any details about why I left my job? Do you know any of them? Can you tell me the first day that I began sending out resumes? What "failures" are you referring to? What on-the-job failures have I had?
How come nobody mods you troll? Why hasn't your IP been banned yet? Are you in Slashdot corporate? Maybe you're on AOL--that would explain a lot. You haven't offered a single fact to support your harassment yet.
Do authoritarians ever draw a line when pursuing their own power?
What kind of company do you work in? In every company I've worked in that sort of game has been the rule of play. Always put the new guy in the middle of political power struggles--that way the major combatants don't get their hands dirty.
Case closed.
There are political considerations, of course.
Say, for example, the guys down the hall have been at the company for ten years, and you're a new hire, and they issue to you a challenge to be able to code $something, or find a bug in a particular process, or prove to them how a particular bug can be turned into an exploit. And they're all be-boppin' 'n' scattin' all over you every time they see you, frat boy hazing style, and constantly giving you digs about how,"If you were any sort of real programmer you'd have it done by now" while, in private, constantly reassuring you that it's impossible because they have never been able to do it.
Then, one day, you pull it off. And all of they're be-boppin' 'n' scattin' and taunts and hazing comes back on them from the people in the other building who've been quietly hoping to hell you'll pull off the challenge because, several years back, their department got their budget slashed because the guys down the hall (who issued the challenge and followed it with taunting) managed to come up with a miraculous save on one of their projects and have been egotistical knuckleheads about it ever since. At least until you showed up and put their challenge right back up their nose (where it needed to be).
So now you've become the unwitting participant in a five-to-ten year running ego war between two prominent researchers, both from lengthy lines of prominent publishing research groups, both managing groups of thirty to fifty people with budgets figured in the tens of millions.
Kind of an awkward position, isn't it? Okay, but you're still proud of yourself that you managed to accomplish the $challenge.
Then, one day, when you log on to Second Life... you find yourself surrounded by griefers who never go away and, the day you finally tell one of the griefers to "Shove it!" using rather colorful language, that day is immediately followed the next morning by a reprimand from corporate for not observing the corporate image online.
And then you begin to get snyde in-the-hall comments from the be-boppin' 'n' scattin' hazing frat boy fanclub down the hall that, yes, they're the griefers who've been trolling you on Second Life... but there's nothing you can do about it because they turned you in to HR first, and anything you say now will need to go both against their collective reputation (which, given they came up with the miraculous breakthrough five years ago, is pretty darn big) and the impression that you're just a malcontent who's retaliating against "The Man" and with some psychotic conspiracy theory.
No. No, and No. It is not a good idea for an employer to have any legal authority, either inside or outside the workplace, to observe, monitor, or check on anything you do once you leave their doors.
Oh, see, now you're just being silly. I said two to five people. You're just exaggerating for the purpose of making the point seem ridiculous. A "slashdot-wide" conspiracy would, obviously, be ridiculous. Two to five people, however, is not.
But that's how the ACs have done it all along. Take everything I say, exaggerate it to enormous proportions, and then ridicule the exaggeration. Works every time.
Glad to see you took the time out to use an account, though.
How is pointing out the Slashdot solution to Mr. Ludwig's obvious conspiracy paranoia considered a "troll"?
Is the mod suggesting that I haven't had at least two, if not five, people following up nearly each and every one of my posts over the last six months with "you're just a conspiracy nutcase!" and "it's all your own fault!" without providing any real information, or even original ideas, of their own?
Wake up and smell the damn coffee. This is _*REAL*_.
I'm sure that, if you all gang up on this Ludwig the way you gang up on me, you can convince him that he's just a conspiracy theorist hiding his own personal failings.
Oh? What's that? You don't have any details and all you do is post the same old variants of "it's all your own fault!", screaming in frothing rage, because, in real life, you are one of the asshats who targets people and wears on them until they finally snap, just so you can go running to HR saying,"See! See! They got angry and I wasn't doing _nothing_!"
I have reached a revelation today. Due to the overwhelming ridicule of Anonymous Cowards to each and every legitimate question that I've asked over the last eight months I have decided that it is in my best interests to agree with your line of thinking.
I believe the conspiracy theory.
I believe that there is a conspiracy of "black banks" who manage to exchange currency, grant loans, and fund corporations on the international market without ever revealing their location, their executives, or their source of resources.
I believe that there is a conspiracy of "black corporations" who manage to do business on the international scale, to ship and receive merchandise, to make investments in the global stock markets, to employ thousands of workers in fields ranging from janitorial and food services up to nuclear scientists, all without revealing their locations, the banks who process their funds, investments, and payroll checks, their executives, or their major business partners.
I believe that there is a conspiracy of men, clad in robes, who live in the deserts and mountains yet have the experience and materials necessary to assemble nuclear devices, to buy and sell all manner of weapons ranging from hand pistols to mortar tubes to grenade launchers to ICBMs, who live completely off the land and under the radar, who can communicate on a worldwide network, and who do business with the aforementioned "black banks" and "black corporations" without ever revealing their names, locations, or any other identifying information.
I believe that there is a conspiracy of "black executives" who run the aforementioned "black banks" and "black corporations", whose homes and offices are decorated with artwork and artisanship which is paid for in untraceable funds, who travel on cruise liners and jets which cannot be tracked in international airspace, and who play golf, cribbage, bridge, and whose children attend school right next to the other monied wealthy elite of the world without anyone ever knowing anything about it.
I believe that there is a worldwide conspiracy of "black nuclear contractors" who manage to evade the oversight of the UN, who procure nuclear material from the mining companies which fall under the umbrella of "black corporations", who pay for their employee payroll and their physical buildings with funds from the "black banks", who ship and receive their products using completely unknown "black airlines", whose overland transportation is handled entirely by "black trucking companies", and who buy "black toilet paper" so that they are completely untraceable to the other nuclear interests of the world.
Specifically, Mr. Bush, I believe in your conspiracy of "black everything" which threatens to attack the US, using "black missles", "black passports", "black computer chips", "black IP addresses", "black bank account numbers", "black airplanes", "black semi-trailers", "black forklifts", "black dockworkers", and have their own infrastructure of "black investigators" who sign off on all the paperwork which is required to move so much as a breath mint across international borders.
So, Mr. Bush, could you please stop sending the Anonymous Cowards around? I believe in your conspiracy and, just for the sake of arbitrary creativity, I'm going to continue to assume that none of it is possible, and I'm going to continue to ask the obvious questions of,"If these people are powerful enough to move billions of dollars at a time, how the _HELL_ are they doing it behind everyone's back?"
Don't thank me for my time, Mr. Bush. It is my duty and honor to point out the obvious to the nation.
Sincerely,
Steven B. The only consistent feature in all of your failures is you Your baseless attempt to demoralize is unsuccessful.
You did notice that you cited an article mentioning an aggregate study, didn't you? Garbage in, garbage out. They dug up 37 _other_ studies, all of which were probably funded by reefer madness and Just Say No!, and expect to have useful data from them.
Still no links to the actual studies, though, in order to audit the numbers. It's always better that way because, of the hundreds of such studies that I've looked at, every single one is an example of the most subjective and distorted science possible.
Oh, did you read the bottom of the page, noting where the supposed researchers came from and who was paying their bills?
Yes, Red, "rabidly distorted" perfectly describes the link you provided.
_YOU_ are the problem.
Just as a dog instantly wakes up and races to the door when it hears its master's voice upon returning home you always coming yammering and barking whenever you see my posts.
Maybe you're a rabid dog. I know what we should do with you.
Thank you for putting all of that into perspective.
Gee, Red, funny you should show up at a time like this.
Let's look at the article you linked to:
Title: "Study: Even Infrequent Use of Marijuana Increases Risk of Psychosis by 40 Percent"
Content: "Using marijuana seems to increase the chance of becoming psychotic...The researchers said they couldn't prove that marijuana use itself increases the risk"
And no link to the actual study where the numbers could be audited to make certain that they're not using a test group of 5 inmates from country and a control group of 5 guys in the psyche ward.
Why... YES. I would call that rabidly distorted.
Thank you for trolling, Red. Please go jump off the nearest cliff.
I have reached a revelation today. Due to the overwhelming ridicule of Anonymous Cowards to each and every legitimate question that I've asked over the last eight months I have decided that it is in my best interests to agree with your line of thinking.
I believe the conspiracy theory.
I believe that there is a conspiracy of "black banks" who manage to exchange currency, grant loans, and fund corporations on the international market without ever revealing their location, their executives, or their source of resources.
I believe that there is a conspiracy of "black corporations" who manage to do business on the international scale, to ship and receive merchandise, to make investments in the global stock markets, to employ thousands of workers in fields ranging from janitorial and food services up to nuclear scientists, all without revealing their locations, the banks who process their funds, investments, and payroll checks, their executives, or their major business partners.
I believe that there is a conspiracy of men, clad in robes, who live in the deserts and mountains yet have the experience and materials necessary to assemble nuclear devices, to buy and sell all manner of weapons ranging from hand pistols to mortar tubes to grenade launchers to ICBMs, who live completely off the land and under the radar, who can communicate on a worldwide network, and who do business with the aforementioned "black banks" and "black corporations" without ever revealing their names, locations, or any other identifying information.
I believe that there is a conspiracy of "black executives" who run the aforementioned "black banks" and "black corporations", whose homes and offices are decorated with artwork and artisanship which is paid for in untraceable funds, who travel on cruise liners and jets which cannot be tracked in international airspace, and who play golf, cribbage, bridge, and whose children attend school right next to the other monied wealthy elite of the world without anyone ever knowing anything about it.
I believe that there is a worldwide conspiracy of "black nuclear contractors" who manage to evade the oversight of the UN, who procure nuclear material from the mining companies which fall under the umbrella of "black corporations", who pay for their employee payroll and their physical buildings with funds from the "black banks", who ship and receive their products using completely unknown "black airlines", whose overland transportation is handled entirely by "black trucking companies", and who buy "black toilet paper" so that they are completely untraceable to the other nuclear interests of the world.
Specifically, Mr. Bush, I believe in your conspiracy of "black everything" which threatens to attack the US, using "black missles", "black passports", "black computer chips", "black IP addresses", "black bank account numbers", "black airplanes", "black semi-trailers", "black forklifts", "black dockworkers", and have their own infrastructure of "black investigators" who sign off on all the paperwork which is required to move so much as a breath mint across international borders.
So, Mr. Bush, could you please stop sending the Anonymous Cowards around? I believe in your conspiracy and, just for the sake of arbitrary creativity, I'm going to continue to assume that none of it is possible, and I'm going to continue to ask the obvious questions of,"If these people are powerful enough to move billions of dollars at a time, how the _HELL_ are they doing it behind everyone's back?"
Don't thank me for my time, Mr. Bush. It is my duty and honor to point out the obvious to the nation.
Sincerely,
Steven B. Right after you quit smoking pot. Right after all of the politicians, bankers, and stock investors do because, obviously, what I do on my personal time is of much greater importance to the nation than what they do on their personal time.
Thank you for pointing all of this out.
Thank you for pointing that out. I can certainly see how my personal decision to use marijuana, whose health effects are considered to be "nil"--as compared to drinking and overeating--by all but the most rabidly distorted medical studies, is much more severe to national security than domestic wiretapping, or embezzlement, or graft, or insider trading, or any of the investigations which are currently underway over men and women who sit in Congress, or are business associates of those who sit in Congress, and collect salaries and benefits, and a lifetime compensation and retirement package, which averages to a yearly total of well over one million dollars.
Thank you for putting all of that into perspective.
And how many years have you been writing computer RPGs, Mr. AC?