Speaking of secret police... Back when I was not more than 6 or 7, a drab car pulled into the parking lot. Inside were two men in black.
I walk to the car and ask them "Excuse-me, are you secret police"???
-- Yes, now go back playing, one of them answered...
He got away home free despite defrauding the entire banking system of the US by removing the gold backing from the US dollar.
Doing this insured that the US dollar was backed-up by bullshit instead of real gold. Had he not done that, the French banks would have had economically wiped clean the US, and the US dollar would not have been worth a tenth of what it's worth right now...
If you listen to the police, they would like to jail everyone "just in case", "just to be sure" or "for our own good". It's not for nothing that there are concepts like "probable cause" and courts, because you cannot trust the police alone to do a good job in the first place.
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Some years ago, I was investigated by the police following a web page in which I disparaged a spammer (where I live, there is no freedom of speech). The spammer managed to convince that the page was somehow illegal; it took something like 5 months to the police to figure out who I really was, and all along the way I could hear them loudly stomping like the fuckingly clueless marching morons they are. When they finally directly got to me, I told them to fuck-off, as they didn't happen to have jurisdiction. Despite the thinly veiled threats of siccing the local cops on me, I held firm, told them to fuck-off, and eventually, I learned that they would not press charge as they weren't convinced that the charges would hold in water...
That's the biggest crock of shit ever. In office buildings, the air-conditionning is geared to keep suits comfy. Yet, ch1x0r are expected to wear skimpy clothing (and the boneheads do), and at those temperatures, they freeze, especially if they sit at a desk all day long.
The result is the ch1x0r bring in small heaters, plug them in, and make the breakers blow-up. And, as it happens, it's **ALLWAYS** on the same circuit the servers are connected to, because building management is totally clueless about IT power needs.
I dunno if it's GPS who does that, but I live on a small, narrow, winding street right off a major street, right before a tunnel. About once a month, a big truck gets stuck on my street, obviously turning there after panicking before the tunnel (right above the tunnel is a minor industrial street on which it's not obvious how to get from the major street). They usually take 40-45 minutes to back-up all the way to the big street... Record was 2 hours for a 2-trailer rig, some years ago...
So... why is [i]male[/i] genital mutilation still acceptable in the USA?
Because the jews do it, and in case you didn't know, the jews are the "chosen people(TM)"; the whole Earth belong to thems, since god gave it to them, and only them.
Who cares? They enjoy being kept in their religious ignorance (this comment also applies to the Bible Belt(TM)). The outcome is simple: mirror, block, mirror, block, mirror, block, mirror, block, mirror, block, mirror, block, mirror, block, mirror, block... ad nauseam.
Information ***WILL** get free. You cannot trap knowledge anymore that you can prevent one bather's pee from spreading throughout the **WHOLE** pool.
Fuck the whole shebang. Legalize "piracy". Have everyone distribute everything à gogo. Have only Government paying for the production of downloadable art, through something like the BBC or the CBC, financed through taxes. No more private profiteers. Scrap private producers.
Does Canada have any strict regime prisons? It certainly has the geography for it. Why not ship the script kiddies off to a work camp in the middle of nowhere for a few years.
Why bother? The **WHOLE** country is already in the middle of nowhere...
Why bother, with cheap fusion available (see below)?
* Provide energy from fusion
Best thing that could happen so far, if only for cheap access to orbit.
* Develop carbon sequestration methods
Replant the trees that have been uprooted by suburban development.
* Manage the nitrogen cycle
Yup...
* Provide access to clean water
Yup...
* Restore and improve urban infrastructure
Get rid of the cars and trucks that demolish roads.
* Advance health informatics
Get rid of leechy private insurance companies.
* Engineer better medicines
Prohibit drug marketing
* Reverse-engineer the brain
Scary!
* Prevent nuclear terror
Just don't invade other countries for their oil (should be easy to do with fusion)
* Secure cyberspace
Mandate firewalls.
* Enhance virtual reality
Why bother?
* Advance personalized learning
Get rid of marketers. If there is a force working hard to dumb-down society, it's marketers.
* Engineer the tools for scientific discovery
Goes hand in hand with advancing personalized learning.
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Could the people leaked about on WikiLeaks really be this dumb?
Well, yes, they're bankers and lawyers. They function in a set of narrowly defined rules that are unthinkable of breaking, totally oblivious to the outside world.
There is no racism in not liking people whose only difference is being fucked in the head because of their religion. They are religious only by their own volition, not because of their birth. And they can choose to dump their religion any time they want.
There is an additionnal factor in Canada that is extremely different from the US, and which may very well trigger a massive civil disobedience for an eventual CDMCA: multiculturalism (that is, no "melting pot").
Immigrants are encouraged to retain their culture; there is no definite effort to force immigrants into making them into WASPs. So, ethnic communities are not something marginal (go see the chinatown in Toronto for a good example).
When all those people will be told by the law that they cannot have non region-1 DVD players in order to watch (legally-purchased) movies from their country of origin (China, India, Philippines and even -gasp!- Britain or, heaven forbid, France), they will make sure that in the future, Hymiewood* will never again tell them what they can watch at home.
(After extensive discussions of that subject with my lawyer, it boils down that Parliament can never prohibit non region-1 players because watching a foreign movie cannot be by any remote and twisted interpretation of any kind of law whatsoever be construed as being contrary to the public good; so it is quite likely that such a provision will be struck down by courts).
* Yeah, I say "Hymiewood". I'm sick and digusted over the jews having total control over the US movie industry; this means that they can fuck with our minds, which explains why the US is such a staunch supporter of the zionists in middle-east, which is one of the primary reasons why that region is so fucked-up.
Yes and no. It is true that there is something deeply wrong with UK teenagers. They are broken. It's obvious to anyone. It is an uniquely British problem.
Indeed. Britain is also the only european anglo-saxon country. Could this mean that anglo-saxon societies are to blame? Only those societies are controlled by a bourgeois caste that have a deep-rooted visceral hatred of anything governmental (thanks magna carta). Those very short-term minded people will make sure that nothing can ever be planned for a longer term than the next week, or possibly the next month, so it is not surprising that such a society will not value it's chidren, as they will not be able to be put to the service of the bourgeois until several years in the future.
Other countries in Europe have a healthy balance of public and private services, along with a healthy dose of enlightened government intervention (which is denied to an anglo-saxon society, as goverment work is culturally demeaned, thus cutting-off talented people from public service).
this seems very stupid from a business sense. Kids grow up to be consumers, and many companies spend massive amounts to burn brand loyalties into their young impressionable minds. How quick will that noise make a massive headache a Pavlovian response to anything related to your brand.
You're talking about a business, here. A bourgeois-owned thingy. Bourgeois are amongst the most stupid and self-centered people, and they are notorious for being totally unable to see beyond the next week or so. So it is quite unsurprising that they would think nothing of pissing-off their future clientèle.
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Speaking of secret police... Back when I was not more than 6 or 7, a drab car pulled into the parking lot. Inside were two men in black.
I walk to the car and ask them "Excuse-me, are you secret police"???
-- Yes, now go back playing, one of them answered...
Ah! We finally get to know what happens when an infinite force encounters an immovable object...
Perhaps Dilbert oughta have spoken of macaques instead of lemurs...
Yet another victim of job security by obscurity...
The good old underground London Post Office tube...
Because, per capita, the french have more gold than the US...
Dunno, but to me, those cones look a bit too much like MIRVs...
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Some years ago, I was investigated by the police following a web page in which I disparaged a spammer (where I live, there is no freedom of speech). The spammer managed to convince that the page was somehow illegal; it took something like 5 months to the police to figure out who I really was, and all along the way I could hear them loudly stomping like the fuckingly clueless marching morons they are. When they finally directly got to me, I told them to fuck-off, as they didn't happen to have jurisdiction. Despite the thinly veiled threats of siccing the local cops on me, I held firm, told them to fuck-off, and eventually, I learned that they would not press charge as they weren't convinced that the charges would hold in water...
The result is the ch1x0r bring in small heaters, plug them in, and make the breakers blow-up. And, as it happens, it's **ALLWAYS** on the same circuit the servers are connected to, because building management is totally clueless about IT power needs.
I dunno if it's GPS who does that, but I live on a small, narrow, winding street right off a major street, right before a tunnel. About once a month, a big truck gets stuck on my street, obviously turning there after panicking before the tunnel (right above the tunnel is a minor industrial street on which it's not obvious how to get from the major street). They usually take 40-45 minutes to back-up all the way to the big street... Record was 2 hours for a 2-trailer rig, some years ago...
Information ***WILL** get free. You cannot trap knowledge anymore that you can prevent one bather's pee from spreading throughout the **WHOLE** pool.
Voilà, problem solved.
So it's not racism.
There is an additionnal factor in Canada that is extremely different from the US, and which may very well trigger a massive civil disobedience for an eventual CDMCA: multiculturalism (that is, no "melting pot").
Immigrants are encouraged to retain their culture; there is no definite effort to force immigrants into making them into WASPs. So, ethnic communities are not something marginal (go see the chinatown in Toronto for a good example).
When all those people will be told by the law that they cannot have non region-1 DVD players in order to watch (legally-purchased) movies from their country of origin (China, India, Philippines and even -gasp!- Britain or, heaven forbid, France), they will make sure that in the future, Hymiewood* will never again tell them what they can watch at home.
(After extensive discussions of that subject with my lawyer, it boils down that Parliament can never prohibit non region-1 players because watching a foreign movie cannot be by any remote and twisted interpretation of any kind of law whatsoever be construed as being contrary to the public good; so it is quite likely that such a provision will be struck down by courts).
* Yeah, I say "Hymiewood". I'm sick and digusted over the jews having total control over the US movie industry; this means that they can fuck with our minds, which explains why the US is such a staunch supporter of the zionists in middle-east, which is one of the primary reasons why that region is so fucked-up.
Other countries in Europe have a healthy balance of public and private services, along with a healthy dose of enlightened government intervention (which is denied to an anglo-saxon society, as goverment work is culturally demeaned, thus cutting-off talented people from public service).