"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, you can always baffle them with bullshit".
Keep talking. All the time. Say nothing but gibberish. Overwhelm them with data to the point that they can't cope anymore.
If 20% of a given ISP user's would, everyday, post random gibberish on 10 different USENET groups, this would be a good start. Let those fuckers wonder what the hell we're talking about.
Let them outlaw encryption. Let them sue everybody.
"The best way to force a redesign is to throw a monkey wrench in the works".
Don't cooperate with the police. Never talk to them. Let them wonder. Let them find out by themselves that you're up to nothing bad. Bog them down. Let them think that EVERY civilian is suspect.
And why didn't you just simply tell anyone interested what you were doing and why?
Oh, you can be sure that's what I did initially. I might have asked the security and the cops to drop their pants in the middle of rush-hour traffic (it should have been easy, we were in the middle of rush-hour traffic).
But the way I was treated by the bitch forever destroyed any trust I ever had with the pigs. They're just a bunch of terminal morons with a power trip who don't give a flying fuck about dignity and who also will not listen to someone not anointed with the holy power of constableness.
So anything you can do to annoy and delay them is fair game, just to show them that we don't get intimidated by their strong-arm tactics.
Don't kid yourself into believing you were investigated for "national security" they just did a "weirdo check" on you.
That, they can do with Google without hassling me. But given how stupid they are, and how unreceptive of civilian ideas and notions, I'm certainly not gonna help them by telling them how to do their job.
I'm not saying "they" might not have been unreasonable, but I am saying that it's likely it was mutual...
And if it was, who gives a shit? We're not in a police state, and citizens certainly don't have to seek justification from the police for the pursuit of their perfectly legal hobby.
(What? It "looks" wierd? You really should see the annual gay parade!!!!)
If you're the kind of successful person who happens to be a CEO or near-CEO that is targetted for a phone issue, you probably have many other things giving you a good credit rating: wicked income, stuff that can be sold (cars, houses, etc) for money, and other forms of credit (credit cards, for example).
When you're the owner of a big company, YOU DON'T NEED CREDIT!!!
Hey - lets do some biz. I'll pad the invoices for $20K and then offer to settle for $2K. This way you can feel oh so good as I shake you down for $2000 bux.
The jerks just love people like you. Over time they figure out where the highbar is and cheat and steal just below this level. Most people will pay rather than fight. I suppose traffic tickets fall into this area as well. But then that is instutionalized right?
My recommendation (IANAL): Take the settlement. The court fees will probably be more than the settlement!
Not really... If you RTFA, she teaches law at Osgoode Hall, one of the most prestigious law schools in Canada. She will have no problem summoning-up stellar law power when the shit will hit the fan...
Are libraries like foreign agent and terrorist magnets? I mean, it's been all over the press for years that the feds do this stupid shit. Do the feds think the "enemy" can't go to the local bookstore and pay cash for these books? What fucking planet am I on anyway, this is too stupid.
You're dealing with law-enforcement here. Policemen are not chosen for intelligence, but for their blind stupidity at following assinine orders. Anytime you demonstrate any more intelligence to any given police officer, he will make sure you deeply regret it.
They are also trained to regard any civilian as being totally untrustworthy, and will scrutinize any civilian action for anything that could be construed as being illegal.
Unfortunately, life isn't so simple. Refusing a small intrusion in this case would probably set you up for much larger intrusions and harassment down the road. If the DHS has visited you, you likely have a file there with your name on it, and are in their database. A refusal like that puts an additional flag on your profile, and may make them take another look at you later on, for completely unrelated things.
Let me play grammar nazi for 5 minutes and correct your text: Baaaaa! Baaa! Baaaaa! Baaaa! Baaaaaaaa! (repeat 20 times, account lameness filter)
I'm not getting over on anyone, I'm being gotten over by being successfully intimidated. I sometimes volunteer at a local volunteer-run bookstore where people can browse, borrow or buy books from publishers like Soft Skull Press, Autonomedia, South End Press etc.
Last summer, I was photographing old "fishbowl" buses in Ottawa, Ontario. Whithin minutes, I was hassled by transit security who were adamant that I identify myself. After telling them that they had no reason nor right to demand I identify myself, they told me that I could go, but not without calling the city cops on me.
Within minutes, I was hassled by a very hot and loud bitch cop (120 dB of pure bitchery and 120 pounds of hot chick). Within minutes I was surrounded by 6 cops and transit security.
During the ensuing shouting match, none was ever able to say what illegal act I had committed. I eventually gave my (cellphone) number to the bitch;)
6 months later, a "national security division" cop of the RCMP calls me on the cellphone and wants to talk to me.
- This is a cellphone.
- Oh. Sorry. Well, call me at 555-555-5555.
Not being stupid, I make sure I don't call him from $ORKPLACE. They're the police, so they surely can find my home number in the phone directory, no? And if they check google with my name, they can find I'm a transit buff, no?
Well, I guess not. And if they are doing "national security" investigations, 6 months later is pretty fast, I guess...
At that time I was closely following every auction on those, and I quickly noticed a pattern between a few sellers & buyers. For those sellers, if an unknown price wasn't reached, someone (always the same set of users) were bidding at the last minute, to win it and make sure it would not sell for lower than they intended.
Welcome to the real world. I know people who deal with very specialized items and they watch each other's backs by bidding on their friends' items to make sure they don't sell for too cheap...
Every customer of mine in Massachusetts is scared crapless than they'll have to invest in new software in order to assimilate state documents into their software systems.
Are your customers retards (or are you keeping them retards)? It takes no brain to download and install Open Office.
And if they absolutely, positively WANT TO use Microsoft Orifice, well, they can always "SAVE AS" word format.
EVERY SINGLE COMMENT 'dada21' makes appears to be anarcho-capitalist in some way, for good, for bad.
He's obviously a "libertarian" (pretty name for people who are in reality cheap-labour conservatives, the kind who only wants the State to protect them from their slaves).
I'm posting this from a freely available "linksys" wireless network in the neighborhood, from the IP address of an entity I don't know who has DSL. I can easily change their IP address by disconnecting and reconnecting their broadband router.
Congratulations! You're committing "theft of communication services", or "unauthorized computer access" which are felonies.
I did a "lunch escape" once. It was a very gratifying week-end anticipating the angry pose of my boss firing me on the next monday morning. So gratifying that on monday morning, I went to "work" along with my former boss (who took his two week vacation the moment he resigned a month earlier) who waited in his car downstairs while I was fired so precipitedly that the accountant had me fill my own termination papers (for unemployment insurance)!!!
However, our 3 hour lunch-hour did not have the same enjoymentness as before, because we did not go back to work afterwards...
(It was a pretty crappy company. We were 2 in the only profitable department supporting the other 14 employees of the whole company, and one of the bosses (the tech boss) would not expand our department because he was too paranoïd and did not understand the programming language we had to work with. So we eventually got fed up and decided to go away).
That's pretty much standard procedure for a lot of places. To me it's a pleasent suprise when that DOESN'T happen.
Well, twice I was "let go" because some-big-shot-I-seldom-work-for did not like my guts (so that makes it "fired"), but I was left alone with the systems for long enough to finish the outstanding stuff (in both cases, my bosses knew my job so they trained the next guy themselves). And yes, in both cases, I could have completely wrecked the company data, including **ALL** backups, including the offsites.
Oh... and to answer the question asked -- the best advice is to keep it short and to the point, no comments about why you're leaving or where you're going. "Dear Manager -- As of (date) I resign my position as (position) --Sincerly (yourname)"
When Charles de Gaulle resigned from the French Presidency, his resignation letter was:
"Je cesse d'exercer mes fonctions de président de la République. Cette décision prend effet aujourd'hui à midi".
("I cease to exert my functions of president of the Republic. This decision comes in effect today at noon").
Actually, you asshole fucktard, it's NOT legal to go 40 on an interstate, you idiotic moron. The signs clearly state that the minimum is higher, or are you incapable of basic reading comprehension like is apparently the case?
Last time I was on an interstate was 4 years ago and since it was during a buran, we did not very much care about the posted speed limits. Oh, and I don't drive btw. We have autoroutes here, where the mimimum speed is 60 km/h (which translates into 40 mph)
If you are too fucking stupid to add and subtract AND read, what the hell are you doing driving much less posting on the internet,
Oh, don't worry, I don't drive at all. Don't even have a driver's license.
which I WISH was still reserved for people who don't have their fucking head up their asses?
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Keep talking. All the time. Say nothing but gibberish. Overwhelm them with data to the point that they can't cope anymore.
If 20% of a given ISP user's would, everyday, post random gibberish on 10 different USENET groups, this would be a good start. Let those fuckers wonder what the hell we're talking about.
Let them outlaw encryption. Let them sue everybody.
"The best way to force a redesign is to throw a monkey wrench in the works".
Don't cooperate with the police. Never talk to them. Let them wonder. Let them find out by themselves that you're up to nothing bad. Bog them down. Let them think that EVERY civilian is suspect.
But the way I was treated by the bitch forever destroyed any trust I ever had with the pigs. They're just a bunch of terminal morons with a power trip who don't give a flying fuck about dignity and who also will not listen to someone not anointed with the holy power of constableness.
So anything you can do to annoy and delay them is fair game, just to show them that we don't get intimidated by their strong-arm tactics.
That, they can do with Google without hassling me. But given how stupid they are, and how unreceptive of civilian ideas and notions, I'm certainly not gonna help them by telling them how to do their job. And if it was, who gives a shit? We're not in a police state, and citizens certainly don't have to seek justification from the police for the pursuit of their perfectly legal hobby.(What? It "looks" wierd? You really should see the annual gay parade!!!!)
They are also trained to regard any civilian as being totally untrustworthy, and will scrutinize any civilian action for anything that could be construed as being illegal.
The message is a Base64-encoded random binary file.
If 10,000 people do this, it will drive the NSA guys totally nuts.
And when the US finally will outlaw that, we'll just do it from abroad.
Within minutes, I was hassled by a very hot and loud bitch cop (120 dB of pure bitchery and 120 pounds of hot chick). Within minutes I was surrounded by 6 cops and transit security.
During the ensuing shouting match, none was ever able to say what illegal act I had committed. I eventually gave my (cellphone) number to the bitch ;)
6 months later, a "national security division" cop of the RCMP calls me on the cellphone and wants to talk to me.
- This is a cellphone.
- Oh. Sorry. Well, call me at 555-555-5555.
Not being stupid, I make sure I don't call him from $ORKPLACE. They're the police, so they surely can find my home number in the phone directory, no? And if they check google with my name, they can find I'm a transit buff, no?
Well, I guess not. And if they are doing "national security" investigations, 6 months later is pretty fast, I guess...
And if they absolutely, positively WANT TO use Microsoft Orifice, well, they can always "SAVE AS" word format.
Sheeeesh!!!
(Nixon was a great fan of DeGaulle, btw. Too bad he did not inspire his actions on him, though).
However, our 3 hour lunch-hour did not have the same enjoymentness as before, because we did not go back to work afterwards...
(It was a pretty crappy company. We were 2 in the only profitable department supporting the other 14 employees of the whole company, and one of the bosses (the tech boss) would not expand our department because he was too paranoïd and did not understand the programming language we had to work with. So we eventually got fed up and decided to go away).
Seems that not everybody is a terminal hard-ass.
Now waiting for rebuttal.
No matter how you try to wiggle your argument, driving a car is **NOT** a human right. You haven't been able to prove this, and no one ever will.