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  1. Re:Tax Dollars At Work on Follow-up On Texas PI Law For PC Techs · · Score: 1

    NOT PROVEN

  2. Stark Realities on Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill · · Score: 1

    It's time to order more of those 'THIS PHONE IS TAPPED' stickers from CrimethInc.

  3. Re:It's about damn time on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    It's a simple case of selective amnesia. Anyone who has studied the issue knows that the Second Amendment is a doomsday clause and every politician knows it.

  4. Re:Hopefully. on Mars Had an Ancient Impact Like Earth · · Score: 1

    Losing the moon, eh? Wanna get sued by Gerry Anderson?

  5. Re:Clarification... on Best Electronics Kits For Adults? · · Score: 1

    I remember back in the 1970's Radio Shack sold the Science Fair 150-in-1 Electronic Project Kit. In the manual one would find such entries as ELECTRONIC BIRD and ELECTRONIC CAT (so realistic that "the mice will scatter"). The adult version would have been ELECTRONIC PUSSY.

    Waiting for notices from Woody Allen's attorneys...

  6. Re:AdaFruit on Best Electronics Kits For Adults? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Vellemann had a kit for a wireless telephone transmitter. What I liked most about it is that it had a legal warning.

    If it doesn't have political overtones, it's not worth doing.

  7. Re:well, it won't catch terrorists on TSA Bans Flight If You Refuse To Show ID · · Score: 0

    I can't remember who said this, but someone once said the 20th/21st century equivalent to the nazi war criminals' "i was just following orders" line will be "well, i had a mortgage to pay"... Behold the dark side of economic liberty as one becomes a prisoner of the fruits of his own labor. One who wishes not to lose his possessions will do anything to keep them.
  8. Re:Effect on hacking, BBSes etc. on WarGames and the Great Hacking Scare of 1983 · · Score: 0

    With soaring higher education costs, declining wages and dwindling opportunities, eventually an underclass will form to take up where the 1990's crowd left off, tyranny or not.

  9. Re:Same way you get into any other bullshit career on Ask a Studio Head How To Get Into the Movie Business · · Score: 0

    -1/0, [ Uncomfortable Truth | Overrated | Troll | Flamebait | Please! Will someone ban his entire domain already? ]

    However, this is THE bullshit career.

    It is not enough to possess the skill with the crew, cameras, lights, props, makeup, scripts, etc. It is not merely knowing the right people. One must conform to the dictates of their lifestyle. Skills are required but without the right ideology, relationships cannot be established and as a result skills become meaningless. You must become one of them. Once having adopted the proper idelology, corresponding behavior must result. This includes but is not limited to the the following: doing drugs, opposing and/or embarrassing the current administration, demanding military involvement where interests do not exist, opposing military involvement where interests do exist, banning fur, donating to NPR, partying all night, sleeping all day, grooming and dressing weirdly. If all goes properly you will need to take a regimen of certain medications that cost tens of thousands of dollars per year. But heck, you are making more than twice the national per capita average income in the USA.

    Only through the casting down of all taboos, inhibitions, decoram and good taste can creativity be realized. Then and only then will you be discovered.

    There's NO business like BLO^WSHOW business...

  10. Re:Is It Really A Poor Economy? on How Does a Poor Economy Affect Tech Innovation? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Let me see. Are you another who got screwed by Ronald Wilson Reagan upon graduating high school during his presidency when he made REAL cuts in student aid? Eyes too blue? Hair too blond? Skin too fair? Speech too clear? GPA of less than 3.8? Asians grabbed all the scholarships and the Hispanics and Negroes grabbed all the job training?

    Face it. This board is run by Asians and the occasional retrovirus-positive mouth-gasket-goateed race traitor. They say that we colonialist zero-ambition hygiene-and-sanitation-imposing Aryans belong in the US military to protect the tree while they have the Fourteenth Amendment right to pick the fruit thereof.

    America bluescreened on us white boys. oh please, not over insecure circuits.

    AMERICA.SYS corrup[censored by DHS]

  11. Re:Yeah, I live in Chattanooga... on TVA Security Lapses Could Endanger US Health, Economy · · Score: 1

    This goes to show that the 'civil rights' culture is going to get us all killed. Go and learn what YANKEE-WHITE security clearance means and how it should be expanded to tasks other than dealing with the POTUS.

    +5, Comfortable lie

  12. Re:Tarrists! on YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos · · Score: 1

    No need to do that. China already influences the internal affairs of the USA (no border control) by holding a critical percentage of the USA gov't debt. Fear not, censorship will commence followed by Mandarin classes.

  13. Re:Identifying a terrorist is easy on Terrorist Recognition Handbook · · Score: 1

    Let's see... Covers head, sports facial hair, shuns pork and other critters that the goyim/kaffirun consider tasty, recites prayers, rejects consumerism and sexualization of the culture, criticizes public policy. Sounds like if a subculture does not compromise with the culture and/or public policy (a.k.a assimilate), it is branded as 'extremist' and/or 'terrorist'. In that case, even the Amish would be suspect.

    Whatever allows governments to exercise as much authority over as many individuals as possible (read: as it can get away with). The goal is to exercise supreme plenary authority over all individuals everywhere. This is what defines godhood; that is the goal of government.

    f000:fff0 jmp absolute ptr [dvarim_6.4]

  14. Re:So.... on Bill Would Bar US Companies From Net Censorship · · Score: 1

    Whether it be made of concrete and steel or of debt and market forces, a prison of whatever form is still a prison.

    Whoever lives better than me must be guilty of some crime.

  15. Re:So.... on Bill Would Bar US Companies From Net Censorship · · Score: 1

    Only if it is this sort of stone.

  16. Re:As a response I am patenting death and fear on The Rush To Patent the Atomic Bomb · · Score: 1

    "A method of self-immolation induced by the self-administration of combusting crystalline cocaine hydrochloride." Oh, wait... that's PRYOR art.

    I am not responsible for laughter-induced urinary incontinence.

  17. Lithium hydride on Material Converts Radiation Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    Now that wouldn't be lithium deuteride, eh?

  18. Re:Wouldn't breeding licenses be more effective? on Report Suggests That Nanny State Might Actually Not Be For the Best · · Score: 1

    With today's techology, more and more fundamental aspects of life are becoming possible to control from a central location. Stand by for said horrification. If/since that were/is the case, then/therefore the Allies of the Second World War would have to/must apologize to all the Nazis and the Japanese who were executed or imprisoned by the tribunals that came after their defeat. Requiring permission from the government to reproduce IS genocide.

    As for the nanny state issue itself in the USA, how about standing it on its head? I think that Selective Service should issue some sort of card. If every US citizen male during the best years of his life has to worry about becoming cannon fodder for industries that benefit from the Oval O(ri)ffice, that means that he should be assumed responsible for various activities including but not limited to that which requires federal monetary or other assistance. Purchasing a firearm? Show your Draft Card and "may issue" would convert to "shall issue".
    The government cannot have it both ways. If one were deemed 'mature' enough to die for one's country, but not to engage in activities that define a free society for which one would be 'mature' enough to die, liberty becomes nothing more than a mere illusion serving only to capture the unwitting immigrant. Oh, wait...

    Downmodders [insert vacuum pump sound here].

  19. Re:come here, sweetheart on MD Bill Would Criminalize Theft of Wireless Access · · Score: 1

    Most USA states have felonies, misdemeanors and violations. The first two classes are criminal, the third is usually classified as civil. One example of the threefold classification is New York. In New Jersey, there are 'crimes' (of the first, second, third and fourth degree) and 'offenses'. There is no distinct class equivalent to violations with the possible exception of municipal ordinances. In New York, disorderly persons and traffic infractions (except DUI) are classified as violations. In New Jersey, disorderly persons is more equivalent to a misdemeanor charge elsewhere and can invite up to six-months of imprisonment. Even some municipal ordinances carry imprisonment as a penalty. As for the standard of proof, when the charge filed is classified as an 'offense', there is a possibility of imprisonment resulting from a standard of proof lower than that of 'beyond a reasonable doubt'.

    Merely because I am not an attorney does not mean I must be ignorant of the law so that people do not call me a troublemaker. There is nothing more American than keeping government power in check.

  20. Re:"Mr Fusion" on Why Don't We Invent That Tomorrow? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Please pardon the appearance of pontificating on common sense.

    Speaking of weapons, despite market forces, the future is what the ruling class wants it to be. They are to remain in control. Therefore, security shall be first and foremost in any new product or service. That will mean that any invention that comes to the marketplace shall conform to the following:

    0. Everything is a weapon and everyone is a criminal, but never say so in public.
    1. maximize profit.
    2. If intended to be possessed by the common person, it must designed to preclude its use as a weapon whether by itself or in conjunction with other products or services without violating rule #1.
    3. If it cannot be designed to preclude its use as a weapon according to rule #2, restrict manufacture, sale and possession to those sworn to defend the ruling class and/or to persons engaged in duly regulated occupations and professions without violating rule #1.

    Flying cars, one of the most recognizable staples of the future, can be used as missiles. Force fields and invisibility shields would protect [ criminals | terrorists | dissidents ] from the arm of the law. Time travel would deny finality to judicial decision thus rendering naught political authority. Personal plasma weapons will be just that, weapons.

    One may ask concerning simple articles such as screwdrivers and knives. That answer is so science fact: devices will be (read: are being as we speak) ubiquitously installed in conjunction with current camera systems to detect objects that appear to be weapons concealed on persons.

    The problem is that the Tomorrow in Question would place the common man in control. That is the numero uno political no-no. This is why dystopic fiction sells books and motion pictures. It is mere conditioning of the masses to accept their place and fate.

    Downmodding proves the veracity of the above beyond question.

  21. Re:Real Dirt on The Dirty Jobs of IT · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ah, yes, 'tis the old eighty gallon tank compressor that blows 120 psi. That's a must have in any computer shop. I had pulled apart a number of Telex controllers that had not been serviced since the mid 1990's. Blowing one of these clean outside may invite either attention from the fire department (the dust cloud looks like smoke) or the green police (DEP) asking questions.

    Any mentions of carousel type color laser printers? Any printer that moves toner cartridges on purpose will always be a mess inside. Metal can wet/dry vac anyone?

  22. Re:No myth here on IT Labor Shortage Is Just a Myth · · Score: 1

    It has come to the point that these no longer can help if one has, it only hurts one if they have not. All it means is that someone had money to spend for a paper (skills notwithstanding). Whatever it takes to deny.

    I am currently working in a computer service environment where the other tech holds such a document and he asks me all the questions or worse, pulls devices from sites for me to repair. He refuses work orders with comments like "I'm not certed for this; I'm not certed for that, etc.". He calls me with an unending stream of questions for servicing a specific device. What use is it? Pardon the anecdotals, but what I see is it tends to do is make the cert holders lazy and makes the non-holders (who have more experience) performing the real work.

    Truth is so overrated. Oh, wait...

  23. Re:That's cool on National "Dragnet" Connecting at State, Local Level · · Score: 1

    Of course, I don't think that scenario is particularly likely in the US. We are only one (false flag op) mushroom cloud away from that.

    How about using that information to exclude dissidents from jury service BEFORE the summonses are mailed? It would save on mailing costs. The time taken for voir dire would practically vanish. This way only rubberstampers get to serve. When a dissident goes to vote and there are electronic voting machines (which will be mandated eventually), the unit goes through the motions, but the machine discards his/her vote, a la Stalin on silicon. How about linking dissent to credit score? There are either no laws prohibiting linking of credit to political dissent or should they exist these shall be disregarded for 'national security' reasons. Don't like the regime? Shut up or pay a higher rate or be declined!

    Economic freedom generates revenue; political freedom generates court costs.

    To downmod is Streisand.
  24. Re:If property is yours... on If IP Is Property, Where Is the Property Tax? · · Score: 1

    It's trying to have it both ways. They want a state of society for the protection of their property, yet a state of nature to not be taxed.

  25. Re:good point on If IP Is Property, Where Is the Property Tax? · · Score: 1

    Treat royalty income differently from wage income in a modified alternative minimum tax system.