I still think the NSA or the Bush administration had something to do with it. How much of a coidnece is it that the wires power a majoridy of the Middle East's Internet? And that the NSA would love to drill into the Internet and harvest all that illeally obtained data?
And I thought the NSA couldn't sink any lower... now their as low as the sea where the wires were...
What gets me mad is how in a few months, this whole thing will be forgotten (just like all the "coincidences" with 9/11), so if there was a government conspiracy, it will be buried...
Check out the Technology section of his website. He knows what's up with net neutrality and privacy laws, and vows to change it (although that's what everyone says, I think he could really help the tech world)
Hillary Clinton, however, could possibly crash the global economy. She wants to crack down on violent video games, which, due to the pins and needles the economy is on right now, could devastate the economy if a major sector of the gaming industry would collapse. She even supports "media literacy" in the United States (aka censorship).
In my opinion Obama could do a lot of good for America. He is not a conservative, so he would be more likely to reform and change stuff that is in dire need of it.
I get so pissed off at Vista for gaming! I bought a new computer a few months ago, and immeditly installed Linux, and decided to use Windows Vista for gaming.
Boy was that a mistake! First, every time I boot the stupid Vista, it would spend hours using up the hard drive "indexing" itself. It's supposed to do this when I'm not using the computer, but sure enough, right in the middle of games of Unreal Tournament III or Counter Strike: Source, the indexing thing would start, crashing every game running because the game can't run with something chewing up the hard drive.
Then the graphics card. Stupid Microsoft decided to take out hardware profiles in Vista. One of the drivers for my graphics card is incompatible with a certain game, but only the newest driver can run all the other games. Instead of simply creating a hardware profile, one for 1 game, one for the rest, I have to change it manually, reboot, and repeat the process whenever I need to play the game (luckily this game had a Linux client, which runs much better than the Windows client).
And let's not forget Areo, that takes up too much RAM and graphics card power just to run!
Seriously, did Microsoft even make Vista for gaming? How do they expect to run DX10 just on Vista if NO ONE CAN GAME ON IT???
This report seems to concentrate on what the major corporations like Comcast and Verizon wants to hear (and it's not good).
Searching "network neutrality" in the PDF file returns 1 result, in the title of a source that was used. So nowhere in the policy does it say ANYTHING about network neutrality.
Nothing about domestic warrantless wiretapping of the Internet either!
Classic Bush Administration. Releases a big official policy, but leaves out every last thing we want to hear, substituting what Comcast and Verizon wants to hear. At least Barack Obama actually cares to mention this stuff.
I just didn't like it. When I used OpenSUSE Linux, I installed KDE. Right when I started using KDE, I noticed how cluttered everything was. Instead of a nice bar at the top with 3 items, one for Applications, one for Places, and one for System, you must navigate through endless start menu items to get to where you want to go.
The file manager for KDE was also a little quirky. By default, single clicking a file opens it? And the icons weren't that good either...
It's a government conspiracy! Although you do have a point. Ordernarly I would say "thats impossible", but that's the same thing I said when rumors of the NSA wiretapping the Internet surfaced... The government always surprise me by sinking to a new low, maybe this is the new low?
president.ir, the website for the Islamic Republic of Iran Presidential Office is still up. So it's not a complete Internet blackout, but it could be just a certain geographic region (or a damn good coincidence).
Will Vista SP1 fix the annoying stuff I've seen in Vista? Like
1. Going into 20 minute non-stop indexing sprees, which slows down disk access a lot.
2. Constantly being reminded how I don't have Ultimate Edition
3. A bug in the only good feature I've seen in Vista: the ability to resize partitions. I used this feature to resize the default partition on my new computer to install Linux and Windows Server 2008 betas, but after creating 4 or 5 partitions, this utility fails to work anymore, which was VERY annoying trying to get XP installed.
There's a lot more stuff I have seen as annoying or problematic in Vista, but those are the big ones.
Including the Sweetish government, for their poorly motivated raids that ended up giving The Pirate Boy so much media attention that their web traffic nearly tripled!
I've been watching all this patenting nonsense, it's clearly out of control. Like when IBM patented clicking a checkbox on a computer. Hello? They're just getting a reason to launch a lawsuit against someone.
To date, I've seen patents on: 1. Streaming music over the Internet 2. Our DNA (due to a loophole in the system, DNA that's altered from it's natural form (or isolated for studying) isn't considered a living thing. Searching USPTO patents returns over 96,000 matches for "DNA") 3. Playing a video game over the Internet 4. Taking a test online
Just to name a few.
So the whole thing is hurting us. Scientists can't find the cure to cancer or other conditions because they have to go through a legal process just to be able to study certain DNA. People looking for a get-rich-quick scam can just swoop into the USPTO and patent an idea they know is already being used, then sue the company.
For instance, take UCLA geneticist Wayne Grody. He was trying to help deaf children. He was conducting clinical tests on Connexin 26, a human gene linked to deafness, hoping it would lead to more effective treatment for kids. Then one day he received a letter from Athena Diagnostics, a Massachusetts based biotech company. They told him they owned the patents to Connexin 26, and he either had to pay Athena thousands of dollars or abandon research. He abandoned research that could have found the cure to deafness due to the fact that he couldn't afford such an outrageous price. This is one of the thousands of stories like this I've heard.
The system needs to be reformed. I think everyone should write to Congress asking them to completely reform the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Being a long-time PlayStation fan, I bought a PS3 this year, and have been very satisfied with it. So now that the format wars are over, what will Microsoft do with their ill-faded Xbox 360 HD DVD player?
My fried bought the accessory (which, of corse, costs extra) when it first came out, despite me telling him it's a risk. But he bought it. So what happens to all the people who bought the Xbox 360 with dreams of watching HD movies?
I think it's funny. Microsoft, using their stupid buisness model, created the Xbox 360 "Elite" to give people this stuff, the Microsoft way (adding yet another version to the long growing versions of Microsoft products). So now is the HD DVD player for Xbox 360 a paperweight? Is this a victory for the PS3?
I've noticed this a lot lately, any government agency, lobbyist group, or any group that is supposed to be fighting crime views every single person in the world as criminals.
In the eyes of the federal government, we are all terrorists, so our Constitutional rights should be taken away.
In the eyes of Comcast and Verizon, we all use our Internet connections that we pay for to do illegal stuff, so we should have our Internet connections regulated, censored, and spied on.
In the eyes of the MPAA and RIAA, we are all illegal software pirates that deserve to be sued for millions of dollars.
And in the eyes of collages and universities across the United States, we are all criminals who are plotting school shootings and bombings, and deserve to have the FBI raid our dorms, be arrested, and be kicked out of collage.
See the picture here? Everyone thinks that if they label every single person on Earth as a criminal, it will make all our problems go away. But they are wrong. They are all wrong.
The federal government thinks they are keeping us safe by treating every single American as a terrorist plotting to blow up the country, but what about the people who actually are plotting something like that? They would never catch them because they would be too bush prosecuting innocent people to notice!
With airports locked down tightly thesse days, travelers are annoyed by all the security checks and security stuff to make sure people don't have weapons. But the people who actually want to do harm could probably easily smuggle that kind of stuff by them.
And for all the piracy bullshit, they think that shoving the DMCA and RIAA lawyers in everyone's faces will stop the 1% of people who ACTUALLY steal software, movies, and music, while the other 99% of us suffer. But it WON'T! Hell, I'm getting very tempted to start illegally putting brand new movies on BitTorrent just to stick it to the RIAA, MPAA, etc. If we're all criminals in these people's eyes, what would it matter? Personally I don't agree with downloading movies and music (with music sucking with that rap crap, what is there to download?), but I don't think it should be a federal crime punishable with million dollar fines and stuff.
When will they learn, the government and RIAA can't solve all their problems like this!
If companies want to store customers credit card numbers and social security numbers for years on their systems, could they at least use common sense? The backup tape should have at least been encrypted, and should have been behind lock and key.
Where is the federal government while major computer systems are left wide open for attack, like computer systems that control missile defense systems, water treatment systems, power plants, etc? Oh right, they all still think the war in Iraq and building giant walls on the United States border is more big of a deal than someone hacking into major US computer systems.
Unfortunately, the folks in Washington DC will only do something _after_ a major attack happens, and _after_ people have died. Once that happens, they'll rush to get crappy legislation through Congress in record time, which would do nothing to help the computer systems, but rather give the federal government rights they don't need.
Could the government just do something right and act _before_ it's too late???
2. Create a new governmental agency called the Federal Lawsuit Agency, whose job would be to go through all the pending lawsuits, and make sure stupid and pointless ones don't get to court.
3. Actually _listen_ to what Americans wants
4. Eliminate the Federal Income Tax
5. Limit the power of capitalist companies with way too much power (eg. Microsoft, Comcast).
6. End the war in Iraq
7. Write network neutrality into the United States Constitution.
8. Ban warrantless wiretapping, and make providing wiretaps a $1 million per person fine towards ISPs.
9. Lower health care costs, insurance costs, and other costs for the less wealthy people.
10. If in the event a major event were to occur during my term in office, I would _not_ overreact and go to war
11. Make it a federal crime, punishable with a minimum of a $1 million dollar fine and 1 year in federal prison, for any public organization, company, school, collage, or anyone to deny and/or punish innocent people for expressing their Constitutional rights, or doing nothing at all.
I am getting sick of this sick and cruel world the Bush administration have created, where even saying 1 word in a non-threatening manner can get you kicked out of school. According to dictionary.com, terrorism is defined as " the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes." Key word: threats. Political purposes. So the Bush administration are terrorists. The federal government are terrorists. The principals of schools that suspend and expel students for even so much as saying something in a context where it could be somewhat threatening are terrorists. All these people use threats to make people fear terrorism so they can make shitty legislation to pretend to help us but screw up the country instead (perfect example: the USA PATRIOT Act).
I've seen this first hand in my own city. My sister's middle school have just banned hugging. In some Spanish and Hispanic cultures, hugging is the proper way to greet someone.
And then my friend at my high school was suspended for 10 days and almost expelled from school. What was his crime that caused the school to think he posed a significant threat to the schools saftey? He made a political statement about the exact same thing I mentioned above. The school, in their attempts to make sure we were safe, and after hours of Googleing, finally found something. The date he referenced to was a holiday in London, on that day someone tried to blow up London. So they thought he was going to BLOW UP LONDON! He is an horner student, extremely smart, never even had a detention before, and a popular student. So since the school decided he was a terrorist and trying to "blow up" London, they searched his belongings using a another shitty policy that they can search students stuff for no reason with "probable cause", and found a money clip with a 2 cm blade. 2cm. That is barely long enough to cut a piece of paper. But the school brought the poor kid out of school in HANDCUFFS and charged him with possession of a weapon. He was processed, booked, and thrown in a holding cell like a criminal. He has since been put back in school (even the cops thought the school screwed up big time here), but its on his perminate record that he was suspended, so if he tries to get to collage, he might have big problems. The good news is he has the ACLU about to sue the school if they don't remove everything about this from his record. But many victims of the system don't know about that stuff, so they just have to suffer. I never thought that would happen in _MY_ school. But it did. So now we all live in fear at school. Because the principal is a terrorist. Hell, if the principal were to read this, the cops would probaly be here in 5 minutes saying I'm making "terroristic threats" or something like that.
It looks like The Darwin Awards web server has become the victim of the Slashdot Effect! Maybe the IT dept. at The Darwin Awards server room should win the award?
Now what will happen to bloggers who want to get into CES that _won't_ do these stupid (although funny) stunts? What these idiots did was pretty much show CES officials why bloggers shouldn't be allowed into CES. Now they might punish the rest of us for their actions.
Although Darwinism is just a theory, there is a large amount of evidence to support Darwinism. I accept Darwinism as an explanation for how we evolved. I though the federal government is flawed, now it's spreading to even the smallest so called Democratic system, schools. Look at all the principals acting like politicians. Making pointless and stupid laws in their dictatorship to carry out their own agenda, which hurts the students more than anything.
Take the middle school my sister goes to. The principal just banned any form of hugging. In many Spanish and Hispanic cultures, hugging is the proper way of greeting each other.
My high school principal recently gave everyone a speech about the expulsion process. He said, and I quote "Another thing I need to tell you about is suspicion of action. If I suspect you are about to do something to harm anyone, I am authorized, and will use the authorization, to conduct a search of a student's personal belongings, without a warrant." I actually got in trouble because I asked him about how my best friend was _almost_ expelled from school for having a simple money clipper on it, which the school decided was a weapon because it had a 2.4cm dull blade on it. Why did he search this excellent, positive, and all advanced placement classes honer student? Because his brother, whose in my class, expressed a political statement that the school though was a threat to blow up London! WTF??? He was escorted out of school in HANDCUFFS like a criminal, booked, and healed in a holding cell for 4 hours. Now he might not be able to get into MIT or Harvard, because, despite having perfect grades, has a suspension on his record. The good news though is he got the ACLU to sue the school and demand anything about the incident removed from all public and private records. The case is pending.
I never thought this would happen in _MY_ high school. Sure, I've read the headlines screaming "Hundreds of kindergarten suspended this year for sexual harassment", "Gifted boy scout expelled for accidentally bringing his Boy Scouts pocketknife to school", the list goes on and on. Education these days is just like the government: Principals have all the power, and will use that power as a dictatorship.
In my friends case, he is yet another victim of the system. Just like many people in the United States. These idiots who have power think they can do whatever they want, and think it will "make the world a better place". What does taking away habius corpus do for the legal system? What does illegal wiretapping on EVERY American in the country do? The government, like the schools, want a faults sense of security.
Could McDonald's be being paid by a politician (or Jack Thompson), to say that??? And what about the Wii. All though the Will can't compare to actual excersize, but it's a start. Hey McDonalds, you want the truth: your to blame. See, I did what the McDonald's CEO did. I decide I believe a right-wing conspiracy theory, then, using inductive reasoning, decided to blame an entire industry for one problem, that doesn't even make seanse. What McDonald's just said is the equivalent to saying:
Microsoft Windows powers many computers
Lots of kids are spending too much time online
Microsoft is to blame for childhood obesity!
Now he'll go find a politician or well-respected figure, tell him this, and force him to say it to the world, or just say it himself.
I knew this was bound to happen. First Halo 3, which was so overhyped and never came close to living up to it, not to mention sucks. Then they rip off all the little kids and make them buy Xboxes to play Halo 3. So Microsoft is succeeding in their plan to control the networking of the gaming Internet infrastructure, but, they skipped a very important step in expanding their audience: making sure their servers can withstand it! Such a careless business mistake is sad for the biggest software company in the world. I bet the servers run Windows.
I stopped using MySpace after a year. I got over 100 spam advertisements, scams, and actually had to remove one of my friends from my MySpace page because he kept spamming my page with stupid porn links (which was, you guessed it, a scam). I plugged in my web server I made with Linux and Apache several weeks after that, and I can't believe everyone else doesn't do the same (or at least use free web hosting services, if they can't build their own). Only my friends and family know about and access the site, which I have some info about me, a blog, and a phpBB forum on.
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I still think the NSA or the Bush administration had something to do with it. How much of a coidnece is it that the wires power a majoridy of the Middle East's Internet? And that the NSA would love to drill into the Internet and harvest all that illeally obtained data?
And I thought the NSA couldn't sink any lower... now their as low as the sea where the wires were...
What gets me mad is how in a few months, this whole thing will be forgotten (just like all the "coincidences" with 9/11), so if there was a government conspiracy, it will be buried...
Check out the Technology section of his website. He knows what's up with net neutrality and privacy laws, and vows to change it (although that's what everyone says, I think he could really help the tech world)
Hillary Clinton, however, could possibly crash the global economy. She wants to crack down on violent video games, which, due to the pins and needles the economy is on right now, could devastate the economy if a major sector of the gaming industry would collapse. She even supports "media literacy" in the United States (aka censorship).
In my opinion Obama could do a lot of good for America. He is not a conservative, so he would be more likely to reform and change stuff that is in dire need of it.
I get so pissed off at Vista for gaming! I bought a new computer a few months ago, and immeditly installed Linux, and decided to use Windows Vista for gaming. Boy was that a mistake! First, every time I boot the stupid Vista, it would spend hours using up the hard drive "indexing" itself. It's supposed to do this when I'm not using the computer, but sure enough, right in the middle of games of Unreal Tournament III or Counter Strike: Source, the indexing thing would start, crashing every game running because the game can't run with something chewing up the hard drive. Then the graphics card. Stupid Microsoft decided to take out hardware profiles in Vista. One of the drivers for my graphics card is incompatible with a certain game, but only the newest driver can run all the other games. Instead of simply creating a hardware profile, one for 1 game, one for the rest, I have to change it manually, reboot, and repeat the process whenever I need to play the game (luckily this game had a Linux client, which runs much better than the Windows client). And let's not forget Areo, that takes up too much RAM and graphics card power just to run! Seriously, did Microsoft even make Vista for gaming? How do they expect to run DX10 just on Vista if NO ONE CAN GAME ON IT???
This report seems to concentrate on what the major corporations like Comcast and Verizon wants to hear (and it's not good).
Searching "network neutrality" in the PDF file returns 1 result, in the title of a source that was used. So nowhere in the policy does it say ANYTHING about network neutrality.
Nothing about domestic warrantless wiretapping of the Internet either!
Classic Bush Administration. Releases a big official policy, but leaves out every last thing we want to hear, substituting what Comcast and Verizon wants to hear. At least Barack Obama actually cares to mention this stuff.
I just didn't like it. When I used OpenSUSE Linux, I installed KDE. Right when I started using KDE, I noticed how cluttered everything was. Instead of a nice bar at the top with 3 items, one for Applications, one for Places, and one for System, you must navigate through endless start menu items to get to where you want to go.
The file manager for KDE was also a little quirky. By default, single clicking a file opens it? And the icons weren't that good either...
GNOME has much more to offer...
It's a government conspiracy! Although you do have a point. Ordernarly I would say "thats impossible", but that's the same thing I said when rumors of the NSA wiretapping the Internet surfaced... The government always surprise me by sinking to a new low, maybe this is the new low?
president.ir, the website for the Islamic Republic of Iran Presidential Office is still up. So it's not a complete Internet blackout, but it could be just a certain geographic region (or a damn good coincidence).
I can:
:)
1. Chat online
2. Watch TV
3. Listen to music
4. Do homework
All at the same time... but the quality of each task is less and less decent with each thing I'm doing. But I still can
Will Vista SP1 fix the annoying stuff I've seen in Vista? Like 1. Going into 20 minute non-stop indexing sprees, which slows down disk access a lot. 2. Constantly being reminded how I don't have Ultimate Edition 3. A bug in the only good feature I've seen in Vista: the ability to resize partitions. I used this feature to resize the default partition on my new computer to install Linux and Windows Server 2008 betas, but after creating 4 or 5 partitions, this utility fails to work anymore, which was VERY annoying trying to get XP installed. There's a lot more stuff I have seen as annoying or problematic in Vista, but those are the big ones.
Including the Sweetish government, for their poorly motivated raids that ended up giving The Pirate Boy so much media attention that their web traffic nearly tripled!
I've been watching all this patenting nonsense, it's clearly out of control. Like when IBM patented clicking a checkbox on a computer. Hello? They're just getting a reason to launch a lawsuit against someone.
To date, I've seen patents on:
1. Streaming music over the Internet
2. Our DNA (due to a loophole in the system, DNA that's altered from it's natural form (or isolated for studying) isn't considered a living thing. Searching USPTO patents returns over 96,000 matches for "DNA")
3. Playing a video game over the Internet
4. Taking a test online
Just to name a few.
So the whole thing is hurting us. Scientists can't find the cure to cancer or other conditions because they have to go through a legal process just to be able to study certain DNA. People looking for a get-rich-quick scam can just swoop into the USPTO and patent an idea they know is already being used, then sue the company.
For instance, take UCLA geneticist Wayne Grody. He was trying to help deaf children. He was conducting clinical tests on Connexin 26, a human gene linked to deafness, hoping it would lead to more effective treatment for kids. Then one day he received a letter from Athena Diagnostics, a Massachusetts based biotech company. They told him they owned the patents to Connexin 26, and he either had to pay Athena thousands of dollars or abandon research. He abandoned research that could have found the cure to deafness due to the fact that he couldn't afford such an outrageous price. This is one of the thousands of stories like this I've heard.
The system needs to be reformed. I think everyone should write to Congress asking them to completely reform the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
I thought it was a government conspiracy or something, guess not :(
Although you never know, in a year someone could cone forward and say it's a lie...
Being a long-time PlayStation fan, I bought a PS3 this year, and have been very satisfied with it. So now that the format wars are over, what will Microsoft do with their ill-faded Xbox 360 HD DVD player?
My fried bought the accessory (which, of corse, costs extra) when it first came out, despite me telling him it's a risk. But he bought it. So what happens to all the people who bought the Xbox 360 with dreams of watching HD movies?
I think it's funny. Microsoft, using their stupid buisness model, created the Xbox 360 "Elite" to give people this stuff, the Microsoft way (adding yet another version to the long growing versions of Microsoft products). So now is the HD DVD player for Xbox 360 a paperweight? Is this a victory for the PS3?
Why are they blaming the overcalculations on "human error"? They clearly lied just to get Congress to, yet again, deprive us of our civil liberities.
So now are they going to withdraw all their stupid legistlation to deprive collage students of the right to privacy? I don't think so.
I've noticed this a lot lately, any government agency, lobbyist group, or any group that is supposed to be fighting crime views every single person in the world as criminals.
In the eyes of the federal government, we are all terrorists, so our Constitutional rights should be taken away.
In the eyes of Comcast and Verizon, we all use our Internet connections that we pay for to do illegal stuff, so we should have our Internet connections regulated, censored, and spied on.
In the eyes of the MPAA and RIAA, we are all illegal software pirates that deserve to be sued for millions of dollars.
And in the eyes of collages and universities across the United States, we are all criminals who are plotting school shootings and bombings, and deserve to have the FBI raid our dorms, be arrested, and be kicked out of collage.
See the picture here? Everyone thinks that if they label every single person on Earth as a criminal, it will make all our problems go away. But they are wrong. They are all wrong.
The federal government thinks they are keeping us safe by treating every single American as a terrorist plotting to blow up the country, but what about the people who actually are plotting something like that? They would never catch them because they would be too bush prosecuting innocent people to notice!
With airports locked down tightly thesse days, travelers are annoyed by all the security checks and security stuff to make sure people don't have weapons. But the people who actually want to do harm could probably easily smuggle that kind of stuff by them.
And for all the piracy bullshit, they think that shoving the DMCA and RIAA lawyers in everyone's faces will stop the 1% of people who ACTUALLY steal software, movies, and music, while the other 99% of us suffer. But it WON'T! Hell, I'm getting very tempted to start illegally putting brand new movies on BitTorrent just to stick it to the RIAA, MPAA, etc. If we're all criminals in these people's eyes, what would it matter? Personally I don't agree with downloading movies and music (with music sucking with that rap crap, what is there to download?), but I don't think it should be a federal crime punishable with million dollar fines and stuff.
When will they learn, the government and RIAA can't solve all their problems like this!
If companies want to store customers credit card numbers and social security numbers for years on their systems, could they at least use common sense? The backup tape should have at least been encrypted, and should have been behind lock and key.
Where is the federal government while major computer systems are left wide open for attack, like computer systems that control missile defense systems, water treatment systems, power plants, etc? Oh right, they all still think the war in Iraq and building giant walls on the United States border is more big of a deal than someone hacking into major US computer systems.
Unfortunately, the folks in Washington DC will only do something _after_ a major attack happens, and _after_ people have died. Once that happens, they'll rush to get crappy legislation through Congress in record time, which would do nothing to help the computer systems, but rather give the federal government rights they don't need.
Could the government just do something right and act _before_ it's too late???
1. Eliminate the RIAA
2. Create a new governmental agency called the Federal Lawsuit Agency, whose job would be to go through all the pending lawsuits, and make sure stupid and pointless ones don't get to court.
3. Actually _listen_ to what Americans wants
4. Eliminate the Federal Income Tax
5. Limit the power of capitalist companies with way too much power (eg. Microsoft, Comcast).
6. End the war in Iraq
7. Write network neutrality into the United States Constitution.
8. Ban warrantless wiretapping, and make providing wiretaps a $1 million per person fine towards ISPs.
9. Lower health care costs, insurance costs, and other costs for the less wealthy people.
10. If in the event a major event were to occur during my term in office, I would _not_ overreact and go to war
11. Make it a federal crime, punishable with a minimum of a $1 million dollar fine and 1 year in federal prison, for any public organization, company, school, collage, or anyone to deny and/or punish innocent people for expressing their Constitutional rights, or doing nothing at all.
I am getting sick of this sick and cruel world the Bush administration have created, where even saying 1 word in a non-threatening manner can get you kicked out of school. According to dictionary.com, terrorism is defined as " the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes." Key word: threats. Political purposes. So the Bush administration are terrorists. The federal government are terrorists. The principals of schools that suspend and expel students for even so much as saying something in a context where it could be somewhat threatening are terrorists. All these people use threats to make people fear terrorism so they can make shitty legislation to pretend to help us but screw up the country instead (perfect example: the USA PATRIOT Act).
I've seen this first hand in my own city. My sister's middle school have just banned hugging. In some Spanish and Hispanic cultures, hugging is the proper way to greet someone.
And then my friend at my high school was suspended for 10 days and almost expelled from school. What was his crime that caused the school to think he posed a significant threat to the schools saftey? He made a political statement about the exact same thing I mentioned above. The school, in their attempts to make sure we were safe, and after hours of Googleing, finally found something. The date he referenced to was a holiday in London, on that day someone tried to blow up London. So they thought he was going to BLOW UP LONDON! He is an horner student, extremely smart, never even had a detention before, and a popular student. So since the school decided he was a terrorist and trying to "blow up" London, they searched his belongings using a another shitty policy that they can search students stuff for no reason with "probable cause", and found a money clip with a 2 cm blade. 2cm. That is barely long enough to cut a piece of paper. But the school brought the poor kid out of school in HANDCUFFS and charged him with possession of a weapon. He was processed, booked, and thrown in a holding cell like a criminal. He has since been put back in school (even the cops thought the school screwed up big time here), but its on his perminate record that he was suspended, so if he tries to get to collage, he might have big problems. The good news is he has the ACLU about to sue the school if they don't remove everything about this from his record. But many victims of the system don't know about that stuff, so they just have to suffer. I never thought that would happen in _MY_ school. But it did. So now we all live in fear at school. Because the principal is a terrorist. Hell, if the principal were to read this, the cops would probaly be here in 5 minutes saying I'm making "terroristic threats" or something like that.
It looks like The Darwin Awards web server has become the victim of the Slashdot Effect! Maybe the IT dept. at The Darwin Awards server room should win the award?
Now what will happen to bloggers who want to get into CES that _won't_ do these stupid (although funny) stunts? What these idiots did was pretty much show CES officials why bloggers shouldn't be allowed into CES. Now they might punish the rest of us for their actions.
Although Darwinism is just a theory, there is a large amount of evidence to support Darwinism. I accept Darwinism as an explanation for how we evolved. I though the federal government is flawed, now it's spreading to even the smallest so called Democratic system, schools. Look at all the principals acting like politicians. Making pointless and stupid laws in their dictatorship to carry out their own agenda, which hurts the students more than anything. Take the middle school my sister goes to. The principal just banned any form of hugging. In many Spanish and Hispanic cultures, hugging is the proper way of greeting each other. My high school principal recently gave everyone a speech about the expulsion process. He said, and I quote "Another thing I need to tell you about is suspicion of action. If I suspect you are about to do something to harm anyone, I am authorized, and will use the authorization, to conduct a search of a student's personal belongings, without a warrant." I actually got in trouble because I asked him about how my best friend was _almost_ expelled from school for having a simple money clipper on it, which the school decided was a weapon because it had a 2.4cm dull blade on it. Why did he search this excellent, positive, and all advanced placement classes honer student? Because his brother, whose in my class, expressed a political statement that the school though was a threat to blow up London! WTF??? He was escorted out of school in HANDCUFFS like a criminal, booked, and healed in a holding cell for 4 hours. Now he might not be able to get into MIT or Harvard, because, despite having perfect grades, has a suspension on his record. The good news though is he got the ACLU to sue the school and demand anything about the incident removed from all public and private records. The case is pending. I never thought this would happen in _MY_ high school. Sure, I've read the headlines screaming "Hundreds of kindergarten suspended this year for sexual harassment", "Gifted boy scout expelled for accidentally bringing his Boy Scouts pocketknife to school", the list goes on and on. Education these days is just like the government: Principals have all the power, and will use that power as a dictatorship. In my friends case, he is yet another victim of the system. Just like many people in the United States. These idiots who have power think they can do whatever they want, and think it will "make the world a better place". What does taking away habius corpus do for the legal system? What does illegal wiretapping on EVERY American in the country do? The government, like the schools, want a faults sense of security.
Could McDonald's be being paid by a politician (or Jack Thompson), to say that??? And what about the Wii. All though the Will can't compare to actual excersize, but it's a start. Hey McDonalds, you want the truth: your to blame. See, I did what the McDonald's CEO did. I decide I believe a right-wing conspiracy theory, then, using inductive reasoning, decided to blame an entire industry for one problem, that doesn't even make seanse. What McDonald's just said is the equivalent to saying: Microsoft Windows powers many computers Lots of kids are spending too much time online Microsoft is to blame for childhood obesity! Now he'll go find a politician or well-respected figure, tell him this, and force him to say it to the world, or just say it himself.
I knew this was bound to happen. First Halo 3, which was so overhyped and never came close to living up to it, not to mention sucks. Then they rip off all the little kids and make them buy Xboxes to play Halo 3. So Microsoft is succeeding in their plan to control the networking of the gaming Internet infrastructure, but, they skipped a very important step in expanding their audience: making sure their servers can withstand it! Such a careless business mistake is sad for the biggest software company in the world. I bet the servers run Windows.
I stopped using MySpace after a year. I got over 100 spam advertisements, scams, and actually had to remove one of my friends from my MySpace page because he kept spamming my page with stupid porn links (which was, you guessed it, a scam). I plugged in my web server I made with Linux and Apache several weeks after that, and I can't believe everyone else doesn't do the same (or at least use free web hosting services, if they can't build their own). Only my friends and family know about and access the site, which I have some info about me, a blog, and a phpBB forum on.